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How Save Aquinas's "Intellectus Essentiae Arguement" For The Real Distinction Between Essence And Esse?, David Twetten Dec 2019

How Save Aquinas's "Intellectus Essentiae Arguement" For The Real Distinction Between Essence And Esse?, David Twetten

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Aquinas’ so-called “Intellectus essentiae Argument” for the distinction between being and essence is notoriously suspect, including among defenders of Aquinas’ distinction. For the paper in this volume, I take as my starting point the recent defense of the argument by Fr. Lawrence Dewan, O.P. Fr. Dewan’s project is unsuccessful. Pointing out some shortcomings in his readings allows me to take up his call to highlight the “formal” or “quidditative side” of Aquinas’ metaphysics, in this case in regards to the proofs of the “real distinction.” Accordingly, the second half of this paper sets forth a way in which the …


Disney’S Endgame: How The Franchise Came To Rule Cinema, Gerry Canavan Dec 2019

Disney’S Endgame: How The Franchise Came To Rule Cinema, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


What Historians Can Learn From Translators, Alison Clark Efford Dec 2019

What Historians Can Learn From Translators, Alison Clark Efford

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Conservative Revolutionaries: Transformation And Tradition In The Religious And Political Thought Of Charles Chauncy And Jonathan Mayhew, J. Patrick Mullins Dec 2019

Review Of Conservative Revolutionaries: Transformation And Tradition In The Religious And Political Thought Of Charles Chauncy And Jonathan Mayhew, J. Patrick Mullins

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Books For Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing And The Rise Of Summer Reading By Donna Harrington-Lueker, Sarah Wadsworth Dec 2019

Review Of Books For Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing And The Rise Of Summer Reading By Donna Harrington-Lueker, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Asaba Massacre During The Nigerian Civil War, Chima J. Korieh Nov 2019

Review Of The Asaba Massacre During The Nigerian Civil War, Chima J. Korieh

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Crossroad Imagination: The Thob Mediating Between Palestinian Material Culture And Gendered Activism, Enaya Othman Nov 2019

Crossroad Imagination: The Thob Mediating Between Palestinian Material Culture And Gendered Activism, Enaya Othman

Arabic Languages and Literatures

This study explores Palestinian women’s performativity regarding the thob as a form of agency. As wearers, designers, and advocators of the Palestinian thob, they gain authority over the discursive inventions of cultural and national symbols. They reconfigure what has been historically connected with tradition and antiquity into contemporary and fashionable. As their traditional –which is yet dynamic- dress and as a sign of their various identities, Palestinian cultural clothing and other types of ornamentation serve as means for Palestinian women in the US to enlarge their social role in addition to generating new meanings as “expressive culture of the …


W. E. B. Du Bois’S “Conservation Of Races”: A Metaphilosophical Text, Kimberly Ann Harris Oct 2019

W. E. B. Du Bois’S “Conservation Of Races”: A Metaphilosophical Text, Kimberly Ann Harris

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Nothing was more important for W. E. B. Du Bois than to promote the upward mobility of African Americans. This essay revisits his “Conversation of Races” to demonstrate its general philosophical importance. Ultimately, Du Bois’s three motivations for giving the address reveal his view of the nature of philosophical inquiry: to critique earlier phenotypic conceptions of race, to show the essentiality of history, and to promote a reflexive practice. Commentators have been unduly invested in the hermeneutic readings and as a result have misunderstood its philosophical dimensions. Du Bois did more than introduce the concept of race into the purview …


Sicily’S Historical Traumas: Luigi Pirandello’S “L’Altro Figlio” And Its Cinematic Rendition By Paolo And Vittorio Taviani In Kaos (1984), Giordana Poggiolo-Kaftan Oct 2019

Sicily’S Historical Traumas: Luigi Pirandello’S “L’Altro Figlio” And Its Cinematic Rendition By Paolo And Vittorio Taviani In Kaos (1984), Giordana Poggiolo-Kaftan

Italian Languages and Literature

Il saggio prende in esame una novella pirandelliana e la sua resa cinematografica. In “L’altro figlio”, Maragrazia, la protagonista, vive completamente e tragicamente emarginata dagli abitanti di Farnia (Sicilia) che la considerano una vecchia pazza. Causa della sua apparente pazzia sembra essere la lontananza dei suoi amati figli, emigrati da anni in America come tanti concittadini, con i quali ha perso ogni contatto. Un giovane medico appena arrivato a Farnia ha pena di Maragrazia e, interessandosi del suo stato mentale, decide di farsi raccontare la storia della sua vita. Viene così a scoprire che il marito della povera donna era …


