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A Stranger’S Revenge, Maeghan Bradshaw

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Cancer Spaceship, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Wilma’S Song, Stephen Gillette

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Tree Of Sorrow, Jon Micah Bayliss

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Life Isn’T About Arranging The Flowers, It’S About Controlling The Seeds, Christian Powell

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Virtuous Woman, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Beast, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Just To Fit In, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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How I Will Live! Before I Bow., Michael Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Catechism, Stephen Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Ain’T Got Nowhere To Go, Anjetta Williams

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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Late Summer 1912, Stephen Gillette

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

The words “knowledge” and “information” are sometimes used interchangeably, but the connection between them is complex and problematic. Knowledge is a mental product gained from engaging with information. All educational subjects, scholarly disciplines, occupations, and activities produce knowledge as well as information. Because libraries encompass potentially all subjects, professional vision in librarianship would benefit from an examination of knowledge that transcends the methods and topical concerns of individual disciplines. An interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) framework in which to view knowledge was pioneered in the post-Sputnik age by Fritz Machlup and Michael Polanyi. Their insights have stimulated scholars to develop research, publications, …

Presentism The Magnifier, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

Speech given at the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) 10th Annual Meeting: “Thinking and Acting Ecologically” at the University of East Anglia, U.K. on June 12-14th, 2013.

Pharmacologies Of Texts And Images, Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference Papers

The problematic of Ekphrasis will be the central tenant of this paper, a relationship between text, language and image. Ekphrasis broadly understood as the relationship between images and words, however, in the case of this paper it will be taken to mean the relationship between words and images in relation to memory. Bernard Stiegler’s work has become well renowned in relation to his exploration of texts and in particular the relationship between texts and technology; an intimate relationship, if writing is to be considered as a form of technology, a mnemonic form. However, there is also another aspect in the …

Revisiting Ekphrasis: The Early Hermeneutic Phenomenology Of Paul Ricoeur., Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference Papers

Through revisiting the notion of the symbol and sign in the relatively early work of Paul Ricoeur it hoped to point to a yet unexplored element of his work in relation to Aesthetics and contemporary Critical Theory. This paper will focus on a particular point in the work of Paul Ricoeur, a point where the problematic of language begins to come to the fore within his structural phenomenology of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The publication of The Symbolism of Evil in 1960 represents a definite departure from the structural Phenomenology of his earlier works where the central concern …

The Real Legal Realism, Michael S. Green

Popular Media

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Book Review Of This Is Not Sufficient, Frank Garrett

Between the Species

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A Cognitive Approach To Teaching Strategies, Emily Esch

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Our knowledge of how the mind works is growing rapidly. One area of particular interest to philosophy teachers is research on reasoning and decision making processes. I explore one model of human cognition that offers new ways of thinking about how to teach philosophical skills. The bulk of the paper is dedicated to exposition of the model and the evidence that supports it; at the end of the paper, I suggest ways these findings might be incorporated into the classroom.

Machines And The Moral Community, Erica L. Neely

Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship

A key distinction in ethics is between members and nonmembers of the moral community. Over time, our notion of this community has expanded as we have moved from a rationality criterion to a sentience criterion for membership. I argue that a sentience criterion is insufficient to accommodate all members of the moral community; the true underlying criterion can be understood in terms of whether a being has interests. This may be extended to conscious, self-aware machines, as well as to any autonomous intelligent machines. Such machines exhibit an ability to formulate desires for the course of their own existence; this …

Exhausting Life, Steven Luper

Philosophy Faculty Research

Can we render death harmless to us by perfecting life, as the ancient Epicureans and Stoics seemed to think? It might seem so, for after we perfect life—assuming we can—persisting would not make life any better. Dying earlier rather than later would shorten life, but a longer perfect life is no better than a shorter perfect life, so dying would take nothing of value from us. However, after sketching what perfecting life might entail, I will argue that it is not a desirable approach to invulnerability after all.

