Martin P Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 97135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin P Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0927-1264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisionism Gone Awry
In this paper, we argue that revisionary theories about the nature and extent of Hume's scepticism are mistaken. We claim that the source of Hume's pervasive scepticism is his empiricism. As earlier readings of Hume's Treatise claim, Hume was a sceptic – and a radical one. Our position faces one enormous problem. How is it possible to square Hume's claims about normative reasoning with his radical scepticism? Despite the fact that Hume thinks tha…
Academic Virtues
Welcome to Su
While some may argue that universities are in a state of crisis, others claim that we are living in a post-university era; a time after universities. If there was a battle for the survival of the institution it is over and done with. The buildings still stand. Students enrol and may attend lectures, though most do not. But virtually nothing real remains. What some mistakenly take to be a university is, in actuality, an “uncanny” spectral presence…
I am not living next door to no zombie
Posthumanist film and television is both a vehicle for reflection on discrimination and prejudice and a means of gratifying in fantasy deeply imbedded human impulses towards prejudice. Discrimination lies at the heart of posthuman narratives whenever the posthuman coalesces around an identifiable group in conflict with humans. We first introduce the idea of prejudice as a form of psychological defense, contrasting it with other accounts of prejud…
Investigating catastrophe
Diagnosis without treatment
The War on Terror has exposed deep problems within contemporary political practice. It has demonstrated the moral fragility of liberal democracy. Much critical literature on the topic is devoted to uncovering the sources of this fragility. In this paper, we accept the general thrust of much of this literature, but turn our attention to the practical upshot of the criticism. A common feature of the literature is that, when it comes to offering rem…
Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R)
Cultural Influences on Body Image and the Eating Disorders
Data from different cultures and American ethnic groups help to effectively address eating problems and disorders in these groups and to elucidate sociocultural etiological factors. Research indicates that (1) eating disorders exist internationally and in all American ethnic groups; (2) indicators of disordered eating and eating disorders are similar across cultures and ethnic groups, though there are important differences; (3) among American eth…
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females
This article reviews research on the effects of television and magazines on body image and on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in females. Evidence from different types of studies in the fields of eating disorders, media psychology, health psychology, and mass communication indicates that mass media are an extremely important source of information and reinforcement in relation to the nature of the thin beauty ideal, its importance, and h…
“Everybody Knows That Mass Media are/are not [ pick one ] a Cause of Eating Disorders”
This article reviews research pertaining to mass media as a causal risk factor for negative body image and disordered eating in females. The specific purpose is to clarify the impact of mass media by applying seven criteria that extend those of Kraemer et al. (1997) and Stice (2002). Although media effects clearly meet a majority of the criteria, this analysis indicates that, currently, engagement with mass media is probably best considered a var…
Sacred Cows and the Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism
Ethicists working in either ‘just war’ and/or ‘human rights’ traditions continue to be embroiled with the definition of terrorism and the question of whether terrorism can ever be morally justified; obsessed with non-combatant immunity and criteria for distinguishing combatants from non-combatants; and examining ‘the doctrine of double effect’. The move to other issues has, however, been embraced by those who initiated it since 9/11, those with n…
Mediated Memories
Teaching War and Violence to the Like-Minded
Swindling requires not delivering lies but confirming preconceptions — Richard Flanagan In the 1980s when Peace Studies began to be formalized and offered as part of the university curriculum, it m
Racism in Mind
Can the Concept of Enlightenment Evolve
Those who claim the concept of enlightenment (nibānna) has not evolved must rest their claim on a strong distinction between changing and variant interpretations of the concept on the one hand, and what the term really means or refers to on the other. This paper examines whether all evolution of the concept of enlightenment is best seen as interpretive variation rather than as embodying real notional change—a change in the reference of the term. …
A Branded World
