VOLUME 7 • 2008
MONETARY POLICY, INFLATION STABILIZATION, AND DOMESTIC OUTPUT
ABSTRACT. Berger et al. remark that the optimal policy response to an asset price boom may depend in a complex way on various economic determinants. Davig says that the position of the optimal trade-off frontier, or efficiency frontier, depends on the variance of the underlying aggregate supply shoc..
AN ANALYSIS ON PRINT MEDIA CONTENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH TABLOIDIZATION
ABSTRACT. Dahlgren observes that information sharing going on in cyberspace tends to by-pass the classical role of journalism. Kovach and Rosenstiel argue that the primary purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with the information they need to be free and self-governing. Huesca asserts that t..
CONCEPTUAL MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE NUMBER SENSE
ABSTRACT. Gilmore et al. assert that symbolic arithmetic is fundamental to science, technology and economics: its acquisition by children typically requires years of effort, instruction and drill. Heirdsfield notes that the study of proficiency in mental computation extends beyond the development of..
THE ENCROACHMENT OF TABLOIDIZATION ON THE MEDIA
ABSTRACT. Fox maintains that the journalists' narrative is not a free choice but one guided by institutions, routines and conventions. Barnhurst observes that news stories have become generally longer, more analytical, and focused on interpretation. As Postman puts it, television's information parad..
WHAT LIES AT THE HEART OF COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HELP MAKE MATHEMATICAL THINKING PURPOSEFUL?
ABSTRACT. Stephan et al. note that modern cognitive neuroscience uses a variety of non-invasive techniques for measuring brain activity. Resnick and Resnick assert that information-processing theories of cognition analyze cognitive performances into complexes of rules, but that performances critical..
MUSICAL IMAGERY, HARMONIC PATTERNS, AND EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
ABSTRACT. Cohen argues that, in the West, the era, the individual composer, and the individual piece have been important, whereas in some other cultures the function and the musical instrument are salient factors. Meyer holds that two cultures may appear to employ the same scale structure (the struc..
CHEUNG ON MOZART AND BRAHMS
ABSTRACT. Cheung maintains that with its perfect proportion to its parent movement and its orchestral color, Mozart's cadenza ensures equality between the piano and the tutti. Cheung contends that each of Brahms' three piano quartets is composed of four movements, similar in external layout to the s..
IS ALL MUSICOLOGY EMPIRICAL?
ABSTRACT. Cook and Fujisawa argue that the fact that some chords sound stable, final and resolved, while others sound unstable, tense and unresolved cannot be explained solely on the basis of the summation of interval dissonance among tones and their upper partials. According to Thomson, empirical s..
MUSICAL EXPRESSIONS AND STRUCTURAL COHERENCE
ABSTRACT. Tomashevich holds that the music of the Balkan Peninsula shares certain area-wide common features, based on certain common sources and formative experiences. Carmi-Cohen writes that every semantic idea in a sung text is realized through some structure of musical organization (musical organ..
INTERNAL UNITY, EXPRESSIVE CHARACTER, AND DRAMATIC MEANING IN PIANO MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Kinderman claims that the piano represents a springboard for Beethoven's achievements and a primary vehicle for the pathbreaking innovations of his evolving musical style. Samson contends that Chopin's ballades have their own particular kind of musical material (different in kind from that..
WITTGENSTEINIANS AND CHOMSKYANS: IN DEFENCE OF MENTALISM
ABSTRACT. An extended defence of Chomskyan linguistics and the Cognitive Paradigm in general against the Wittgensteinian critiques of Saul Kripke, Baker & Hacker, Esa Itkonen and others. Consideration is given to the Private Language arguments; to the distinction between public (outer) and priva..
WITTGENSTEIN ON THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF
ABSTRACT. In the first part of this article I introduce briefly the main tenets in Wittgenstein's views on religion; for example, his idea that religious beliefs are not dependent on empirical evidence. In the second part I introduce and discuss some typical criticisms that have been targeted agains..