Review Of "Contrastivism In Philosophy" Edited By M. Blaauw, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

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The Future Of Military Virtue: Autonomous Systems And The Moral Deskilling Of The Military, Shannon Vallor

Philosophy

Autonomous systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), anti-munitions systems, armed robots, cyber attack and cyber defense systems, are projected to become the centerpiece of 21st century military and counter-terrorism operations. This trend has challenged legal experts, policymakers and military ethicists to make sense of these developments within existing normative frameworks of international law and just war theory. This paper highlights a different yet equally profound ethical challenge: understanding how this trend may lead to a moral deskilling of the military profession, potentially destabilizing traditional norms of military virtue and their power to motivate ethical restraint in the conduct of war. …

The Principle Of Double Effect: Act-Types And Intentions, James G. Murphy

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Objections to the principle of double effect usually concern its first and second conditions (that the act not be evil in itself, and that the good effect and not the evil effect be intended). The difficulties often arise from a rejection of the idea that acts have a moral nature independent of context, and a tendency to interpret intention as purely psychological. This article argues that the “act itself” should be understood as the act-type, and suggests that examples of evil act-types are not hard to find. It argues that the notion of intention is involved in both conditions, but …

Fitness: Philosophical Problems, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence

Faculty Publications

Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild to a central element in abstract theoretical presentations of natural selection. It has thus been the subject of an extensive philosophical literature, which has primarily centred on the way to understand the relationship between fitness values and reproductive outcomes. If fitness is a probabilistic or statistical quantity, how is it to be defined in general theoretical contexts? How can it be measured? Can a single conceptual model for fitness be offered that applies to all biological cases, or must fitness measures be case-specific? Philosophers have …

David-Hillel Ruben’S 'Traditions And True Successors': A Critical Reply, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Learning From Experience: A Philosophical Perspective, Ethan Landes

Lawrence University Honors Projects

This work examines philosophical solutions to David Hume’s problem of induction—a skeptical attack on our ability to learn from experience. I explore the logical, ontological, and epistemic difficulties behind the everyday assumption that the future will resemble the past. While historical solutions by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper have been unsuccessful at tackling these complications, combining recent work on natural kinds and naturalistic epistemology has promise. Ultimately, I expand on work done by Howard Sankey, Hilary Kornblith, and Brian Ellis to create an account of nature and epistemology that explains why objects in nature have predictable behavior. …

Rotman Institute Speaker: Feminist Neo-Materialism And The Future Of Phenomenology, Dorothea Olkowski

Future Directions in Feminist Phenomenology

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尼采早期著作中本原和共同體之思, Wing Sum Law

Lingnan Theses

本篇論文由朱利安．揚恩對於尼采的詮釋來展開討論，以重新思考尼采思想中本原與共同體的問題。

一般認為尼采哲學是一種反宗教思想，其更明確地宣稱自己為反基督。揚恩則提出尼采的思想是宗教的，此正與一般的理解背道而馳。揚恩理解宗教的其中一重要面向是共同體的建立，其對於共同體的概念有一預設，於統一意義下思考共同體。並論述此種共同體思考亦見於尼采的思想中，從而論證其是一宗教思想家。

本文主要規範於尼采的早期著作《悲劇的誕生》來進行論述，以考察揚恩的論述能否成立。揚恩理解共同體作為統一整體，統一的整體得以建立有賴於一個基礎，此基礎亦即本原之意。因而本文所針對的問題正是尼采所理解的本原。揚恩論述尼采酒神精神正是此種本原，此亦如同叔本華的原一之意，由此可見其仍於一種形而上學的結構下詮釋尼采，亦顯示出其並沒有對共同體的概念作出反思。筆者認為尼采的思想正有著超出形而上學的面向，酒神作為本原已是自身區分著的。而共同體亦非一整體，而是作為分延。此與揚恩的理解不同，由此得出其所斷定尼采是一宗教思想家是難以成立的。本文以本原和共同體的問題作為切入點，從而開展出一種對於尼采早期著作的重新思考。

Review Of Kemmerer, Animals And World Religions, Sidney Blankenship Ma

Between the Species

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