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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Varieties Of Indispensability Arguments, Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni
The Varieties Of Indispensability Arguments, Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni
MPP Published Research
The indispensability argument (IA) comes in many different versions that all reduce to a general valid schema. Providing a sound IA amounts to providing a full interpretation of the schema according to which all its premises are true. Hence, arguing whether IA is sound results in wondering whether the schema admits such an interpretation. We discuss in full details all the parameters on which the specification of the general schema may depend. In doing this, we consider how different versions of IA can be obtained, also through different specifications of the notion of indispensability. We then distinguish between schematic and …
Marquette’S Haggerty Museum Has A New Director: Off The Cuff With Susan Longhenry, Curtis L. Carter
Marquette’S Haggerty Museum Has A New Director: Off The Cuff With Susan Longhenry, Curtis L. Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law And Common Sense: An Essay On The Perils And Promise Of Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse
Criminal Law And Common Sense: An Essay On The Perils And Promise Of Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse
All Faculty Scholarship
This article is based on the author’s Barrock Lecture in Criminal Law presented at the Marquette University Law School. The central thesis is that the folk psychology that underpins criminal responsibility is correct and that our commonsense understanding of agency and responsibility and the legitimacy of criminal justice generally are not imperiled by contemporary discoveries in the various sciences, including neuroscience and genetics. These sciences will not revolutionize criminal law, at least not anytime soon, and at most they may make modest contributions to legal doctrine, practice, and policy. Until there are conceptual or scientific breakthroughs, this is my story …
When Is It Mental?, Stuart Glennan
When Is It Mental?, Stuart Glennan
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Most philosophical debate over mental causation has been concerned with reconciling commonsense intuitions that there are causal interactions between the mental and the physical with philosophical theories of the nature of the mental that seem to suggest otherwise. My concern is with a different and more practical problem. We often confront some cognitive, affective, or bodily phenomenon, and wonder about its source – its etiology or its underlying causal basis. For instance, you might wonder whether your queasiness due to something you ate, or whether it is just nervousness, or whether your aunt’s memory loss is a neurological problem or …
Racism At Home And Abroad: Thoughts From A Christian Ethicist, Michael Jones
Racism At Home And Abroad: Thoughts From A Christian Ethicist, Michael Jones
Faculty Publications and Presentations
In this article Christian ethicist Michael S. Jones introduces the work of Princeton University ethicist Thomas Pogge on the areas of global poverty and global justice. He then applies Pogge’s ideas to an ethical issue of continuing importance: racism. He discusses the history of racism in the United States and Romania, pointing out numerous parallels both historical and contemporary. He then discusses the appropriate attitude for Christians to adopt on the issue, arguing that while Christian sources are not univocal on the subject, there is an egalitarianism at the heart of Christianity that rules out racism as a Christian attitude. …
Digital Peacekeepers, Drone Surveillance And Information Fusion: A Philosophical Analysis Of New Peacekeeping, Lisa Portmess, Bassam Romaya
Digital Peacekeepers, Drone Surveillance And Information Fusion: A Philosophical Analysis Of New Peacekeeping, Lisa Portmess, Bassam Romaya
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In June 2014 an Expert Panel on Technology and Innovation in UN Peacekeeping was commissioned to examine how technology and innovation could strengthen peacekeeping missions. The panel's report argues for wider deployment of advanced technologies, including greater use of ground and airborne sensors and other technical sources of data, advanced data analytics and information fusion to assist in data integration. This article explores the emerging intelligence-led, informationist conception of UN peacekeeping against the backdrop of increasingly complex peacekeeping mandates and precarious security conditions. New peacekeeping with its heightened commitment to information as a political resource and the endorsement of offensive …
Against Totalitarianism: Agamben, Foucault, And The Politics Of Critique, C. Heike Schotten
Against Totalitarianism: Agamben, Foucault, And The Politics Of Critique, C. Heike Schotten
Political Science Faculty Publication Series
Despite appearances, Agamben’s engagement with Foucault in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is not an extension of Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics but ra-ther a disciplining of Foucault for failing to take Nazism seriously. This moralizing rebuke is the result of methodological divergences between the two thinkers that, I argue, have fun-damental political consequences. Re-reading Foucault’s most explicitly political work of the mid-1970s, I show that Foucault’s commitment to genealogy is aligned with his commitment to “insurrection”—not simply archival or historical, but practical and political insurrection—even as his non-moralizing understanding of critique makes space for the resistances he hopes …
The Global Health Impact Index: Promoting Global Health, Nicole Hassoun
The Global Health Impact Index: Promoting Global Health, Nicole Hassoun
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
Millions of people cannot access essential medicines they need for deadly diseases like malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS. There is good information on the need for drugs for these diseases but until now, no global estimate of the impact drugs are having on this burden. This paper presents a model measuring companies' key malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS drugs' consequences for global health (global-health-impact.org). It aggregates drugs' impacts in several ways-by disease, country and originator-company. The methodology can be extended across diseases as well as drugs to provide a more extensive picture of the impact companies' drugs are having on the …
