Sentences with phrase «academic view of»

SportsInsights takes an academic view of the sports marketplace, as detailed in our popular and best - selling Sports Investing series of books and our recent article comparing the sports marketplace to the financial markets.

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She is also a contributor at The Conversation, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community.

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

Then, a few weeks ago, author and academic Sherry Turkle penned a New York Times Sunday Review piece highlighting research along the same lines, including one study that showed simply having your phone out and in view can impede the process of making deep personal connections.

Khan Academy, based in Mountain View, is known for its free web - based library of instructional videos and academic exercises.

He is also a contributor at The Conversation, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community.

Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.

But The Times, which has viewed a set of raw data from the profiles that Cambridge Analytica paid an academic researcher to obtain, contacted nearly two dozen affected Facebook users in recent weeks.

To teach me how to transition properly from an academic point of view to a practical business point of view.How has being part of the Kode With Klossy community transformed your experience of learning to code?

At Oakmark, we believe that the academic view on stocks is largely, but not completely, correct: We think that most of the time, most stocks are priced about right — but not always, and never each and every stock.

Glass Lewis» «In - Depth» reports are a series of issue - specific primers intended to provide general background and context regarding the prevailing views of investors, academics, and regulators.

Had he had a shred of academic or intellectual integrity, he would clearly spell out what are his criteria for Bitcoin failing or succeeding and then approach it with an open mind, and see how matters unfold and then revise his views.

... If Catholicity at the university level is to remain, Notre Dame had better be prepared to save itself, whether from «secular humanism,» a distorted view of academic freedom, or a goal of becoming [well - regarded] at the cost of its Catholic uniqueness...

In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.

The variety of persons and views engaged, I confidently expect, is far greater than what might be found at a Jesuit seminary in Berkeley where academics churn out reviews unhindered by acquaintance with their subject.

Because it has appropriated the preferential view of happiness, much academic political science has become a territory within liberalism's sphere of influence.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

The rationale for academic freedom need not be a view of human nature; it may be put theologically as a matter of faithfulness to God.

As an Enlightenment idea, «academic freedom» is usually associated with a rationale that depends on a particular view of human nature.

It never ceases to amaze me the convoluted arguments an academic with a preconceived notion about a social issue will go to advance his point of view.

Furthermore, in my view the refusal to study historical facts when they conflict with theory illustrates the worst features of academic disciplines.

You have dismissed and ridiculed an entire philoshophical branch of academics (most notably those philosophies that deal with what exists outside of our restricted physical universe)-- demonstrating a very intellectually stunted view.

There is a current of uneasiness, especially among Mormon academics, about what will happen if and when Ezra Taft Benson becomes church president and carries his right - wing political views into office with him.

In the meantime, Wood appears to be sanguine that if the leading question of theological inquiry is kept explicitly in view, it is powerful enough not only to subsume the leading interest of each of the relevant academic disciplines but also to resist distortions that the institutionalization of the academic disciplines might tend to impose on theology.

BILL NYE isn \» t a theologian and is not qualified to make theistic determinations any more than my auto mechanic (perhaps less, because my mechanic doesn \» t have a conceited view of his academic credentials).

As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described — following Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago — as paradigm shifts....

Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

Having an academic discussion about religious views and theological beliefs is fine enough, but there is certainly no reason to go into a discussion of who is right an wrong because frankly, you do not know.

Paradoxically, Methodist presence was strongest on the Board of Trust, yet this body had been so co-opted by the chancellor that its members acquiesced in his view that overt deference to the church in any effective way would be adverse to Vanderbilt's academic ambitions.

The widespread practice of academic dishonesty is a further reflection of the prevailing view of work.

Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as it is necessary to be able to demythologize the stories of the scriptures.

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

When we view the domination of the university by academic disciplines based on modern metaphysics, and the domination of the world by policies that derive from the theories taught there, it is hard not to become deeply discouraged.

Neither would it resonate with those academics and so - called liberals who reduce religion to mere ethics or diversity, to some inner psychoanalytic conversation, or some Marxist egalitarian view of heaven on earth.

Economics is a mature academic discipline that is viewed as embodying the norms of the university as well as any, better than any outside the «hard sciences.»

Such developments within academic disciplines are highly significant in a society in which the social sciences are viewed as instruments for the clarification, support and advancement of the government's philosophy and policies.

Most of the writings about the kingdom of late are of an academic nature, trying to discern from the biblical foundations a view which the author regards as the true one.

This interpretation of the election fits nicely with the conventional view of American politics, held by academics and journalists alike, that party coalitions and electoral outcomes are rooted in economic self - interest.

Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network takes a different view: «Academic study of the Bible in a history or literature course is perfectly acceptable,» he says, «but this curriculum represents a blatant attempt to turn a public school class into a Sunday school class.

He approaches the problem from a purely academic standpoint and asks, How far does the essential message of the gospel confront us --(1) In the framework of a mythical world view conditioned by its environment and therefore irrelevant to the modern world?

All the more so since, pace Bultmann, whose view of the matter is all too academic, our age is not one of enlightenment.

Such a view of the role of technical scientific knowledge, broadly conceived to include the social sciences and most other disciplines, in effect cleared a huge area of academic inquiry in which religious considerations would not be expected to appear.

By the 1920s, such views were being more openly and widely expressed by academics, as is indicated by the influence during that era of John Dewey, who expressed almost exactly the Comtean view.

I Wrote of «plausible views», as though all this were no more than a game of academic speculation inviting no intellectual commitment, to be taken up or dropped at our leisure, with all conclusions deferred.

He was an intellectual and academic, yet his atheistic view of life was conquered through Gods grace and his effort to believe and pursue a relationship with God.

We come to view him as an academic genius, a social prophet, a victim of unethical experimentation, and a criminal mastermind of the Hannibal Lector variety.

Deprived of native sympathy for academics and of a sense of ease in dealing with them — indeed, inclined to view them with misgiving — these ecclesiastics did not by instinct address themselves to their institutions in their office as articulate exponents of their faith, nor as pastors, nor as prophets.

Recently I listened to a debate online between two biblical scholars — one a famous British academic who holds a more or less traditionally orthodox view of Christianity and the Bible, the other an American and well - known former fundamentalist turned aggressive agnostic.

They viewed theology as either a highly personal, individualized matter or as an essentially academic discipline conducted in universities and seminaries, something not germane to the life of the church or to personal faith.

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.