VOLUME 1(2) • 2009
NATURAL MOTIVES AND THE MOTIVE OF DUTY. HUME AND KANT ON OUR DUTIES TO OTHERS
ABSTRACT. Hume and Kant disagree about the motives involved in the performance of our duties to others. Hume thinks that natural virtues such as benevolence are best performed from “natural” motives, but that there are no natural motives for the performance of the “artificial” virtues, such as justi..
GOVERNMENTALITY OF YOUTH: BEYOND CULTURAL STUDIES
ABSTRACT. The paper is in four sections to put the case that discourses of youth in the 21st century context of neoliberal, consumer, capitalist societies, need to move beyond earlier understandings based on psychological and cultural/subcultural studies to harness Foucault’s notion of governmentali..
DIGNITY AND ENHANCEMENT
ABSTRACT. Does human enhancement threaten our dignity as some prominent commentators have asserted? Or could our dignity perhaps be technologically enhanced? After disentangling several different concepts of dignity, this essay focuses on the idea of dignity as a quality, a kind of excellence admitt..
THE INTERNET AS A JOURNALISTIC MEDIUM
ABSTRACT. Tewksbury et al. write that newsgathering has typically been seen as a purposeful, directed activity. Downie and Schudson state that news media Web sites feature their own staff blogs and numerous opportunities for reader involvement. Pavlik reasons that every reporter should integrate the..
THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF MUSIC COPYRIGHT
ABSTRACT. Bently explains how copyright law came to privilege some types of authorship. Mertens evaluates the Russian piracy problem in general, focusing on the legality of its new online music market. O’Brien and Fitzgerald explore the legality of engaging in the practices of mashing and remix of c..
SEN’S CONCEPTION OF THE “CAPABILITY APPROACH” TO ASSESSING DEPRIVATION AND WELL-BEING
ABSTRACT. Gandjour contends that Sen’s capability approach has been widely discussed as a theoretical basis for making resource allocation decisions in health care. Benicourt shows that Sen’s presentation of utilitarianism is misleading. Clark maintains that Sen’s capability approach ..
RELIGION AND UNVEILING THE WORLD
ABSTRACT. Promey maintains that the process of self-scrutiny involved a fundamental activity of matching aspects of the individual life to an internalized visual and verbal glossary of biblical types and emblems. Maffly-Kipp compiles Protestant representations of Chinese religious practice in A..
THE IMPACT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON THE LIFE OF INDIVIDUAL WOMEN AND ON FAMILY AND COMMUNITY LIFE
ABSTRACT. Macmillan says that a strong relationship exists between age and risk of violent victimization. Ward and Marsh point out that sexual violence does not necessarily end with the cessation of armed conflict. Sarkar evaluates and elucidates the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on..
THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC: ARTICULATING THE DYNAMIC RELATION BETWEEN MUSIC AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Hobby claims that philosophy and music inspired many of Mann’s creations: his works include harmonically rich and chromatically ambiguous music. Hoeckner maintains that Novalis contemplates music’s relationship both to language and to the moment: music is a universal language that animates..
THE GROWTH OF NETWORKED MEDIA
ABSTRACT. According to Pavlik, there are three principles one should follow in introducing new technology in the newsroom: (i) include newsroom staff in the process of identifying the appropriate technology; (ii) provide extensive training on the new technology before expecting staff to use it, espe..