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Mathematics From An English Major's Point Of View, Elizabeth Miller, Kathleen M. Shannon

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

New Directions : Dewey, Aesthetics, And Psychology, David Clark

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether psychological information is relevant to solving aesthetic problems. Along the way I will point out that there are disparate senses of the word "psychology" and I will show how John Dewey can be perceived historically as an early contributor to what we now call "cultural psychology", which I believe is a viable alternative to experimental aesthetics.

The Idea Of A Legal Unconscious, Arthur J. Jacobson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Law As A Medium Of Communication, Richard Münch

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Two Faces Of Janus: Rethinking Legal Pluralism, Gunther Teubner

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Response To David Degrazia, Peter Singer

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

The Moral Irrelevance Of Autonomy, Gary Comstock

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

05. Sources And References For Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery, Matthew Lipman

Middle School Curriculum

This sequential bibliography matches the 1982 edition of Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery page by page. It contains both sources—works that influenced Matthew Lipman in writing the novel, references to philosophical works he and Ann Margaret Sharp recommend to explore of the novels’ philosophical themes, and brief commentary on them by Lipman.

The Question Of Death In The "Work" Of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas And Blanchot, Dennis King Keenan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Religion, Interpretation, And Diversity Of Belief: The Framework Model From Kant To Durkheim To Davidson (Book Review), G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Review of the book, Religion, Interpretation, and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model from Kant to Durkheim to Davidson by Terry Godlove. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Silence (And Its Voluble Partner), Andrew Taylor

Research outputs pre 2011

Silence may traditionally have been golden, but how is it valued today? Can it survive the impact of a technology which can, and does, bring the apparently irresistible seductions of noise to the remotest parts of the world, and which invades the most reclusive aspects of our lives? And what place has silence in a culture such as ours which classifies it as "unproductive"?

But what is silence anyway?

Professor Taylor considers two ways in which, from the Romantic period onward, silence has been conceived. One tradition equates silence with Truth itself; the other considers it the condition which enables …

Asceticism/Askēsis: Foucault's Thinking Historical Subjectivity, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the Introduction to The Use of Pleasure Foucault calls his work an askēsis, "an exercise of oneself in the activity of thought." The "living substance of philosophy," Foucault writes, is the essay, "which should be understood as the assay or test by which, in the game of truth, one undergoes changes, and not as the simplistic appropriation of others for the purpose of communication." Foucault's work, then, does not simply report to us his conclusions or theories. Foucault is not primarily interested in imparting information. What he offers instead is a kind of exercise book.

Deaths Of Art: David Carrier's Metahistory Of Artwriting, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This essay is a critical examination of David Carrier's Artwriting (1987), which offered a philosophical account of the implicit strategies of narrative and presentation deployed by a wide range of art historians and critics. Here, this author raises some questions concerning Carrier's attempt to describe or define a genre of 'art-writing' distinct from philosophical aesthetics; he also discusses Carrier's views in the context of those writers whom Carrier examines in Artwriting.

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

Quidditas

Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …

Aristotle And Sophocles On The Elements Of Moral Virtue, Lloyd W. J. Aultman-Moore

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Belief And Rationality, Curtis Brown, Steven Luper-Foy

Philosophy Faculty Research

We have gathered here a collection of papers at a point of intersection between epistemology and the philosophy of mind. The essays in this collection illuminate the bearing of issues about rationality on a variety of themes about belief, including the relation of belief to other propositional attitudes, the nature of the subjects who have beliefs, the nature of the objects of belief, and the ways in which we attribute content to beliefs.

Some Ways Of Being In Plato, Allan Silverman

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I propose to examine on this occasion three closely related issues in the interpretation of Plato's metaphysics, the separation of Forms, participation, and the nature of particulars. In the compass of this talk, I cannot do justice to all three of these issues, indeed probably to none of them. A fortiori, I cannot do a semblance of justice to the closely related topics of predication, both ontological and linguistic; the status of Aristotle's remarks about Plato's metaphysics and his own treatment of these issues, or the vexing problem of the development of Plato’s thinking. Nonetheless, I cannot avoid these topics. …

Introduction: Social Work And Philosophy, Roberta Wells Imre

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A journal issue unequivocally about philosophical concerns in social work is evidence of the recent progress we have made in the profession in recognizing the importance of philosophical commitments in social work activities. Awareness of the presence of these commitments and dissatisfaction with conventional social work resources for addressing them led to the organization of the Study Group for Philosophical Issues in 1985. The papers presented here have been contributed by members of this group, which is open to anyone interested in joining the conversation.

Do Animals Have Souls?, Helmut F. Kaplan

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Mathematics And Philosophy: The Story Of A Misunderstanding, Gian-Carlo Rota

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Hermeneutics Of Mathematical Modeling, David Tudor

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Callicott's Holism: A Clue For A Classical Realist Contribution To The Debate Over The Value Of Animals, Richard J. Klonoski

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Kant’S Dubious Disciples: Hare And Rawls, Edward Papa

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The aim of this paper is to show that Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals has set a basic pattern of research for moral philosophy, a pattern established by the structure of the text, and one which implies an overarching thesis, 'the Groundwork is divided into three sections: (1) an analysis of ordinary moral judgments which identifies their formal rule, (2) the derivation of the supreme principle of morality, and (3) the presentation of a theory of reason which grounds the possibility of moral action. Kant seeks to explain the sense in which moral action may be said to …

Believing The Impossible, Curtis Brown

Philosophy Faculty Research

This article offers an interpretation of Ruth Barcan Marcus's view that just as we cannot know what is false, we cannot believe what is impossible, followed by an argument that if this defense succeeded, it would justify rejecting many of out ordinary belief ascriptions. Although, this defense does not succeed there is something correct and important in Marcus's argument.

Hermeneutical Phenomenology And The Philosophy Of Science, Patrick A. Heelan

Research Resources

Continental philosophy from the start sees science as an institution in a cultural, historical, and hermeneutical setting. The domain of its discourse is values, subjectivity, Life Worlds, history, and society, as these affect the constitution of scientific knowledge. Its notion of truth is that which pertains to history, political power, and culture. Its concern with science is to interpret its historical conditions within human society -- usually in Western culture. Science, from this perspective, is a human, social -- and fallible -- enterprise. A concern of continental philosophy of science will include social failure as a possible indictment of scientific …

From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard

Quidditas

Literary critics have relied increasingly upon what we know of the particular goings-on at the court of Queen Elizabeth to explain all things we call Elizabethan, including a vast corpus of poetry. Pastoral poetry in particular, long regarded as an allegorical embodiment of court politics, is seen now more than ever as a product of social and political power struggles. I argue instead that the pastoral poetry of Renaissance England has to do with the academic world as much as, if not more than, with the ancillary world of the court, it was born of the academy, where Edmund Spenser …

Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

Quidditas

Dante Today, ed. Amilcare A. Iannucci, special spring and fall volume of Quaaderni d'italianistica, 10.1-2 (1989).

Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith

Quidditas

Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Harvard University Press, 1989, xiii, 236 pp., biblio., $29.95.

Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein

Quidditas

Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy," Stanford University Press, 1989, vi, 289 pp., biblio., index, $29.50.

Review Essay: Roland Bechmann, Trees And Man: The Forest In The Middle Ages, Kelly Devries

Quidditas

Roland Bechmann, Trees and Man: The Forest in the Middle Ages, trans. Katharyn Dunham, rev. ed., Paragon House, 1990, 319 pp., biblio., index, $24.95.