谈西方心理学主要流派的科学哲学渊源

西方心理学主要有两大哲学方法论实证主义和现象学.文章论述了科学哲学中的实证主义对构造心理学、古典行为主义、新行为主义和现代认知心理学的影响.     

企业集团与反垄断法的关系

从各国较为成熟的反垄断法来看,具有雄厚经济实力进而握有市场力量的大企业集团始终是反垄断法关注的对象。而中国长期以来对是否要制定反垄断法一直存在争论,反对者的一个强有力的理由就是反垄断法的出台将阻碍中国企业集团的发展壮大。从企业集团自身的性质和反垄断法的立法宗旨与制度设计两方面讨论企业集团与反垄断法的关系。     

Taming future mobilities: biopolitics and data behaviourism in the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS)

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I critically engage with the European Travel Authorisation and Information System (ETIAS), looking at the rationalities underlying its introduction, its system architecture and its proposed functionalities. Tracing the biopolitical problematisation of the border that led to ETIAS, I argue that the system embodies a shift towards data behaviourism in the regime of truth underlying the biopolitical regulation of the EU border. Data behaviourism establishes a new way of seeing conduct, adding a potential future layer to it. Taming future mobilities through data-mining and future-oriented algorithmic processing, ETIAS imagines mobile subjects in terms of their motility and thereby produces dividuals and blurs the spatio-temporal boundedness of the EU border. ETIAS thereby complicates resistance by avoiding fixed identities and instead rarefies subjects through seeing them as being constantly emergent through new correlations.     

Animal suffering in New Zealand: Can science make a difference?

Abstract

The main influences in the regulation of animal welfare policy in New Zealand are discussed. Animal welfare organizations on the one hand are intent on improving conditions for animals, whereas government regulatory bodies are more concerned with preserving the status quo. Both types of organizations have allies in academia. Government agencies are largely informed through research from the ‘mandated’ field of Animal Welfare Science, which is characterized by a positivistic framework that tends to support the status quo. Animal Welfare Science can be contrasted with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Human Animal Studies, which continues the tradition of critical theory that questions the positivistic basis of the animal welfare establishment. We conclude that while genuine science, defined as all rational and theoretically informed discourse, could make a difference to animals, the mandated field of Animal Welfare Science serves more to entrench animal suffering than to prevent it.