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Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 10, Spring 2000. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Varieties Of Theism And The Openness Of God, Donald W. Viney

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Charles Hartshorne was an advocate of the openness of God. Contrary to some critiques, he was aware of and responded to criticisms of his views and developed ways of thinking about the varieties of theistic metaphysics.

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 9, Spring 1998. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Humor Of Jesus Of Nazareth, Donald W. Viney

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As Rudolf Bultmann advocated demythologization to separate the message of Jesus from outdated cultural forms in which it was expressed, so I advocate what I call desobrietization to discover the humor that Jesus used that has been lost because of translation, prosy interpreters, and preconceived ideas about what it is to be divine. Without pretending to recover the actual words of Jesus, one may nevertheless hear the authentic voice of Jesus and therein detect his wit. One discovers the humor of Jesus in his use of exaggeration, satire, sarcasm, plays on words, and irony. Irony is especially important for it …

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 7, Spring 1997. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

Wachter's World: Thomas C. Wachter (1942-1995), Donald W. Viney

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This article-obituary concerning Thomas Wachter, includes an account of the character of Wachter's philosophical thinking and of his work in creating a logic crystal, a three dimensional lattice that represents the fundamental relations of implications for elementary logic.

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 8, Spring 1996. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 4, Michael Adams, Stanley E. Banks, Walter Bargen, Jim Barnes, Stephen C. Behrendt, Gar Bethel, Gerald N. Callahan, Michael Catherwood, G. S. Sharat Chandra, Jim Cihlar, Bruce Cutler, Leo Dangel, Celia A. Daniels, Joseph M. Ditta, Elizabeth Dodd, Constance Egemo, Michael Finley, John Garmon, Diane Glancy, Patrick Worth Gray, Charles Guenther, Tom Hansen, Twyla Hansen, Neil Harrison, Steven Hind, Art Homer, Michael L. Johnson, Robert King, Robert Kirshbaum, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Leonard Lang, Denise Low, James Magorian, David Mason, Jim Mccrary, Jo Mcdougall, J. J. Mckenna, Jennifer Mcnaught, Jay Meek, Bill Meissner, Janice H. Mikesell, James D. Miley, Michael Moos, Mark A. Nowak, Al Ortolani, Elsie Pankowski, Thomas D. Peacock, Cynthia Pederson, Caryl Porter, Kim Ports, Joan Wolf Prefontaine, Trish Reeves, Richard Robbins, Carolann Russell, Marjorie Saiser, Bonny Barry Sanders, Terry Savoie, Roy Scheele, Barbara Schmitz, Jory Sherman, Michael Skau, Roland Sodowsky, Rawdon Tomlinson, Wyatt Townley, Tim Trapp, Patricia Traxler, Bill Tremblay, Robert Tremmel, William Trowbridge, Mark Vinz, Don Welch, Warren Woessner, Joan Yeagley, Lois J. Faucette, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Information about the poets and their aesthetic concerns can be found with their work.

LOIS J. FAUCETTE is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She holds the Ph.D. degree from Howard University and has also studied at the University of Arkansas, University of Iowa, and Indiana University.

DONALD WAYNE VINEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburg State University and serves on the Board of Editors of Midwest Quarterly. He has published books and numerous articles in his field and has a special interest in the philosophy of religion.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 3, Edward M. Wheat, Malcolm O. Magaw, Darryl Hattenhauer, Elizabeth Dodd, Sanford Pinsker, Francis Donahue, Eve Adamson, Timothy Bellows, Michael Cadnum, Gerald N. Callahan, George Eklund, Sean Enright, Theodore Genoways, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Scott Heim, Linda Keegan, Cathleen A. Long, Jennifer Maier, Biljana D. Obradović, Susan Rea, Katie H. Armitage, Kelly A. Woestman, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

EDWARD M. WHEAT examines the meaning of the post-modem era through the character and world of the "hard-boiled dick," particularly Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op. Author of articles in a variety of scholarly journals, Wheat is Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Southern Mississippi.

