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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Open-Mindedness As A Christian Virtue?, Jason Baehr
Open-Mindedness As A Christian Virtue?, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Two Types Of Wisdom, Jason Baehr
Two Types Of Wisdom, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
The concept of wisdom is largely ignored by contemporary philosophers. But given recent movements in the fields of ethics and epistemology, the time is ripe for a return to this concept. This article lays some groundwork for further philosophical work in ethics and epistemology on wisdom. Its focus is the distinction between practical wisdom and theoretical wisdom or between phronesis and sophia. Several accounts of this distinction are considered and rejected. A more plausible, but also considerably more complex, account is offered. The discussion sheds light on the relation between practical wisdom and theoretical wisdom, and on the positive …
Review Of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, Jason Baehr
Review Of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, Jason Baehr
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No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: After-Birth Abortion, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: After-Birth Abortion, Christopher Kaczor
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The article focuses on the issues related to philosophy and theology. It cites the example of an article based on the topic by philosopher Michael Tooley in the year 1972. As mentioned, article made critics of abortion squirm and also tried to extend the ethics of exclusion to cover not just prenatal but also postnatal human beings.
Review Of Robert P. George And Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense Of Human Life, Christopher Kaczor
Review Of Robert P. George And Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense Of Human Life, Christopher Kaczor
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No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On The Violinist Analogy, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On The Violinist Analogy, Christopher Kaczor
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No abstract provided.
Review Of "The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy And Poetry" By R. Barfield, Richard Thomas Eldridge
Review Of "The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy And Poetry" By R. Barfield, Richard Thomas Eldridge
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No abstract provided.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Double Effect Reasoning, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Double Effect Reasoning, Christopher Kaczor
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The article discusses the conditions to which an action with two effects or double-effect, one good and the other evil, can be considered ethically permissible. It cites hypothetical cases describing the conditions which include that the action itself, its object is not intrinsically evil; the evil effect is not a means to the good effect; the evil effect is not intended as an end and there is a morally serious reason justifying allowing the evil effect.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Conscience Protections For Health Care Workers, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Conscience Protections For Health Care Workers, Christopher Kaczor
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The article reviews reports on the philosophy and theology of bio ethics, including "Is Conscientious Objection Incompatible with a Physician's Professional Obligations?" and "Negative and Positive Claims of Conscience," both by Mark R. Wicclair, published in the January 2009 issue of "Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics." Wicclair discusses the incompatibility thesis. The article also observes that the contemporary debate on conscience protection has intensified.
A Puzzle About Responsibility A Problem And Its Contextualist Solution, Peter Baumann
A Puzzle About Responsibility A Problem And Its Contextualist Solution, Peter Baumann
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This paper presents a puzzle about moral responsibility. The problem is based upon the indeterminacy of relevant reference classes as applied to action. After discussing and rejecting a very tempting response I propose moral contextualism instead, that is, the idea that the truth value of judgments of the form "S is morally responsible for x" depends on and varies with the context of the attributor who makes that judgment. Even if this reply should not do all the expected work it is a first step.
Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism, Peter Baumann
Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism, Peter Baumann
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Classical empiricism leads to notorious problems having to do with the (at least prima facie) lack of an acceptable empiricist justification of empiricism itself. Bas van Fraassen claims that his idea of the "empirical stance" can deal with such problems. I argue, however, that this view entails a very problematic form of voluntarism which comes with the threat of latent irrationality and normative inadequacy. However, there is also a certain element of truth in such a voluntarism. The main difficulty consists in finding an acceptable form of voluntarism.
Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, And Goethe's "Wandrers Nachtlied Ii", Richard Thomas Eldridge
Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, And Goethe's "Wandrers Nachtlied Ii", Richard Thomas Eldridge
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No abstract provided.
A Imparcialidade Da Ciência E As Responsabilidades Dos Cientistas, Hugh Lacey
A Imparcialidade Da Ciência E As Responsabilidades Dos Cientistas, Hugh Lacey
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This article, making use of a distinction between endorsing and accepting a claim, discusses the responsibilities that scientists incur in the light of the necessity to act, formulate policy, and to design regulations pertinent to technoscientific innovations, when decisions will inevitably be based, in important part, on claims that are only endorsed (and so implicated in compromises with ethical/social values), and not accepted in accordance with impartiality. Then, after introducing the notion of "impartial investigation", I conclude that the central responsibility of scientists is to engage in impartial investigation, and that this requires, not the exclusion of ethical and social …
Epistemic Closure, Peter Baumann
Stanley Cavell And Literary Studies: Consequences Of Skepticism, Richard Thomas Eldridge, B. Rhie
Stanley Cavell And Literary Studies: Consequences Of Skepticism, Richard Thomas Eldridge, B. Rhie
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No abstract provided.
