The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality,
2014
Ohio Northern University
The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Urban Desertification.2014.Pdf, Jules Simon
Selected Works Temporary Series
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.5px Times} My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are beingdeveloped is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-termflourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, formatters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urbandesertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urbanand suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural andethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis calledphenomenological ethics. First, I briefly present sketches of phenomenologyand sustainability in …
Constellating Technology: Heidegger’S Die Gefahr/The Danger,
2014
Fordham University
Constellating Technology: Heidegger’S Die Gefahr/The Danger, Babette Babich
Research Resources
Heidegger’s question concerning technology was originally posed in lectures to the Club of Bremen. This essay considers the totalizing role of technology in Heidegger’s day and our own, including a discussion of radio and calling for a greater integration of Heidegger’s thinking and critical theory. Today’s media context and the increasing ecological pressures of our time may provide a way to think, once again, the related notions of event [ Ereignis] and ownedness [ Eigentlichkeit ].
Urban Desertification And A Phenomenology Of Sustainability: The Case Of El Paso, Texas,
2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Urban Desertification And A Phenomenology Of Sustainability: The Case Of El Paso, Texas, Jules Simon
Departmental Papers (Philosophy)
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.5px Times} My thesis is that current cities and the way that cities are beingdeveloped is unsustainable and poses global problems for the long-termflourishing of the world’s inter-related and interdependent economies, formatters of justice and happiness in socio-cultural relations between peoples,and for the health of our natural environments. I argue that ‘urbandesertification’ happens in the complex relationship between cities (both urbanand suburban) and rural environments that support them as both a natural andethical phenomenon that I study using a form of analysis calledphenomenological ethics. First, I briefly present sketches of phenomenologyand sustainability in …
Scientific Method In Meteorology,
2014
Butler University
Scientific Method In Meteorology, Triberiu Popa
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This article explores the main aspects of Aristotle’s scientific method in Meteorology IV. Dispositional properties such as solidifiability or combustibility play a dominant role in Meteor. IV (a) in virtue of their central place in the generic division of homoeomers, based on successive differentiation and multiple differentiae, and (b) in virtue of their role in revealing otherwise undetectable characteristics of uniform materials (composition and physical structure). While Aristotle often starts with accounts of ingredients and their ratio (e.g., solids that contain a significant amount of water are liquefiable), the natural direction of his investigation is …
Externalizing Normativity In Design Reviews: Inscribing Design Values In Designed Artifacts,
2014
Iowa State University
Externalizing Normativity In Design Reviews: Inscribing Design Values In Designed Artifacts, Colin M. Gray, Craig D. Howard
Design Thinking Research Symposium
The design community has discussed issues of ethics and values for decades, but less attention has been paid to the question of how an ethical sensibility might be developed or taken on by design students. In this analysis, we explore how normative concerns emerge through the process of design reviews—where a developing designer’s normative infrastructure is engaged with the artifact they are designing. We focused on the normative concerns that were foregrounded by two undergraduate and two graduate industrial design students across a series of five design reviews, addressing the possible relationship between the emergence of normative concerns and the …
A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley,
2014
Wayne State University
A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley, Jared Grogan
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation is a genealogical study of historical intersections between rhetoric and ecology. Studying the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and ecological theories and practices. My analysis studies their critical assessments and uses of rhetoric as it intersects with each figure's new investigations into natural philosophy, nature, and evolutionary biology, while drawing out relevant lessons for contemporary ecological and rhetorical thinkers. The main threads …
Painting (And Photography),
2014
University of Richmond
Painting (And Photography), Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Two of Foucault's signature essays on painting are especially well known: the analysis of Velazquez's Las Meninas, and an essay on Rene Magritte that includes a striking account of how abstraction displaced representation in Western art. In addition, many of Foucault's texts are studded with acute descriptions of major painters from Breughel to Warhol; he gave lecture courses on quattrocento painting and Manet and published essays on several contemporary artists (Rebeyrolle, Fromanger, Michals). Since one of Foucault's major themes was the relation between visibility and discursivity, it is not surprising to find that painting is a favored site for …
States And Nomads: Hegel's World And Nietzsche Earth,
2014
University of Richmond
States And Nomads: Hegel's World And Nietzsche Earth, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
What is Nietzsche's concept of the earth? While "earth" is often taken in a general way to refer to embodied life, to this world rather than to an imaginary and disastrous other world, I propose that the term and concept also have a significant political dimension-a geophilosophical dimension—which is closely related to the radical immanence so central to Nietzsche's thought. I shall argue that he often and pointedly replaces the very term "world" (Welt) with "earth" (Erde) because "world" is tied too closely to ideas of unity, eternity, and transcendence. "World" is a concept with theological …
Fictional Emotions: Genuineness Of Emotions In Fictions,
2014
Claremont McKenna College
Fictional Emotions: Genuineness Of Emotions In Fictions, Lorien Giles
CMC Senior Theses
The common position in philosophy calls into question the ability of our emotions that derive from fictions to be genuine. In this paper I analyze this view, its motivating examples, and some unconsidered positions. In doing this I hope to offer a good defense of why our emotions that derive from fictions are in fact genuine and why the Paradox of Fiction is too broad.
