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- Creator:
- Livingston, Christopher B. and Grombly, Amanda
- Description:
- There is limited aggregated data showing the amount and levels of preparedness training for active shooter situations in public, academic, and K-12 libraries in California and across the United States. The purpose of this research is to assess the state of preparedness of librarians, staff, and volunteers working in these libraries for active shooter situations. In 2018, the authors collected data from academic, public, and school library personnel about their attitudes and levels of preparedness for active shooter situations. It is hoped that this research will contribute to the development of best practices in raising safety awareness in academic and public libraries.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Library
- Creator:
- Wang, Jianjun
- Description:
- Accompanied by increasing demands on school administrator preparation and rapid development of computer technology, educational statistics courses are exposed to unprecedented pressures for changing both curriculum content and computing platforms. In this article, the intended curriculum is reviewed according to data analysis expectations from state and national guidelines. Past recommendations on statistics instruction are examined to justify the need for quantitative research skills in school administrator preparation. The curriculum implementation is further investigated to reflect a fundamental revision of statistics content by the American Statistical Association. The article ends with an overview of the cutting-edge software development in R that is likely to reshape the future data processing, text analytics, and graphical display for school administrators.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Advanced Educational Studies
- Creator:
- Wood, Lana Mariko
- Description:
- This chapter outlines the author’s experience co-designing and co-teaching an undergraduate problem-based learning public health course with faculty from her liaison department at a mid-size public university. During the year and a half spent on the design and implementation of this course, the author’s role evolved from information literacy consultant to co-instructor, ultimately deepening her relationship with her liaison department and its students and faculty. There were many opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned from working collaboratively on this new course, including the fundamental ways in which problem-based learning requires students to use information literacy skills. This experience also demonstrates the advantages of challenging oneself to teach outside of one’s subject expertise, in less familiar liaison subject areas.
- Resource Type:
- Book Chapter
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- Information Studies
- Creator:
- Hampton, Holly, Meulemans, Yvonne Nalani, Nataraj, Lalitha, and Matlin, Talitha R.
- Description:
- Although the issues of diversity and representation are often discussed within academic librarianship in Canada and the United States, the field has made little headway in being inclusive of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who work within it. If academic libraries are to become truly authentic and inclusive spaces where BIPOC are central not only to shaping the values of a library but also to determining how those values are accomplished, we must examine the traditional ways in which libraries function. One of these traditions is a reliance on bureaucracy and its associated practices such as structured group work and meetings, which are presumed to be inherently neutral and rational ways of working. Critical examinations of bureaucracy within higher education reveal how its overadoption is absurdly at odds with the social justice–oriented missions of most libraries. Furthermore, not all who are involved in libraries are equally harmed through this overreliance on bureaucracy; this article employs Critical Race Theory to uncover the insidious and specific deleterious impacts bureaucracies can have on BIPOC library workers. The antithesis of a neutral system, bureaucracy instead functions to force assimilation into a system entrenched in whiteness.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Teaching & Learning
5. BOOK REVIEW
- Creator:
- Li, Chenyang , He, Fan, and Zhang, Lili
- Description:
- In the English-speaking world, the study of Chinese philosophy has been focused mainly on pre-Qin philosophy and Song-Ming neo-Confucianism. In comparison, contemporary Chinese philosophy, as an initial attempt to communicate with western philosophy and world philosophy, has not received sufficient attention. This book is a timely study of the 20th century Chinese philosopher Thomé H. Fang 方東美.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Malherbe, Olivier
- Description:
- This paper aims at showing the significance in Roman Ingarden’s thinking of two often overlooked ontological concepts: Gestalt quality and harmonious unity. Ingarden understands Gestalt a derived quality that springs from the coexistence of several qualities standing in harmonious unity. The main feature of the Gestalt quality is that it is more than the sum of its part and thus brings something new into being. In Ingarden’s hands, that quite simple and intuitive idea is refined to be used in fields as diverse as ontology, aesthetics, theory of values or anthropology. After having presented those concepts, the paper then shifts to further developing their significance in a particular field: Ingarden’s conception of human being. To this end, the paper successively addresses Ingarden’s conception of human nature, the ontology of value, responsibility and human value-driven action.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Simionato, Alice
- Description:
