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How to invest in commercial property without losing your shirt
Nila SweeneyReporter
Dec 6, 2019 — 10.22am
With an 8 per cent to 10 per cent rental return on offer in small-scale commercial real estate, the asset class may be looking tempting to some.
But commercial property is among the riskier investments in the real estate investing spaces and would-be investors should plan accordingly, experts say.
Warehouses near airports and amenities are in high demand.
"When you buy commercial property, you're taking more of a risk than when buying other property, in particular residential property," said Margaret Lomas, founder of Destiny Financial Solutions.
That's because commercial loans generally carry higher interest rates and the banks require bigger deposit, as well as additional collateral, to secure the loan.
"Most lenders cap the borrowing at 70 per cent loan-to-value ratio which means investors need to stump up a bigger deposit," Ms Lomas said.
Commercial properties which include shops, offices, warehouses and factories generally attract small business owners.
But with more than 80 per cent of small businesses at risk of bankruptcy in their first five years of operation, Ms Lomas said there is a high chance of getting tenants who will not see out their lease.
"Commercial property has a markedly higher vacancy rate, which can last for much longer periods of time," she said. "If you are unable to attract a tenant, you may suffer severe financial distress if you can't service your mortgage.
"The downside can be devastating – and often puts at risk more than the property you have bought.
"Where a forced sale takes place because you're not receiving enough income to cover any debt you may have on the property, you could risk losing other assets, including your own home."
To reduce the risks, Sydney-based buyer's agent Victor Kumar, director of Right Property Group said investors need to look at properties that will attract stable tenants like doctors, dentists, lawyers or accountants.
"Look at industries where tenants spend a lot of money on the fixtures and infrastructure in the property itself," he said.
"Dentists are good example as they tend to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the infrastructure of their practice, so they don't necessarily want to move out.
Dentists are considered stable tenants as they spend huge amount of money on their dental practice so they stay longer.
"Once they're established, they tend to stay in the one location for very long time."
Commercial property investor and founder of Rethink Investing Scott O'Neill said warehouses near airports and amenities were also worth considering as these tend to be in high demand.
"Storage-related businesses like those in Alexandria in Sydney or Eagle Farm in Brisbane are going strong because they're close to amenities and businesses can afford those rents very easily. As a result, vacancies are very short when they do come up," he said.
Investors should also avoid retail sectors that cater for discretionary spending like fine dining or high-end fashion and those that are going out of favour like bookshops.
Instead, Mr O'Neill said investors should look at properties that attract supermarkets or fast-food operations.
"Buy long-term lease assets like those that cater for businesses like KFC, Coles, Woolworths, or IGA as these aren't dependent on the economy," he said.
Most importantly, investors must conduct a thorough due diligence said Ms Lomas.
"There's not much you can to reduce the risk apart from ensuring that you carry out copious research and confirm the health of the micro-economy which directly impacts the market sector that your potential property intends to target," she said.
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William Tisdale (Tisdall) est un compositeur appartenant à l'école des virginalistes anglais, actif à la fin du .

Biographie
Aucun détail biographique sûr n'est connu au sujet de William Tisdale. Willi Apel avance l'année 1570 comme date approximative de sa naissance.
John Caldwell pense que Tisdale semble avoir été en relation avec la famille Tregian vu qu'il dédicaça sa Pavana Chromatica à Mrs. Katherin Tregian.

Cinq de ses œuvres se trouvent dans le Fitzwilliam Virginal Book et deux autres sont dans le Tisdale Virginal Book. Le style des cinq premières étant relativement différent de celui des deux dernières, J. Caldwell avance l'hypothèse qu'elles aient été composées par deux musiciens différents. Deux William Tisdale ont en effet vécu à Londres à la même époque ; le premier est décédé en 1603, l'autre en 1605.

Œuvres
 Almand
 2 Corantos
 Fantasia
 Galiarda
 Mrs Katherin Tregian's Paven
 Pavana Chromatica
 Pavana Clement Cotton
 Pavana

Édition moderne
 William Tisdale, Complete Keyboard Music, Stainer & Bell, éd. Howard Ferguson, Londres, 1957.

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Compositeur britannique de la Renaissance
Compositeur anglais
Virginaliste
Naissance en 1570
Date de décès non renseignée (XVIIe siècle)
Musicien anglais du XVIe siècle

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Robert Brandom Über Singuläre Termini.Daniel Dohrn - 2009 - Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 63 (3):453-465.details
Robert Brandom charakterisiert singuläre Termini durch ihre symmetrische substitutionsinferentielle Rolle. Er entwickelt ein transzendentales Argument, wonach solche Termini notwendig für jede Sprache sind, welche die üblichen logischen Ausdrucksressourcen wie Negation und Konditional besitzt. Verschiedene Einwände werden diskutiert. Brandom kann die Forderung erfüllen, dass die Semantik einer Sprache kompositional sein muss. Er kann auch mit der asymmetrischen inferentiellen Rolle bestimmter singulärer Termini umgehen, sofern diese nicht systematisch ist. Aber er kann der Möglichkeit nicht gerecht werden, singuläre Termini einzuführen, (...) die nicht durch eine symmetrische substitutionsinferentielle Rolle konstituiert sind. Ungeachtet der Einführung solcher Termini bleiben normale logische Ausdrucksressourcen erhalten. (shrink)
Review of Giacomo Turbanti, Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism. [REVIEW]Pietro Salis - 2018 - Argumenta (6):384-389.details
Review of the book "Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism" by Giacomo Turbanti.
'Comments on Robert Brandom's From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars'.James O'Shea - 2017 - In David Pereplyotchik & Deborah Barnbaum (eds.), Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 232-243.details
These comments, which include informal offhand asides made during delivery, derive from an 'Author Meets Critics' session on Robert Brandom's book, From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars' (2015), held at Kent State University and published subsequently in Sellars and Contemporary Philosophy (2017).
