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Selected AbstractsSelf-respect and the Respect of OthersEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Issue 1 2010Colin Bird It concentrates on a particular version of the claim defended by Avishai Margalit. The paper argues that Margalit's arguments fail to explain why the rival stoic view, that agents ultimately retain responsibility for their own self-respect, is incorrect. [source] Probing the "moralization of capitalism" problem: Democratic experimentalism and the co-evolution of normsINTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, Issue 185 2005Christian Arnsperger The most fundamental issue raised by any discussion around the ,moralization of capitalism' is the puzzle of second-order morality: How exactly is it possible to pass a moral judgement on our categories of moral judgement? How can our norms of morality be said to be immoral, thus calling for (re-)moralization? The answer depends on the observation that norms and interaction structures in capitalism have co-evolved, and hence can be taken neither as autonomous with respect to one another nor as obeying a hidden functionality. This implies that, paradoxically, the moralization problem cannot be solved in moral terms, but calls for a political approach, to make best use of which we need to come to terms with capitalism as a fully fledged cultural system. The ideology inherent in that cultural system can only be attacked from within the system itself, through decentralized processes of democratic decision-making rather than by mere prophetic denunciation or moral invectives. Because the particular version of the capitalist culture in which we live now is a radically contingent result of history, it makes sense to support a framework of democratic experimentalism which embeds multiple institutional experimentation within a system of experience-building and experience-formation analogous to the system of information-utilisation and information-dissemination offered by the Hayekian market. Only by thus creating the real and concrete democratic presuppositions for alternative capitalist practices can we begin to make sense of the puzzle inherent in the "moralization of capitalism" problem. [source] Egalitarian consultation meetings: an alternative to received wisdom about clinical supervision in psychiatric nursing practiceJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 6 2000C. Stevenson RMN BA (HONS) PhD Clinical supervision (CS) has become a watchword for psychiatric nursing. Yet, there are contradictions and controversies in academic and professional discourse in relation to the nature of CS, both structure and process, its effectiveness and how this is ascertained, the preparation of supervisor and supervisee, and the quality of the supervisory relationship. The perception of such discord encouraged the authors of this paper to step outside the debate and enact a different kind of CS, which came to be known as egalitarian consultation (EC). Egalitarian consultation meetings (ECMs) were established with the postmodern turn in psychiatric nursing as a reference point. A space was created in which participants could construct their particular version of CS. The authors and six G-grade community psychiatric nurses engaged with each other for six videotaped meetings. The data from the recordings were analysed using a hermeneutic grounded theory approach (Strauss & Corbin 1994), in keeping with the style of the research, which combined the roles of researcher and practitioner for the authors. The aim was to produce local knowledge of CS. The ECMs were characterized by a sense of freedom in relation to existing rules about hierarchy and truth. The participants, each as expert in her/his own case world, produced engrossing narratives about and for practice. The group developed a cohesiveness based in closeness and this encouraged radical talk and action , a questioning of practice systems. However, for some group members, radical equated to dangerous in terms of the watchful organization and a return to ,real' work (case supervision) was observed. Innovation in relation to CS may benefit from a change in institutional culture. [source] Testing Stochastic Cycles in Macroeconomic Time SeriesJOURNAL OF TIME SERIES ANALYSIS, Issue 4 2001L. A. Gil-Alana A particular version of the tests of Robinson (1994) for testing stochastic cycles in macroeconomic time series is proposed in this article. The tests have a standard limit distribution and are easy to implement in raw time series. A Monte Carlo experiment is conducted, studying the size and the power of the tests against different alternatives, and the results are compared with those based on other tests. An empirical application using historical US annual data is also carried out at the end of the article. [source] The non-fiction reading habits of young successful boy readers: forming connections between masculinity and readingLITERACY, Issue 1 2004Susannah Smith The reading experiences of six young successful boy readers were studied over a two-year period. In this article, their non-fiction reading is analysed and ways in which the boys make positive connections between masculinity and reading are identified. The boys' non-fiction reading centres on typical boy interest areas and hobbies (for example, football, space, dinosaurs) and, through their reading, they have become experts on these areas. This has earned them respect from their peers, particularly other boys, and a high status, hegemonic masculine identity in the classroom. Thus, for this group of boys, unlike many other boys, masculinity and reading are compatible; in this particular version of masculinity, reading is a desirable pursuit. [source] Where Does The God Delusion Come from?NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1017 2007Nicholas Lash Abstract While Richard Dawkins' polemic against religion scores easy points against Christian fundamentalisms, he supposes his target to be much vaster: "I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods". Given