Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 9/10, Hogeschool Zeeland (Law/Recht), course: European Law, language: English, abstract: With the European Union and the growing importance of Media, it is quite obvious to think of a European Channel, which could bring different European cultures, interests and peoples together. As one can look at this complex topic from many different angles, we would like to divide our work into three parts in order to make it as structured and as understandable as possible. The first part consists of guidelines, regulations and restrictions by the European Union, discussing the different interest of the European Union and the individual Member States concerning media issues. In the second part we introduce two former European TV projects, which failed because of several problems, such as cultural differences. Finally we focus on ARTE, the Franco-German corporation, which is an example of cross-cultural communication within Europe by creating a European cultural channel. We give a short overview and discuss the difficulties, which can rise because of intercultural differences. Throughout the paper we try to get to an answer whether European TV is an Opportunity or an Illusion?
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 9/10, Hogeschool Zeeland (Law/Recht), course: European Law, language: English, abstract: With the European Union and the growing importance of Media, it is quite obvious to think of a European Channel, which could bring different European cultures, interests and peoples together. As one can look at this complex topic from many different angles, we would like to divide our work into three parts in order to make it as structured and as understandable as possible. The first part consists of guidelines, regulations and restrictions by the European Union, discussing the different interest of the European Union and the individual Member States concerning media issues. In the second part we introduce two former European TV projects, which failed because of several problems, such as cultural differences. Finally we focus on ARTE, the Franco-German corporation, which is an example of cross-cultural communication within Europe by creating a European cultural channel. We give a short overview and discuss the difficulties, which can rise because of intercultural differences. Throughout the paper we try to get to an answer whether European TV is an Opportunity or an Illusion?
An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world. In this book Arianna Betti argues that we have no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world, at least as they are described by the two major metaphysical theories of facts. She claims that neither of these theories is tenable—neither the theory according to which facts are special structured building blocks of reality nor the theory according to which facts are whatever is named by certain expressions of the form “the fact that such and such.” There is reality, and there are entities in reality that we are able to name, but, Betti contends, among these entities there are no facts. Drawing on metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and linguistics, Betti examines the main arguments in favor of and against facts of the two major sorts, which she distinguishes as compositional and propositional, giving special attention to methodological presuppositions. She criticizes compositional facts (facts as special structured building blocks of reality) and the central argument for them, Armstrong's truthmaker argument. She then criticizes propositional facts (facts as whatever is named in “the fact that” statements) and what she calls the argument from nominal reference, which draws on Quine's criterion of ontological commitment. Betti argues that metaphysicians should stop worrying about facts, and philosophers in general should stop arguing for or against entities on the basis of how we use language.
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