Light And Affects From A Comparative Point Of View,
2014
Independent Scholar
Light And Affects From A Comparative Point Of View, Kyle Takaki
Comparative Philosophy
Light metaphors occurring in Chinese philosophy and Stoicism are of special interest for the unique ways they channel potentialities of the self. In this paper I apply ideas from cognitive linguistics to examine selected structural features of these metaphors. I also build on these ideas by presenting a framework regarding affects to assist in disclosing what is at stake for differing Chinese and Stoic technologies of the self. The paper adopts a high-level perspective to see these broad philosophical implications, interleaving discussions of Chinese philosophy (mainly views associated with Daoism), Stoicism (bringing into relief important differences from these views), and …
Book Review Of, Ethics Of Liberation: In The Age Of Globalization And Exclusion,
2014
Portland State University
Book Review Of, Ethics Of Liberation: In The Age Of Globalization And Exclusion, Alexander Sager
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Alex Sager, Professor in Philosophy at Portland State University reviews Ethics of Liberation: in the Age of Globalization and Exclusion by Enrique Dussell.
Meditation On Relativism, Absolutism, And Beyond,
2014
San Jose State University
Meditation On Relativism, Absolutism, And Beyond, Anand Vaidya
Comparative Philosophy
No abstract provided.
A Reply To Vaidya,
2014
Bryn Mawr College, USA.
The Inclusive Dynamics Of Islamic Universalism: From The Vantage Point Of Sayyid Qutb's Critical Philosophy,
2014
The Open University
The Inclusive Dynamics Of Islamic Universalism: From The Vantage Point Of Sayyid Qutb's Critical Philosophy, Andrea Mura
Comparative Philosophy
This article pursues a topological reading of Milestones, one of the most influential books in the history of Islamism. Written by Muslim thinker Sayyid Qutb, the general interest in this crucial text has largely remained restricted to the fields of Islamic Studies and Security Studies. This article aims to make the case for assuming a philosophical standpoint, relocating its significance beyond the above-mentioned fields. A creative and topological reading of this text will allow the spatial complexity of Qutbs eschatological vision to be fully exposed, while also unpacking the way in which antagonistic relations have variously been articulated by this …
Albert Camus And The Anticolonials: Why Camus Would Not
Play The Zero Sum Game,
2014
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Albert Camus And The Anticolonials: Why Camus Would Not Play The Zero Sum Game, James D. Le Sueur
Department of History: Faculty Publications
In 1994, I returned from Paris to Hyde Park just in time to catch a lecture about Albert Camus that an esteemed colleague, the late Tony Judt, was giving at the University of Chicago. I was much younger then, eager to engage in debate, and I had just spent most of the past two years turning over the recently opened pages of Camus’ private papers in Paris and trolling through the private papers of other prominent French intellectuals, as well as newly declassified state archives for what was to become my first book, Uncivil War.2 I had also done dozens …
Counterfactual Situations And Moral Worth,
2014
Ursinus College
Counterfactual Situations And Moral Worth, Kelly Sorensen
Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
What is the relevance to praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of what one would have done in other, counterfactual circumstances? I defend a moderate form of actualism: what one would have done is important, but less so than what one actually does.
Of Gardens And Prosperity: Toward An Inspired Land Ethic,
2014
Murray State University
Of Gardens And Prosperity: Toward An Inspired Land Ethic, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Hobbes, Definitions, And Simplest Conceptions,
2014
University at Albany, State University of New York
Hobbes, Definitions, And Simplest Conceptions, Marcus P. Adams
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
Several recent commentators argue that Thomas Hobbes’s account of the nature of science is conventionalist. Engaging in scientific practice on a conventionalist account is more a matter of making sure one connects one term to another properly rather than checking one’s claims, e.g., by experiment. In this paper, I argue that the conventionalist interpretation of Hobbesian science accords neither with Hobbes’s theoretical account in De corpore and Leviathan nor with Hobbes’s scientific practice in De homine and elsewhere. Closely tied to the conventionalist interpretation is the deductivist interpretation, on which it is claimed that Hobbes believed sciences such as optics …
On The Semantic Expression Of Mental Acts,
2014
University at Albany, State University of New York
On The Semantic Expression Of Mental Acts, William Grimes
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
In this unpublished manuscript, the author aims to provide "a concept of the language of the semantic expression of mental acts" based on the insights both of ordinary language philosophy and logical reconstruction.
