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Review Of "The Imagination In German Idealism And Romanticism" Edited By G. Gentry And K. Pollok, Richard Thomas Eldridge Oct 2019

Review Of "The Imagination In German Idealism And Romanticism" Edited By G. Gentry And K. Pollok, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Encountering Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jun 2019

Encountering Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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I first came across Stanley Cavell’s writing in the fall of 1974 in a senior seminar in the philosophy of mind at Middlebury College, co-taught by Stanley Bates and Timothy Gould. We spent most of the term reading Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind and P. F. Strawson’s Individuals—books that at that time, before the widespread reception of Kripke’s Naming and Necessity, Putnam-style functionalism, and central state identity theory, still counted as contemporary philosophy of mind. It was then felt by Bates and Gould, I conjecture, that something more lively and something having to do with subjectivity might be order. …


Brains In Vats? Don't Bother!, Peter Baumann Jun 2019

Brains In Vats? Don't Bother!, Peter Baumann

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Contemporary discussions of epistemological skepticism – the view that we do not and cannot know anything about the world around us – focus very much on a certain kind of skeptical argument involving a skeptical scenario (a situation familiar from Descartes' First Meditation). According to the argument, knowing some ordinary proposition about the world (one we usually take ourselves to know) requires knowing we are not in some such skeptical scenario SK; however, since we cannot know that we are not in SK we also cannot know any ordinary proposition. One of the most prominent skeptical scenarios is the brain-in-the-vat-scenario: …


Science, Values, Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge And Dialogue Of Saberes, Hugh Lacey Apr 2019

Science, Values, Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge And Dialogue Of Saberes, Hugh Lacey

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This article discusses the possibility of a constructive dialogue between modern science and traditional/indigenous saberes, including the saberes of the Traditional peoples of Latin America. The argument developed here depends on interpreting science in terms of multi-strategic research [P-MS]: it makes use of the distinction between decontextualizing strategies (SDs) and contest-sensitive strategies (SCs) and the theses: the methodological strategies adopted in research projects can vary with the characteristics of the objects being investigated; there are relations of mutual reinforcement between the adoption of a strategy and adherence to particular ethical and social values; there are limits on the types of …


Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal Alliances, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2019

Schizoanalyzing Anoedipal Alliances, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Review Of “Aspiration: The Agency Of Becoming" By A. Callard, Krista Karbowski Thomason Jan 2019

Review Of “Aspiration: The Agency Of Becoming" By A. Callard, Krista Karbowski Thomason

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Our Own Flesh And Blood: Putting The Body At The Center Of Violence And Dehumanization, Krista Karbowski Thomason Jan 2019

Our Own Flesh And Blood: Putting The Body At The Center Of Violence And Dehumanization, Krista Karbowski Thomason

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Werner Herzog: Filmmaker And Philosopher, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2019

Werner Herzog: Filmmaker And Philosopher, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it. His films demonstrate the importance of the image …


Adoção De Medidas De Precaução Diante Dos Riscos No Uso Das Inovações Tecnocientíficas, Hugh Lacey Jan 2019

Adoção De Medidas De Precaução Diante Dos Riscos No Uso Das Inovações Tecnocientíficas, Hugh Lacey

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Identifico medidas de precaução que devem ser adotadas para prevenir ou reduzir o risco dos efeitos danosos possivelmente ocasionados pelos usos das inovações científicas. Meu argumento se vale em especial de situações em que há incerteza a respeito dos riscos envolvidos. Sustenta que medidas eticamente adequadas precisam ser informadas pelos resultados das pesquisas científicas empreendidas (sob as estratégias metodológicas apropriadas) com o fim de identificar, tanto quanto possível, os efeitos danosos possíveis e a variedade dos mecanismos que levem à sua efetiva ocorrência, bem como as condições em que eles atualmente ocorreriam, e com qual magnitude e probabilidade, bem como …


Philosophy And Theology: Life-Limiting Fetal Anomaly, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Life-Limiting Fetal Anomaly, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Is Birth Ethically Relevant?, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Is Birth Ethically Relevant?, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Savulescu And Schuklenk On Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Savulescu And Schuklenk On Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor

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Do You Long For Having Your Heart Interlinked?, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2019

Do You Long For Having Your Heart Interlinked?, Timothy Shanahan

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Intellectual Virtues, Civility, And Public Discourse, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Intellectual Virtues, Civility, And Public Discourse, Jason Baehr

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Wisdom, Suffering, And Humility, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Wisdom, Suffering, And Humility, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection In Europe And Mexico, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection In Europe And Mexico, Christopher Kaczor

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Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, And The Aims Of Education, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, And The Aims Of Education, Jason Baehr

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This chapter examines the relationship between critical thinking conceived of as educational ideal and intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual perseverance. It focuses on Harvey Siegel’s influential account of critical thinking, according to which critical thinking has two main components: a “reason assessment” component and a “critical spirit” component. The chapter argues, contra Siegel that intellectual virtues cut across both of these components. It considers some of Siegel’s recent arguments to the effect that critical thinking is the superior educational ideal. The concept of critical thinking is at least quasi-technical. This is evident in ordinary usage of …


Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, And The Structure Of Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, And The Structure Of Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Contemporary virtue epistemology examines the cognitive life with an eye to the epistemic excellences or "intellectual virtues" of knowing subjects (Battaly 2008). It was inspired by virtue ethics, which emphasizes moral virtues and their centrality to acting and living well. This chapter begins with an observation about an apparent structural asymmetry between virtue epistemology and virtue ethics. It considers whether, initial appearances notwithstanding, there is in fact a virtue ethical counterpart of reliabilist virtue epistemology. This leads to a somewhat narrower consideration, namely whether there is a counterpart of reliable cognitive faculties within our moral psychology. The chapter clarifies and …