Michael Mandel, associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, maintains that there has been an unfortunate transfer of power from representative legislature to an elite legal profession that creates a class bias. ... The class bias is created because the legal profession causes conservative, class reflected movements in their decisions. Mandel's assumption of elitism is based on the fact that appointment to the Supreme Court requires at least some prominence in the law profession which is largely represented by the white and upper class. ... It is at the discretion of the Prime M...

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Popular music is ubiquitous; from shopping malls and advertising to gymnasiums/fitness classes and political campaigns, popular music is a common feature of people's everyday lives and a significant aspect of consumer culture. ... Through survey research, tastes in popular music are understood as being shaped by a person's gender, age, social class background, and race/ethnicity. ... " This is unlike serious music, which is "non-standardized," and "[every] detail derives its musical sense from the concrete totality of the piece" (1941, 303–305). ...

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In this paper, I aim to raise a number of difficulties in Laurence Bonjour's coherence theory of epistemic justification and in doing so, I intend to provide special focus on difficulties that arise from the limitations of language as it is used in the discursive manner by which a philosophical theo...

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