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Consciousness And Complexity, Todd Moody Oct 2003

Consciousness And Complexity, Todd Moody

Todd Moody

No abstract provided.


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, …


Is 'The Blues' Black Enough?, Stephen Asma Sep 2003

Is 'The Blues' Black Enough?, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

Reviews the television program "The Blues."


The Intellectual's New Clothes: Review Of "Public Intellectuals: A Study Of Decline," Richard Posner, And "One World: The Ethics Of Globalization," Peter Singer, Julian Friedland Jan 2003

The Intellectual's New Clothes: Review Of "Public Intellectuals: A Study Of Decline," Richard Posner, And "One World: The Ethics Of Globalization," Peter Singer, Julian Friedland

Julian Friedland

This review provides a critique of the public intellectual phenomenon via a joint review of two books by public intellectuals, namely Richard Posner and Peter Singer. Please note, the article starts on p. 195 of the attached document.


L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard M. Liddy Jan 2003

L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard M. Liddy

Richard M Liddy

No abstract provided.


"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard M. Liddy Jan 2003

"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard M. Liddy

Richard M Liddy

No abstract provided.


Lonergan's Ethics, Richard M. Liddy Jan 2003

Lonergan's Ethics, Richard M. Liddy

Richard M Liddy

No abstract provided.


L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard Liddy Jan 2003

L'Etica Di Lonergan, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Lonergan's Ethics, Richard Liddy Jan 2003

Lonergan's Ethics, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy Jan 2003

"A Shower Of Insights" Autobiography And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Inevitable Mens Rea, Stephen J. Morse Jan 2003

Inevitable Mens Rea, Stephen J. Morse

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Intentional Explanation, Psychological Laws, And The Irreducibility Of The First Person Perspective, Karsten Stueber Jan 2003

Intentional Explanation, Psychological Laws, And The Irreducibility Of The First Person Perspective, Karsten Stueber

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman Jan 2003

Justification And Excuse, Law And Morality, Mitchell N. Berman

All Faculty Scholarship

Anglo-American theorists of the criminal law have concentrated on-one is tempted to say "obsessed over"-the distinction between justification and excuse for a good quarter-century and the scholarly attention has purchased unusually widespread agreement. Justification defenses are said to apply when the actor's conduct was not morally wrongful; excuse defenses lie when the actor did engage in wrongful conduct but is not morally blameworthy. A near consensus thus achieved, theorists have turned to subordinate matters, joining issue most notably on the question of whether justifications are "subjective"-turning upon the actor's reasons for acting-or "objective"-involving only facts independent of the actor's beliefs …


Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr Dec 2002

Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

No abstract provided.