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4. Making Sense Of My World: Teacher Manual For 'The Doll Hospital', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

4. Making Sense Of My World: Teacher Manual For 'The Doll Hospital', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Preschool Curriculum

Through a range of exercises and discussion plans, Making Sense of My World helps teachers encourage children to think more deeply about the world around them, and to explore the philosophical concepts attached to their daily experience. What makes something real? What makes a 'best' friend? Together with the companion novel The Doll Hospital, Making Sene of My World is an ideal starting point for primary school children and philosophy.


The Good Of Agency, Lawrence C. Becker Jan 2000

The Good Of Agency, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Disability, Strategic Action, And Reciprocity, Lawrence C. Becker Jan 2000

Disability, Strategic Action, And Reciprocity, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


History, Religion And Meaning: American Reflections On The Holocuast And Israel, Jules Simon Jan 2000

History, Religion And Meaning: American Reflections On The Holocuast And Israel, Jules Simon

Departmental Papers (Philosophy)

No abstract provided.


The Lioness In The Text: Mary Of Egypt As Immasculated Female Saint, Onnaca Heron Jan 2000

The Lioness In The Text: Mary Of Egypt As Immasculated Female Saint, Onnaca Heron

Quidditas

The oral legend of Saint Mary of Egypt, whose death is assigned the date of about A.D. 430, was first recorded in Greek by Sophronius, bishop of Jerusalem, in the mid-sixth century; roughly two centuries later, Paulus, the deacon of the church of holy Naples, translated Sophronius’s text into Latin. While closely following his Greek source in the Latin translation, Paulus the deacon inserted a “Prologus auctoris,” an introductory allusion to the blinding and healing of Tobit by the archangel Raphael


Meter Change As A Relic Of Performance In The Middle English Romance Sir Beues, Linda Marie Zaerr Jan 2000

Meter Change As A Relic Of Performance In The Middle English Romance Sir Beues, Linda Marie Zaerr

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Despite the paucity of direct evidence of performance, some form of public representation of the Middle English popular verse romances remains a possibility, and that possibility has been reached by extrapolation from a number of directions. The convergence of evidence, though indirect, has become convincing, and a new approach strengthens that likelihood even further. In an attempt to understand if and how the romances were performed, scholars have considered internal references to performance, historical documents of performance and audience, physical evidence from the manuscripts, cognitive theory, theory of orality and “mouvance,” and evidence from textual variants.


Review Of Alchemies Of The Mind: Rationality And The Emotions, William Miller Jan 2000

Review Of Alchemies Of The Mind: Rationality And The Emotions, William Miller

Reviews

Suppose that 16 years ago you had written not one but two superlative books. Would you suffer from anxiety of influence with regard to early versions of yourself, as if, to twist Harold Bloom, your early self now played an insurmountably glorious Milton to your later romantic phases? Did Shakespeare say to himself: ‘No way I can beat Hamlet, so why write again?’ Jon Elster wrote two gems in the 1970s and 1980s, Ulysses and the Sirens and Sour Grapes. Not that they have deterred him from publishing at a stupendous rate since, though he has never recaptured that earlier …


Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics, Mike W. Martin Jan 2000

Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics, Mike W. Martin

Philosophy Faculty Books and Book Chapters

As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school teaching, journalism, engineering, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work.


Perceiving Imperceptible Harms (With Other Thoughts On Transitivity, Cumulative Effects, And Consequentialism), Donald H. Regan Jan 2000

Perceiving Imperceptible Harms (With Other Thoughts On Transitivity, Cumulative Effects, And Consequentialism), Donald H. Regan

Book Chapters

Many writers believe there can be cases which satisfy the following description: starting from an initial state of affairs, it is possible to make a series of changes, none of which alters the value of the state of affairs in any way, but such that the final state of affairs that results from the series of changes is worse than the initial state of affairs. I shall call the claim that there can be such cases the "ex nihilo" claim, since in a sense it asserts that the bad effects of the complete series of changes arise ex nihilo. Proponents …


Reading The Raven Hermeneutics In Hagiography, Nelson Foster Jan 2000

Reading The Raven Hermeneutics In Hagiography, Nelson Foster

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Waiting For Circus Animals' Desertion A True Story Of A Cryptic Spiritual Zoo In The Rag-And-Bone Shop O F My Heart, T. R. Soidla Jan 2000

Waiting For Circus Animals' Desertion A True Story Of A Cryptic Spiritual Zoo In The Rag-And-Bone Shop O F My Heart, T. R. Soidla

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Language And Theory Of Mind: What Are The Developmental Relationships?, Jill De Villiers Jan 2000

Language And Theory Of Mind: What Are The Developmental Relationships?, Jill De Villiers

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

In this chapter I will try to ground the claim, both theoretically and empirically, that false-belief reasoning requires a sophisticated command of syntax. One of the oldest philosophical questions asks whether one can have thinking without language, and if so, what are its limits? In the domain of theory of mind this question achieves new significance. Is this what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom? Is this what language is good for? And not just words, but syntax? The first section of this chapter grapples with the fundamental issue of the contribution language makes, if any, to …


Review Essay: James Sharpe. The Bewitching Of Anne Gunter: A Horrible And True Story Of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, And The King Of England, Frances E. Dolan Jan 2000

Review Essay: James Sharpe. The Bewitching Of Anne Gunter: A Horrible And True Story Of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, And The King Of England, Frances E. Dolan

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James Sharpe. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England. New York: Routledge, 2000. 238 pp. + xvi. $26.00.