Review Of Palmito Ranch: From Civil War Battlefield To National Historic Landmark, James Marten Oct 2019

Review Of Palmito Ranch: From Civil War Battlefield To National Historic Landmark, James Marten

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Art And The Ecology Of Leisure, Curtis Carter Oct 2019

Art And The Ecology Of Leisure, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Philosophers, scientists, and artists alike are prone to explore important questions concerning ecology as it relates to the impact of human actions for the future of nature and human civilizations. The main focus in this essay is to consider ecological implications of art understood as a form of leisure. Art is of course more than leisure for the artists and other arts professionals, but its personal and societal roles also serve as leisure activities. Both the production of art and its consumption have important ecological implications. Select philosophical (Hegel) and scientific (Escobar) concerning art and nature provide a context for …


Kath' Hauta Predicates And The 'Commensurate Universals', Owen Goldin Oct 2019

Kath' Hauta Predicates And The 'Commensurate Universals', Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

What lies behind Aristotle’s declarations that an attribute or feature that is demonstrated to belong to a scientific subject is proper to that subject? The answer is found in APo. 2.8-10, if we understand these chapters as bearing not only on Aristotle theory of definition but also as clarifying the logical structure of demonstration in general. If we identify the basic subjects with what has no different cause, and demonstrable attributes (the kath’ hauta sumbebēkota) with what do have ‘a different cause’, the definitions of demonstrable attributes necessarily have the minor terms of the appropriate demonstrations in their …


Linking Science, Religious And Indigenous Communities For Environmental Care, Jame Schaefer Oct 2019

Linking Science, Religious And Indigenous Communities For Environmental Care, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Literature, Sex, And The Invisible World: Shaffer & Stoppard Confront The Cultural “Other”, Edwin Block Oct 2019

Literature, Sex, And The Invisible World: Shaffer & Stoppard Confront The Cultural “Other”, Edwin Block

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


“Transfer Talk” In Talk About Writing In Progress: Two Propositions About Transfer Of Learning, Rebecca Nowacek, Bridget Bodee, Julia E. Douglas, William V. Fitzsimmons, Katherine A. Hausladen, Megan Knowles, Molly Nugent Oct 2019

“Transfer Talk” In Talk About Writing In Progress: Two Propositions About Transfer Of Learning, Rebecca Nowacek, Bridget Bodee, Julia E. Douglas, William V. Fitzsimmons, Katherine A. Hausladen, Megan Knowles, Molly Nugent

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article tracks the emergence of the concept of “transfer talk”—a concept distinct from transfer of learning—and teases out the implications of transfer talk for theories of transfer of learning. The concept of transfer talk was developed through a systematic examination of 30 writing center transcripts and is defined as “the talk through which individuals make visible their prior learning (in this case, about writing) or try to access the prior learning of someone else.” In addition to including a taxonomy of transfer talk and analysis of which types occur most often in this set of conferences, this article advances …


Gen-Ed Revisions And Community Engagement: Opportunities For Alignment And Potential Pitfalls, Lillian Campbell Oct 2019

Gen-Ed Revisions And Community Engagement: Opportunities For Alignment And Potential Pitfalls, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Cities As Ways Of World Making, Curtis Carter Oct 2019

Introduction: Cities As Ways Of World Making, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Gerardo Aste, Sj: Dando Razones De Nuestra Esperanza: Iii—Jesús, El Hombre Que Es Dios, John Thiede Sep 2019

Book Review: Gerardo Aste, Sj: Dando Razones De Nuestra Esperanza: Iii—Jesús, El Hombre Que Es Dios, John Thiede

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Comparative Philosophy And Decolonial Struggle: The Epistemic Injustice Of Colonization And Liberation Of Human Reason, Grant J. Silva Sep 2019

Comparative Philosophy And Decolonial Struggle: The Epistemic Injustice Of Colonization And Liberation Of Human Reason, Grant J. Silva

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This essay explores the extent to which comparative philosophy can assist decolonial struggle. In order to accomplish this task, I offer not only a description of philosophy's colonization but also an account of how this discipline remains subject to the coloniality of knowledge. In short, insofar as race, gender, class, and sexuality are considered irrelevant or accidental to the production of philosophical knowledge, professional philosophy replicates, if not continues, what Rajeev Bhargava terms the epistemic injustice of colonialism. One response to the colonization of philosophy is “diversification” by means of putting into conversation philosophers, systems, and ideas from differing cultures …


