When she and her colleagues looked at over seven thousand responses to an exit survey, they found that the students who did the best were the ones who came in with prior education, had the highest intellectual starting points, and collaborated outside of class.
After identifying the crucial need for methodological self-consciousness in prevention research and policy, we explore the implications as they relate to (i) the values embedded in the choice of research designs and strategies, and (ii) contrasting intellectual starting points regarding the biological plausibility of preventing mental illness.
According to the Thomistic model, philosophy and theology are distinct enterprises, differing primarily in their intellectual starting points.
Mr Garrioch shows how Paris worked as a community, or rather a collection of communities, and his vivid viewpoint is from the street, not the court.Both authors are concerned with change, conflict and breakdown, yet their intellectual starting-points differ.
Participants — including the architect Alfredo Jaar, the filmmaker Barbara Hammer and the actress Kate Valk — will deconstruct the idea of Pasolini as artistic provocateur and public intellectual, taking as their starting point Fabio Mauri's "Intellettuale," a 1975 performance piece involving the projection of "The Gospel According to Saint Matthew" onto Pasolini's torso.
I have never met him, but however you define his intellectual journey, this book charts his starting point and some causes of his rightward shift.
Still, what should be the starting point of an intellectual effort to coexist: jihadist networks, the tradition of Parisian satire, the sanctity of free speech, the nature of religious hurt, or the conflicts and contradictions of a coercive negative solidarity?
The answer is really quite simple: Political subject matter could be the starting point of an intellectual inquiry in the course of which the political urgency originally attached to it is replaced by the academic urgency of getting something right, where "right" means accurately described or analyzed or rendered more problematic.
Even so, Anglo-American systems of copyright, patent, trade secret, and trademark, along with certain continental doctrines, provide a rich starting point for understanding intellectual property (Moore 1998, 2001).
BHL: Yes, that is possible, but in that case these Chinese intellectuals must explain to me how they can, from this starting point, this desire to avoid "the West's universalist triumphalism", create something that is similar to human rights.
