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Introduction To Logic, Harry Gensler, S.J.

Harry J. Gensler, S.J.

This Second Edition arranges chapters in a more useful way for students, starting with the easiest material and then gradually increasing in difficulty. It provides an even broader scope with new chapters on the history of logic, deviant logic, and the philosophy of logic. It also expands the section on informal fallacies and includes a more exhaustive index and a new appendix on suggested further readings. Finally, it includes updates to the LogiCola instructional program, which is now more visually attractive as well as easier to download, install, update, and use.

Indirect Reciprocity And The Evolution Of "Moral Signals", Rory Smead

Rory Smead

Signals regarding the behavior of others are an essential element of human moral systems and there are important evolutionary connections between language and large-scale cooperation. In particular, social communication may be required for the reputation tracking needed to stabilize indirect reciprocity. Additionally, scholars have suggested that the benefits of indirect reciprocity may have been important for the evolution of language and that social signals may have coevolved with large-scale cooperation. This paper investigates the possibility of such a coevolution. Using the tools of evolutionary game theory, we present a model that incorporates primitive "moral signaling" into a simple setting of …

Proceedings For The Minisymposium On The Nature Of Time: Lessons From The Foundations Of Relativity And Quantum Physics, Juan Ferret, Alexis De Saint-Ours

Juan Ferret

No abstract provided.

The Seductive Serpent, Eva Raepple

Eva Maria Raepple

No abstract provided.

Meanings, Communication, And Politics: Dewey And Derrida, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

No abstract provided.

Darwinian Controversies: An Historiographical Recounting, David Depew

David J Depew

This essay reviews key controversies in the history of the Darwinian research tradition: the Wilberforce-Huxley debate in 1860, early twentieth-century debates about the heritability of acquired characteristics and the consistency of Mendelian genetics with natural selection; the 1925 Scopes trial about teaching evolution; tensions about race, culture, and eugenics at the 1959 centenary celebration Darwin’s Origin of Species; adaptationism and its critics in the Sociobiology debate of 1970s and, more recently, Evolutionary Psychology; and current disputes about Intelligent Design. These controversies, I argue, are etched into public memory because they occur at the emotionally charged boundaries between public-political, technical-scientific, and …

The Ethics Of Writing, By Carlo Sini, Translated By Silvia Benso With Brian Schroeder, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

No abstract provided.

Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant And The Politics Of Religion – By Helena Rosenblatt, Todd Gooch

Todd Gooch

DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01423_18.x

Is Evolutionary Biology Infected With Invalid Teleological Reasoning? Invited Review Essay Of John Reiss, Retiring Darwin’S Watchmaker., David Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.

The Scandal Beneath The Crisis: Getting A View From A Cultural-Moral Mental Model, Kevin Jackson

kjackson@fordham.edu

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Golden Rule Ethics And The Death Of The Criminal Law's Special Part, Stuart Green

Stuart Green

This brief review of Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law, by Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, with Stephen Morse, focuses on the authors’ proposal that the Special Part of the criminal law, the part that identifies and defines specific offenses, be radically stripped down in a manner that is reminiscent of the Golden Rule of Ethics, which, they say, offers a “clear” and “concise” guide to living ethically. Rather than a long list of specific prohibited forms of conduct (“don’t murder,” “don’t rape,” “don’t commit theft,” and the like), they argue, the criminal law should rely on …

Philosophy And The Information Sciences, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

Philosophy and the information sciences intersect in various ways. Philosophical approaches to the study of information and information-related phenomena focus on metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions; philosophical approaches to the study of the information sciences focus on methodological issues. Metaphilosophical questions may also be asked about philosophy of information and about philosophy of the information sciences.

Person As Scientist, Person As Moralist, Joshua Knobe

Joshua Knobe

No abstract provided.

Privacy, Privacies And Basic Needs, Hayden Ramsay

Hayden Ramsay

A Man Loses His Faith, Hayden Ramsay

Hayden Ramsay

Review Essay: Dreamland, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Revisiting Richard Mckeon’S Architectonic Rhetoric: A Response To ‘The Uses Of "Rhetoric In A Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts’, David J. Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.

A Nativity Song (How Far Is It To Bethlehem?) - Women's Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An original Christmas carol arranged for women's choir (SSAA) and piano with words by Frances Chesterton.

Review Essay: Charles Bowden/Alice Leora Briggs/Kelly Leslie's "Dreamland", Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Il Cestello (Un Ciclo Di Canzoni) - Voce Alta = Song Cycle, High Voice, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

This is the high voice=voce alta version of Il cestello "The Little Basket" a song cycle=un ciclo di canzoni sung in Italian from the poetry=poesia of Angiolo Silvio Novaro.