Hegel's idealism : Robert Brandom's interpretation.Francois-Igor Pris - 2020 - In «Интеллектуальная культура Беларуси V.» 19–20 ноября 2020 г. Минск. Том. 1. Minsk, Belarus: pp. 351-355.details
Conversation with Robert Brandom.Pietro Salis - 2018 - Aphex (18):1-27.details
In this broad interview Robert Brandom talks about many themes concerning his work and about his career and education. Brandom reconstructs the main debts that he owes to colleagues and teachers, especially Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, and David Lewis, and talks about the projects he's currently working on. He also talks about contemporary and classical pragmatism, and of the importance of classical thinkers like Kant and Hegel for contemporary debates. Other themes go deeper into the principal topics (...) of his theoretical work – in particular, his later understanding of expressivism, his take on the debate between representationalists and anti-representationalists in semantics, the main open problems for his wide inferentialist project, and his methodological preference for the normative vocabulary in his account of discursive practice. Finally, Brandom touches on the epistemic role of perception and on his views about the importance of the phenomenological aspects of perceptual experience. (shrink)
Wittgenstein in Robert Brandom's philosophy ISBN: 978-3-330-08149-9.Francois-Igor Pris - 2017 - Saarbrücken, Germany: Lap Lambert.details
Interview with Robert Brandom.Carlo Penco - 1999 - Epistemologia:143-150.details
On Reason and Spectral Machines: Robert Brandom and Bounded Posthumanism.David Roden - 2017 - In Rosi Braidotti Rick Dolphijn (ed.), Philosophy After Nature. London - New York: Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 99-119.details
I distinguish two theses regarding technological successors to current humans (posthumans): an anthropologically bounded posthumanism (ABP) and an anthropologically unbounded posthumanism (AUP). ABP proposes transcendental conditions on agency that can be held to constrain the scope for "weirdness" in the space of possible posthumans a priori. AUP, by contrast, leaves the nature of posthuman agency to be settled empirically (or technologically). Given AUP there are no "future proof" constraints on the strangeness of posthuman agents. -/- In Posthuman Life I defended (...) AUP via a critique of Donald Davidson's work on intentionality and a "naturalistic deconstruction" of transcendental phenomenology (See also Roden 2013). In this paper I extend this critique to Robert Brandom's account of the relationship between normativity and intentionality in Making It Explicit (MIE) and in other writings. -/- Brandom's account understands intentionality in terms of the capacity to undertake and ascribe inferential normative commitments. It makes "first class agency" dependent on the ability to participate in discursive social practices. It implies that posthumans – insofar as they qualify as agents at all – would need to be social and discursive beings. -/- The problem with this approach, I will argue, is that it replicates a problem that Brandom discerns in Dennett's intentional stance approach. It tells us nothing about the conditions under which a being qualifies as a potential interpreter and thus little about the conditions for meaning, understanding or agency. -/- I support this diagnosis by showing that Brandom cannot explain how a non-sapient community could bootstrap itself into sapience by setting up a basic deontic scorekeeping system without appealing (along with Davidson and Dennett) to the ways in which an idealized observer would interpret their activity. -/- This strongly suggests that interpretationist and pragmatist accounts cannot explain the semantic or the intentional without regressing to assumptions about ideal interpreters or background practices whose scope they are incapable of delimiting. It follows that Anthropologically Unbounded Posthumanism is not seriously challenged by the claim that agency and meaning are "constituted" by social practices. -/- AUP implies that we can infer no claims about the denizens of "Posthuman Possibility Space" a priori, by reflecting on the pragmatic transcendental conditions for semantic content. We thus have no reason to suppose that posthuman agents would have to be subjects of discourse or, indeed, members of communities. The scope for posthuman weirdness can be determined by recourse to engineering alone. (shrink)
Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation: An Interview with Robert Brandom.Italo Testa - 2003 - Constellations 10 (4):554-570.details
Pietro Salis, "Pratiche Discorsive Razionali. Studi Sull'inferenzialismo di Robert Brandom", Milano-Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2016, Pp. 332. [REVIEW]Giacomo Turbanti - 2018 - Aphex 17.details
Che cosa vuol dire per le espressioni del nostro linguaggio avere un significato? Secondo un approccio oggi sostanzialmente standard in semantica, avere significato vuol dire prima di tutto avere un contenuto rappresentazionale, cioè poter rappresentare qualcosa. Secondo un inferenzialista come Robert Brandom, invece, le espressioni del nostro linguaggio hanno contenuto perché sono inserite in una rete di relazioni inferenziali, rispetto alla quale possono essere utilizzate per dare e richiedere ragioni. Il libro di Pietro Salis, Pratiche discorsive razionali, presenta (...) e discute alcuni degli aspetti più interessanti dell'inferenzialismo normativo di Brandom. Si tratta della seconda monografia in lingua italiana dedicata alla filosofia del linguaggio brandomiana dopo quella di Giovagnoli (2004). Per trovare elementi di paragone con il lavoro di Salis occorre allora guardare alle pubblicazioni in lingua inglese. Tra queste ci sono le raccolte di saggi curate da Stekeler-Weithofer (2008), Prien e Schweikard (2008), e Weiss e Wanderer (2010). Ma anche le introduzioni monografiche di Wanderer (2008) e Turbanti (2017). La prima di queste introduzioni, in particolare, è quella più simile al libro di Salis, soprattutto dal punto di vista tematico. (shrink)
Brandom, Peirce, and the Overlooked Friction of Contrapiction.Marc Champagne - 2016 - Synthese 193 (8):2561–2576.details
Robert Brandom holds that what we mean is best understood in terms of what inferences we are prepared to defend, and that such a defence is best understood in terms of rule-governed social interactions. This manages to explain quite a lot. However, for those who think that there is more to making correct/incorrect inferences than obeying/breaking accepted rules, Brandom's account fails to adequately capture what it means to reason properly. Thus, in an effort to sketch an alternative (...) that does not rely primarily on peer pressure, I draw on the work of C. S. Peirce. Peirce argued that, when we reason, we manipulate abstract diagrams in order to observe what results. Since some manipulations are barred by the self-same nature of the diagrams, I try to show that this qualitative incompatibility, which I dub "contrapiction," is a good reason to regard some reasoning as bad. (shrink)
Brandom, Robert. From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 289. $35.00. [REVIEW]Colin McLear - 2016 - Ethics 126 (3):808-816.details
One of the better known of the many bons mots of the Sellarsian corpus concerns his definition of philosophy: it is the attempt to understand "how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." When applied to Sellars's philosophy in particular, one might be forgiven for doubting the possible success of such an endeavor. Richard Rorty once quipped of Sellars's followers that they were either "left-wing" or "right-wing," emphasizing one (...) line of thought in Sellars's work to the exclusion of the other. The two lines of thought to which Rorty referred were, first, Sellars's conception of the normativity of all thought and language, famously captured by his evocative phrase "the space of reasons." Second, and equally important to Sellars, was his "scientia mensura," the notion ðshared with contemporaries such as Quine that "in the dimension of describing and explaining the world, science is the measure of all things, of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not" Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1 [1956]: 41,303). The left-wing adherents to the normativity thesis included Rorty himself, along with John McDowell and Robert Brandom. Among the right-wing naturalists are such as Ruth Milliken, Jay Rosenberg, and Paul Churchland. Such a disparate group of philosophers suggests irreconcilable differences. Brandom himself reports in the introduction to his newest book, From Empiricism to Expressivism, that, "for a dismayingly long time, I did not really see how all the pieces of [Sellar's] work hung together, even in the broadest possible sense of the term". (shrink)
Politicizing Brandom's Pragmatism: Normativity and the Agonal Character of Social Practice.Thomas Fossen - 2014 - European Journal of Philosophy 22 (3):371-395.details
This paper provides an agonistic interpretation of Robert Brandom's social-pragmatic account of normativity. I argue that social practice, on this approach, should be seen not just as cooperative, but also as contestatory. This aspect, which has so far remained implicit, helps to illuminate Brandom's claim that normative statuses are 'instituted' by social practices: normative statuses are brought into play in mutual engagement, and are only in play from an engaged social perspective among others. Moreover, in contrast to (...) a positivist or conventionalist understanding of Brandom's work, it shows that the possibility of a critical stance toward existing practices is not only compatible with, but already implicit in this form of pragmatism. This can be made explicit with the notion of farcical practices: practices that are treated merely as if they institute genuine commitments and entitlements. Interpreting a practice as farcical is taking a critical stance toward it, and this possibility is inherent in Brandom's theoretical framework. This opens the way for a fruitful appropriation of Brandom's pragmatism for social and political philosophy. (shrink)
Robert B. Brandom: Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Experimenting and Discoursive Committment. [REVIEW]Susanna Schellenberg - 1998 - Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 51 (2):187-195.details
