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[Review of] Cora Govers and Hans Vermeulen, eds. The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness
Govers and Vermeulen\u27s book seems to be a timely one, considering the resurgence of inter-ethnic strife that is causing so much misery in many parts of the world, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war. The book, however, is not an expose on the politics of ethnic consciousness. Rather, it is a collection of case studies that address certain aspects of ethnic consciousness. Govers and Vermeulen provide the theoretical context for these studies in the introductory first chapter of the book. Indeed, the book can be usefully divided into two main parts, with the first chapter constituting one part and the rest of the chapters constituting the other
Empirical studies of open source evolution
Copyright @ 2008 Springer-VerlagThis chapter presents a sample of empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution. According to these studies, the classical results from the studies of proprietary software evoltion, such as Lehmanâs laws of software evolution, might need to be revised, if not fully, at least in part, to account for the OSS observations. The book chapter also summarises what appears to be the empirical
status of each of Lehmanâs laws with respect to OSS and highlights the threads to
validity that frequently emerge in these empirical studies. The chapter also discusses
related topics for further research
Generalised Compositional Theories and Diagrammatic Reasoning
This chapter provides an introduction to the use of diagrammatic language, or
perhaps more accurately, diagrammatic calculus, in quantum information and
quantum foundations. We illustrate the use of diagrammatic calculus in one
particular case, namely the study of complementarity and non-locality, two
fundamental concepts of quantum theory whose relationship we explore in later
part of this chapter.
The diagrammatic calculus that we are concerned with here is not merely an
illustrative tool, but it has both (i) a conceptual physical backbone, which
allows it to act as a foundation for diverse physical theories, and (ii) a
genuine mathematical underpinning, permitting one to relate it to standard
mathematical structures.Comment: To appear as a Springer book chapter chapter, edited by G.
Chirabella, R. Spekken
Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics
This book chapter focuses on some of the implications of what has been represented as a radical change in livestock breeding for thinking about meat in relation to living farm animals: the use of genetic techniques in selecting breeding animals. The chapter draws on Foucaultâs theorisation of biopower to describe some of the key dimensions of this shift, articulating this concept with an argument that breedersâ engagement with these techniques is part of a changing political ecology of livestock farming at the inter-related scales of the gene, the body, the herd or flock, the farm and the meat production system
Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics
This book chapter focuses on some of the implications of what has been represented as a radical change in livestock breeding for thinking about meat in relation to living farm animals: the use of genetic techniques in selecting breeding animals. The chapter draws on Foucaultâs theorisation of biopower to describe some of the key dimensions of this shift, articulating this concept with an argument that breedersâ engagement with these techniques is part of a changing political ecology of livestock farming at the inter-related scales of the gene, the body, the herd or flock, the farm and the meat production system
An Ambitious Approach
In their book, Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant explore the disadvantages women experience in the workforce throughout their careers and the cumulative effects of those disadvantages over their lifetimes.
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Part II of this review is a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book. Part III provides my critical evaluation of the both the goals of this book and its execution. Part IV uses this book\u27s ambitious approach as a springboard for exploring one of my own research projects that has been simply gathering dust.
This abstract has been taken from the author\u27s introduction
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense
This book develops and defends a version of epistemic contextualism, that is, of the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form âS knows that pâ can vary with the context of the attributor. The first part of the book is about arguments for contextualism and develops a particular version of it. The first chapter deals with the argument from cases and ordinary usage. More weight, however, is put on more âtheoreticalâ arguments: arguments from reliability (Chapter 2) and from luck (Chapter 3). The second part of the book discusses problems contextualism faces and to which it needs to respond as well as an extension of contextualism beyond epistemology. Chapter 4 discusses âlottery-skepticismâ and argues for a contextualist response (further developing the view, like the following chapter). Chapter 5 is dedicated to a homemade problem for contextualism: a threat of inconsistency. It argues for a way out and for a version of contextualism that can underwrite this solution. Chapter 6 proposes a contextualist account of responsibility: the concept of knowledge is not the only one which allows for a contextualist analysis and it is important to explore structural analogies in other areas of philosophy. The third part of the book is about some major objections to contextualism (Chapter 7) and about alternative views, namely subject-sensitive invariantism, contrastivism, and relativism (Chapter 8)
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