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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Is It Okay To Wear My Down Vest?, David Seekell
Is It Okay To Wear My Down Vest?, David Seekell
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
[Book Review Of] The Great Life: Essays On Doctrine And Holiness In Honor Of Father Ronald Lawler, Edited By O.F.M. Cap. Michael Auilina And Kenneth Ogorek, Hanna Klaus
The Linacre Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Mind-Matter For Animals Matters: Science And The Denial Of Animal Consciousness, Estiva Reus, David Olivier
Mind-Matter For Animals Matters: Science And The Denial Of Animal Consciousness, Estiva Reus, David Olivier
Between the Species
Animal people are usually confident that Cartesianism is something of the past and that modern science clearly establishes that animals are sentient beings. But actually the scientific status of sentience is anything but firmly established. Not only is the subjective point of view absent from current science; it is precluded by construction from our fundamental realms of knowledge. Physics — the mother-science once we reject Cartesian dualism — is currently unable to include sentience in its account of the world. A large part of the philosophy of mind describes a mindless mind, from which subjectivity — feeling, qualia — has …
The Phenomenology Of Bigfoot, H. Peter Steeves
The Phenomenology Of Bigfoot, H. Peter Steeves
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
An Ethical Analysis Of The 3 Rs, Lisa Houde, Claude Dumas
An Ethical Analysis Of The 3 Rs, Lisa Houde, Claude Dumas
Between the Species
Even though the 3Rs (i.e., Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) are widely accepted as ethical standards when evaluating research projects using animals as experimental subjects, the ethical status of the 3Rs still remains to be clarified. The 3Rs were not derived from any ethical theory, but they represented an attempt to increase humanity to animal experimentation and at the same time to improve validity of scientific data (Russell & Burch, 1959). The aim of the present article was to provide an ethical analysis of the 3Rs through Engelhardt's bioethics theory (1998). The analysis revealed the 3Rs fitted to some extent Engelhardt ethical …
Tom Regan On Innocents, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Peter Singer On Expendability, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Peter Singer On Expendability, Lisa A. Kemmerer
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
On Responsible Knowledge Making And The Moral Standing Of Animals: Questioning What Matters And Why About Animal Minds, Lesley Mclean
On Responsible Knowledge Making And The Moral Standing Of Animals: Questioning What Matters And Why About Animal Minds, Lesley Mclean
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, Freya Mathews
Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living, Freya Mathews
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Nonhuman Chimeras With Human Brain Cells, Eric Sotnak
Nonhuman Chimeras With Human Brain Cells, Eric Sotnak
Between the Species
Many people find the notion of blending humans and nonhumans together to create animals whose brains are composed entirely of human brain cells disturbing. I argue that these moral qualms lack adequate justification. I consider a number of reasons for objecting to the creation of such chimeras and argue that none of these reasons withstand scrutiny. I argue that the only plausible objections to these chimeras would require that they possess morally significant properties that would be lacked by similar, non-chimeric animals, but that there is no good reason to think this would be the case.
Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology, Ed. Andrew Linzey And Paul Barry Clarke, David Corner
Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology, Ed. Andrew Linzey And Paul Barry Clarke, David Corner
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Review Of Gary Steiner’S Anthropocentrism And Its Discontents, Richard Schubert
Review Of Gary Steiner’S Anthropocentrism And Its Discontents, Richard Schubert
Between the Species
No abstract provided.
Commentary: Who Am I? Why Am I? (The Anguish Of A Clone), William Kevin Stoos
Commentary: Who Am I? Why Am I? (The Anguish Of A Clone), William Kevin Stoos
The Linacre Quarterly
No abstract provided.
