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Review Essay: Anglo-Saxonism And The Construction Of Social Identity, Peter Richardson

Quidditas

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. Ed. John D. Niles and Allen J. Frantzen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.

Einstein's Theory Of Theories And Types Of Theoretical Explanation, Francisco Flores

Philosophy

In this paper I draw on Einstein's distinction between “principle” and “constructive” theories to isolate two levels of physical theory that can be found in both classical and (special) relativistic physics. I then argue that when we focus on theoretical explanations in physics, i.e. explanations of physical laws, the two leading views on explanation, Salmon's “bottom-up” view and Kitcher's “top-down” view, accurately describe theoretical explanations for a given level of theory. I arrive at this conclusion through an analysis of explanations of mass—energy equivalence in special relativity.

Ethics As If Truth Mattered, Thomas A. Cavanaugh

Philosophy

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Robust Belief States And The Right/Wrong Dichotomy, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Remarks On The Syntax And Semantics Of Mixed Quotation, Robert Stainton

Philosophy Publications

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Trudy Govier’S Dilemmas Of Trust, Carolyn Mcleod, S. Burns

Philosophy Publications

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Re-Visioning Renaissance Women: On The Perils And Pleasures Of Re-Viewing The Past, Sara Jayne Steen, Susan Frye

Quidditas

Two years ago, editor Sharon Beehler and the editorial board of the jour- nal Quidditas (formerly the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association) requested that we—Sara Jayne Steen and Susan Frye—edit a gathering of essays on women in the Renaissance as one way to mark the journal’s new name and critical directions. The gathering printed here, even more than we had hoped, announces this journal’s position as interdisciplinary, historically grounded, and willing to ask of history, literature, and the arts both familiar, recurring questions and those newer questions occasioned by a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Inventing The Wicked Women Of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, And Anne Stanhope, Retha M. Warnicke

Quidditas

In Tudor histories, perhaps more than in other histories, writers have failed to distinguish, as Judith Shapiro has pointed out with reference to anthropological literature, "consistently between the sex bias emanating from the observer and the sex bias characteristic of the community under study.” The sex and gender bias of early modern society was, of course, pervasive and ubiquitous. Prescriptive works instructed women to confine their activities to domestic and family matters. Even as litigators in the courts of law, they were disadvantaged. Generally defining women as the inferior sex, their male contemporaries judged women’s worth by their chastity, silence, …

Playing The Waiting Game: The Life And Letters Of Elizabeth Wolley, Elizabeth Mccutcheon

Quidditas

Almost fifty years ago Wallace Notestein, an English historian, commented that while both the men and the women of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England remain "strangers" and “shadowy figures” to us, the women are “much more shadowy.” Pointing out that “Our knowledge of women comes largely from the incidental mention of them by men who seldom took pains to characterize and individualize them,” he insisted that “It is as individuals that we must know them, if we are to understand them as members of a sex.” Obviously a great deal has changed for the better. We know much more about the …

Learning To Be Looked At: The Portrait Of [The Artist As A] Young Woman In Agnès Merlet’S Artemisia, Sheila Ffolliott

Quidditas

Agnès Merlet's 1997 film Artemisia opens with a full-screen, tight close-up of an eye, under a sepia veiling effect that prevents its appearing overly clinical. The image provides an effective introduction to issues this film about a seventeenth-century woman-artist explores. We might expect a film about a visual artist to concern that person’s eye. We also expect film, itself a visual medium, to fascinate the eye of the spectator. But rather than simply confirm such expectations, this filmic eye unsettles. First, because of the extremity of the close-up, we see only part of the eye. Then, although it stares directly …

“There Is Nothing More Divine Than These, Except Man”: Thomas Moffett And Insect Sociality, Monique Bourque

Quidditas

When Thoomas Moffett wrote in the Theater of Insects that "there is nothing more divine than these, except Man," he asked his readers some pointed questions about insects, and made some blunt statements:

where is Nature more to be seen than in the smallest matters, where she is entirely all? for in great bodies the workmanship is easie, the matter being ductile; but in these that are so small and despicable, and almost nothing, what care? how great is the effect of it? how unspeakable is the perfection? ... Do you require Prudence? regard the Ant; Do you desire Justice? …

