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Minding The Mental: Intentionality, Consciousness, And Daniel Dennett In Contemporary Philosophy Of Mind, Matthew T. Dusek '97

Honors Projects

The mind. Sanctum sanctorum of subjectivity. Soundstage of the mental. Consciousness' cockpit. Romping-grounds of the intentional. A great deal, it would seem, rides on the notion of mind. It's not just that naughty children never do, or that people when irritated often claim to have half-a-one. Though perhaps telling in other ways, it isn't so important that while we all think we lose ours from time to time, we rarely-if ever-doubt that we had one to begin with. Solipsists are perfectly willing to doubt that anyone else actually possesses one, but no one suspects that everyone but herself has one. …

Marquette's Joan Of Arc Chapel: Her Spirit In Stone, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Plato's Sophist By Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, And Eric Salem, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Ecology Of The Critias And Platonic Metaphysics, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Ecology Of Critias And Platonic Metaphysics, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Poetics Of Place, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

Paul Ricoeur, at a Hannah Arendt retrospective some 15 years ago, spoke of the controlling metaphor of Arendt's work as that of Place, and said that he offered in his own work, instead, an enabling metaphor of Time. To bring together the work of these two exceptional thinkers, to bridge the divide and to map out the complementarity of engaging metaphors would be a worthy task of scholarship, however I will not try to do so even in outline here. Still, the contrast and convergence of the two metaphors of time and place is one I want to at least …

Jane Addams On Autonomy And Responsibility, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Addams understands autonomy and responsibility from the perspective of American pragmatism. Like her collaborator and friend, John Dewey, Addams believes one ascertains an idea's meaning and truth by applying it in practice. Hull House was founded explicitly as a pragmatist test for her ideas on ethics and social change (Lagemann 1994, 77).

Verifying philosophical ideas rests on two methodological prerequisites: concrete experience and sympathetic understanding. Addams repeatedly stresses how emotions serve as the starting point for ethical change, although they need to be cultivated and guided by experience and reason. In addressing social problems, Hull House residents first gathered statistics …

Love Without Laziness: Eudaimonia, Medieval Understandings Of Acedia (Sloth), And Dante's Purgatorio Xvii-Xix, David Keck

Publications

A discussion of a person's delight in performing virtuous activities.

Kierkegaard And Approximation Knowledge, Thomas C. Anderson

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Preface To Matta: Surrealism And Beyond, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Education: Torn Between Practical And Ultimate Value, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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A Rose By Any Other Name Still Has Thorns That Cut You, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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(1997) Some Reflections On Inquiry, Community And Philosophy, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Not all communities of inquiry are communities of philosophical inquiry. Still, there is something special and intrinsic about philosophy when it comes to the community of inquiry. Think of Matthew Lipman's oft-repeated claim that philosophy is the discipline that teaches children to think in the disciplines. And remember that one of his (and Dewey's) greatest insights was that children could be members of a community of inquiry. I should like to put these ideas together in the following way: irrespective of whether the inquiry engaged in by a community is philosophical, the community itself is philosophical. In short, every community …

Book Review: The Decolonization Of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge And Power, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power includes fourteen essays, some of which are revised papers presented at a cultural studies conference in Amsterdam in 1991, that contribute to the rapidly growing library of literature on postcolonial theory by exploring the dimensions of decolonization.

The Substance Of The Mind And Consciousness: Material Or Mystery, Tangible Or Transcendental?, Tracy Givens

Whittier Scholars Program

The problem with which this paper deals, the Mind-Body problem, and the issue of consciousness, can be pose most briefly in a single question: What is the relation in a human, between his mind and his body? The Mind-Body problem and the issue of consciousness are important in both philosophy and science.

Know Thyself, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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Pipe Dreams: Eternal Recurrence And Simulacrum And Foucault's Ekphrasis Of Magritte, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Michel Foucault invokes Andy Warhol at the conclusion of This is Not a Pipe; this comes at the end of a chapter entitled 'Seven Seals of Affirmation,' so that the words must be read with a Nietzschean resonance (recalling Zarathustra's 'The Seven Seals'):

A day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its identity. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell, Campbell.

I propose to explore the approach to the visual here which proceeds by deploying or presupposing conceptions of similitude, simulacrum, eternal recurrence and …

Review: Jesus In The Koran, Gary R. Habermas

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Synthetic A Priori Proposition Of Kant's Ethical Philosophy, Nelson T. Potter Jr.