[Book Review Of] After Asceticism: Sex, Prayer And Deviant Priests, By The Linacre Institute, Daniel B. Gallagher
[Book Review Of] After Asceticism: Sex, Prayer And Deviant Priests, By The Linacre Institute, Daniel B. Gallagher
The Linacre Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Galileo, Biotechnology, And Epistemological Humility: Moving Stewardship Beyond The Development-Conservation Debate, Charles C. Adams
Galileo, Biotechnology, And Epistemological Humility: Moving Stewardship Beyond The Development-Conservation Debate, Charles C. Adams
Pro Rege
This paper was presented, in modified form, at the sixty-first annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation, at Calvin College, July 28-31, 2006.
Anne The Last And George The First Handel And The Politics Of Dynastic Succession, Christopher Paul Ssf
Anne The Last And George The First Handel And The Politics Of Dynastic Succession, Christopher Paul Ssf
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc
Cockroaches, Or Worlds As Images, Nathalie Blanc
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The cockroach is an insect of tropical origin whose presence in urban space draws our attention to the fact that the city is not only an artificial and controlled universe but also a porous one because of the interstices through which the animals slip. This article analyzes the role of animals in cities, and more particularly of the cockroach, in the city dweller's imagination and in the construction of an aesthetic experience of urban life. Imagination, metaphor, and domestication are the clues to understanding a sharp, active thought of the lived environment. One will thus approach the place of aesthetics …
Delno C. West Award Winner (2006)
Delno C. West Award Winner (2006)
Quidditas
Margaret Harp
The West Award recognizes the most distinguished paper given by a senior scholar at the annual conference.
Temples Of Caesar: The Politics Of Renaissance Georgics Translations, Kimberly Johnson
Temples Of Caesar: The Politics Of Renaissance Georgics Translations, Kimberly Johnson
Quidditas
Between the last years of Elizabeth I’s reign and the regicide of Charles I, three major English translations of Virgil’s middle poem, the Georgics, were published. Each translation appeared at a moment of religio-political crisis in England, a coincidence made more significant by the ambivalent political stance of Virgil’s text, which simultaneously communicates praise for Octavian and suspicion about an imperial program that disenfranchised the agricultural classes, an oversight which Virgil records in the Georgics as impiety. This paper charts the ways in which seemingly innocent translation decisions manage to perform a critical interrogation of monarchal authority, particularly as it …
William Of Auvergne And Popular Demonology, Thomas De Mayo
William Of Auvergne And Popular Demonology, Thomas De Mayo
Quidditas
Theologian and bishop of Paris during St. Louis’ early reign, William of Auvergne (d. 1249) aimed in his life and writings to combat the myriad threats he perceived as facing Christianity. The early thirteenth century saw many potential competitors to official doctrines concerning the natural and supernatural worlds—Arabic philosophy imported into the universities, heretical attacks on the institutional church, and persistent folk beliefs and practices. William attributed these challenges to an underlying demonic conspiracy directed against humankind. This paper examines William’s treatment of popular beliefs on the Wild Hunt, a mysterious congregation of spirits, and related beliefs about female spirits …
Charlemagne’S Denarius, Constantine’S Edicule, And The Vera Crux, John F. Moffitt
Charlemagne’S Denarius, Constantine’S Edicule, And The Vera Crux, John F. Moffitt
Quidditas
In 806 a much-discussed silver denarius bearing the likeness of Charlemagne was issued. This is called the “temple-type” coin due to the (as yet unidentified) architectural structure illustrated on the reverse side, and which is explicitly labeled as representing the epitome of “Christian Religion.” By examining different kinds of archeological and documentary evidence, this building can now be finally identified. It is, in short, the “Edicule” built by Constantine the Great in 326 to cover the Tomb of Christ (or Holy Sepulcher) in Jerusalem.
