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Blend Fall 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Nov 2003

Blend Fall 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blend-ACombinationofElements was a student magazine started by RISD student Dusty Brickman in 2003. The Fall 2003 issue is "The Passion Issue," and features articles on an exhibition with a custom installation by Sol LeWitt at the RISD Museum, the history of various buildings on the RISD campus, street graphics and urban art in Providence, luxury knitwear brand Lutz & Patmos, photographer Timothy White, deceased alum Jeffrey Michael Weiss, and the RISD Artist Ball.

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Sublime Hunger: A Consideration Of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, Sheila Lintott Nov 2003

Sublime Hunger: A Consideration Of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

n this paper, I argue that one of the most intense ways women are encouraged to enjoy sublime experiences is via attempts to control their bodies through excessive dieting. If this is so, then the societal-cultural contributions to the problem of eating disorders exceed the perpetuation of a certain beauty ideal to include the almost universal encouragement women receive to diet, coupled with the relative shortage of opportunities women are afforded to experience the sublime.

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Sylvester: Ushering In The Modern Era Of Research On Odd Perfect Numbers, Steven Gimbel, John Jaroma Oct 2003

Sylvester: Ushering In The Modern Era Of Research On Odd Perfect Numbers, Steven Gimbel, John Jaroma

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In 1888, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) published a series of papers that he hoped would pave the way for a general proof of the nonexistence of an odd perfect number (OPN). Seemingly unaware that more than fifty years earlier Benjamin Peirce had proved that an odd perfect number must have at least four distinct prime divisors, Sylvester began his fundamental assault on the problem by establishing the same result. Later that same year, he strengthened his conclusion to five. These findings would help to mark the beginning of the modern era of research on odd perfect numbers. Sylvester's bound stood …

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Philosophy For The Rest Of Us, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University Oct 2003

Philosophy For The Rest Of Us, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

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Mixed Media October 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Oct 2003

Mixed Media October 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 2, 2003 issue includes articles on the new editorial team at Mixed Media, RISD news updates, RISD Works, musician Richard Thompson, a Digtial Media lecture series, RISD Laptop Initiative Programs and other technology matters, a girl's perspective on sex at RISD, Jean Cocteau, a proposed list of speakers for graduation, student involvement at RISD, roommate differences, Comic Sans font, Public Safety, a Mission of Burma concert review, film reviews, and Providence eateries, along with the comic "Untitled" by Andrew Kaiko, student art and creative writing, event notices, and …

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Stem Cell Research?: Yes--Out Of Love For The Neighbor, Alan G. Padgett Oct 2003

Stem Cell Research?: Yes--Out Of Love For The Neighbor, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

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Williamson On Knowledge And Psychological Explanation, P.D. Magnus, Jonathan Cohen Oct 2003

Williamson On Knowledge And Psychological Explanation, P.D. Magnus, Jonathan Cohen

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

According to many philosophers, psychological explanation canlegitimately be given in terms of belief and desire, but not in termsof knowledge. To explain why someone does what they do (so the common wisdom holds) you can appeal to what they think or what they want, but not what they know. Timothy Williamson has recently argued against this view. Knowledge, Williamson insists, plays an essential role in ordinary psychological explanation.Williamson's argument works on two fronts.First, he argues against the claim that, unlike knowledge, belief is``composite'' (representable as a conjunction of a narrow and a broadcondition). Belief's failure to be composite, Williamson thinks, …

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Kinds Of Pragmatism, Albert Borgmann Oct 2003

Kinds Of Pragmatism, Albert Borgmann

Philosophy Faculty Publications

It is hard to appreciate now what a liberating and invigorating force John Dewey's philosophy must have been. He did away with imperious dichotomies and absolutes, reconnected philosophy with the sciences, confronted technological revolutions, attended to the perils

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Suicide Bombing: A Challenge To Just-War Theory And Natural Law, Howard P. Kainz Oct 2003

Suicide Bombing: A Challenge To Just-War Theory And Natural Law, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of "Science And Poetry" By M. Midgley, Hans Oberdiek Oct 2003

Review Of "Science And Poetry" By M. Midgley, Hans Oberdiek

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Review Of Kann Gestern Besser Werden?, By Joern Ruesen, Rares Piloiu Oct 2003

Review Of Kann Gestern Besser Werden?, By Joern Ruesen, Rares Piloiu

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction In Ethical Theory, Brian G. Henning Oct 2003

Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction In Ethical Theory, Brian G. Henning

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

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Moorean Absurdity And Conscious Belief, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Moorean Absurdity And Conscious Belief, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

G. E. Moore observed that to for me to assert, “I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don’t believe that I did” would be “absurd” (1942: 543). Over half a century later, the explanation of the nature of this absurdity remains problematic. Such assertions are unlike semantically odd Liar-type assertions such as “What I’m now saying is not true” since my Moorean assertion might be true: you may consistently imagine a situation in which I went to the pictures last Tuesday but fail to believe that I did. Moreover, if you contradict my assertion then your words, “If …