Front Matter Jan 2000

Front Matter

Quidditas

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Review Essay: John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives And The Rhetoric Of Gender: Male And Female In Merovingian Hagiography, Isabel Moreira Jan 2000

Review Essay: John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives And The Rhetoric Of Gender: Male And Female In Merovingian Hagiography, Isabel Moreira

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John Kitchen. Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 255 pp. ISBN 0195117220.


Full Issue Jan 2000

Full Issue

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“Falseness Reigns In Every Flock”: Literacy And Eschatological Discourse In The Peasants’ Revolt Of 1381, Tison Pugh Jan 2000

“Falseness Reigns In Every Flock”: Literacy And Eschatological Discourse In The Peasants’ Revolt Of 1381, Tison Pugh

Quidditas

The literature of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a miscellany of fourteenth-century poetry and prose penned before, during, and after the insurrection, often stresses the importance of literacy to the nonaristocratic population of England. Since literacy was a primary marker of one’s social status in the stratified society of medieval England, the rise of literacy in the lower orders pointed to a dramatic change in the prevail- ing socioeconomic structure. In the literature of the revolt, eschatological themes highlight the tensions resulting from this tremendous upheaval in the traditional estates. The power of literacy is depicted as adumbrating a new …


The Repudiation Of The Marvelous: Jonson’S The Alchemist And The Limits Of Satire, Ian Mcadam Jan 2000

The Repudiation Of The Marvelous: Jonson’S The Alchemist And The Limits Of Satire, Ian Mcadam

Quidditas

Our present conception of alchemy is, at best, shadowy and confused. As Charles Nicholl states in The Chemical Theatre, "The modern image...tends in two directions: one scientific, the other magical. The first defines alchemy simply and chronologically as early chemistry...out of which modern chemistry began to emerge during the seventeenth century.” On the other hand, “alchemy is popularly defined as one of the ‘occult arts’.... To us, the alchemist’s avowed quest for miraculous substances—the Philosopher’s Stone which converts all to gold, the Elixir Vitae which confers immortality—belongs to the realm of magic rather than science.” Nevertheless, to consider Renaissance …


Front Matter Jan 2000

Front Matter

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books, J. M. Stafford Jan 2000

Editor's Choice Underapplauded Books, J. M. Stafford

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


"Whirlwind Within A Whirlwind" Congreve, Restoration Comedy, And The Play Of History, Will Mcconnell Jan 2000

"Whirlwind Within A Whirlwind" Congreve, Restoration Comedy, And The Play Of History, Will Mcconnell

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Locke Reading The Law Of Nature Lockeian Hermeneutics And Political Judgment, Andrew Norris Jan 2000

Locke Reading The Law Of Nature Lockeian Hermeneutics And Political Judgment, Andrew Norris

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Skeptical Ataraxia And Selfhood In Pope's Imitations Of Horace, James Noggle Jan 2000

Skeptical Ataraxia And Selfhood In Pope's Imitations Of Horace, James Noggle

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Common Life And Animality In Hume, Peter S. Fosl Jan 2000

Common Life And Animality In Hume, Peter S. Fosl

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Re-Assessing The Classical Tradition Volney's Changing Use Of Artistic Images In Scientific Representations, Michel Huysseune Jan 2000

Re-Assessing The Classical Tradition Volney's Changing Use Of Artistic Images In Scientific Representations, Michel Huysseune

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Scheherazade's Risk Male Voyeurism And The Female Narrative Gambit, Arthur J. Weitzman Jan 2000

Scheherazade's Risk Male Voyeurism And The Female Narrative Gambit, Arthur J. Weitzman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Royal Captives, A Fragment Of Secret History: Ann Yearsley's "Unnecessary Curiosity", Judith Dorn Jan 2000

The Royal Captives, A Fragment Of Secret History: Ann Yearsley's "Unnecessary Curiosity", Judith Dorn

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


The Poetry Professors Eighteenth-Century Spenserianism And Romantic Concepts Of Culture, David H. Radcliffe Jan 2000

The Poetry Professors Eighteenth-Century Spenserianism And Romantic Concepts Of Culture, David H. Radcliffe

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Greek Orthodoxy In The Eighteenth Century A Probe, Father John G. Panagiotou Jan 2000

Greek Orthodoxy In The Eighteenth Century A Probe, Father John G. Panagiotou

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.


Failure As Authority Poetic Voices And The Muse Of Grace In William Cowper's The Task, David Paxman Jan 2000

Failure As Authority Poetic Voices And The Muse Of Grace In William Cowper's The Task, David Paxman

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.