VOLUME 8 • 2009
THE RATIONALE OF WAR AND THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE
ABSTRACT. Fletcher holds that while other principles of morality apply, such as reciprocity and the responsibility of commanders and soldiers for criminal acts, justice is not an appropriate consideration in the law of war. Emerton and Handfield draw upon the morality of individual self-defence to e..
ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF PEER REVIEW ON MANUSCRIPT QUALITY
ABSTRACT. Benos et al. contend that the modern peer review system embodies a process of systematically distributing, evaluating, and reaching a consensus on the merits of submitted manuscripts as evidenced by publication acceptance or rejection. Casadevall and Fang explore the latitude provided to a..
THE INFLUENCE OF MUSICAL PARAMETERS ON PERCEIVED EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
ABSTRACT. The term Becker adapts from Bourdieu, habitus of listening, underlines the interrelatedness of the perception of musical emotion and learned interactions. Montague Lavy remarks that a listener engaged with the complex structures of a piece of music is generating expectancies of his own in ..
OBAMA’S RHETORICAL PRAGMATISM
ABSTRACT. Schultz analyzes Obama’s rhetorical tactics and broader political philosophy as presented in his major speeches. Rynhold holds that Obama speaks in terms of bridging divides. Carothers observes that Obama sent a ringing signal to the world of the renewal of American democracy and the power..
THE NATURE OF MODERN WAR AND THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE GLOBAL POLITY TODAY
ABSTRACT. Boyle remarks that the authority to organise and command defense is not the stronger authority to punish (which involves imposing further burdens on those against whom defense is mounted than defense itself implies). Rodin argues that states are constituted by their existence as sovereign ..
THE DYNAMICS AND COHERENCE OF MUSICALLY-EVOKED EMOTION
ABSTRACT. Montague Lavy outlines the role played by low-level responses to sounds and patterns in the musical evocation of emotion. Kramer contends that the music ideally embodied by the classical score has an identity, but it has no location. Scruton points out that every emotion requires an object..
DIRECT REFERENCE AND PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES
ABSTRACT. Sorensen believes that there are both singular propositions and general propositions: epistemicism provides the best explanatory framework for vague statements that express singular propositions. As Recanati puts it, REF forces the hearer to interpret the utterance as representing a singul..
PUBLISHING IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AS THE MAJOR MECHANISM FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. Gami et al. observe that author self-citations may misrepresent the importance of individual articles, skew the calculation of journal impact factors and bias perceptions of the importance of a publication. Kurmis contend that direct comparison between journals on the basis of the total nu..
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MUSICAL EXPECTATIONS THAT INVOLVE STYLE-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. Montague Lavy holds that listening to music as sound and utterance can evoke emotion by virtue of the acoustic properties of those sounds and utterances. Kramer states that Brahms’s German Requiem’s musical imagery combines sobriety with lyricism throughout, suggesting that tragedy can be ..
THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN THE EVOCATION AND MEDIATION OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Montague Lavy notes that people regularly use music deliberately as a mood induction tool and that listening to music in everyday circumstances can lead to moderated mood and altered cognition. Kramer holds that classical music has historically maintained a prolific dialogue with language ..
UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTER OF MODERN WAR
ABSTRACT. Orend claims that in just war theory there is a robust set of rules for resorting to war (jus ad bellum) and for conduct during war (jus in bello) but not for the termination phase of war. On Rigstad’s reading, JWT (Just War Theory) is the discursive practice of systematic public reflectio..
THE ROLE OF THE CURRENT PEER REVIEW SYSTEM IN SUPPORT OF ACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF QUALITY OF SCIENTIFIC WORK
ABSTRACT. Campanario and Acedo identify strategies used by researchers to overcome initial resistance and lack of recognition from the rest of the academic community. Neff and Olden use a Bayesian approach and citation data from biological journals to show that top journals successfully publish suit..