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Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Sentience Collection
Debates in applied ethics about the proper treatment of animals often refer to empirical data about animal cognition, emotion, and behavior. In addition, there is increasing interest in the question of whether any nonhuman animal could be something like a moral agent.
Mechanisms, Causes, And The Layered Model Of The World, Stuart Glennan
Mechanisms, Causes, And The Layered Model Of The World, Stuart Glennan
Stuart Glennan
Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in virtue of nomological relations between properties of these individuals and events. Such views fail to take into account the consequences of the fact that in general the properties of individuals and events will depend upon mechanisms that realize those properties. In this paper I attempt to rectify this failure, and in so doing to provide an account of the causal relevance of higher-level properties. I do this by critiquing one prominent model of higher-level properties – Kim’s functional model of reduction – and contrasting it …
Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward A Postmodern Christian Faith, Merold Westphal
Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward A Postmodern Christian Faith, Merold Westphal
Philosophy & Theory
Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an …
Skepticism Leads To Faith, Kelsey Kats
Skepticism Leads To Faith, Kelsey Kats
The First-Year Papers (2010 - present)
No abstract provided.
Nietzsche's Ubermensch In The Hyperreal Flux, Anthony Pate
Nietzsche's Ubermensch In The Hyperreal Flux, Anthony Pate
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Analyzes how Nietzsche's philosophy of the Ubermensch and Baudrillard's ideas about simulation and hyperreality apply to the journeys undertaken by the protagonists of the films, Blade Runner, Fight Club, and Miami Vice. Explores how the protagonists adapt and master their unique worlds through self-awareness, self-reliance, and strength resulting from radical self-exposure to hardship.
Hesitation: An Analysis Of Candide, Jared T. Mink
Hesitation: An Analysis Of Candide, Jared T. Mink
Masters Theses
Candide calls into question its merit as literature or philosophy because it draws its reader into eisegesis. The act of interpreting Candide is never a cool judgment. The enigmatic ending forces the reader to see that acts of judgment are appetitive: Desires shape judgment; judgment plies desire. Candide's behavior reveals eighteenth century interest in "the body," which was the scientist's chief tool in entering "the void" to explore the integrity of new knowledge. We see this body interest in Locke's Essay and, through a concept of "hesitation," we can see that Voltaire absorbed Lock's view of the interconnection between judgment …
Review Of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom And The End Of Reason: On The Moral Foundation Of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom And The End Of Reason: On The Moral Foundation Of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Richard L. Velldey, Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1989. Pp. xxi + 222. US$29.95. ISBN 0-226-85260-1.
Review Of Hans Reiss, Editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Hans Reiss, Editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
This collection of the political writings of Kant is part of the new Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.
Review Of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare In The Kantian State (1999), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare In The Kantian State (1999), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Welfare in the Kantian State. By Alexander Kaufman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xii, 179. ISBN 0-19-829467-0 (cloth). £42.50, $45.00.
Explaining, Assessing, And Changing High Consumption, Harry Van Der Linden
Explaining, Assessing, And Changing High Consumption, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
These writings reflect the renewed interest in the 1990s of scholars and the public in questioning the consumer society, an interest that the political crises engendered by 9/11 have overshadowed but not eliminated. In The Overspent American, Schor explains the emergence of strong doubts about high consumption by arguing that a “new consumerism” of escalating desires has evolved that is increasingly costly to the American high consumers themselves.
Would The United States Doctrine Of Preventative War Be Justified As A United Nations Doctrine?, Harry Van Der Linden
Would The United States Doctrine Of Preventative War Be Justified As A United Nations Doctrine?, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
On the same day, 23 September 2003, that President George W. Bush defended his Iraq policy to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan also spoke to the Assembly. Annan reiterated his opposition to the view that states may independently be justified in using military force “preemptively” to avoid the dangers posed by the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) among states and terrorists, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives, Ceren Ozselcuk
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives, Ceren Ozselcuk
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This dissertation provides a particular Marxian class analytical political economy critique of post-Marxism. The dissertation demonstrates the ways in which different positions within post-Marxism continue to essentialize the conceptualizations of class and capitalist economy. What distinguishes this dissertation from other dominant critiques of post-Marxism is the anti-essentialist epistemological and ontological position it adopts. By adopting an anti-essentialist epistemological position the dissertation is able to demonstrate the discontinuities and continuities between post-Marxism and the Marxian tradition. The dissertation does this by reading the heterogeneous and disparate post-Marxian approaches as so many different ways to "resolve" the central tension of the Althusserian …
Annotated Bibliography On O.K. Bouwsma Collection, Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
Annotated Bibliography On O.K. Bouwsma Collection, Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
O.K. Bouwsma Collection
Dr. Ronald Hustwit is the author of O.K. Bouwsma: A Philosophers Journey, Something About O.K. Bouwsma, An Annotated Bibliography of Bouwsma’s works, and an Index of The Bouwsma Collection at The Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas. He has edited five works of O.K. Bouwsma’s papers: Toward a New Sensibility, Without Proof or Evidence, Wittgenstein Conversations, Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy and Bouwsma’s Commonplace Book.
