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Freud On Writing: Some Historicist Perspectives, Sanja Perovic
Freud On Writing: Some Historicist Perspectives, Sanja Perovic
Episteme
The author looks at three readings of Freud by Derrida, Michel de Certeau, and Deleuze/Guattari, trying to answer the question: For Freud, how does writing produce meaning and what does this historicizing function imply about the psyche in general? The author inspects two of Freud’s analogies that are to explain and justify psychoanalysis: books avoiding political censorship and the mystic writing pad. These become doorways to the ensuing criticisms. The three commentaries trace sections of Freud’s thought as they relate to his fundamental concepts and to the work those concepts are supposed to do. Read together, the readings each supply …
The Value Of Natural Kinds From A Kripkean Perspective: A Critique Of Eric Katz's 'Organism, Community And The "Substitution Problem", Jessica H. Mitchell
The Value Of Natural Kinds From A Kripkean Perspective: A Critique Of Eric Katz's 'Organism, Community And The "Substitution Problem", Jessica H. Mitchell
Episteme
The author endeavors to extend the Kripke/Putnam theory of reference in order to improve Eric Katz’s argument in “Organism, Community, and the ‘Substitution Problem.” Katz criticizes the organism model for species and supports the community model, which supposedly strikes a balance with a species’ intrinsic value and functional purpose within a natural ecosystem. But since it can be shown that the so-called organism model includes intrinsic value, too, the substitution problem (which had plagued it for Katz) is unfounded. Because Katz’s real goal is to differentiate between the intrinsic and instrumental value of a given species, Kripke’s theory of natural …
Persons, Materialism And Consciousness, Brendan Neufeld
Persons, Materialism And Consciousness, Brendan Neufeld
Episteme
In this article, the author criticizes the materialist theory of mind but salvages the causal insights put forth by neurophysiology’s linkage of the mind and the brain. P. M. S. Hacker’s exegesis of Wittgenstein argues that materialist philosophers and neuroscientists make grammatical contradictions when accounting for the mental. To begin to pinpoint the error of physicalism, the author provides examples that elaborate on Norman Malcolm’s two distinct senses of the term “consciousness.” Materialism’s (and neurophysiology’s) causal nature accounts for intransitive consciousness, but neither are especially promising when it comes to transitive consciousness. In the background, there is a major problem: …
Explanatory Pervasion And The Unity Of Science, Andrew Miller
Explanatory Pervasion And The Unity Of Science, Andrew Miller
Episteme
The philosophy of science has seen a range of theories since the radical introduction of reductionism as an offshoot of the logical positivists. This author argues that while the various sciences may not be unified by law, there is every reason to believe that they are unified by explanation. In essence, Alan Garfinkel and David Owens are judged to be less convincing that the arguments given by Karen Neander and Peter Menzies. The author shows the insufficiency of Garfinkel’s attempt to illustrate the missing link between macro and micro explanation in the theory of explanatory pervasion. The author then supports …
General Rules And The Normativity Of Causal Inferences In The First Book Of Hume's Treatise, Joshua Derman
General Rules And The Normativity Of Causal Inferences In The First Book Of Hume's Treatise, Joshua Derman
Episteme
In the paper, the author has undertaken the task of illuminating the meanings and connections that constitute Hume’s account of causality. The author’s method is critical, questioning the logical consistency and explanatory power of Hume’s skeptical causality and inference, only to eventually reveal the validity of Hume’s argument. Much of the analysis is spent making sense of the seemingly contradictory or confusing statements Hume makes in his Treatise; lots of examples help this process. The paper includes addressing the paradoxical connection between our internal/subjective general rules and our customs. It also examines the interesting question of how to judge the …
Thomistic Metaphysics And The Synthetic A Priori, Brent D. Timmons
Thomistic Metaphysics And The Synthetic A Priori, Brent D. Timmons
Episteme
Aquinas’ metaphysics is a powerful, comprehensive system, but one that is subtle and demands careful attention. The author here argues that Henry B. Veatch’s paper, which attempts to reconcile Aquinas with Kant’s metaphysics, mistakenly turns Aquinas’ thought into a mere empirical science. The article begins with an overview of Kant’s two types of judgments and Aquinas’ notion of principia per se nota, or first principles. Aquinas’ first principles are analytic on Kant’s analysis yet are also said to give information about the world, according to Thomist thought. But “how are the principia per se nota informative about the world?”—Kant would …
Dale Vande Griend, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
Danielle Roos, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
Josh Louwerse, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
Endings And Beginnings: Two Sides Of The Coin, Amy Westra
Endings And Beginnings: Two Sides Of The Coin, Amy Westra
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Pre-Vet Life @ Dordt College, Kate Henreckson
Following Your Gut, Sally Jongsma
Core 100: Setting Students On A Common Kingdom Trajectory, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
Core 100: Setting Students On A Common Kingdom Trajectory, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
The Voice
No abstract provided.
