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Off The Cuff With Monica Obniski, Curtis L. Carter May 2015

Off The Cuff With Monica Obniski, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Editor's Introduction To The Neo-Kantian Reader, Sebastian Luft May 2015

Editor's Introduction To The Neo-Kantian Reader, Sebastian Luft

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Embodying A "New" Color Line: Racism, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment And Racial Identities In The "Postracial" Era, Grant J. Silva Mar 2015

Embodying A "New" Color Line: Racism, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment And Racial Identities In The "Postracial" Era, Grant J. Silva

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This essay explores the intersection of racism, racial embodiment theory and the recent hostility aimed at immigrants and foreigners in the United States, especially the targeting of people of Latin American descent and Latino/as. Anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment is racist. It is the embodiment of racial privilege for those who wield it and the materiality of racial difference for those it is used against. This manifestation of racial privilege and difference rests upon a redrawing of the color line that is meant towards preserving exclusive categories of political membership. The charge of racism, however, is elided by the fact that …


Two French Variations On Truth: Ricoeur's Attestation And Foucault's “Parrhesiastic” Attitude, Pol Vandevelde Mar 2015

Two French Variations On Truth: Ricoeur's Attestation And Foucault's “Parrhesiastic” Attitude, Pol Vandevelde

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Both Ricoeur and Foucault, apparently independently of each other, dedicated much effort to provide an account of truth that goes far beyond the truth of sentences, propositions, or judgments. While well aware of the speech act theory and pragmatics, they want to go beyond a formalism of rules of speech or arguments and integrate the attitude of the one who speaks in the very notion of truth. They see truth not merely as a property of statements, but as an existential process in such a way that the truth of statements is linked to the historically situated speaker. Truth as …


"Fashion Is Freedom": Milwaukee Art Museum's '50 Years Of Ebony Fashion', Curtis L. Carter Jan 2015

"Fashion Is Freedom": Milwaukee Art Museum's '50 Years Of Ebony Fashion', Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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After Cassirer: Art And Aesthetic Symbols In Langer And Goodman, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2015

After Cassirer: Art And Aesthetic Symbols In Langer And Goodman, Curtis L. Carter

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Troubles With Truth Commissions: Putting The Moral Aims Of Truth Commissions To The Fore, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2015

Troubles With Truth Commissions: Putting The Moral Aims Of Truth Commissions To The Fore, Margaret Urban Walker

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Rousseau, Fanon, And The Question Of Method In Political Theory, A Review Of Jane Anna Gordon's Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon, Michael Monahan Jan 2015

Rousseau, Fanon, And The Question Of Method In Political Theory, A Review Of Jane Anna Gordon's Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon, Michael Monahan

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"In And Of Itself Nothing Is Finite": Schelling's Nature (Or So-Called Identity) Philosophy, Michael Vater Jan 2015

"In And Of Itself Nothing Is Finite": Schelling's Nature (Or So-Called Identity) Philosophy, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Philosophy Of The Marburg School: From The Critique Of Scientific Cognition To The Philosophy Of Culture, Sebastian Luft Jan 2015

The Philosophy Of The Marburg School: From The Critique Of Scientific Cognition To The Philosophy Of Culture, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Philosophical Historiography In Marburg Neo-Kantianism: The Example Of Cassirer’S Erkenntnisproblem, Sebastian Luft Jan 2015

Philosophical Historiography In Marburg Neo-Kantianism: The Example Of Cassirer’S Erkenntnisproblem, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Somaesthetics And Dance, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2015

Somaesthetics And Dance, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Dance is proposed as the most representative of somaesthetic arts in Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics and other writings of Richard Shusterman. Shuster- man offers a useful, but incomplete approach to somaesthetics of dance. In the examples provided, dance appears as subordinate to another art form (theater or photography) or as a means to achieving bodily excellence. Missing, for example, are accounts of the role of dance as an independent art form, how somaesthetics would address differences in varying approaches to dance, and attention to the viewer’s somaesthetic dance experience. Three strategies for developing new directions for dance …


Making Reparations Possible: Theorizing Reparative Justice, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2015

Making Reparations Possible: Theorizing Reparative Justice, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Video Art: Cultural Transformations, Curtis L. Carter Dec 2014

Video Art: Cultural Transformations, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

In the 1960s, there were efforts to move broadcast television in the direction of the experimental video art by altering television's conventional format. Fred Barzyk, in his role as a producer and director at WGBH-TV in Boston, was uniquely positioned to act as a link between television and experimental video artists who normally would not have had access to the technology available at a major broadcast facility. As the leading innovator in the beginnings of video art, the Korean American Nam June Paik (1932-2006) deserves special mention. His work bridges the worlds of art, video technology, and television. The video …


