Flannery O’Connor And Religious Epistemology,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Flannery O’Connor And Religious Epistemology, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain.
Philosophy And Theology: The Ethics Of Circumcision,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: The Ethics Of Circumcision, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Sex Reassignment Surgery,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Chemerinski And Goodwin On Abortion,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Philosophy And Theology: Chemerinski And Goodwin On Abortion, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Creativity,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Intellectual Virtues And Truth, Understanding, And Wisdom,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
Intellectual Virtues And Truth, Understanding, And Wisdom, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
This chapter addresses the proper end or aim of intellectual virtues. After distinguishing between two fundamentally different conceptions of intellectual virtue, the author considers the plausibility, with respect to each conception, of the “binary thesis,” according to which the proper aim of intellectual virtues is true belief and the avoidance of cognitive error. The author goes on to argue that if one understands intellectual virtues (as many virtue epistemologists do) as admirable traits of personal character—for example, as traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual humility—then sophia or theoretical wisdom presents itself as a plausible way of understanding their …
How To Think Actuality? Schelling, Aristotle And The Problem Of The Pure Daß,
2018
Loyola Marymount University
How To Think Actuality? Schelling, Aristotle And The Problem Of The Pure Daß, Marcela Garcia Romero
Philosophy Faculty Works
In this paper, I address a problem of Schelling’s late philosophy: the relation between negative and positive philosophy, and the role of the “pure Daß” in the transition from one to the other. While the so-called transition is a well-known and much discussed issue, recent Schelling scholarship has underlined the difficulties involved in the mere notion of pure Daß. I propose that we can avoid some of these difficulties by taking into account Schelling’s particular and original interpretation of Aristotle’s notion of actuality (energeia) and the way he applies this notion in his late negative philosophy.I would like to begin …
Assessing Asthma-Specific Health-Related Quality Of Life In Children With An Ecological Systems Approach,
2018
Walden University
Assessing Asthma-Specific Health-Related Quality Of Life In Children With An Ecological Systems Approach, Jamyia Clark
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Despite initiatives and management efforts to minimize exacerbation and adverse outcomes, asthma remains a leading cause of childhood chronic disease in the United States. Environmental, personal, and social factors have been associated with an increase of asthma morbidity. However, little is known about how they cumulatively affect children's quality of life. This study applied a multifactorial conceptual model grounded by the ecological systems theory framework to ascertain which environmental, personal, and social factors were cumulatively associated with adverse health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children with asthma ages 5-17 years. A national, cross-sectional survey, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System …
The Many Faces Of Fear And Vigilance,
2018
Independent Researcher, Canada
The Many Faces Of Fear And Vigilance, Guy Beauchamp
Animal Sentience
In the target article, I examined the relationship between vigilance and fear in prey animals. The joint occurrence of vigilance and other physiological responses to fear, such as increased heart rate and stress hormone release, would bolster the idea that vigilance can be a useful marker of fear. Nevertheless, a common theme in much of the empirical research is an uncoupling of vigilance and physiological correlates of fear. The commentators suggest several ways to refine the concepts of vigilance, fear, and risk. I discuss these refinements, which in the end will prove useful to assess further the relationship between vigilance …
Editorial,
2018
Rhode Island School of Design
Editorial, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Notices,
2018
Rhode Island School of Design
Notices, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
On Dust: Memory As Performance And Materiality,
2018
LaSalle, Singapore
On Dust: Memory As Performance And Materiality, Natasha Lushetich
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The world's "worldliness" is, to a large extent, perceptually constructed through touch, kinaesthetics, and proprioception. Gesture, too, is embedded in sedimentations of the body's prior sensory exchanges with the environment. Materiality is transitive; it triggers sensory landscapes through performance. Consisting of particles of pollen, human and animal skin, hairs, minerals, soil, and burnt meteorites, dust is usually seen as the antithesis of the performative-material nexus. In this paper, I propose a different view: that dust is and acts as a connective tissue. Borrowing from Hélène Cixous's écriture blanche, Quentin Smith's degree presentism, and theorizing nostalgia as a structuring absence, …
The Art Scenes,
2018
Slovak Arts Council
The Art Scenes, Jozef Kovalčik, Max Ryynänen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
"The art scene in Berlin is political." "The Atlanta hip hop scene is red hot!" These are remarks we have heard lately about scenes. Scenes are a commonplace in art talk. But what are scenes, and what is their role in arts? Aestheticians, art theorists, and art historians often pay attention to different scenes. Although many classics in the field are based on comments regarding only one scene, which is, for example, the case with Arthur C. Danto's "The Artworld" (1964) and Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" (1964), which both focus on New York, there is still no discussion about …
Agnostic Moralism,
2018
University of Central Oklahoma
Agnostic Moralism, Mark Silcox
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Many otherwise admired authors in the Western tradition (e.g. Plato, Augustine, and Tolstoy) have defended views about the radical dependence of aesthetic value upon morality that are nowadays regarded with deep skepticism. In more recent work on the connection between moral and aesthetic properties, Noël Carroll, Anne Eaton, Berys Gaut, and others have tried to defend relatively moderate varieties of moralism about art, according to which the aesthetic value of ethically significant artworks sometimes overlaps with but might also independently vary from their moral status. Here, I develop an immoderate species of moralism that treats the type of ethical knowledge …
Autographic And Allographic Imitation: Revisiting Counterfeit In Linguistic And Musical Arts,
2018
University of Memphis
Autographic And Allographic Imitation: Revisiting Counterfeit In Linguistic And Musical Arts, Jeremy Orosz
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Imitation within sonic arts, linguistic, musical, or otherwise, broadly defined, is a heterogeneous set of practices ranging from comical impersonation to outright counterfeit or forgery. This paper provides a taxonomy of imitation and mimicry within both language and music, dividing each into two respective categories, autographic imitation and allographic imitation, the terms for which are repurposed from Nelson Goodman’s Languages of Art.
