Symposium On Thomas Wartenberg's Thoughtful Images,
2023
Rhode Island School of Design
Symposium On Thomas Wartenberg's Thoughtful Images, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The Commentaries collected in this symposium were first developed at the “Author Meets Critics” session on Thomas Wartenberg’s Thoughtful Images (OUP 2022) at the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting in Philadelphia, April, 2023. We thank all the authors for their contributions.
Notices,
2023
Rhode Island School of Design
Notices, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Symposium On Taste: A Philosophy Of Food By Sarah Worth,
2023
Rhode Island School of Design
Symposium On Taste: A Philosophy Of Food By Sarah Worth, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The commentaries collected in this symposium were first developed at the “Author Meets Critics” session on Sarah Worth’s Taste: A Philosophy of Food at The American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting in Philadelphia, April, 2022. We thank Deborah Knight for proposing this symposium to be published in Contemporary Aesthetics and all the authors for their contributions.
The Moral Imperative To Include More Women In Leadership Within Institutions Of Higher Education,
2023
University of Kentucky
The Moral Imperative To Include More Women In Leadership Within Institutions Of Higher Education, Kathryn Mattingly Flynn
Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
In higher education, women’s trajectory into leadership positions is not equitable to men’s. The concerns with the scarcity of women in leadership positions, specifically deans, provosts, presidents, and board members, involve varying levels of gender biases, norms, and stereotypes, as well as expectations of representation. Gender biases and stereotypes remain ingrained in American societal structures and result in immoral consequences, injustice for colleges and universities, and diminished happiness of the participants within them. I will use philosophical inquiry to argue that greater representation of women in the leadership of higher education would lead to morally better outcomes for institutions and …
Reconstructing The Kantian Ends Of Reason: Holiness Analytically Entailing Beatitude In An Eternal Highest Good,
2023
Loyola University of Chicago Graduate School
Reconstructing The Kantian Ends Of Reason: Holiness Analytically Entailing Beatitude In An Eternal Highest Good, Anthony Gudwien
Dissertations
This dissertation argues that an eternal highest good is the final end of sensible, rational agents. This final end occurs in a noumenal world – what I have labelled World Four – that has holiness analytically entailing beatitude. However, before meritorious moral agents are incorporated into this final noumenal world, they will exist in three prior worlds. World One is our current phenomenal world where sensible, rational agents can adopt a maxim to resolutely pursue holiness. World Two, which is made possible by the immortal soul postulate, is where sensible, rational agents continue their resolute pursuit in order to become …
Educating For Good Thinking: Virtues, Skills, Or Both?,
2023
Loyola Marymount University
Educating For Good Thinking: Virtues, Skills, Or Both?, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
This paper explores the relationship between intellectual virtues and critical thinking, both as such and as educational ends worth pursuing. The first half of the paper examines the intersection of intellectual virtue and critical thinking. The second half addresses a recent argument to the effect that educating for intellectual virtues (in contrast to educating for critical thinking) is insufficiently action-guiding and therefore lacks a suitable pedagogy.
The Declaration Of Independence: Inalienable Rights, The Creator, And The Political Order.,
2023
Loyola Marymount University
The Declaration Of Independence: Inalienable Rights, The Creator, And The Political Order., Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Heidegger’S Legacy And The Need/Use Of Being,
2023
Emory University
Heidegger’S Legacy And The Need/Use Of Being, Christopher D. Merwin, Ian Alexander Moore
Philosophy Faculty Works
This article first retraces the history of Heidegger’s “The Argument against Need” and situates it in the context of extant notes from his never-completed introduction to the Gesamtausgabe titled “The Legacy of the Question of Being.” It then argues that, for the later Heidegger, Brauch (“need,” “use”) becomes another name – indeed one of the most important, albeit neglected, names – for being in its deepest sense. To appreciate Heidegger’s legacy and that of the question of being, it is crucial that we (1) critically assess the argument against Brauch qua “need” – i.e., the argument according to which the …
On The Integration Of Positive Psychology And The Psychology/Spirituality: Logical, Normative, And Methodological Questions,
2023
Loyola Marymount University
On The Integration Of Positive Psychology And The Psychology/Spirituality: Logical, Normative, And Methodological Questions, S.L. Porter, Jason Baehr, T. Porter, R. C. Roberts
Philosophy Faculty Works
When it comes to the integration of positive psychology and the psychology of religion/spirituality (R/S), there are three second-order, philosophical questions that need answering: Can these two fields be integrated? Should these two fields be integrated? And, if so, how is it best to integrate these two fields? Although this chapter touches on the logical and normative questions, it is the third, methodological question that receives the greatest attention. We argue that although, from a philosophical perspective, there are no methodological barriers to integrating these two subfields, there is a methodological bonanza in their integration. The golden opportunity is for …
Ethical Implications Of Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates,
2023
The University of Akron
Ethical Implications Of Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates, Nichaela Noebe
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
This project will be looking at the ethical implications of the Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates. The paper will look at various ethical theories as well as different ethicists and apply it to the Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates. The project will come to the conclusion of whether the Vaccine Mandates were ethical or not given certain ethical ideas and views from the various ethicists.
