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Review Of "Contending With Stanley Cavell" Edited By R. Goodman, Richard Thomas Eldridge Aug 2005

Review Of "Contending With Stanley Cavell" Edited By R. Goodman, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Values And Objectivity In Science: The Current Controversy About Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey Jan 2005

Values And Objectivity In Science: The Current Controversy About Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey

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Values and Objectivity in Science illustrates many of the ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications, offering an account of how social and ethical values play important roles in science. Hugh Lacey develops and clarifies his previous analysis by arguing for the importance of research being conducted under a plurality of strategies, contrasting materialist strategies with agro-ecological strategies. By displaying the structure of current ethical controversies about the legitimacy of planting transgenic crops, this book illustrates that sound thinking on such issues must be grounded on an adequate philosophy of science, one that can clearly distinguish between the …


Como Devem Os Valores Influenciar A Ciência?, Hugh Lacey Jan 2005

Como Devem Os Valores Influenciar A Ciência?, Hugh Lacey

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Scientists make judgments of value all the time. They usually evaluatetheir theories according to “cognitive values” (empirical adequacy, power tomake predictions, explanatory power etc). But a theory can also be evaluatedaccording to non-cognitive values (social, political, economical, etc). Traditionally,cognitive and non-cognitive kinds of values are maintained separated from oneanother in order to protect science’s “autonomy”, impartiality”, and “neutrality”.However, social and moral values, as well as other kinds of non-cognitive values,play their role in science, not only by addressing the ethical issues of scientificresearch, but also by establishing the strategies according to which the problemsto be investigated are chosen, and practical …


Review Of "Reverence: Renewing A Forgotten Virtue" By P. Woodruff, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2004

Review Of "Reverence: Renewing A Forgotten Virtue" By P. Woodruff, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Listening To The Evidence, Hugh Lacey Jan 2004

Listening To The Evidence, Hugh Lacey

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Investigating The Environmental Risks Of Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey Jan 2004

Investigating The Environmental Risks Of Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey

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Legitimation of public policies that support the widespread plantings of transgenic crops presuppose, among other conditions, that (1) evidence supports that there are no unmanageable environmental risks and (2) there are no better ways to produce enough nourishing food that can dispense with the transgenics-oriented ways. This paper discusses: (a) the kinds of scientific inquiry that are needed to address (1) adequately, (b) the connections between investigations of (1) and (2), and (c) how these investigations are related with controversial social values.
A legitimação de políticas públicas que apóiam o cultivo de lavouras transgênicas em larga escala pressupõe, entre outras …


Rotating The Axis Of Our Investigation: Wittgenstein's Investigations And Hölderlin's Poetology, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2004

Rotating The Axis Of Our Investigation: Wittgenstein's Investigations And Hölderlin's Poetology, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Julius Rosenberg And The Ethics Of The Old Left, Richard Schuldenfrei Jan 2004

Julius Rosenberg And The Ethics Of The Old Left, Richard Schuldenfrei

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Review Of "Science And Poetry" By M. Midgley, Hans Oberdiek Oct 2003

Review Of "Science And Poetry" By M. Midgley, Hans Oberdiek

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The Apt Word, Hugh Lacey Sep 2003

The Apt Word, Hugh Lacey

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Review Of "Classical And Romantic German Aesthetics" Edited By J. M. Bernstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge Aug 2003

Review Of "Classical And Romantic German Aesthetics" Edited By J. M. Bernstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Existe Uma Distinção Relevante Entre Valores Cognitivos E Sociais?, Hugh Lacey Jun 2003

Existe Uma Distinção Relevante Entre Valores Cognitivos E Sociais?, Hugh Lacey

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It is useful to work with a model of the practices of scientific research that proposes that there are three key moments at which choices must be made: the moments of (i) adopting a strategy (or methodological rules), (ii) accepting theories, and (iii) applying scientific knowledge. Social values may have legitimate and important roles at the first and third moments, but not the second, where only cognitive values and available empirical data have essential roles. The distinction between cognitive and social values is needed to maintain this model, and thus to sustain the view that impartial scientific knowledge can be …


