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Crazy Patch block quilt, by Lillia Michaelson Jensen
No full textImage of Crazy Patch block quilt created around 1920 by Lillia Michaelson Jensen. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Ruth Jensen as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. Quilter made quilts for pleasur
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Buying alone: how the decreasing American happiness turned into the current economic crisis
No full textCapitalism is an unstable economic system. Although it often generates economic growth over the long term, this growth does not take place in a continuous fashion, but rather in a cyclical manner, that is, alternating periods of economic boom and stagnation and, at times, deep recession. Many argue that the crisis that began in the summer of 2007 is one of the typical cyclical crises of capitalism. In its extraordinary dimension it is a ‘black swan’, an extremely unlikely event. The message implied by these interpretations of the crisis is: We do not need to change things. The party is simply on hold for the moment, because the jukebox is broken. But it will be mended and the dancing will start again, as thrilling and fun as before. The thesis I contend, instead, is that the present crisis is not simply a cyclical one and it does not merely signal the instability of capitalism. It is the entire type of capitalism that became dominant, especially in the US in the last few decades, that is in crisis. My message is: The music is, after all, not that great at this party, even when the jukebox works and, in any case, if we don’t change the music, the jukebox will break down over and over again. In fact, the current crisis is the epilogue of the type of capitalism that I have called NEG (negative endogenous growth) capitalism. © Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund 2014
Fake news, conceptual engineering, and linguistic resistance: reply to Pepp, Michaelson and Sterken, and Brown
No full textABSTRACT In Habgood-Coote : 1033–1065) I argued that we should abandon ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’, on the grounds that these terms do not have stable public meanings, are unnecessary, and function as vehicles for propaganda. Jessica Pepp, Eliot Michaelson, and Rachel Sterken and Étienne Brown : 144–154) have raised worries about my case for abandonment, recommending that we continue using ‘fake news’. In this paper, I respond to these worries. I distinguish more clearly between theoretical and political reasons for abandoning a term, assemble more evidence that ‘fake news’ is a nonsense term, and respond to the worries raised by Pepp, Michaelson and Sterken, and Brown. I close by considering the prospects for anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian conceptual engineering
Frege on the tolerability of sense variation: a reply to Michaelson and Textor
No full textIn several passages, Frege suggests that successful communication requires that speaker and audience understand the uttered words and sentences to have the same sense. On the other hand, Frege concedes that, in many ordinary cases, variation in sense is tolerable. In a recent article in this journal, Michaelson and Textor (2023) offer a new interpretation of Frege on the tolerability of sense variation according to which variation in sense is tolerable when the conversation aims at joint action, but not when the conversation aims at joint thought. We maintain, contra Michaelson and Textor, that whether sense variation is tolerable does not depend on the conversational purpose, whether it be theoretical or practical. Rather, whether sense variation is tolerable depends instead on the conversational background. This picture offers what we take to be a more plausible reconstruction of Frege’s own view
Frege on the Tolerability of Sense Variation: A Reply to Michaelson and Textor
No full textIn several passages, Frege suggests that successful communication requires that speaker and audience understand the uttered words and sentences to have the same sense. On the other hand, Frege concedes that, in many ordinary cases, variation in sense is tolerable. In a recent article in this journal, Michaelson and Textor (2023) offer a new interpretation of Frege on the tolerability of sense variation according to which variation in sense is tolerable when the conversation aims at joint action, but not when the conversation aims at joint thought. We maintain, contra Michaelson and Textor, that whether sense variation is tolerable does not depend on the conversational purpose, whether it be theoretical or practical. Rather, whether sense variation is tolerable depends instead on the conversational background. This picture offers what we take to be a more plausible reconstruction of Frege’s own view
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
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