Ian Jennings
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Jennings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennings |
| SIGNATURE | JENNINGS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3112-3076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meaning in Life
Thaddeus Metz's book Meaning in Life is, as he puts it, the culmination of 'more than a decade's reflection' (p. 249) on the subject, a good deal of it published, and it shows. It is a thoroughly argued, carefully constructed attempt, in the style of contemporary analytic philosophy, to ascertain what is meant when an individual person is judged to be living, or to have lived, a meaningful life. As such, it does credit to the genre
Competitive Balance’ in the Top Level of English Football, 1948–2008
Competitive balance is thought to be an important aspect of sport. Notions of ‘equity’ or ‘fair play’ appeal to the concept of competitive balance. Focusing upon the period between 1948 and 2008, this paper uses data from the top division of English football to investigate what has happened to competitive balance through the use of three measures. The first measure is an index, similar to a concentration ratio, that seeks to capture the extent to…
Wolf and Christman on autonomy
In this paper I examine the attempts of Susan Wolf and John Christman to rescue efforts to characterise the concept of autonomy from the difficulties faced by so-called subjective theories of autonomy – theories which treat agent’s own appraisals of their desires as final arbiters with regard to the assessment of whether or not they are autonomous. I conclude that Wolf’s view either ends up falling foul of her own objections to subjective theorie…
Competitive Balance’ in the Top Level of English Football, 1948–2008
Competitive balance is thought to be an important aspect of sport. Notions of ‘equity’ or ‘fair play’ appeal to the concept of competitive balance. Focusing upon the period between 1948 and 2008, this paper uses data from the top division of English football to investigate what has happened to competitive balance through the use of three measures. The first measure is an index, similar to a concentration ratio, that seeks to capture the extent to…
Wolf and Christman on autonomy
In this paper I examine the attempts of Susan Wolf and John Christman to rescue efforts to characterise the concept of autonomy from the difficulties faced by so-called subjective theories of autonomy – theories which treat agent’s own appraisals of their desires as final arbiters with regard to the assessment of whether or not they are autonomous. I conclude that Wolf’s view either ends up falling foul of her own objections to subjective theorie…
Competitive Balance’ in the Top Level of English Football, 1948–2008
Competitive balance is thought to be an important aspect of sport. Notions of ‘equity’ or ‘fair play’ appeal to the concept of competitive balance. Focusing upon the period between 1948 and 2008, this paper uses data from the top division of English football to investigate what has happened to competitive balance through the use of three measures. The first measure is an index, similar to a concentration ratio, that seeks to capture the extent to…
Meaning in Life
Thaddeus Metz's book Meaning in Life is, as he puts it, the culmination of 'more than a decade's reflection' (p. 249) on the subject, a good deal of it published, and it shows. It is a thoroughly argued, carefully constructed attempt, in the style of contemporary analytic philosophy, to ascertain what is meant when an individual person is judged to be living, or to have lived, a meaningful life. As such, it does credit to the genre
Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Appeal (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work)