Sentences with phrase «academic debate with»

The most vital scientific need is the critical, adversarial edge provided by cognitive dissidents, most of whom enter academic debate with prior motives and agendas, including theological agendas.

Not exact matches

Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

Just to think that He debated with the academics of His day at this age.

Members of the Society were responding with full force saying they were ready for an academic debate, not childish hysterics and name calling.

with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.

We are aware that there are those who will dismiss this whole debate as being of only academic interest, with little pastoral and social relevance.

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

Accordingly, he suggests not only that Christians should be allowed to contribute to today's academic debates on an equal footing with, say, Marxists or feminists — a goal most Christian academics would applaud, as would I — but also ventures the more dubious suggestion that a Christian perspective may transform the relativism that bedevils today's scholarship and provide a more dependable foundation for knowing and believing.

With the rise of the evolution — creationism debate in the U.S., these academics, even if they did not subscribe to a religious faith themselves, were having to become more aware of ways in which faith and science interpenetrate, connect and harmonise.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

For those not familiar with academic debates, the impression could be given that West's work contains serious errors, when, in fact, his books have received imprimaturs and the endorsement of trusted figures.

This makes for good academic debate, but without a narrative or doctrinal unity the Bible can not compete with the imperial present.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

Because most people with any sort of knowledge of the recent academic debates / fights in and around modern liberalism would know that Sandel is usually classed as communitarian critic of liberalism.

With the exam safely behind me I'm back to blogging, but still have academic IR debates on the mind, so today I want to write about what the history of early 20th century European relations can tell us about the continent's current political economy.

Steve Keen, along with Nouriel Rubini as a non neoliberal economist states, «The first thing that the global financial crisis should therefore do to economics is to galvanise student protest about the lack of debate within academic economics itself, because dissident academic economists will be unable to shift the tuition of economics themselves without massive pressure from the student body».

(I don't know how far the academic market socialism debates link up with this political strategy).

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

Let's step up to the plate together Ms Ghose and have a debate or do you too refuse to engage with reformers, preferring instead to sit in your academic ivory tower?

The debate continued with Paladino slamming teachers unions and referring to academics on college campuses as former «pot - smoking hippies back during the Vietnam era.»

While the debate focused on Dolly, a number of other corporate and academic laboratories were quietly pushing ahead with similar projects.

But with a wave of more sophisticated social robots about to hit the mass market, the debate is no longer academic.

It is now clear to anyone familiar with biomedical academic research in the United States that the situation of postdocs in this country needs serious attention; no reasonable person would debate this point.

Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).

Make sure your creatine says Creapure and don't get caught up wasting any more time or sleep on the academic debate associated with creatine use.

Some of the root causes debated by MP's were the clear link to children's online habits which are keeping them isolated, sleep deprived and stuck in a dependence mode with low self - esteem, low self - confidence and fear of failing; along with too much pressure from a young age to pursue high academic standards; frequent cyberbullying and sexting; increased obsession with body awareness; and lack of skills that prepare children for life - such as resilience, within the curriculum.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Dr. Sapon - Shevin: Providing students with disabilities with «relentless, intensive instruction» may improve their academic skills, although there is even debate about the academic effectiveness of segregated pull - out programs.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

The debate is not MI vs. IQ but rather how can we use a multiple intelligences understanding of each student to build the academic skills associated with IQ?

A panel of state lawmakers tasked with reviewing the Common Core have opened a formal debate over which set of academic standards Indiana will use next.

With the debate over a new set of nationally - crafted academic standards at a crossroads in Indiana, the results of a newly - released survey show many outside of education - policymaking circles know much at all about the Common Core.

«I will not engage in political debate with board members... My duty, my sole concern, is for the academic and career success of our Hartford school children and youth.»

As Congress begins preparing for debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, state schools chief Tom Torlakson has joined the chorus of voices calling for the replacement of Adequate Yearly Progress with a new growth system - one that not only measures student academic progress but also health and wellness, and school dropout rates.

Jordan's emphasis on the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century informs much of her academic research, and she is currently working on a book that places the aesthetic and political conflicts of Picabia's era in dialogue with more contemporary political debates.

Her research driven practice examines other fields out with philosophy, drawing on current academic debate in psychology, sociology and anthropology, with relevant contextualising in terms of current and historic art genres.

With its extremely diverse, in - depth public program of debates, lectures, and book launches, the Stedelijk also demonstrates that the museum is not only a place for thought - provoking exhibitions, but a platform for experimentation, critical reflection, and (academic) debate.

Back in the 1960s, I attended a college debate between two scientists — one working for the chemical industry, an old seasoned public speaker, very professional; the other a young academic with expertise in bird reproduction.

The aim is to bring academic discipline to the unresolved national debate, which pits an industry that denies any link between fracking and environmental contamination against those who assert that fracking poisons air and water with natural and man - made chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses.

BTW Terje do you think a google post debate between lay people even with science or academic backgrounds can definitively prove one way or another something as complex AGW?

Goodwin briefly departed from academic jargon with one suggestion for trying to move the debate forward by suggesting that climate scientists voluntarily assume «extra responsibility» as follows:

And it's academics who are trying to stifle the CO2 debates, in part by denying grant funding to applicants who disagree with them, in part by professionally shunning and excoriating them.

On both occasions I asked pro-AGW academics to come to his lectures or engage in debate with him.

+1 The rest of the climate change debate seems to me to be academic, with a cure (decarbonisation) looking for a problem.

As for the publication metric, it is a useful tool for discussing and debating science, but my spouse and numerous friends in the academic world have left me with the impression that it is also very useful for maintaining positions, advancing towards tenure and gaining funding.

My experience in finance and public policy — and with academics — has been mostly with «no holds barred» debate.

Following the booklaunch, the Australian newspaper published an entertaining read titled «Climate sceptics ready to storm heaven with earth's geological history `, detailing the plight of Dr Barry Brook, who as the head of Adelaide University's Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability is at the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to academic debate (apparently Dr Brook is ill - fated enough to share a hallway just metres away from the good Professor Plimer)

The FBI needs to read about the well - documented history of the nuclear winter debate and consult with government scientists and academics before they publish sly denunciations of some of the most famous Western climate scientists.

Dark matter debates are conducted more politely than AGW debates because the money and power are not yet there; but my experience with academics is that there is still a fair bit of bitchiness involved.

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.