"A Branded World looks at branding from the unique perspective of one of America's premier PR executives. In it, Michael Levine - whose clients include major Hollywood stars and top musicians - proves PR is a tool just as effective at turning everyday products into widely recognized brands as it is at turning talented artists into household names. Though it has a certain mystery to it, there's nothing mystical about PR. Behind the scenes, it's a …
The effect of experimental presentation of thin media images on body satisfaction
Should We Strive for Integrity
Gay macho
Before gay liberation, gay men were usually perceived as failed men - "inverts," men trapped in women's bodies. The 1970s saw a radical shift in gay male culture, as a male homosexuality emerged that embraced a more traditional masculine ethos. The gay "clone," a muscle-bound, sexually free, hard-living Marlboro man, appeared in the gay enclaves of major cities, changing forever the face of gay male culture. Gay Macho presents the ethnography of …
God Speak
Nicholas Wolterstorff has recently defended the acceptability of the belief that God speaks and examined various implications of such a belief. This paper examines several of his major hermeneutical and epistemological thesis. Among the issues discussed are the following (i) I examine Wolterstorff's claim to ‘honour’ the results of biblical criticism, and argue that excavative biblical scholarship challenges the plausibility of various crucial as…
No‐self, real self, ignorance and self‐deception
In this paper I dispute Eliot Deutsch's claim [See Deutsch, Eliot (1996) Self‐deception: a comparative study, in: Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake (Eds) Self and Deception: a cross‐cultural enquiry (Albany, State University of New York Press), pp. 315–326] that examining self‐deception from the perspective of non‐Western traditions (i.e. how it is understood in those cultures) can help us to better understand the nature of the phenomenon in on…
A Cognitive Approach To Ritual
Lawson and McCauley (1993: 201) claim that "historians of religion and many anthropologists have adopted strategies in addressing their crisis of identity that lead to truncated views of religious phenomena... [and] that a less restricted view of religious phenomena will suggest an approach in the study of religion which neither ... have adequately explored". An examination of their theory shows that despite an insightful diagnosis of methodologi…
Rejoinder To McCauley and Lawson
In Changing Times
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been a major catastrophe for gay communities. In less that two decades, the disease has profoundly altered the lives of gay men and lesbians. HIV has become an opportunistic social invader, reshaping communities and the distribution of wealth, altering the social careers of gay profesionals and the patterns of entry into gay and lesbian life, and giving birth to groups like ACT UP and Queer Nation. This volume discusses …
One of the Children
Gay Ghetto
Gay people have claimed that there exist within major cities "gay ghettos", neighborhoods housing large numbers of homosexual men and women as well as gathering places where homosexual behavior is generally accepted, and have designated as such certain sections of Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (Aiken, 1976, p. 27; Altman, 1971, p. 42; Brill, 1976, p. 27; Chicago Gay Liberation, 1970, pp. 3-4; Kantrowitz, 1975, p. 48; N…
The Relation of Sociocultural Factors to Eating Attitudes and Behaviors among Middle School Girls
Three hundred and eighty-five girls ages 10 through 14 years were surveyed about eating behavior, body satisfaction, concern with being slender, and cues from parents, peers, and magazines in regard to weight management techniques and the importance of slenderness. A majority reported receiving a clear message from fashion magazines and peers or family members that slenderness is important and attainable through dieting and other methods. Two str…
The myth of sexual compulsivity
This paper analyzes critically the newly discovered “conditions” of sexual addiction and sexual compulsion from the sociological perspective of symbolic interactionism. We begin by describing the concepts of sexual addiction and sexual compulsion and by providing case studies of each “condition.” We then discuss the cultural relativity of sexual conduct, and identify features of the late 1970s' and 1980s' sociosexual landscape that encouraged a p…
Discrimination against Lesbians in the Work Force
The Motives of Gay Men for Taking or Not Taking the HIV Antibody Test
This paper analyzes the motives for taking or not taking the HIV antibody test among a sample of 120 gay men. The motives were forged from prevailing cultural constructions of the HIV test. The most commonly cited motives for taking the test were: to take medical treatments for HIV infection, to become motivated to make needed health and lifestyle changes, to clarify an ambiguous medical condition, to inform sexual decision making, and to relieve…
Self-attention, concept activation, and the causal self
The impact of puberty and dating on eating problems among middle school girls
One of the Children
Welcome to Su
While some may argue that universities are in a state of crisis, others claim that we are living in a post-university era; a time after universities. If there was a battle for the survival of the institution it is over and done with. The buildings still stand. Students enrol and may attend lectures, though most do not. But virtually nothing real remains. What some mistakenly take to be a university is, in actuality, an “uncanny” spectral presence…
