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Robust Belief States And The Right/Wrong Dichotomy, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Remarks On The Syntax And Semantics Of Mixed Quotation, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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“Sad Stories Of The Death Of Kings”: Lyric And Narrative Release From Confining Spaces In Shakespeare’S Richard Ii, Jennifer C. Vaught

Quidditas

The relation of Shakespeare's plays to other literary forms like lyric and narrative is a topic that continues to invite speculation. A number of his plays contain songs and sonnets, reported stories and winter’s tales. In this essay I examine lyrics and narratives in Richard II and their dialogic relation to the surrounding text. In a play about a self-enclosed King these utterances tend to occur in enclosures: Richard delivers lyrics while immured at Flint Castle and the dungeon at Pomfret, whereas his Queen laments in an enclosed garden and promises to tell the King’s story during her exile in …

Irigaray And Deleuze: Experiments In Visceral Philosophy, Tamsin E. Lorraine

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Hölderlin's Ethical Thinking: "The Process Of The Actual" In "Heidelberg", Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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About Our Contributors, Philippe L. Gross, S. I. Shapiro

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Philosophy, Law, And Morality, Lois M. Eveleth

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

Law and morality now stand as two poles of an American dilemma. We are requiring of law far more than it can deliver, while morality is constitutionally unworkable. However, a third option, viz. philosophical/secular ethics, can provide a viable conceptual-linguistic framework for understanding and achieving the seemingly-elusive unity of national vision.

Review Essay: Confident Readings: Medieval And Early Modern (Christian) Spirituality And Its Recent Interpreters, Steven F. Kruger

Quidditas

Catherine M. Mooney, ed. Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii + 277 pp.

Richard Rambuss. Closet Devotions. Durham and London: Duke Univer- sity Press, 1998. xiii + 193 pp.

The Church As An Agent Of Reconciliation In The Thought Of Desmond Tutu, Trust J. Ndlovu

Dissertations

South Africa was both the first and last bastion of extended European colonial rule in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the extensive interaction between the Black and White races over time, who were distinguished by divergent philosophies of life, friction developed between these two major ethnic blocs, as well as the other peoples that came as labor for the Whites or have arisen as a result of miscegenation between the Blacks and the Whites. Archbishop Desmond Tutu holds that racial tension is neither good for South Africa nor even Christian, and insists that it should be eliminated, giving way to reconciliation. …

Biblical Terrorism: With A Platonic Deconstruction, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Nelson Goodman Remembered, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Aristotle On Existential Import And Nonreferring Subjects, Scott Carson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Much contemporary philosophy o f language has shown considerable interest in the relation between our linguistic practice and our metaphysical commitments, and this interest has begun to influence work in the history of philosophy as well. In his Categories and De interpretatione, Aristotle presents an analysis of language that can be read as intended to illustrate an isomorphism between the ontology of the real world and how we talk about that world. Our understanding of language is at least in part dependent upon our understanding of the relationships that exist among the enduring πράγματα that we come across in our …

Plantinga And The Theory Of Knowledge, Angela Burnette

Honors Projects

Kuhn argues that a paradigm generally emerges from among such competing schools as the result of a particularly attractive or powerful accomplishment that places one school in a better position than the others. With the establishment and common acceptance of one particular theoretical structure, researchers can direct their observations and experiments in accordance with the ontological and methodological landscape provided by the agreed upon paradigm. Under such guidance, scientists are in a position to judge the value of various observations, and delineate between important lines of investigation and those without promise. Thus normal science, in contrast to its "immature" precursor, …

Locating Traitorous Identities: Toward A View Of Privilege-Cognizant White Character, Alison Bailey

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

I address the problem of how to locate “traitorous” subjects, or those who belong to dominant groups yet resist the usual assumptions and practices of those groups. I argue that Sandra Harding’s description of traitors us insiders, who “become marginal” is misleading. Crafting a distinction between “privilege-cognizant” and “privilege-evasive” white scripts, I offer an alternative account of race traitors as privilege-cognizant whites who refuse to animate expected whitely scripts, and who are unfaithful to worldviews whites are expected to hold.