New Research Institute Brings New Funding, Sally Jongsma
New Research Institute Brings New Funding, Sally Jongsma
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Culture As Divine Gift, David Henreckson
Baseball Inspires Other Sports To New Heights, Mike Byker
Baseball Inspires Other Sports To New Heights, Mike Byker
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Taking Climate Action, Lydia Marcus
Seniors Create Original Musical, Lydia Marcus
Environmental Studies Students Help Restore Park, Kate Henreckson
Environmental Studies Students Help Restore Park, Kate Henreckson
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Three Faculty Leave Their Mark At Dordt, Contributing Writer
Three Faculty Leave Their Mark At Dordt, Contributing Writer
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Inchoate Feminism In Plato's Republic V, Amy Coplan
Inchoate Feminism In Plato's Republic V, Amy Coplan
Episteme
Is Plato a feminist from the classical era? No, but he comes closer than any other man from that time. Although by no means reducible to modern feminist arguments about equality, Book V of the Republic espouses some important ideas about women, nature, and society. There is no doubt that Plato challenged the prevailing wisdom in Athens and sought a utopia that produced the best possible men and women—at least for the guardian class. We should understand that it is Plato’s elitism, not his misogyny, which influences his handling of the lower social strata. And furthermore, his sexist remarks are …
James Schaap Tells Stories From The Past, Sarah Vander Plaats
James Schaap Tells Stories From The Past, Sarah Vander Plaats
The Voice
No abstract provided.
A Question Of Ethics, Joseph Landau
A Question Of Ethics, Joseph Landau
Episteme
“If we look around us, there is no doubt that the question of ethics is currently more complex than it has ever been,” writes the author of this paper, who examines the existential importance that the question of ethics carries in modern times. The author believes that out of this age of confusion and difference, what is needed is an ethic that emphasizes community and mutual understanding. We cannot rely on capital T truth or the ethicists that came before us. Instead, once we realize our dialectical, interdependent identity, we will be able to increase our mutual conversation and acceptance. …
Spanish/Nursing Course Bridges Barriers, Shelbi Gesch
And Levinas Created A Controversy About Women, Shulamit M. Shapiro
And Levinas Created A Controversy About Women, Shulamit M. Shapiro
Episteme
Feminist critiques railed against Levinas are not convincing. The “politically correct” feminist critics miss the Biblical and Talmudic application in Levinas’ philosophy. In this paper, the author rejects Luce Irigaray’s argument about the importance of sexual pleasure. Neither does Catherine Chalier succeed with her argument that Levinas essentializes the feminine in a way that keeps women from “the highest destiny of human beings.” In point of fact, Levinas believes in the interdependence of men and women. He finds that the human psyche is better probed through the notion of ethical responsibility than sexual liberation. There’s not anything immoral about this …
Exploring Language, Justice, And Identity, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
Exploring Language, Justice, And Identity, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Kant And The Noumenal Agent, Heather M. Kendrick
Kant And The Noumenal Agent, Heather M. Kendrick
Episteme
This paper’s goal is to defend Kant’s version of freedom, in spite of the confusing metaphysical issues that surround Kant’s rational being (who belongs both to the world of phenomena and the world of noumena). Contrary to a certain line of criticism, the author argues for how Kant’s agent manages to be free—how the noumenal agent can affect action in the sensible world. Kant does not believe that our noumenal selves cause the world our phenomenal selves act in. Some readers misunderstand him. And while sure, Kant’s theory gives rise to questions about how our noumenal self can account for …
Where Do We Fit?, Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
You Just Can't Crispin Brains In A Vat, David Miguel Gray
You Just Can't Crispin Brains In A Vat, David Miguel Gray
Episteme
In this article, the author lays out a defense of Putnam’s controversial “Brains in a Vat” paper, and it’s famous refutation of the Cartesian brain-in-a-vat skeptic. The author looks closely at the paper, its argument, and its relation to skepticism. In addition to properly understanding the thought experiments and logical argument put forth by Putnam, one must also understand that his refutation is not aimed at the infinitely regressive skeptic, but rather the internal skeptic. The author shows this fact by inventing his own brain-in-a-vat scenario. So, although it remains a possibility that we are brains in a vat, we …
What's In A Name, Erik Hoekstra