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Three Books On Leo Strauss, Steven Frankel Oct 2015

Three Books On Leo Strauss, Steven Frankel

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How To Go Beyond The Body: An Introduction, Guy Dove May 2015

How To Go Beyond The Body: An Introduction, Guy Dove

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Embodied cognition represents one of most important theoretical developments in contemporary cognitive science. Many cognitive processes appear to be influenced by body morphology, emotions, and sensorimotor systems. This perspective is supported by an ever increasing collection of empirical studies that fall into two broad classes: one consisting of experiments that implicate action, emotion, and perception systems in seemingly abstract cognitive tasks and the other consisting of experiments that demonstrate the contribution of bodily interaction with the external environment to the performance of such tasks.

Now that embodied cognition is fairly well established, the time seems right for assessing its further …


The Algorithmic Self, Frank A. Pasquale Apr 2015

The Algorithmic Self, Frank A. Pasquale

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Spinoza’S Rejection Of Maimonideanism, Steven Frankel Jan 2015

Spinoza’S Rejection Of Maimonideanism, Steven Frankel

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Street Rigor: Community Learning In The Liberal Arts, Dan Lloyd Jan 2015

Street Rigor: Community Learning In The Liberal Arts, Dan Lloyd

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This essay was originally written for an online collection of articles on liberal arts in urban contexts, but it has not been formally published. The beginning and ending discuss community learning as a specific pedagogic approach in a liberal arts context. I've revised it for our retreat not to advocate for community service learning (though I do regard CL as a Good Thing), but rather to air the speculations about the nature of the liberal arts -- inspired by Hannah Arendt and John Dewey -- that arise in the latter part of the paper, beginning in section III (p. 6). …


Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, Peter K. Yu Jan 2015

Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, Peter K. Yu

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As an introduction to a special issue on intellectual property philosophy, this article focuses on insights from Asian thought. Such a focus is needed not only to provide balance within this special issue, which includes articles focusing primarily on Western philosophy, but also to highlight the compatibility between Asian philosophy and the notion of intellectual property rights. More importantly, this article aims to demonstrate that Asian philosophy may suggest new ways to address the ongoing and highly complex intellectual property challenges confronting emerging economies and the digital environment.

This article begins by providing a brief discussion of the many different …