- This paper offers a comparative study of two fundamental Confucian concepts, namely, “harmony” (he) and “coherence” (li). After presenting and interpreting the two characters – with reference to both classical thought and Neo-Confucianism – the paper examines how these concepts relate in the specific context of Neo-Confucian thought. While considering their differences in historical development, the study takes account of important characteristics shared by the two concepts as well as the ways in which they differ: in particular, it is argued that “harmony” is primarily relational while “coherence” is primarily constitutional. The common ground relating these two notions, in light of their differences, is to be found in their shared aspects of creativity and dynamism.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Xiang, Shuchen
- Description:
- This paper argues that the Chinese concept of harmony is exemplified in the historical process that resulted in the Chinese people and the geographic entity of China itself. The concept of harmony overcomes the dualism between identity and heterogeneity and is best understood through the paradigm of the organic. This paper will first outline the three conventional, dualistic, (mis)understandings of the nature of the Chinese people and China in the mainstream Western academe: (1) in racial terms, that is, as possessing the “essence” of Chinese-ness, (2) the Chinese people were created through “sinicization” – understood as replacing one culture with another, (3) neither China nor the Chinese people ever existed; what existed was merely heterogeneous particulars without an overall coherence. In place of these dualistic explanations, it will be argued that the concept of the harmony – understood as an organic coherence among particulars – is the most accurate way to understand the Chinese people and China as an entity. An organism maintains coherence among the parts despite constant changes to the particulars whichconstitute its body. This organic harmony is exemplified in the historical process that produced the Chinese people and China.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Yeung, Tak-lap
- Description:
- In this paper, I argue that the different understandings of “harmony”, which are rooted in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, can be recapitulated in the name of “dialectic harmony” and “ambiguous harmony” regarding the representation of the beautiful. The different understandings of the concept of harmony lead to at least two kinds of aesthetic value as well as ideality – harmonyin conciliation and harmony in diversity. Through an explication of the original meaning and relation between the concept of harmony and beauty, we can learn more about the cosmo-metaphysical origins in Western and Eastern aesthetics, with which we may gain insights for future aesthetics discourse.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Düring, Dascha
- Description:
- Recent years have shown a rise of English-language scholarship exploring the relation between the Chinese concept of harmony and the Western concept of justice. This paper reconstructs the influential contemporary views on this relation advanced by Li Chenyang and Li Zehou and critically analyzes the implications of their proposal to understand harmony and justice as compatible or even mutually enhancing concepts. The paper tries to show that there are important normative—feminist—reasons against assuming all-too quickly that harmony and justice are compatible. Justice may have to be rigorously revised if it is to be compatible with harmony because justice, at least in its Rawlsian appearance, is dependent on a problematic public/private split as well as presupposes a form of interpretation and judgment that differs fundamentally from that which harmony advances. The paper proposes an intellectual partnership between contemporary Confucianism and feminist political theory and ethics of care for the purposes of rethinking justice such that it incorporates profound commitments to diversity and care.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Löschke, Jörg
- Description:
- The concept of harmony does not play a very important role in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this paper, I argue that this peripheral status of the concept of harmony in analytic philosophy is not warranted. In fact, harmony might be the central normative concept: some philosophers think that complex unity is the metaphysical grounds of intrinsic value: whenever something is intrinsically valuable, it is so in virtue of the fact that disparate elements are brought into complex wholes. In this paper I discuss the possibility that harmony, rather than complex unity, plays this pivotal role. I conclude that, while there are some considerations in favour of this view, there are also considerations that speak against it; nevertheless, analytic philosophers should be more concerned with the concept of harmony than they have been so far.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Shani, Itay
- Description:
- The paper begins with the assumption that in order to explain the efficacy of harmony as an organizing force in human and natural affairs we must pay attention to the dynamic features characteristic of the growth and maintenance ofharmonious forms. Two dynamic features are highlighted for their especial significance: revitalization, and self-surpassing. It is then argued that the two are substantively connected through the agency of creativity which, when given free reign, tends to preserve and fortify harmony by surpassing existing harmonious configurations. It follows that the impetus towards self-transcendence is a vital aspect of the growth, the sustenance, and the flourishing of harmony. I then argue that this urge towards self-transcendence can be broadly identified with Plato's notion of Eros. Nevertheless, I also argue that this affinity does not commit us to a rigid Platonic scheme of the sort criticized by Chenyang Li (2014) as harmony by conformity.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Li, Chenyang and Düring, Dascha
