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Epicurean Prolepsis, David Glidden
Epicurean Prolepsis, David Glidden
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The paper I presented at the SAGP session was NOT the same as my much longer paper that was subsequently published in Oxford Studies, where I had by then established a fuller philosophical accounting of Epicurean prolepsis as akin to non-conceptual pattern recognition, a purely perceptual facility used by humans and other animals alike. (In this way, my dog recognizes other dogs and distinguishes them from other animals, just as we recognize kinds of things in nature and kinds of situations in our socializing, before we conceptualize and define what we are already habituated to recognizing.) So, the paper …
Eleatic Motions, Wallace Matson
Eleatic Motions, Wallace Matson
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In "Parmenides Unbound," Philosophical Inquiry 2.1 (1980) 345-360, Matson argues that the accomplishment of Parmenides was the fundamental philosophical distinction between what is known certainly by pure reason and, on the other hand, the domain of (mere?) experience. In this paper Matson argues that Zeno's paradoxes are meant to demonstrate the incoherence of Pythagorean philosophy, for example that the arguments of the Pythagoreans commit them to the unreality of motion, a reductio argument. He takes Melissus as directing his arguments against Heracliteans.
Aristotle's Demarcation Of The Senses Of Energeia In Metaphysics Ix,6, Ronald Polansky
Aristotle's Demarcation Of The Senses Of Energeia In Metaphysics Ix,6, Ronald Polansky
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle demarcates in Metaphysics IX.6 three most crucial senses of energeia. There is that which pertains to categorial being, and that which pertains to becoming. Finally, there is energeia involved in the cognitive and affective lives of animals.
Secular Humanism: The Word Of Man, W. David Beck
Secular Humanism: The Word Of Man, W. David Beck
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Review: Preaching And Preachers, Paul R. Fink
Review: Preaching And Preachers, Paul R. Fink
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Loving Women, Loving Men, Reta Halteman Finger
Loving Women, Loving Men, Reta Halteman Finger
Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship
In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.
Some Genres Of Post-Hegelian Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
Some Genres Of Post-Hegelian Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
There are a number of important texts, sometimes treated as philosophical and sometimes as literary works, which do not usually find an appropriate audience. Paradigms of what I have in mind are: Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings, almost all of Nietzsche, Marx's narratives of capital and class-struggle, Sartre's complex series of fictions, plays, treatises, critical performances and autobiography, and Heidegger's hypnotic meditations and textual exegeses. Responses by philosophers, especially Anglo-American ones, seldom take account of the specific literary forms of these works or of their authors’ very self-conscious concern with the problems and strategies of writing. It is true that the texts …
Husserl's Collapse Of Cartesian Dualism As A Result Of The Epoche & The Intentionality Theory Of Consciousness, David Nickell
Husserl's Collapse Of Cartesian Dualism As A Result Of The Epoche & The Intentionality Theory Of Consciousness, David Nickell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Since the time of Descartes, it has been an implicit assumption of western thought that human reality is composed of two totally distinct substances: the physical (extended) and the non-physical (non-extended). Explaining the nature of these two substances, and the relation between them, has been a central dilemma in western philosophy ever since. Edmund Husserl believed these categories are the result of latent abstraction in our way of conceiving the world and have no place in reality itself. By explicating the implications of Brentano's observation that all consciousness is consciousness of something' (the theory of intentionality) and by effecting a …
Believing The Self-Contradictory, John N. Williams
Believing The Self-Contradictory, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Clearly, if a man holds a self-contradictory belief, then his belief cannot be rational, for there can be no set of evidence sufficient to justify it. This is most apparent when the self contradictory belief is a belief in a conjunction, (e.g., a belief that p & ~p), rather than when it is a non-conjunctive self-contradictory belief, e.g. a belief that red is not a color.
Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche Contra Renan, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
I mean by the title of this essay to allude to Nietzsche Contra Wagner and thereby to suggest the use which Nietzsche made of Renan in formulating some of his most distinctive thoughts. More specifically I suggest that Nietzsche's later view of history, especially as expressed in The Genealogy of Morals and The Antichrist, is a critique and parody of Renan's History of the Origins of Christianity. (I speak deliberately of Nietzsche's "view of history" rather than his "philosophy of history" because the latter phrase contains too many associations which Nietzsche's view rejects.) What is at issue is not a …
Aristotle And The Functions Of Reproduction, James G. Lennox
Aristotle And The Functions Of Reproduction, James G. Lennox
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
I shall argue that the function of the reproductive capacity is not to perpetuate the kind (or species), but to allow the individual reproducer to be eternal: not eternal without qualifications, but in a way. The basic premise in the arguments which establish this conclusion distinguishes between things which are numerically eternal and those which are formally eternal. This of this latter sort must be members of an everlasting series of individuals which are one-in-form (ἕν εἴδει, in Aristotle's usage). The full understanding of these passages, therefore, requires a proper interpretation of the distinction between numerical and formal unity. with …
The Epistemology Of Immanuel Kant, David Carl Bratz
The Epistemology Of Immanuel Kant, David Carl Bratz
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
It has been the tendency of philosophers in the Twentieth Century to examine the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in parcels, by analyzing key Kantian concepts, arguments, and distinctions without relation to the architectonic to which they belong. Thus, for example, large bodies of literature are devoted exclusively to Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, to his conception of Categories, and to his argument that existence is not a predicate. The elucidation and employment of isolated Kantian ideas has greatly enhanced many contemporary philosophical theories, particularly in epistemology, and manifests the enormous debt owed Kant by modern thinkers. On this …
The Absurdities Of Moore's Paradoxes, John N. Williams
The Absurdities Of Moore's Paradoxes, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
Against The Supposed Difference Between Historical And End-State Theories, Lawrence C. Becker
Against The Supposed Difference Between Historical And End-State Theories, Lawrence C. Becker
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Coming To Terms With Our Bodies-A Biblical Approach: Knitted Together, Reta Halteman Finger
Coming To Terms With Our Bodies-A Biblical Approach: Knitted Together, Reta Halteman Finger
Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship
In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.
