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Dialetheism, Paradox, and NÄgÄrjunaâs Way of Thinking
NÄgÄrjunaâs doctrine of emptiness, his ideas on âtwo truthsâ and language, and his general method of arguing are presented clearly by him and can be stated without paradox. That the dialetheists today can restate his beliefs in paradoxical ways does not mean that NÄgÄrjuna argued that way; in fact, their restatements misrepresent and undercut his arguments
On What is Real in NÄgÄrjunaâs âMiddle Wayâ
It has become popular to portray the Buddhist NÄgÄrjuna as an ontological nihilist, i.e., that he denies the reality of entities and does not postulate any further reality. A reading of his works does show that he rejects the self-existent reality of entities, but it also shows that he accepts a that-ness (tattva) to phenomenal reality that survives the denial of any distinct, self-contained entities. Thus, he is not a nihilist concerning what is real in the final analysis of things. How NÄgÄrjunaâs positions impact contemporary discussions of ontological nihilism and deflationism in Western philosophy is also discussed
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The eighteenth-century review journal as allegory: Smollettâs <i>Critical Review</i> and the work of criticism
One way to read an eighteenth-century review journal would be for the critical judgments that it contains. This essay argues, instead, that it should be read as allegory. The essay focuses on the Critical Review, established by Tobias Smollett in 1756, with the (impossible) aim to review everything, and explores how it appears both as what it is and in what it is not. Placed alongside Smollettâs other works of instalment and translation, what is disclosed by the Critical Review is a new work: the work of criticism itself
The Solent Capital Compass Model of Employability
This four page presentation holds the current Solent Capital Compass Model used for embedding employability in our curriculum, along with simple definitions aimed at students. It also holds version four of the Solent Student Employability Journey, reflecting the Solent Capital Compass model. A bibliography page is also available.
The model is up to date as at May 201
A window into learning: case studies of online group communication and collaboration
The two case studies presented explore the potential offered by inâdepth qualitative analysis of studentsâ online discussion to enhance our understanding of how students learn. Both cases are used to illustrate how the monitoring and moderation of online student group communication can open up a âwindow into learningâ, providing us with new insights into complex problemâsolving and thinking processes. The cases offer examples of studentsâ âthinking aloudâ while problemâsolving, showing how and why they arrived at particular outcomes and the underlying thought processes involved. It is argued that these insights into studentsâ learning processes can in turn offer us the opportunity to adapt our own teaching practice in order to achieve a better pedagogical âfitâ with the learning needs of our students; for example, through a more precise or more timely intervention. It is also suggested that looking through this âwindowâ enables us to concentrate our assessment more closely on the process of task completion, rather than focusing solely on the end product
Beyond Basic Needs: Social Support and Structure for Successful Offender Reentry
Barriers to successful reentry have long been identified as impeding an offenderâs ability to successfully reenter society upon release from incarceration. As a result, research has long examined what shared obstacles the majority of offenders often face upon reentering society. Much of the research identifies factors such as poor education, obtaining/maintaining employment, stable housing, and transportation as common barriers to successful reentry. By using in-depth interviews with ex-offenders deemed as successful that were conducted by two respective non-profit agencies, the present study explores what significant requirements, if any, successful offenders perceive to need and/or have experienced as lacking while attempting to successfully reenter society. Findings from this study highlight that many of the research- identified needs are not major barriers because they are often provided for by various non-profit agencies. Furthermore, successful ex-offenders overwhelmingly identify poor social support as a major barrier that oftentimes remains neglected in government and non-profit organizational programming
A fast analysis for thread-local garbage collection with dynamic class loading
Long-running, heavily multi-threaded, Java server applications make stringent demands of garbage collector (GC) performance. Synchronisation of all application threads before garbage collection is a significant bottleneck for JVMs that use native threads. We present a new static analysis and a novel GC framework designed to address this issue by allowing independent collection of thread-local heaps. In contrast to previous work, our solution safely classifies objects even in the presence of dynamic class loading, requires neither write-barriers that may do unbounded work, nor synchronisation, nor locks during thread-local collections; our analysis is sufficiently fast to permit its integration into a high-performance, production-quality virtual machine
Much ado about something: response to Haughton's reply to Duvendack and Palmer-Jones
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The Impacts of Political Policies, Criminality, and Money on the Criminal Justice System in the United States
As Convict Criminologists we draw upon our experiential knowledge as prisoners held within the American criminal justice system. That experience provides us with a substantial emersion within the material conditions of life within prison as politics, criminality, and the impact of money substantially altered the criminal justice system in the USA that surrounded and controlled our lives. Combined, our experience goes back to the 1970s as convicts, then up to the present as academic faculty and researchers. We review what we believe is the best evidence that explains the inter-relationships between policies (political), criminality and money, and their age-old dance with race, class, and ethnicity in the United States. We first provide a general introduction outlining our research, followed by the historical overview of core policy changes that led to the vast expansion of corrections and their social impacts. Then we take a closer look at research examining intersections of race, money, and politics in USA on drug and crime polices. Conclusions follow
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