Abstract Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) is measured in relation to two categories of predictors in an attempt to discover which category is more useful in determining levels of SWB. The categories examined are time-use factors and personal factors. Time-use factors encompass specific uses of time for leisure, non-leisure, and other activities, whereas personal factors encompass enjoyment […]
Introduction and Research Questions League of Legends (LoL) is a free to play game for anyone with an average computer and a decent internet connection. Despite the fact that there is no gendering of the game space in its mechanics[1], LoL has a player base that is over 90% male[2]. Two teams of five champions[3] […]
Sociological theorists face their own version of the “chicken or egg” problem: is it the case that the material conditions of a society are the result of ideologies, or is it the reverse? In a nutshell, what is the relationship between the realm of the real (RotR) and the realm of the ideal (RotI)? To […]
Introduction In Canada, many university teachers are facing the same types of insecurities of work as those in the precariat work force: Limited benefits, lack of hours, and short-term contracts just to name a few. To what extent is this cognitariat position formed, sustained, and propagated by the effects of neoliberalization on Canadian universities? The […]
Introduction I typed “what is a man?” in to Google to get a rapid introduction to the themes and feelings that are supposedly “manly”. The very first result was a piece, written in 2009 for the online version of Esquire magazine, of the same name as my query (Chiarella, 2009). In it, numerous features and […]
Abstract: In this paper I examine different views on what features of our epistemology we value. Ernest Sosa proposes we only value truth, Catherin Elgin thinks we should add understanding, and I propose that we should also add considerations of pragmatic usefulness. I primarily rely on similarities between Elgin’s arguments for understanding to support my […]
In the attempts to explain human action made by philosophers throughout history, many have come to a similar set of problems that are difficult to account for. A few examples include the struggle between determinism and free will, whether there is a single faculty of agency or multiple faculties, and how we can explain colloquial […]
In The Dappled World, Nancy Cartwright argues against fundamentalism, the belief that all the sciences and all phenomena are ultimately reducible to some basic set of laws of physics. While I agree with her criticism of this position, I also believe that she has perhaps gone too far in her quest to do away with […]
In his paper, “Why Ask, ‘Why’?,” Wesley Salmon argues for a causal-mechanical (CM) model of explanation that would describe the causal history of an interaction, in order to explain why particular features are statistically relevant. This work is important for showing not only that causation is still an important term for a proper explanation of […]
Dustin Radloff 