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Afterword, David G. Schultenover Jan 2013

Afterword, David G. Schultenover

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Today many books appear regarding Vatican II. Yet, only very few of them manage to locate this crucial event in the life of the twentieth century Roman Catholic Church against the broad horizon of both its prehistory and its aftermath. This book does just that. In seven chapters, this volume offers a survey of the evolution of Post-Enlightenment Catholicism, in the period spanning from ca. 1830 to the present, tying together the renewals proposed by the first and the Second Vatican Councils. Each phase in this evolution is discussed from a double angle: on the hand from the viewpoint of …


Contingency And The Giftedness Of Creation: Enacting Grace In A Fractured World, Philip J. Rossi Jan 2013

Contingency And The Giftedness Of Creation: Enacting Grace In A Fractured World, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Sacramental Foundations Of Ecclesial Identity: Barrier Or Passageway To Ecumenical Unity?, Susan Wood Jan 2013

The Sacramental Foundations Of Ecclesial Identity: Barrier Or Passageway To Ecumenical Unity?, Susan Wood

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Two important events this year make it clear that ecclesiology still deserves a prominent place on the theological agenda. Pope Francis announced the creation of a council of cardinals to assist him in governing the world-wide Catholic Church. During the next assembly of the World Council of Churches the long awaited Faith & Order statement on The Church: Towards a Common Vision will be officially received. In this volume more than 40 authors (among whom well-known theologians such as André Birmelé, William Cavanaugh, Michael Fahey, Bradford Hinze, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Paul Murray, Bernard Prusak, Ioan Sauca, Myriam Wijlens, Susan Wood and …


Adoil Outside The Cosmos: God Before And After Creation In The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov Jan 2013

Adoil Outside The Cosmos: God Before And After Creation In The Enochic Tradition, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Celebrating And Advancing Magisterial Teaching On The Climate Crisis, Jame Schaefer Jan 2013

Introduction: Celebrating And Advancing Magisterial Teaching On The Climate Crisis, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Speech For Opening Ceremonies International Congress For Aesthetics Beijing, August, 2010, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2013

Speech For Opening Ceremonies International Congress For Aesthetics Beijing, August, 2010, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Chinese Contemporary Art: The Challenges Of Urbanization And Globalization (Book Chapter), Curtis L. Carter Jan 2013

Chinese Contemporary Art: The Challenges Of Urbanization And Globalization (Book Chapter), Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Consciousness As Integrated Information: A Provisional Philosophical Critique, Anthony F. Peressini Jan 2013

Consciousness As Integrated Information: A Provisional Philosophical Critique, Anthony F. Peressini

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Giulio Tononi (2008) has offered his integrated information theory of consciousness (IITC) as a ‘provisional manifesto’. I critically examine how the approach fares. I point out some (relatively) internal concerns with the theory and then more broadly philosophical ones; finally I assess the prospects for IITC as a fundamental theory of consciousness. I argue that the IITC’s scientific promise does carry over to a significant extent to broader philosophical theorizing about qualia and consciousness, though not as directly as Tononi suggests, since the account is much more focused on the qualitative character of experience rather than on consciousness itself. I …


Knowledge And Action: Iaa President's Remarks: Opening Ceremonies, International Congress Of Aesthetics, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2013

Knowledge And Action: Iaa President's Remarks: Opening Ceremonies, International Congress Of Aesthetics, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Grasping The Wind?Aesthetic Participation, Between Cognition And Immersion, Mădălina Diaconu Jan 2013

Grasping The Wind?Aesthetic Participation, Between Cognition And Immersion, Mădălina Diaconu

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement In The City, Nathalie Blanc Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement In The City, Nathalie Blanc

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement, Ecosophy C, And Ecological Appreciation, Cheng Xiangzhan Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement, Ecosophy C, And Ecological Appreciation, Cheng Xiangzhan

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement: Art Into Politics, Jale Erzen Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement: Art Into Politics, Jale Erzen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Influence Of Global Aesthetics On Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaptation Of Moxie And The Case Of Dafen Cun, Eva Kit Wah Man Jan 2013

Influence Of Global Aesthetics On Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaptation Of Moxie And The Case Of Dafen Cun, Eva Kit Wah Man

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article examines the practice of moxie or imitation in art in Chinese aesthetics, compares it with the Platonic notion of mimesis, and explicates its original meaning. I then trace its development from traditional painting to the late Qing export paintings in which traditional Chinese aesthetics was combined with Western perspectives to satisfy Western tastes. The discussion extends to the contemporary development of moxie in China by considering the case of Dafen Cun, an art village in Shenzhen that is famous for its copycat art practices. It explores how Dafen Cun has become a major exporter of copies of Western …


Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky Jan 2013

Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Public Aquariums And Marine Aesthetics, Nola Semczyszyn Jan 2013

Public Aquariums And Marine Aesthetics, Nola Semczyszyn

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Given the inaccessibility of the marine environment, the closest many of us come to viewing it is at public aquariums. Aquariums also provide us with rich aesthetic experiences, but it is not clear whether we appreciate the marine environment at aquariums. I present the dilemma of aquarium appreciation as an inconsistent triad: 1) we treat aquariums as places to appreciate marine environments, 2) aquariums are artifacts, not natural objects, and 3) nature and art should be appreciated differently. I argue that aquarium displays are scientific models of marine environments with aesthetic, educational, and scientific aims. My solution to the dilemma …