From The Earth To The Sky: Shamanic Roots Of Russian Transpersonalism, Cynthia Clement, Julia Trott

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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About Our Contributors, Philippe L. Gross, S. I. Shapiro

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Syntactic Theory And The Structure Of English: A Minimalist Approach, By A. Radford, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Mixed Media May 11, 1998, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 11, 1998 issue includes articles on who the members of the RISD community are, and searching for a female equivalent to the word "dick," along with the comic "Nude Model Confidential" by Noa, "Comix", "Lion Eyes" by Tim Drain, event notices, and other announcements.

Effect Of Item Clarity And Probability Of Item Endorsement On Response Latencies On Personality Test Items, James R. Kinney

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study, regression analysis was used to examine the affects of item clarity and probability of endorsement on response latencies of 60 undergraduates responding on personality test items from the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 Personality Factor test) (Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970, 5th Edition). Response latencies to personality test items, though frequently studied, have yet to be operationally utilized in the interpretation of personality tests. Forty-four items from the 16 Personality Factor test were selected. Each item from the original test was rated for clarity and matched with an emotionally neutral statement with an equivalent number of words. …

Collapsing The Philosophy/Rhetoric Disjunct: Nietzsche, Plato And The Perspectival Turn, Ned Vankevich

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Often overlooked within the standard views of academe lie hidden a number of tacit assumptions. Until the time of Nietzsche, the status of rhetoric as a discourse formation in Western intellectual history was often colored by the unflattering view generated by Plato in a number of his dialogues. In this thesis I present a case that revisits Plato and Nietzsche with an eye toward understanding the reasons why these two highly influential figures in contemporary philosophy adopt the views they advocate. In doing so, I attempt to illumine the reason Plato forms a fundamental split between philosophy and rhetoric and …

The Scope Of Hermeneutics In Natural Science, Patrick A. Heelan

Research Resources

THE SCOPE OF HERMENEUTICS IN NATURAL SCIENCE Hermeneutics or interpretation is concerned with the generation, transmission, and acceptance of meaning within the lifeworld and was the original method of the human sciences stemming from F. Schleiermacher and W. Dilthey. Hermeneutic philosophy refers mostly to M. Heidegger’s. This paper addresses natural science from the perspective of Heidegger’s analysis of meaning and interpretation. Its purpose is to incorporate into the philosophy of science those aspects of historicality, culture, and tradition that are absent from the traditional analysis of theory and explanation, to re-orient the current discussion about scientific realism around the hermeneutics …

Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness 'In Isolation', And Ellipsis, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …

Animals, Ethics And Geography, William S. Lynn

Attitudes Towards Animals Collection

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John Skelton's "Agenst Garnesche": Poetic Territorialism, At The Court Of Henry Viii, Victor I. Scherb

Quidditas

John Skelton's 1514 flyting "Agenst Garnesche" has been subject to little critical scrutiny. This neglect can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Christopher Garnesche's contribution is missing, but it is also characteristic of the relative neglect accorded to the flyting as a genre, a neglect that has also colored the interpretation of many of Skelton's more abusive poems. One critic, for example, has dismissed the poem as being "nothing but personal abuse of a particularly virulent type . . . adorned with a singular collection of epithets and incomprehensible allusions, which serve only to befog and irritate the reader." …

Shame And Identity Pope's "Critique Of Judgement" In An Essay On Criticism, Blakey Vermeule

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Pulses Of The Body Romantic Vegetarianism And Its Cultural Contexts, Timothy Morton

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Swift The New Tradition, James L. Thorson

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Houyhnhnm Subtext Moral Conclusions And Linguistical Manipulation In Gulliver's Travels, Julia Goldberg

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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