Statecraft: Vandalism And Iconoclasm In The Digital Age,
2015
Technological University Dublin
Statecraft: Vandalism And Iconoclasm In The Digital Age, Connell Vaughan
Conference papers
Not only is vandalism increasingly subject to digital documentation, but the aesthetic nature of vandalism itself is different as a result of the digital. No longer is vandalism a local destructive act, it has become an act performed primarily for broadcast to global markets. This paper uses the example of Islamic State (IS) iconoclasm to explore the way in which digital media is strategically used by vandals and considers the responses of the heritage industry to respond to such destruction. It illustrates how the deliberate digital documentation and subsequent global broadcasting of the destruction of cultural heritage by Islamic State …
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights,
2015
Morehouse College
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
Tom Regan argues that human beings and some non-human animals have moral rights because they are “subjects of lives,” that is, roughly, conscious, sentient beings with an experiential welfare. A prominent critic, Carl Cohen, objects: he argues that only moral agents have rights and so animals, since they are not moral agents, lack rights. An objection to Cohen’s argument is that his theory of rights seems to imply that human beings who are not moral agents have no moral rights, but since these human beings have rights, his theory of rights is false, and so he fails to show that …
Fortieth Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 2015-2016,
2015
University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well
Fortieth Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, 2015-2016, University Of Minnesota - Morris. Philosophy Department
Midwest Philosophy Colloquium
Programs for the fortieth Midwest Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Minnesota Morris in 2015-2016.
Matafunctional/Metafictional Objects,
2015
Rhode Island School of Design
Design For Transitions - From And To What?,
2015
Carnegie Mellon School of Design
Design For Transitions - From And To What?, Cameron Tonkinwise
Articles
No abstract provided.
On Creative Dialectics,
2015
Brown University
On Derivative Moral Responsibility And The Epistemic Connection Required For Moral Responsibility,
2015
Cleveland State University
On Derivative Moral Responsibility And The Epistemic Connection Required For Moral Responsibility, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
Derivative moral responsibility is not moral responsibility at all. Much of the confusion found in the literature concerning moral responsibility and the free will problem can be traced back to a penchant to reconcile our philosophical theories of moral responsibility with our folk commonsense linguistic accounts of moral responsibility, a tradition that is notable for its utter lack of making two important distinctions - (1) the distinction between derivative moral responsibility and non-derivative moral responsibility (what Galen Strawson calls “true moral responsibility”) and (2) the distinction between the scope and degree of one’s moral responsibility.1 The failure to make such …
Review Of How Universities Can Help Create A Wiser World By Nicholas Maxwell,
2015
Cleveland State University
Review Of How Universities Can Help Create A Wiser World By Nicholas Maxwell, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Small Discovery: Avicenna's Theory Of Minima Naturalia,
2015
University of Missouri-St. Louis
A Small Discovery: Avicenna's Theory Of Minima Naturalia, Jon Mcginnis
Philosophy Faculty Works
There has been a long-held misconception among historians of philosophy and science that apart from brief comments in Aristotle and Averroes, the theory of minima naturalia had to await Latin Schoolmen for its full articulation. Recently scholars have shown that far from sporadic comments on minima naturalia, Averroes in fact had a fully developed and well-integrated theory of them. In this study, I complement these scholars’ important work by considering Avicenna’s place in the history and development of the doctrine of the minima naturalia. There is no study to date that mentions Avicenna in connection with this doctrine despite the …
The Philosophical Differences Between Heisenberg And Bohr,
2015
Georgetown University
The Philosophical Differences Between Heisenberg And Bohr, Patrick Heelan
Research Resources
Chapter from: Patrick Aidan Heelan, The Observable: Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics. With a foreword by Michel Bitbol. Edited and with a foreword by Babette Babich. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015.
Transpersonal Psychology And An Agnostic Experiential Exploration Of Mediumship And The Ostensible Phenomenon Of Life After Death,
2015
Capella University
Transpersonal Psychology And An Agnostic Experiential Exploration Of Mediumship And The Ostensible Phenomenon Of Life After Death, Elliot Benjamin
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
This paper presents results of an autoethnographic personal experiential research study of mediumship and the ostensible phenomenon of life after death. The researcher’s experiences center on his attempt to make contact with his deceased brother, as part of a doctoral research project. The researcher concludes with a skeptical interpretation of the phenomenon of medium-facilitated communications regarding the deceased; he suggests these are likely to involve cold reading, sensory cues, coincidence, and subjective validation rather than constituting genuine evidence of life after death. The researcher’s conclusions leave room for the possibility of a paranormal interpretation, though this is not favored.
