scholarly journals JSE's First Retraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Stephen Braude
Keyword(s):  
Careful Examination ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Scientific Domain ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One ◽  
Published Paper

This issue of the JSE includes a retraction of a paper by Alejandro Parra that we published in 2017. As far as I can determine, it’s the journal’s first official retraction of a published paper. The reason for this action is the author’s extensive plagiarism, both in that paper and in other published work (including a recent book whose publisher has since recalled all copies). It’s a sad state of affairs, of course—and perhaps the first of its kind in this particular and admittedly minor scientific domain.             But it reminds me that six years ago, in Volume 29(2), we published a paper on retractions in science, and in that issue I seized the opportunity to editorialize further on the subject. I recycle that Editorial below. But before that, I must note that careful examination has found no additional evidence of plagiarism in the one other research article (in 2018) and the one book review we’ve published by Parra. I must also mention that, henceforth, the JSE will run routine plagiarism tests on papers accepted for publication. I thought this was a chore I’d left behind when I retired from teaching. However, I don’t want the JSE to emulate the person who said “I’ve learned from my mistakes, and I’m certain I can repeat them exactly.” EDITORIAL FROM JSE VOLUME 29(2), 189–192

The Grammar of Subjectivity

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Jonardon Ganeri
Keyword(s):  
Logical Form ◽  
Conscious State ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Phenomenological Interpretation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Affected Subject

There is a commonly agreed way to articulate the logical form of a conscious state: it a state such that there is something it is like for a subject to be in it. This formula has the important virtue that it enables us to separate out two distinct aspects in the phenomenology of an experience: what is experienced, the ‘quality’ of the experience; and how it is experienced, that it is experienced as being for-a-subject. A careful examination of the syntax of the ‘what it’s like …’ construction reveals that the colloquial phrase ‘subject of experience’ is polysemic. On the one hand it might mean the subject in whom the experience is occurring. Let me call this the ‘locative of manifestation’. This host self, an inhabited self, is more commonly identified with the physical human being, or the human being’s brain or neuropsychological state, but Pessoa gives instead a phenomenological interpretation of the notion. The phrase might also mean the subject affected by the experience. The affected subject is the one to whom the experience is addressed, so I will call this the ‘accusative of manifestation’. The accusative of manifestation is, evidently, conceptually distinct from the locative of manifestation. Finally, the phrase might mean the subject who is undergoing the experience, the one who lives through the experience, the ‘dative of manifestation.’

Levensbeschouwing: een vak dat er toe doet

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
Guido Versteegh
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
World View ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

The subject of this contribution is the present state of affairs regarding religious education and the teaching of worldviews (Dutch: ‘levensbeschouwing’) on the one hand and the quality of the textbooks used on the other. The approach is that of a teacher in secondary education. The author starts by giving a brief outline of the general situation of religious education in the Netherlands. Then he deals with the significance of religious learning for the personal development of young people and asks how the subject should be taught. If it is to contribute to social cohesion and civic education it will have to aim at the development of a personal identity. These aims imply that both teachers and textbooks should meet certain standards with regard to didactics and professionalism. The author argues that due to recent developments, such as the so-called ‘new learning’, religious education and world view education can potentially fulfil a pivotal role for all ongoing learning processes in the schools.

Physician-Assisted Death

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boom ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Assisted Death ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sanctity Of Life ◽  
Relief Of Suffering ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of intense public opinion battles across the country. Driven by an increasingly aging population, and a baby boom generation just starting to enter its senior years, the issue is not going to go away anytime soon. In Physician-Assited Death L.W. Sumner equips readers with everything they need to know to take a reasoned and informed position in this important debate. The book provides needed context for the debate by situating physician-assisted death within the wider framework of end-of-life care and explaining why the movement to legalize it now enjoys such strong public support. It also reviews that movement's successes to date, beginning in Oregon in 1994 and now extending to eleven jurisdictions across three continents. Like abortion, physician-assisted death is ethically controversial and the subject of passionately held opinions. The central chapters of the book review the main arguments utilized by both sides of the controversy: on the one hand, appeals to patient autonomy and the relief of suffering, on the other the claim that taking active steps to hasten death inevitably violates the sanctity of life. The book then explores both the case in favor of legalization and the case against, focusing in the latter instance on the risk of abuse and the possibility of slippery slopes. In this context the experience of jurisdictions that have already taken the step of legalization is carefully reviewed to see what lessons might be extracted from it. It then identifies some further issues that lie beyond the boundaries of the current debate but will have to be faced sometime down the road: euthanasia for patients who are permanently unconscious or have become seriously demented and for severely compromised newborns. The book concludes by considering the various possible routes to legalization, both political and judicial. Readers will then be prepared to decide for themselves just where they stand when they confront the issue both in their own jurisdiction and in their own lives.

