Abstract The Society for Music Theory (SMT) remains a starkly male-identified society. According to the SMT’s 2019 annual report on demographics of its membership, 33% SMT members self-identified as women—a figure that has not changed significantly over last five years—in comparison 51.2% American Musicological in 2017 and 52.2% Ethnomusicology 2014, most recent data available. NORC Survey Earn...

Estimation of Semiparametric Models in the Presence of Endogeneity and Sample Selection Siddhartha Chib, Edward Greenberg and Ivan Jeliazkov Siddhartha Chib is Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 . Edward Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Loui...

One of the most difficult and perplexing tenets of classical theism is the doctrine of divine simplicity. Broadly put, this is generally understood to be the thesis that God is altogether without any proper parts, composition, or metaphysical complexity whatsoever. For a good deal more than a millennium, veritable armies ofphilosophical theologians Jewish, Christian and Islamic proclaimed the t...

items “unreal” leaves out something important. I have suggested that God is, at bottom, one of these abstract objects. You can be a skeptic about the traditional picture of God as a quasi-material, ghostly being, and still believe the idea of God I presented in this book. 3. There can be a God even if no one created the universe. If God is the supremely good being, then there could be a God eve...

Recent opinions that Israel’s covenants and promises are missing in Rev 20:1-10 have rested on poor hermeneutical foundations. Three major OT covenants with Israel are prominent throughout the Apocalypse and therefore are foundational to what John writes in chapter 20. God promised Abraham a people who are quite visible in Revelation 7, 12, and 14, and in 2:9 and 3:9, where physical descendants...