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From Realism To Rapprochement: The Autobiographical Interpretation Of Collingwood's Philosophy, Glenn C. Shipley

Dissertations

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Space-Perception And The Philosophy Of Science, Patrick Heelan

Research Resources

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Legal Theory And The Problem Of Definition, Philip E. Soper

Reviews

Natural Law and Natural Rights is a refreshingly direct book about some decidedly difficult matters. It is also a book that refuses to do homage to the complexity of its subject by limiting the topics covered. Here is virtually a mini-treatise in moral philosophy, with illuminating discussions on the whole range of human value and on a good part of the related range of metaethics, legal theory, political theory, and the problems of methodology in the descriptive social sciences.

From Realism To Rapprochement: The Autobiographical Interpretation Of Collingwood's Philosophy, Glenn C. Shipley

Dissertations

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Origin Of Raskolnikov’S Schizophrenia, Gerald Leonard Cohen

Arts, Languages and Philosophy Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Aristotle's Demarcation Of The Senses Of Energeia In Metaphysics Ix,6, Ronald Polansky

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle demarcates in Metaphysics IX.6 three most crucial senses of energeia. There is that which pertains to categorial being, and that which pertains to becoming. Finally, there is energeia involved in the cognitive and affective lives of animals.

Believing The Self-Contradictory, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Clearly, if a man holds a self-contradictory belief, then his belief cannot be rational, for there can be no set of evidence sufficient to justify it. This is most apparent when the self contradictory belief is a belief in a conjunction, (e.g., a belief that p & ~p), rather than when it is a non-conjunctive self-contradictory belief, e.g. a belief that red is not a color.

[Book Review Of] New Technologies Of Birth And Death - Medical, Legal, And Moral Dimensions, Ronald D. Lawler

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] The Emergence Of Roman Catholic Medical Ethics In North America, By David F. Kelly, John R. Connery

The Linacre Quarterly

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The Elizabethan Clerk Of The Privy Council, F. J. Platt

Quidditas

One of the least understood facts of Elizabethan administrative history is the importance of the clerkship of the Privy Council. Considered a position of "no small esteem," this "office was singularly rich in men of distinction." Indeed, with the exception of a select few privy councilors, it was the Council clerks who handled the lion's share of the day-to-day business of English government.

Book Review Of "The Question Of Animal Awareness" And "Animals Are Equal", W. C. Mcgrew

International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems

McGrew reviews two books addressing what lies behind the behavior of nonhuman species. Griffin's book caused considerable discussion when it first appeared five years earlier. The book has become the cornerstone of a new discipline – cognitive ethology. Three new chapters (on mental experiences, semantics, and evolutionary continuity) have been added to the original eight in the first edition. Almost a third of the cited studies have appeared since the first edition's publication, illustrating the unexpected richness of the new findings. Griffin emphasizes that animal communication is the richest source of material, leading to inferences about animal minds. Griffin is …

Basic Applied Logic, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

From the preface:

This is a practical book, intended to help its users develop logical reasoning skills. It is designed for any introductory course that focuses on the development of those skills—whether that course takes an "informal" nonsymbolic approach or a more formal approach. Although it contains optional sections in which modern symbolic logic is carefully developed through first-order predicate calculus, the book maintains a practical orientation, emphasizing only those aspects of logical theory that bear on argument evaluation and argument construction. Thus, the book is well-suited for use in a wide range of introductory applied logic courses, introductory philosophy …

(1982) Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything (1971) By Wilfred Rusk Wees, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

In this review, Guin concurs with Wees that, instead of survival schooling the whole purpose of education is to nurture the child's power of thought, since thought is the basic resource in the child's search for purposes and meanings.

Are There Mental Inferences In Direct Perceptions?, Dan D. Crawford

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

While there is virtually a consensus among contemporary philosophers of perception that some form of direct realism is true, there is less than complete agreement about whether normal, direct perceptions involve mental inferences in any sense. In taking another look at this recurrent question, my aim is twofold: first, to examine some of the arguments and evidences that have been offered in favor of inferences and to see if they can be accommodated within the direct realist framework, and second, to attempt to clarify and defend the insight of direct realism that normal perceptions are noninferential.

Two Views Of Dance: Aesthetic Theory And Performance, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Unambiguity Of Aristotelian Being, Jaakko Hintikka

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper, I shall try to enhance our understanding of Aristotle's thought by relating it to certain contemporary problems and insights of philosophical logicians. One of the most central current issues in philosophical logic is a challenge to a hundred-year old dogma. Almost all twentieth-century philosophers in English-speaking countries have followed Frege and Russell and claimed that the words for being in natural languages — "is," "ist," ἔστι etc.— are ambiguous between the is of predication, the is of existence, the is of identity, and the generic is. The significance of this ambiguity thesis has not been limited to …

Geometries And Words - Linguistics And Philosophy - A Model Of The Composing Process, Dorothy Augustine

English Faculty Articles and Research

Dorothy Augustine writes about composing a piece for philosophy.