“Sad Stories Of The Death Of Kings”: Lyric And Narrative Release From Confining Spaces In Shakespeare’S Richard Ii, Jennifer C. Vaught

Quidditas

The relation of Shakespeare's plays to other literary forms like lyric and narrative is a topic that continues to invite speculation. A number of his plays contain songs and sonnets, reported stories and winter’s tales. In this essay I examine lyrics and narratives in Richard II and their dialogic relation to the surrounding text. In a play about a self-enclosed King these utterances tend to occur in enclosures: Richard delivers lyrics while immured at Flint Castle and the dungeon at Pomfret, whereas his Queen laments in an enclosed garden and promises to tell the King’s story during her exile in …

The Changing Understanding Of The Making Of Europe From Christopher Dawson To Robert Bartlett, Glenn W. Olsen

Quidditas

Two books with the same title, The Making of Europe, published sixty-one years apart, may help us assess profound shifts that have taken place in the understanding of Europe over the last two-thirds of the twentieth century. Both books were or are by master, if quite dissimilar, historians. Though the books share the same title, profound differences, perhaps the program of each author, is revealed in their subtitles. For Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), arguably the most eminent Catholic historian of the twentieth century, The Making of Europe was An Introduction to the History of European Unity (London, 1932). As a …

Review Essay: Jean Renart: The Romance Of The Rose Or Of Guillaume De Dole (Roman De La Rose Ou De Guillaume De Dole), Kathy M. Krause

Quidditas

Jean Renart: The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole (Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole). Ed. and trans. Regina Psaki. Garland Library of Medieval Literature 92A. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. xli + 280 pp.

Review Essay: Jeffrey Powers-Beck. Writing The Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue, Owen Staley

Quidditas

Jeffrey Powers-Beck. Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998. 290 pp. incl. bibliography, 3 appendices, and index. $54.50 cloth. ISBN 0–8207–0283–5.

Review Essay: David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages And Associational Forms In England And Italy, Stanley Benfell

Quidditas

David Wallace. Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xix + 555 pp.

Ethical Issues In Experiential Counselor Training Groups, Lisa Kramer Kukral

Graduate Research Papers

Of the ethical issues addressed in the professional literature regarding group counselor training, those most frequently addressed are confidentiality and dual relationships, and informed consent and involuntary participation. The purpose of this paper is to explore how these ethical guidelines apply to the personal growth/training groups utilized in counseling master's and doctoral programs and the ethical dilemmas that arise because of them. This paper will also explore suggestions that have been made to address these ethical dilemmas.

Irigaray And Deleuze: Experiments In Visceral Philosophy, Tamsin E. Lorraine

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Hölderlin's Ethical Thinking: "The Process Of The Actual" In "Heidelberg", Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Plights Of The Embodied Soul: Dramas Of Sin And Salvation In Augustine And Updike, Richard Thomas Eldridge

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Nietzsche, Heidegger, And The Problem Ofpoiesis, Holger Schmid

Research Resources

Holger Schmid, "Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Problem of Poiesis," New Nietzsche Studies, Volume Three, Numbers 1 & 2 (Winter 1999): 39-52.

Biblical Terrorism: With A Platonic Deconstruction, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Nelson Goodman Remembered, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Husserl On The Artist And The Philosopher: Aesthetic And Phenomenological Attitude, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Husserl, Horaz Und Die “Heilsmächte Der Phänomenologie”, Sebastian Luft, Markus Asper

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Creation And Causality In Chasidic Kabbalism, Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Ethical And Religious In Kierkegaard, Lou Matz

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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Cohen, Hermann (1842 - 1918), Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Harry van der Linden's contribution to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Neo-Kantianism, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Harry van der Linden's contribution to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Windelband, Wilhelm (1848 - 1915), Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Harry van der Linden's contribution to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.