In crafting Marry Me, argues MALCOLM O. MAGAW, John Updike used geography, topography, and spatial relations to form a symbolic background against which his protagonist Jerry Conant pursues his truths. A specialist on American literature with previous articles on such writers as Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Warren, Bellow, Walker …

On The Trail Of A French Philosopher Of Genius, Jules Lequyer, Donald W. Viney

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This is a brief account of my travels in the summer of 1994 to Bretagne to trace the steps of the little-known French philosopher, Jules Lequyer (1814-1862). My wife and I were hosted by Dr. Paul Houillon and his family in Plouguernével. Our meetings with the mayors of Quintin (Lequyer's town of birth) and Plérin (where Lequyer is buried) were covered by two national French newspapers.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 2, Kim Paffenroth, Manfred Weidhorn, William C. Stephenson, Charles S. Brown, William Casement, George Slanger, Richard Callin, Albino Carrillo, James Cushing, Jeffrey Erikson, Nickie J. Gunstrom, Tom Hansen, David James, Walter Mcdonald, Willie Reader, Heather Sellers, Barry Sternlieb, Steve Wilson, Anne Ohman Youngs, Kathleen L. Nichols, Daniel J. Royer, Rebecca Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

KIM PAFFENROTH examines the Judas of the written Gospels and explicates Bach's sensitive musical portrayal of Judas in the recitatives and arias of the "St. Matthew Passion." A graduate student in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Paffenroth has published articles on the death of Judas, St. Augustine's idea of friendship, and on Romans. His area of concentration is the synoptic gospels.

MANFRED WEIDHORN develops the many meanings of manliness from classical times to the present day through a study of literary and historical figures, with special emphasis on Edward Gibbon's definition. Guterman Professor of English at Yeshiva University, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 36 No. 1, Christian Michener, Michael S. Allen, Asad Al-Ghalith, Terry Allen Wiggs, Jane Lasarenko, Thomas Michael Norton-Smith, Melinda Baker, Alice G. Brand, Alan Britt, Ruth Daigon, Howard Dupuis, Fritz Hamilton, William Kloefkorn, Michael Lieberman, Donald Morrill, Karl Patten, Allan Peterson, David Ray, James Scofield, James Soular, R. P. Burnham, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

CHRISTIAN MICHENER explores Susan Straight's likening of the black experience in America to an underwater dancer so focused on survival as to remain as dry as the chief setting for most of the stories in the Aquaboogie collection, Rio Seco. A doctoral student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Michener is here publishing his first scholarly work

Arguing that 'patriarchy' fails to reveal the tradition in American literature of male identity, power, and purpose, MICHAEL S. ALLEN examines the role of male bonding and traces it to the early threat of violence each young male faces, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 4, Susan S. Kissel, William T. Liston, Kurt Hochenauer, James R. Jaye, Greg Johnson, Gavriel Ben-Ephraim, Todd Ryan Boss, Rene F. Cardenas, Philip Cioffari, Robert S. King, Martin Lammon, Lyn Lifshin, Errol Miller, Lenard D. Moore, Mark Nowak, Beth Simon, Matthew J. Spireng, Philip Tobin, Ralph Wilson, Steve Wilson, Robert W. Bardeen, Charles Cagle, Kathleen De Grave, Jo Mcdougall

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

For all the angry rejection and amused disinterest she received from Americans then, Frances Trollope, in the view of SUSAN S. KISSEL, masterfully discerned much of the American character that remains as true today as it was in 1832. Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University, Kissel has published a number of articles on Frances Trollope and other British and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book, In Common Cause: The "Conservative" Frances Trollope and the "Radical" Frances Wright, was recently published by The Popular Press of Bowling Green State University.

WILLIAM T. LISTON contends that …

'Turnabout Intruder' Turned About Or What Became Of James Kirk And Janice Lester, Donald W. Viney

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The last episode of the classic Star Trek series, "Turnabout Intruder" can serve as a thought experiment to raise anew the philosophical question about the relation of mind and body. The writers of the episode present the case of the "life entity transfer" between James Kirk and Janice Lester as a question of minds switching bodies, but another view is possible: perhaps the two become temporarily confused about who they are.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 3, Theresa M. Mackey, Dorothy Dodge Robbins, Carolyn Nelson, John L. Dusseau, Nicholas O. Pagan, James A. Stevenson, Lawrence Bradley, Carrie Frasier, Judith Harris, James Hawkins, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Sanders, Rita Signorelli-Pappas, Sara Sproles, William John Watkins, Don Welch, Jeff Worley, Patricia A. Behlar, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Nationalism, both fashionable and deadly once more, is THERESA M. MACKEY's subject as she examines the writings of James Joyce. Rather than anti-nationalist, Mackey finds the later Joyce committed to a position akin to modern radically nationalist republicanism. Professor of English at St. John's College in Annapolis, Mackey is here publishing her first scholarly essay.