No Grist For Mill On Natural Kinds,
2014
University at Albany, State University of New York
No Grist For Mill On Natural Kinds, P.D. Magnus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
According to the standard narrative, natural kind is a technical notion that was introduced by John Stuart Mill in the 1840s and the recent craze for natural kinds, launched by Putnam and Kripke, is a continuation of that tradition. I argue that the standard narrative is mistaken. The Millian tradition of kinds was not particularly influential in the 20th century, and the Putnam-Kripke revolution did not clearly engage with even the remnants that were left of it. The presently active tradition of natural kinds is less than half a century old. Recognizing this might help us better appreciate both Mill …
The Open Where Not To See,
2014
Luther Seminary
The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality,
2014
Ohio Northern University
The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Natural Law And Spontaneous Order In The Work Of Gary Chartier,
2014
Bridgewater State University
Natural Law And Spontaneous Order In The Work Of Gary Chartier, Aeon Skoble
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Universality Of Hermeneutics In Joseph Kockelmans’S Version Of Hermeneutic Phenomenology,
2014
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
The Universality Of Hermeneutics In Joseph Kockelmans’S Version Of Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Dimitri Ginev
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
There is in Professor Kockelmans’s works from the 1950s a gradual transition from Nikolai Hartmann’s theory of the ontological modalities and categories (addressed in its capacity to serve as a prerequisite for reconstructing the ontological assumptions of basic scientifi c theories) to a kind of hermeneutic ontology. This transition is especially palpable in his reading of Hartmann’s “Philosophy of Nature.” In Hartmann’s categorial metaphysics of knowledge Dasein and Sosein (as ways of being) are subordinated to the modes and spheres of being. The transition was by no means accomplished via a direct borrowing of Heidegger’s concept of Dasein . It …
Consciousness, Quantum Physics, And Hermeneutical Phenomenology,
2014
Georgetown University
Consciousness, Quantum Physics, And Hermeneutical Phenomenology, Patrick A. Heelan Sj
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
Two hundred years ago Friedrich Schleiermacher modified Kant’s notion of anthropology—‘hermeneutically,’ as he said — so as to make it inclusive of the tribes that Captain Cook found in the South Sea Islands. This paper honors the late Joseph J. Kockelmans for making a similar hermeneutic move to update Kant’s notion of natural science so as to make it inclusive of the phenomenological lifeworld (For ‘lifeworld,’ see Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Philosophy, 1954, 121–148, and the ‘lifeworld’ theme throughout the Crisis. ) syntheses of classical, relativity, and quantum physics. The new synthesis is in fact …
The Multidimensionality Of Hermeneutic Phenomenology: From Philology Through Science And Technology To Theology,
2014
Fordham University
The Multidimensionality Of Hermeneutic Phenomenology: From Philology Through Science And Technology To Theology, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
No abstract provided.
Double-Effect Reasoning Defended: A Response To Scanlon,
2014
University of San Francisco
Double-Effect Reasoning Defended: A Response To Scanlon, Thomas A. Cavanaugh
Philosophy
Common morality endorses some form of an exceptionless prohibition against killing innocents. Natural lawyers employ double-effect reasoning (DER) to address hard cases involving deaths of the innocent. Current deontologists (Scanlon and Thomson) criticize DER-proponents as conflating act-with agent-evaluations. Scanlon develops this critique extensively. I respond to his criticism. He maintains that the DER-advocate tells a badly-motivated agent to refrain from an obligatory act. Thus, he asserts, the natural lawyer who employs DER errs. Instead, Scanlon proposes, one ought to assess the act as permissible while blaming the agent. I argue that DER does not succumb to this critique. Moreover, Scanlon’s …
Investigating The Lay And Scientific Norms For Using ‘Explanation’,
2014
West Virginia University
Investigating The Lay And Scientific Norms For Using ‘Explanation’, Jonathan Waskan, Ian Harmon, Andrew Higgins, Joseph Spino
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
In the mid-twentieth century, Hempel (1962, 1965) bucked posit ivist ort hodoxy and proposed that explanations have a legitimate role to play in science. Yet, when it came time to offer up a model of explanation, Hempel held fast to the positivist tendency of abstracting both from facts about human psychology and from the specific contents of claims (i.e., in favor of bare logical form). At the broadest level, he proposed that explanations are sets of true statements arranged into formally acceptable arguments. That such arguments count as explanations has, Hempel thought, nothing to do with what anyone thinks or …
Advances In Documentation, Digital Curation, Virtual Exhibition, And A Test Of 3d Geometric Morhpometrics: A Case Study Of The Vanderpool Vessels From The Ancestral Caddo Territory,
2014
Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University
Advances In Documentation, Digital Curation, Virtual Exhibition, And A Test Of 3d Geometric Morhpometrics: A Case Study Of The Vanderpool Vessels From The Ancestral Caddo Territory, Robert Z. Selden Jr., Timothy K. Perttula, Michael J. O'Brien
CRHR: Archaeology
Three-dimensional (3D) digital scanning of archaeological materials is typically used as a tool for artifact documentation. With the permission of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, 3D documentation of Caddo funerary vessels from the Vanderpool site (41SM77) was conducted with the initial goal of ensuring that these data would be publicly available for future research long after the vessels were repatriated. A digital infrastructure was created to archive and disseminate the resultant 3D datasets, ensuring that they would be accessible by both researchers and the general public (CRHR 2014a). However, 3D imagery can be used for much more than documentation. To …
