VOLUME 5(1-2) • 2006
DISCLOSURE IN BANKING, MONETARY POLICY, AND E-BANKING TECHNOLOGIES
ABSTRACT. Tadesse finds that disclosure regulation fosters banking system stability: banking systems are more likely to be stable in countries with regulations that require more comprehensive, more informative, more timely and more credible disclosure. Svensson demonstrates that optimal policy proje..
DETERMINANTS OF EQUITY ACCOUNTING DISCLOSURES
ABSTRACT. Future research on the connection between governance use and capital markets use of financial accounting information is important for developing a more complete understanding of the effects of financial accounting information on economic performance (Bushman and Smith). The accountability ..
JUSTICE THROUGH PUNISHMENT
ABSTRACT. Garland maintains that the welfare penal mode is muted in favour of a punitive, expressive, risk conscious penal mode. Fagan examines how the spatial effects of crime impact a neighborhood's economic well-being, its social norm structure, family life, and the willingness of its members to ..
RAWLS'S CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION AND THE IDEAL STATES SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. Rawls notes that outlaw states are aggressive and dangerous. Naticchia notes that Rawls produced two versions of the law of peoples that defend basic human rights as a minimum requirement of a just law of peoples. Rawls restricts membership of the original position to compatriots so that t..
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, THE DUTY OF ASSISTANCE, AND THE INTERNAL AUTONOMY OF SOCIETIES
ABSTRACT. Institutions in democratic societies will better serve the public if they operate in accordance with democratically determined ethical principles (Thompson). From our understanding of instrumental relations among both animate and inanimate things, we have a sense of what it is to treat som..
PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA EFFECTS
ABSTRACT. Media framing is to select some aspect of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text (Entman). Television has displaced traditional sources of socialization such as: the family, the church, and school (Gerbner). Communications technology always influences human ..
AN APPLICATION OF THE DUMMETTIAN MODEL OF COMMUNICATION TO JOURNALISM
ABSTRACT. Dummett claims that, on a holistic view, no model for the individual content of a sentence can be given; the way the truth of logically complex statements are determined in classical model theory is important. Habermas describes a normative role for journalists and media practitioners in r..
MERLEAU-PONTY, SKLAR, AND PLURALIST ONTOLOGIES
ABSTRACT. Merleau-Ponty claims that the phenomenal field places a fundamental difficulty in the way of any attempt to make experience directly and totally explicit. Sklar holds that the explanatory and predictive methods of science constitute a diverse plurality; science itself declares the continuo..
PUTNAM ON MEANING AND REALITY
ABSTRACT. Putnam does not accept meanings as entities that fix reference but takes them to be largely determined by causal connections. Putnam explains how a particular reference relation gets attached to our words; to say that what does the attaching is the fact that certain sentences are true is f..
HEGEL, HUMAN FINITUDE, AND CONTINGENCY
ABSTRACT. Hegel develops his own distinctive understanding of absolute knowledge as the product of a dialectical process of mediation and self-differentiation. Hegel conceives individual action as being necessarily embedded in a people's set of practical, ethical, and political institutions. Hegel's..
DERRIDA AND THE METAPHYSICS OF LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. Derrida remarks that exteriority and alterity are concepts which by themselves have never surprised philosophical discourse; the call to recognize failure as an "internal and positive condition" ultimately leads to a structural critique of language's conditions of possibility. Derrida aims..
WITTGENSTEIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO MUSICAL AESTHETICS
ABSTRACT. Wittgenstein's principle concern is to expand the notion of linguistic understanding (Dammann). Although we understand music in a similar way as we understand language, music is not a language because we still cannot communicate through music as we can through language. Wittgenstein emphas..