If God Didn’T Satisfice, We Could Still Exist, Rick Repetti
If God Didn’T Satisfice, We Could Still Exist, Rick Repetti
Publications and Research
Theodicies of satisficing – defenses of God’s goodness that justify creating minimally satisfactory beings/worlds – originate with Robert Merrihew Adams (1972, 1979). Adams (1972) argued that in creating imperfect beings God was graceful in giving the undeserved gift of life. There have been many objections to Adams’s argument; e.g., Jerome A. Weinstock (1975) objected that God still would have been graceful in granting undeserved life to superior beings, and, among others, E. Wielenberg (2004) objected that grace doesn’t erase the imperfection of creating imperfection. However, Adams’s theodicy arguably maintains two points: (a) non-existing superior beings cannot be harmed by not …
Foucault And Critique: Guest Editor's Introduction To Foucault Circle Selection, Margaret Mclaren
Foucault And Critique: Guest Editor's Introduction To Foucault Circle Selection, Margaret Mclaren
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Sagp Newsletter 2015/16.1 East Scs, Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2015/16.1 East Scs, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
On The Signpost Principle Of Alternate Possibilities: Why Contemporary Frankfurt-Style Cases Are Irrelevant To The Free Will Debate, William Simkulet
On The Signpost Principle Of Alternate Possibilities: Why Contemporary Frankfurt-Style Cases Are Irrelevant To The Free Will Debate, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
This article contends that recent attempts to construct Frankfurt-style cases (FSCs) are irrelevant to the debate over free will. The principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) states that moral responsibility requires indeterminism, or multiple possible futures. Frankfurt's original case purported to demonstrate PAP false by showing an agent can be blameworthy despite not having the ability to choose otherwise; however he admits the agent can come to that choice freely or by force, and thus has alternate possibilities. Neo-FSCs attempt to show that alternate possibilities are irrelevant to explaining an agent's moral responsibility, but a successful Neo-FSC would be consistent with …
A Para-Clerical Approach To The Galileo Affair And To Science Vs. Religion, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
A Para-Clerical Approach To The Galileo Affair And To Science Vs. Religion, Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Philosophy Faculty Research
In 1633, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for defending Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s motion and denying the scientific authority of Scripture. This ended the original controversy, but generated a new one that continues today, for example, about whether the condemnation proves the incompatibility between science and religion. Recently the Galileo affair has been studied by several scholars whom I label “Berkeley para-clericals,” chiefly philosopher Paul Feyerabend and historian John Heilbron. Their approach is distinctive: it views controversial topics involving the relationship between science and religion from a perspective that is secular-minded, but appreciative of religion, and yet conducted in the …
Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg
Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Facticity And Transcendence Across The Disciplines: Phenomenology And The Promise, Neal Deroo
Facticity And Transcendence Across The Disciplines: Phenomenology And The Promise, Neal Deroo
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
This paper begins from one of the most commonly found questions in phenomenology, “What is Phenomenlogy?”, to argue that phenomenology is a trans-disciplinary approach to engaging with the products of human culture. This approach is characterized by paying particular attention to the distinction between facticity and transcendence within “lived experience” so as to help us better articulate and evaluate the promises that animate every human institution. Such a task necessarily requires inter-disciplinary input and helps us engage in our lives—in our shared cultural life—differently.
East Asian Buddhism, Ronald S. Green
East Asian Buddhism, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
No abstract provided.
Getting It Wrong, Neal Deroo
Getting It Wrong, Neal Deroo
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
"We need to remember our sinfulness so we don't get too proud of our own accomplishments or too sure of our ability to save ourselves."
Posting about differing perceptions of history from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/getting-it-wrong/
Topic 6: Aristotelian Ethics: The Virtue Of Success, Lee Eysturlid
Topic 6: Aristotelian Ethics: The Virtue Of Success, Lee Eysturlid
Considerations in Ethics
No abstract provided.
Issues In Modern Genomics, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll
Issues In Modern Genomics, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll
Considerations in Ethics
Breaking News or Science Fiction?
- CRISPR technology, a way to use bacterial proteins to make precise, targeted changes to the DNA of living cells, is under development by multiple scientists.
- The subsequent release of the process and data surrounding it has scientists around the world proclaim that a “new era” of in Molecular Biology has begun.
Do Predictive Brain Implants Threaten Patient Autonomy Or Authenticity?, Eldar Sarajlic
Do Predictive Brain Implants Threaten Patient Autonomy Or Authenticity?, Eldar Sarajlic
Publications and Research
In this commentary, I discuss this Frederic Gilbert's claim that predictive brain implants (PBIs) threaten persons’ autonomy by diminishing their postoperative experience of self-control. Contrary to Gilbert, I suggest that PBIs do not pose a significant threat to patient’s autonomy, as self-control, but rather to his or her sense of authenticity. My claim is that the language of authenticity, already introduced in the recent bioethical literature, may offer a better way to voice some of the concerns with PBIs that Gilbert recognized.