Brandom and Quine on Perspectivally Hybrid De Re Attitude Ascription: A Solution to a Problem in the Explanation of Action.Sean Crawford - forthcoming - Journal of Transcendental Philosophy.details
In Making it Explicit Robert Brandom claims that perspectivally hybrid de re attitude ascriptions explain what an agent actually did, from the point of view of the ascriber, whether or not that was what the agent intended to do. There is a well-known problem, however, first brought to attention by Quine, but curiously ignored by Brandom, that threatens to undermine the role of de re ascriptions in the explanation of action, a problem that stems directly from the (...) fact that, unlike de dicto ascriptions, they permit the attribution of inconsistent attitudes to agents. I propose a solution to the problem which I believe is consistent with Brandom's approach to the nature of intentionality and the explanation of action. (shrink)
Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology.Robert B. Brandom - 2001 - Hegel-Studien 36:61-95.details
Brandom and the Pragmatist Quest for Semantic Objectivity.Jaakko Reinikainen - 2021 - Acta Philosophica Fennica 97:55-78.details
The aim of this paper is to critically examine the concept of semantic objectivity inherent in Robert Brandom`s works, most importantly Making It Explicit. Concerning Brandom`s theoretical aims, I shall argue that there is some discrepancy between his formal and informal characterisations of the criteria by which his account is to be judged as adequate. After expounding on the discrepancy, I shall propose to reconstruct a mostly implicit line of argument in MIE, highlighted by the more recent (...) developments of Brandom`s work, which I think suffices to smooth it over. (shrink)
Asserting.Robert B. Brandom & Kurt Wischin - 2019 - Disputatio 8 (9):13-44.details
In this paper, written more than ten years before Making it Explicit, I take a close look at the pivotal role which assertions play in human interactions. Tending a bridge from the Kantian theory of judgements to Dewey's pragmatic philosophy, with the Fregean notion of conceptual content providing the pillars, and relying on the teachings drawn from the later Wittgenstein's philosophy as keystones, I begin by questioning the dominant view of representationalism in analytical philosophy after Russell, Carnap and Tarski. It (...) is here that I begin weaving the conceptual network that will eventually blossom into the program of pragmatic rationalism with logical inferentialism and semantic expressivism as pivotal notions, manifest in our game of asking for and giving reasons. It is for these reasons that I agree that a bilingual version of this early piece seems a good starting point for the reflections on what unites and what divides la philosophical visions of Wittgenstein and my own. (shrink)
From Conceptual Content in Big Apes and AI, to the Classical Principle of Explosion: An Interview with Robert B. Brandom [Del Contenido Conceptual En Los Grandes Monos E IA, Hasta El Principio de Explosión Clásico: Una Entrevista Con Robert B. Brandom].María José Frápolli & Kurt Wischin - 2019 - Disputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 8 (9).details
In this Interview, Professor Robert B. Brandom answered ten detailed questions about his philosophy of Rational Pragmatism and Semantic Expressivism, grouped into four topics. 1. Metaphysics and Anthropology, 2. Pragmatics and Semantics, 3. Epistemic Expressivism and 4. Philosophy of Logic. With his careful answers Professor Brandom offers many additional insights into his rigorously constructed account of the relationship "between what we say and think, and what we are saying and thinking about" around the human practice of asking (...) for and giving reasons. A final, additional question pointed at a principal motivation for putting together the present issue: how to reconcile Wittgenstein's assertion that philosophy must not proffer any theories with the very explicit system of explanations Brandom has constructed. This same issue is addressed to some extent already in Professor Brandom's new article contained in this issue, but his answer, asserting that he does not proffer a theory but only makes explicit what is already there, might be seen as an unambiguous statement of the continuous presence of a contested Wittgensteinian principle in Brandom's work. (shrink)
Constructing Commitment: Brandom's Pragmatist Take on Rule‐Following.Matthias Kiesselbach - 2012 - Philosophical Investigations 35 (2):101-126.details
According to a standard criticism, Robert Brandom's "normative pragmatics", i.e. his attempt to explain normative statuses in terms of practical attitudes, faces a dilemma. If practical attitudes and their interactions are specified in purely non-normative terms, then they underdetermine normative statuses; but if normative terms are allowed into the account, then the account becomes viciously circular. This paper argues that there is no dilemma, because the feared circularity is not vicious. While normative claims do exhibit their respective authors' (...) practical attitudes and thereby contribute towards establishing the normative statuses they are about, this circularity is not a mark of Brandom's explanatory strategy but a feature of social practice of which we theorists partake. (shrink)
Brandom's Leibniz.Zachary Gartenberg - 2021 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 102 (1):73-102.details
I discuss an objection by Margaret Wilson against Robert Brandom's interpretation of Leibniz's account of perceptual distinctness. According to Brandom, Leibniz holds that (i) the relative distinctness of a perception is a function of its inferentially articulated content and (ii) apperception, or awareness, is explicable in terms of degrees of perceptual distinctness. Wilson alleges that Brandom confuses 'external deducibility' from a perceptual state of a monad to the existence of properties in the world, with 'internally accessible (...) content' for the monad in that state. Drawing on Leibniz, I develop a response to Wilson on Brandom's behalf. (shrink)
"Dismantling the Master's House": Freedom as Ethical Practice in Brandom and Foucault.Jason A. Springs - 2009 - Journal of Religious Ethics 37 (3):419-448.details
This article makes a case for the capacity of "social practice" accounts of agency and freedom to criticize, resist, and transform systemic forms of power and domination from within the context of religious and political practices and institutions. I first examine criticisms that Michel Foucault's analysis of systemic power results in normative aimlessness, and then I contrast that account with the description of agency and innovative practice that pragmatist philosopher Robert Brandom identifies as "expressive freedom." I argue that (...) Brandom can provide a normative trajectory for Foucault's diagnoses of power and domination, helping to resolve its apparent lack of ethical direction. I demonstrate that Foucault, in turn, presents Brandom with insights that might overcome the charges of abstraction and conservatism that his pragmatic inferentialism frequently encounters. The result is a vindication of social practice as an analytical lens for social criticism that is at once both immanent and radical. (shrink)
Brandom's Inferentialist Theory and the Meaning Entitlement Connection.Alessia Marabini - 2018 - In Hamdi Mlika (ed.), Lectures de Robert Brandom. Edilivre. pp. 51-90.details
According to Brandom's conceptual role semantics, to grasp a concept involves a commitment to drawing certain inferences. This is a consequence of the inferentialist thesis that the meaning of a term is given by its justification through assertibility conditions. Inferential commitments come out from a material notion of inference which underwrites human rational discourse and activity. In this paper I discuss a problem of Brandom's semantics allegedly exposed in an argument by Paul Boghossian against Dummett's and Brandom's (...) substantive conception of meaning. I contend that Boghossian's analysis is dubious because it overlooks an important difference between Dummett's and Brandom's positions related respectively to a monotonic and a non-monotonic view of the norm underwriting meaning. (shrink)
Criticism and Normativity. Brandom and Habermas Between Kant and Hegel.Italo Testa - 2009 - In D. Canale G. Tuzet (ed.), The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy, Egea, Milano. Egea (pp. pp. 29-44).details
In this paper, making reference to Robert Brandom's philosophical proposal - and against the background of Brandom's debate with Jürgen Habermas - I shall endeavor, first, to define the relation between recognition and normativity and then between recognition and criticism; in the final part of the paper I shall suggest a perspective that approaches recognition in terms of capacities. On this basis I attempt to see the critical attitude as something that is founded more on individual potentials (...) than on formal criteria and that is essentially connected with a power of redescription: a dialectical anthropology of recognition is thus the most promising base to account for that which substantiates our critical powers. (shrink)
An Hegelian Solution to a Tangle of Problems Facing Brandom'S Analytic Pragmatism.Paul Redding - 2015 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (4):657-680.details
In his program of analytic pragmatism, Robert Brandom has presented a thoroughgoing reinterpretation of the place of analytic philosophy in the history of philosophy by linking his own non-representational 'inferentialist' approach to semantics to the rationalist – idealist tradition, and in particular, to Hegel. Brandom, however, has not been without his critics in regard to both his approach to semantics and his interpretation of Hegel. Here I single out four interlinked problematic areas facing Brandom's inferentialist semantics (...) – his approach of perceptual content, to de re attitudes, to perceptual experience and to modality, and then go on to contrast the different approach to these issues that is found in Hegel. While Hegel can helpfully be understood as anticipating an inferentialist semantics as Brandom claims, his is a weak inferentialism in contrast to Brandom's strong version. With his weakly inferentialist approach Hegel can, I suggest, be seen as providing a solution to the tangle of problems.. (shrink)
Pragmatism, Idealism, and the Modal Menace: Rorty, Brandom, and Truths About Photons.Paul Redding - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (2):174-186.details
