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John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty', Dale E. Miller, Nico Perrino Nov 2019

John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty', Dale E. Miller, Nico Perrino

Philosophy Faculty Publications

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by professor Dale E. Miller to discuss the life and philosophy of the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose 1859 essay “On Liberty” is a classic text — maybe the classic text — defending the principles of free expression.

Miller is a professor and associate dean for research and graduate studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of J.S. Mill: Moral, Social, and Political Thought.


Logical Instrumentalism And Concatenation, Teresa Kouri Kissel Jan 2019

Logical Instrumentalism And Concatenation, Teresa Kouri Kissel

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Logical pluralism is the theory that there is more than one right logic. Logical instrumentalism is the view that a logic is a correct logic if it can be used to fruitfully pursue some deductive inquiry. Logical instrumentalism is a version of logical pluralism, since more than one logic can be used fruitfully. In this paper, I will show that a logical instrumentalist must accept linear logic as a correct logic, since linear logic is useful for studying natural language syntax. I further show that this means that the logical instrumentalist must accept a wide range of connectives, in particular …


No Sinking Violet, Anne-Taylor Cahill Jan 2019

No Sinking Violet, Anne-Taylor Cahill

Philosophy Faculty Publications

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Scandals And Sculpture, Anne-Taylor Cahill Jan 2019

Scandals And Sculpture, Anne-Taylor Cahill

Philosophy Faculty Publications

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Susan Stebbing, Teresa Kouri Kissel Jan 2019

Susan Stebbing, Teresa Kouri Kissel

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was a founder of Analysis and had a large influence on philosophy during the early 20th century. Recently, the work of Michael Beaney (2000), Siobhan Chapman (2013) and Frederique Janssen- Lauret (2017), amongst others, has begun a resurgence of interest in Stebbing. This paper serves as a brief introduction to some of the major features of her philosophical work.


Psychoanalysis, Dignity, And Life: An Introduction, David Metzger Jan 2019

Psychoanalysis, Dignity, And Life: An Introduction, David Metzger

English Faculty Publications

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