Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Saul, Jennifer"

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Deception in Data Visualization

Adams, Kyle Kenneth James (University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)

In recent years, there has been a great deal of public discussion of misleading graphs and statistics, but this phenomenon seems to have fallen outside the scope of philosophical analysis. The philosophy of language has ...
A Misleading Tendency

Miller, Nadia (University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)

Communication is a powerful tool. We use it to share information, express how we feel, coordinate in cooperative endeavors, and so much more. However, we regularly use standard communicative devices like speech and gesture ...
Speaking of 'Violence'

Kenyon, Madeleine (University of Waterloo, 2022-08-18)

In this project, I engineer a new concept, which I call a “violence figleaf”, in order to make sense of the many instances of gendered violence which are dismissed or characterized as some other kind of thing: a misunderstanding, ...