Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Philosophy (30)
- Book reviews (27)
- African Religions and Philosophy (9)
- Ethics (9)
- Nigeria (9)
-
- Religion (8)
- Mbiti Tribute (7)
- Morality (7)
- Moral responsibility (6)
- South Africa (6)
- Zora Neale Hurston (6)
- Autonomy (5)
- Eatonville (5)
- Florida (5)
- Langston Hughes (5)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (5)
- Cleveland State University (4)
- Free will (4)
- John Finnis (4)
- Nelson Mandela (4)
- Women (4)
- John S. Mbiti (3)
- Pregnancy (3)
- Spirituality (3)
- Abortion (2)
- African (2)
- Cesarean section (2)
- Choice (2)
- Colonialism (2)
- Diaspora (2)
- Publication Year
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 91 - 116 of 116
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Review Of Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will By David Hodgson, William Simkulet
Review Of Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will By David Hodgson, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Bioethics Critically Reconsidered: Having Second Thoughts Edited By H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., William Simkulet
Review Of Bioethics Critically Reconsidered: Having Second Thoughts Edited By H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Essays On The History Of Ethics By Michael Slote, William Simkulet
Review Of Essays On The History Of Ethics By Michael Slote, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Ethics Of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives By Janet Radcliffe Richards, William Simkulet
Review Of The Ethics Of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives By Janet Radcliffe Richards, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of In Praise Of Reason By Michael P. Lynch, William Simkulet
Review Of In Praise Of Reason By Michael P. Lynch, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy For Modern Problems By Jules Evans, William Simkulet
Review Of Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy For Modern Problems By Jules Evans, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of What Happened In And To Moral Philosophy In The Twentieth Century? Edited By Fran O'Rourke, William Simkulet
Review Of What Happened In And To Moral Philosophy In The Twentieth Century? Edited By Fran O'Rourke, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers To The Usual Questions By David Boonin, William Simkulet
Review Of Should Race Matter? Unusual Answers To The Usual Questions By David Boonin, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Nature's Challenge To Free Will By Bernard Berofsky, William Simkulet
Review Of Nature's Challenge To Free Will By Bernard Berofsky, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Moral Entanglements: The Ancillary-Care Obligations Of Medical Researchers By Henry S. Richardson, William Simkulet
Review Of Moral Entanglements: The Ancillary-Care Obligations Of Medical Researchers By Henry S. Richardson, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of Thieves Of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine By Tom Koch, William Simkulet
Review Of Thieves Of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine By Tom Koch, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Ethics Of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean, Sonya Charles
The Ethics Of Vaginal Birth After Cesarean, Sonya Charles
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
The decline in providers and facilities that will allow a trial of labor after cesarean forces many women to choose a repeat cesarean. The choice is frequently not much of a choice, however, since the full range of options are often not on the table. This limited 'choice' violates obstetricians' obligations both to respect patients' autonomy and to offer them good care. There has been a vigorous but so far not very fruitful debate in the last few years about the lack of access to a trial of labor after cesarean. Some recently released documents express concern about the limited …
Mechanistic Explanations And Animal Model Simulations In Neuroscience, Nina Atanasova
Mechanistic Explanations And Animal Model Simulations In Neuroscience, Nina Atanasova
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
The ‘new mechanists’ assume that discovering neural mechanisms is a major aim of neuroscience where this constitutes a process of explaining. They strive to articulate the norms for good explanations. I argue that: the normative project of the ontic mechanistic explanation is unrealistic; the epistemological version of mechanistic explanation accounts for the practical epistemological constraints of neuroscience but fails normatively; hence a dilemma: either methodologically strong but unrealistic or epistemologically realistic but methodologically weak view of mechanistic explanation. I propose that the solution is in abandoning the idea that the study of mechanisms in neuroscience aims mainly at explaining. Model-building …