Comment On Gignac And Zajenkowski, “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is (Mostly) A Statistical Artefact: Valid Approaches To Testing The Hypothesis With Individual Differences Data”,
2023
Portland State University
Comment On Gignac And Zajenkowski, “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is (Mostly) A Statistical Artefact: Valid Approaches To Testing The Hypothesis With Individual Differences Data”, Avram Hiller
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Gignac and Zajenkowski (2020) find that “the degree to which people mispredicted their objectively measured intelligence was equal across the whole spectrum of objectively measured intelligence”. This Comment shows that Gignac and Zajenkowski’s (2020) finding of homoscedasticity is likely the result of a recoding choice by the experimenters and does not in fact indicate that the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a mere statistical artifact. Specifically, Gignac and Zajenkowski (2020) recoded test subjects’ responses to a question regarding self-assessed comparative IQ onto a linear IQ scale when a normal IQ scale would likely have been more appropriate. More generally, researchers studying self-assessed …
Reducing Workplace Conflict: A Reasonable Expectation?,
2023
Nova Southeastern University
Reducing Workplace Conflict: A Reasonable Expectation?, Stephen Mark Kominek
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Workplace conflict is a part of everyday work life for many employees, from educationalinstitutions to businesses, and can occur for multiple different reasons. Research has shown that employees spend a significant amount of their life in the workplace and that addressing unresolved conflict is one of the costliest aspects of running an organization. The literature suggests that providing employees with the opportunity to experience greater job satisfaction may reduce the occurrence of workplace conflict. This quantitative study explored the experience of workers employed in various organizations and institutions. The theoretical frameworks applied in the study were Systems Theory and Maslow’s …
From Nihilation To Redemption: Profanations And Overlaps In Claudio Magris’ Danube,
2023
Dartmouth College
From Nihilation To Redemption: Profanations And Overlaps In Claudio Magris’ Danube, Nicola Mazzotti
Comparative Literature M.A. Essays
This essay analyzes the novel Danube by the Italian writer and scholar Claudio Magris and focuses on its depiction of the political potential inscribed in the Danubian territory. With his journey along the river, the narrator of the novel attempts to unveil the materiality of this territory and the agency of the river, thus deconstructing cultural and political claims aimed at their appropriation. First, the essay investigates the use and representation of 'sources' made by the narrator, both as origin of the river and cultural artifacts. It is shown how the narrator performatively traces the origin of the river back …
Lived Experiences Of College-Educated African American Males During Police Interactions In Central Kentucky,
2023
Walden University
Lived Experiences Of College-Educated African American Males During Police Interactions In Central Kentucky, Lawerence Eric Charles
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Recent high-profile incidents involving police interaction with Black citizens have increased community outrage and racial divisions between police and African Americans. Despite previous research on relations between African Americans and police, little literature has focused on the lived experiences of college-educated African American males when interacting with police. In the study 12 participants were interviewed. The analytical approach was grounded theory, which identified seven themes that most of the men had in common. One shared lived experience expressed the need for collaborative and inclusive policies that prevent bias, police brutality, and wrongful arrest and detention of the African American community. …
Perceptions Of 9-1-1 Telecommunicators High-Stress Emergency Calls,
2023
Walden University
Perceptions Of 9-1-1 Telecommunicators High-Stress Emergency Calls, Danielle Holland
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many research studies have been conducted on the effects of high-stress emergency calls on emergency personnel, such as police officers and firefighters. However, research was lacking on the effects of high stress calls on 9-1-1 telecommunicators. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to determine how 9-1-1 telecommunicators perceived and responded to high-stress emergency calls. The theoretical framework was based on Bandura’s self-efficacy theory and social cognitive theory. The study was guided by three research questions that focused on (a) the short- and long-term effects of stress experienced by 9-1-1 dispatchers, (b) the aspects of calls that telecommunicators perceived …
