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Video Art: Cultural Transformations, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

In the 1960s, there were efforts to move broadcast television in the direction of the experimental video art by altering television's conventional format. Fred Barzyk, in his role as a producer and director at WGBH-TV in Boston, was uniquely positioned to act as a link between television and experimental video artists who normally would not have had access to the technology available at a major broadcast facility. As the leading innovator in the beginnings of video art, the Korean American Nam June Paik (1932-2006) deserves special mention. His work bridges the worlds of art, video technology, and television. The video …

New Curator At Milwaukee Art Museum: Off The Cuff With Brandon Ruud, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Reconfiguring Identity In Schelling’S Würzburg System, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

I consider the identity-theory of the Würzburg System as part of Schelling's five-year project to provide a metaphysical foundation for Naturphilosophie that is free of Kantian/Fichtean subjectivism and obeys the key constraint formulated by the German appropriation of Spinoza's: there can be no "egress from the absolute," i.e., no deduction of the limitations of finitude such as the Wissenschaftslehre provided. The demands of epistemic security (the identity of that which knows and what is known) and ontological simplicity (the impossibility of ontological commitment both to an absolute and to individuals) are met by reworking the theory of the absolute's 'cognition' …

Nietzsche's Revaluation Of All Values, Joseph Anthony Kranak

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation looks at the details of Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the revaluation of all values. The dissertation will look at the idea in several ways to elucidate the depth and complexity of the idea. First, it will be looked at through its evolution, as it began as an idea early in Nietzsche's career and reached its full complexity at the end of his career with the planned publication of his Revaluation of All Values, just before the onset of his madness. Several questions will be explored: What is the nature of the revaluator who is supposed to be instrumental …

Review Of Being, Essence, And Substance In Plato And Aristotle By Paul Ricoeur, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Kant's Apophaticism Of Finitude: A Grammar Of Hope For Speaking Humanly Of God, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Han And Tang Ideals And The Future Of Chinese Arts, Curtis L. Carter, Yang Yibo

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Kandinsky At The Milwaukee Art Museum, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Populism, Pueblos, And Plutocracy: Notes On Radical Democracy From Latin America, Grant J. Silva

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance: Gender And Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, And Resistant Imaginations By Jose Medina, Michael J. Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Language As The House Of Being? How To Bring Intelligibility To Heidegger While Keeping The Excitement, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

At the core of Heidegger's philosophy, there lies this nagging question: what is the link between language and being? Using a famous formulation by Heidegger as a guide (‘When we go to the well, when we go through the woods, we are always already going through the word “well”, through the word “woods”’), the analysis focuses on the connection Heidegger establishes between being (what woods and well ‘are’), understanding (something is understood ‘as’ woods or well), and temporality (human understanding of woods and well has changed since ancient Greek times, for example). Language is both what grants things their way …

Reassessing Neo-Kantianism. Another Look At Hermann Cohen’S Kant Interpretation, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance By Jose Medina, Michael J. Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Uncommon Art From Common Folk, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Concept Of Privilege: A Critical Appraisal, Michael Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

In this essay, I examine the use of the concept of privilege within the critical theoretical discourse on oppression and liberation (with a particular focus on white privilege and antiracism in the USA). In order to fulfill the rhetorical aims of liberation, concepts for privilege must meet what I term the ‘boundary condition’, which demarcates the boundary between a privileged elite and the rest of society, and the ‘ignorance condition’, which establishes that the elite status and the advantages it confers are not publicly recognised or affirmed. I argue that the dominant use of the concept of privilege cannot fulfill …

Moral Vulnerability And The Task Of Reparations, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This essay seeks to understand the domain and demands of reparative justice in terms of moral vulnerability. Significant harms raise the question of whether victims stand in truly reciprocal practices of accountability; if they do, they enjoy the power of calling others to account as well as bearing the liability of being accountable to others. In the aftermath of harms, victims’ moral vulnerability is tested: they may be exposed to the insult and injury of discovering that they do not enjoy the moral standing of holding others accountable. While the occasion of reparative justice is significant wrongs and wrongful harms …

Religion Beyond The Limits Of Criticism, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Introduction To Aesthetics Of Everyday Life: East And West, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Curating [Encyclopedia Entry], Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Art Photography And Everyday Life, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Did Schelling Misunderstand Fichte’S Transcendental Method?, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

The Fichte-Schelling Correspondence interweaves intriguing personal stories and philosophical combat. One of the sadder personal stories involves Schelling getting wind of Fichte’s remark to Friedrich Schlegel that he did not understand transcendental method. The letters document several clumsy attempts by Fichte to minimize the criticism only to have it surface again in a letter Fichte wrote to a former student, Jean Baptiste Schad, who showed the letter to Schelling. In it, Fichte claimed that Schelling understood Wissenschaftslehre no better than Friedrich Nicolai, whom Fichte had publicly excoriated for critiquing as “I-philosophy” a superficial assemblage of random quotes from mixed sources.

Kultur Als »Operativ Verschatteter Begriff« Bei Cassirer Was Ist Das Objekt Von Cassirers Kulturphilosophie - Und Was Ist Die Aufgabe Dieser Kulturphilosophie?, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Hermeneutics, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism, Daniel Diederich Farmer

Dissertations (1934 -)

From the perspective of at least some of our valuing practices, the advance of the sciences can seem to constitute a threat. The question I take up in this dissertation is whether or not naturalism--understood as the picture of the world and of ourselves bequeathed to us by the sciences--should be understood as a threat to our moral practices, to moral living. On the account I defend, the knowledge we gain from empirical inquiry need not undermine moral living in toto, although a naturalistic mindset does raise some possibly dangerous questions for particular inherited moral norms and ideals.

In defense …

Blurring Two Conceptions Of Subjective Experience: Folk Versus Philosophical Phenomenality, Anthony F. Peressini

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Philosophers and psychologists have experimentally explored various aspects of people's understandings of subjective experience based on their responses to questions about whether robots “see red” or “feel frustrated,” but the intelligibility of such questions may well presuppose that people understand robots as experiencers in the first place. Departing from the standard approach, I develop an experimental framework that distinguishes between “phenomenal consciousness” as it is applied to a subject (an experiencer) and to an (experiential) mental state and experimentally test folk understandings of both subjective experience and experiencers. My findings (1) reveal limitations in experimental approaches using “artificial experiencers” like …

Introduction [To Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives From Philosophy, Theology, And Psychology], Nancy E. Snow

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Dichtung Als Übersetzung. Heideggers Reformulierung Von Platons Denken Unter Dem Einfluss Der Romantik, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Historical Accountability And The Virtue Of Civic Integrity, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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