Philosophical Clashes: Rethinking Scholarship

Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism

The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem ...

Rethinking scholarship: implications for the nursing academic workforce.

SLC clashes on Trustees report

Last night’s Student Life Council meeting resulted in a direct confrontation between students and the faculty-administration members o f the council over the issue of the Board of Trustees’ response to the SLC report on Hall Life. The split began with a motion by Student Body President Dave Krashna to reject the Trustees report, and by the meeting’s close had come close to being reduced to a ch...

Martin-Löf Clashes With Griffin, Operationally

The computational reading of proofs in intutionistic predicate logic (IPL) as λ-terms can be extended in two well-known ways. On the one hand, Martin-Löf showed how the Axiom of Choice (AC) can be interpreted as a term of dependent type theory. On the other hand, Griffin showed how Peirce’s law (which generates classical logic from intuitionistic) can be interpreted as a program using control o...

Clashes Revisited in the Light of Interprosody

The aim of this study is to examine some aspects of the prosodic system of Central African French, a variety of French spoken by L1 speaker of Sango, an African tone language. On the basis of a comparison of acoustic correlates of syllables involved in clashes in corpora of spontaneous Central African French and Standard French, we argue that the former has a hybrid prosodic system that contain...