逻辑、语言和哲学讲习班与研讨会综述

2011年6月13-18日,清华大学人文学院哲学系举办了逻辑、语言和哲学讲习班与研讨会。本次活动的主旨是：对逻辑学、自然语言和哲学的交叉研究领域中的一些课题进行深入的介绍,交流最新的研究成果,展示逻辑学在跨学科研究领域中的重要作用。本次活动分为两个部分：为期五天的讲习班与为期一天的研讨会。活动的参加者有：阿姆斯特丹大学与斯坦福大学的范丙申（Johan vanBenthem）教授,阿姆斯特丹大学的斯托科霍夫（Martin Stokhof）教授,哥德堡大学与斯德哥尔摩大学的威斯特斯达（Dag Westerstahl）教授,     

Academic centers for prevention research. Making prevention a practical reality

The Prevention Centers Grant Program attempts to bridge the gap between the development and the implementation of research findings in public health practice. The program funds practical research on health issues of national and international importance. Grants can be awarded to schools of medicine, schools of osteopathy, or schools of public health. Ongoing programs at the University of North Carolina, the University of Washington, the University of Texas, and the University of Hawaii, as well as programs funded in 1990 at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, and Columbia University, are discussed.     

Toward a Reasoned Judicial Decision

A review-article of Julius Stone, Legal System and Lawyers' Reasonings, Stanford, University Press Herbert Wechsler, Principles, Politics and Fundamental Law, Harvard University Press H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law, Oxford University Press Richard A. Wasserstrom, The Judicial Decision, Toward a Theory of Legal Justification, Stanford University Press Judith N. Shklar, Legalism, Harvard University Press     

A case-based approach to the development of practice-based competencies for accreditation of and training in graduate programs in genetic counseling

The American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) sponsored a consensus development conference with participation from directors of graduate programs in genetic counseling, board members, and expert consultants. Using a collective, narrative, and case-based approach, 27 competencies were identified as embedded in the practice of genetic counseling. These competencies were organized into four domains of skills: Communication; Critical Thinking; Interpersonal, Counseling, and Psychosocial Assessment; and Professional Ethics and Values. The adoption of a competency framework for accreditation has a variety of implications for curriculum design and implementation. We report here the process by which a set of practice-based genetic counseling competencies have been derived; and in an accompanying article, the competencies themselves are provided. We also discuss the application of the competencies to graduate program accreditation as well as some of the implications competency-based standards may have for education and the genetic counseling profession. These guidelines may also serve as a basis for the continuing education of practicing genetic counselors and a performance evaluation tool in the workplace.The Consortium includes Directors of established graduate programs in genetic counseling and members of the ABGC Board of Directors who participated in the Consensus Development Conference held in January 1994: Diane Baker (University of Michigan/ABGC); Bonnie Baty (ABGC); Joan Burns (University of Wisconsin); Debra Collins (ABGC); Virginia Corson (ABGC); Beth Fine (Northwestern University/ABGC); Elizabeth Gettig (University of Pittsburgh); Verle Headings (Howard University); Jacqueline Hecht (University of Texas); Carl Huether (University of Cincinnati); Bonnie LeRoy (University of Minnesota); Joan Marks (Sarah Lawrence College); Anne Matthews (University of Colorado); Roberta Palmour (McGill University); Lorna Phelps (Medical College of Virginia); Kimberly Quaid (Indiana University); Joan Scott (ABGC); Ann Smith (ABGC); Helen Travers (ABGC); Judith Tsipis (Brandeis University); Ann Walker (University of California-Irvine/ABGC); Jon Weil (University of California-Berkeley); S. Robert Young (University of South Carolina); Randi Zinberg (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York).     

