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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Preference, Rational Choice And Arrow's Theorem, Tal Scriven
Preference, Rational Choice And Arrow's Theorem, Tal Scriven
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Some Heraclitean Problems, Miroslav Marcovich
Some Heraclitean Problems, Miroslav Marcovich
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Beginning from a critique of the idea that a characteristic thought pattern in Heraclitus is the geometrical proportion (proposed by Hermann Fraenkel and others), the author critically discusses the fragments on which that interpretation rests, and goes on to delineate several characteristic means of expression: Paradox, Folklore Motifs, Traditional Wisdom (proverbs), vivid Similes, and metrical forms. The author concludes by discussing the meaning of "logos" in Heraclitus.
Plato's Theory Of Social Justice In Republic Ii-Iv, Edward Nichols Lee
Plato's Theory Of Social Justice In Republic Ii-Iv, Edward Nichols Lee
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Plato presents the enigmatic and ambiguous formula, "each one doing his own" as his definition of social justice. I will search for the sense that he establishes for that definition: to show how he thinks he has established that that unlikely formula is in fact a reasonable definition of social justice, and to analyze what it means. Plato's theory of justice has its primary sources in sophistic thinking, in particular to the contractarian approach to political philosophy.
Episteme And Logos In Plato's Later Thought, Alexander Nehamas
Episteme And Logos In Plato's Later Thought, Alexander Nehamas
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
"What is knowledge?" Plato does try to answer this question, asked at the beginning of the Theaetetus, but the answer is not in the dialogue itself, either negatively (as Cornford argued) or positively (as Fine suggested). His answer is partially given in the Sophist and Statesman: the project of definition has been shown to involve the mastery of the whole field to which the object of definition belongs, and hence a science of the field in question. The dramatic sequels to the Theaetetus are also its doctrinal complements. By making knowledge the object of knowledge, Plato was able to …
The Unambiguity Of Aristotelian Being, Jaakko Hintikka
The Unambiguity Of Aristotelian Being, Jaakko Hintikka
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In this paper, I shall try to enhance our understanding of Aristotle's thought by relating it to certain contemporary problems and insights of philosophical logicians. One of the most central current issues in philosophical logic is a challenge to a hundred-year old dogma. Almost all twentieth-century philosophers in English-speaking countries have followed Frege and Russell and claimed that the words for being in natural languages — "is," "ist," ἔστι etc.— are ambiguous between the is of predication, the is of existence, the is of identity, and the generic is. The significance of this ambiguity thesis has not been limited to …
Review Of "The Nature Of Law" By A. Watson, Hans Oberdiek
Review Of "The Nature Of Law" By A. Watson, Hans Oberdiek
Philosophy Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Peace Be With You, Reta Halteman Finger
Peace Be With You, Reta Halteman Finger
Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship
In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.
Analogues Between The Homeric & Preoperational Conceptions Of Mind, Robert Taylor
Analogues Between The Homeric & Preoperational Conceptions Of Mind, Robert Taylor
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Jean Piaget and Eric Havelock are two writers who have essentially identical conceptions of the nature and development of ideas and the mind. This essential identity is the case even though Piaget is studying the cognitive development of the individual preoperational child, while Havelock is studying the development of the Homeric Greek mind and ideas in relation to the oral processes of communication which existed in Homeric Greece. Both the Homeric and the preoperational conceptions of the mind are examined in regard to the content and form of their ideas, as well as to the mechanisms of their development.
Both …
Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
Industrial design and the visual arts share a common aesthetic basis as demonstrated by their common use of aesthetic principles and by designers who are also visual artists. The author examines the rationale for exhibiting industrial products in art museums and the similarities and differences between industrial design and the fine arts. He argues that industrial design shares important theoretical concepts (expression, representation and style) with the visual fine arts.
Inconsistency And Contradiction, John N. Williams
Inconsistency And Contradiction, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Inconsistency and contradiction are important concepts. Unfortunately, they are easily confused. A proposition or belief which is inconsistent is one which is self- contradictory and vice-versa. Moreover two propositions or beliefs which are contradictories are inconsistent with each other. Nonetheless it is a mistake to suppose that inconsistency is the same as contradiction.
Understanding The General Will, Richard Dagger
Understanding The General Will, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
While I do not accept all of these rationalistic readings of the general will, I do share the general conviction that we can make sense of Rousseau's concept, and his argument, without resorting to metaphysics or psychology. What I shall offer here, accordingly, is in some respects only a variation on a theme now well known to students of Rousseau's political philosophy. It is an important variation nonetheless, for it enables us to reconcile passages in the Social Contract which otherwise appear to be contradictory. That, at least, is what I shall argue in this essay.
Labor, The State, And Aesthetic Theory In The Writings Of Schiller, Philip J. Kain
Labor, The State, And Aesthetic Theory In The Writings Of Schiller, Philip J. Kain
Philosophy
This essay is concerned with Schiller, but it investigates themes that can also be found in other writers, especially in Hegel and Marx. All of these writers attempt (and ultimately fail) to work out a particular ideal model for labor and political institutions. This model was patterned after the ideal cultural conditions of ancient Greece and based upon modern aesthetic concepts, espe cially the concept of a synthesis between sense and reason. It was a model designed to overcome fragmentation or alienation in the modern world that had been brought about by the development of the division of labor.