New Curator At Milwaukee Art Museum: Off The Cuff With Brandon Ruud, Curtis L. Carter Oct 2014

New Curator At Milwaukee Art Museum: Off The Cuff With Brandon Ruud, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Reconfiguring Identity In Schelling’S Würzburg System, Michael Vater Oct 2014

Reconfiguring Identity In Schelling’S Würzburg System, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

I consider the identity-theory of the Würzburg System as part of Schelling's five-year project to provide a metaphysical foundation for Naturphilosophie that is free of Kantian/Fichtean subjectivism and obeys the key constraint formulated by the German appropriation of Spinoza's: there can be no "egress from the absolute," i.e., no deduction of the limitations of finitude such as the Wissenschaftslehre provided. The demands of epistemic security (the identity of that which knows and what is known) and ontological simplicity (the impossibility of ontological commitment both to an absolute and to individuals) are met by reworking the theory of the absolute's 'cognition' …


Review Of Being, Essence, And Substance In Plato And Aristotle By Paul Ricoeur, Pol Vandevelde Aug 2014

Review Of Being, Essence, And Substance In Plato And Aristotle By Paul Ricoeur, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Han And Tang Ideals And The Future Of Chinese Arts, Curtis L. Carter, Yang Yibo Jul 2014

Han And Tang Ideals And The Future Of Chinese Arts, Curtis L. Carter, Yang Yibo

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Kandinsky At The Milwaukee Art Museum, Curtis Carter May 2014

Kandinsky At The Milwaukee Art Museum, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Populism, Pueblos, And Plutocracy: Notes On Radical Democracy From Latin America, Grant J. Silva Apr 2014

Populism, Pueblos, And Plutocracy: Notes On Radical Democracy From Latin America, Grant J. Silva

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Language As The House Of Being? How To Bring Intelligibility To Heidegger While Keeping The Excitement, Pol Vandevelde Apr 2014

Language As The House Of Being? How To Bring Intelligibility To Heidegger While Keeping The Excitement, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

At the core of Heidegger's philosophy, there lies this nagging question: what is the link between language and being? Using a famous formulation by Heidegger as a guide (‘When we go to the well, when we go through the woods, we are always already going through the word “well”, through the word “woods”’), the analysis focuses on the connection Heidegger establishes between being (what woods and well ‘are’), understanding (something is understood ‘as’ woods or well), and temporality (human understanding of woods and well has changed since ancient Greek times, for example). Language is both what grants things their way …


Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance By Jose Medina, Michael Monahan Apr 2014

Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance By Jose Medina, Michael Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Reassessing Neo-Kantianism. Another Look At Hermann Cohen’S Kant Interpretation, Sebastian Luft Apr 2014

Reassessing Neo-Kantianism. Another Look At Hermann Cohen’S Kant Interpretation, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance: Gender And Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, And Resistant Imaginations By Jose Medina, Michael Monahan Apr 2014

Review Of The Epistemology Of Resistance: Gender And Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, And Resistant Imaginations By Jose Medina, Michael Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Uncommon Art From Common Folk, Curtis Carter Feb 2014

Uncommon Art From Common Folk, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Blurring Two Conceptions Of Subjective Experience: Folk Versus Philosophical Phenomenality, Anthony F. Peressini Jan 2014

Blurring Two Conceptions Of Subjective Experience: Folk Versus Philosophical Phenomenality, Anthony F. Peressini

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Philosophers and psychologists have experimentally explored various aspects of people's understandings of subjective experience based on their responses to questions about whether robots “see red” or “feel frustrated,” but the intelligibility of such questions may well presuppose that people understand robots as experiencers in the first place. Departing from the standard approach, I develop an experimental framework that distinguishes between “phenomenal consciousness” as it is applied to a subject (an experiencer) and to an (experiential) mental state and experimentally test folk understandings of both subjective experience and experiencers. My findings (1) reveal limitations in experimental approaches using “artificial experiencers” like …


Introduction [To Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives From Philosophy, Theology, And Psychology], Nancy E. Snow Jan 2014

Introduction [To Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives From Philosophy, Theology, And Psychology], Nancy E. Snow

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Dichtung Als Übersetzung. Heideggers Reformulierung Von Platons Denken Unter Dem Einfluss Der Romantik, Pol Vandevelde Jan 2014

Dichtung Als Übersetzung. Heideggers Reformulierung Von Platons Denken Unter Dem Einfluss Der Romantik, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Historical Accountability And The Virtue Of Civic Integrity, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2014

Historical Accountability And The Virtue Of Civic Integrity, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Curating [Encyclopedia Entry], Curtis L. Carter Jan 2014

Curating [Encyclopedia Entry], Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.