Research versus Rhetoric

Memory in neuroscience: rhetoric versus reality.

The central point of this article is that the concept of memory as information storage in the brain is inadequate for and irrelevant to understanding the nervous system. Beginning from the sensorimotor hypothesis that underlies neuroscience--that the entire function of the nervous system is to connect experience to appropriate behavior--the paper defines memories as sequences of events that con...

Two-child policy in China: Rhetoric versus reality.

State Power in a Globalised Economy: Rhetoric versus Reality

This paper examines the connotations that globalisation has for state and market actors, and the impact it has on policy choices. It evaluates the ongoing evolution of statehood and sovereignty with particular reference to the redefinition of the role of the state under conditions of contemporary globalisation. It looks at the impact that the process of globalisation has on various actors. Draw...

An Ethical Agenda in Disability Research: rhetoric or reality?

Inspired by the writings of disabled activists and scholars in the 1980s and 90s the emancipatory turn in social research has had a particularly important influence on disability researchers in the UK. The emergent critique of conventional wisdom and ways of theorising disability was extended to mainstream social research. The shift from explaining disability solely in terms of individual patho...

Design as Rhetoric — Basic Principles for Design Research