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Caricaturing The Vanity Of Human Prayer In Juvenal, Dryden, And Johnson The Ups And Downs Of Poetic Imitation, John J. Burke Jr. 2014 Louisiana State University

Caricaturing The Vanity Of Human Prayer In Juvenal, Dryden, And Johnson The Ups And Downs Of Poetic Imitation, John J. Burke Jr.

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"My Apologies For This Inconvenient Abduction" Rakish Reformation In Sarah Fielding's History Of Ophelia, Mary Ann Rooks 2014 Louisiana State University

"My Apologies For This Inconvenient Abduction" Rakish Reformation In Sarah Fielding's History Of Ophelia, Mary Ann Rooks

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The American Pioneer Farmer It Is Time To Kill The Myth, A. G. Monaco 2014 Louisiana State University

The American Pioneer Farmer It Is Time To Kill The Myth, A. G. Monaco

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Sacred Space, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz 2014 Louisiana State University

Sacred Space, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Stewarding Affective Landscapes In Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries Of Udolpho, Melissa Smith 2014 Louisiana State University

Stewarding Affective Landscapes In Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries Of Udolpho, Melissa Smith

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The "New" Nature In The Language Of Travel Domingo Navarrete's And John Locke's Natural Law Rhetoric, Matthew Binney 2014 Louisiana State University

The "New" Nature In The Language Of Travel Domingo Navarrete's And John Locke's Natural Law Rhetoric, Matthew Binney

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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John Adams And The Balance, Zebulun Q. Weeks 2014 Louisiana State University

John Adams And The Balance, Zebulun Q. Weeks

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Holy House Of Loreto Politics And Idolatry In The Long Eighteenth Century, Hilary Teynor Donatini 2014 Louisiana State University

The Holy House Of Loreto Politics And Idolatry In The Long Eighteenth Century, Hilary Teynor Donatini

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz 2014 Louisiana State University

Religious Exchanges Solomon's Temple, Holy Land Travel, And A Georgics Of Sacred Space In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century English Writing, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, 2014 Louisiana State University

Book Reviews

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Berkeley And The Value Of The Arts, Tom Jones 2014 Louisiana State University

Berkeley And The Value Of The Arts, Tom Jones

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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A True-Born English Sacred Space Multiple Metaphors Of Hawksmoor's Steeples In Early Eighteenth-Century London, Chris Mounsey 2014 Louisiana State University

A True-Born English Sacred Space Multiple Metaphors Of Hawksmoor's Steeples In Early Eighteenth-Century London, Chris Mounsey

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan 2014 Louisiana State University

Empirical Testing And Novelistic Becoming Joseph Glanvill's Evidence Concerning Witches And Their Familiars, Dawn Morgan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Displa And Contemplation Of Clarissan Spirituality Bernardo Vittone At Santa Chiara In Turin, William Stargard 2014 Louisiana State University

Displa And Contemplation Of Clarissan Spirituality Bernardo Vittone At Santa Chiara In Turin, William Stargard

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Index, 2014 Louisiana State University

Index

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Creatures Of Fiction, Objects Of Myth, Jeffrey C. Goodman 2014 James Madison University

Creatures Of Fiction, Objects Of Myth, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

Artifactualists hold that some abstracta are contingent entities, products of the intentional activities of people.  A great many artifactualists are fictional creationists, asserting that fictonal characters are abstracta of this sort, but some, notably Kripke (1973), Salmon (1998, 2002), and Braun (2005), further embrace mythical creationism.  They hold that certain entities that figure in false theories are likewise abstracta that are produced by our intentional activities.  A paradigm example would be Vulcan, the planet proposed by Le Verrier to be the cause of perturbations in the orbit of Mercury.  I here argue that one may not reasonably take the metaphysical …


On Inadvertently Created Abstracta, Fictional Storytelling, And Scientific Hypothesizing, Jeffrey C. Goodman 2014 James Madison University

On Inadvertently Created Abstracta, Fictional Storytelling, And Scientific Hypothesizing, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

In my “Creatures of Fiction, Objects of Myth” (2014), I present and defend an argument for thinking that mythical creationism – the view that mythical objects like phlogiston and Vulcan are abstract artifacts – is false.  One intriguing sort of objection to my argument has been recently put forth by Zvolenszky (2016); she claims that a crucial premise is seen to be unjustified once one considers the phenomena of inadvertently created abstracta, specifically, inadvertently created fictional characters.  I here argue that even if we admit inadvertently created abstracta into our ontology, my argument survives.  I ultimately defend a view on …


Through The Eyes Of The Dead Others, Isaac Aaron Ceniceros 2014 University of Texas at El Paso

Through The Eyes Of The Dead Others, Isaac Aaron Ceniceros

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

I use Edith Wyschogrod's figure of the heterological historian to argue that we have a responsibility to learn from the "dead others" of the past in order to better apply in practical ways the lessons we learn from history. I draw on an interpretation of Nietzsche's view on historiography, to examine the claims of Hegel's dialectic, namely, that the Ideal Absolute for which Spirit pines, is actually achievable, particularly through the advent of the Internet. Beginning with a relatively well-known interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of history, Fukuyama's, I show how Hegel's dialectic takes shape in Fukuyama's interpretation as a negative …


Formal Properties As The Basis For Value In Music, Thomas B. Yee 2014 Pepperdine University

Formal Properties As The Basis For Value In Music, Thomas B. Yee

Global Tides

This paper defends the thesis that value in a piece of music is based in its formal properties rather than its non-formal properties. Two arguments are presented to support this conclusion. The first argument shows that if value in music is to be objective, then it must be grounded in a piece's formal properties rather than its non-formal properties. In the second argument, a number of alternate possibilities for grounding value in music are considered and shown to miss the mark or be inadequate. Finally, a number of possible objections against the arguments and conclusion are considered and possible responses …


The Relationship Between Aesthetic Value And Cognitive Value, Antony Aumann 2014 Northern Michigan University

The Relationship Between Aesthetic Value And Cognitive Value, Antony Aumann

Journal Articles

Recent attention to the relationship between aesthetic value and cognitive value has focused on whether the latter can affect the former. In this article, I approach the issue from the opposite direction. I investigate whether the aesthetic value of a work can influence its cognitive value. More narrowly, I consider whether a work’s aesthetic value ever contributes to or detracts from its philosophical value, which I take to include the truth of its claims, the strength of its arguments, and its internal consistency. I argue that aesthetic value does have such an impact, at least sometimes and to some degree. …


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