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Trends. Preemption Logics, Ibpp Editor Nov 2002

Trends. Preemption Logics, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the idea and complexities of preemption in the context of 21st century global terrorism.

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Mixed Media October 27, 2002, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives Oct 2002

Mixed Media October 27, 2002, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 27, 2002 issue includes articles on Carr House updates, various student organizations, the Balls, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, digital design trio FREECELL, a Student Alliance meeting, and film and music reviews, along with the comics "Juan Two Three" by Juan Diaz, [Untitled] by Ryan Browne, "The Stuff of Dreams" by Andrew Kaiko, "Ingres St" by Reid Johnson, [Untitled] by Adam Sacks, "Rottweller" by A. Landery, and "Scent of a Flower" by Kimberly B., poems, event notices, and other announcements.

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Higher Education: Practically Useful Or Existentially Meaningful?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University Oct 2002

Higher Education: Practically Useful Or Existentially Meaningful?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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Response To My Readers, Albert Borgmann Oct 2002

Response To My Readers, Albert Borgmann

Philosophy Faculty Publications

I hope no one is disappointed when I say right at the start that I basically agree with my critics. Not all is irenic, of course, and in philosophy it should not be. What distinguishes the philosophical from the poetic or the narrative discourse is the expectation of questions and objections. Much as I appreciate Myron Tuman's generous remarks on the occasionally poetic quality of Holding On to Reality (henceforth Holding), I have always enjoyed the give and take of philosophical exchanges though I have tried, over the years, to be gentler in giving and stronger in taking. There are …

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Warum Und Wozu Privatheit?, Peter Baumann Oct 2002

Warum Und Wozu Privatheit?, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Theistic Belief And Positive Epistemic Status: A Comparison Of Alvin Plantinga And William James, David J. Baggett Oct 2002

Theistic Belief And Positive Epistemic Status: A Comparison Of Alvin Plantinga And William James, David J. Baggett

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Avoiding The Super-Naturalistic Fallacy: Practical Reasoning And The Insightful Undergraduate, Steven Gimbel Oct 2002

Avoiding The Super-Naturalistic Fallacy: Practical Reasoning And The Insightful Undergraduate, Steven Gimbel

Philosophy Faculty Publications

It has become cliche to say that today's student are moral relativists. With the twin movements of ethics across the curriculum and critical thinking across the curriculum sweeping the Academy, one might think that we are in a good place to start making inroads towards creating careful and willing discussants of contemporary moral issues out of our students. Unfortunately, the reverse is far too often true. Associated with the standard sort of introduction to ethical theory, there is a regularly arising trap that brings with it the worst of all possible results - the alienation of our very best students …

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Review Of Citizenship In Diverse Societies, Margaret Urban Walker Oct 2002

Review Of Citizenship In Diverse Societies, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Reid’S Foundation For The Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction, Jennifer Mckitrick Oct 2002

Reid’S Foundation For The Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction, Jennifer Mckitrick

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) offers an under-appreciated account of the primary/secondary quality distinction. He gives sound reasons for rejecting the views of Locke, Boyle, Galileo and others, and presents a better alternative, according to which the distinction is epistemic rather than metaphysical. Primary qualities, for Reid, are qualities whose intrinsic natures can be known through sensation. Secondary qualities, on the other hand, are unknown causes of sensations. Some may object that Reid’s view is internally inconsistent, or unacceptably relativistic. However, a deeper understanding shows that it is consistent, and relative only to normal humans. To acquire this deeper understanding, one must …

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Three Orientations And Four ‘Sins’ In Comparative Studies, Bo Mou Oct 2002

Three Orientations And Four ‘Sins’ In Comparative Studies, Bo Mou

Faculty Publications

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The Societal Costs Of Surveillance: An Alternative View On Civil Liberties Constraints, Ibpp Editor Sep 2002

The Societal Costs Of Surveillance: An Alternative View On Civil Liberties Constraints, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores some psychological phenomena bearing on the consequences of civil liberties constraints.

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Just Because Or Because: Terrorism Discourse And Counterterrorism, Ibpp Editor Sep 2002

Just Because Or Because: Terrorism Discourse And Counterterrorism, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some antiterrorism and counterterrorism implications of public discourse on terrorism.

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Review: Kants Naturtheoretische Begriffe (1747-1780). Eine Datenbank Zu Ihren Expliziten Und Impliziten Vernetzungen., Konstantin Pollok Sep 2002

Review: Kants Naturtheoretische Begriffe (1747-1780). Eine Datenbank Zu Ihren Expliziten Und Impliziten Vernetzungen., Konstantin Pollok

Faculty Publications

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Ethics And Evolutionary Continuity: Comments On De Waal, Lyons, Moran, And Kraemer, Ronnie Hawkins Aug 2002

Ethics And Evolutionary Continuity: Comments On De Waal, Lyons, Moran, And Kraemer, Ronnie Hawkins

Between the Species

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Darwin's Doubts And The Problems Of Animal Pain, Eric Russert Kraemer Aug 2002

Darwin's Doubts And The Problems Of Animal Pain, Eric Russert Kraemer

Between the Species

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The Ethics Of Painism: The Argument Against Painful Experiments, Richard D. Ryder Aug 2002

The Ethics Of Painism: The Argument Against Painful Experiments, Richard D. Ryder

Between the Species

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Theodicy And Animals, Joseph J. Lynch Aug 2002

Theodicy And Animals, Joseph J. Lynch

Between the Species

It is widely acknowledged among those philosophers and theologians who have given the matter much thought that the fact of animal suffering challenges Theism in a distinctive way. Standard attempts to reconcile human suffering with a perfectly powerful and benevolent deity don’t seem to apply easily to the case of animals. Animals can hardly be said to deserve their suffering or be morally improved by it, nor is it generally supposed that animals will be compensated for their pain in an afterlife. On the face of it, then, animal pain appears to be a bothersome evil still left over when …

