An Author Meets Her Critics

Theme: Author Meets CritiCs

D Pereboom’s Living Without Free Will (2001) is an outstanding book that rightly changed the debate over an ancient problem. I am certain that Free Will Skepticism, Agency, and Meaning in Life will join the first book as a must-read for anyone in the world interested in these foundational issues. The main pillars of the account remain, including incompatibilism between free will and determinism...

Shisana hits back at her critics.

The Crisis of Representation in Azadeh Khanoom and Her Author by Reza Baraheni

The crisis of representation is a topic widely discussed in critique and theory of postmodern literature. This refers to the crises of the present era including the crisis of meaning, the perplexity of contemporary humankind amidst a mass of valid and invalid data, alienation, etc. Literature, as the epitome of human life, is a reflection of these crises in the contemporary era. Azadeh Khanoom ...

Who is an author

• Inter-disciplinary conventions. Different fields of study often have vastly different conventions when it comes to allocating authors. While a lot of disciplines tend to list authors in decreasing order of contribution, others may list authors in alphabetical order, regardless of the individual contribution. The issue of determining whether or not “lesser” contributors should be listed at all...

To be an author

It is a strange confession for an Editor-in-Chief but the more I edit, the more I review, and the more immersed I have become in academic publishing, the less I understand what an author is. I know I am very grateful to authors. I also know we would each like to be one, or at least many of us would, and I know that without authors journals like JHPS would simply not exist. Yet how many authors ...