Racial literacy has contributed powerful advances in multiple disciplines about how race and racism are understood. Many education scholars use the concept to refer antiracist practices ideologies, a definition that casts some people as either racially literate or illiterate. In this essay author draws on examples from literature argue interdisciplinary conceptual norm hinders scholars’ attempt...

Private sector actors have long been involved in surveillance. This extends to surveillance undertaken crisis contexts and conflict situations, where humanitarian needs commonly arise. Prior research has problematized the surveillance-industrial complex’s involvement aid initiatives interventions, but new dynamics are creating novel dilemmas. contribution a dialogue on contemporary discusses ho...

in his critique of purge reason, kant insists that the human understanding is only able to know phenomena. however, in critique of practical reason, he proves the objective reality of god, freedom and immortality of soul. at first, the result of the two critiques seems to be at odds with each other, with kant himself calling the problem, the dilemma of philosophy of critiquing. by putting forwa...

Carruthers (2000; 2005) provides a general defence of reductive representationalism about phenomenal consciousness while critiquing first-order theories of the sort proposed by Baars (1988), Tye (1995), Dennett (2001), and others (thereby motivating a form of higher-order account). The present paper defends first-order theories against that attack.

The authors would like to thank the Marketing Science Institute for their generous assistance in funding this research. We would also like to thank Claritas for providing us with data. We are indebted to Vincent Bastien, former CEO of Louis Vuitton, for the time he has spent with us critiquing our framework.

tapered or squared? Should the ears be covered? Should the top be just trimmed or shortened? Most barbers only ask a few questions. Often, they assume one of a few standard models of the customer’s hairstyle and pursue this model until they are given directions to the contrary. Given no direction, they still give a haircut. Even with directions, they must make numerous, perhaps hundreds, of int...

As with a quantitative study, critical analysis of a qualitative study involves an in-depth review of how each step of the research was undertaken. Qualitative and quantitative studies are, however, fundamentally different approaches to research and therefore need to be considered differently with regard to critiquing. The different philosophical underpinnings of the various qualitative researc...

When faced with complex choices, users refine their own preference criteria as they explore the catalogue of options. In this paper we propose an approach to preference elicitation suited for this scenario. We extend Coactive Learning, which iteratively collects manipulative feedback, to optionally query example critiques. User critiques are integrated into the learning model by dynamically ext...