- Description:
- Harmony is a central notion in Asian culture. It appears as a symbol on the Korean national flag; it is one of the names that the Japanese people used to call their nation; it is a justificatory principle in Chinese politics and policymaking.Harmony is a core idea in many intellectual traditions—in Asia, where it played a key role in especially Confucianism, but also outside of the Asian continent, where it appears for example in African Ubuntu and American Anishinaabe traditions. Harmony is also elaborately discussed in various strands of ancientGreek philosophy and fulfills a bridging function in Kant’s understanding of the workings of the human mind. Indeed, few reject harmony outright as a bad thingor as something utterly worthless. However, in contemporary mainstream philosophy the concept of harmony is hardly given serious consideration. There may of course be good reasons for this. It is possible that harmony is grounded in or expressive of a thick metaphysics of the natural-comic order that denies the laws of science; it is possible that harmony articulates or constitutes a vision of social conformity that opposes humanist commitments to freedom and individuality. But it is also possible that there are no good reasons why harmony has been forgotten in the transition from pre-modern to modern philosophy in the West. If that is so, then a continued dismissal of the concept constitutes not merely an unjustifiable disregard for non-Western philosophical traditions. Mainstream philosophical discourse could be dismissing out of hand an idea that has the potential to make important contributions to human understanding and self-understanding. The current world is full of disharmonies. Perhaps harmony should be taken seriously as a philosophical, political, and social concept, as an important human value.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Bhuiya, Namramita
- Description:
- This paper tries to explore Nāgārjuna’s śūnyatāand its implication towards vipaśyanāmeditation or insight perception. Allthe mundane objects of this world are full of suffering. Nāgārjuna was the systematic propounder of Mādhyamika philosophy. He emphasizes middle view and avoids all extreme or absolute “ism” (void).From the Mādhyamika point of view śūnyatā, nirvāṇa, saṃsāra, madhyamāpratipadāand pratītysamutpāda have the same meaning because everything in this world are depends on something that’s why they are conditioned as well as pratītyasamutpanna. This pratītyasamutpāda implies relativity and relativity refers to śūnyatāand this śūnyatāisnon–conceptual and non-conventional and highest wisdom. This highest wisdom can be realized by the practice of vipaśyanāmeditation. So, in this paper there will be a humble attempt to show the need of vipaśyanāmeditation to achieve the concept of śūnyatā.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Long, William
- Description:
- The small, remote country of Bhutan is the only democratic, mixed market country in the world that is rooted constitutionally and culturally in Buddhist principles. As such, it provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical comparison between two distinct models of democracy and development (Western and Buddhist) that differ on important, first-order principles. This article illuminates the differences in philosophical assumptions and social theory between the two models, and documents how, in real world terms, Bhutan organizes and operates a political and economic system consistent with its Buddhist worldview. It considers whether Bhutan's unique pursuit of "Gross National Happiness" rather than Gross National Product as its ordering principle for policy can withstand the forces of globalization and what insights Bhutan might have to share with the rest of us about dilemmas facing Western democracies and the need to pursue development in a more holistic and sustainable way.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Becker, John
- Description:
- The formation of ideas is a universal characteristic of humankind. However, the nature of ideation and the ensuing convictions is fraught with ontological and ethical implications. This article seeks to explore the issues of ideation and establish the implicit substance-based ontology that accompanies it from a Buddhist and Whiteheadian perspective. The early Buddhist sutras identify extreme positions as resulting in unbeneficial practices and conceptions. These findings are correlated with Alfred North Whitehead’s criticism directed towards substance orientated epistemology. Both Buddhism and Whitehead share the conviction that absolute or essentialist claims are suspicious, and they both attempt to create a scheme of presuppositions and language that better appropriate lived human experiences. The Buddha, as with Whitehead, explored new modes of terminology to sidestep such reified understandings of nature. The article concludes with some advantages of event-based ontology that envisions the actuality of the universe as consisting of events and experience as opposed to substance.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Sarkar, Abhirup and Nayar, Anupama
- Description:
