Modal fictionalism and possible-worlds discourse... Finally, I discuss an alternative reading of Rosen, and argue that this position is also able to fend off the Brock-Rosen objection....
The ties that bind us, the shadows that separate us: life and death, shadow and (dream)storyThis is an autoethnographic account of a family‘s struggle to respond to a series of tragic losses and to fend off the encroaching shadow that descended on them in their grief....
Averting expected challenges through anticipatory impression management: a study of hospital billing... This paper uses a qualitative and inductive study of billing procedures at three large hospitals to develop theory about how organization members use impression management tactics to fend off specific, expected challenges to organizational practices that are ambiguously negative....
Political outlaws: beat cowboys...locale of bohemia during the specific historical moment of the Beat Generation (1950–1965) to examine how the elements of the outlaw figure were transformed by the Beat writers to fend off the Eisenhower-era containment culture
