Symposium On Thinking With Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics By John Carvalho: Introduction,
2022
Rhode Island School of Design
Symposium On Thinking With Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics By John Carvalho: Introduction, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The commentaries collected in this symposium were first developed at the “Author Meets Critics” session on John Carvalho’s Thinking with Images: An Enactivist Aesthetics at The American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting in Philadelphia on April 17, 2021. We thank Deborah Knight for organizing the papers to be published as a symposium for Contemporary Aesthetics and all the authors for their contributions.
Friendship In The Confucian Tradition,
2022
CUNY College of Staten Island
Friendship In The Confucian Tradition, Andrew Lambert
Publications and Research
An overview of how friendship has been represented and assessed in the Confucian tradition, and particularly in classical Confucian texts such as the Analects and the Mencius. Themes covered include the relationship between the family and friendship, the ambivalence towards friendship in imperial China, and the connection between friendship and the Confucian ideal of personal cultivation. The chapter finishes by exploring novel conceptions of friendship and human relatedness suggested by the Confucian tradition.
Wilderness As An Aesthetic Concept,
2022
University of Montana, Missoula
Wilderness As An Aesthetic Concept, Nathan A. Pagel
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In this paper I argue that many of the philosophical problems with the concept of wilderness can be mitigated by thinking of wilderness as an aesthetic concept rather than as a real feature of the world or a special metaphysical category. In Section 1, I respond to arguments for wilderness no longer being extant in the world as well as being conceptually contradictory by examining the ways in which people continue to experience wilderness in spite of these challenges. To resolve this tension, I offer an account of wilderness as an aesthetic concept, that is, as something that cannot be …
Ethical Leadership And Leadership In Ethics,
2022
University of Richmond
Ethical Leadership And Leadership In Ethics, Robert Audi
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
This paper offers a conceptual portrait of leadership and a framework for exercising it in the realm of ethics. The paper provides an account of what constitutes leadership, a set of moral standards for its ethical exercise, and a distinction between leadership that meets these standards and leadership that not only meets them, but positively engages them. This engagement is central for leadership in ethics. The main context for analysis in the paper is organizational. Leadership is essential for the success of organizations and morally important in their daily operations. The paper also describes its nature and role in less …
Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’S Algontology,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’S Algontology, Ian Alexander Moore
Philosophy Faculty Works
Among the many words Heidegger explores in order to elucidate his primary matter for thought, one would not likely expect Schmerz (“pain”) to play a prominent role. And yet, in a selection of notes recently published in a limited German edition under the title Über den Schmerz (On Pain), Heidegger goes so far as to claim that pain is beyng itself. In this paper I analyze Heidegger’s ontological treatment of pain and his etymology of its Greek counterpart, asking whether he does not ultimately anesthetize his readers to pain’s most rending effects.
Translating Gadamer And Heidegger Translating Aristotle: Über'setzen' And 'Über'setzen,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Translating Gadamer And Heidegger Translating Aristotle: Über'setzen' And 'Über'setzen, Ian Alexander Moore
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Gender Ideology,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: Gender Ideology, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Lethal Organ Donation,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: Lethal Organ Donation, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Thomas Aquinas On Gratitude To God,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Thomas Aquinas On Gratitude To God, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
Discussions of gratitude to God characteristically presuppose some philosophical or theological framework. This philosophical and theological exploration of gratitude to God examines the topic in light of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Unlike some treatments of Aquinas’ account of gratitude, I draw extensively on Aquinas’ commentaries on Scripture as well as lesser known works, such as his sermons, to illuminate these topics rather than exclusively relying on the Summa theologiae. In the first part of this article, I focus on how Aquinas understands the virtue of gratitude to God. In the second part, I examine his account of ingratitude to …
Deductive And Inductive Arguments,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
Deductive And Inductive Arguments, Timothy Shanahan
Philosophy Faculty Works
In philosophy, an argument consists of a set of statements called premises that serve as grounds for affirming another statement called the conclusion. Philosophers typically distinguish arguments in natural languages (such as English) into two fundamentally different types: deductive and inductive. Each type of argument is said to have characteristics that categorically distinguish it from the other type. The two types of argument are also said to be subject to differing evaluative standards. Pointing to paradigmatic examples of each type of argument helps to clarify their key differences. The distinction between the two types of argument may hardly seem worthy …
“The Pealing Of Stillness”: Gadamer On Georg Trakl,
2022
Loyola Marymount University
“The Pealing Of Stillness”: Gadamer On Georg Trakl, Ian Alexander Moore
Philosophy Faculty Works
Addressing the place of the Austrian poet, Georg Trakl, in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, this article turns in particular to Trakl’s poem “A Winter Evening” in order to unfold a sense of language in dialogue with the poet. This engagement equally becomes the occasion for Gadamer to confront Heidegger, whose own reading of Trakl becomes both an inspiration and a challenge.
