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Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces Nov 2014

Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces

International Dialogue

Table of Contents for Volume 4


The Sports Gene: Inside The Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Dave Ogden Nov 2014

The Sports Gene: Inside The Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Dave Ogden

International Dialogue

David Epstein is another author chasing the elusive answer to one of the basic and ageless issues of social and natural sciences: Nature versus nurture. His discoveries and conclusions in The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance are not necessarily new, but he provides ample and interesting evidence that leans more heavily on the side of nature. In doing so, he takes on stock believers in Karl Anders Ericsson’s theoretical set called “deliberate practice.” Ericsson and his colleagues have studied elite “performers” in a variety of fields, including typing, chess playing, musicianship, and athletic skills. Ericsson found …


Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice, Pattaka Sa-Ngimnet Nov 2014

Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice, Pattaka Sa-Ngimnet

International Dialogue

This book explains how international human rights laws are created by consensus through representatives of local and national governments and then become translated into content acceptable to local communities. In an introductory chapter the author presents the overall arguments of the entire work. She also gives examples that support the arguments and lays out the pattern of human rights legislation by using the specific example of gender violence. Emphasizing language, she explains how it is understood in diverse ways. The rest of the book is concerned with more specific examples. Chapter two deals with creating human rights law (36–71). Chapter …


Avatar And Nature Spirituality, Martin Schönfeld Nov 2014

Avatar And Nature Spirituality, Martin Schönfeld

International Dialogue

“To put it mildly, the world is a mess.” Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, 27 July 2014 James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) was the first film to combine stereoscopic imagining and motion-capture animation for a flawless 3-D presentation. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, and won three, for Cinematography, Art Direction, and Visual Effects. It was also the first box-office hit to gross more than $2 billion, and it remains the highest-grossing film to date. It made cinematic history. But it was more than an aesthetic triumph. Avatar is also a cultural …


Can American Christians Care About Hong Kong’S Umbrella Movement?, Justin Kh Tse Nov 2014

Can American Christians Care About Hong Kong’S Umbrella Movement?, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It’s a delicate task to write about how American Christians, especially evangelicals, can care about Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement.


Jian Ghomeshi And Secular Sexualities, Justin Kh Tse Nov 2014

Jian Ghomeshi And Secular Sexualities, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The public conversation swirling around Jian Ghomeshi’s termination from the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) is a grand exercise in secular sexualities.It begins with his Facebook post. Explaining that he was fired because of his private BDSM consensual acts with an ex-girlfriend, he castigates the CBC for both acknowledging that his acts were consensual and then wrongfully pulling the plug on him because he would serve as a poor role model.


Derrida And Comparative Philosophy, Steven Burik Nov 2014

Derrida And Comparative Philosophy, Steven Burik

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article argues that Derrida’s thinking is relevant to comparative philosophy. To illustrate this, at various stages classical Daoism is compared with Derrida’s thought, to highlight Derrida’s “applicability” and to see how using Derrida can contribute to new interpretations of Daoism. The article first looks into Derrida’s engagement (or lack thereof) with non-Western thought, and then proceeds to his extensive work regarding language and translation, comparing this with views on classical Chinese language and translation of key Daoist characters. It then explores Derrida’s efforts at opening up philosophy to its outside, and argues that he was very much concerned with …


Auburn Sun, Tiffany Scales Oct 2014

Auburn Sun, Tiffany Scales

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


She Slapped Me, Fawaz Alotaibi Oct 2014

She Slapped Me, Fawaz Alotaibi

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Smells Like Teen Spirit, Tony Joshua Oct 2014

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Tony Joshua

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Poet, Asalean Springfield Oct 2014

The Poet, Asalean Springfield

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Final Harvest, Rick D. Hallbeck Oct 2014

The Final Harvest, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Maiden Mantle, Rick D. Hallbeck Oct 2014

Maiden Mantle, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


My Black Community, Ashley Stewart Oct 2014

My Black Community, Ashley Stewart

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Karma, Shannon Stanton Oct 2014

Karma, Shannon Stanton

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Pining Through The City, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Pining Through The City, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Nightmares, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Nightmares, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Discourse Of Introduction And Other Foul Sentiments, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Discourse Of Introduction And Other Foul Sentiments, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Daddy, Jack Perry Oct 2014

Daddy, Jack Perry

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


When You Grow Up To Be A Child, Viviauna Brown Oct 2014

When You Grow Up To Be A Child, Viviauna Brown

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Black Aesthetic, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Black Aesthetic, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Tell-Lie-Vision, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Tell-Lie-Vision, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Man Divine, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Man Divine, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of The Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out Of Politics, Bas Van Der Vossen Oct 2014

In Defense Of The Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out Of Politics, Bas Van Der Vossen

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

Many political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and other academics engage in political activism. And many think this is how things ought to be. In this essay, I challenge the ideal of the politically engaged academic. I argue that, quite to the contrary, political theorists, philosophers, and other political thinkers have a prima facie duty to refrain from political activism. This argument is based on a commonsense moral principle, a claim about the point of political thought, and findings in cognitive psychology.


Phenomenology, The Spirits Of The Age, And The (Religious) Task Of Philosophy, Neal Deroo Oct 2014

Phenomenology, The Spirits Of The Age, And The (Religious) Task Of Philosophy, Neal Deroo

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

The presenter states that philosophy in general—and phenomenology in particular—remain predominantly academic endeavors, done by professional philosophers, to professional philosophers, for professional philosophers and that the key to changing this situation and so to recover the public nature of the phenomenological enterprise is to reconceive the task of philosophy as the 2 discernment of the spirits of the age in which we find ourselves. To do this, he highlights two distinct elements of phenomenological methodology that enable it to perform such a task: first, its epistemological claim that the matters to be investigated must be both taken on their own …


Paul And Kierkegaard: A Christocentric Epistemology, Harris B. Bechtol Oct 2014

Paul And Kierkegaard: A Christocentric Epistemology, Harris B. Bechtol

All Faculty Scholarship (Archived)

No abstract provided.


After Fukushima: The Equivalence Of Catastrophes, Jean-Luc Nancy Oct 2014

After Fukushima: The Equivalence Of Catastrophes, Jean-Luc Nancy

Philosophy & Theory

In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a “natural” catastrophe when all of our technologies—nuclear energy, power supply, water supply—are necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? Nancy examines these questions and more. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.


New Curator At Milwaukee Art Museum: Off The Cuff With Brandon Ruud, Curtis L. Carter Oct 2014

New Curator At Milwaukee Art Museum: Off The Cuff With Brandon Ruud, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Immortality Through Legacy, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University Oct 2014

Immortality Through Legacy, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.


Augustinian Approach To Holistic Christian Pedagogy, Adam Schultz, Neal Deroo Oct 2014

Augustinian Approach To Holistic Christian Pedagogy, Adam Schultz, Neal Deroo

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Presenters explain how in their CORE philosophy class they seek to demonstrate that their students' real life-spiritual life distinction is symptomatic of a dualism endemic to contemporary Christianity (section 1), and that their reading of Augustine's Confessions can provide a unified and holistic corrective to it (section 2) and that doing so helps students see a more radical vision of Christian faithfulness, one that calls for a holistic, life-wide response to the work of Christ that will not allow for an easy distinction between ‘spiritual’ life and everyday life (section 3).