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Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor, David Mcpherson

Dissertations (1934 -)

In this dissertation I examine the topics of ethics, religion, and their relationship in the work of Charles Taylor. I take Taylor's attempt to confront modern disenchantment by seeking a kind of re-enchantment as my guiding thread. Seeking re-enchantment means, first of all, defending an `engaged realist' account of strong evaluation, i.e., qualitative distinctions of value that are seen as normative for our desires. Secondly, it means overcoming self-enclosure and achieving self-transcendence, which I argue should be understood in terms of transcending a `lower' mode of selfhood for a `higher' one in concern for `strong goods'.

One of the main …

Review Of Living In An Art World: Reviews And Essays On Dance, Performance, Theater, And The Fine Arts In The 1970s And 1980s By Noel Carroll, Curtis Carter

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Review Of Allan Gotthelf's Teleology, First Principles, And Scientific Method In Aristotle's Biology And James G. Lennox And Robert Bolton's (Ed.) Being, Nature, And Life In Aristotle, Owen Goldin

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Naturalizing Moral Justification: Rethinking The Method Of Moral Epistemology, Theresa W. Tobin, Alison Jaggar

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The companion piece to this article, “Situating Moral Justification,” challenges the idea that moral epistemology's mission is to establish a single, all‐purpose reasoning strategy for moral justification because no reasoning practice can be expected to deliver authoritative moral conclusions in all social contexts. The present article argues that rethinking the mission of moral epistemology requires rethinking its method as well. Philosophers cannot learn which reasoning practices are suitable to use in particular contexts exclusively by exploring logical relations among concepts. Instead, in order to understand which reasoning practices are capable of justifying moral claims in different types of contexts, we …

Affective Disorders Of The State: A Spinozan Diagnosis And Cure, Ericka L. Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

The problems of contemporary states are in large part “affective disorders”; they are failures of states to properly understand and coordinate the emotions of the individuals within and in some instances outside the state. By excluding, imprisoning, and marginalizing members of their societies, states create internal enemies who ultimately enervate their own power and the possibility of peace and freedom within the state. Spinoza’s political theory, based on the notion that the best forms of state are those that coordinate the power and emotions of those within a state, offers us both a diagnosis of and a cure for these …

Spinoza’S Hobbesian Naturalism And Its Promise For A Feminist Theory Of Power, Ericka Tucker

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Community Radio In Political Theory And Development Practice, Ericka Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

While to political theorists in the United States ‘community radio’ may seem a quaint holdover of the democratization movements of the 1960s, community radio has been an important tool in development contexts for decades. In this paper I investigate how community radio is conceptualized within and outside of the development frame, as a solution to development problems, as part of development projects communication strategy, and as a tool for increasing democratic political participation in development projects. I want to show that community radio is an essential tool of democratization and democracy outside of the development frame. To do so, I …

Situating Moral Justification: Rethinking The Mission Of Moral Epistemology, Alison Jaggar, Theresa W. Tobin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This is the first of two companion articles drawn from a larger project, provisionally entitled Undisciplining Moral Epistemology. The overall goal is to understand how moral claims may be rationally justified in a world characterized by cultural diversity and social inequality. To show why a new approach to moral justification is needed, it is argued that several currently influential philosophical accounts of moral justification lend themselves to rationalizing the moral claims of those with more social power. The present article explains how discourse ethics is flawed just in this way. The article begins by identifying several conditions of adequacy …

African American Perspectives: A Trio Of Exhibits At The Milwaukee Art Museum Showcase Accomplished Black Artists, Curtis Carter

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'You Are The One': Life And Art At Redline Milwaukee, Curtis Carter

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The Practical Applications Of Environmental Aesthetic Theories: Gardens, Cities, And Nature, Curtis Carter, Yibo Yang

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The Layton Collection: Mam Remembers Milwaukee's First Art Museum, Curtis Carter

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Past, Present And Future: The New Museum Of Wisconsin Art, Curtis L. Carter

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Learning To Look: Lessons From Iris Murdoch, Nancy E. Snow

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An Epilogue For The Disappointed, Howard P. Kainz

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Forgiveness In A Political Context: The Challenge And The Potential, Pol Vandevelde

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In this article I examine the challenging question concerning whether communal forgiveness is possible. In order to show that it is in principle possible I articulate and then respond to two of the most powerful objections to communal forgiveness that have been formulated to date, namely: (1) the argument that only victims can forgive; and (2) the argument that forgiveness is unconditional and thus outside the scope of such things as communal or political deliberation.

I argue that communal forgiveness is a process of transformation that requires at the practical level an institutional framework in which a representative of a …

The Art Of Color: Photography From Stieglitz To Sherman At Milwaukee Art Museum, Curtis Carter

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

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

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

Wisdom And Evil, Nancy E. Snow

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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 …

Sodobno Slikarstvo S Tusem In Prihodnost Kitajske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter

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

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Nunca Más: Truth Commissions, Prevention, And Human Rights Culture, Margaret Urban Walker

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

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

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Garden As Symbol: Nature/City, Curtis Carter

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My approach .to environmental aesthetics here begins with reflections on previous encounters with the subject, focusing initially on aesthetics of the city. Then follows a brief look at current theories of environmental aesthetics as they relate to nature aesthetics. The final section will consider garden as a symbolic link of nature/city. Nelson Goodman 's theory of exemplification will serve as an account of garden as a symbol linking nature and city .

Sartre's Second Or Dialectical Ethics, Thomas C. Anderson

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