Pedagogical Virtues: An Account Of The Intellectual Virtues Of A Teacher,
2022
Ateneo de Manila University
Pedagogical Virtues: An Account Of The Intellectual Virtues Of A Teacher, Noel L. Clemente
Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
The overlap between virtue epistemology and the philosophy of education has been dominated by discussions of the epistemic qualities of good learners, that is, the intellectual virtues that must be nurtured in students. Not much has been said about the epistemic qualities of good teachers expressed in virtue-theoretic terms. This paper offers a preliminary account of such qualities, which are designated as pedagogical virtues. I use Battaly's pluralist conception of intellectual virtue as a starting point, then describe a pedagogical virtue as an intellectual virtue with an other-regarding success or motivational component. I end with an elucidation of the pedagogical …
Spiritual Intelligence: The Next Intelligence Tool For Conflict Resolution Practitioners?,
2022
Nova Southeastern University
Spiritual Intelligence: The Next Intelligence Tool For Conflict Resolution Practitioners?, Peter Tokar
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Abstract Spiritual intelligence is currently being utilized with positive results in many professional communities, yet it is practically unknown within the conflict resolution and peacebuilding communities, at least by name. Recent national polls have demonstrated a high percentages of Americans still embrace a spiritual dimension to their humanity. Although church attendance has been on the decline for the past couple decades, polls show that even the Millennial Generation and GenZ are still interested in spirituality, though in a non-ecclesiastically organized way. Although significant sensitivities remain in society and culture concerning the separation of church and state, literally millions of Americans …
Practical Reasons, Theoretical Reasons, And Permissive And Prohibitive Balancing,
2022
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Practical Reasons, Theoretical Reasons, And Permissive And Prohibitive Balancing, John Brunero
Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications
Philosophers have often noted a contrast between practical and theoretical reasons when it comes to cases involving equally balanced reasons. When there are strong practical reasons for A-ing, and equally strong practical reasons for some incompatible option, B-ing, the agent is permitted to make an arbitrary choice between them, having sufficient reason to A and sufficient reason to B. But when there is strong evidence for P and equally strong evidence for ~P, one isn’t permitted to simply believe one or the other. Instead, one must withhold belief, neither believing that P nor believing that ~P. This paper examines what …
Impossible Worlds And The Safety Of Philosophical Beliefs,
2022
Excelsior Classical Academy
Impossible Worlds And The Safety Of Philosophical Beliefs, Zack Garrett, Zachariah Wrublewski
Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications
Epistemological accounts that make use of a safety condition on knowledge, historically, face serious problems regarding beliefs that are necessarily true. This is because necessary truths are true in all possible worlds, and so such beliefs can be safe even when the bases for the beliefs are epistemically problematic. The existence of such problematically safe beliefs would undermine a major motivation for the condition itself: the ability to evaluate how well a belief tracks the truth. This paper argues that incorporating impossible worlds into the evaluation of beliefs solves this problem, but only if the relevant account of impossible worlds …
An Exegetical Analysis Of The Johannine Jesus’S Son-Father Relationship In The Fourth Gospel With The Theological Significance And Implications In Contemporary Context,
2022
The University of Notre Dame Australia
An Exegetical Analysis Of The Johannine Jesus’S Son-Father Relationship In The Fourth Gospel With The Theological Significance And Implications In Contemporary Context, Jing Yih Hsieh
Theses
This exegetical study focuses on the distinctive characteristics of the Johannine Jesus’s unique cognitive perception, his claims of equality with God in the language of oneness in the Son-Father relationship in the Fourth Gospel, and with theological significance and implications in contemporary context.
Neither Race Nor Ethnicity: Latinidad As A Social Affordance,
2022
Bucknell University
Neither Race Nor Ethnicity: Latinidad As A Social Affordance, Adam Burgos, Alejandro Arango
Faculty Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
The Question Is Not “Can Humans Talk?” Or “Can They Suffer?” But “Can They Reason?”,
2022
Estonian University of Life Sciences
The Question Is Not “Can Humans Talk?” Or “Can They Suffer?” But “Can They Reason?”, Clive Phillips
Animal Sentience
In their target article, Rowan et al (2022) make a welcome attempt to chart the development of Western progress over the past two hundred years toward formally recognizing that animals feel. They outline the heroic efforts of Compassion in World Farming to gain for animals the status of sentient beings rather than merely human property. A broader view exists, from human prehistory to the present day, in which animals have been (and still are) understood to be sentient by indigenous peoples as well as by some Eastern religions. Growing recognition in the West that animals feel represents a new age …
Motivated Science: What Humans Gain From Denying Animal Sentience,
2022
Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), Israel
Motivated Science: What Humans Gain From Denying Animal Sentience, Uri Lifshin
Animal Sentience
Resistance to the idea that non-human animals are sentient resembles erstwhile resistance to the theory that the earth is not the centre of the universe, or that humans evolved from “apes”. All these notions are psychologically threatening. They can remind people of their own creatureliness and mortality and might make them feel guilty or uncertain about their way of life. An honest debate over animal sentience, welfare and rights should consider the human motivation to deprive animals of these things in the first place. I briefly review empirical evidence on the psychological function of denying animal minds.
