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Difference In Sameness: Indeterminacy In Reflective Identity, Ron Rowe

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Mixed Media May 2, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 2, 1999 issue includes a letter to the editor from the former editor of Mixed Media about the complaints, a response to that letter, articles on the sexual harassment occured between two RISD employees, the sexual harassment problem at RISD and students' opinions on it, gun control in response to the Columbine School shooting, and a lack of facilities in the Illustration department, along with the comics "Ben" by Frenzer and "Die" by Paul, poems, event notices, and other announcements. The issue also includes the paper doll series, …

[Book Review Of] The Healing Power Of Hope, By Mary Drahos, Christopher Kaczor

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Current Literature, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary, but not the sole source of such material. In general abstracts are intended to reflect the substance of the original article. Contributions and comments from readers are invited (E.G. Laforet, MD., 170 Middlesex Rd Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.)

Fred Bartenstein: The Right Place At The Right Time, Kurt Mosser

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Fred Bartenstein has always seemed to find himself perfectly situated to pursue his life-long interest in bluegrass music – as he puts it, “I’ve always seemed to be in the right place at the right time.” This luck has allowed him to find bluegrass in the most surprising places, whether at a private day school in New Jersey, or at Harvard University in the late 1960s. It has also meant that, among other things, he found himself attending the first bluegrass festival in Fincastle, Va., becoming a bluegrass DJ at the age of 16, starting Muleskinner News magazine, and playing …

Tolerating The Intolerable, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Presenting a lecture[1] on the virtue of toleration anywhere, let alone in the chambers of the Australian Senate department, should strike most people as a peculiarly pointless kind of exercise. Would anyone not in favour of toleration bother to turn up? (And what is the point of preaching to the converted? Would anyone against it bother to listen? And could such a person be converted?) In truth, it might not be easy to find anyone who openly professed intolerance. Almost everyone is in favour of tolerance; though of course, each will hasten to add, this does not mean that ‘anything …

Open Texture And The Possibility Of Legal Interpretation, David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

This essay concerns the possibility of interpreting law. It is always possible to interpret law in the weak sense, which assigns meaning it is not assumed the law previously possessed. My concern here is interpretation in the strong sense, which, if successful, reveals meaning that lies hidden in the law. Theories of legal interpretation have recently received much theoretical attention. The received theory of law's open texture suggests that this interest is misplaced.

Is There A Focal Meaning Of Being In Aristotle?, Jiyuan Yu

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

At the beginning of Metaphysics Γ Aristotle claims that there is a science which is concerned with being qua being. 'Being’ is said in many senses. Different beings are not said to be purely homonymous, but rather to be “related to one thing (πρόσ ἕν)”(1003a33- 4). G.E.L Owen translates this ττρός ἕν formula as "focal meaning", and in his paraphrase, it means that all the “senses [of ‘being’] have one focus, one common element”, or “a central sense”, so that “all its senses can be explained in terms of substance and of the sense of ‘being’ that is appropriate to …

Human Solidary : A Reconciliation Between Plato And Rorty, Larina M. Orlando

Honors Theses

In Contingency, irony and solidarity, Richard Rorty outlines his conception of the ideal liberal utopia, wherein moral change results from the substitution of Freedom for Truth as "the goal of thinking and of social progress" (xiii). Rorty maintains that autonomous self-creation and human solidarity are not to be united in a "single vision" (xiv), but rather, "the closest we will come to joining these two quests is to see the aim of a just and free society as letting its citizens be as privatistic, 'irrationalist', and aestheticist as they please so long as they do it on their own …

Mixed Media April 22, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 22, 1999 issue includes articles on NATO's recent actions, the Kosovo War, the planned cancellation of the scriptwriting workshop, and man's evolution, along with the comics "Ben" by Frenzer, 3x4 by Evan Larson, "Die" by Paul, game "Name that Affliction" by Cristina Spiridakis, event notices, and other announcements. The issue also includes a paper doll series featuring RISD President Roger Mandle.

Nation, Culture, Language, Metaphor: Living With And Understanding Each Other. Disclosure Interviews David Ingram, Kelli Mcallister, Christine Metzo, Jeffery Nicholas

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Mixed Media April 15, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The April 15, 1999 issue starts with a letter to the editor about the final "obituary" column of the past issue and editor's response to the letter, and includes articles on the new sponsors of some of the departments, a Soul Coughing concert and other music-related items, the RISD ten year plan, the senior illustration show, along with the comics "You Know You're at RISD When:.." by dianeleeper, "Die" by Paul, "Pigboy and the Pope" by Tito Hoffmann, and "Ben" by Frenzer, illustrations by Brie, event notices, and other announcements.

Philosophy And Fetal Tissue Research, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

From The Ibpp Research Associates. (1) Global Perspectives. (2) Slovenia., United Nations, Janez Kranjski

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The IBPP Research Associates column has two parts, both of which are included in the downloadable document.