Impact Of Minority Incarceration On The Family Unit,
2023
Walden University
Impact Of Minority Incarceration On The Family Unit, Huey S. Ratcliff
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The economic impact of incarceration on minority family units has both secondary and third-order effects on the minority family unit when a family member is incarcerated, which is exacerbated when the incarcerated family member was both the primary breadwinner and a parent. The purpose of this study was to identify the social and economic effects incarceration has on minority families. The study addressed how minority families adjust to changes in organic composition and how the minority family copes with increased debt and loss of earning potential. Further, the study sought to answer how minority families overcome economic hardship when the …
Civil Liability For Civil Disobedience,
2023
University of Richmond
Civil Liability For Civil Disobedience, David Lefkowitz
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In January 2023, climate activists trespassed on the site of the German energy firm RWE’s Garzweiler coal mine to protest against its plans to expand operations there. The police eventually removed the protestors (including Greta Thunberg), many of whom were charged with committing criminal offenses. A few weeks after the occupation, RWE announced plans to seek compensation from the protestors for the injuries they inflicted on the firm, which included damage to vehicles and other equipment.[1] Should the law permit it to do so? More generally, should a liberal-democratic State hold civil disobedients legally liable to compensate the private …
The Other Beginning Of Thinking: Heidegger And Neoplatonism,
2023
The University of Notre Dame Australia
The Other Beginning Of Thinking: Heidegger And Neoplatonism, Emile Alexandrov
Theses
This thesis establishes an “other beginning” for thinking by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics. The thesis achieves this by revising Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist approaches to non-discursive thinking, corresponding to some of Heidegger’s post-turn concerns. The thesis begins by justifying the adoption of Heidegger’s “two beginnings” idea and illustrating what I label the “fundamentals of truth of the first beginning,” which Heidegger used to envision the other beginning of thinking. The fundamentals of truth inform Heidegger’s reading of Hölderlin and the later writings that emerged from the 1950s onwards. The second part re-thinks …
“That’S Just The Way It Was”: A Critical Analysis Of Guilt, Evasion, And White Supremacy,
2023
Dartmouth College
“That’S Just The Way It Was”: A Critical Analysis Of Guilt, Evasion, And White Supremacy, Sommer Mahoney
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
In the public discourse around American slavery, there is an apologist evasion that can be summarized as such: that slavery was “just the way it was back then.” The word “just” in that phrase connotes a rather casual finality - that slavery in the American colonies, and then in the United States, could not have been avoided. But even a cursory overview of slave rebellion history and abolitionist history prove that this is not true. This reaction is an attempt at evading the feeling of guilt often associated with historical atrocities. However, as Americans avoid their guilt, they also evade …
The Use Of Field Philosophy In Conserving The World's Rarest Ape, The Hainan Gibbon (Nomascus Hainanus): A Philosophical Engagement With Researchers And Conservationists,
2023
Central Washington University
The Use Of Field Philosophy In Conserving The World's Rarest Ape, The Hainan Gibbon (Nomascus Hainanus): A Philosophical Engagement With Researchers And Conservationists, Jocelyn Callahan
All Master's Theses
The Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) is the world’s rarest ape. Their position on the brink of extinction raises many questions about conservation, existence, and agency. To explore these issues and draw attention to this Critically Endangered primate, I considered the Hainan gibbon from the perspective of field philosophy (i.e., philosophy carried out in the field with non-philosophers). I conducted semi-structured interviews with eight researchers/conservationists and analyzed their creative works. I collected additional information through a systematic literature review. I asked four research questions: (1) Based on their lived experiences, how do researchers and conservationists understand the Hainan gibbon? …