Revisiting Demeter and Persephone Paper A - Revisiting Demeter: towards reconceptualising maternal subjectivity and erotics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Mayo ◽  
Christina Moutsou
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Maternal Subjectivity ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Negative Comments ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Demeter And Persephone

These conjoint papers discuss critically Nancy Chodorow’s understanding of mother–daughter separation as an important milestone in psychic development, as well as subsequent psychoanalytic work on female and maternal subjectivity through revisiting the myth of Demeter and Persephone. In Paper A, we are looking at the figure of Demeter. Our reading of Demeter in the myth questions the usual interpretations of this maternal figure particularly those from a psychoanalytic perspective, drawing the conclusion that Demeter, according to the myth, is the silent container for her child, the mother with no voice or subjectivity, or desire, she is the one who is to be left behind. Through a clinical vignette, we illustrate how in one clinical context, a mother and daughter relationship was perceived and “interpreted”, leading to the mother being seen as the problem, and cause of her daughter’s difficulties. The BBC film, The Mother, received many negative comments and even condemnation for its portrayal of a mother and grandmother as still sexually active, and wishing to be the subject of another’s desire. We suggest that the film illustrated some of our most uncomfortable and complex questions about the mother and the maternal. We conclude by looking at the film and the questions and fears it raises about female sexuality, desire, and ageing when applied to the “older” woman–mother.

scholarly journals Dreams and Demography

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (6_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Winget ◽  
Milton Kramer ◽  
Roy M. Whitman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Blacks And Whites

This survey makes two contributions to the study of man. The first deals with the subject of dreams per se and the careful examination of these dreams leading to establishing norms pertinent for a generalized population. This can be seen as complementary to the earlier studies of Hall and Van de Castle which established norms for a limited population. The second contribution concerns the insights into current societal preoccupations which the dream reveals. Making a direct translation of manifest dream content into sociological factors is fraught with difficulty. Nevertheless, it is tempting to describe this middle city of the United States as reflecting the larger situation of America and perhaps of western urban culture. In this respect, human beings are seen as coping with death anxiety as they grow older, accentuated by such conditions as widowhood. Blacks and whites are seen as essentially similar in their preoccupations, aggressions and good fortunes. We see a reaffirmation that anatomy is destiny, for the single most important factor in determining dream themes is the sex into which one is born. How much this difference is biological and how much cultural is unknown. At the present time in the United States and as exemplified by a recent book (37), being a woman involves less striving for achievement, more involvement with interpersonal relations and in general a more passive role in the aggressive themes of life. Attention to inner processes and inner space would seem to be biologically based although certainly reinforced by the cultural substrate in which the woman operates. This study deals with two of the three great themes of life — birth, marriage and death. In terms of marriage it can be observed that the single person seems happier but suffers the greatest misfortunes. Women are preoccupied with marriage and personal relationships and men with work. Death overshadows both men and women and age and death are partners.

scholarly journals DISTINCTION AND DIFFERENCE: REVISITING THE QUESTION OF TASTE

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Rebentisch
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The essay discusses the logic of distinction under the sign of the contemporary culture of difference and proposes a discussion of the relationship between taste and contemporary art. The recent trend toward greater individualization might have rendered social codes more permeable. But this state of affairs is neither the opposite of the standardization nor does it imply that the social logic of distinction has been suspended. It has merely undergone further differentiation, but without abolishing the signifiers of status. On the one hand art as a commodity partakes in the respective developments, on the other, certain strands in contemporary art can also be read as opposing the subject of aesthetic experience to the subject of consumerist taste.