Sacred Cows and the Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism
Ethicists working in either ‘just war’ and/or ‘human rights’ traditions continue to be embroiled with the definition of terrorism and the question of whether terrorism can ever be morally justified; obsessed with non-combatant immunity and criteria for distinguishing combatants from non-combatants; and examining ‘the doctrine of double effect’. The move to other issues has, however, been embraced by those who initiated it since 9/11, those with n…
Mediated Memories
A Cognitive Approach To Ritual
Lawson and McCauley (1993: 201) claim that "historians of religion and many anthropologists have adopted strategies in addressing their crisis of identity that lead to truncated views of religious phenomena... [and] that a less restricted view of religious phenomena will suggest an approach in the study of religion which neither ... have adequately explored". An examination of their theory shows that despite an insightful diagnosis of methodologi…
Holism and comparative religious ethics1
This article is devoted to an examination of Jeffrey Stout's holistic approach to comparative religious ethics. Although the strategy I pursue involves a close examination of Stout's criticism of a particular work in comparative religious ethics, defending that work is incidental to my purpose. I argue, first, that Stout is seriously mistaken about the implications of holism for comparative study and, second, that his own approach to doing compar…
Social Problems in American History Textbooks
(1937). Social Problems in American History Textbooks. The Social Studies: Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 161-166
Gay Ghetto
Gay people have claimed that there exist within major cities "gay ghettos", neighborhoods housing large numbers of homosexual men and women as well as gathering places where homosexual behavior is generally accepted, and have designated as such certain sections of Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (Aiken, 1976, p. 27; Altman, 1971, p. 42; Brill, 1976, p. 27; Chicago Gay Liberation, 1970, pp. 3-4; Kantrowitz, 1975, p. 48; N…
Gay Men
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Why the Incarnation is a Superfluous Detail for Kierkegaard
Why does the paradox (i.e. the incarnation) play such a crucial role in Kierkegaard's notion of truth as subjectivity? Richard Schacht explains it as follows: Eternal happiness is possible for a man only if it is possible for him to relate himself to God. A man, however, is a being who exists in time; and it would not be possible for such a being to enter into a ‘God-relationship’ if God had not also at some point existed in time. Through the ‘le…
Can There be Self-Authenticating Experiences of God
Let us follow Robert Oakes in describing a self-authenticating experience of God as one that ‘would have the epistemic uniqueness of guaranteeing –all by itself – its veridicality to the person who had it.’ The idea that there could be self-authenticating experiences of God has been criticized often in recent years. It seems that the only experiences that could be self-authenticating are those about one's own current psychological states. Neverth…
Self-attention, concept activation, and the causal self
Discrimination against Lesbians in the Work Force
‘Can we speak literally of God?’
I shall argue that the question ‘Can we speak literally of God?’ is fundamentally an epistemological question concerning whether we can know that God exists. If and only if we can know that God can exist can we know that we can speak literally of God
What does Death have to do with the Meaning of Life
Philosophers often distinguish in some way between two (or more) senses of life's meaning. Paul Edwards terms these a ‘cosmic’ and ‘terrestrial’ sense. The cosmic sense is that of an overall purpose of which our lives are a part and in terms of which our lives must be understood and our purposes and interests arranged. This overall purpose is often identified with God's divine scheme, but the two need not necessarily be equated. The terrestrial s…
The myth of sexual compulsivity
This paper analyzes critically the newly discovered “conditions” of sexual addiction and sexual compulsion from the sociological perspective of symbolic interactionism. We begin by describing the concepts of sexual addiction and sexual compulsion and by providing case studies of each “condition.” We then discuss the cultural relativity of sexual conduct, and identify features of the late 1970s' and 1980s' sociosexual landscape that encouraged a p…
Mystical Experience and Non–Basically Justified Belief
Two theses are central to foundationalism. First, the foundationalist claims that there is a class of propositions, a class of empirical contingent beliefs, that are ‘immediately justified’. Alternatively, one can describe these beliefs as ‘self–evident’, ‘non–inferentially justified’, or ‘self–warranted’, though these are not always regarded as entailing one another. The justification or epistemic warrant for these beliefs is not derived from ot…
