Is Intimacy Sex, Or Is Sex Intimacy?,
2015
Georgia Southern University
Is Intimacy Sex, Or Is Sex Intimacy?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone
No abstract provided.
Are There Really Two Different Bell’S Theorems?,
2015
Smith College
Are There Really Two Different Bell’S Theorems?, Travis Norsen
Physics: Faculty Publications
This is a polemical response to Howard Wiseman’s recent paper, “The two Bell’s theorems of John Bell”. Wiseman argues that, in 1964, Bell established a conflict between the quantum mechanical predictions and the joint assumptions of determinism and (what is now usually known as) “parameter independence”. Only later, in 1976, did Bell, according to Wiseman, first establish a conflict between the quantum mechanical predictions and locality alone (in the specific form that Bell would sometimes call “local causality”). Thus, according to Wiseman, the long-standing disagreements about what, exactly, Bell’s theorem does and does not prove can be understood largely as …
A Natural Case For Realism: Processes, Structures, And Laws,
2015
University of South Florida
A Natural Case For Realism: Processes, Structures, And Laws, Andrew Michael Winters
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Recent literature concerning laws of nature highlight the close relationship between general metaphysics and philosophy of science. In particular, a person's theoretical commitments in either have direct implications for her stance on laws. In this dissertation, I argue that an ontic structural realist should be a realist about laws, but only within a non-Whiteheadean process framework. Without the adoption of a process framework, any account of laws the ontic structural realist offers will require metaphysical commitments that are at odds with ontic structural realism. In arguing towards this aim, I adopt an attenuated methodological naturalistic stance to show that traditional …
Selling Citizenship: A Defence,
2015
University of Richmond
Selling Citizenship: A Defence, Javier S. Hidalgo
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Many people think that citizenship should not be for sale. On their view, it is morally wrong for states to sell citizenship to foreigners. In this article, I challenge this view. I argue that it is in principle permissible for states to sell citizenship. I contend that, if states can permissibly deny foreigners access to citizenship in some cases, then states can permissibly give foreigners the option of buying citizenship in these cases. Furthermore, I defend the permissibility of selling citizenship against the objections that selling citizenship values citizenship in the wrong way, corrupts civic norms, and unfairly discriminates against …
Considering Triple Self-Portraiture In The Work Of María Izquierdo,
2015
University of Connecticut
Considering Triple Self-Portraiture In The Work Of María Izquierdo, Brooke Lashley
The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal
This paper looks to María Izquierdo’s paintings, Prisioneras (Prisoners) of 1936 and Sueño y presentimiento (Dream and Premonition) of 1947, as case studies for activating a theory of triple self-portraiture. The theory reflects how plurality arises in the singular or in single significations of the self and disrupts homogeneity in thinking about identities for the self and others within the genre of self-portraiture. In activating a theory of triple self-portraiture, I found three forms of the self in Izquierdo's works: the self as oppressed (the past); the self as oppressing (the current); and the self as an emancipator (future). Although …
On Pi Day, A Serving Of Why We Need Math,
2015
Gettysburg College
On Pi Day, A Serving Of Why We Need Math, Darren B. Glass
Math Faculty Publications
Today, our Facebook feeds will be peppered with references to Pi Day, a day of celebration that has long been acknowledged by math fans and that Congress recognized in 2009. Every high schooler learns that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and that its decimal expansion begins 3.14 and goes on infinitely without repeating. [excerpt]
Augustine’S De Musica In The 21st Century Music Classroom,
2015
Dordt College
Augustine’S De Musica In The 21st Century Music Classroom, John Macinnis
Faculty Work Comprehensive List
Augustine’s De musica is all that remains of his ambitious plan to write a cycle of works describing each of the liberal arts in terms of Christian faith and is actually unfinished; whereas the six books extant today primarily examine rhythm, Augustine intended to write about melody also. The sixth book of De musica was better known in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages than the first five, and it takes up philosophical questions of aesthetics related to the proportionate ordering discernable throughout creation. After a brief introduction summarizing De musica’s content and its importance in subsequent Christian writings, my …
The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science To Social Epistemology,
2015
University of South Florida
The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science To Social Epistemology, David Alexander Eck
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
There have been monumental advances in the study of the social dimensions of knowledge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But it has been common within a wide variety of fields--including social philosophy, cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of science--to approach the social dimensions of knowledge as simply another resource to be utilized or controlled. I call this view, in which other people's epistemic significance are only of instrumental value, manipulationism. I identify manipulationism, trace its manifestations in the aforementioned fields, and explain how to move beyond it. The principal strategy that I employ for moving beyond …
The Role Of Memory In Forgiveness: A Post-Forgiveness Investigation,
2015
Bethel University
The Role Of Memory In Forgiveness: A Post-Forgiveness Investigation, Zachariah Berry
Library Research Prize Student Works
There is a fundamental importance and value in maintaining a memory of wrongs done in the past. What do we do, however, when we think that we have forgiven someone, but aspects from the past wrong continue to manifest in our conscious awareness? Some may argue that the victim ought to suppress the memory of the wrong. Yet, as I maintain, doing so causes the victim to lose the moral value associated with the memory of the wrong. Maintaining the memory of a past wrong, however, may cause the victim to re-experience the negative emotions corresponding to a past wrong …
Penal Substitution And Divine Forgiveness,
2015
Bethel University
