VOLUME 2(1) • 2010
Book Review: Modus Vivendi Liberalism
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010, 256 pp. Modus Vivendi Liberalism is ambitious, thoughtfully organized, and challenging, constructing a consistent and well-defended narrative characterized by a high level of rigor, and providing a model of probing philosophical argumentation. McCab..
THE TEXTUALITY OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE AND THE LIMITS OF MUSICAL EXPRESSION
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the relationship between dreams and music, the merging of feeling and reflection in the experience of music, and classical music’s capacity to unfold a complex discursive whole. Richter asserts that dreams and music traverse Bloch..
EXPLANATIONS OF THE NATURE OF MUSIC’S EXPRESSIVENESS: THE COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF EMOTIONS AS EXPRESSED IN MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Overall, throughout this paper, I demonstrate the value and importance of the intrinsic correlation between music and language. The purpose of this paper will be to supply a brief overview of an approach to analyzing Berlioz’s program music, and of harmony and musical form. On Lütkehaus’ r..
THE LISTENER’S PHENOMENAL EXPERIENCE OF MUSIC’S EXPRESSIVENESS: THE CENTRALITY AND OBJECTIVITY OF THE MUSICAL EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONAL STATES
ABSTRACT. We hope this paper makes a significant contribution to evaluating Plato’s conception of the nature and value of music, the expressive power of music, and Berlioz’s music’s evocative power. On Bowman’s reading, according to Plato, musical experience is not an autonomous affair, isolable fro..
EXPLORING THE ETHICS OF ACCOUNTING
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring the ethical behaviour of individual accountants, ethical questions associated with the practice of accounting, and the complex mixture of factors that may influence how individual accountants engage with ethical dilemmas in practice. ..
WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
ABSTRACT. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by examining women’s rights in the Arab world, ways of eradicating legal discrimination against women and assisting women in claiming their existing rights, and gender asymmetry and the status of women in the Muslim world. Ottaway ex..
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEMORY IN CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS
ABSTRACT. Throughout this paper, we demonstrate the value and importance of the categorical processes critical to spatial cognition, of the use of memory for the identity of the community, and of the formation of social representations about the world. Maddox et al. state that social information has..
THE MORAL STATUS OF THE TELEVISION IMAGE
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of news use, information processing and cognitive complexity; television narration and visual form: audience processing of television news, understanding the effect of television news, and the unbundling and mobilization of televis..
MEDIA CREDIBILITY AND ETHICS IN TELEVISION NEWS
ABSTRACT. We shall focus here on the complex reconstructive and subjective nature of news reception, the different ways the audience constructs meaningful interpretations from the news, exposure to news and the con- struction of images of reality. Schaap describes differences and similarities in tel..
WHAT IS POLITICAL ABOUT JURISPRUDENCE? • COURTS, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
Abstract. This paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for several decades already with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The d..
CONTEMPORARY ANTI-NATURAL RIGHTS
ABSTRACT. The U. S. political and legal system had been based on the Lockean natural rights doctrine. It made the country’s constitutional frame- work a distinctly individualist system, a revolutionary one at that. The government had been demoted while citizens promoted – their sovereignty came to b..
SMART POLICY: COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
ABSTRACT. Enhancement of human cognitive and epistemic performance can take a wide variety of forms. This paper considers some ethical and policy issues related to cognitive enhancement, focusing in particular on issues arising from the prospect of effective biomedical enhancers. Several specific re..