Too much sociology

This text was originally published as the editorial for the 16th issue of the journal n+1. It calls attention to the way in which a sociological perspective, which reduces works to bearers of symbolic capital, became naturalized and replaced what once used to be thought as aesthetic concerns in literary studies.Ce texte a été d'abord publié comme éditorial du numéro 16 de la revue littéraire américaine n+1, en avril 2013. Il attire attention à la façon dont une visée sociologique, qui réduit les œuvres à des véhicules de capital symbolique, s'est substituée à une préoccupation esthétique dans les études littéraires.Este texto foi originalmente publicado como editorial no número 16 da revista literária americana n+1, em abril de 2013. Ele chama a atenção para a naturalidade com que uma visada sociológica, que reduz as obras a veículos de capital simbólico, substituiu uma preocupação estética nos estudo literários.Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)UNIFESPSciEL

Too much ado about belief

Three commitments guide Dennett's approach to the study of consciousness. First, an ontological commitment to materialist monism. Second, a methodological commitment to what he calls 'heterophenomenology.' Third, a 'doxological' commitment that can be expressed as the view that there is no room for a distinction between a subject's beliefs about how things seem to her and what things actually seem to her, or, to put it otherwise, as the view that there is no room for a reality/ appearance distinction for consciousness. We investigate how Dennett's third doxological commitment relates to his first two commitments and whether its acceptance should be seen as a mere logical consequence of acceptance of the first two. We will argue that this is not the case, that Dennett's doxological commitment is in need of independent motivation, and that this independent motivation is not forthcomin

Too much ado about beliefs

Three commitments at least appear to be guiding Dennett's approach to the study of consciousness. First, an ontological commitment to materialist monism. Second, a methodological commitment to what he calls 'heterophenomenology'. Third, a 'doxological' commitment that can be expressed as the view that there is no room for a distinction between a subject's beliefs about how things seem to her and what things actually seem to her, or, to put it otherwise, as the view that there is no room for a reality/appearance distinction for consciousness. Our main aim is to investigate how Dennett's third doxological commitment relates to his first two commitments and whether its acceptance should be seen as a mere logical consequence of acceptance of the first two. We argue that this is not the case, that Dennett's doxological commitment is in need of independent motivation, and that this independent motivation is not forthcoming. More specifically, we argue that there is more to the conscious content of perceptual experience than what transpires in a subject's phenomenal beliefs

WHEN FLEXIBLE FORMS ARE ASKED TO FLEX TOO MUCH

Taylor series-based flexible forms cannot be interpreted as Taylor series approximations unless all data used in estimation lie in a region of convergence. When flexible forms lose their Taylor series interpretation, elasticity estimates will be biased. When the flexible form is a translog, Rotterdam, or AIDS model, the region of convergence is shown to be the entire positive orthant. Regions of convergence associated with quadratic, Leontief, and any flexible form that does not employ logged arguments are smaller and may not encompass the entire data set. Implications for production and demand analyses and experimental design are discussed.Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,

Shareholder Enforced Market Discipline: How Much Is Too Much?

This Article considers the federal banking regulation regime implemented in response to the widespread bank failures of the 1980s and early 1990s. The first section of the Article examines the moral hazard problem created by the presence of the deposit insurance scheme and the market discipline debate that has attempted to correct the moral hazard problem. The Author argues that the law has evolved to make bank holding companies the primary enforcers of market discipline. The Article’s second section examines the specific regulatory changes that have been designed to create an incentive for bank holding companies to impose discipline on bank management. The source of strength doctrine, regulatory agreements, capital restoration plans, the elaboration of a general fiduciary duty to regulators, equitable subordination, cross-guarantee provisions, preferences, and fraudulent conveyances all are part of a strategy to make bank holding companies more responsible for bank failure. The third section of the Article looks at the potential effects of the regulatory scheme. The Author argues that the regulatory attempts to make bank holding companies the enforcers of market discipline are misguides because they will not achieve their intend effect. Instead, the banking industry will be saddled with excessive regulations that will place it at a competitive disadvantage relative to the other players in the financial services industry

'I slept with 40 boys in three months' teenage sexuality in the media: too much too young?

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