Practice-based competencies for accreditation of and training in graduate programs in genetic counseling

In January 1996, the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) adopted 27 practice-based competencies as a standard for assessing the training of graduate students in genetic counseling. These competencies were identified and refined through a collective, narrative process that took place from January through November 1994, and included directors of graduate programs in genetic counseling, ABGC board members and expert consultants. These competencies now form the basis of the document Requirements for Graduate Programs in Genetic Counseling Seeking Accreditation by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (American Board of Genetic Counseling, 1996). The competencies are organized into four domains and are presented and discussed in this article.The Consortium includes Directors of established graduate programs in genetic counseling and members of the ABGC Board of Directors who participated in the Consensus Development Conference held in January, 1994: Diane Baker (University of Michigan/ABGC); Bonnie Baty (ABGC); Joan Burns (University of Wisconsin); Debra Collins (ABGC); Virginia Corson (ABGC); Beth Fine (Northwestern University/ABGC); Elizabeth Gettig (University of Pittsburgh); Verle Headings (Howard University); Jacqueline Hecht (University of Texas); Carl Huether (University of Cincinnati); Bonnie LeRoy (University of Minnesota); Joan Marks (Sarah Lawrence College); Anne Matthews (University of Colorado); Roberta Palmour (McGill University); Lorna Phelps (Medical College of Virginia); Kimberly Quaid (Indiana University); Joan Scott (ABGC); Ann Smith (ABGC); Helen Travers (ABGC); Judith Tsipis (Brandeis University); Ann Walker (University of California-Irvine/ABGC); Jon Weil (University of California-Berkeley); S. Robert Young (University of South Carolina); Randi Zinberg (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. By Peter Hays Gries. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2004. 215 pp. Reviewed by Lowell Dittmer University of California at Berkeley
Framing Public Memory. Edited by Kendall R. Phillips. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2004. 269 pp. Reviewed by Jill A. Edy University of Oklahoma
Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery. By Jeffrey W. Taliaferro. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2004. 304 pp. Reviewed by Charles S. Taber Stony Brook University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion . By James L. Gibson and Amanda Gouws. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. 262 pp. Reviewed by David B. Coplan University of the Witwatersrand
The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression . By Robert E. Gilbert. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2003. 288 pp. Reviewed by Donald F. Anderson University of Michigan-Dearborn
Affirmative Action is Dead; Long Live Affirmative Action . By Faye J. Crosby. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2004. 331 pp. Reviewed by John F. Dovidio University of Connecticut
Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf War . By Steve Yetiv. Balitmore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 304 pp. Reviewed by J. David Singer University of Michigan     

Family Instability and Child Maladjustment Trajectories During Elementary School

This study examines the relation between family instability and child maladjustment over a 6-year period in 369 children from four communities. Measures were collected annually from kindergarten through fifth grade. In associative growth curve models, family instability trajectories predicted children's externalizing and internalizing behavior trajectories during this time period. High levels of family instability also incrementally predicted the likelihood of meeting criteria for a DSM IV diagnosis during elementary school, above and beyond prediction from earlier measures of maladjustment. However, the timing of family instability had a different effect on externalizing versus internalizing disorders. In general, stronger relations were found between family instability and externalizing behaviors relative to internalizing behaviors, although children with comorbid disorders experienced the highest levels of family instability.The Conduct Problems Prevention Research group is comprised of Karen L. Bierman (Pennsylvania State University), John D. Coie (Duke University), Kenneth A. Dodge (Duke University), E. Michael Foster (Pennsylvania State University), Mark Greenberg (Pennsylvania State University), John E. Lochman (University of Alabama), Robert J. McMahon (University of Washington), and Ellen E. Pinderhughes (Tufts University)     

Relationships among alcohol consumption, drug use, and goal orientation among college students in the southeastern USA

Students attending 2 different universities completed a Goals Inventory as well as a self-report survey designed to address their use of alcohol and other drugs. University 1 was a large, public state-supported school that did not restrict alcohol use. From this university were 30 male and 77 female students who ranged in age from 18-25 years (M = 20 yr.). University 2 was a small, private church-affiliated school that enforced a no-alcohol-on-campus policy. This sample included 41 male and 50 female students, whose ages ranged from 18-24 years (M = 19 yr.). More than half of the sample at each school had consumed alcohol at some time. While men drank more than women at University 1, the sex-ratio at University 2 was not different. Students at University 2 had higher learning and performance goal scores, alcohol-use scores, and drug-abuse scores than those at University 1. Students at University 2 had higher alcohol-abuse scores. Learning goal orientation was inversely related to alcohol-abuse behaviors but only at University 1. General alcohol use was inversely related to learning goal orientation at University 2. Students at both universities reported drinking to relieve tension. Those with a learning goal orientation were reportedly not drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. However, the relationship between alcohol use and abuse and performance is unclear because students had high performance scores at both universities along with high alcohol-use scores.     

