We studied determinism and free will, encompassing links between philosophy, psychology, musical poetics, music analysis, theory of mind (MTOM). The a piece refers to its deterministic features, the compositional processes involved in creation, as well psycho-poetical composer. A strong composition generates multiple elements rigidly automatically under premises set by poetic determinist. weakl...

Author(s): Eichner, Maxine | Abstract: This essay investigates and ultimately rejects the claim that United States’ comparatively heavily reliance on markets over government to provide resources families need is a natural outgrowth of country’s longstanding veneration capitalism. In tracing nation’s economic ideology time, it demonstrates that, at least until end twentieth century, constant in ...

On June 26, 1995, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Vernonia Sc/i. 131st. 47J v. Acton that middle-school and high-school athletes can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation (Greenhouse 1995). Although the decision removeda major constitutional roadblockto the adoption of such programs by public schools nationwide, the response was init...

“INTELLECTUALS . . . SEEK NEITHER TO understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p. 158) in a damning critique of those who were very much his intellectual kindred. Such a sentiment may at first seem surprising since Aron was, after all, a Marxist scholar and lifelong socialist who felt comfortable with the social welfare states prevalent in postwar ...

For some time now, the debate over U.S. immigrant policy (which addresses the needs of immigrants already residing here, as opposed to immigration policy, which concerns how many and which immigrants should be admitted) has been stuck in an unproductive and divisive pattern. On one side are immigrant advocates, a relatively well-defined and cohesive coalition of civil rights organizations, immi...

A major point of dispute among libertarian theorists and thinkers today as always revolves around the age-old question of whether man can live in total anarchy or whether the minimal state is absolutely necessary for the maximization of freedom. Lost in this dispute is the question of whether man is capable of getting out of anarchy at all. Can we really abolish anarchy and set up a Government ...

In the current debate about healthcare reform in the USA, advocates for government-ensured universal coverage assume that health care is a right. Although this position is politically popular, it is sometimes challenged by a restricted view of rights popular with libertarians and individualists. The restricted view of rights only accepts 'negative' rights as legitimate rights. Negative rights, ...

It is widely believed that presentism is compatible with both a libertarian view of human freedom and an unrestricted principle of bivalence. I argue that, in fact, presentists must choose between bivalence and libertarianism: if presentism is true, then either the future is open or no one is free in the way that libertarians understand freedom. Presentism is the view that it always has been an...

P sychiatrists and historians used to exist in a state of mutual mistrust and suspicion. Professional historians of a generation ago, much influenced by the radical epistemology of Michel Foucault (1), the sociological critiques of Erving Goffman (2), the countercultural theorizing of RD Laing (3), or the trenchant libertarianism of Thomas Szasz (4), came to portray the entire enterprise of mod...