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How Save Aquinas's "Intellectus Essentiae Arguement" For The Real Distinction Between Essence And Esse?, David Twetten
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 …
W. E. B. Du Bois’S “Conservation Of Races”: A Metaphilosophical Text, Kimberly Ann Harris
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 …
Introduction: Cities As Ways Of World Making, Curtis Carter
Introduction: Cities As Ways Of World Making, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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Art And The Ecology Of Leisure, Curtis Carter
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
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 …
Comparative Philosophy And Decolonial Struggle: The Epistemic Injustice Of Colonization And Liberation Of Human Reason, Grant J. Silva
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 …
Maimonides And Aquinas On Divine Attributes The Importance Of Avicenna, Richard C. Taylor
Maimonides And Aquinas On Divine Attributes The Importance Of Avicenna, Richard C. Taylor
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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The Torture Debate And The Toleration Of Torture, Jessica Wolfendale
The Torture Debate And The Toleration Of Torture, Jessica Wolfendale
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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Faith And Disbelief, Robert K. Whitaker
Faith And Disbelief, Robert K. Whitaker
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Is faith that p compatible with disbelief that p? I argue that it is. After surveying some recent literature on the compatibility of propositional (so-called faith-that) and non-propositional (faith-in) forms of faith with the lack of belief, I take the next step and offer several arguments for the thesis that both these forms of faith are also compatible, in certain cases, with outright disbelief. This is contrary to the views of some significant recent commentators on propositional faith, including Robert Audi and Daniel Howard-Snyder. The primary argument revolves around the possibility of maintaining a single faith through drastic changes in …
What Does It Mean To Move For Black Lives?, Kimberly Ann Harris
What Does It Mean To Move For Black Lives?, Kimberly Ann Harris
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
I argue that the key ideas of the movement for Black lives have resonances with Frantz Fanon's ideas particularly in Black Skin, White Masks. I first demonstrate how the mission to repudiate Black demise and affirm Black humanity captures Fanon's critique of universal humanism. The fear of the Black body was central to the testimonies of Darren Wilson, Jeronimo Yanez, and George Zimmerman (the individuals that shot and killed Mike Brown, Philando Castile, and Trayvon Martin respectively). Fanon prioritized the role of the body in his account of racism. It is difficult to not see the relevance of Fanon's analysis …
Book Review Of A Companion To Ricoeur's Freedom And Nature, Edited By Scott Davidson, Pol Vandevelde
Book Review Of A Companion To Ricoeur's Freedom And Nature, Edited By Scott Davidson, Pol Vandevelde
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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Migratorial Disobedience: The Fetishization Of Immigration Law, Grant J. Silva
Migratorial Disobedience: The Fetishization Of Immigration Law, Grant J. Silva
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Self-Control And Moral Security, Jeanette Kennett, Jessica Wolfendale
Self-Control And Moral Security, Jeanette Kennett, Jessica Wolfendale
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Self-control is integral to successful human agency. But the capacity for self-control requires external support. This paper explores the connections between social conditions, self-control, agency, and the self. Part one offers a taxonomy of self-control. Part two examines the external conditions that support successful agency and self-control, and argues that moral security is a critical foundation for agency. Moral security refers to the degree to which an agent believes that her welfare and her projects are valued by others and by her society. Parts three and four explore how narratives about racism and poverty undermine moral security, and limit and …
Criticism As A Form Of Cognition (Journal Article), Curtis L. Carter
Criticism As A Form Of Cognition (Journal Article), Curtis L. Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Religious F Aith In The Unjust Meantime: The Spiritual Violence Of Clergy Sexual Abuse, Theresa Weynand Tobin
Religious F Aith In The Unjust Meantime: The Spiritual Violence Of Clergy Sexual Abuse, Theresa Weynand Tobin
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Clergy sexual abuse is both sexual and psychological violence, but it is also a paradigmatic case of spiritual violence that rises to the level of religious trauma. In this paper I argue that the spiritual violence of clergy sexual abuse diminishes, and in some cases may even destroy, a survivor’s capacities for religious faith or other forms of spiritual engagement. I use and illustrate the value of feminist methodology, as developed and advanced by Alison Jaggar, for generating and pursuing philosophical questions about religious experience. Feminist methodology’s sensitivity to theorizing situated subjects who stand to each other in relations of …
From Fallibility To Fragility: How The Theory Of Narrative Transformed The Notion Of Character Of Fallible Man, Pol Vandevelde
From Fallibility To Fragility: How The Theory Of Narrative Transformed The Notion Of Character Of Fallible Man, Pol Vandevelde
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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Racism As Self-Love, Grant J. Silva
Racism As Self-Love, Grant J. Silva
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
In the United States today, much interpersonal racism is driven by corrupt forms of self-preservation. Drawing from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I refer to this as self-love racism. The byproduct of socially-induced racial anxieties and perceived threats to one’s physical or social wellbeing, self-love racism is the protective attachment to the racialized dimensions of one’s social status, wealth, privilege, and/or identity. Examples include police officer related shootings of unarmed Black Americans, anti-immigrant sentiment, and the resurgence of unabashed white supremacy. This form of racism is defined less by the introduction of racism into the world and more on the perpetuation of racially …