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Foreword by Joseph Harry Preface Gay and Lesbian Parents Gay Fathers by Frederick W. Bozett Against All Odds: Lesbian Mother Family Dynamics by Barbara M. McCandlish The Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents Children of Gay Fathers by Frederick W. Bozett Children of Lesbian Mothers by Saralie Bisnovich Pennington Psychosocial Development of Children of Lesbian Mothers by Alisa Steckel Alternative Gay and Lesbian Families The Adoptive and Foster Gay…
The Sociology of Sexuality and Homosexuality
The Motives of Gay Men for Taking or Not Taking the HIV Antibody Test
This paper analyzes the motives for taking or not taking the HIV antibody test among a sample of 120 gay men. The motives were forged from prevailing cultural constructions of the HIV test. The most commonly cited motives for taking the test were: to take medical treatments for HIV infection, to become motivated to make needed health and lifestyle changes, to clarify an ambiguous medical condition, to inform sexual decision making, and to relieve…
‘If there is a God, any Experience which seems to be of God, will be Genuine’
In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that ‘if there is a God, any experience which seems to be of God, will be genuine – will be of God.’ On the face of it this claim of the essential veridicality of any religious experience, given the existence of God, is incredible. Consider what is being claimed by looking at a particularly dramatic example – but one that is well within the purview of Swinburne's claim. The ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ who m…
Deep Structure and the Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Through various applications of the ‘deep structure’ of moral and religious reasoning, I have sought to illustrate the value of a morally informed approach in helping us to understand the complexity of religious thought and practice...religions are primarily moved by rational moral concerns and...ethical theory provides the single most powerful methodology for understanding religious belief. Ronald Green, Religion and Moral Reason
Swinburne's Heaven
Discussions of immortality have tended to focus on the nature of personal identity and, in a related way, the mind/body problem. (i) Who is that is going to survive, and (ii) is it possible to survive bodily destruction? There has been far less discussion of what immortality would be like; e.g. the nature of heaven. Richard Swinburne, however, has recently discussed ‘heaven’, and has constructed a novel theodicy fundamentally based on his concept…
The impact of puberty and dating on eating problems among middle school girls
The Relation of Sociocultural Factors to Eating Attitudes and Behaviors among Middle School Girls
Three hundred and eighty-five girls ages 10 through 14 years were surveyed about eating behavior, body satisfaction, concern with being slender, and cues from parents, peers, and magazines in regard to weight management techniques and the importance of slenderness. A majority reported receiving a clear message from fashion magazines and peers or family members that slenderness is important and attainable through dieting and other methods. Two str…
Appearance and reality
Betty claims that Sahkara's philosophy [and non‐dualism generally] fails definitively at the point where he leaves the human experience—“sin and suffering”—unaccounted for’. It is because Sahkara sees sin and suffering as ultimately illusory that Betty claims he leaves sin and suffering unaccounted for. However, Betty misconstrues Sahkara's view in the worst way possible. It is precisely because Sahkara seeks to account for sin and suffering, to …
Holism and comparative religious ethics1
This article is devoted to an examination of Jeffrey Stout's holistic approach to comparative religious ethics. Although the strategy I pursue involves a close examination of Stout's criticism of a particular work in comparative religious ethics, defending that work is incidental to my purpose. I argue, first, that Stout is seriously mistaken about the implications of holism for comparative study and, second, that his own approach to doing compar…
Religion and method in the study of religion
In what follows I offer a critical reading of the essays by Martin Jaffee, Pe ter Byrne, and Donald Wiebe. I highlight the important and controversial is sues involved and juxtapose some of the views of the authors. The authors will, at least in part, undoubtedly disagree with some of my views. I see no reason, however, for a simple summary of the essays, and my own conten tions should provide both a useful way into the essays as well as further …
Religion and method in the study of religion
The role played by religious commitment in classrooms and departments of religious studies has been the principal issue on which the debate on the na ture and significance of method and theory in the study of religion, and on the nature of religious studies itself, has most often been focussed. It is pre cisely this debate that was of crucial importance in the nineteenth-century origins of the field as well as its North American rebirth in the 19…
Ninian smart on the philosophy of worldviews
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