Valuing The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Defense Of Countercultural Environmentalism,
2014
The College of Wooster
Valuing The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Defense Of Countercultural Environmentalism, Mae Manupipatpong
Senior Independent Study Theses
No abstract provided.
Food For Thought And Thought For Food: Applying Care Ethics To The American Eater,
2014
University of North Florida
Food For Thought And Thought For Food: Applying Care Ethics To The American Eater, Catherine Manners Bucolo
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This piece provides an application of care ethics to the typical American diet. In the first chapter, the problems surrounding the Standard American Diet are discussed at both the individual, familial, global, animal, and environmental levels. The second chapter provides an overview of the theoretical components of care ethics, and lays a framework for analysis. The third and final chapter demonstrates how in applying many of the core principles of care, great strides can be made in remedying the numerous problems that are a direct result of typical consumption habits in the United States.
Vol 5 No 1 Information Page,
2013
San Jose State University
Vol 5 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Vol 5 No 1 Cover Page,
2013
San Jose State University
Vol 5 No 1 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Vol 5 No 1 Content Page,
2013
San Jose State University
Vol 5 No 1 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Imposing Duties And Original Appropriation,
2013
Chapman University
Imposing Duties And Original Appropriation, Bas Van Der Vossen
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
"To justify property rights, two things must be shown. First, the kind of exclusive rights over goods or land that property rights involve must be justified. Second, it must be possible for such property rights to come into being. These are two separate issues. It is one thing to say that it is a good idea for there to be such rights, quite another to say that some person or procedure can bring them about."
Review Of D. Chatterjee (Ed.), The Ethics Of Preventive War,
2013
Chapman University
Review Of D. Chatterjee (Ed.), The Ethics Of Preventive War, Bas Van Der Vossen
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
A review of The Ethics of Preventive War, edited by Deen K. Chatterjee.
Amazon Book Review Of Dwayne Tunstall's Doing Philosophy Personally (2013),
2013
Southern Methodist University
Amazon Book Review Of Dwayne Tunstall's Doing Philosophy Personally (2013), Theodore Walker
Perkins Faculty Research and Special Events
An Amazon.com customer book review of Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (Fordham University, 2013) by Dwayne A. Tunstall
Measuring The Counter/Assumption Model's Effect On Argumentation Quality,
2013
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Measuring The Counter/Assumption Model's Effect On Argumentation Quality, Evan D G Ovadia
Master's Theses
This thesis presents a new platform called See the Reason, built upon a tree- structured argumentation model called the Counter/Assumption model. In the Counter/Assumption model, a topic is posted first, then under that topic, reasons for and against, and for each reason, counterarguments, and for any counterargu- ment, more counterarguments. The model enables us to systematically determine whether a claim is “tentatively true” or “tentatively false,” in an effort to motivate people to make their side’s claims tentatively true and the opposing side’s claims tentatively false, thus encouraging conflict. Research suggests that debates with more conflict are better, so this …
Inception And Ibn 'Arabi,
2013
Harvard University
Inception And Ibn 'Arabi, Oludamini Ogunnaike
Journal of Religion & Film
Many philosophers, playwrights, artists, sages, and scholars throughout the ages have entertained and developed the concept of life being a "but a dream." Few works, however, have explored this topic with as much depth and subtlety as the 13thC Andalusian Muslim mystic, Ibn 'Arabi. Similarly, few works of art explore this theme as thoroughly and engagingly as Chistopher Nolan's 2010 film Inception. This paper presents the writings of Ibn 'Arabi and Nolan's film as a pair of mirrors, in which one can contemplate the other. As such, the present work is equally a commentary on the film based on …