Aesthetics In Digital Worlds,
2018
Aalto University
Aesthetics In Digital Worlds, Ossi Naukkarinen, Darius Pacauskas
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Aesthetics is often seen as a philosophical academic discipline focusing on questions about art, beauty, the nature of aesthetic experiences, and many other related issues. However, there is another, non-academic side of aesthetics where similar issues are addressed. Non-academic cases of aesthetics, on the internet and elsewhere, far outnumber anything academic aestheticians can ever produce. However, how the picture of aesthetics looks like outside academia is not necessarily very actively considered in academic contexts, as professors, lecturers, and students tend to form their understanding of the field through scholarly literature and academic datasets. In this essay, we explore how close …
On Canon,
2018
California State University, Easy Bay
On Canon, Craig Deksen, Darren Hudson Hick
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Canon is a concept from aesthetics that has become a regular subject of commonplace discussions. The nature of canon, especially as it is used in these commonplace discussions, has not been subject to adequate philosophical scrutiny. We attempt to remedy that by placing canon in its historical and philosophical context, exploring and rejecting several common accounts, and presenting some basics of how canon works. We reject the accounts that place control with the author or the legal property holder, which appear to be the most commonly held accounts.
Atmospheric Design And Experience With An Exemplary Study Of Olafur Eliasson's "The Weather Project",
2018
University of Kassel
Atmospheric Design And Experience With An Exemplary Study Of Olafur Eliasson's "The Weather Project", Zhuofei Wang
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In past decades, the subject of atmosphere has gone beyond the physio-meteorological scope and become a new concept of aesthetics. As the primary sensuous reality constructed by both the perceiving subject and the perceived object, atmosphere is neither a purely subjective state nor an objective thing, but essentially is a quasi-object pervaded by a specific emotional quality and a ubiquitous phenomenon forming the foundation of our life experience. In this respect, a decisive factor is not what we perceive but how we perceive. Furthermore, the quasi-objective quality of atmospheric phenomena makes it possible that atmosphere is producible. A practical dimension …
Replicating Paintings,
2018
University of Auckland
Replicating Paintings, Matteo Ravasio
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper, I discuss cases of replication in the visual arts, with particular focus on paintings. In the first part, I focus on painted copies, that is, manual reproductions of paintings created by artists. Painted copies are sometimes used for the purpose of aesthetic education on the original. I explore the relation between the creation of painted copies and their use as aesthetic surrogates of the original artwork and draw a positive conclusion on the aesthetic benefits of replica production by artists. A skeptical conclusion follows regarding the use of such replicas as surrogates for the original painting. The …
Rhizomatic Mnemosyne: Warburg, Serres, And The Atlas Of Hermes,
2018
University of Córdoba, Spain
Rhizomatic Mnemosyne: Warburg, Serres, And The Atlas Of Hermes, María Del Carmen Molina Barea
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This essay aims to examine Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas according to two conceptual perspectives that seem deeply interwoven, Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of rhizome and Michel Serres’s metaphor on Hermes. Both theoretical approaches cast light on the epistemological implications of the Mnemosyne Atlas and explore its intriguing composition from an innovative point of view. Specifically, this paper excavates the disrupted nature of the Warburgian Atlas, paying particular attention to the schizophrenic proliferation of unexpected connections. In this scenario, it will be necessary to elucidate the terminological opposition between ‘atlas’ and ‘archive,’ as studied by Boris Groys, Foucault, and Derrida, …
