3.1 HUMAN AGENCY: CLAIMING CAUSATION THROUGH INTERVENTION 15 3.1.1 CRITIQUE #1: LACK OF EXTERNAL VALIDITY (ACCIDENTALITY) 16 3.1.2 CRITIQUE #2: THREATS TO INTERNAL VALIDITY 16 3.1.3 CRITIQUE #3: PRE-EMPTION 17 3.2 GENERATIVE CAUSATION: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CAUSAL MECHANISM 18 3.2.1 HOW CAUSATION IS CLAIMED: DIGGING DEEP 20 3.2.2 QUALITY OF INFERENCE 21 3.2.3 MECHANISMS HAVE PARTS: COMPONENT C...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Forensic psychiatrists are the only psychiatrists that blush or need to." Dr. Alan Stone attempts to measure forensic psychiatry with an ethical ruler and finds it sadly short. The Hinckley trial was the most recent example that evoked yet another reexamination of the insanity defense and the role of psychiatrists in that process. Although this trial is never specific...

CRITERIA IN CRISIS: MODERNIST, POSTMODERNIST, AND FEMINIST CRITICAL PRACTICES FEBRUARY 1999 MARY ANN SUSHINSKY, B.A. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY M.A., CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Ann Ferguson I examine a problem or dilemma of legitimation faced by the critical theorist who takes as the object of his or her critique a totality of which s...

This paper critique is written under the assumption that the reader is already familiar with the primary text [2] (henceforth referred to as “the paper”), and therefore a full overview of the LogP model will not be presented. The critique will mainly focus on shortcomings and weaknesses of the paper, leaving commentary on the positive contributions of the work for the end. The critique is organ...

Critiquing is a well-known form of user feedback in casebased recommender systems. A critique encodes the users preference in relation to a particular feature. For example, in a digital camera recommender a user may be allowed to indicate whether they are interested in cameras with a lower resolution than the one currently presented; so ‘lower resolution’ is an example of a critique over the re...

On the basis of the linked-graph expansion theorem established by one of us, it is shown that the modified F model in a small electric field is related to a two-dimensional nearest-neighbor Ising model in an external magnetic field. Applying this relation to the critical isotherm we get ~5 = 7, and confirm the scaling relation. R~sum~ Sur la base du th6or~me de d6veloppement en graphes li6s 6ta...

l’objectif de ce travail est de proposer un panorama général des romans de robbe-grillet dans leurs rapports aux multiples discours critiques tenus par des lecteurs avertis. dans l’espace réduit de cette étude, il m’est impossible d’en présenter tous les détails. j’essayerai seulement de voir de quoi robbe-grillet nous avions affaire hier, de quel robbe-grillet il s’agit aujourd'hui, á la ...

comment étudier les textes romanesques français si nombreux depuis la formation définitive de la langue française au xviie siècle? c'est la question à laquelle les critiques ont essayé de répondre. pourtant, de la critique traditionnelle à celle moderne, le chercheur est confronté à une diversité vertigineuse qui ne cesse de croître. suite à la nouvelle critique rassemblant les jeunes crit...

ibn al-moqaffa, an iranian thinker and reformer lived in the era when people suffered from tyranny. he had well realized the root of people's problem which he attributed to the political regime. he was the one who believed that the progress of common men depends on the progress of nobles and their progress is not possible without their leader's progress. the society in those days was ...