Language And Thought: Some Dangerous Distinctions, Ken Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

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The Role Of Language In The Theory Of Communication Of Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) is perhaps the most important French philosopher between Descartes and the Revolution of 1789. His synthesis of Cartesian elements and Augustinianism in the last quarter of the seventeenth century had great influence on several generations of thinkers before the rationalism he represented was replaced by the new Lockian sensualism. There has been a European revival of interest in Malebranche in the last twenty years, centering around the first critical edition of his complete works, a task headed by the Belgian historian of philosophy André Robinet, and there are signs that American interest is growing as well with …

Papers In Language And Literature Delivered At The 1979 Meeting Of The Association, John Boni

Quidditas

The papers in language and literature covered, as might be expected, a broad range of interests: from Beowulf to Paradise Lost, from paleography to cultural change. The following is an attempt too summarize the content of each paper, staying as close as possible to the author's pattern of argument, and following the author's own words, directly or by paraphrase; the order here follows that of the program. Where only an abstract was available as a source of summary, this has been noted.

3. Sources And References For Suki, Matthew Lipman

Secondary School Curriculum

This sequential bibliography matches the 1978 edition of Suki 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 the novels’ philosophical themes, and brief commentary on them by Lipman.

2. Writing: How And Why (Instructional Manual To Accompany Suki, Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp

Secondary School Curriculum

The aim of this program is to engage students in philosophical inquiry into aesthetics and related philosophical issues. The instructional manual includes short, accessible explanations of the philosophical concepts found in SUKI, the novel, as well as hundreds of exercises and discussion plans to prompt and assist the student's inquiry. As poetry is the primary aesthetic genre taken up in the novel, the explanations and activities in this manual offer numerous additional poems as objects of aesthetic inquiry. The manual also includes numerous activities that invite students to transform their thinking and dialogue into essays, poems and short stories, so …

Doctrine And Dramatic Dates Of Plato's Dialogues, Robert S. Brumbaugh

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

My purpose in this paper is to raise - without expecting to finally resolve - the question of the doctrinal significance of the several internal cross-references of Plato's dialogues, and particularly his indications of their proper sequence for the reader.

The Socratic Problem: Some Second Thoughts, Eric A. Havelock

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper, Havelock argues that the distinction between "early" "middle" and "late" dialogues makes little sense. All of the dialogues are Plato's construction; there is no reason to accept any of them as intended to be accurate representations of the historical Socrates. The Apology, often taken as a faithful representation of the historical Socrates, is rather a genre piece, in the tradition of Gorgias' Palamedes. Compare Isocrates' Antidosis. Havelock takes the movement from the orality of Socrates to the literacy of Plato as critical movement in the Athenian thought.

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Moore's Paradox: One Or Two?, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Discussions of what is sometimes called 'Moore's paradox' are often vitiated by a failure to notice that there are two paradoxes; not merely one in two sets of linguistic clothing. The two paradoxes are absurd, but in different ways, and accordingly require different explanations.

What Is Living And What Is Dead In Hegel, Today?, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Contemporary Claims In Linguistic Philosophy, Charles W. Mcgarry

Undergraduate Honors Theses

It seems to be one of the characteristic features of philosophy that any and all claims made within the subject are open to dispute. The empirical sciences also contain claims which are only contingently true about the world, but, in contrast to philosophy, they have universally recognized and accepted procedures for deciding which theories to accept. Many philosophers have found this very appealing, and the history of philosophy shows that time and time again there have been attempts to change philosophy into a science. More often than not these attempts manifest themselves in the introduction of a new method, which …

Episteme And Doxa: Some Reflections On Eleatic And Heraclitean Themes In Plato, Robert G. Turnbull

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I point out some unnoticed features of the interrelationships between episteme and doxa which help to explain some difficult texts and which I take to be archai for their definitive accounts. Much turns on how 'is' is to be understood, and whether or not it can be said to have different senses.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 3, Christopher Clausen, Robert S. Mcelvaine, Melvin G. Holli, Judith Shaw, Loring Allen, David Kanervo, Thomas Heffernan, Thomas Mcafee, William Meissner, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue . . .

CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, who takes the schoolmarms' side against the linguists, teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published essays and poetry in numerous journals.

ROBERT S. McELVAINE, who looks at the "New South," teaches history at Milsaps College. He has published essays on American politics.

MELVIN G. HOLLI, who examines Detroit's problems, teaches history at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He is the author of two books on Detroit. His The Ethnic Frontier, coedited with Peter d' A Jones, will be reviewed in another issue of MQ. …

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

• Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
• Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
• Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
• Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
• Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
• Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
• Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
• Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …