ONE OF THE CHALLENGES of planning scientific programs and editing journals is to remain eclectic. Eclecticism is defined as the process of choosing what appears to be the best from diverse sources. In attempting to do this, abstract graders, meeting planners and editors often offend certain persons who believe that their work is more important than that of others and deserves prominent display....

depression, and dogs happiness and dejection? People disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animal beings (hereafter animals), especially concerning the question of whether any animals other than humans can feel emotions (Ekman 1998). Pythagoreans long ago believed that animals experience the same range of emotions as humans (Coates 1998), and current research provides compelling evi...

In his chapter “Performative and Passionate Utterance” which appears in Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow, Stanley Cavell makes a claim for what he describes as the expressive or passional aspects of speech. This claim (plea might be a more appropriate term) is, in part, a response to what Cavell regards as a missed opportunity or failing in Austin’s theory of the performative utterance, an opp...

I wish I could recommend this book more warmly. There is an enormous amount that might be helpfully written on the subject ot" personal relationships,?the source of perhaps our greatest happiness and our greatest misery in this world. And modern psychology, based as it is on the intensive study of individuals in their emotional reactions to other people from babyhood upwards, has a wealth of li...

The focus of this paper is on sex and videogames, seeking to provide a counterweight to the sensationalist treatment of the topic within the popular press. The author argues that there is surprisingly little explicit sexual imagery in games and asks what accounts for its disproportionate absence. An account is given of the way that the interactive nature of games which do include sex either in ...

We present a dynamic reputation model of news reporting by a profitmaximizing media outlet whose credibility is uncertain to the public. In each period, the media outlet chooses its source of news: a costly independent investigation or, possibly, a free report prepared by an interest group. The revenue of the media outlet consists of the subscription fees for the public and the access fees for ...