This fascinating book is about propositional attitudes. In it, Robert Matthews pursues, with great rigour and tenacity, the question how we should understand our practice of attributing propositional attitudes and, in particular, the specific question how subjects must be built (given the best available accounts of the building materials) if they are to serve as proper targets for that practice...

richard wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories uncle tom's children describes hidden forms of resistance against jim crowism and uncle tomism. the essay entitled the ethics of living jim crow: an autobiographical sketch relates wright’s daily confrontations with jim crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...

Globalization is the third stage in development of Professor Apple’s critical educational studies, which also called “the trilogy.” In this interview, Apple first elaborated on reasons for his taking globalization into account. Then, he told story family and social missions had undertaken as a scholar/activist. Finally, introduced latest developments claiming that studies are now period transit...

Neither an infant one week old nor a snail is a rational creature. I f the infant survives long enough, he will probably become rational, while this is not true of the snail. If we like, we may say of the infant from the start that he is a rational creature because he will probably become rational i f he survives, or because he belongs to a species with this capacity. Whichever way we talk, the...

In the 1990s in the UK, the problem of student plagiarism was addressed by telling students they must not do it, then by dealing with the small number who did not comply. Policies and institutional procedures drafted before 2000, designed to cope with this relatively straightforward situation, often did not define what was meant by plagiarism (Stefani and Carroll, 2001) or state how offenders w...