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Educated Folly About Animal Minds And Animal Suffering, Willem A. Landman

Between the Species

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Helping To Harm? The Ethical Dilemmas Of Managing Politically Sensitive Data, Sylvie C. Tourigny

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - March 19, 1993.

The Neo-Cartesian Revival: A Response, Peter Harrison

Between the Species

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Reply, Evelyn Pluhar

Between the Species

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Parmenides On Possibility And Thought, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Blackmail: Dde-Type Inquiries - 1993, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

DDE-type inquiries usually emerge from a particular brand of intuitionistically-applied deontology which one might call a "theory of side-constraints". From the deontologic notion that "persons are ends, not means," philosophers of this stripe have intuited a number of constraints that should constrain moral actors regardless of the cost. The science of side-constraints is obviously inconsistent with theories such as utilitarianism and economic wealth-maximization, where assessing the costs and benefits of an action constitute the primary guide for action. By contrast side-constraint philosophers tell us that one may not kill another person even to save a large number of other persons; …

Philosophies Of Science: Mach Duhem Bachelard, Babette Babich

Research Resources

approaches reflect the philosophical reflections on science expressed from the tradition of continental thought. In this context, the philosophical reflections on science to be found in Mach, Duhem and Bachelard may be mined for what should prove to be a productive

historical foundation between these two traditions addressed to a common focus.

Mach, Duhem and Bachelard among other thinkers have argued that science itself is more critical, indeed more inherently ‘hermeneutic’, than philosophy. But this point is problematic, and not only because of its counter-intuitive content -- whereby science ends up with the virtue of being more hermeneutic than hermeneutics …

Alston's Parity Thesis, Mark S. Mcleod

Rationality and Theistic Belief: An Essay on Reformed Epistemology

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Review Essay: Moore, R. I. The Formation Of A Persecuting Society, Donald Sullivan

Quidditas

Moore, R. I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1990. viii + 168 pp. $42.95 / $21.95.

Belief States And Narrow Content, Curtis Brown

Philosophy Faculty Research

A discussion of four incompatible theses about belief and other propositional attitudes.

Commentary, Jane Duran

Between the Species

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Science, Ethics, And Moral Status, Harlan B. Miller

Between the Species

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Is Animal Pain Conscious?, Joseph J. Lynch

Between the Species

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Althusser And Ideological Criticism Of The Arts, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

Louis Althusser's 1970 essay “Ideology and ideological state apparatuses” is arguably the most influential and important document in contemporary critical practice and its theory. In one way this is puzzling, for the essay contains almost nothing that can be recognized as an argument. It does not put forward a causal theory of the rise and fall of forms of social life. It offers no deductions, and it contains only a few sketchily described examples of ideologies. The essay is instead filled with oracular pronouncements, couched in a terminology partly invented and partly cobbled together from the Marxist tradition and from …

Review Essay: Lerer, Seth. Literacy And Power In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Raymond P. Tripp Jr.

Quidditas

Lerer, Seth. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1991. xii + 268 pp. $35.00.

Solidarity And Difference : The Politics Of Enlightenment In The Aftermath Of Modernity, George A. Trey

Dissertations

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Aristotle On Good And Bad Actualities, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Alexander On Form-In-Matter And The Breakdown Of Aristotle's Categories, John O. Ellis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My discussion is divided into six sections. In the first I provide some background to the form-in-matter problem in Aristotle; the second focusses on Alexander's solution to the problem; in the third, we consider Plotinus' contribution; in the fourth, there's brief treatment of the problem by the commentators on the Categories; and finally in the fifth section I look at what I call the 'Lucius problem' - this pertains directly to the substantial qualities doctrine, and it reveals, I suggest, how Alexander's way of solving the form-in-matter problem contributes to the breakdown of Aristotelian categories. In the sixth section …

Review Of G.L.Hallett's Language And Truth, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Review of Garth L.. Hallett's Language and Truth, Yale U. Press

Response: Of Pigs And Primitive Notions, David Detmer

Between the Species

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Descartes And Lock On Speciesism And The Value Of Life, Kathy Squadrito

Between the Species

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Why We Would Not Understand A Talking Lion, Gary W. Levvis

Between the Species

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Direct And Indirect Belief, Curtis Brown

Philosophy Faculty Research

This paper discusses that one's being in a particular belief state is nevertheless best characterized by a set of propositions, namely those one would believe in any situation in which one were in that belief state. The main purpose in this paper is to develop and defend the distinction between direct and indirect belief.

Ontological Disproof Of God's Existence, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

An initial reading of Hume's Principle is that no necessary truth can be denied without contradiction, whereas all existential propositions can. Therefore it is self-contradictory to say,that any existential claim is necessarily true, since it follows that this claim both can and cannot be denied without self-contradiction. Thus any claim of the form 'X necessarily exists' is a self-contradiction, even if X is God.

The Cratylus: An Explication, Elizabeth Upham

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

In Plato’s Cratylus, Socrates, Hermogenes, and Cratylus attempt to discover if things are named with consideration to phusis or nomos. This paper traces these arguments throughout Plato’s dialogue. In the end, Plato is suggesting that Socrates is like a legislator with the power to bestow appropriate names to things, even as he hides Socrates behind a thin veil of uncertainty. Ultimately the reader must make up his or her own mind, why is Socrates so full of contradictions and why does Plato portray him this way.

The Importance Of Language In Plato's Cratylus, Jeffrey Tinnin

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

By suggesting that Plato’s Cratylus is in the form of a ring composition, this paper explores how this form plays out within the context of a dialogue on the nature of language. It traces the ring composition form as it applies to the issue of naming. In the end it argues that for Plato the development of language is essential for the growth and maintenance of the soul. The twin structures of the ring compositional form enable this understanding in interesting and complex ways.

Nietzsche And Heraclitus, Virginia Lyle Jennings Howard

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Nietzshe's philosophical ideas are closely based upon his early studies of Greek thought. Unless his philosophy is approached from the standpoint of its foundation in the ancient Greeks, Heraclitus in particular, then it can be difficult to gain a coherent picture of Nietzsche's thought. In Heraclitus he found an affirmation of precisely what he loved about the ancient Greek way of life, its most fundamental concept: the contest. The Greeks embrace their apparently terrible characteristics and control them with a rule-governed contest. In the same way Heraclitus's universe consists of opposites which strive for dominion, not through wars of annihilation, …

Re-Minding The Animals: Developments In The Scientific Study Of Nonhuman Animals (A Review Of Bekoff And Jamieson's Interpretation And Explanation In The Study Of Animal Behavior, Volume I), Kenneth Joel Shapiro

Between the Species

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The Possibility Of An Evolutionary Semantics, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Between the Species

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Response To Michael Bishop's Commentary The Nature Of Evolution And Human Language, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Between the Species

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