In a short exchange published in 2000, Richard Rorty and Robert Brandom differed over the status of "facts" in a world containing no speakers and, hence, no speech acts. While Brandom wanted to retain the meaningfulness of talk of "facts" or "truths" about things—in this case truths about photons —in a world in which there could be no claimings about such things, Rorty denied the existence of any such "worldly items" as "facts." In this essay the difference (...) between Rorty and Brandom on this issue is used to explore their differing attitudes to modality. Brandom appeals to a Kantian approach of modal realism to support counterfactual claims. However, I argue that when his approach to modality is examined in the context of current debates over possible world semantics, his own "incompatibilist" semantics itself seems incompatible with a Kantian approach to modality. In turn, I suggest that this difference between Brandom and Rorty in their attitudes to modality reveals a difference in their respective attitudes to pragmatism's relation to philosophy in general. (shrink)
Reconstruction and Pragmatist Metaphysics. On Brandom's Understanding of Rationality.Italo Testa - 2012 - Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 41 (1-3):175-201.details
In this paper I illustrate what is reconstructive rationality, a notion that remains rather undetermined in Robert Brandom's work. I argue that theoretical and historical thinking are instances of reconstruction and should not be identified with it. I then explore a further instance of rational reconstruction, which Brandom calls "reconstructive metaphysics", arguing that the demarcation between metaphysical and non-metaphysical theories has to be understood as a pragmatic one. Finally, I argue that Brandom's reconstructive metaphysics is basically (...) a pragmatist metaphysics. Here I try to outline a pragmatist understanding of the concept of metaphysics in order to reconcile Brandom's more or less implicit attempt at metaphysical theorizing with his devotion to a pragmatist tradition that is resistant if not hostile to the very idea of metaphysics. Hence I come back to the question of how pragmatism has contributed to the understanding of "reconstructive rationality", and argue that the latter is a notion of rationality which is needed by Brandom's philosophy but which cannot find a clear place in the typology of the five forms of rationality that he introduces, being more akin to the core structure of rationality rather than a specific form of it. (shrink)
Hegel and the Ethics of Brandom's Metaphysics.Jonathan Lewis - 2018 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (2):1-21.details
In order to develop his pragmatist and inferentialist framework, Robert Brandom appropriates, reconstructs and revises key themes in German Idealism such as the self-legislation of norms, the social institution of concepts and facts, a norm-oriented account of being and the critique of representationalist accounts of meaning and truth. However, these themes have an essential ethical dimension, one that Brandom has not explicitly acknowledged. For Hegel, the determination of norms and facts and the institution of normative statuses take (...) place in the context of Sittlichkeit ('ethical life'). By engaging with some of the more ontologically and ethically substantive points raised by Hegel, I argue that, from a Hegelian perspective, Brandom's project regarding the social determination of truth and meaning cannot be divorced from ethics, specifically, the ethical dimension of social recognition. Furthermore, I argue that, in real situations (as opposed to ideal ones), claims to normative authority cannot be considered independently from the legitimacy of those claims, a legitimacy that Brandom is unable to reasonably explain. Finally, I argue that a Hegelian solution to the problems facing Brandom's framework calls into question the unity of reason that is at the core of Brandom's normative pragmatics and inferential semantics. (shrink)
Communication and Rational Responsiveness to the World.Robert Briscoe - 2007 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2):135-159.details
Donald Davidson has long maintained that in order to be credited with the concept of objectivity – and, so, with language and thought – it is necessary to communicate with at least one other speaker. I here examine Davidson's central argument for this thesis and argue that it is unsuccessful. Subsequently, I turn to Robert Brandom's defense of the thesis in Making It Explicit. I argue that, contrary to Brandom, in order to possess the concept of objectivity (...) it is not necessary to engage in the practice of interpersonal reasoning because possession of the concept is independently integral to the practice of intrapersonal reasoning. (shrink)
Discourse as Practice: From Bourdieu to Brandom.Rodger Kibble - 2014 - Questions, Discourse and Dialogue: 20 Years After Making It Explicit, Proceedings of AISB50.details
This paper investigates Robert Brandom's programme of logical expressivism and in the process attempts to clarify his use of the term practice, by means of a detailed comparison with the works of sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu. It turns out that the two scholars have a number of concerns in common, including the means by which core practices can be amalgamated into more sophisticated ones, and the possibility of explicating practices without distorting them or generating incoherent codifications. We (...) find some congruences between the two approaches but also a number of divergences. In particular, Bourdieu deprecates the well-known distinctions between langue and parole (Saussure), and competence and performance (Chomsky), while (we argue) Brandom ends up instituting his own "competence" model. We conclude by questioning how far this is compatible with his avowed aim of developing an "analytic pragmatism". (shrink)
The Normative/Agentive Correspondence.Ryan Simonelli - forthcoming - Journal of Transcendental Philosophy.details
In recent work, Robert Brandom has articulated important connections between the deontic normative statuses of entitlement and commitment and the alethic modal statuses of possibility and necessity. In this paper, I articulate an until now unexplored connection between Brandom's core normative statuses of entitlement and commitment and the agentive modal statuses of ability and compulsion. These modals have application not only in action, but also in perception and inference, and, in both of these cases, there is a (...) direct mapping between the normative statuses that one bears towards various claims, articulated from the perspective of the attributor of commitments and entitlements, and the agentive modal statuses that one bears towards various judgments, articulated from the perspective of the undertaker of commitments. I will highlight this correspondence, focusing on the case of perception, and show how it sheds light on the account of mindedness that emerges from Brandom's theory of discursive practice. (shrink)
Inferentialist Philosophy of Language and the Historiography of Philosophy.Kevin J. Harrelson - 2014 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (3):582-603.details
This article considers the implications of inferentialist philosophy of language for debates in the historiography of philosophy. My intention is to mediate and refine the polemics between contextualist historians and 'analytic' or presentist historians. I claim that much of Robert Brandom's nuanced defence of presentism can be accepted and even adopted by contextualists, so that inferentialism turns out to provide an important justification for orthodox history of philosophy. In the concluding sections I argue that the application of (...) class='Hi'>Brandom's theory has important limits, and that some polemics by contextualists against presentists are therefore justified. (shrink)
Apperceptive Patterning: Artefaction, Extensional Beliefs and Cognitive Scaffolding.Ekin Erkan - 2020 - Cosmos and History 16 (1):125-178.details
In "Psychopower and Ordinary Madness" my ambition, as it relates to Bernard Stiegler's recent literature, was twofold: 1) critiquing Stiegler's work on exosomatization and artefactual posthumanism—or, more specifically, nonhumanism—to problematize approaches to media archaeology that rely upon technical exteriorization; 2) challenging how Stiegler engages with Giuseppe Longo and Francis Bailly's conception of negative entropy. These efforts were directed by a prevalent techno-cultural qualifier: the rise of Synthetic Intelligence (including neural nets, deep learning, predictive processing and Bayesian models of cognition). This (...) paper continues this project but first directs a critical analytic lens at the Derridean practice of the ontologization of grammatization from which Stiegler emerges while also distinguishing how metalanguages operate in relation to object-oriented environmental interaction by way of inferentialism. Stalking continental (Kapp, Simondon, Leroi-Gourhan, etc.) and analytic traditions (e.g., Carnap, Chalmers, Clark, Sutton, Novaes, etc.), we move from artefacts to AI and Predictive Processing so as to link theories related to technicity with philosophy of mind. Simultaneously drawing forth Robert Brandom's conceptualization of the roles that commitments play in retrospectively reconstructing the social experiences that lead to our endorsement(s) of norms, we compliment this account with Reza Negarestani's deprivatized account of intelligence while analyzing the equipollent role between language and media (both digital and analog). (shrink)
Second Nature and Recognition: Hegel and the Social Space.Italo Testa - 2009 - Critical Horizons 10 (3):341-370.details
In this article I intend to show the strict relation between the notions of "second nature" and "recognition". To do so I begin with a problem (circularity) proper to the theory of Hegelian and post- Hegelian Anerkennung. The solution strategy I propose is signifi cant also in terms of bringing into focus the problems connected with a notion of "space of reasons" that stems from the Hegelian concept of "Spirit". I thus broach the notion of "second nature" as a bridgeconcept (...) that can play a key role both for a renewal of the theory of Anerkennung and for a rethinking of the "space of reasons" within the debate between Robert Brandom and John McDowell. Against this background I illustrate the novelties introduced by the dialectical conception of the relation between fi rst and second nature developed by Hegel and the contribution this idea can make to a revisited theory of recognition as a phenomenon articulated on two levels. I then return to the question of the space of reasons to show the contribution the renewed conception of recognition as second nature makes to the definition of its intrinsic sociality as something that is not in principle opposed to a sense of naturalness. (shrink)
