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Religion, prosociality, assortative sociality, and the evolution of large-scale cooperation: a few remarks on Martin & Wiebe
No full textIn their paper, Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe put forward three types of claims. The first type concerns current research agendas in the Cognitive Science of Religion. In this regard, they claim both that these agendas neglect religion’s connection with violence by emphasizing its presumed relation with prosociality and that this neglect involves a hidden bias. The second type concerns the social function of religion. Here, they claim that religion is fundamentally tied to assortative sociality rather than prosociality. The third type concerns a possible causal link between religious prosociality and the evolution of large-scale cooperation. Here, they claim that religious prosociality did not play any pertinent causal role in such evolution. We do not address the first issue in our reply, though we would like to say that Martin & Wiebe have a partial reading of the csr literature in this respect, which undermines the strength of their related claims. We address the other two issues in turn, but, before discussing their related claims, we characterize some basic distinctions that will frame our subsequent remarks.<br/
Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
No full textIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Straw men and scientific nostalgia : a response to Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
No full textThis article argues that Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe present a position that is based on many unwarranted and romantic assumptions. To begin with, the authors underestimate (the potential of) the academic rigor of a critical study of religion. This underestimation of the study of religion goes along with an overestimation of the scholarly rigor of the natural sciences. Martin and Wiebe do not seem to take notice of critical scholarship in the historiography and epistemology of science and stick to a naïve image of the natural sciences that most historians of science would deconstruct today. The authors have written a polemic against relativist positions in the humanities, but their argument is itself undertheorized, which turns their critique of "postmodernism" against themselves. Finally, it is noted that Martin and Wiebe\u27s argumentation appears to be self-contradictory. For instance, when the authors claim that the human species\u27 anti-science proclivity is as true of professional scholars of religion as of other intellectuals, one wonders why the authors assume that scholars who engage in cognitive research are an exception to that rule, as they apparently resist the anti-science proclivity
Straw Men and Scientific Nostalgia: A Response to Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
No full textThis article argues that Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe present a position that is based on many unwarranted and romantic assumptions. To begin with, the authors underestimate (the potential of) the academic rigor of a critical study of religion. This underestimation of the study of religion goes along with an overestimation of the scholarly rigor of the natural sciences. Martin and Wiebe do not seem to take notice of critical scholarship in the historiography and epistemology of science and stick to a naïve image of the natural sciences that most historians of science would deconstruct today. The authors have written a polemic against relativist positions in the humanities, but their argument is itself undertheorized, which turns their critique of "postmodernism" against themselves. Finally, it is noted that Martin and Wiebe's argumentation appears to be self-contradictory. For instance, when the authors claim that the human species' anti-science proclivity is as true of professional scholars of religion as of other intellectuals, one wonders why the authors assume that scholars who engage in cognitive research are an exception to that rule, as they apparently resist the anti-science proclivity.This article argues that Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe present a position that is based on many unwarranted and romantic assumptions. To begin with, the authors underestimate (the potential of) the academic rigor of a critical study of religion. This underestimation of the study of religion goes along with an overestimation of the scholarly rigor of the natural sciences. Martin and Wiebe do not seem to take notice of critical scholarship in the historiography and epistemology of science and stick to a naïve image of the natural sciences that most historians of science would deconstruct today. The authors have written a polemic against relativist positions in the humanities, but their argument is itself undertheorized, which turns their critique of "postmodernism" against themselves. Finally, it is noted that Martin and Wiebe's argumentation appears to be self-contradictory. For instance, when the authors claim that the human species' anti-science proclivity is as true of professional scholars of religion as of other intellectuals, one wonders why the authors assume that scholars who engage in cognitive research are an exception to that rule, as they apparently resist the anti-science proclivity
Author and literary critic Donald Shaw
No full textAuthor and literary critic Donald Shaw, b&w.https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon_photo_morgue/1399/thumbnail.jp
Donald Elder papers
No full textDonald Elder (1913-1965) was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. He was also the author of Ring Lardner, A Biography. The collection consists of correspondence between him and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions, as well as The Itching Parrot and Ship of Fools
"Letter with No Address" - Poem by Donald Hall
No full textDonald Hall reads his poem "Letter with No Address," an epistolary poem written for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Hall is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and the author of 16 books of poetry, as well as fiction.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85036/1/letterwithnoaddress_donalhall.mp
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Letter from [Donald Hata] to Michi Weglyn August 25, 1977
No full textThis letter from Donald Hata to Michi Weglyn thanks her for her time and effort in her response to his student's request for assistance and information about the "Peruvian internees." He also informs her that the review he wrote of her book had just been published in the "Journal of American history," and also updates her on his promotion to full professor at the university.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
We\u27ll Find the Place: Chapter 3 My Youth
No full textText Document, Chapter 3 My Youth From the Book "We\u27ll Find the Place" By Earl Donald Attridge Recollections of his youth, a smattering of contemporary psychology theory on homosexuality, encounters with religion and with other gay youth (author was same age range as the youth at time of encounters) and gay menConverted from .html to .pdf for compatibilit
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