心灵的漂泊者--凯瑟琳·林姆短篇小说《旅程》解读

凯瑟琳·林姆以意识流的表现手法,清理出理查德人生旅程中与自己密切相关的三个女人的生活,解答出现代都市人心灵空虚和孤独的缘由:对金钱和物欲的极度追求而丧失了人性的关爱,最终沦为人生旅程永远的漂泊者.     

波斯纳眼中的法律客观性

理查德·A·波斯纳在其《法理学问题》一书中,从认识论、本体论、法律解释和实质正义等方面对传统意义上的法律客观性提出了质疑,并以新实用主义哲学为基础,试图构建"交谈"意义上的法律客观性,即特定境况下的合乎情理。此文是对波斯纳提出这一问题的背景和他对该问题的阐释过程的解读。     

Experimental evaluation of a humanities program

This research sought to determine the effects of a one-hour humanities lecture concerning midwest architectural preservation on a group of college undergraduates. Effects were assessed by a semantic differential procedure which revealed two factors in a pre-treatment trial. A four-group design required administration of the instrument to two groups one week prior to the lecture, and to all groups one week following the lecture. ANOVA and post hoc analyses revealed significant changes in the experimental group's “semantic space” on three of eight architectural concepts which were assessed. The results provide an empirical basis for the success of the program which the humanities people had “known” all along.     

Measuring corporate social performance: The problem of values

Debates over the social performance of corporations have carried with them implicit evaluations of that performance. The apparent subjectivity and bias of these informal evaluations has led to the development of more formalized corporate social performance assessment methodologies — social audits. In this paper it is argued that these social audits are also influenced by subjectivity and bias considerations; and thru the case study of a social audit of a corporate safety program, the underlying value issues at the core of these influences are explored. The value implications of the various social audit methodologies in use are discussed; and several value sensitive stages/elements of social audit research and evaluation research in general are identified. Recommendations set forth for minimizing the negative consequences of value-influenced evaluations are a value-explicit evaluation approach, greater standardization of evaluation procedures, a dialectic evaluation approach, and better informed evaluation consumers.