Theological And Pedagogical Implications Of The Role Of Zionism In Reform Jewish Manifestos: A Bridge From Vision To Praxis, Haim O. Rechnitzer, Gabriella Minnes Brandes
Theological And Pedagogical Implications Of The Role Of Zionism In Reform Jewish Manifestos: A Bridge From Vision To Praxis, Haim O. Rechnitzer, Gabriella Minnes Brandes
Haim O Rechnitzer חיים א. רכניצר
In this article, we explore the transition from philosophical and theological manifestos to their practical and educational implementation as we analyze the official American Reform-Judaism discourse as curricular text. This analysis provides a tool for a discussion of the relationships between vision and its implementation particularly for educators and leaders. We highlight the possibilities of dialogue among educators, rabbis-in-training, and leaders to aid in the formation of new visionary documents and, in doing so, affect the dynamics of paving new directions. We demonstrate a model that may be used to investigate such translations from vision to a lived experience and …
Toward A Trans-Liberal Romanticism: The Case Of A. E. Simon (Hebrew), Haim O. Rechnitzer
Toward A Trans-Liberal Romanticism: The Case Of A. E. Simon (Hebrew), Haim O. Rechnitzer
Haim O Rechnitzer חיים א. רכניצר
No abstract provided.
John Langshaw Austin: Evolution, Communication And Language Daily (John Langshaw Austin: Evolución, Comunicación Y Lenguaje Cotidiano) Spanish, Fernando Estrada
John Langshaw Austin: Evolution, Communication And Language Daily (John Langshaw Austin: Evolución, Comunicación Y Lenguaje Cotidiano) Spanish, Fernando Estrada
Fernando Estrada
In this paper the main purpose is to expose the relevance of focus of John L. Austin and their opposition a conception type on the communication. Austin elaborates - in its own terms - to “linguistic phenomenology,” with which revises some places thrashed critically. Those “you force illocutionary” and those “speech acts,” they will be central concepts in this analytic company. In the perspective of Austin should not make a mistake communication with information. The work that here develop it proposes some usually notices in defense of the normative functions of the language ordinary.
Introduction, Andrew Kania
Introduction, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
To say that Memento (2000) is thought-provoking would be, at best, an understatement. One of the main reasons for this neo-noir's popular success is that audiences were hooked by the very puzzles that make the film a challenging one. These puzzles occur at various levels. There is the initial question of what exactly the structure of the film is and, once this is solved, the much more difficult task of extracting the story—what actually happens in the film, and the chronological order of the fictional events—from the fragmented plot. At the same time, however, the film quite explicitly raises philosophical …
Nietzsche, Virtue, And The Horror Of Existence, Philip J. Kain
Nietzsche, Virtue, And The Horror Of Existence, Philip J. Kain
Philosophy
Robert Solomon argues that Nietzsche is committed to a virtue ethic like Aristotle's. Solomon’s approach seems unaware of Nietzsche’s belief in the horror of existence. A life that contains as much suffering as Nietzsche expects a life to contain, could not be considered a good life by Aristotle. To go further, as Nietzsche does in his doctrines of eternal recurrence and amor fati, to advocate loving such a fate, to refuse to change the slightest detail, Aristotle would find debased. Nietzsche is committed to a virtue ethic, but not an Aristotelian one.
Intentions And Interpretations: Philosophical Fiction As Conversation, Jukka Mikkonen
Intentions And Interpretations: Philosophical Fiction As Conversation, Jukka Mikkonen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Appeals to the actual author's intention in order to legitimate an interpretation of a work of literary narrative fiction have generally been considered extraneous in Anglo-American philosophy of literature since Wimsatt and Beardsley's well-known manifesto from the 1940s. For over sixty years now so-called anti-intentionalists have argued that the author's intentions – plans, aims, and purposes considering her work – are highly irrelevant to interpretation. In this paper, I shall argue that the relevance of the actual author's intentions varies in different approaches to fiction, and suggest that fictions are legitimately interpreted intentionally as conversations in a certain kind of …
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge
The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Philosophy Faculty Works
This introductory article explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relations of complementarity and opposition between philosophy and literature. This book explores the interests for human life of specific genres of literature, considers broad modes of attention that have marked off certain large cultural periods from one another, traces workings of certain central literary devices for achieving attention and evaluates the use of literature as a practice in relation to the practices of inquiry, morality and politics. It also discusses the significance of the works of some philosophers in analyzing literary practice.
After Utopia: Three Post-Personal Subjects Consider The Possibilities, Jeffrey P. Cain
After Utopia: Three Post-Personal Subjects Consider The Possibilities, Jeffrey P. Cain
English Faculty Publications
Review essay.