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Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, "I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did" would be "absurd." Why should it be absurd of me to say something about myself that might be true of me? Moore suggested an answer to this, but as I will show, one that fails. Wittgenstein was greatly impressed by Moore's discovery of a class of absurd but possibly true assertions because he saw that it illuminates "the logic of assertion". Wittgenstein suggests a promising relation of assertion to belief in terms of the idea that one "expresses …

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Moorean Absurdities And Iterated Beliefs, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Moorean Absurdities And Iterated Beliefs, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Three Questions On Torture, Ibpp Editor Sep 2003

Three Questions On Torture, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes three common questions intrinsic to public discourse on torture.

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An Intractable Problem With The Security Classification Of Information, Ibpp Editor Sep 2003

An Intractable Problem With The Security Classification Of Information, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies an infrequently discussed but highly significant problem with the protection of information for security purposes.

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Trends. Psychology Of The Alienated And Political Violence, Ibpp Editor Sep 2003

Trends. Psychology Of The Alienated And Political Violence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses alienation and the psychology of the alienated in literature (Camus and Dostoevsky) and society.

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Commentary On Philosophy And Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor Sep 2003

Commentary On Philosophy And Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article outlines how the formal study of philosophy can be applied to aviation security, considering the merits of the inclusion of philosophers in the international working groups tasked with discerning and commenting on aviation security trends and their relevance for intelligence and security activities.

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Trends. Car Bomb Explosion And An Explosion Of Truths, Ibpp Editor Sep 2003

Trends. Car Bomb Explosion And An Explosion Of Truths, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses multiple political psychological aspects of the August 29, 2003 car bomb explosion adjacent to the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq

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The Moral Poker Face: Games, Deception, And The Morality Of Bluffing, James Mcbain Sep 2003

The Moral Poker Face: Games, Deception, And The Morality Of Bluffing, James Mcbain

Faculty Submissions

Bluffing is essentially nothing more than a type of deception. But, despite its morally questionable foundation, it is not only permissible in certain contexts, but sometimes encouraged and/or required (e.g., playing poker). Yet, the question remains as to whether it is permissible to bluff in other contexts – particularly everyday situations. In this paper, I will look at László Mérő’s argument – one based in game theory and Kantian ethics – to the end that bluffing is morally permissible in everyday contexts. I will argue that Mérő’s argument is mistaken on two grounds. First, it includes an epistemic feature (i.e., …

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Success, Truth, And The Galilean Strategy, P.D. Magnus Sep 2003

Success, Truth, And The Galilean Strategy, P.D. Magnus

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

Philip Kitcher develops the Galilean Strategy to defend realism against its many opponents. I explore the structure of the Galilean Strategy and consider it specifically as an instrument against constructive empiricism. Kitcher claims that the Galilean Strategy underwrites an inference from success to truth. We should resist that conclusion, I argue, but the Galilean Strategy should lead us by other routes to believe in many things about which the empiricist would rather remain agnostic.

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The Apt Word, Hugh Lacey Sep 2003

The Apt Word, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Popular Culture Regained: An Outline Towards A Christian View, Kuk-Won Shin Sep 2003

Popular Culture Regained: An Outline Towards A Christian View, Kuk-Won Shin

Pro Rege

This is one of two papers presented, by Dr. Kuk-Won Shin at a Dordt College mini-lecture series on popular culture, April 14, 2003.

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Moorean Absurdity And Expressing Belief, John N. Williams Sep 2003

Moorean Absurdity And Expressing Belief, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Trends. Why Humanitarian Workers Should Be Killed: A Perspective From Nietzschean Slave Morality, Ibpp Editor Aug 2003

Trends. Why Humanitarian Workers Should Be Killed: A Perspective From Nietzschean Slave Morality, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses different views of the murders of United Nations humanitarian workers in Iraq – first, from a modern Western perspective, and, second, from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche as he considered the transvaluation of what is Good on the part of the powerless.

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The Turning: Conversion, Choice, Or Chance?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University Aug 2003

The Turning: Conversion, Choice, Or Chance?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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Trends. Intelligence, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And Truth: A Philosophical Perspective, Ibpp Editor Aug 2003

Trends. Intelligence, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And Truth: A Philosophical Perspective, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Tends article discusses the issue of the possibility of Bush administration policymakers lying about the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

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Teaching The Ethical Foundations Of Economics, Jonathan B. Wight Aug 2003

Teaching The Ethical Foundations Of Economics, Jonathan B. Wight

Economics Faculty Publications

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating economic agents' operating independently and avariciously, asserting that this magically produces the greatest good for society.

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Review Of "Classical And Romantic German Aesthetics" Edited By J. M. Bernstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge Aug 2003

Review Of "Classical And Romantic German Aesthetics" Edited By J. M. Bernstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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