Review Of "The Elusiveness Of The Ordinary: Studies In The Possibility Of Philosophy" By S. Rosen, Richard Thomas Eldridge Feb 2003

Review Of "The Elusiveness Of The Ordinary: Studies In The Possibility Of Philosophy" By S. Rosen, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Art, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Art, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest. His discussion, illustrated with a wealth of examples, ranges over topics such as beauty, originality, imagination, imitation, the ways in which we respond emotionally to art, and why we argue …


Review Of "Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology" Edited By M. Ruse And D. Castle, Hugh Lacey Jan 2003

Review Of "Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology" Edited By M. Ruse And D. Castle, Hugh Lacey

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Stanley Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Stanley Cavell, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Wittgenstein And The Conversation Of Justice, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Wittgenstein And The Conversation Of Justice, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Aesthetics And Ethics, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Aesthetics And Ethics, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Cavell On American Philosophy And The Idea Of America, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Cavell On American Philosophy And The Idea Of America, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Here is a common picture of what American philosophy looks like to and within many American philosophy departments. To a considerable degree, it does not exist at all. Most departments do not feel obliged to teach American philosophy as they do modern philosophy (Descartes to Kant) and ancient Greek philosophy. It is normally not part of the requirements for a major. Of course, writings by Americans are mostly what do get taught, but they are taught as just philosophy, not as American philosophy. When it is taught, it is taught as a peripheral history course, typically focusing on the major …


Romantic Subjectivity In Goethe And Wittgenstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Romantic Subjectivity In Goethe And Wittgenstein, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Cavell And Hölderlin On Human Immigrancy, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2003

Cavell And Hölderlin On Human Immigrancy, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Schizoanalysis, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2003

Schizoanalysis, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Seeds And Their Sociocultural Nexus, Hugh Lacey Jan 2003

Seeds And Their Sociocultural Nexus, Hugh Lacey

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Warum Und Wozu Privatheit?, Peter Baumann Oct 2002

Warum Und Wozu Privatheit?, Peter Baumann

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Oedipus And The Anoedipal Transsexual, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2002

Oedipus And The Anoedipal Transsexual, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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A Águia E Os Estorninhos: Galileu E A Autonomia Da Ciência, P. R. Mariconda, Hugh Lacey May 2001

A Águia E Os Estorninhos: Galileu E A Autonomia Da Ciência, P. R. Mariconda, Hugh Lacey

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The idea that science is "value free" can be traced back to the emergence of the distinction between fact and value in the 17th century. It can be considered to have three components: impartiality, neutrality and autonomy. We show that important parts of these component ideas were developed and defended by Galileo, principally in his letters to Castelli and to Grand Duchess Cristina and in his books The Assayer and Two Chief World Systems. Galileo's argument for autonomy is particularly powerful and, although lacking the generality introduced in later arguments (since his principal concern was to win autonomy for science …


Review Of "A Theory Of Art" By K. Berger, Richard Thomas Eldridge Apr 2001

Review Of "A Theory Of Art" By K. Berger, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Tolerance: Between Forbearance And Acceptance, Hans Oberdiek Jan 2001

Tolerance: Between Forbearance And Acceptance, Hans Oberdiek

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The Persistence Of Romanticism: Essays In Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2001

The Persistence Of Romanticism: Essays In Philosophy And Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Has Romanticism been superseded by realism, modernism, and postmodernism, all of which are often taken to acknowledge reality more fully than Romanticism? What is it that Romantic thinkers and writers do? Why does what they do matter? Is Romanticism a think of the past? "These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the ongoing pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, crossed by frustration and marked by desire, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Marshaling a wide range of texts from literature, philosophy, and criticism, Richard Eldridge …


Listening To The Evidence: Service Activity And Understanding Social Phenomena, Hugh Lacey Jan 2000

Listening To The Evidence: Service Activity And Understanding Social Phenomena, Hugh Lacey

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