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Review Of "The Imagination In German Idealism And Romanticism" Edited By G. Gentry And K. Pollok, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "The Imagination In German Idealism And Romanticism" Edited By G. Gentry And K. Pollok, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Encountering Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Encountering Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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I first came across Stanley Cavell’s writing in the fall of 1974 in a senior seminar in the philosophy of mind at Middlebury College, co-taught by Stanley Bates and Timothy Gould. We spent most of the term reading Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind and P. F. Strawson’s Individuals—books that at that time, before the widespread reception of Kripke’s Naming and Necessity, Putnam-style functionalism, and central state identity theory, still counted as contemporary philosophy of mind. It was then felt by Bates and Gould, I conjecture, that something more lively and something having to do with subjectivity might be order. …
Brains In Vats? Don't Bother!, Peter Baumann
Brains In Vats? Don't Bother!, Peter Baumann
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Contemporary discussions of epistemological skepticism – the view that we do not and cannot know anything about the world around us – focus very much on a certain kind of skeptical argument involving a skeptical scenario (a situation familiar from Descartes' First Meditation). According to the argument, knowing some ordinary proposition about the world (one we usually take ourselves to know) requires knowing we are not in some such skeptical scenario SK; however, since we cannot know that we are not in SK we also cannot know any ordinary proposition. One of the most prominent skeptical scenarios is the brain-in-the-vat-scenario: …
Science, Values, Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge And Dialogue Of Saberes, Hugh Lacey
Science, Values, Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge And Dialogue Of Saberes, Hugh Lacey
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This article discusses the possibility of a constructive dialogue between modern science and traditional/indigenous saberes, including the saberes of the Traditional peoples of Latin America. The argument developed here depends on interpreting science in terms of multi-strategic research [P-MS]: it makes use of the distinction between decontextualizing strategies (SDs) and contest-sensitive strategies (SCs) and the theses: the methodological strategies adopted in research projects can vary with the characteristics of the objects being investigated; there are relations of mutual reinforcement between the adoption of a strategy and adherence to particular ethical and social values; there are limits on the types of …
Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal Alliances, Tamsin E. Lorraine
Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal Alliances, Tamsin E. Lorraine
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Review Of “Aspiration: The Agency Of Becoming" By A. Callard, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Review Of “Aspiration: The Agency Of Becoming" By A. Callard, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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Our Own Flesh And Blood: Putting The Body At The Center Of Violence And Dehumanization, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Our Own Flesh And Blood: Putting The Body At The Center Of Violence And Dehumanization, Krista Karbowski Thomason
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Werner Herzog: Filmmaker And Philosopher, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker And Philosopher, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it. His films demonstrate the importance of the image …
Adoção De Medidas De Precaução Diante Dos Riscos No Uso Das Inovações Tecnocientíficas, Hugh Lacey
Adoção De Medidas De Precaução Diante Dos Riscos No Uso Das Inovações Tecnocientíficas, Hugh Lacey
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Identifico medidas de precaução que devem ser adotadas para prevenir ou reduzir o risco dos efeitos danosos possivelmente ocasionados pelos usos das inovações científicas. Meu argumento se vale em especial de situações em que há incerteza a respeito dos riscos envolvidos. Sustenta que medidas eticamente adequadas precisam ser informadas pelos resultados das pesquisas científicas empreendidas (sob as estratégias metodológicas apropriadas) com o fim de identificar, tanto quanto possível, os efeitos danosos possíveis e a variedade dos mecanismos que levem à sua efetiva ocorrência, bem como as condições em que eles atualmente ocorreriam, e com qual magnitude e probabilidade, bem como …