Theory At Yale: The Strange Case Of Deconstruction In America [Table Of Contents], Marc Redfield
Theory At Yale: The Strange Case Of Deconstruction In America [Table Of Contents], Marc Redfield
Literature
This book examines the affinity between “theory” and “deconstruction” that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the “Yale Critics”: Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
With this semi-fictional collective, theory became a media event, first in the academy and then in the wider print media, in and through its phantasmatic link with deconstruction and with “Yale.” The important role played by aesthetic humanism in American pedagogical discourse provides a context for understanding theory as an aesthetic scandal, and an examination of the …
Is There Less Bullshit In For Marx Than In Reading Capital?, William S. Lewis
Is There Less Bullshit In For Marx Than In Reading Capital?, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
This paper explores G. A. Cohen’s claim that Althusser’s Marxist philosophy is bullshit. This exploration is important because, if we are persuaded by Cohen’s assertion that there are only three types of Marxism: analytic, pre-analytic, and bullshit and, further, that only analytic Marxism is concerned with truth and therefore “uniquely legitimate” then, as political philosophers interested in Marxism’s potential philosophical resources, we may wish to privilege its analytic form. However, if Cohen’s attribution is misplaced, then we may wish to explore why Cohen was so insistent in this ascription and what this insistence reveals about his own political philosophy. The …
Darwin’S Dice: The Idea Of Chance In The Thought Of Charles Darwin, Charles H. Pence
Darwin’S Dice: The Idea Of Chance In The Thought Of Charles Darwin, Charles H. Pence
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Can We Still Believe The Bible? An Evangelical Engagement With Contemporary Questions By Craig L. Blomberg, Craighton T. Hippenhammer (Reviewer)
Can We Still Believe The Bible? An Evangelical Engagement With Contemporary Questions By Craig L. Blomberg, Craighton T. Hippenhammer (Reviewer)
Faculty Scholarship – Library Science
This book is an apologetic treatment of six questions most often asked these days about the reliability of the Bible. Those questions are: Aren’t the copies of the Bible hopelessly corrupt? Wasn’t the selection of books for the canon just political? Can we trust any of our translations of the Bible? Don’t these issues rule out biblical inerrancy? Aren’t several narrative genres of the Bible unhistorical? And don’t all the miracles make the Bible mythical?
Getting Spiritual: A Plan For Reaching Conservative Christians With Postmodern Religion, Neal Deroo
Getting Spiritual: A Plan For Reaching Conservative Christians With Postmodern Religion, Neal Deroo
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
Today I hope to talk about how we can try to have good, constructive, mutually-enriching conversations with conservative Christians. I think two things are required for this that are, perhaps, currently lacking from postmodern theology, but the seeds of which I think are already present there. The first thing that is needed is a common vocabulary that is meaningful and connects well with the traditions of both postmodern and conservative Christians. Second, we need to find places or means by which the two groups can come into contact with each other to engage in conversations: what will draw us together, …
Bayle's 'Rorarius,' Leibniz, And Animal Souls, Richard Fry
Bayle's 'Rorarius,' Leibniz, And Animal Souls, Richard Fry
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Bayle produces a set of three criteria to evaluate views of non-human animal souls. These criteria arise from Bayle’s interaction with the extant Modern views on the topic and are meant to capture features that any successful view will have. Bayle criticizes Leibniz’s view of animal souls at length for its reliance on the theory of pre-established harmony, entering into a long exchange with Leibniz on the topic, but Bayle never explicitly applies his criteria. This leads some (including Leibniz) to conclude that Bayle thinks Leibniz’s view satisfies the criteria. I argue in this paper that Leibniz’s view properly satisfies …
Meaning, Being And Expression: A Phenomenological Justification For Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Neal Deroo
Meaning, Being And Expression: A Phenomenological Justification For Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Neal Deroo
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
The purpose of this talk is two-fold: first, to lay out a phenomenological justification for why scientific or theoretical investigation must be carried out both within particular disciplines and across various disciplines; and second, to show that such a justification--alluded to with varying levels of explicitness in various works by various figures--itself opens new paths of exploration for phenomenology.
Department Of Philosophy Colloquium Series, University Of Maine Department Of Philosophy
Department Of Philosophy Colloquium Series, University Of Maine Department Of Philosophy
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series exposes students and other attendees to discussions of different philosophical topics and viewpoints. Two of the speakers this year will address environmental themes.
Three Books On Leo Strauss, Steven Frankel
Preserving The Autographic/Allographic Distinction, P.D. Magnus, Jason R. D'Cruz
Preserving The Autographic/Allographic Distinction, P.D. Magnus, Jason R. D'Cruz
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
In his study of forms of representation, Nel- son Goodman sought to explain why some representations, like words or musical scores, are considered replicable while others, such as paintings, are not. He named the replicable rep- resentations allographic and the ones we consider nonreplicable autographic (Goodman 1976, 113). His explanation of what grounds this distinction is in his theory of notations (chaps. IV–V). That theory essentially seeks to secure the possibility of identity for representations, as well as the possibility of knowing such identity, by setting out a number of requirements. Unless a repre- sentational practice satisfies the requirements (is …