Assessing Concept Possession as an Explicit and Social Practice.Alessia Marabini & Luca Moretti - 2017 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 51 (4):801-816.details
We focus on issues of learning assessment from the point of view of an investigation of philosophical elements in teaching. We contend that assessment of concept possession at school based on ordinary multiple-choice tests might be ineffective because it overlooks aspects of human rationality illuminated by Robert Brandom's inferentialism––the view that conceptual content largely coincides with the inferential role of linguistic expressions used in public discourse. More particularly, we argue that multiple-choice tests at schools might fail to accurately (...) assess the possession of a concept or the lack of it, for they only check the written outputs of the pupils who take them, without detecting the inferences actually endorsed or used by them. We suggest that school tests would acquire reliability if they enabled pupils to make the reasons of their answers or the inferences they use explicit, so as to contribute to what Brandom calls the game of giving and asking for reasons. We explore the possibility to put this suggestion into practice by deploying two-tier multiple-choice tests. (shrink)
Queries and Assertions in Minimally Discursive Practices.Jared A. Millson - 2014 - Questions, Discourse and Dialogue: 20 Years After Making It Explicit, Proceedings of AISB50.details
Robert Brandom's normative-pragmatic theory is intended to represent the minimal set of practical abilities whose exhibition qualifies creatures as speaking a language. His model of a minimally discursive practice (MDP) is one in which participants, devoid of logical vocabulary, are only capable of making assertions and drawing inferences. This paper argues that Brandom's purely assertional practices are not MDPs and that speech acts of asking questions (queries) must be included in any practice that counts as an MDP. (...) The upshot of the argument is support for the claim that the normative pragmatic analysis of assertions requires a corresponding analysis of queries and vice versa. (shrink)
Motivating Inferentialism.Mark Mcculiagh - 2005 - Southwest Philosophy Review 21 (1):77-84.details
Robert Brandom has supported his inferentialist conception of semantic content by appealing to the claim that it is a necessary condition on having a propositional attitude that one appreciate the inferential relations it stands in. When we see what considerations can be given in support of that claim, however, we see that it doesn't even motivate an inferentialist semantics. The problem is that that claim about what it takes to have a propositional attitude does nothing to show that (...) its inferential relations are a feature of its content rather than of the relation that the subject stands in to that content—that is, the attitude. (shrink)
Anaphoric Deflationism and Theories of Meaning.David Löwenstein - 2010 - In Theodora Achourioti, Edgar Andrade & Marc Staudacher (eds.), Proceedings of the Amsterdam Graduate Philosophy Conference. Meaning and Truth. Amsterdam, October 1-3, 2009. ILLC Publications. pp. 52-66.details
It is widely held that truth and reference play an indispensable explanatory role in theories of meaning. By contrast, so-called deflationists argue that the functions of these concepts are merely expressive and never explanatory. Robert Brandom has proposed both a variety of deflationism — the anaphoric theory —, and a theory of meaning — inferentialism — which doesn't rely on truth or reference. He argues that the anaphoric theory counts against his (chiefly referentialist) rivals in the debate on (...) meaning and thereby paves the way for inferentialism. In this paper, I give a friendly reconstruction of anaphoric deflationism (section II) and point to a distinguishing feature of the theory with respect to other deflationist proposals. While Brandom simply assumes, but doesn't earn this feature, I propose a natural argument to justify it (section III). Then, however, I point out a subtle but clear sense in which truth and reference can play a role in explaining meaning, even if the anaphoric theory holds. Thus, anaphoric deflationism will turn out to be neutral in the debate on meaning (section IV). (shrink)
Social Space and the Ontology of Recognition.Italo Testa - 2011 - In Heikki Ikäheimo Arto Laitinen (ed.), Recognition and Social Ontology. Brill Books (pp. 287-308).details
In this paper recognition is taken to be a question of social ontology, regarding the very constitution of the social space of interaction. I concentrate on the question of whether certain aspects of the theory of recognition can be translated into the terms of a socio-ontological paradigm: to do so, I make reference to some conceptual tools derived from John Searle's social ontology and Robert Brandom's normative pragmatics. My strategy consists in showing that recognitive phenomena cannot be isolated (...) at the level of human interaction, and are, rather, in part proper to animal interaction as well. Furthermore, it is argued that recognitive powers are constitutive powers more basic than deontic ones and play a role much broader than the one they in fact assume in Searle and in Brandom. (shrink)
Religion and the Ritual of Public Discourse1.Warren G. Frisina - 2011 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32 (1):74 - 92.details
What role should religion play in public discourse? Not long ago Richard Rorty argued, in more than one place, that religion is a "conversation stopper" which polite people refer to only in private conversations. Religious believers complain, however, that this practice renders it impossible for them to participate in public discourse. They ask whether a democratic community is worthy of the name if it effectively forbids (by custom or legislation) a significant segment of its citizens from acknowledging and drawing upon (...) their own traditions to help justify their moral and political claims? This paper draws upon the work of Jeffrey Stout, Robert Brandom, and importantly a Confucian understanding of ritual to argue that Rorty goes too far in arguing that religious assumptions have no place in public discourse. (shrink)
Inferentialism and Singular Reference.Mark Mccullagh - 2005 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (2):183-220.details
Basic to Robert Brandom's project in Making It Explicit is the demarcation of singular terms according to the structure of their inferential roles---rather than, as is usual, according to the kinds of things they purport to denote. But the demarcational effort founders on the need to distinguish extensional and nonextensional occurrences of expressions in terms of inferential roles; the closest that an inferentialist can come to drawing that distinction is to discern degrees of extensionality, and that is not (...) close enough. The general moral applies as well to "two factor" theories of content: the notion of inferential role lacks the independence from the notion of denotation that many proponents of such theories have attributed to it. (shrink)
What is a Logical Diagram?Catherine Legg - 2013 - In Sun-Joo Shin & Amirouche Moktefi (eds.), Visual Reasoning with Diagrams. Springer. pp. 1-18.details
Robert Brandom's expressivism argues that not all semantic content may be made fully explicit. This view connects in interesting ways with recent movements in philosophy of mathematics and logic (e.g. Brown, Shin, Giaquinto) to take diagrams seriously - as more than a mere "heuristic aid" to proof, but either proofs themselves, or irreducible components of such. However what exactly is a diagram in logic? Does this constitute a semiotic natural kind? The paper will argue that such a natural (...) kind does exist in Charles Peirce's conception of iconic signs, but that fully understood, logical diagrams involve a structured array of normative reasoning practices, as well as just a "picture on a page". (shrink)
The Grammar of Political Obligation.Thomas Fossen - 2014 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (3):215-236.details
This essay presents a new way of conceptualizing the problem of political obligation. On the traditional 'normativist' framing of the issue, the primary task for theory is to secure the content and justification of political obligations, providing practically applicable moral knowledge. This paper develops an alternative, 'pragmatist' framing of the issue, by rehabilitating a frequently misunderstood essay by Hanna Pitkin and by recasting her argument in terms of the 'pragmatic turn' in recent philosophy, as articulated by Robert Brandom. (...) From this perspective, the content and justification of political obligations cannot be determined in a way that is in principle separable from their application. This casts 'political obligation' not as a problem to be philosophically resolved, but as a political predicament that calls for a kind of practical engagement. The merit of this perspective is to draw our attention toward the conditions under which the problem appears as a lived predicament. (shrink)
Why is a Truth-Predicate Like a Pronoun?Arvid Båve - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 145 (2):297 - 310.details