DOROTHY DODGE ROBBINS recounts the journey of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist and how it fits the typology of such adventures in ancient and modern literature. Robbins is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

How did …

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 6, Spring 1994. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 2, Kelly Cherry, Adam Drozdek, Dan Vogel, Donald A. Crosby, Stephen Brockmann, James V. Mehl, Marcia Arrieta, Craig Challender, Philip Dacey, George Estreich, Carol Hamilton, Suzanne Keyworth, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Lyn Lifshin, Mathew Murrey, Marjorie Saiser, Coreen Dwyer Wees, James W. Goodrich, Jo Mcdougall, Jared Carter

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Taking seriously C.P. Snow's mid-century caution that scientists and writers had increasingly little understanding of the other, KELLY CHERRY explains how she and other poets have reflected the scientific world. Author of ten books, including God's Loud Hand, a volume of poems to be published this year by Louisiana State University Press, Cherry is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

After Kurt Gödel's proof that no theory can completely explain a system, particularly one involving arithmetic, ADAM DROZDEK suggests, only the intellectually arrogant scientist can presume to understand the nature of humans. Yet many have tried in …

The Making Of A Feminist: A Philosophical Autobiography, Donald W. Viney

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This article--written at the request of Megan Duffy--summarizes my journey to feminism from the female role models in my life, to my discovery of the power of language to shape attitudes and behaviors, to my introduction to Feminist Theology, reading the work of Rosemary Ruether and meeting her when she visited campus.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 35 No. 1, Charles Hartshorne, Richard Moore, Patti Capel Swartz, Sanford Pinsker, Brian Conniff, Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Deborah Athy, Jim Cihlar, Anne Colwell, George Gott, Douglas Gray, Michele Krueger, Rebecca A. Lilly, Linda Pennisi, Bruce Taylor, Charles Cagle, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Understanding God and that which is not divine has provoked philosophical extremes from the time of the Greeks to the present day. Philosopher CHARLES HARTSHORNE proposes a mathematical schema to sort out their differences and to establish a common ground for discussing deity and humanity. Author of twenty books and more than four hundred scholarly essays, Hartshorne, before his retirement, taught in ten universities, five in the United States and five abroad (Germany, Belgium, Australia, Japan, and India).

Bridging the gulf between the humanities and the sciences by relating the history and practice of art to the geometry of Euclid …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 4, D. G. Myers, Terry White, Sheldon W. Liebman, Judith Ann Spector, Mark Allister, Joy L. Davis, Kat Snider Blackbird, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

How should literary critics accomplish their necessary judgments? Robert Penn Warren, though marginalized by some historians of literary criticism in the twentieth century, has, in D. G. MYERS's opinion, an important contribution to our understanding of the discipline. Professor of English at Texas A & M University, Myers has published articles on the history and theory of criticism in a number of journals and is completing a book on the history of creative writing in American literary education.

TERRY WHITE explores the writings of three contemporary authors on the nature of the choices humans face when confronted with evil. Assistant …

The Woes Of Creation Science, Donald W. Viney

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This article presents the case against Creation-Science by detailing its failures with respect to science, philosophy, hermeneutics, and theology. Despite its many flaws it may usefully serve as a good example of a bad thing.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 3, Arthur Scherr, Alfred Cismaru, George W. Shields, William M. Bueler, Wade Sikorski, Earl Lee, Jeanne Murray Walker, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

In Candide, argues ARTHUR SCHERR, Voltaire's women are intelligent, resourceful, and erotic individuals, quite the equal of males, if not infrequently their superiors. Having taught history and English at Bernard Baruch College and Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, as well as the New York City high schools, Scherr is a self-styled "Renaissance person" who has published articles in a number of scholarly journals.

Human memory is a curious thing: it remembers what it wants to remember and forgets what it is inconvenient to remember or simply refuses to believe a contrary fact. So it is …

The Right To Life: The Larger Context, Donald W. Viney

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The question of the right to life extends far beyond the abortion issue to include the question of the moral obligations that humans have to all life on the planet. The usual justifications for denying the right to life to other animals are surprisingly flimsy. The article ends by turning the burden of proof on the human group: By what right do we assume that the earth is ours and that its inhabitants are our servants?

Logos-Sophia: Creation Vs. Evolution, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 5, Spring 1993. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 2, Peter Scheckner, Eugene Kraft, Michael Jeffrey, Irvin D. Solomon, Thomas Whigham, Ronald Larson, Steve Broidy, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Trent Busch, Duane K. Caylor, Patricia Fargnoli, Judy Goldman, Sidney L. Hall Jr., Patricia Hooper, Bob Kaven, Victor Pearn, Joe Salerno, Rebecca Thompson, Robert Tremmel, Richard W. Slatta, Thomas R. Walther, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