The Ethical Commonwealth, The "Son Of God," And The Social Empowerment Of Human Freedom, Philip Rossi Aug 2019

The Ethical Commonwealth, The "Son Of God," And The Social Empowerment Of Human Freedom, Philip Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

In the account of a critically disciplined religion that Kant presents in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, he accords significance to the “Son of God” (the term he uses to refer to Jesus in this text) as a function of the moral accountability that human agents have for the good and for the evil that issues from their conduct. Such accountability, as Kant tersely puts it, bears most notably upon the shaping of one’s moral character through an entire life: “The human being must make or have made himself into whatever he is or should become in a …


Maimonides And Aquinas On Divine Attributes The Importance Of Avicenna, Richard C. Taylor Aug 2019

Maimonides And Aquinas On Divine Attributes The Importance Of Avicenna, Richard C. Taylor

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Torture Debate And The Toleration Of Torture, Jessica Wolfendale Aug 2019

The Torture Debate And The Toleration Of Torture, Jessica Wolfendale

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Kant And The Question Of Theology, Edited By Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs And James H. Joiner, Philip Rossi Jul 2019

Review Of Kant And The Question Of Theology, Edited By Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs And James H. Joiner, Philip Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Native Southerners: Indigenous History From Origins To Removal, By Gregory D. Smithers, Bryan C. Rindfleisch Jul 2019

Review Of Native Southerners: Indigenous History From Origins To Removal, By Gregory D. Smithers, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Rondeau, Elizaveta Strakhov Jul 2019

Rondeau, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


From Vatican Ii To Amoris Laetitia: The Catholic Social And Sexual Ethics Division And A Way Of Ecclesial Interconnection, Alexandre Andrade Martins Jul 2019

From Vatican Ii To Amoris Laetitia: The Catholic Social And Sexual Ethics Division And A Way Of Ecclesial Interconnection, Alexandre Andrade Martins

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This paper navigates the development of ethical issues during Vatican II and the impulse to develop a new moral theology just after the Council. This paper argues, on one hand, that Gaudium et Spes develops a new moral theology based on the imperative of conscience mediated by faith in issues of social ethics. On the other hand, the old moral orientation was preserved on sexual ethics. After the council, these two moral faces have led magisterial teaching to two different paths that can be seen chronologically in approaches used for issues of social and sexual ethics. Vatican II encouraged a …


Rhetorically Framing The “Inside Woman”: Female Healthcare Workers Across Editions Of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Lillian Campbell Jul 2019

Rhetorically Framing The “Inside Woman”: Female Healthcare Workers Across Editions Of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article examines the framing of female healthcare workers—the “inside women”—in the 1971 edition of OBOS, the 1973 edition when it transitioned to Simon and Schuster, and the current 2011 edition. While each historical moment was marked by ideological shifts in the goals of feminist health movements, the editions are consistently mistrustful towards female healthcare workers, arguing that they approach healthcare like men. Drawing on rhetorical frame analysis, this article demonstrates how this perspective remained anchored over time and considers the implications of this mistrustful stance towards healthcare insiders for both OBOS and feminist health movements today.


David Holmes, Timothy Barnard, And Questionable Loyalties, Bryan C. Rindfleisch Jun 2019

David Holmes, Timothy Barnard, And Questionable Loyalties, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Nature And Operation Of Structural Sin: Additional Insights From Theology And Moral Psychology, Conor M. Kelly Jun 2019

The Nature And Operation Of Structural Sin: Additional Insights From Theology And Moral Psychology, Conor M. Kelly

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Recent work has improved the understanding of social structures in theological discourse, but ambiguity persists with respect to structures of sin. Here, a revised definition of structural sin reconnects this concept with its theological roots, adding clarity to the nature of structural sin and strengthening the moral weight of the term. Parallels with fMRI research in the field of moral psychology then refine the existing account of the operation of structural sin. Together, these insights aid in the identification of structures of sin and improve efforts to combat their influence.


Overview, Significance, And Outcomes: Using Guidelines For Interacting With Faith-Based Leaders And Communities, Jame Schaefer Jun 2019

Overview, Significance, And Outcomes: Using Guidelines For Interacting With Faith-Based Leaders And Communities, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.