I begin with an exposition of the two main variants of the Prosentential Theory of Truth (PT), those of Dorothy Grover et al. and Robert Brandom. Three main types of criticisms are then put forward: (1) material criticisms to the effect that (PT) does not adequately explain the linguistic data, (2) an objection to the effect that no variant of (PT) gives a properly unified account of the various occurrences of "true" in English, and, most importantly, (3) a (...) charge that the comparison with proforms is explanatorily idle. The last objection is that, given a complete semantic account of pronouns, proadjectives, antecedents, etc., together with a complete (PT), the essential semantic character of "true" could be deduced, but then, the idleness of the comparison with pronouns would be apparent. It turns out that objections (2) and (3) are related in the following way: the prosentential terminology is held to conceal the lack of unity in (PT), by describing the different data in the same terms ("proform", "antecedent", etc.). But this, I argue, is only a way of truly describing, rather than explaining, the data, these being certain relations of equivalence and consequence between sentences. I consider a language for which (PT) would be not only true, but also explanatory, but note that this language is very different from English. I end by showing that Robert Brandom's case that "is true" is not a predicate fails, and that his motivation for saying so is based on fallacious reasoning (namely, Boghossian's argument against deflationism). (shrink)
Inferenzialismo, pratiche argomentative e oggettività.Pietro Salis - 2012 - Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 6 (3):108-20.details
Inferentialism, especially Brandom's theory, is the project aimed at understanding meaning as determined by inferences, and language as a social practice governed by rational discursive norms. Discursive practice is thus understood as the basic rational practice, where commitments undertaken by participants are evaluated in terms of their being correct/incorrect. This model of explanation is also intended to rescue, by means of reasons, the commitments we undertake ourselves and assess the commitments we attribute to others, in an objective sense: starting (...) from our subjective normative and doxastic attitudes we should be able to use the normative discursive resources apt to assess our commitments, not only referring to what we take to be correct, but also referring to how things actually are.My hypothesis is that this objectivity is not achieved only on the basis of the rational structure of discursive practice. The main worry concerns the fact that material inferences, those responsible for the content of our concepts (and commitments), are in general non-monotonic. These inferences put experts in an advantageous position,namely as those capable of defeasible reasoning. I propose a view by which this asymmetry among language users is the crucial factor in assessing the objectivity of claims within discursive practice. (shrink)
Reasons for Action.Paulus Esterhazy - unknowndetails
Reasons for action are considerations in the light of which we act. But just what is it that we attribute to a person when we credit her with a good reason? What sort of entity is on our minds when we deliberate about what we have reason to do? This book examines this question and evaluates a number of approaches to the philosophy of reasons, including normative realism, psychologism and Humeanism. The second half of the book contains the defense of (...) a theory of reasons influenced by the writings of Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom. This theory is further developed in relation to a number of recent topics in action theory, including the Guise of the Good thesis, internalism and the normativity of reasons. (shrink)
The Problem of Logical Omniscience, the Preface Paradox, and Doxastic Commitments.Niels Skovgaard-Olsen - 2017 - Synthese 194 (3):917-939.details
The main goal of this paper is to investigate what explanatory resources Robert Brandom's distinction between acknowledged and consequential commitments affords in relation to the problem of logical omniscience. With this distinction the importance of the doxastic perspective under consideration for the relationship between logic and norms of reasoning is emphasized, and it becomes possible to handle a number of problematic cases discussed in the literature without thereby incurring a commitment to revisionism about logic. One such case in (...) particular is the preface paradox, which will receive an extensive treatment. As we shall see, the problem of logical omniscience not only arises within theories based on deductive logic; but also within the recent paradigm shift in psychology of reasoning. So dealing with this problem is important not only for philosophical purposes but also from a psychological perspective. (shrink)
Experience, Knowledge and Space of Reasons.Manoj Panda - 2020 - Journal of Foundational Research 28:421-450.details
Philosophers throughout the ages have struggled to explain the way or ways by which we can acquire knowledge about the external world. With an aim to meet the skeptical challenges regarding the possibility of knowledge, various accounts of knowledge have been developed across philosophical traditions. The worry to meet skeptical challenges is implicitly or explicitly present in almost every philosophical account of knowledge. Many philosophers, while explaining about the nature and the possibility of knowledge, have talked about placing it in (...) the space of reasons or space of justifications. So, I think one of the ways in which we can respond to skeptical challenges is by developing a proper understanding of the space of reasons and justifications where we place our knowledge. When we talk about the space of reasons, it is also important to highlight, in this context, its relationship with the natural world. I would like to emphasize in this regard that there has been a normative turn specifically in the works of John McDowell and Robert Brandom after the naturalistic turn in epistemology. But one can ask- why is there a need of a normative turn after a seemingly successful naturalistic turn in epistemology? I call them normative epistemologists those who have argued that knowledge should be understood by placing it properly in the space of reasons which is necessarily a normative space. I think John McDowell, Robert Brandom and their philosophical heroes Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel fall into this category of epistemologists. Normative epistemologists have always argued that a philosophical account of knowledge in order to meet the skeptical challenges has to place our knowledge satisfactorily in the space of reasons and various ways of placing knowledge in the space of reasons have been developed in this regard. The significant questions that have been asked in this context are- what could be the best plausible way to place knowledge in the space of reasons? Is placing knowledge in the space of reasons enough to avoid the skeptical challenges regarding the possibility of knowledge? According to some philosophers, the skeptical problems arise because of a certain misunderstanding of space of reasons i.e. the interiorization of the space of reasons. On the interiorized conception of the space of reasons, there is need of extra elements beyond the space of reasons which are required for our knowledge but are not part of the logical space. In this paper, my aim, following Kant and McDowell, is to propose a critique of interiorized conception of space of reasons and show how this conception leads to various problems regarding the possibility of knowledge. In this context, I will specifically discuss argument from illusion as a skeptical challenge for the possibility of knowledge and McDowell's response to it. In the second part of my paper, my aim is to discuss the debate between McDowell and Brandom on the nature and extent of the space of reasons. (shrink)
Sellars's Ontological Nominalism.Ryan Simonelli - forthcoming - European Journal of Philosophy.details
Wilfrid Sellars is widely known for two positions that he calls "nominalism." On the one hand, there is his "psychological nominalism," according to which any awareness one might have of abstract entities—be they properties, relations, or facts—is a thoroughly linguistic affair, and so cannot be presupposed in thinking about the process of learning a (first) language. On the other hand, there is his ontological nominalism, according to which the world, as it is in itself, is fundamentally a world of concrete (...) particulars and so does not ultimately contain such things as properties, relations, or propositionally-structured facts. Sellars clearly takes these two sorts of "nominalism" to go together. However, one of the most influential inheritors of Sellars's philosophy, Robert Brandom, thinks that they do not. Brandom endorses the former, but denies that the latter "is in the end so much as intelligible." In this paper, I articulate the connection between Sellars's psychological and ontological nominalism and draw on Brandom's own development of Sellars's functional role semantics to argue, against Brandom, that Sellars's ontological nominalism not only harmonizes with the rest of his philosophical commitments, but is actually made fully intelligible by the very aspect of Sellars's theory that Brandom himself develops. (shrink)
The Talmudist Enlightenment: Talmudic Judaism's Confrontational Rational Theology.Menachem Fisch - 2020 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2):37-63.details
Robert Brandom's "The Pragmatist Enlightenment" describes the advent of American pragmatism as signaling a sea-change in our understanding of human reason away from the top-down Euclidian models of reasoning, warrant and knowledge inspired by the physical sciences, toward the far more bottom-up, narrative, inherently fallible and dialogical forms of reasoning of the life and human sciences. It is against this backdrop that Talmudic Judaism emerges not only as an early anticipation of the pragmatist enlightenment, but as going a (...) substantial and radical step beyond it, that in the context of religious commitment and reasoning, is unprecedented. (shrink)
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Alvi said that as a kid she hoped to create a safe place for younger women to connect and talk about issues relevant to their age group. Her organization, Young Women of Toledo, does just that.
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YWOT is a branch of the non-profit organization, Women of Toledo, established in 2014. The group engages, educates and empowers women. While their main goal is to unite young women to learn from each other, the group also advocates for diversity and economic empowerment.
By offering female-focused educational events like leadership development, dialogue and coaching sessions, mentoring and peer-networking services, WOT encourages women to keep moving forward in all aspects of their lives.
