We appreciate Dirk Berg-Schlosser’s discussion of our article. He makes a number of positive comments and also expresses some doubts, raising important issues that should be clarified. In this limited space, we will not address all of the diverse matters he discusses, but will concentrate on his major points. Berg-Schlosser expresses concerns about our measurements, arguing that the indicators ...

Drawing on a significantly updated version co-authored by Reynolds and the originator of Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH), Werner Ulrich, CSH is regarded as part of a ‘systems thinking in practice’ framework for evaluating complex situations from different stakeholder perspectives. The situation under evaluation (e.g. a purposeful activity like a report, programme or project etc.) is framed as...

In the midst of on-going hype about the power and potency of the new brain sciences, scholars within "Critical Neuroscience" have called for a more nuanced and sceptical neuroscientific knowledge-practice. Drawing especially on the Frankfurt School, they urge neuroscientists towards a more critical approach-one that re-inscribes the objects and practices of neuroscientific knowledge within webs...

Systems thinking in practice is a heuristic framework based upon ideas of boundary critique for guiding the use and development of tools from different traditions in managing complex realities. Three interrelated features of the framework are drawn out – contexts of systemic change, practitioners as change agents, and tools as systems constructs that can themselves change through adaptation. A ...

In a recent essay Michael Hardt gives voice to a widespread discontent with the left-academic project of critique, stemming from its failure to deliver on its emancipatory promises. Scholarship, in geography and many other social science disciplines is dominated by a pre-occupation with charting the intricate connections between neoliberal governance and an expansive capitalism. As Hardt and ma...

pour la première fois un philosophe traductologue, antoine berman, offre ses expériences basées sur l‟école de la traduction des romantiques allemands. ses cours sont publiés plus tard dans un livre intitulé la traduction et la lettre ou l’auberge du lointain (1999). au contraire des théoriciens traditionnels qui voulaient la restitution embellissant du sens et les analystes de certaines traduc...

Marriage payments: a fundamental reconsideration Abstract This paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody andThis paper is a constructive critique of the well-known book by Jack Goody and Stanley Tambiah (1973), Bridewealth and Dowry. Given the general acceptance of Goody’s framework in contemporary studies of marriage and marriage payments, it is essential that we re...

1. Popular version of karma 1 2. The rigors of abhidharma 2 2.1. Criterion of substantial reality (dravyasat) 2 2.2. Abhidharmic notions of the person 3 2.3. Four questions for the abhidharmic view of karma 3 3. Vasubandhu’s analysis of karma 4 3.1. Two special kinds of causal factors 5 3.2. Critique of prāpti and aprāpti 7 3.3. Critique of avijñapti rūpa 7 3.3.1. Arguments for avijñapti rūpa 8...

We are aware of the current divide in the scientific assessment of the potential health effects of wind turbine installations. Therefore, a transparent, scientific, and open debate is necessary, and it is our duty as editors and reviewers to take such a critique seriously. There were six major points of critique expressed by Shepherd [1] regarding the paper of Mroczek et al. [2] in this journal...