The task for those exploring the relationship of Deleuze to cultural issues is not to extend his thought in a straight line, but to swerve or veer into thinking a productive approach to the cultural events that actualise themselves in our time. Cain states that the virtue of these three books is that they do not simply go back to the same old questions; all of them represent departures in thinking in the best sense of the word.
William E. Connolly (2008). Capitalism and Christianity, American Style. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Alexander García Düttmann (2007). …
Governmentality, Biopower, And The Debate Over Genetic Enhancement, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Governmentality, Biopower, And The Debate Over Genetic Enhancement, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Although Foucault adamantly refused to make moral pronouncements or dictate moral principles or political programs to his readers, his work offers a number of tools and concepts that can help us develop our own ethical views and practices. One of these tools is genealogical analysis, and one of these concepts is “biopower.” Specifically, this essay seeks to demonstrate that Foucault’s concept of biopower and his genealogical method are valuable as we consider moral questions raised by genetic enhancement technologies. First, it examines contemporary debate over the development, marketing, and application of such technologies, suggesting that what passes for ethical deliberation …
Break The Sky: An Exploration Of Ethics With Swords And Superheroes, Kris Miranda
Break The Sky: An Exploration Of Ethics With Swords And Superheroes, Kris Miranda
Honors Theses
In an extended piece of speculative fiction (specifically, a cross between the sword-and-sorcery and superhero genres), I try to explore the complexities of ethical deliberation in difficult circumstances. Through my protagonist I also present an “alternative” to Enlightenment ethics. I’ve referred to this alternative as an “ethics of the badass and the beautiful,” a little (but only a little) jokingly. The reason for doing all of this through fiction, and not a conventional philosophical paper, is that I believe my ethical education started in stories, and it’s still in good stories and the creative exploration of concretely realized personalities (as …
The Archaeology And Translation Of Greek Tragedy : Tragedy And The Emotions, Daniel Edward Gremmler
The Archaeology And Translation Of Greek Tragedy : Tragedy And The Emotions, Daniel Edward Gremmler
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The history of interpreting Greek tragedy and the emotions is a history of logos. Tragedy, however, is poiēsis and speaks the language of muthos. This project approaches popular interpretations of tragedy and the emotions as problems of translation between various discourses: between Greek and English, past and present, historical and transhistorical, logos and muthos. After identifying the ways in which logos clashes with logos from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and modern classicists, we suggest a new framework through which the emotional effect of tragedy, the tragic pleasure, can be understood: the thaumon and the deinon (wondrous and terrible).
A Natural History Of The Mind : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Michael Edmund Jonik
A Natural History Of The Mind : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Michael Edmund Jonik
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This project examines how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American writers drew on European natural science and philosophy - specifically in terms of concepts of form, perception, and experience - to open new possibilities for thinking the relationship between the mind and the physical world. In each of the moments of American intellectual history here considered - the natural theology of Calvinism, the idealistic natural history of Transcendentalism, and the movement towards an evolutionary process-philosophy of Pragmatism - "place" becomes not only geographical location, but a dynamic field of interactions of natural historical, literary, theological, and philosophical knowledge. I trace this through …
The Perils Of Forgetting Fairness, Michael B. Dorff, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
The Perils Of Forgetting Fairness, Michael B. Dorff, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Power Of Flowers: The Philosophy Of Organism Of The Maya, Juan Ferret
The Power Of Flowers: The Philosophy Of Organism Of The Maya, Juan Ferret
Juan Ferret
No abstract provided.
Creating A Warmer Environment For Women In The Mathematical Sciences And In Philosophy, Samantha Brennan, Rob Corless
Creating A Warmer Environment For Women In The Mathematical Sciences And In Philosophy, Samantha Brennan, Rob Corless
Samantha Brennan
No abstract provided.
Sulle Tracce Della Malinconia. Un Approccio Filosofico-Sociale, In "Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche", Ix, N. 17 (2009), Pp. 83-102., Marco Solinas
Sulle Tracce Della Malinconia. Un Approccio Filosofico-Sociale, In "Costruzioni Psicoanalitiche", Ix, N. 17 (2009), Pp. 83-102., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
Il saggio mira ad analizzare il graduale processo storico di parziale sovrapposizione, sostituzione ed ampliamento del paradigma teoretico della depressione rispetto a quello della melanconia. La prima parte è dedicata ad analizzare alcuni dei tratti nevralgici delle polivalenti tematizzazioni della malinconia avvenuti nel corso della modernità, anche in relazione allo spirito del capitalismo (nella sua accezione weberiana). Segue una panoramica sulla nascita della categoria moderna di depressione, e del processo che nel corso del XX secolo l’ha condotta alla sua trasformazione in un paradigma teoretico e nosologico che ha infine sostituito quello della melanconia. La seconda parte rappresenta il tentativo …
L’Impronta Dell’Inutilità. Il Tramonto Delle Cause Finali Nell’Impianto Evoluzionistico, In "Leussein. Rivista Di Studi Umanistici", Ii, 3/6 (2009), Pp. 127-145., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
No abstract provided.