Peirce's Critique Of Hegel's Phenomenology And Dialectic, Gary Shapiro
Peirce's Critique Of Hegel's Phenomenology And Dialectic, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Although Peirce clearly and repeatedly stated his intention to construct a philosophical system, each of his attempts in that direction is at best fragmentary and some are ultimately incoherent. The ambiguities of Peirce's cosmology, his theory of meaning and his conception of truth cannot be avoided by anyone who carefully considers his own "guess at the riddle." Rather than cataloguing these puzzles, I hope to give at least a partial account of why they remain in the work of a philosopher who was avowedly systematic, possessed great analytic and synthetic powers, and had an acute sense of the physiognomy of …
Speech, Silence, Action!: The Cycle Of Faith, Reta Halteman Finger
Speech, Silence, Action!: The Cycle Of Faith, Reta Halteman Finger
Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship
In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.
Towards A New Mysticism By Ursula King, Philip Novak
Towards A New Mysticism By Ursula King, Philip Novak
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
"Toward a New Mysticism is, in sum, a chronologically-oriented study of the development of Teilhard's new and evolutionist mysticism, with special attention given to surmises about the roles which Teilhard's years in the East and his readings in Asian philosophy and religion played in that development." ~ from the article
Reissue Of Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs, Curtis Carter
Reissue Of Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances In Photographs, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Unconditional In Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays By F. W. J. Schelling, Michael Vater
Review Of The Unconditional In Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays By F. W. J. Schelling, Michael Vater
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Nietzsche's Graffito: A Reading Of The Antichrist, Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche's Graffito: A Reading Of The Antichrist, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Even those writers who have good things to say about Nietzsche usually do not have good things to say abut his penultimate book, The Antichrist. Like Ecce Homo it is often described as at least prefiguring Nietzsche's madness if not (as is sometimes the case) said to be part of that desperate glide itself. Those inclined to reject the book may be encouraged in this view by Nietzsche's statement to Brandes, in November 1888, that The Antichrist is the whole of The Transvaluation of All Values (originally announced as a series of four books) and that Ecce Homo is its …
Who Does The Dirty Work In The Kingdom?, Reta Halteman Finger
Who Does The Dirty Work In The Kingdom?, Reta Halteman Finger
Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship
In the early 1970s, a group of six evangelical women in Chicago began meeting. Their topic of conversation? The emerging secular movement of feminism and what it might mean in a Christian context. These discussions would eventually lead to the Daughters of Sarah, a mid-20th century American journal for the particular audience of Christian feminists. Daughters of Sarah published some of the earliest religious scholarship on the topic.
Ua12/2/1 February Magazine, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 February Magazine, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Special issue of the College Heights Herald featuring these articles:
- Kirtley, Marian. No Solace in Change
- Wheeler, Fred. Guy’s & Dolls – Billiards
- Pinkston, Janet. An Ordered Life – St. Mark’s Priory
- Bloss, Lou. Service Experience – Veterans
The Directly Evident, Richard Legum
Aristotle And Michael Of Ephesus On The Movement And Progression Of Animals Translated, With Introduction And Notes [Translation Of Studien Und Materialen Zur Geschichte Der Philosophie], Anthony Preus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
The translation of Michael of Ephesus, Commentaries on The Movement of Animals and the Progression of Animals, here presented, are the first into a modern language. These are the only surviving Greek commentaries on these treaties.
Foundationalism, Richard Legum
Foundationalism And The Proper Stopping Place For Socratic Questioning, Richard Legum
Foundationalism And The Proper Stopping Place For Socratic Questioning, Richard Legum
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Language And Thought: Some Dangerous Distinctions, Ken Badley
Language And Thought: Some Dangerous Distinctions, Ken Badley
Faculty Publications - College of Education
No abstract provided.
Listing Of The 1981-1982 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus
Listing Of The 1981-1982 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Professional And Ordinary Morality: A Reply To Freedman, Mike W. Martin
Professional And Ordinary Morality: A Reply To Freedman, Mike W. Martin
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
Mike Martin responds to the article "Professional and Ordinary Morality."
Rights And The Meta-Ethics Of Professional Morality, Mike W. Martin
Rights And The Meta-Ethics Of Professional Morality, Mike W. Martin
Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research
This article looks into the Meta-Ethics of medical professionals.
Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck
Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
This chapter identifies the results of Kant's philosophical system on the contemporary discussion concerning an inerrant revelation. Knowledge, for Kant, is possible only as the forms and categories of the mind organize the raw data of the senses. Beyond this phenomenal world, the mind can only postulate what must or ought to be. It cannot know what is. The first postulate of this practical reasoning is freedom. The individual is autonomous, knows the good, and is capable of willing and doing as he ought.
Within such an epistemological framework, revelation becomes unnecessary, useless, and unverifiable. Inerrancy is not only false …
The Ethics Of Benedict De Spinoza, Translated By George Eliot, Benedict De [Baruch] Spinoza, George Eliot , Translator, Thomas Deegan , Editor
The Ethics Of Benedict De Spinoza, Translated By George Eliot, Benedict De [Baruch] Spinoza, George Eliot , Translator, Thomas Deegan , Editor
Electronic Reference Materials
The Ethics of Benedict (or Baruch) Spinoza (1632-1677) was written in Latin 1664-65 and published posthumously the year of his death. Spinoza's statement of moral philosophy, inspired by the rationalism of Descartes and the Enlightenment, was considered heretical at the time. He was excommunicated by Jewish religious authorities and his writings proscribed by the Catholic Church. His works, however, proved a hiden influence on the thought Locke, Hume, Liebnitz, and Kant, and became one of the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition, with profound influence on the works of Hegel, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
George Eliot [Marian Evans] (1819-1880) prepared …