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Review Of "The Illusion Of Doubt" By G. Schönbaumsfeld, Peter Baumann
Review Of "The Illusion Of Doubt" By G. Schönbaumsfeld, Peter Baumann
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A Good Enough Heart: Kant And The Cultivation Of Emotions, Krista Karbowski Thomason
A Good Enough Heart: Kant And The Cultivation Of Emotions, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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One way of understanding Kant’s views about moral emotions is the cultivation view. On this view, emotions play a role in Kantian morality provided they are properly cultivated. I evince a sceptical position about the cultivation view. First, I show that the textual evidence in support of cultivation is ambiguous. I then provide an account of emotions in Kant’s theory that explains both his positive and negative views about them. Emotions capture our attention such that they both disrupt the mind’s composure and serve as a surrogate for reason. As such, Kant cannot recommend that we cultivate our emotions.
Review Of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness: Art, Experience, And The Self" By T. Hilgers, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness: Art, Experience, And The Self" By T. Hilgers, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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The Philosophies Of Mathematics, Alan Richard Baker
The Philosophies Of Mathematics, Alan Richard Baker
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Power, Soft Or Deep? An Attempt At Constructive Criticism, Peter Baumann
Power, Soft Or Deep? An Attempt At Constructive Criticism, Peter Baumann
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This paper discusses and criticizes Joseph Nye’s account of soft power. First, we set the stage and make some general remarks about the notion of social power. In the main part of this paper we offer a detailed critical discussion of Nye’s conception of soft power. We conclude that it is too unclear and confused to be of much analytical use. However, despite this failure, Nye is aiming at explaining an important but also neglected form of social power: the power to influence the will and not just the behavior of other agents. In the last part of this paper …
If You Believe, You Believe: A Constitutive Account Of Knowledge Of One’S Own Beliefs, Peter Baumann
If You Believe, You Believe: A Constitutive Account Of Knowledge Of One’S Own Beliefs, Peter Baumann
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Can I be wrong about my own beliefs? More precisely: Can I falsely believe that I believe that p? I argue that the answer is negative. This runs against what many philosophers and psychologists have traditionally thought and still think. I use a rather new kind of argument, – one that is based on considerations about Moore's paradox. It shows that if one believes that one believes that p then one believes that p – even though one can believe that p without believing that one believes that p.
The Life And Times Of Transgenics, Hugh Lacey
The Life And Times Of Transgenics, Hugh Lacey
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Review Of "Anger And Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice" By M. C. Nussbaum, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Review Of "Anger And Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice" By M. C. Nussbaum, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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Essays In Philosophy: Moral Psychology And War, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Essays In Philosophy: Moral Psychology And War, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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Is Everything Revisable?, Peter Baumann
Is Everything Revisable?, Peter Baumann
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Over the decades, the claim that everything is revisable (defended by Quine and others) has played an important role in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Some time ago, Katz (1988) argued that this claim is paradoxical. This paper does not discuss this objection but rather argues that the claim of universal revisability allows for two different readings but in each case leads to a contradiction and is false.
Distinguishing Between Cognitive And Social Values, Hugh Lacey
Distinguishing Between Cognitive And Social Values, Hugh Lacey
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“This Most Human Predicament”: Cavell On Language, Intention, And Desire In Shakespeare, Richard Thomas Eldridge
“This Most Human Predicament”: Cavell On Language, Intention, And Desire In Shakespeare, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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In the second paragraph of “The Avoidance of Love,” the earliest of his essays on Shakespeare, Cavell asks, “What has discouraged attention from investigations of character?” in Shakespeare criticism of the mid-twentieth century. “What […] has [instead] specifically motivated an absorbing attention to words?”, as in the criticism of William Empson and G. Wilson Knight. The answer that Cavell offers is that it is “the merest assumption,” foisted off on us “by some philosophy or other, that [literary] characters are not people, [and] that what can be known about people cannot be known about characters” (DK, 40). Cavell then goes …