The God Delusion's lack of extended argument, historical ignorance and unfamiliarity with the literature, the praise it has received from some distinguished scientists is troubling. This essay seeks, first, to examine some of the book's chief weaknesses , its ignorance of the grammar of "God" and of "belief in God"; the crudeness of its account of how texts are best read; its lack of interest in ethics , and, second, to address the question of what it is about the climate of the times that enables so ill-informed and badly argued a tirade to be widely welcomed by many apparently well-educated people. The latter issue is addressed, first, by considering the illusion, unique to the English-speaking world, that there is some single set of procedures which uniquely qualify as "scientific" and give privileged access to truth; second, by examining historical shifts in the senses of "religion"; thirdly, by locating Dawkins' presuppositions concerning both "science" and "religion", his paradoxical belief in progress, and the reception which the book has received, in relation to tensions in our culture signalled, fifty years ago, by C. P. Snow. [source] Margaret Cavendish on the Relation between God and WorldPHILOSOPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2009Karen Detlefsen It has often been noted that Margaret Cavendish discusses God in her writings on natural philosophy far more than one might think she ought to given her explicit claim that a study of God belongs to theology which is to be kept strictly separate from studies in natural philosophy. In this article, I examine one way in which God enters substantially into her natural philosophy, namely the role he plays in her particular version of teleology. I conclude that, while Cavendish has some resources with which to partially alleviate this tension, she is nonetheless left with a significant difficulty. [source] WEIGHTED LOTTERIES IN LIFE AND DEATH CASESRATIO, Issue 1 2007Iwao Hirose Faced with a choice between saving one stranger and saving a group of strangers, some people endorse weighted lotteries, which give a strictly greater chance of being saved to the group of strangers than the single stranger. In this paper I attempt to criticize this view. I first consider a particular version of the weighted lotteries, Frances Kamm's procedure of proportional chances, and point out two implausible implications of her proposal. Then, I consider weighted lotteries in general, and claim (1) that the correct thing to distribute is not the chance of being saved but the good of being saved, (2) that assigning some chance to the single stranger is not the only way to give a positive (and equal) respect to the people concerned, and (3) that the weighted lottery appears to be deceptive since it would show the respect to the single stranger in a negligible way. [source] Has the guest arrived yet?BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 3 2007Emmanuel Levinas, a stranger in business ethics To what extent can business ethics be ,hospitable' to Levinasian ethics? This paper raises questions about how business ethics relates to its guests, in this case the guest called ,Levinas'; the idea of introducing or inviting the work of an author into a field, as its guest, is by no means a simple problem of transference. For Jacques Derrida, there is hospitality only when the stranger's introduction to our home is totally unconditional. Such a conceptualisation of hospitality becomes even more demanding when the ,stranger' that is near our ,home' is an ethics also demanding hospitality, such as the ethics proposed by Levinas. An invitation puts in place particular circumstances that allow only for an arrival of the one invited. These conditions precede the so-called stranger, thereby predetermining the route to be taken, the destination to be reached and the correct manner of self-presentation. An invitation already reduces the Other to that which is expected by the inviter, that is to the Same. The hospitality of the field of business ethics becomes an endorsement of a particular version of the stranger, therefore recognisable by the field. Perhaps conceptualising Levinasian ethics as an ethics that cannot be invited might protect it from procedures that reduce the ,strangeness' of the stranger, making it knowable. That is the argument presented in this paper. [source] Un/doing Gender and the Aesthetics of Organizational PerformanceGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 6 2007Philip Hancock In the age of the so-called ,expressive organization' and the ,aesthetic economy', for an organization to compete in the global marketplace it would appear that it must perform. This does not refer simply to economic performance, but rather to the idea of performance as a means of affecting both people's impressions and definitions of reality. In this article we argue that such performativity is achieved, in part, through the power of symbolism and aesthetics, as well as the capacity to bring oneself into being in an environment in which successful management of the aesthetic has increasingly become a prerequisite for the conferment of recognition. Central to this process are the ways in which the aesthetics of gender are mobilized and indeed simultaneously ,done' and ,undone' in order to affirm particular, but often unstable, regimes of managerially desired meaning. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, and informed by a critical or hermeneutic structuralism, we are concerned here to think through the relationship between performativity and the gendered organization of the desire for recognition as it is materialized in, and mediated by, the landscaping of corporate artefacts and organizationally compelled ways of un/doing gender. With this in mind, we consider a series of images taken from a sample of recruitment documents that, as cultural configurations that organize and compel particular versions of gender, we argue, are concerned with the production of organizationally legible and therefore viable gendered subjects. [source] | ||||||||||