Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true your punk style, or dedicating life an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop account the nature such commitments, and argue that they significant insofar as help us manage temporally extended our agency relationships with objects. At same time, focusing on commitments can give better grasp normativity; this is ...

There has been little empirical or conceptual work on conspiracy theories within a policing context. This gap is concerning given emerging evidence suggesting that beliefs can have significant consequences in several important personal, social, and political dimensions. Some of these may also impact both the operational environment police workforce. To address research gap, this study reviewed ...

In this essay, I explore the techniques by which Burns uses and explodes myth of unspeakable through deployment a picaresque mode that enables an ethical trauma narrative. demonstrate how Burns’ work refutes ‘event-based’ reading discuss narrative Milkman enacts difficulty finding vocabulary with to make traumatic experience intelligible. suggest novel refusal suspicious insisting on authority ...

We present a selective overview of the current state of our knowledge (more precisely of our ignorance) regarding the derivation of Fourier’s Law, J(r) = −κ∇T (r); J the heat flux, T the temperature and κ, the heat conductivity. This law is empirically well tested for both fluids and crystals, when the temperature varies slowly on the microscopic scale, with κ an intrinsic property which depend...

Call it the department chair’s dilemma: How do you get a swarm of independently minded minions moving in concert toward some useful goal? The problem may be inherently insoluble in a professorial setting, in part because the notion of academic motion is purely metaphoric. But encouraging signs of progress have emerged for a more literal analog. Researchers in control theory are perfecting a rep...