Sentences with phrase «academic debates on»

Wapshott moves from biographical sketches of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek to a detailed yet accessible account of their early academic debates on the causes of and remedies for the business cycle's boom and bust, the nature of money, inflation, unemployment, and more.

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.

Martin Luther's protest initially took the form of a public challenge to an academic debate on a swathe of theological niceties.

First, a brief perusal of the internet reveals an ongoing academic debate on this subject.

It is putting the work on public view next week, saying it hopes to start an academic debate on its authenticity.»

Owing to these pressures and the gutter tactics of the academic debate on climate change, I recently resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.»

Lisa has made a significant contribution to academic debate on native title in Australia, including her book: Compromised Jurisprudence: Native Title Cases since Mabo.

Not exact matches

Cited thousands of times in the news media and academic literature, Dr. Morgan's work on the topic has helped to spark national policy debate regarding universal pharmacare in Canada.

At the beginning of Morrison's tenure, their most burning controversy involved the new higher criticism of the Bible, and much of the debate focused on Morrison's coeditor, Herbert L. Willett, an acknowledged champion of the new academic discipline.

I thought of this recently as I re-read Harvard's report on the humanities «Mapping the Future» in light of the debate over academic freedom that Peter Lawler addressed.

After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest,...

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

They may pretend to not notice lively and deep academic debates going on between real thinking Christians and real thinking atheists.

After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest, what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama - writer have?

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).

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

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.

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.

But he's not there, and neither are most other Western observers weighing in on the subject, giving their debate a whiff of the abstract and the academic.

The same could be surmised from the conduct and discourse of the Committee Chair himself, who recently chose to start up a «lively and passionate public debate» on codification on the academic blog of the United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association — hardly likely to be read by any «public» other than public law academics.

From a letter to the Telegraph on the Alcohol Taxation Debate, signed by a group of leading doctors and academics, including Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman, UK Alcohol Health Alliance and Special Advisor on Alcohol, Royal College of Physicians; and Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman, British Medical Association Council — December 2011

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).

There has been some academic and legal debate as to whether the Acts of Union 1707 place limits on parliamentary supremacy.

Erie Community College's construction of a new $ 30 - million academic building on it's north campus has brought up an old debate over whether the college should have three separate campuses or one central location downtown.

During a contentious three - hour debate on Thursday, Jewish lawmakers condemned the legislation as anti-Semitic, arguing that many of the state's roughly 700 school districts have faced similar fiscal and academic challenges to East Ramapo.

According to research commissioned by City & Guilds, in the first three years of the Coalition, MPs spent a total of 88 hrs 47 mins on academic debates — more than four times the amount spent on vocational education.

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.»

The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.

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

Two Australian academics serving on a government climate panel have publicly criticized their own committee's latest report as «untrue and dangerous,» stoking a long - running debate over the country's carbon emissions reduction strategies.

Even when academics produce popular works, they refuse to respect any argument or debate based on them, asserting that such popularisations can not represent their work properly.

Modern mathematical techniques — similar to those used to analyse social - networking websites — have allowed academics to shed new light on a centuries old debate surrounding the Viking age in Ireland and the famous battle of Clontarf in 1014.

► Also on Thursday, Martin Enserink provided an update on virologist Ron Fouchier, who for the past 3 years «has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?»

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

Through YRP, Bunthof wanted to involve young scientists in the debate on genomics and society, because, as she puts it, «academic training includes more than just doing your research project.»

Ever since, biological scientists have debated whether, one day, the need to keep sensitive information from aspiring bioterrorists would force them to impose new limits on the academic openness they had long taken for granted.

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

He endorses the conclusions of No Place to Learn and enlarges the debate by discussing a subject that Pocklington and Tupper don't emphasize, the poisoning of university life by rights - seeking groups who insist (Whitaker writes) that academic life is naturally «sexist and racist and can only by kept in check through intensive regulation and control... Everything that goes on must be monitored and policed.»

The findings have already sparked debate within the academic community; critics are questioning the validity of the interpretation, and supporters say that the finding could offer a new perspective on why religions exist and what role they play in society.

While it is unlikely that we can obtain complete certainty on this issue, it is important for mainstream climate scientists to continue to debate this issue in a manner that can be interpreted by rest of the academic community.

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.

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

The final activity was a Structured Academic Controversy (SAC)(based on the work of Johnson and Johnson) where students assumed roles as different interest groups and then debated the merits of this issue, using the skills and rhetorical strategies we had learned about along the way.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

A debate on academic pressure in primary schools: Can you deliver the curriculum AND have happy children?

Debate focuses on how best to foster academic success for youth in the nation's fastest growing immigrant group

«David is one of the top young education economists in the country — his work has earned high praise in academic circles and helped to shape national debates on education policy.

On November 26, 2002, — after almost a year of discussion and debate — final regulations regarding the Title I: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged section of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act were released.

Numerous articles weigh in on the political and academic debates about funding universal pre-K, but the more interesting and basic question at hand is what we're asking of pre-K.