Atopia & Aesthetics. A Modal Perspective, Yves Millet Jan 2013

Atopia & Aesthetics. A Modal Perspective, Yves Millet

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Living in an era where global exchanges of forms and ideas are the norm raises some questions about the status of artistic practices. To explore these questions, we use Roland Barthes’ notion of atopia and the complementary yet related notion of Neutral on which Barthes commented in his later years. Atopia highlights the fact that rather than viewing current artistic activities as searches for homogenous identity, we need to view them as belonging to plural communities of practices offering modal and qualitative distinctions. We suggest that adopting this perspective sheds light on the capacity of any individual to act creatively …


Perspectives East And West, Ken-Ichi Sasaki Jan 2013

Perspectives East And West, Ken-Ichi Sasaki

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


In Praise Of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety And Merleau-Ponty, Tiger C. Roholt Jan 2013

In Praise Of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety And Merleau-Ponty, Tiger C. Roholt

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

When a jazz, rock, or hip-hop drummer strikes certain notes in each measure slightly late, instead of hearing the degree to which those notes are late, we typically hear the effects of those variations; namely, a groove, the "feel" of a rhythm. Slight variations of pitch function similarly. In this essay, I argue that certain analytic theorists go astray due to their preoccupation with the variations themselves. By invoking Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights into subtle visual perceptions, and his notion of perceptual indeterminacy, I avoid an account of musical subtlety suggested by Daniel Dennett that is too coarse-grained, as well as …


The Definition Of Everyday Aesthetics, Kevin Melchionne Jan 2013

The Definition Of Everyday Aesthetics, Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article responds to recent controversy in the aesthetics of everyday life with a succinct definition designed to clarify the domain of study. The article is intentionally designed for brevity and accessibility in order to facilitate usage.


The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Giuseppe Patella Jan 2013

The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Giuseppe Patella

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Talking about resistance means raising the question of opposition, of denying all attempts at neutralizing opposites, which would be typical of ideological construction, either political or aesthetic. This essay investigates the meaning and the reasons of resistance according to a theoretical, aesthetic, and cultural point of view. The thesis is that resistance has to be considered as an articulation of difference, and that means following a different logic of thought, no longer rigid or monolithic but plural, like a new grammar, syntax, and practice of creativity, challenge, provocation, multiplicity, and pluralism. In this sense the aesthetics of resistance is an …


Hegel's Symbolic Stage: An Old Perspective On Contemporary Art, Laura T. Disumma-Koop Jan 2013

Hegel's Symbolic Stage: An Old Perspective On Contemporary Art, Laura T. Disumma-Koop

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper proposes an evaluation of contemporary art works in light of some of the concepts embedded in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s symbolic stage. My belief is that an analysis of Hegel’s conditions for the affirmation of art opens the door to a discussion of contemporary artistic trends, a discussion that also takes distance from the (perhaps) abused question of what defines art. Art does more than question itself; art questions, and challenges, the nature of our perception.


The World Achieved: Film And The Enacted Mind, John M. Carvalho Jan 2013

The World Achieved: Film And The Enacted Mind, John M. Carvalho

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Stanley Cavell taught us that films give us a view of a world that differs from the world in which we view films only by not being that world. Films, that is, screen a world for us and screen us from a world that is not our own. Cavell’s view is based on a photographic conception of film images. A film is composed of photographic images collected on reels and put in motion at twenty-four frames per second. In “More of the World Viewed,” Cavell dares us to come up with a theory of perception that challenges the assumption that …


“May You Live In Interesting Times”: Moral Philosophy And Empirical Psychology [Review Of The Moral Psychology Handbook], Nancy E. Snow Jan 2013

“May You Live In Interesting Times”: Moral Philosophy And Empirical Psychology [Review Of The Moral Psychology Handbook], Nancy E. Snow

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

The Moral Psychology Handbook is a contribution to a relatively new genre of philosophical writing, the “handbook.” In the first section, I comment on an expectation about handbooks, namely that handbooks contain works representative of a field, and raise concerns about The Moral Psychology Handbook in this regard. In the rest of the article I comment in detail on two Handbook articles, “Moral Motivation” by Timothy Schroeder, Adina Roskies, and Shaun Nichols, and “Character” by Maria W. Merritt, John M. Doris, and Gilbert Harman. Both articles illustrate the perils as well as the promise of reliance on empirical studies for …


Circular Justification And Explanation In Aristotle, Owen Goldin Jan 2013

Circular Justification And Explanation In Aristotle, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Abstract Aristotle’s account of epistēmē is foundationalist. In contrast, the web of dialectical argumentation that constitutes justification for scientific principles is coherentist. Aristotle’s account of explanation is structurally parallel to the argument for a foundationalist account of justification. He accepts the first argument but his coherentist accounts of justification indicate that he would not accept the second. Where is the disanalogy? For Aristotle, the intelligibility of a demonstrative premise is the cause of the intelligibility of a demonstrated conclusion and causation is asymmetric. Within the Posterior Analytics itself, Aristotle does not account for this, but elsewhere he develops the resources …


Wisdom And Evil, Nancy E. Snow Jan 2013

Wisdom And Evil, Nancy E. Snow

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Childish Nonsense? The Value Of Interpretation In Plato's Protagoras, Franco Trivigno Jan 2013

Childish Nonsense? The Value Of Interpretation In Plato's Protagoras, Franco Trivigno

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Sodobno Slikarstvo S Tusem In Prihodnost Kitajske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter Jan 2013

Sodobno Slikarstvo S Tusem In Prihodnost Kitajske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Social Contract: Rebellion And Dissent Aboard Serenity, Susanne Foster, James B. South Jan 2013

Social Contract: Rebellion And Dissent Aboard Serenity, Susanne Foster, James B. South

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Paul C. Taylor, Michael Monahan Jan 2013

Review Of Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Paul C. Taylor, Michael Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.