When Two Wrongs Make A Right, Leo Groarke
When Two Wrongs Make A Right, Leo Groarke
Philosophy Publications
CONTEMPORARY TREATMENTS OF INFORMAL FALLACIES TAKE TWO WRONGS REASONING AS A FORM OF FALLACIOUS INFERENCE. I ARGUE THAT SUCH INFERENCES ARE OFTEN VALID AND THAT AN ADEQUATE TREATMENT OF TWO WRONGS ARGUMENTS MUST DISTINGUISH VALID AND INVALID ARGUMENTS, RATHER THAN REJECT THEM OUT OF HAND.
Are There Mental Inferences In Direct Perceptions?, Dan D. Crawford
Are There Mental Inferences In Direct Perceptions?, Dan D. Crawford
Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications
While there is virtually a consensus among contemporary philosophers of perception that some form of direct realism is true, there is less than complete agreement about whether normal, direct perceptions involve mental inferences in any sense. In taking another look at this recurrent question, my aim is twofold: first, to examine some of the arguments and evidences that have been offered in favor of inferences and to see if they can be accommodated within the direct realist framework, and second, to attempt to clarify and defend the insight of direct realism that normal perceptions are noninferential.
The Priority Of Human Interests, Lawrence C. Becker
The Priority Of Human Interests, Lawrence C. Becker
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Individual Rights, Lawrence C. Becker
Individual Rights, Lawrence C. Becker
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Harm, Utility, And The Obligation To Obey The Law, Richard Dagger
Harm, Utility, And The Obligation To Obey The Law, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
In a recent essay, "Political Obligation", R. M. Hare sets out a utilitarian account of the obligation to obey the law which he believes to be immune to an objection often brought against such accounts. In what follows I shall briefly review this objection and Professor Hare's response to it; than I shall go on to argue that Hare's response, ingenious as it is, fails to defeat the objection. Hare's argument is instructive nonetheless, for its failure tells us something about wrongs and harm as well as utility and political obligation.
Listing Of The 1982-1983 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus
Listing Of The 1982-1983 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Review Of Edward G. Ballard, Man And Technology. Toward The Measurement Of A Culture And Of Donald M. Borchert And David Stewart, Eds., Being Human In A Technological Age, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The two books under review pursue separately what an appropriate philosophy of technology must accomplish: the articulation of an incisive and unified vision of the world on the one hand and on the other the consideration of the variety of ways in which technology shapes our lives and the search for fruitful counterforces to technology. Ballard's book attends to the first task, Borchert's and Stewart's anthology to the second. The two books also demonstrate that one task taken up without the other cannot be accomplished satisfactorily.
Hermeneutics Or Phenomenology: Reflections On Husserl's Historical Meditations As A "Way" Into Transcendental Phenomenology, John E. Jalbert
Hermeneutics Or Phenomenology: Reflections On Husserl's Historical Meditations As A "Way" Into Transcendental Phenomenology, John E. Jalbert
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Neoplatonic Texts In Turkey: Two Manuscripts, Containing Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Ibn Al-Sid's Kitab Al-Hada'iq, Ibn Bajja's Ittisal Al-`Aql Bi-L-Insan, The Liber De Causis And An Anonymous Neoplatonic Treatise On Motion, Richard C. Taylor
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Two Views Of Dance: Aesthetic Theory And Performance, Curtis Carter
Two Views Of Dance: Aesthetic Theory And Performance, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Unnecessary Suffering: Definition And Evidence, Frank Hurnik, Hugh Lehman
Unnecessary Suffering: Definition And Evidence, Frank Hurnik, Hugh Lehman
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
Although it is possible to formulate stronger moral principles than "animals should not be made to suffer unnecessarily," there are significant grounds for doubting these stronger principles. But the principle that underlies the dictum regarding unnecessary suffering is generally recognized as valid, since denial of it implies that we can do whatever we want with animals, a conclusion that is usually considered unacceptable. A determination of whether any particular instance of suffering is necessary or unnecessary must be based on an analysis of both the seriousness of the purpose of the act that involves pain in animals, and its relative …
Failed Explanations And Criminal Responsibility: Experts And The Unconscious, Stephen J. Morse
Failed Explanations And Criminal Responsibility: Experts And The Unconscious, Stephen J. Morse
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Preference For Liberty: The Case Against Involuntary Commitment Of The Mentally Disordered, Stephen J. Morse
A Preference For Liberty: The Case Against Involuntary Commitment Of The Mentally Disordered, Stephen J. Morse
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Structure Of Labor Relations, Howard Lesnick
Structure Of Labor Relations, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.