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No, You Can\u27t Just Peek in Their Brain to See Their Future
Full text linkThis paper argues against the use of predictive cognitive neuroscience research in judicial processes. Barcus argues that, because predictive models do not adequately address the “whys” of behavior and are better suited to macro-scale processes rather than individual-level predictions, they can only provide “a crude idea of future behavior” at best and will be bias-laden and inaccurate at worst. Meanwhile, neuroscience brain imaging is a newly-developing field and relies on small-scale studies, a combination that creates little replicability and presents deeply-flawed outcomes when this research is used as a basis for criminal prosecution. Barcus concludes that this scholarship, while holding great potential for the future, “cannot have a place in establishing guilt…. the complexity of an individual cannot be captured by a predictive model.
The Stark Surrealism in Spectra’s Soulfulness
Full text linkArthur Davison Ficke and Witter Bynner were American poetry\u27s first Surrealists, preceding Breton and his founding of Surrealism, with the publication of its first manifesto, in France in 1924. Though the creative merits of 1916\u27s Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments are many, most scholars and critics regard it as a hoax intended to mock Imagism and the like. But Ficke and Bynner, using the pseudonyms Anne Knish and Emanuel Morgan, respectively, blazed trails no poets had priorly dared to venture down
Social Commentary in Charlotte Murray Russell\u27s The Message of the Mute Dog
Full text linkThis paper analyzes how Charlotte Murray Russell\u27s cozy mystery The Message of the Mute Dog supports patriotism while criticizing anti-German sentiment during World War II