The first part of the document forwards text from a World Health Organization document, taken from the United Nations Wire for April 8, 1999. It has been posted here as a contrast to the first Trend entry in this IBPP Issue. Two main issues - (1) Possible orthogonality of psychological from legal and moral standards and (2) the reliability and validity of different approaches within the clinical sciences to delineating psychopathology - are considered.

The second part of the document is an April …

Animal Perception In Early Stoicism: A Response To Richard Sorabji, Scott Rubarth

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The Stoics cannot deny that animals perceive things in relation to each other things (e.g. the scent coming from that direction). The dog must minimally connect the scent a direct if we are to explain the animal following an animal's trail. And it is also true that if the animal is to act on a stimulus it must connect the stimulus with a desire or experience. The dog must connect the scent with its desire or hunger. However, I do not agree that the animal must believe that the scent is coming from a given direction or even believe that …

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 19, No. 1, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Review: Jesus And The Logic Of History, Gary R. Habermas

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

A review of Jesus and the Logic of History by Paul Barnett (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.)

The Sandelian Republic And The Encumbered Self, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

In Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel argues for a revival of the republican tradition in order to counteract the pernicious effects of contemporary liberalism. As in his earlier work, Sandel charges that liberals who embrace the ideals of political neutrality and the unencumbered self are engaged in a selfsubverting enterprise, for no society that lives by these ideals can sustain itself. Sandel is right to endorse the republican emphasis on forming citizens and cultivating civic virtues. By opposing liberalism as vigorously as he does, however, he engages in a self-subverting enterprise of his own. That is, Sandel is in danger …

An Empirical Investigation Into Significant Factors Of Moral Reasoning And Their Influences On Ethical Judgment And Intentions, Janet K. Mullen Marta

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

This dissertation is a partial test of the Hunt-Vitell (1986, 1993) general theory of marketing ethics, which, along with previous tests of the model and other empirical and theoretical work, serves as the basis for this research. The dissertation model is the most comprehensive test of Hunt-Vitell to date, in the sense that it tests variables at almost every stage of the ethical decision making process described in the Hunt-Vitell theory.

The sample was obtained through a mail survey of American Marketing Association (AMA) practitioner members. Empirical testing was carried out through correlation and regression analysis. Of the seventeen hypotheses, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 40 No. 3, Robert Wexelblatt, Manfred Weidhorn, James A. Papa Jr., Steve Wilson, Arthur Sherr, Ron Klier, Michele Bowman, Rick Cannon, Craig Challender, Philip Dacey, Nickie J. Gunstrom, William Kloefkorn, Kip Knott, Deborah Landau, Martin Ott, David L. Roberts, Randolph Thomas, Steven Trulock, Bob Vance, Ken Waldman, Sara Willingham, Charles Cagle, Keith L. Mccoy, Harry L. Humphries, Ronald Charles Epstein, Paul W. Zagorski, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

ROBERT WEXELBLATT explores the art of teaching by considering both the ideal and its impact and appreciation by its recipients and those who would exercise authority over teachers. He reaches the uneasy conclusion that true teaching is a precarious balance, less a golden mean in delivery but in outcome, the sum of extremes. Award-winning author of essays and books of fiction, Wexelblatt is a Professor of Humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. His numerous essays in this journal testify that he is, above all else, a teacher.

MANFRED WEIDHORN traces the concept of motive--Can we know those affecting …

Naive Realism In Philosophy Of Literature, Tom Leddy

Faculty Publications

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Geist, Vol. I, Spring 1999, San Jose State University

Geist

GEIST is an academic journal sponsored by The Symposium, SJSU Philosophy Club, in cooperation with the Department of Philosophy at SJSU. The journal is focused on publishing philosophical papers by undergraduate and graduate students from both SJSU and the greater academic community.

Mixed Media March 31, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 31, 1999 issue includes articles on a physical conflict between a FAV student and RISD public safety, survivor stories of a recent Amtrak accident, review albums by Braid and Quasi, interesting facts about the RISD academic calendar, along with the comics "Die." by Paul, "Whites to Blacks: How're We Doin'?" by Ruben Bolling, Illustrations by Brie, "Ben" by Frenzer, "Pigboy and the Pope" by Tito Hoffman a small interview section about the senior painting debacle, announcement of the Queer Arts Fest, event notices, and other announcements.

Language Trap, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

Slavery And The Sudan: Can Good Works Be Good?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article focuses on the consequences of attempts to free slaves and abolish slavery in the Sudan.

Mixed Media March 11, 1999, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 11, 1999 issue includes articles on the change of editorial team "The Mixed Media Revolution", lack of a performance department at RISD, world news, the band They Might Be Giants, along with the comics "Die." by Paul and "Ben" by Frenzer, announcement of a meeting about censorship after a censored image in Senior Painting opening, event notices, and other announcements.

Our Ongoing Education, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

To My Students, Alvin White

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Moral Significance Of Indetectable Effects, Sven Ove Hansson

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

A reassessment of Parfit's fifth "mistake in moral mathematics."

Memorials 1999, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.