During the 1989 democracy demonstrations in China, Americans struggled to understand, and in so doing challenged their own stereotypes about the people of China. PETER SCHECKNER, who with his wife was then teaching American culture in Beijing at a tourist college, had hoped to challenge his Chinese students' stereotypes about American society and found his expectations repeatedly called into question. Author of books on D. H. Lawrence and Chartist poetry, Scheckner is Associate Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The great truths often present themselves to us repeatedly and in unlikely circumstances, as EUGENE KRAFT demonstrates in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 1, Michael J. Bugeja, Donald R. Mccoy, Joyce R. Durham, Haim Gordon, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, Linda L. Norton-Smith, Richard M. Gardner, Don Boes, Marguerite Bouvard, Kim Bridgford, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Duane K. Caylor, Mary Crow, Myron Ernst, Patrick Worth Gray, Ray Greenblatt, Christopher Guerin, Marguerite Holley, Ernest Kroll, Rachel Loden, Peter Ludwin, Joyce K. Luzzi, Hillary Lyon, James Magorian, Jo Mcdougall, Gean Moreno, Richard Pau-Llosa, Timothy R. Phillips, Paul Ruffin, James Scofield, Barbara Stallone, Barry Sternlieb, Laura Anna Stortoni, Robert Tremmel, Robert Wexelblatt, Steve Wilson, Harold Witt, Daniel E. Sutherland, Virginia J. Laas, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

What is wrong with today's university? MICHAEL J. BUGEJA believes academia has wandered away from individual excellence---in teaching and in the student's rational and aesthetic education--and turned a diploma into dollars, not sense. Internationally published poet and writer, editor of a volume of cultural essays from Oklahoma State Press, and author of two journalism manuals, Bugeja is a professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where he teaches ethics, writing, and editing.

Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, as DONALD R. McCOY shows, were thrust together by war and driven apart by partisan politics. University …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 4, Ron Mcfarland, Jay Paul, Jeff Crouch, Andrew P. Williams, Nicholas D. Rombes Jr., Gary P. Hendrickson, Kim Bridgeford, Charles Bukowski, Jared Carter, Carol Hamilton, Peter Krok, Ernest Kroll, Lyn Lifshin, Mathew Murrey, Silvia Scheibli, Margo A. Schmidt, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Ernest A. Wight Jr., David Sloan, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

"Where is this guy coming from?" What do we bring to reading a poet such as James Wright, wonders RON McFARLAND, and how and why do individuals respond to the music and phrase and sense of what they encounter? Author of The Villanelle: The Evolution of a Poetic Form (1987), editor of two critical anthologies on James Welch and Norman Maclean (1986, 1988), and a full-length collection of his own poems, Composting at Forty (1984), McFarland teaches 17th-century and modern poetry at the University of Idaho.

In Dave Etter's poems familiar words and settings achieve their humor and insight through …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 3, Walter Cummins, Sonia Kovitz, Walter Poznar, Susanne Carter, Anne Shifrer, Eugene L. Huddleston, Marcia Arrieta, Baloian Baloian, Alan Britt, Michael Cadnum, Karen Connelly, James Griffin, Fritz Hamilton, Jo Mariner, Sally Allen Mcnall, Larissa Szporluk, Harold Witt, Eve E. M. Wood, Anne Ohman Youngs, Donald F. Kerle, Calvin H. Merrifield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

How closely do science and art approach truth, or approach each other? More nearly than one might think concludes WALTER CUMMINS. Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Cummins has published many short stories and articles dealing with writing and communication.

SONIA KOVITZ looks into the ordeal of Simone Weil to find value in herself, a struggle in which she would never admit success, in order to consider the meaning of this universal passion. Formerly a teacher of Russian language and literature at Lawrence University and author of articles on Chekhov's fiction and drama, Kovitz is now Program Review Administrator …

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 4, Spring 1992. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 2, Malcolm O. Magaw, Helen F. Maxson, Timothy J. Williams, Richard Badenhausen, Marilyn Lancaster, James C. Work, Don Boes, Christopher Cokinos, Anne Colwell, Philip Dacey, Kevin Griffith, William Jollif, Kathleen M. Mccann, Jane Mcclellan, Andrea Moorhead, Gianfranco Pagnucci, Stephen Perry, Bertha Rogers, Maryfrances Wagner, Gail White, Fred B. Misse, Dudley T. Cornish, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Nicely blending his training in the visual arts with his verbal skills, as MALCOLM O. MAGAW shows, John Updike in Marry Me produces a fuller understanding of his characters and a richer tapestry for his readers. Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Magaw has published essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Yeats, Keats, Warren, Bellow, Walker Percy, Hemingway, and Cheever. He has had two previous publications in The Midwest Quarterly and is working currently on Malamud.

Seeing in the worldview of women a new way of grasping reality and of reshaping the world for the better, HELEN F. …