Alvi said she initially heard about the group after meeting the founder of WOT, Nina Corder, at a festival where she was doing henna. Alvi joined the group after learning about the group's mission of creating a safe environment for women to freely express themselves and learn from each other.
"Young women of Toledo is like a small little branch I've created; it's growing now," Alvi said. "We have up to 30 young girls that come every month."
Taryn Knighten, a junior at Toledo School for the Arts, serves on the YWOT's board. After watching everyone's involvement within the organization, Knighten said joining YWOT taught her leadership.
"This organization really exposes you to a huge amount of leadership and helps you talk and listen to other people in more effective ways," Knighten said. "It opens up your mind to so many viewpoints of so many people and I think that is especially a skill that everyone should learn."
Knighten said she is excited about participating in leadership opportunities with other young women next year.
Alvi also enjoys meeting young women in the community and creating friendships with them. She said it makes her happy to see young women looking up to her for advice.
Sharing advice isn't the only thing the group focuses on. They also offer opportunities for young women to educate each other on cultural differences.
"We pick topics anywhere from fun [topics] about holidays, educating them about holidays in other countries and even topics like self-esteem," Alvi said.
To encourage the girls to mingle freely, Alvi created a small program called Chat and Chew for two groups, including the Next Generation for girls ages 12 to 17 and the Young Women of Toledo for young women ages 18 to 26. In this program, the two groups of women meet once every month to enjoy a meal and talk about topics important within their age group.
"By the end, our goal is to make them feel comfortable and help them guide themselves, but if they need help, they can also ask for help," Alvi said.
Due to Alvi's involvement in mentoring young women, Corder nominated her for the Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy Award. Corder said Alvi has transformed into a great role model for younger women and is a tremendous asset to the organization.
Alvi said she never thought she would get recognized for her work due to her being a young woman of color. She said receiving this award should encourage all young women to continue doing what they love since everything falls into place eventually.
Through her work, Alvi was successful in raising $4,250 to support YWOT programs. She said WOT's mission drives her to be passionate in educating, engaging and empowering younger women.
"I never thought I would ever get recognized for something that I am passionate about," Alvi said. "I honestly didn't know what philanthropy was until I got recognized as an honoree for the award."
Alvi added when she was younger, she wished something like this existed. Today, Women of Toledo fulfills that dream, encouraging women of all age groups to learn from each other.
"Be confident in yourself and you'll set the trend, and I feel like I've done that," Alvi said.
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Need to print now? The question that's plastered all over Toronto Pearson International Airport's Terminal 1 should be followed by a hearty and helpful "Go right ahead!" Somewhere in the midst of all those hurried families pulling their suitcases and the business travelers checking their BlackBerries and briefcases stands the newest addition to the airport's state-of-the-art facilities: the ePrintit kiosk. Eight of these innovative trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) booths have been installed across Terminals 1 and 3, offering airport guests the ability to print documents and photos on the fly.
St. Joseph Communications, in partnership with PrinterOn, HP Canada and Toronto Pearson, brought forth this public printing terminal, the world's first with the capacity to print high-resolution documents and photographs directly from smartphones and tablet computers. (Disclosure: St. Joseph Communications is the parent company of St. Joseph Media, which publishes Where Toronto.) Users with an iPhone, BlackBerry or Android device need only to download an app; after that you can send your media, print and pay within minutes. The ePrintit system uses cloud technology with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to ensure your files remain your files. For guests without smartphones, the kiosks also connect with a variety of storage devices including USB flash drives and memory cards.
It all adds up to extra convenience for busy travelers. Heading straight from the airport to a meeting? Now you can quickly print that revised spreadsheet or slide deck and take care of those last-minute preparations en route. First time visiting the city? Use the kiosk to print maps and directions to local attractions. And if you just feel like passing some time in between connections? Send some images to ePrintit and utilize its photo booth functionality to create instant souvenirs.


An evening of live electronic music and visuals, glitch art, lasers and digital experimentation.
Award-winning digital artist and Loughborough Computer Science graduate Sean Clark will be running a workshop exploring the create uses of Arduino, 3D printing and programming. He'll provide some background on his own work and then show attendees how to make a sound responsive LED light-work using an Arduino, pixel LED and microphone. The light-works will then be shown as part of the Algorave event in Cognito's in the evening.
Create-a-con is Leicester's regular event for digital makers and STEM/STEAM education. On Saturday 9th March it will be back at LCB Depot with a wide range of activities to get involved in.
Interact'18 is an exhibition of digital artworks and digital arts projects curated by Sean Clark of Leicester-based arts company Interact Digital Arts. It aims to showcase the range activities Interact is involved in, as well as provide a platform for local artists to show their work.
A gallery space bringing together artistic responses to Internet health issues. Through mixed media and various research practices and projects, Mozilla is engaging a community of artists to explore what is Internet health, around the issues of privacy and security, digital inclusion, openness, web literacy, internet-of-things and data. The artists, designers and creative technologists featured here have exhibited and collaborated with the Mozilla Festival and associated universities over the last three years.
Enjoy a weekend of free events exploring Artificial Intelligence, human-machine interaction and potential future worlds. Watch artists, designers, engineers and technologists as they take over the Museum with pop-up installations and performances. Join them in creative electronics workshops and experiments with robotics or hear from today's cutting edge practitioners in demonstrations or talks. The Digital Design Weekend coincides with the London Design Festival at the V&A.


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I went on a completely wonderful camping trip at the beginning of the month for a week, but I think a good part of me stayed there.
After the busy-ness of the wedding in July, I needed to just sit and do absolutely nothing. Task 1 – accomplished!! It felt so good to sit by the fire (or the pool) everyday and just read a book. We were treated royally by mother nature – the weather couldn't have been more perfect!
But then I came home and needed to get busy creating for the fall. Task 2 – not even started!
I continued to sit – on my porch, couch, or curled up on my bed – reading! I have thoroughly enjoyed getting mentally lost in 3 novels in 2 weeks! I think my body needed more than a week for rejuvination, so I allowed it to dictate my actions for another week.
I really felt like paper piecing an image so chose this adorable pram from the Baby Bundle stamp set and made a baby card. I also chose my favorite color combo of Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip. All in all – I'm pretty happy with my first stamped project in 4 weeks.


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Double Reed Camp 2023
Wednesday – Saturday, June 21 – 24
Students will work with the faculty and students of the Ohio State bassoon and oboe studios in an atmosphere designed to be informative, inspirational and enjoyable. Rehearse and perform in a large Double Reed Choir as well as small chamber ensembles and get "hands-on" with the arts and crafts of reed-making and adjustment during reed classes. In master classes, you will develop performance enhancement strategies, explore solo repertoire, and much more. Make friends and join a supportive double reed community by taking part in Double Reed Camp at Ohio State.
Registration will open on February 1, 2023.
Professors Karen Pierson and Abby Yeakle Held
ELIGIBILITY — For students entering grades 7–12 in the 2023–2024 school year, and 2023 high school graduates. Must have at least one year of experience on your instrument.
Resident $495 — Tuition, T-shirt, housing with three meals per day.
Commuter $375 — Tuition and T-shirt only. No housing or meals.
MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT — 40
REGISTRATION — You will be required to make payment via credit card at the time of registration. Shortly after submitting payment, you will receive an email receipt.
DEADLINE — Friday, June 2, 2023
REGISTRATION CLOSED UNTIL FEB. 1
NOTE — The registration/payment form works best on a computer (PC or Mac). MCA USERS — use Chrome, not Safari.
Participation Details
Parents/guardians and participants will receive permission forms via DocuSign shortly after registration is complete. All forms must be returned by the DocuSign deadline in order to participate.
Shortly before the start of the program, a Digital Handbook will be provided. This handbook contains important information for a successful experience. All participants and parents/guardians should read it carefully prior to the start of the program and can refer to it often throughout the week.
Approximately one week before the program, participants and parents/guardians will also receive an email with basic information about what to pack, arrival, parking, check-in and more.
Daily Schedule Overview
Wednesday — 2:30 p.m. (mandatory orientation) to approx. 9 p.m.
