{"title":"A Genealogy of Affective Life: Foucault, Wittgenstein, and Historical Aesthetics","authors":"Henry McDonald","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2024.02.000531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2024.02.000531","url":null,"abstract":"This essay outlines a model for extending Michel Foucault’s method and practice of historical-philosophical investigation, or genealogy, to the critical and historical study of affect and emotion, drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein to clarify some of the philosophical issues that this investigation raises.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140263671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Método: Music of the Americas for Bassoon","authors":"Terry B. Ewell","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2024.02.000529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2024.02.000529","url":null,"abstract":"Studies or collections of exercises for instruments or voice have been largely comprised of materials and teaching methods developed in Europe. While these models have served music education well for centuries, they neglect important pedagogies and literature from the billion people in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"49 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140459853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Educational Policies in Africa: Impacts and Contributions to a Habitable Environment","authors":"Joseph Mosunmola Muraina","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000513","url":null,"abstract":"This research takes a critical look into the environmental educational policies that are in force in Africa and the impacts and/or contributions of those policies to creating an environment that is habitable. The research looks into what environmental education is about and poses the question of what constitutes a habitable environment and seeks to provide ways in which enacted policies can create such an environment.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123960435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CHEN Fan’s Academic Thoughts for Philosophy of Science and Technology","authors":"Xu Xu","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000512","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 1990s, Chinese scholars began to study Technology Philosophy Sinicization and achieved important results. In this trend, Professor Chen put forward the theory named Socialization of Technology, which is an important breakthrough in the construction of interaction mode between technology and society in the Philosophy of Technology Sinicization process. In jishu shehui hua yinlun, Professor Chen systematically discussed various aspects of technology socialization included its essence, function, social role, process, social integration, social adaptation, and other basic concepts and theories.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122203097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Communities’ Participation in Formulation and Management of Payments of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Case Study of Mining Communities in Birim North District, Ghana","authors":"Julius Kwasi Ofori","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000511","url":null,"abstract":"In exploring the nexus of CSR and its influence on local development, a discussion on community engagements and participation becomes eminent. The impacts of these CSR payments on communities as well as the companies over the years have been diverse but whether beneficiary communities are involved in the CSR payments is a subject to be looked at. It is in line with this, that the study sought to look at local community’s participation in the formulation and management of payments of Corporate Social Responsibility in Birim North District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The study used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to gather the data. A simple random sampling technique was used to select respondents and a questionnaire survey conducted to obtain the quantitative data.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123485641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rationality of the Evolutionary Synthesis and Its Competing Theories","authors":"Fayou Wang","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000510","url":null,"abstract":"The evolutionary synthesis has stronger empirical coordination force, conceptual coordination force, and background coordination force. It is generally accepted by evolutionary biologists for its stronger comprehensive coordination force. Nowadays, a large amount of new information and new concepts have emerged in evolutionary biology, which goes beyond the traditional framework of evolutionary synthesis and brings many new empirical and conceptual problems to evolutionary synthesis, changing the state of its comprehensive coordination force.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125287345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Larry Laudan’s View of Scientific Progress","authors":"Xiaoqin Jing","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000509","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of scientific truth has always been a crucial problem in the philosophy of science. The previous schools of logical empiricism and falsificationism believed that science and truth contained each other. But historicists, such as Thomas Samuel Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, etc., believe that truth and science have nothing to do with each other, and the two are completely separate. Larry Laudan also believed that science has nothing to do with truth, but he tried to find a middle way between logicism and historicism.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125356904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Identity of Problem Domain","authors":"Yingchun Tao","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000507","url":null,"abstract":"By analyzing some thoughts and viewpoints of scientific philosophers such as Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, and Laudan, this paper thinks that abstract theory and concrete theory constitute the problem domain. Abstract theory evaluates the legitimacy of the problem, and concrete theory evaluates the difficulty degree of the problem. The comparison of the legal degree of the problem and the difficulty of the problem is only possible in the same problem domain. Popper believes that the problem domain is the same in practice. Lakatos, Kuhn, and Laudan do not fully agree with Popper’s views and give their solutions. Laudan’s scheme is relatively reasonable.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128730976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Development of the Digital Economy based on Blockchain Technology","authors":"Rongrong Zhou","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000508","url":null,"abstract":"As the digital economy becomes a key trend in the economic transformation and upgrading under the new normal of the world economy, a decentralized system, and distributed database technology, blockchain links relevant data in single blocks to form a central system in a cycled chain pattern by encrypted signature verification. The fusion of blockchain technology and big data technology can not only conquer the bottleneck of big data technology but also provide new methods and ideas for the development of the digital economy, upgrade the developmental mode of the digital economy, and promote the rapid growth of the digital economy. Through the popularization of blockchain technology, the traditional internet based on information is transformed into a value-based internet. The status of the traditional economy is mapped into the virtual world, further integrating reality and virtuality.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"606 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132117928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Concept and Lesbian Tendencies Among Secondary School Girls in Osun State: Implications for Sexual Counseling","authors":"Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju","doi":"10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33552/iojass.2023.01.000505","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need for effective sexual orientation and counselling for girls in Nigeria’s secondary schools. This study examines self-concept and lesbian tendencies of girls in secondary schools in Osun State for the purpose of achieving appropriate sexual orientation and counselling. Null hypotheses were formulated following the research design. The research population covers 1,000 girls in secondary schools across the 50 public and private secondary schools in Osun State. 873 respondents were later selected using a multistage sampling technique. “Self-Concept and Lesbian tendencies Questionnaire (SCLTQ)” with Cronbach reliability of between 0.74 and 0.86 estimates were the instrument used for data collection. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyse the collected data, while the null hypotheses were all tested using inferential statistics on SPSS version 23.","PeriodicalId":337343,"journal":{"name":"Iris Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132166666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}