Further Developing Transpersonal Psychology As A Science: Building And Testing Middle-Range Transpersonal Theories,
2015
University of Florida
Further Developing Transpersonal Psychology As A Science: Building And Testing Middle-Range Transpersonal Theories, Harris L. Friedman
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Further developing transpersonal psychology as a science has been impeded by the over emphasis on two approaches to building theory, namely grand theories that attempt to explain everything and mini-theories that avoid explaining much of anything. In between these extremes are “middle-range” transpersonal psychology theories that can better allow for scientific progress. They bracket metaphysical and supernatural approaches common in transpersonal grand theories, and accept the possible generalizability of findings commonly rejected by transpersonal mini-theories. The transpersonal construct of self-expansiveness illustrates one way that middle-range transpersonal theories can lead to a program of cumulative empirical research and empirically informed practices. …
Clay As A Spiritual Practice,
2015
Odyssey Ceramic Center for the Arts
Clay As A Spiritual Practice, Kat Mciver
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
art, expressive arts, spiritual practice, clay, clay as a spiritual practice, art therapy, Mary Magdalene, interior light, surrender, Divine Presence
Japan Dreaming,
2015
Private Practice
Japan Dreaming, Jill Mellick
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Art has its own voice, and demands that the artist listen, feel, and give it birth. This account relates the artist's experience of creating two works in a series entitled, "Japan Dreaming," works that evoke Japanese scrolls, fabric space dividers, paper streamers, kimono, and gates into sacred space.
Altered States Of Consciousness And Creative Expression,
2015
University of California, Los Angeles
Altered States Of Consciousness And Creative Expression, Micah Linton
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Hypnagogia, a state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, provides a palette where conscious awareness intertwines with dream images. This state is compared with synesthesia, the imaginal realm, and Jung's active imagination process as inspiration for artistic creation.
The Art Of Observation And Experience,
2015
Universidad de los Andes
The Art Of Observation And Experience, Andrée Salom
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Mindfulness practices aim to develop intentional awareness of the present moment. This paper touches on two of the difficulties that may arise in the course of such practice. On the one hand, the present moment may be overwhelming if there is an over-identification with the content that the practices uncover. On the other hand, the present moment may seem excessively foreign if there is an over-identification with the witnessing of such content. Art can prevent an over-identification on both poles of this equation by acting as a container for content, a source of somatic discharge, and a facilitator for observing …
Exploring Soul Loss Through Arts-Based Research,
2015
Spiral Phoenix Trauma Institute
Exploring Soul Loss Through Arts-Based Research, Jacqueline Linder
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Arts-based approaches to scholarly inquiry are becoming increasingly common in qualitative research. The research presented here examines the psychospiritual impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), and a spectrum of soul loss was identified including soul wounding, soul withering, soul shattering, soul flight, soul theft, and soul murder. Part of the data set consisted of 24 mandalas by participants and the researcher, as well as one integrative drawing based on the use of imaginal resonance. The art data permitted a depth of insight into the psychospiritual impact of sexual abuse that went beyond what had been provided by other data streams. …
Poetry And Consciousness,
2015
Transpersonal psychologist, author, poet, educator
Poetry And Consciousness, Diana Raab
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Poetry is more than words—it is a state in which internal and external worlds come together in awareness and give birth to something more true than what either can reach alone. The author offers two poems along with their context and reflections on the function of poetry.
Musical Creativity And Mindfulness Meditation: Can The Practice Of Mindfulness Meditation Enhance Perceived Musical Creativity?,
2015
Leeds Beckett University
Musical Creativity And Mindfulness Meditation: Can The Practice Of Mindfulness Meditation Enhance Perceived Musical Creativity?, John Z. Newton
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
The relationship between musical creativity and mindfulness meditation is explored through a qualitative study of three composers’ individual experiences of musical creativity and participation in eight guided mindfulness meditation sessions. Through qualitative interviews conducted before and after completion of a mindfulness course, data was analyzed and categorized into themes in order to identify whether the practice of mindfulness meditation had enhanced participants’ perceived musical creativity. Themes from the first set of interviews (Expression, Harmony, Intuition) represent the participants’ subjective experience of musical creativity, while themes from the second set (Enhanced focus and awareness, Nonstriving) outline subjective changes reported by each …
The Mariner’S Way Of Individuation: An Insight Into The Jungian Principle Of Acausality,
2015
University of Western Australia
The Mariner’S Way Of Individuation: An Insight Into The Jungian Principle Of Acausality, Parisa Shams, Farideh Pourgiv
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
As a Romantic poet who was especially interested in the workings of the mind, Coleridge, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, has dealt with notions, ideas, and images that lend themselves to a Jungian reading, specifically from the perspective of the principle of synchronicity which is to be the focus of this analysis. The theory of synchronicity, being the principle explaining the concurrence of psychic states and external events which bear no causal relationship, could be employed to bring up a novel interpretation of the poem. The causally unrelated but meaningful succession of events in the course of the …
