Religion and Everyday Life ? By S. Hunt On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory ? By D. Martin Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland ? By C. Mitchell

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-328
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Everyday Life

Physical Probability

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Subjective Probability ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Probabilistic Reasoning ◽  
Objective Probability ◽  
Problem Of Induction ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Statistical Induction

Probability theorists divide into two camps-the proponents of subjective probability and the proponents of objective probability. Opinion has it that subjective probability has carried the day, but I think that such a judgment is premature. I have argued elsewhere that there are deep incoherencies in the notion of subjective probability. Accordingly, I find myself in the camp of objective probability. The consensus is, however, that the armies of objective probability are in even worse disarray. The purpose of this book is to construct a theory of objective probability that rectifies that. Such a theory must explain the meaning of objective probability, show how we can discover the values of objective probabilities, clarify their use in decision theory, and demonstrate how they can be used for epistemological purposes. The theory of nomic probability aims to do all that. This book has two main objectives. First, it will propose a general theory of objective probability. Second, it will, in a sense to be explained, propose a solution to the problem of induction. These two goals are intimately connected. I will argue that a solution to the problem of induction is forthcoming, ultimately, from an analysis of probabilistic reasoning. Under some circumstances, probabilistic reasoning justifies us in drawing non-probabilistic conclusions, and this kind of reasoning underlies induction. Conversely, an essential part of understanding probability consists of providing an account of how we can ascertain the values of probabilities, and the most fundamental way of doing that is by using a species of induction. In statistical induction we observe the relative frequency (the proportion) of A's in a limited sample of B's, and then infer that the probability of a B being an A is approximately the same as that relative frequency. To provide philosophical foundations for probability we must, among other things, explain precisely how statistical induction works and what justifies it. Probability is important both in and out of philosophy. Much of the reasoning of everyday life is probabilistic. We look at the clouds and judge whether it is going to rain by considering how often clouds like that have spawned rain in the past.

Letters of Ivan IV the Terrible (Architectonics and Suggestion Techniques)

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Karavashkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
Private Writing ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
Complete History

The epistolary traditions of medieval Russia had the most varied sources. In this article, we address the problem of the Genesis of the formative models that formed the basis of the architectonics of the most famous Epistles of medieval Russia. The polemical Epistles of Ivan the Terrible, which have long been included in the circle of classical texts of medieval Russia, should be considered in the context of the development of the Epistle genre as such. But its General theory, as well as a complete history over the course of seven centuries of the development of East Slavic literature has not yet been created. This is due to the objective difficulties associated with the nature of this genre. In medieval Russia, the message is changeable. It not only stands between everyday life and high book tradition, but is also prone to frequent transformations. It is sometimes rhetorical, sometimes ordinary, but at the same time both rhetoric and uncomplicated style do not exclude publicism and public sound. Nevertheless, within the boundaries of the creativity of individual authors, the epistle has completely separated itself as a very peculiar type of source, endowed with such formal and meaningful features that allow it to be distinguished from works of other genres. Comparing the polemical letters of Ivan the Terrible with each other and some other texts of the same author, which are adjacent to them, allows us to talk about a single architectonics and General methods of suggestion — persuasion of the addressee for such letters. The main compositional units of Ivan IV’s letters echo the structure of late Byzantine epistolography. But this coincidence is only external. The basic set of motifs and formulas of Byzantine writing was strikingly different from the epistolary manner that Ivan IV developed. His polemical texts go back to the polemical treatise, diplomatic letters, and private writing.

Quality/control: international peace interventions and ‘the everyday’

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1623-1645 ◽  
Author(s):  
AUDRA MITCHELL
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
International Power

AbstractCurrent discourses about the everyday in relation to international peace interventions focus on two main aspects. First, the perceived quality or qualities of everyday life tend to be attributed to ‘local’ organisations or actors and assessed positively. Second, the control of life (including bio-political control and governance) tends to be associated with ‘international’ actors and viewed negatively. This article challenges these key assumptions by contextualising them in social and political theories of the everyday and in two key examples: ‘affective’ peacebuilding in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and ‘threatworks’ in Northern Ireland. It also calls for an approach to the ‘everyday’ in international interventions which moves beyond local/international power dynamics and is attentive to the pluralities of power and practice that emerge in these settings.

Doing Well in the Circumstances

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Alexandrova
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Third ◽  
Linguistic Practices

Judgments of well-being across different circumstances and spheres of life exhibit a staggering diversity. Depending on the situation, we use different standards of well-being and even treat it as being constituted by different things. This is true of scientific studies as well as of everyday life. How should we interpret this diversity? I consider three ways of doing so: first, denying the legitimacy of this diversity, second, treating well-being as semantically invariant but differentially realizable, and, third, adopting contextualist semantics for well-being expressions. I reject the first option on the grounds that it is unable to make sense of much of everyday and scientific linguistic practices, and also because it makes the category of well-being insignificant or even otiose for practical purposes. We should thus pick between the second and the third options. I argue that contextualism about well-being is more plausible and faces fewer objections than the differential realization view. I conclude with a discussion of other features of contextualism: it does not imply that well-being is relative to individual taste, it need not result in eliminativism about well-being, nor in scepticism about a general theory of well-being. It does not commit us to an “anything goes” approach, nor does it threaten anarchy and miscommunication.

scholarly journals Heterosexism and the Geographies of Everyday Life in Belfast, Northern Ireland

10.1068/a3538 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin ◽  
Karen Lysaght
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Home Work ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Sexual Production ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper we seek to extend work on the relationship between sexuality, space, and society by providing a nuanced geographical reading of the sexual production of space in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Utilising queer theory, we draw from interviews with thirty gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals to illustrate how the discursive and material practices that shape the regulation, self-regulation, and resistance of heterosexism are spatially, temporally, and contextually uneven and unequal. Focusing on the spatial arenas of home, work, and social space we document how each space is produced and experienced in multiple ways, and managed using a variety of sociospatial strategies.

Extreme self-sacrifice beyond fusion: Moral expansiveness and the special case of allyship

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Crimston ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Relevant Dimension ◽  
Special Case

AbstractAs a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice, Whitehouse's article misses one relevant dimension: people's willingness to fight and die in support of entities not bound by biological markers or ancestral kinship (allyship). We discuss research on moral expansiveness, which highlights individuals’ capacity to self-sacrifice for targets that lie outside traditional in-group markers, including racial out-groups, animals, and the natural environment.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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