Obstetricians And Violence Against Women, Sonya Charles
Obstetricians And Violence Against Women, Sonya Charles
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
I argue that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), as an organization and through its individual members, can and should be a far greater ally in the prevention of violence against women. Specifically, I argue that we need to pay attention to obstetrical practices that inadvertently contribute to the problem of violence against women. While intimate partner violence is a complex phenomenon, I focus on the coercive control of women and adherence to oppressive gender norms. Using physician response to alcohol use during pregnancy and court-ordered medical treatment as examples, I show how some obstetrical practices mirror the …
Culture, Efficacy, And Outcome Expectancy In Teacher Preparation;How Do The Beliefs Of Pre-Service Interns, Mentor Teachers, University Supervisors And Teacher Educators Compare?, Sashelle Thomas Alexander
Culture, Efficacy, And Outcome Expectancy In Teacher Preparation;How Do The Beliefs Of Pre-Service Interns, Mentor Teachers, University Supervisors And Teacher Educators Compare?, Sashelle Thomas Alexander
ETD Archive
Researchers agree that teachers' attitudes and efficacy beliefs play a significant role in student achievement (Armor et al., 1976 Hoy & Spero, 2005 Szabo & Mokhtari, 2004 Woolfolk & Hoy, 1990). Teachers with high self-efficacy: 1) believe they can positively influence students' learning and achievement despite environmental conditions (Armor et al., 1976 Ashton & Webb, 1986 Gibson & Dembo, 1984) and 2) assume accountability for student learning (Gibson & Dembo, 1984 Ross, 1998 Siwatu, 2007). On the contrary, teachers with low teacher efficacy have minimal expectations for and fewer interactions with minority students. They are also more likely to feel …
Common Factors That African American Adults Attribute To Their Graduation From A Predominantly African American Midwestern School District: A Case Study, Adriennie Yvette Hatten
Common Factors That African American Adults Attribute To Their Graduation From A Predominantly African American Midwestern School District: A Case Study, Adriennie Yvette Hatten
ETD Archive
This qualitative research study examines the reflections of African American adults on their high school journey to graduation in the late 20th Century from one Midwestern public school district where African- American students represented the majority of the student body. The particular emphasis of this study was to identify common factors that the participants perceive as critical to their own high school graduation, as the measure of academic success and lifelong learning. This dissertation addresses two research questions through the methodology of narrative inquiry: 1) what are the experiences of the African American adults who were educated in the same …
Interracial Interactions And Resource Depletion, Darian E. Johnson
Interracial Interactions And Resource Depletion, Darian E. Johnson
ETD Archive
Self-control/self-regulation depends on a limited resource. It has been suggested that self-presentation may require self-regulation particularly when familiar or dispositional tendencies must be overridden in order to make desired impressions. The more resources used the less a person has control of his or hers executive functioning. This is especially true for some people during interracial interactions. Recent research finds that interracial interactions can negatively impact executive functioning. This study examined whether the anticipation of an interracial interaction would deplete regulatory resources more in an unstructured than a structured (i.e. scripted) condition. Also examined in this study, was whether participants would …
How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond To The Problem Of Internalized Oppression?, Sonya Charles
How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond To The Problem Of Internalized Oppression?, Sonya Charles
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
In "Autonomy and the Feminist Intuition," Natalie Stoljar asks whether a procedural or a substantive approach to autonomy is best for addressing feminist concerns. In this paper, I build on Stoljar's argument that feminists should adopt a strong substantive approach to autonomy. After briefly reviewing the problems with a purely procedural approach, I begin to articulate my own strong substantive theory by focusing specifically on the problem of internalized oppression. In the final section, I briefly address some of the concerns raised by procedural theorists who are leery of a substantive approach.
