Creative debate misses the point

Noakes misses the point.

Creative Industries after the First Decade of Debate

It has now been over a decade since the concept of creative in-5 dustries was first put into the public domain by the Blair Labour government's Creative Industries Mapping Documents in Britain. The concept has developed traction globally, but it has also been understood and developed in different ways in Europe, Asia, Aus-tralia, New Zealand, and North America, and also in international 10 bodi...

Debate: Are surrogate end-point studies worth the effort?

Surrogate end-points of cardiovascular disease can provide useful information in cross-sectional, prospective and interventional studies. They provide information on association with risk factors, natural history and factors associated with disease progression. Because every participant can reach an end-point, sufficient power can be attained with much smaller numbers of subjects in surrogate e...

Going Cashless at the Point of Sale: Hits and Misses in Developed Countries

The penetration of bank accounts among the • population. The weak business case for deploying a • sufficiently dense network of acceptance terminals (automated teller machines [ATMs] or point-of-sale [POS] devices) in environments with low economic activity or population density. The cost of communications underpinning the • real-time authorization of payments, in markets with limited communica...

The Manifestation Challenge: The Debate between McDowell and Wright

In this paper, we will discuss what is called “Manifestation Challenge” to semantic realism, which was originally developed by Michael Dummett and has been further refined by Crispin Wright. According to this challenge, semantic realism has to meet the requirement that knowledge of meaning must be publically manifested in linguistic behaviour. In this regard, we will introduce and evaluate John...