Thursday–Friday — 9:30 a.m. to approx. 9:30 p.m.
Saturday — 9:30 a.m. start; concert at 2:30 p.m.
Visit Youth Summer Music Programs Frequently Asked Questions.
For questions regarding curriculum, email Abby Yeakle Held at held.119@osu.edu or Karen Pierson at pierson.93@osu.edu.
For questions about registration or payment procedures, email YouthSummerMusic@osu.edu.


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Rabbi Spero: In Name of Fairness & Biblical Tradition It's Time Dems, Media Accept Trump's Innocence
By Rabbi Aryeh Spero | April 22, 2019 | 4:16 PM EDT
President Donald J.Trump (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The Special Counsel has issued his report, and the Attorney General has made his thorough assessment. The undisputed conclusion is that President Trump is not guilty of any type of collusion whatsoever.
The President was elected fair and square. We have gone through two years of intense investigation, examination of witnesses, and turned every stone upside down. Already, two years ago, we believed the President was innocent of the manufactured charges against him by his political enemies. Mr. Trump is a tough fighter, but his love for America would never allow him to employ foreign agents to determine the will of the American people he loves.
It is time certain Congressional members, and the media, stop upending this country and accept the rule of law. Unfortunately, many seem to be placing raw politics above the law and above the serenity this country deserves.
The Bible tells us that judges hear witnesses, make their determination, and once a man is declared innocent, we move on and affirm his innocence.
In the name of fairness and the biblical tradition, it is time that Representatives Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, Alcee Hastings, and Senator Richard Blumenthal accepted the reality of the President's innocence and allowed the country and the President to do the important business of protecting our citizens, growing our economy, and maintaining our liberty. Not to do so is harmful to the country and a desecration of justice under the law.
Rabbi Spero is a theologian and a political and social commentator. He is author of "Push Back: Reclaiming Our American Judeo-Christian Spirit."
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Mañanita hits screens this December
By Advertiser on November 28, 2019
Watch as Bela Padilla reveals a different side of her when she plays the role of an ex-military sniper in her new movie MAÑANITA.
Image courtesy of Viva Films
Directed by Paul Soriano and written by Lav Diaz, MAÑANITA is the story of Edilberta, an ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged and accepts a job that will change her life. It is a quiet character study of when your life's purpose is stripped away, but you still pursue it, only to realize that it could kill you. The story is based on "OPLAN MAÑANITA", an anti-drug campaign which started in Davao City in 2016. In the campaign, law enforcers would knock on the door of drug suspects and serenade them to turn their backs against illegal drugs.
Paul Soriano is an award-winning film director, scriptwriter, and producer who was born in Los Angeles, California. He moved to the Philippines and started his career directing concerts, music videos and TV commercials. He then moved on to creating short films and full-length feature films. Today, he is one of the Philippines' top TV commercial directors and has directed numerous commercials for companies such as Unilever, Unilab, Kraft, Smart Communications, Globe Telecom, Enchanted Kingdom, Rebisco, Honda, Chevrolet, Western Union, and Pizza Hut. He has directed five feature films: A Journey Home (2009), Thelma (2011), Kid Kulafu (2015), Dukot (2016), Siargao (2017). He has won numerous awards including Best Picture and Best Director in film festivals in the Philippines and abroad.
Known for her roles in romantic movies like 100 Tula Para Kay Stella, Meet Me in St. Gallen and The Day After Valentines among others, the rugged and sometimes shabby Bela Padilla in MAÑANITA is a Bela we have never seen before on screen.
Bela admits that preparing and shooting for the film was not easy physically and mentally. To prepare herself for the role, she trained at a military camp and learned how to assemble a rifle and properly shoot with a rifle. She's very proud to report that she can now assemble a rifle in one minute. As part of her role, Bela has to wear a prosthetic scar on one side of her face and neck from start to end of filming. And as if the prosthetic was not challenging enough, the film was recorded during one of the hottest summers experienced in the country. But despite all of these challenges, Bela said filming MAÑANITA was very rewarding on a personal level and a milestone in her career.
Bela's efforts sure paid off when MAÑANITA was selected as a Finalist in the recently-concluded 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival. Out of the 8 Filipino films that were selected for the prestigious film festival, MAÑANITA is the only Filipino film that made it to the main competition. The film also gained positive responses from the audience at its premiere during the festival. This alone, makes Bela feel that everything she has done for the film was worth it.
Catch a different Bela Padilla in MAÑANITA when it opens in cinemas nationwide on December 4. Produced by Ten17P and VIVA Films.
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I'm excited to see these unique artist designed jars coming back to the studio! Bidding starts at $100 for each jar and all proceeds will go to Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Please come see them in person this Thursday November 29th during Brookline First Light! Hours 6-9. The jars will be on display in our front window at 45 Harvard Street through December 6th. Our aim is to raise funds to help the Jewish community that was affected by the terrorism in Pittsburgh and to raise awareness of the effects of hate speech. If you'd like to make a donation outright please let me know. We will be taking donations on the night of the event. And the public is invited to create their own paper bag luminaries during First Light!


Most churches want to grow their membership, but few want to spend a lot of money on advertising and other marketing efforts to reach potential members. The good news is that you can grow membership without having to spend significant resources.
Despite today's economy, now is the best time to implement marketing initiatives to attract new members. Churches that advertise, particularly on-line, have a far greater chance of growing their memberships than those who do not actively market themselves.
96 percent of individuals with computers conduct on-line searches before they use the Yellow Pages. If you do not have a website, many people looking for a church home may not find you. Regardless of the size of your church, you should have a website even if it's only a single page. Think of your website as a virtual brochure that provides at the very least contact information, your church's beliefs and worship times. Playable audio or video files on your website deliver your message faster and with more impact.
List your church on free on-line (business) directories, including Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSN Live, SuperPages and YellowPages.com. ChurchGuideUSA.com Premium Listing clients have access to an entire list of more than 200 free directories. Note that when you submit your church to many of these directories they will more than likely contact you to purchase a "premium" listing. On-line directories that advertise on the major search engines or that offer free trials are worth trying. If you pay for a premium listing, regularly check your ad's performance. A good site will be able to tell you traffic, or "clicks" on your listing. If a site can't do this, then it is probably not worth the cost.
ChurchGuideUSA.com is one example of an on-line church directory. Similar to traditional "business" directories, take advantage of all free listings. Try out those that offer "premium" listings, particularly if they offer free trials, advertise on Google and/or Yahoo and evaluate your listing's performance. Beware of those that offer only long-term contracts.
This is a great, cost-effective advertising tool. Your recorded phone message can quickly and easily be delivered simultaneously to hundreds of people. You will want to work with a provider that effectively manages this service for you, otherwise it can be expensive.
(Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing). Having an advertising web presence is a great way for people to easily find you when they search for "churches" in your area. However, pay per click advertising can be expensive, unless you partner with a professional who handle the advertising for you. Pay-per-click ad components include keyword selection, which is critical for churches; geo-targeting; split-testing of ads; click-through-rates (CTR); and quality scores. A cost-effective solution is a "co-operative" pay-per-click advertising tool, like a church or business directory that advertises on Google or Yahoo. These sites do all of the pay-per-click work. You benefit from the traffic they generate to your site.
Give some or all of these effective marketing tools a try to reach prospective new members. You will be glad that you did.


This makes for a very tidy publication. As stated in the Forward "The purpose of this is booklet is therefore to bring together the thoughts of some leading figures at a time when wild land has gained a higher public profile than ever before. Its ten articles offer a variety of perspectives on the relevance of wild land resource, our relationship to it and visions for securing its future. The booklet aims to complement and build upon the work already achieved, and is our contribution to the International Year of the Mountains."
The names I recognise are Martin Price, Nick Kemp, Mark Wrightham and Alan Blackshaw - and whilst I can vouch for the latter being first class guys I can confirm the articles are all excellent with clear layout and great photography. Yes, if you are needing a wee reminder of what this mountain movement is all about - then look no further than this - a mere snip at £4 plus £1 p&p.