Why does institutional police brutality continue so brazenly? Criminologists and other social scientists typically theorize about the causes of such violence, but less attention is given to normative questions regarding demands justice. Some philosophers have taken a teleological approach, arguing that institutions as exist realize collective ends goods based upon idea moral responsibility. Oth...

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The concept of indoctrination is typically used to characterize the actions individual educators. However, it has become increasingly common for citizens raise concerns about indoctrinatory effects institutions such as schools and universities. Are worries fundamentally misconceived, or might some state affairs obtain under which can be rightly said that an educational institution engaged in in...

This article argues that faith is a crucial concept for understanding the relationship between reason and affect. By allowing people to learn from religious secular ends, it can help generate political action emancipatory change. Antonio Gramsci's underexplored secular-political materialist conception of provides an important contribution such project. speaking common sense tradition, avoids im...

The objective of this study was to identify faculty conceptions on evaluation in the Professional Practice Evaluation Exercise (PPEE). An analysis was performed on 155 evaluation instruments answered by the faculty, and video-recordings of four PPEE answered by 1st and 3rd year students. Data analysis was performed using the Meaning Interpretation Method. The expressions expressed by the facult...

The traditional learning view involves the general process theory of learning that focuses onidentifying universal principles that apply to all species capable of learning from experience, and that operate across a wide variety of situations. Examples of behavior that contradictgeneralprocess conceptions of learning have been in the past referred to as “biologicalconstraints”. Traditional learn...

Relative merits of interval and entrainment conceptions of the internal clock were assessed within a common theoretical framework by 4 time-judgment experiments. The timing of tone onsets marking the beginning and ending of standard and comparison time intervals relative to a context rhythm were manipulated: onsets were on time, early, or late relative to the implied rhythm, and 2 distinct accu...