The Structure Of Open-Mindedness, Jason Baehr
The Structure Of Open-Mindedness, Jason Baehr
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No abstract provided.
The Down Low And The Sexuality Of Race, Brad E. Stone
The Down Low And The Sexuality Of Race, Brad E. Stone
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There has been much interest in the phenomenon called "the Down Low," in which "otherwise heterosexual" African American men have sex with other black men. This essay explores the biopolitics at play in the media’s curiosity about the Down Low. The Down Low serves as a critical, transgressive heterotopia that reveals the codetermination of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in black male sexuality.
Credit Theories And The Value Of Knowledge, Jason Baehr
Credit Theories And The Value Of Knowledge, Jason Baehr
Philosophy Faculty Works
One alleged advantage of credit theories of knowledge is that they are capable of explaining why knowledge is essentially more valuable than mere true belief. I argue that credit theories in fact provide grounds for denying this claim and therefore are incapable of overcoming the 'value problem' in epistemology. Much of the discussion revolves around the question of whether true belief is always epistemically valuable. I also consider to what extent, if any, my main argument should worry credit theorists.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Fetal Interventions, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Fetal Interventions, Christopher Kaczor
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In the article, the author discusses the issues involving the ethics of fetal surgery. He cites the works of scholars Frank A. Chervenak and Laurence B. McCullough on the ethical questions on fetal surgery. The positions of such pro-abortion individuals as Peter Singer, Michael Tooley and David Boonin on the issue of fetal homicide are also cited.
Prophetic Pragmatism And The Practices Of Freedom: On Cornel West's Foucauldian Methodology, Brad E. Stone
Prophetic Pragmatism And The Practices Of Freedom: On Cornel West's Foucauldian Methodology, Brad E. Stone
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This essay explores the Foucauldian influence on Cornel West’s prophetic pragmatism. Although West argues that Foucauldian methods are insufficient to deliver a philosophy of liberation, I argue that there is nothing in Foucault that would prohibit West from such a goal, even though a philosophy of liberation was not one of Foucault’s goals. Fortunately, one can understand West’s own project of liberation in terms of "practices of freedom," allowing one to describe West’s philosophical project in strict Foucauldian terms.
Esse Tantum And The One, Eric Perl
The Resilience Of Computationalism, Gualtiero Piccinini
The Resilience Of Computationalism, Gualtiero Piccinini
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Computationalism—the view that cognition is computation—has always been controversial. It faces two types of objection. According to insufficiency objections, computation is insufficient for some cognitive phenomenon X. According to objections from neural realization, cognitive processes are realized by neural processes, but neural processes have feature Y, and having Y is incompatible with being (or realizing) computations. In this article, I explain why computationalism has survived these objections. To adjudicate the dispute between computationalism and its foes, I will conclude that we need a better account of computation.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Access To Fertility Treatments, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Access To Fertility Treatments, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics related to philosophy and theology including the risks of In Vitro Fertilization, the importance of marriage in raising children, and the impact of homosexual parenting in children.
Begrenzte Erkenntnisse?, Peter Baumann
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Diachronic Personal Identity, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Diachronic Personal Identity, Christopher Kaczor
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The author discusses different theories related to philosophy and theology. He cites the four rival theories of diachronic personal identity mentioned by researcher Bertha Alvarez Manninen, which explores the genetic, animalism, and psychological account. The author also mentions the argument of philosophy professor of Michael Tooley regarding the role of the brain and personal identity. Furthermore, he mentions several studies that suggest ways on how to cure personality disorder.
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Human Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Human Dignity, Christopher Kaczor
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Plateau, Tamsin E. Lorraine
Lines Of Flight, Tamsin E. Lorraine
Phenomenology, Tamsin E. Lorraine
Simulation-Based Definitions Of Emergence, Alan Richard Baker
Simulation-Based Definitions Of Emergence, Alan Richard Baker
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One approach to characterizing the elusive notion of emergence is to define that a property is emergent if and only if its presence can be derived but only by simulation. In this paper I investigate the pros and cons of this approach, focusing in particular on whether an appropriately distinct boundary can be drawn between simulation-based and non-simulation-based methods. I also examine the implications of this definition for the epistemological role of emergent properties in prediction and in explanation.