…out some African elements, perspective or concern. The African narrative style predominates through these essays but their framing conforms, more or less, to the Western paradigm for presenting academic issues….
Artistic Freedom and Moral Rights in Contemporary Art: The Mass MoCA Controversy
Introduction: The concept of artistic freedom, like that of academic freedom, is as potent as it is slippery. Its indeterminacy may in fact lend the concept some power, since it…
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
…not merely on moral and ethical grounds, or because it is elitist, but on purely intellectual ones. In revealing the failure of much academic art history, and a great deal…
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
…importance to the future of many academic disciplines. Her book will amply reward readers looking to achieve a more fruitful understanding of the relations between feminism, science, and social life….
Rationality and the Structure of the Self: Reply to Guyer and Bradley
…specialization – Kant scholarship and decision theory – are the very first to appear from any quarter within academic philosophy. My gratitude to Paul Guyer and Richard Bradley for the…
Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains?
…Native communities and archaeologists. In this unprecedented volume, Native Americans and non-Native Americans within and beyond the academic community offer their views on repatriation and the ethical, political, legal, cultural,…
What is a Conspiracy Theory?
In much of the current academic and public discussion, conspiracy theories are portrayed as a negative phenomenon, linked to misinformation, mistrust in experts and institutions, and political propaganda. Rather surprisingly,…
Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution
Canons of intellectual “greats” anchor the history and scope of academic disciplines. Within international relations (IR), such a canon emerged in the mid-twentieth century and is almost entirely male. Why…
Authorship in top-ranked mathematical and physical journals: Role of gender on self-perceptions and bibliographic evidence
…journals. According to the self-reported responses, a larger number of articles submitted to prestigious venues correlates rather with aspects associated with pronounced research activity, a well-established network, and academic seniority….
An Animating Principle in Confrontation with Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua ‘Soul’
…also scrutinize the very origin of -Yolia in academic discourse. this analysis, based on broader historical and linguistic evidence referring to both pre-Conquest beliefs and Christianization in sixteenth-century central Mexico,…