Managing Human Response: The Search for an Indian Model

1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
N R Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Human Response ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Effective Models

In this Perspectives piece, N R. Sheth, a sociologist and an expert on industrial relations', reviews a recent book by S K Chakraborty, entitled Human Response in Organizations: Towards the Indian Ethos. In doing so, he presents the background to the search for models for managing human response in organizations, in the American and Indian environments. The evolution of management theory in the west shows how important it is for academicians and managers in India to develop jointly more effective models for managing human response in organizations to increase harmony and productivity. In view of the importance of the subject, Vikalpa is featuring this book review in its Perspectives feature. An article by S K Chakraborty on the quality of work life which rollows the book review clarifies the issues further and suggests some key ideas for a fundamental change in our perspective. These ideas will certainly need concretization through discussion and practice. We hope that managers and academicians will participate in this exercise in full measure.

scholarly journals Book review: Accessibilitat i traducció audiovisual

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Ana-Isabel Martínez-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Visual Description ◽  
General Aspects

Accessibilitat i traducció audiovisual (Audiovisual Accessibility and Translation, in English) by Anna Matamala (2019) is a book written in Catalan which delves into the possibilities of making the audiovisual experience complete for all consumers by modifying content. With the rise of audiovisual and virtual content in the communication media, many people with disabilities such as hearing loss or visual impairment are left behind in the most run-of-the-mill experiences, especially those containing aural and visual elements as they cannot fully participate in the imaginary construct created by the voices, images and sounds.  This book not only intends to show how to accommodate films, series and TV programmes to the needs of the audience, namely the hard of hearing and the blind or partially blind, but it also provides a general overview of the job of the translator, including translation techniques, along with an analysis of media accessibility. Furthermore, the book proposes activities for the reader to reach their own conclusions and experience first-hand. In doing so, Matamala captures the reader’s attention and attains reader’s interaction and participation, making traditionally passive reading an active learning experience. Although this book covers the subject of translation, it is not only addressed to professional translators inasmuch as they are already acquainted with the information regarding translation techniques and professional aspects of the job. The audiences that, to my mind, would benefit from this book the most are translation teachers and students, due to its manual layout. Matamala has written and designed this book in a way that learning occurs gradually; that is to say, definitions and more general aspects of translation are presented and illustrated at the beginning of the book to culminate in the explanation of those techniques that cater for the consumers’ needs in order to accommodate content. The aim of content accommodation is to maximise the audiovisual experience in people with disabilities, namely subtitles, visual description or audio subtitling among others, in order to approach audiovisual content to them.

scholarly journals Epicureanism and Skepticism about Practical Reason

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-208
Author(s):  
Christopher Frugé
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Existence Condition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

AbstractEpicureans believe that death cannot harm the one who dies because they hold the existence condition, which states that a subject is able to be harmed only while they exist. I show that on one reading of this condition death can, in fact, make the deceased worse off because it is satisfied by the deprivation account of death’s badness. I argue that the most plausible Epicurean view holds the anti-modal existence condition, according to which no merely possible state of affairs can be good or bad relative to the subject who dies. I go on to show how this condition, as well as any other condition that denies the deprivation account, results in skepticism about practical reason. Thus, the Epicurean faces a dilemma. Either our practical reasoning is hopelessly mistaken or death can make us worse off. Given that our practical reasoning seems at least mildly reliable, we should conclude that death can make us worse off.

“Channeling” the powers of God’s Word

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea E. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
New Materials ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Starting with the controversial esoteric employment of audio recordings by followers of the charismatic Muslim preacher Sharif Haidara in Mali, the article explores the dynamics emerging at the interface of different technologies and techniques employed by those engaging the realm of the Divine. I focus attention on the “border zone” between, on the one hand, techniques for appropriating scriptures based on long-standing religious conventions, and, on the other, audio recording technologies, whose adoption not yet established authoritative and standardized forms of practice, thereby generating insecurities and becoming the subject of heated debate. I argue that “recyclage” aptly describes the dynamics of this “border zone” because it captures the ways conventional techniques of accessing the Divine are reassessed and reemployed, by integrating new materials and rituals. Historically, appropriations of the Qur’an for esoteric purposes have been widespread in Muslim West Africa. These esoteric appropriations are at the basis of the considerable continuities, overlaps and crossovers, between scripture-related esoteric practices on one side, and the treatment by Sharif Haidara’s followers of audio taped sermons as vessels of his spiritual power, on the other.

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