- The term ‘indigenous’, since late 20thcentury, is being extensively used to denote people and literatures, in addition to its previous function of classifying flora and fauna. These people, under international and national legislations are referred as, culturally distinct groups, affected by colonization. The paper raises a query against the categorization of a community and literatures as ‘indigenous’, on the basis of a comparative and descriptive study of myths, historical belief systems, gods and their language systems, partially based on the idea of the structural study of myths (mythemes) as well as, on the notion of a common psyche. For a long span of time, the West hardly knew about East Asian islands (During their stay in Korea from 1653 until 1666 the Dutch came into a stable and well-organized country ~ The journal of Hamel and Korea), thus the two worlds developed without having much contact or knowledge about each other, even when the West and major regions of the East (including Central Asia, Malay islands, and later, Japan) were trading. It can be observed, even when these islands were untouched by the Western world, (only majorly influenced by the Chinese and the Japanese cultures) huge number of gods, belief systems and myths are identical to just be called a coincidence. This resemblance in the historical, socio-cultural, mythical and mystical notions of the two different sides of the world with considerable difference in their geographical occupancy, impels a much deeper and detailed study to understand the development of psyche of the human civilization through the ages and thus assist in discarding the categorizations. Thus, on the basis of the identicalities, the paper attempts to discard the categorization of the Asian culture and literature of the far Eastern islands as indigenous andprovided a level platform alongside Western literature.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Dhar, Sharmistha
- Description:
- Neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet’s EEG experiments tracking the temporal occurrence of brain events leading to an endogenous voluntary action significantly demonstrated that the subject becomes conscious of her intention to act later than the neural activity in the brain signalingthe impending action. This finding led Libet to extrapolate that conscious will is not the bona fide causal source of voluntary acts-it merely serves to control the final motor outcome. All voluntary acts are causally originated in unconscious brain processes. The idea proposed in this short piece of work, however, is that many of our regular acts are done without online conscious thought in which case belief-desire states may well be operative subliminally. The attention needs to be directed to the causal role played by intentional states lying underneath the conscious threshold as a well-entrenched disposition. I argue these intentional states are morphological rather than unconscious in nature, borrowing the term from Horgan and Timmons.They contend in a different context that moral judgment (comparable to the volitional act) is a direct causal outcome of a set of embedded moral rules (comparable to automatized intentional states,) operating morphologically so as to lend their dispositional content to the final product without being represented as an occurrent intentional state although they are capable of so becoming.1
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Bhambar, S. B.
- Description:
- Like all other beings in the World, human being has been (and will be) essentially a part of nature. The relationship between Man and Nature, therefore, has been the subject of contemplation for mankind since the pre-historic times. Scientists have their scientific ways to explore the principles of nature, and poets, philosophers and sages also have been in the pursuit of the knowledge of the underlined reality of the universe.Intuitive spiritual glimpses have played a very significant role in the spiritual quest of human beings and its manifestations are seen in the sacred books of all faiths in the World. The theme of spiritual quest has been a sort of challenge to the great literary minds of the World. One of the significant features of this selection is that the novels present a combination of spiritual concepts from the East and the West.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Oyeshile, Olatunji A.
- Description:
- Given the fact that democracy has come to be accepted as a framework for good governance in most parts of the world and given the fact that most states in Africa are multi-ethnic in nature, which presupposes some contestations in the sharing of the benefits and burden of democracy, to what extent has poverty in its material and mental dimensions remained a major obstacle to the realization of the goals and promises of democracy in Africa?In this paper, I examine the incongruous interface of democracy, multi-ethnic identities and poverty in Africa. I argue that much as democracy is desired as providing the basis for the realization of the goals of freedom, common goodand development, the goals have become unrealizable in many multi-ethnic states in Africa. This is mainly due to certain contestations in their claim to rights, especially in sharing resources accruing from social cooperation. The inability to realize thepromises of democracy in Africa’s multiethnic states is grossly exacerbated by material poverty of vast majority of citizens on the one hand, and the mental poverty of the African elites on the other hand. The paper recommends that true and functional democracy, which is perhaps the most preferred form of government due to its guarantee of freedom and common good, will only be realized in Africa if material poverty is alleviated among the vast populace in Africa and this will stem the often chaotic claims to rights among the ethnic groups in enjoying the benefits of social cooperation. This will subsequently check the mental poverty of the elites, seen in terms of unbridled quest for material aggrandizement and political power as a sure way of protecting ethnic groups and preventing ethnic marginalization. This is possible because the welfare state will be a common rallying point for the citizens rather than the ethnic groups. This paper underscores the crucial place of poverty in African body polity and therefore stresses the need for its alleviation or drastic reduction as the basis for achieving the goals of democracy in African multi-ethnic states.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Philosophy