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Reply To Comstock, Joseph J. Lynch Aug 2002

Reply To Comstock, Joseph J. Lynch

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

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Response To Lynch, Gary Comstock Aug 2002

Response To Lynch, Gary Comstock

Between the Species

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The Geocentric Universe: The Making Of A Cultural Symbol, Kathleen M. Isaacson Aug 2002

The Geocentric Universe: The Making Of A Cultural Symbol, Kathleen M. Isaacson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1980s, cultural history has applied the analysis of symbols to explain historical problems. Cultural historians such as Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and Dominick LaCapra have completed significant work in this area. Using their models, this study defines a cultural symbol within the history of science: the geocentric universe. It examines the symbol's origin and evolution from a mere idea to that of a symbol of significance. Beginning with the ancient Greece of Aristotle and Plato through the Middle Ages of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri, the symbol's potent influence expanded via powerful narratives and beautiful works of …

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The Illusion Of Realism In Film, Andrew Kania Jul 2002

The Illusion Of Realism In Film, Andrew Kania

Philosophy Faculty Research

Gregory Currie, arguing against recent psychoanalytic and semiotic film theory, has defended various realist theses about film. The strongest of these is that ‘weak illusionism’—the view that the motion of film images is an illusion—is false. That is, Currie believes film images really do move. In this paper I defend the common-sense position of weak illusionism, firstly by showing that Currie underestimates the power of some arguments for it, especially one based on the mechanics of projection, and secondly by showing that film images exhibit neither garden-variety motion, nor a special response-dependent kind.

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John Cotton And The Work Ethic, Lois M. Eveleth Jul 2002

John Cotton And The Work Ethic, Lois M. Eveleth

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

The Protestant work ethic, as identified by Max Weber, has its first and, arguably, best American articulation in the work of the Reverend John Cotton (1584-1652). Revisiting key writings of this Boston minister-scholar, we see the origin of American valuation of wealth, work, and success.

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The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation Of An Ancient Tradition, Daniel S. Capper Jul 2002

The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation Of An Ancient Tradition, Daniel S. Capper

Faculty Publications

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Untimely Punishment And Dubious Desert, John N. Williams Jul 2002

Untimely Punishment And Dubious Desert, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Discussions of punishment have always assumed (e.g.[4, pp. 80-5]) that there are no circumstances in which someone can be justifiably punished for a crime that he will commit. This assumption has been directly challenged by Christopher New’s apparent example of morally justified ‘prepunishment’ [7]. In a recent paper, Fred Feldman rejects the ‘received wisdom’1 that desert cannot precede its basis by giving apparent examples of ‘predeserved’ charity, reward and apology [3, pp. 71-75]. If there can be cases of predeserved punishment as well, then anyone who holds that it is morally justifiable to punish an offender if and only if …

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Orwell And Huxley: Making Dissent Unthinkable, John N. Williams Jul 2002

Orwell And Huxley: Making Dissent Unthinkable, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this paper I compare the fictional world depicted by Orwell’s 1984 with that of Huxley’s Brave New World from the point of view of an analytic philosopher. Neither novel should be read as predictions, the accuracy of which can be used to judge them. Rather, both attempt to portray what humanity could conceivably become. The authenticity of this conceivability is a necessary condition of the power of both works to raise central philosophical questions about the human condition. What is ethically wrong with control? How far can Man go in recreating himself? In what sense are these worlds anti-utopian? …

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Moorean Absurdities And Higher Order Beliefs, John N. Williams Jul 2002

Moorean Absurdities And Higher Order Beliefs, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Superman, Wittgenstein And The Disappearance Of Moorean Absurdity, John N. Williams Jul 2002

Superman, Wittgenstein And The Disappearance Of Moorean Absurdity, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

'You have known me for years, Lois' explains Superman, as I lay aside my copy of Crimmins’s example (1992). 'But there is something you have not yet discovered. You also know me under a disguise. You have not yet realized that this person is I in disguise. On that way of thinking about me, you have different opinions of me. In fact you think me an idiot.' I've just informed Superman that I accept his testimony on the strength of his intelligence. But I confess I don’t quite know how to acknowledge my acceptance of his final remark.

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Hegel, Nietzsche, And The Postmodern Teleological Impasse, Michael P. Tarpey Jul 2002

Hegel, Nietzsche, And The Postmodern Teleological Impasse, Michael P. Tarpey

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Our postmodern intellectual climate is characterized by two apparently contradictory impulses. One seeks to undermine, unmask, and deflate the pretenses of philosophy as traditionally conceived. The result is a focus on difference, surfaces, and fragmentation. The competing impulse seeks to reconcile, integrate, and synthesize. The result is a holistic focus on deeper similarities behind surface differences. I argue that these competing impulses can be traced back to Hegel and Nietzsche. Thus, an understanding of the relationship between these two thinkers can illuminate our current postmodern condition. I argue that Nietzsche and Hegel are remarkably similar in their approach to many …

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Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression In The Course For Mathematics Teaching, Ada Katsap Jun 2002

Humanizing Mathematics: The Humanistic Impression In The Course For Mathematics Teaching, Ada Katsap

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

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History Of Mathematics, An Intuitive Approach, Alejandro R. Garciadiego Jun 2002

History Of Mathematics, An Intuitive Approach, Alejandro R. Garciadiego

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

The main goal of this essay is to discuss, informally, an intuitive approach to the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. The initial point of departure includes the analysis of some traditional definitions of the concept of 'history' taken from standard dictionaries. This concise dissection attempts to suggest the complexity of the discipline.

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