Penal Substitution And Divine Forgiveness, Daniel Thweatt
Library Research Prize Student Works
According to Keith Ward, “One must...reject those crude accounts of Christian doctrine which...say that Christ has been justly punished in our place so that he has taken away our guilt and enabled God to forgive us. Almost everything is ethically wrong about these accounts.” This statement is just one instance of a commonly occurring dismissal of the penal substitution theory of the atonement. For various reasons, many today find the theory morally (and theologically and exegetically) untenable. Some, such as Gregory Boyd and Eleonore Stump, formulate moral objections to penal substitution based on beliefs about the concept of forgiveness. In …
Quantificational Credences,
2015
Western Kentucky University
Quantificational Credences, Benjamin Lennertz
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
In addition to full beliefs, agents have attitudes of varying confidence, or credences. For instance, I do not believe that the Boston Red Sox will win the American League East this year, but I am at least a little bit confident that they will – i.e. I have a positive credence that they will. It is also common to think that agents have conditional credences. For instance, I am very confident – i.e. have a conditional credence of very-likely strength – that the Red Sox will win the AL East this year given that their pitching staff stays healthy. There …
Sagp Newsletter 2014/15.3 Pacific,
2015
Binghamton University
Sagp Newsletter 2014/15.3 Pacific, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Can One Love The Distant Other? Empathy, Affiliation, And Cosmopolitanism,
2015
South Dakota State University
Can One Love The Distant Other? Empathy, Affiliation, And Cosmopolitanism, Gregory R. Peterson
School of American and Global Studies Faculty Publications with a Focus on History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion
An ongoing debate in political and moral philosophy concerns the nature of international obligations. While cosmopolitans argue that duties of justice are independent of national borders, statists argue otherwise, sometimes basing their account on the limitations of our empathic concern, a line of argument found much earlier in Adam Smith. Although critics argue that empathy is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality, and although statists imply that psychological limitations of the kind that would be based in empathy prevent the realization of commitments to distant others beyond humanitarian aid, I argue that both these views are incorrect. While the possession …
The Moral Value Of Envy,
2015
Swarthmore College
The Moral Value Of Envy, Krista Karbowski Thomason
Philosophy Faculty Works
It is common to think that we would be morally better people if we never felt envy. Recently, some philosophers have rejected this conclusion by arguing that envy can often be directed toward unfairness or inequality. As such, they conclude that we should not suppress our feelings of envy. I argue, however, that these defenses only show that envy is sometimes morally permissible. In order to show that we would not be better off without envy, we must show how envy is not merely morally permissible, but morally valuable. Here I provide a defense of envy's moral value. I argue …
The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Philosophy, Spring 2015,
2015
University of Central Florida
The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Philosophy, Spring 2015, Richard Harrison
Libraries' Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Two French Variations On Truth: Ricoeur's Attestation And Foucault's “Parrhesiastic” Attitude,
2015
Marquette University
Two French Variations On Truth: Ricoeur's Attestation And Foucault's “Parrhesiastic” Attitude, Pol Vandevelde
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Both Ricoeur and Foucault, apparently independently of each other, dedicated much effort to provide an account of truth that goes far beyond the truth of sentences, propositions, or judgments. While well aware of the speech act theory and pragmatics, they want to go beyond a formalism of rules of speech or arguments and integrate the attitude of the one who speaks in the very notion of truth. They see truth not merely as a property of statements, but as an existential process in such a way that the truth of statements is linked to the historically situated speaker. Truth as …
Embodying A "New" Color Line: Racism, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment And Racial Identities In The "Postracial" Era,
2015
Marquette University
Embodying A "New" Color Line: Racism, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment And Racial Identities In The "Postracial" Era, Grant J. Silva
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
This essay explores the intersection of racism, racial embodiment theory and the recent hostility aimed at immigrants and foreigners in the United States, especially the targeting of people of Latin American descent and Latino/as. Anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment is racist. It is the embodiment of racial privilege for those who wield it and the materiality of racial difference for those it is used against. This manifestation of racial privilege and difference rests upon a redrawing of the color line that is meant towards preserving exclusive categories of political membership. The charge of racism, however, is elided by the fact that …
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly,
2015
York University
The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly, Brian Mccormack
The Goose
Review of William E. Connolly's The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism.
What Is Justice?,
2015
Georgia Southern University
What Is Justice?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone
No abstract provided.
Questions And Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications,
2015
Syracuse University
Questions And Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications, Jason Rourke
Dissertations - ALL
Abstract: A recent and innovative research program in epistemology aims to connect the related phenomena of questions and inquiry with epistemological concerns. This dissertation project contributes to that program, taking as its inspiration the contrastive theory of knowledge developed by Jonathan Schaffer in a series of recent papers. The dissertation is comprised of three main parts. I begin by articulating a positive account of the evaluation of knowledge attributions, an account that aims to respect the basic insights of Schaffer's contrastivism while situating them in a modal framework that makes manifest the utility of questions for epistemological theorizing. Then I …