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

I will consider Kant's claim that the categorical imperative (CI) is a synthetic a priori proposition. We know from the first Critique that such propositions are likely to be very important, but also difficult to justify. Kant says exactly the same things about the CI in the Grundlegung: the CI is difficult to justify2, but if we do not succeed in justifying it, morality may be a mere "phantom of the brain.',3 Though little has been written on this topic, a correct understanding of this claim is important to understanding Kant's views.

Comments On Hill: “Punishment, Conscience, And Moral Worth”, Nelson T. Potter Jr.

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

This is an interesting paper to me, among other reasons, because it deals with both halves of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals; that fact alone also makes it somewhat unusual. It proposes in particular that there is a kind of analogy between conscience as an inner voice of morality and punishment as a provider of incentives against antisocial actions through punishment as deterrence.

As Hill points out, there has been quite a lot of discussion of Kant’s views on punishment, but not much about his views of conscience. Nevertheless, there remain scholarly puzzles about Kant’s views on punishment, and there …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 38 No. 2, Donald Wayne Viney, John E. Atwell, Matthew K. Samra, John Howard Wilson, Avise Nissen, Janice L. Nerger, Wayne Viney, Robert G. Riedel Ii, William Aiken, Michael Carey, Philip Dacey, Ivy Dempsey, Constance Egemo, Ted Genoways, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Gray Jacobik, Nicole Orr, Jack Martin, Michael Pegausch, Barry Sternlieb, Steve Wilson, Bonnie Young, Charles Cagle, Richard Holinger, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

DONALD WAYNE VINEY offers convincing examples that far from being the dour, unsmiling figure often presented of Christ, He exhibited a full range of emotions, including humor upon occasion. Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University, Viney is author of Charles Hartshorne and the Existence of God (1985), A Philosopher Looks at the Bible (1992), and several articles in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He is also a member of Midwest Quarterly's Board of Editors.

JOHN E. ATWELL examines the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer and finds his views on women more complex than the common portrayal of the …

Review Essay: Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Queen And Legend, Jacqueline Eccles

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Owen, D. D. R. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend. Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, first paperback edition, 1996. 224 pp., 262 pp. paperback, illustrations. $54.95/$21.95.

A Renaissance Death For Medieval Theater: Reconstructing Stage Directions In The Plays Of Marguerite De Navarre, George Hoffmann

Quidditas

Vladimir: This is Awful!

Estragon: Sing something.

Vladimir: No, no!

—Beckett

Review Essay: Sheehan, Michael M. Csb. Marriage, Family, And Law In Medieval Europe. Collected Studies, Albrecht Classen

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Sheehan, Michael M. CSB. Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe. Collected Studies. Ed. James K. Farge. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996. xxxi + 330 pp. $45.00.

Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban

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Arthur, Ross G., and Noel L. Corbett, trans. The Knight of the Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. 188 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.

James Shirley's The Politician And The Demand For Responsible Government In The Court Of Charles I, James R. Keller

Quidditas

On 13 June 1629, Dr. Lamb, a person physician and astrologer to the duke of Buckingham, while strolling down a London street was attacked by an angry mob and beaten to death. When he first noticed the crowd gathering, he summoned a group of sailors to guard him. However, incensed by years of arbitrary government, economic hardship, and war, the mob pursued Lamb with the intention of making his death an example for the duke; they called him "the Duke's Devil." As Lamb made his way toward a local tavern, the ever-increasing pack began to pummel him with stones, and …

Hrotswitha Of Gandersheim's Dulcitius And Callimachus In A New Translation, Mark L. Damen

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Even without external corroborating evidence, we may infer from her works that the nun Hrotswitha (Hrotsvit in Saxon) lived in Saxony during the second half of the tenth century. Because she seems to have had considerable freedom of movement and expression for a woman at that time, writing about worldly affairs evidently with some personal knowledge of them, she was most likely a canoness, that is, not fully cloistered. She must have visited the courts of the Saxon kings, probably more than once, since she chronicles their exploits and composes poetry of a type briefly popularized by a scholar in …

Review Essay: Lacy, Norris, J. Ed. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Peter Dinzelbacher

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Lacy, Norris, J., ed. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 931. Garland Publishing, New York, 1996. xxxviii + 615 pp., 92 black and white illustrations. $29.95.

Review Essay: Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare And The Play Of Language, Frederick Kiefer

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Willbern, David. Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1997. xix + 237 pp. $37.50.

Review Essay: Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading Of Chrétien De Troyes's Conte Du Graal, Keith Busby

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Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. Figuræ: Reading Medieval Culture. 325 pp. $42.50.