Sir Thomas Browne’S Annotated Copy Of His 1642 Religio Medici, Brooke Conti
Sir Thomas Browne’S Annotated Copy Of His 1642 Religio Medici, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
Although relatively few readers today may have heard of Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682), the works of this essayist, doctor, and amateur scientist cast long literary shadows. Among those influenced or inspired by Browne are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and W. G. Sebald. The admiration of later generations has to do in part with Browne’s style, for he is widely regarded as one of the finest prose writers in the English language. However, Browne’s wide-ranging intellectual interests, his love of paradoxes, and his playful personality have surely also contributed to his popularity. Combining a skeptical, …
The Mammography Screening Controversy: Who And What Is Heard In The Press?, Sonya Charles, Margaret Holmes-Rovner
The Mammography Screening Controversy: Who And What Is Heard In The Press?, Sonya Charles, Margaret Holmes-Rovner
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
The objective of this project was to analyze newspaper coverage of the January 2000 meta-analysis by Gotzsche and Olsen, “Is screening for breast cancer with mammography justified?” [Lancet 355 (2000) 129]. A content analysis was performed on a comprehensive set of newspaper clippings from the UK during the 2 weeks following publication of the Lancet article. The original authors were most quoted in Wave 1 (the first weekend); the screening programme was most quoted in Wave 2 (week 2). Screening programme description, and the “quality” of the Lancet article dominated Wave 1; patient testimonials increased in Wave 2. Newspaper articles …
Mothers In The Media: Blamed And Celebrated -- An Examination Of Drug Abuse And Multiple Births., Sonya Charles, Tricha Shivas
Mothers In The Media: Blamed And Celebrated -- An Examination Of Drug Abuse And Multiple Births., Sonya Charles, Tricha Shivas
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
The media has always had a profound interest in mothers and birth stories. This study examined the difference between media portrayal of 'good' mothers and 'bad' mothers. Did the media cover potential harm to fetuses and would-be children in the same way for two groups of mothers: (a) pregnant women addicted to illicit drugs and (b) women who chose to continue a high-order, multiple birth pregnancy? Two searches were conducted on Lexis-Nexis, one with keywords 'McCaughey and birth' and another with the keywords 'pregnancy and illegal drugs.' A total of 210 articles were coded for the McCaughey search, and 90 …
The Virtues Of Redundancy In Legal Thought, Randy E. Barnett
The Virtues Of Redundancy In Legal Thought, Randy E. Barnett
Cleveland State Law Review
Redundancy has a bad reputation among legal intellectuals. My interest in the virtues of redundancy grows out of my interest in the social function of the liberal conception of justice and the rule of law. In this essay, I propose that legal theorists pay serious attention to the concept of redundancy used by engineers. I explain how redundancy-in this special sense-is essential to any intellectual enterprise in which we try to reach action-guiding conclusions, including the enterprise of law. I will describe the virtues of redundancy in legal thought. I want to explain why it is useful to rely on …
A Critical Legal Studies Perspective, Mark Tushnet
A Critical Legal Studies Perspective, Mark Tushnet
Cleveland State Law Review
In this comment I want to address two points suggested by Professor Finnis's essay "Natural Law and Legal Reasoning." I say "suggested by" deliberately, for I do not want to attribute the points in their full force to him, although I believe that his essay lends itself to a reading in which those points would be given their full force. The points deal with the question of "easy questions" and what Professor Finnis calls the "sufficient and necessarily artificial clarity and definiteness" that yields answers to such questions, and with the way in which legal professionals are likely to understand …
Justification In The Killing Of An Innocent Person, John Makdisi
Justification In The Killing Of An Innocent Person, John Makdisi
Cleveland State Law Review
It is appropriate to call Finnis' approach to life as an incommensurable basic human good a natural law approach. It suggests that there is more to life than just an accumulation of wealth, happiness, value, etc. There is something about life that we cannot value, that we cannot measure, that we cannot fathom, that is mysterious. While contract and even some tort law are readily adaptable to arguments of economic efficiency, there are areas where such arguments do not belong. Specifically, where the end result cannot be measured because the values at stake are incommensurable, there may be no best …
Natural Law Without Metaphysics: The Case Of John Finnis, Jeremy Shearmur
Natural Law Without Metaphysics: The Case Of John Finnis, Jeremy Shearmur
Cleveland State Law Review
Finnis, in Natural Law and Natural Right, sidesteps certain problems by taking a largely internalist view of natural law. First, for Finnis there is no problem of moving from facts to values, because within his starting-point-the "internal" reflective analysis of action-values are already there to be found. Second, Finnis suggests that what is today often cited as "the" statement of a fact/value problem, Hume's analysis, is in fact better understood as directed towards a different problem: one of the relation between truth and motivation. Here Finnis also offers a solution, suggesting that "one is motivated according to one's understanding of …
Whose Nature - Practical Reason And Patriarchy, Lynne Henderson
Whose Nature - Practical Reason And Patriarchy, Lynne Henderson
Cleveland State Law Review
My comments on John Finnis's Natural Law and Legal Reasoning grow out my concern about the relationship of law to authoritarianism. In this comment, I do not intend to go deeply into the relationship of law to authoritarianism but rather to sketch out the background of the argument. It seems to me that authoritarianism, properly understood, is of great relevance to a symposium on jurisprudence and legal reasoning, because at a minimum, authoritarianism overlaps with legality's ethic of rule-following and obedience to authority. Authoritarian attitudes about authority and morality also are relevant to the jurisprudential concern with the relation of …