Old Icelandic Gaglviðr, Aurelijus Vijūnas
Old Icelandic Gaglviðr, Aurelijus Vijūnas
Quidditas
This essay discusses a debated word form gaglviðr occurring in stanza 42 of the Old Icelandic poem VÄluspá 'The Prophesy of the Seeress'. The noun gaglviðr is problematic both from the semantic point of view (Old Icelandic gagl 'gosling', viðr 'tree; forest' 'gosling forest'?), and because it possesses a variant spelling galgviðr ('gallows' tree;’gallows' forest') which occurs in another manuscript containing the same poem. In the present paper, the form gaglviðr is considered to be the correct and the original form of this word, whereas the form galgviðr is interpreted as a scribal error. Various existing semantic analyses of the …
Twentieth-Century Illustrators’ Interpretations Of The Works Of Rabelais, Margaret Harp
Twentieth-Century Illustrators’ Interpretations Of The Works Of Rabelais, Margaret Harp
Quidditas
Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century illustrations of François Rabelais's oeuvre have become as well-known as the text itself: their fanciful details capture the literally larger-than-life personality of the French sixteenth-century humanist's protaganist-giants, Pantagruel and Gargantua. Equally intrigued by the thematic complexity and imaginative narrative of this Renaissance masterpiece, subsequent artists and illustrators of Rabelais continue to create new and unexpected artistic representations. This paper presents the illustrations of a lesser-known twentieth-century French wood engraver, Jean Chièze. His notable contributions to a 1935 commemorative edition of Pantagruel simultaneously highlight the medieval woodcut, emphasize the playful tone of Rabelais's narrative and allude to contemporary …
Rendering Shakespearean Rhetoric Visible In The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Katherine Kickel
Rendering Shakespearean Rhetoric Visible In The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, Katherine Kickel
Quidditas
Traditionally, the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery is considered an important moment in England’s art history narrative. In this essay, I argue that the Boydell collection also reflects a new preference for reading Shakespeare’s plays in the eighteenth century via its editorial illustration of parts of the plays that would not normally be emphasized in theatrical productions.
Review Essay: Some Thoughts On The Greater Integration Of Islamic Sources Into The Wider Framework Of Medieval History, John J. Curry
Review Essay: Some Thoughts On The Greater Integration Of Islamic Sources Into The Wider Framework Of Medieval History, John J. Curry
Quidditas
The study of Islam has been attracting greater interest in recent years, due to high-profile political and economic events. In addition, the rise of world history programs has generated a need for resources by which both students and faculty alike can strengthen their knowledge in this field. Still, general knowledge on the field is limited. This disparity has occurred, in part, because the field of Islamic history, especially in its formative and medieval periods, has been oriented toward specialists rather than a general audience. Often, world history sourcebooks are content to give only short selections from religious sources such as …
History As A Detective Story, James H. Forse
History As A Detective Story, James H. Forse
Quidditas
Josephine Tey (nom de plume of Elizabeth MacKintosh). The Daughter of Time, with Introduction by Robert Barnard (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995; original copyright 1951 by Elizabeth MacKintosh). 206 pages. $14.00.
Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff
Words And Worlds: Irony Makes Literary Creations, Alastair Goff
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I take up anew the suggestion recurrent in the work of Kierkegaard and Lukács, among others, that literature is fundamentally ironic. Literary creations, I argue, are ironic because they convey the real world, even though the worldhood of this world is ineffable. In creating a world from words in a novel or poem, the author confronts his or her own skepticism about the possibilities of written expression. Literary creations are only completed when the reader is able to engage with the world of words that is constituted in the work, and to realize that what is said …
Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer
Film And The Public Memory: The Phenomena Of Nonfiction Film Fragments, James F. Moyer
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Film theory and philosophy have in recent decades rightly critiqued earlier theorists' claims for the fundamentally realist nature of the cinema, and of photography generally. While cognizant of the problematic status of "realist" representation-of photography being somehow purely or naively representative-this essay nevertheless deliberately recuperates a realist discourse with which to value some forms of nonfiction film. The essay sees "nonfiction film fragments" as a form of witnessing, and tries to articulate our experience of such film in terms of memorializing the people and events it bears witness to. The essay goes even further in its claims on behalf of …