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Normative Ethics in Ancient China: A Debate Between Mozi and Mengzi
Get PDFIn this article, I compare and contrast the thoughts of Mozi and Mengzi, two great philosophers of ancient China. However, I make the case that both philosophers are in fact talking past one another with regard to filial piety and impartial care
Polarization of Majorana Fermions in a Background Current
Get PDFA Majorana fermion is a particle which is its own antiparticle. As a consequence, their electromagnetic interactions are minimal. Because of this, they are a good candidate for dark matter with their sole static electromagnetic property being their anapole moment. The annihilation rate of Majorana fermions depends on whether their anapole moments are aligned (polarized) or anti-aligned (unpolarized). It is therefore important to understand how Majorana fermions polarize to better understand their annihilation rates. This can help us further understand and detect dark matter. Using Feynman diagrams, we calculate the cross section for the interaction between a Majorana fermion and a background current in which the Majorana fermion flips spin
Beyond a Call to Action
Get PDFThis paper is intended as a critique and development of morality in literature, seeking to prove that literature can have deep effects on a reader\u27s moral character. The stakes for such research are rather high: especially during the pandemic, our culture is heavily informed by social and mass media, and it is hard to imagine a good future for the world if these mediums cannot shake the status quo.
Though this paper takes a narrower scope of investigation than moral progress itself, the reader should keep in mind that all of our practices of communication can and should be informed by literary tradition, among other practices. For art is our name for the most refined and deliberate artifacts of human expression, capable of great scale, subtlety, and mass dissemination. Morality in communication is explored here through literature, but I hope the reader will make an attempt to apply any knowledge gleaned to as diverse a range of their practices as is possible.
The basic issue of my research is that conventional calls to action, for example Sarah McLachlan\u27s famous SPCA commercials, are not terribly effective. This is obvious insofar as there is a saturation of these calls to action, and a shocking lack of action or concern from many, but I will also seek to justify this in the theories of Immanuel Levinas, then develop a solution from a more philosophical framing of the problem, with Louis Althusser\u27s writings on ideology, as well as case studies from literature.
Eventually, this all leads to the question: how do we address ideology in art? Which will hopefully be somewhat answered by the development of the question, and further addressed by the case studies comprising the latter half of this writing
The Action-Perception of Musical Rhythm: A Review of EEG Findings
Get PDFElectroencephalography (EEG) research has the potential to illuminate questions of connectivity and temporal dynamics during musical rhythm perception. The phenomenon of sensorimotor synchronization observed when humans time their movements to rhythmic auditory stimuli reveals that these actions predict, rather than respond, to the beat. The phase entrainment of oscillatory activity measured by EEG and predictive modulation of beta band power offer cognitive insights to the auditory-motor relationship. Two main approaches exist to understand beat perception: motor simulation theories and dynamical systems theories. The study of mu wave suppression, considered a marker for mirror activity, has the potential to elucidate the explanatory strengths of these theories
Applying Analytics to the NFL Draft: Athletic Performance Measures as a Predictor of Future Success
Get PDFCan an athlete’s National Football League’s (NFL) Scouting Combine measurements be used to predict their future success in the League? In this analysis, I use historical combine data to create a grading system that measures a player’s athleticism, regressed upon the player’s rookie year Pro Football Focus (PFF) grade to determine the extent to which athleticism can help NFL franchises better predict the outcomes of their draft picks
Mindful of a Profit: A Critical Analysis of Meditation Apps in the Context of Neoliberalism and Western Constructions of Religion.
Get PDFThis research focuses on the growing trend of meditation apps. Close analysis of three meditation apps (Headspace, Insight Timer, and Calm) reveals how meditation has been marketed as secular through a deliberate obfuscation of Buddhist origins. Additionally, the context and effects of neoliberal ideology and bio-morality are discussed
Woking Curriculum: Youth, popular cultures, and moving images matter!
Get PDFIn these intensified anti-Black, anti-Aboriginal, anti-LGBTQI times, this paper offers woking curriculum as an educational-political proposition. Schools are often places of rejection of young people’s investment in popular culture and their attuned sensibilities to moving images in videogames, cartoons, and popular movies. Through a spoken word poem this paper begins to respond to this disinvestment offering an analysis of why and how the popular moving images must be made curriculum. The paper draws from visual and classroom-based research in the United States, Australia, and Colombia
New & Noteworthy, March 2019
Get PDFContents include: Q&A | Mei Ann Teo; The Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Intensive 2019; Upcoming Regional Events; Call for Translators.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1042/thumbnail.jp
New & Noteworthy, June 2019
Get PDFContents include: Conference Wrap-Up Crossing Borders, Pt. 2: Action in a Time of Division; ECD Travel Grant Recipients Responses From #LMDA19; LMDA Review; Regional Event: Black Lives Black Words; Call for Translators.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1043/thumbnail.jp