Group virtue epistemology

Synthese - According to Sosa (A virtue epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007; Reflective knowledge, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009; Knowing full well, Princeton University...     

第二届“逻辑、理性与互动”国际研讨会会议综述

<正>2009年10月8日——10日由西南大学逻辑与智能研究中心、计算机与信息科学学院主办的第二届"逻辑、理性与互动"国际研讨会(The Second InternationalWorkshop on Logic、Rationality and Interaction,简称"LORI-Ⅱ")在重庆西南大学召开。本次会议盛况空前,有来自荷兰、美国、加拿大、英国、法国、冰岛、西班牙、芬兰、瑞典、比利时、卢森堡、新西兰、澳大利亚、印度、日本和中国香港等包括中国大陆在内的17个国家和地区的120余名专家学者参加了会议,其中来自海外的学者40人。     

BRIEFLY NOTED

Books reviewed:
Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development. By Marco Calavita. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2005. 285 pp. Reviewed by Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago
Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life. By Katherine Cramer Walsh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. 292 pp.Reviewed by Doris A. Graber University of Illinois, Chicago     

Book review

Raffel, Burton. (1991). Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the World. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (156 pp.) ISBN 0–271–00760–5.     

A Critique of Dependence Concepts. Review of Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts, by Harry Joe

Harry Joe in the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, is an expert on the topic of multivariate dependence concepts. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Florida State University. Professor Joe has taught a graduate course entitled Multivariate Models for Non-normal Response, with Covariates at both the University of Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia. The current book is based in part on the materials developed for that course.  Ram Shanmugam was an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado when this review was completed. He has been actively engaged in both teaching and research work in multivariate statistics. He is an elected fellow of the International Statistical Institute.     

The Grammar of Politics, Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy

Books reviewed:
Cressida J. Heyes (ed.), The Grammar of Politics, Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy , Cornell University Press, 2003, xii + 259, no price. Reviewed by Peter Johnson, University of Southampton Department of Philosophy University of Southampton Highfield Southampton UK     

Empiricism,fideism and the nature of religious belief

Earlier versions of this paper were read to the Departments of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick and at Saint Francis Xavier University and to the Canadian Societh for the Study of Religion at Queen’s University, Kingston. The authors wish to thank the participants for their comments.     

Stanley Cavell

Books reviewed:
Richard Eldridge (ed.), Stanley Cavell , Cambridge University Press, 2003, x + 248, price £40.00 hb, £14.95 pb. Reviewed by Elizabeth Wolgast, California State University, Hayward Philosophy Department California State University, Hayward California 94542 USA     

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE UNITY OF THE VIRTUES

The ancient Greeks subscribed to the thesis of the Unity of Virtue, according to which the possession of one virtue is closely related to the possession of all the others. Yet empirical observation seems to contradict this thesis at every turn. What could the Greeks have been thinking of? The paper offers an interpretation and a tentative defence of a qualified version of the thesis. It argues that, as the Greeks recognized, virtue essentially involves knowledge – specifically, evaluative knowledge of what matters. Furthermore, such knowledge is essentially holistic. Perfect and complete possession of one virtue thus requires the knowledge that is needed for the possession of every other virtue. The enterprise of trying to reconcile the normative view embodied in this conception of virtue with empirical observation also serves as a case study for the field of moral psychology in which empirical and normative claims are often deeply and confusingly intertwined. ¹ 1 I owe thanks to audiences at the University of Arkansas, Rice University, the University of Texas, Princeton University, Yale University, Oxford University, the Australian National University, and Monash University, and more particularly to Robert Adams, John Cooper, and Jerome Schneewind for their extremely helpful and illuminating comments on an earlier version of this paper.
     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Avner Falk. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 271 pp. Reviewed by Peter Suedfeld University of British Columbia
Beneath the Crust of Culture. By Howard Stein. Amsterdam & New York: Radopi, 2004. 137 pp. Reviewed by Micha Popper University of Haifa, Israel
Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions Within Communication Networks. By Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson and John Sprague. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 249 pp. Reviewed by James S. Fishkin Stanford University
International Relations Under Risk: Framing State Choice. By Jeffrey D. Berejikian. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004. 151 pp. The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy, and Loyalty. By Alexander Moens. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004. 227 pp. Reviewed by Jean Garrison University of Wyoming