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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Plagiarism

Sunday, March 23, 2008

As a general rule, the assignments in my courses do not require secondary research or reading. I teach second and third year level courses that are largely introductions or surveys in social, political and legal theory. If I were teaching advanced courses, I would most certainly expect secondary research or reading, but in introductory courses [...]

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Bear convicted of theft

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I began reading E.P. Evans’ classic book The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals at bedtime this week as part of my relatively new interest in animal-human relations in general, but, more specifically, attempts to distinguish humans from other beings in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Imagine my surprise at reading the [...]

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Animals and Society

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Selections from Society and Animals: Journal of Human-Animal Studies

The Animal Question in Anthropology – Barbara Noske
The Law is An Ass: Reading E.P. Evans’ The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals – Piers Bierne
Topics Awaiting Study: Investigatable Questions on Animal Issues – Paul F. Cunningham
Animals and Society Courses: A Growing Trend in Post-Secondary Education – [...]

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Actually

Saturday, March 8, 2008

What work is the word “actually” doing in the following
who actually know something
taken from here? (The author of the above routinely uses variations of ‘to actually know’ and I don’t actually know what he means by the phrase.) How does it differ from the student who told me that they “really believe” (that the state [...]

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