Three studies in the philosophy of jazz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Troy S. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
Instrumental Performance ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Vocal Jazz ◽  
The Third ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The University ◽  
Comprehensive Discussion

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation comprises three studies which in turn discuss jazz ontology, jazz improvisation, and the question of whether jazz has ended as an artform. The first study discusses Andrew Kania's work on jazz ontology and attempts to clarify and extend his position regarding the principled exclusion of vocal jazz and jazz Fusion from his jazz ontology. Further, it introduces a quasi-realist strategy for making sense of jazz-work ontological discourse. The second study is a unique, comprehensive discussion of the jazz drummer's history and role in jazz improvisational contexts, in which the full range of instrumental performance practice (timekeeping, comping, and soloing) is explored. The third study is a provocative investigation of the possibility that the artform of jazz has "ended." Here, the end-of-art theses of Hegel and Danto are recalled and examined for their relevance in determining whether jazz has become a closed concept. The conclusion reached is that it is plausible to affirm that jazz has ended, even if it has not died.

Skepticism, reason, and decision

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Tung-Ying Wu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Ideal Observer ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Ideal

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This dissertation is a combination of three different projects. The first project investigates the history of philosophy: Kant's refutation of idealism. In this project I propose a more plausible interpretation of Kant's argument against idealism. Next, the second project investigates ethical theory: the ideal observer view. There, I criticize an argument for ideal observer view as untenable. Finally, the third project investigates decision theory: the decision problem: Psycho Buttons. I argue that causal decision theory supplemented with Full Information does not lead to intransitivity in Psycho Buttons. In this chapter I present an introduction to each project." --Introduction

Clarifying relational egalitarianism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Eric Rowse
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Status ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Third ◽  
Samuel Scheffler ◽  
Egalitarian Relationships ◽  
The University ◽  
Elizabeth Anderson

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I clarify the nature of relational egalitarianism, a theory in political philosophy that concerns equality. Relational egalitarians understand equality as a relationship between equals. Roughly, when people relate as equals, they are free from objectionable forms of authority (e.g., plutocracy) and stigmatizing social status (e.g., racist and sexist stereotypes). Relational egalitarians hold that we have duties of justice to promote this understanding of equality. Much work remains, however, in developing the best version of relational egalitarianism. To this end, I examine three prominent versions of relational egalitarianism, one by Elizabeth Anderson, another by Samuel Scheffler, and the third by Martin O'Neill. Each version, I argue, makes a mistake that sheds light on the best version of relational egalitarianism. In particular, I argue that relational egalitarians should endorse the following claims: (1) relational egalitarianism specifies many, but not all, duties of justice to promote equality, (2) relational egalitarianism is actually a version of distributive egalitarianism (its main rival), and (3) egalitarian relationships are morally bad when they make everyone's life go worse.

What's Happening Today

2017 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Curricular Content ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This chapter provides a detailed look at four recent examples of activism on American college campuses. The first of these case studies is the University of Missouri, where racial tensions following the Ferguson shooting heightened tensions among students who believed the campus was not racially accepting. The second case explores the City University of New York and their handling of faculty and graduate student contracts, salaries, and appointments. The third case presented is Seattle University, where students and administrators clashed over curricular content. The final case detailed here is the University of California's attempt to significantly raise student tuition, and how students, faculty, and the public joined forces to protest these increases.

Art/making sense of policy in art education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Michelle Livek
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Art Making ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Artist Teacher

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript style dissertation creates a continually expanding vista of policy at play in art/education. The scope of this manuscript style dissertation through the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of social interaction. It begins, with my work of as a secondary artist/teacher and how I creatively forged new territory for "data" and accountability within my practice and what that produce/d/s in me and my students (micro). As I developed this new method of data collection (the one-page portfolio), I became curious about how other artist/teachers have done the same within the paradoxical nature of being both a policy target and actor (micro >> mezzo). My second article is positioned within a peer group of artist/teachers spending time thinking about their policy enactments (mezzo) as visual bricolages. The research participation created the opportunity to celebrate that which they already do and to accept that their policy enactments are valuable to themselves, their students, and the field of art education at large (mezzo >> macro). I became compelled to interleave my identity as a social practice art influence with my desire to open this cathartic action of celebrating their personally relevant, and creative policy navigations, to all artist/teachers (macro). The third article manifests as social practice Participatory Dialogic Policy Enactment Analysis as Social Practice.

Weak Hardy spaces and paraproducts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Danqing He
Keyword(s):  
Hardy Spaces ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Square Function ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Function Characterization ◽  
The University ◽  
Decomposition Of Distributions ◽  
Type Decomposition

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a new square function characterization of weak Hardy spaces in the full range of exponents possible and use this characterization in applications on endpoint estimates for multilinear paraproducts. Additionally, we prove several maximal characterizations of weak Hardy spaces and obtain several properties of these spaces. Our main result is a Littlewood-Paley square function characterization of the Hardy spaces. Our proof is based on a Calderon-Zygmund type decomposition of distributions in Hardy spaces and on interpolation. Our results allow us to obtain endpoint estimates for several operators in terms of square function characterizations of weak L^p norms. As an application of this technique, we prove endpoint boundedness for mutlilinear paraproducts.

The University at Work

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Vincent McBrierty
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Green Paper ◽  
The Third ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Comprehensive Knowledge ◽  
The University

The Green Paper ‘Education for a Changing World’ makes far-reaching proposals on the future of Irish education. Sweeping changes are envisaged at the third level, where demand for places continues to rise sharply. A new unit cost funding mechanism has been introduced, ostensibly to achieve improved cost-efficiency and transparency in the disbursement of public funds. The efficacy of the system relies on the identification and proper assessment of the full range of university pursuits which extend beyond the central provision of formal education. This impacts on the university's ability effectively to use its comprehensive knowledge base to the benefit of industry and to participate in direct and indirect job creation, which is Ireland's most pressing problem. This, in turn, points to the need for suitable performance indicators to evaluate the overall contribution of universities. Consideration of these issues forms the central theme of this article.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
University System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychology Doctoral ◽  
Phd Programs ◽  
Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

MARS — Its Tenth Anniversary of Operation and its Future

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
G. S. Lodwick ◽  
C. R. Wickizer ◽  
E. Dickhaus
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Complete Bibliography ◽  
The University ◽  
Economic Considerations

The Missouri Automated Radiology System recently passed its tenth year of clinical operation at the University of Missouri. This article presents the views of a radiologist who has been instrumental in the conceptual development and administrative support of MARS for most of this period, an economist who evaluated MARS from 1972 to 1974 as part of her doctoral dissertation, and a computer scientist who has worked for two years in the development of a Standard MUMPS version of MARS. The first section provides a historical perspective. The second deals with economic considerations of the present MARS system, and suggests those improvements which offer the greatest economic benefits. The final section discusses the new approaches employed in the latest version of MARS, as well as areas for further application in the overall radiology and hospital environment. A complete bibliography on MARS is provided for further reading.

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