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Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson Jul 2008

Is The Automobile Essential To Freedom?: Yes!, Rolf A. Jacobson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of "Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties To Protect Environmental And Public Health" By K. Shrader-Frechette, Hugh Lacey Jul 2008

Review Of "Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties To Protect Environmental And Public Health" By K. Shrader-Frechette, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Inter-Generational Youth Ministry And The Solution To Volunteers, Steve R. Vandegriff Jul 2008

Inter-Generational Youth Ministry And The Solution To Volunteers, Steve R. Vandegriff

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell Jul 2008

Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell

Philosophy Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Ciência, Respeito À Natureza E Bem-Estar Humano, Hugh Lacey Jul 2008

Ciência, Respeito À Natureza E Bem-Estar Humano, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

The central question addressed is: How should scientific research be conducted so as to ensure that nature is respected, its regenerative powers not further undermined and wherever possible restored, and the well being of everyone everywhere enhanced? Then, after pointing to the importance of methodological pluralism for an acceptable answer, and the obstacles posed by identifying science with technoscience that are reinforced by what I call 'the commercial-scientific ethos', two additional questions are considered: How might research, conducted in this way, have impact on - and depend on - strengthening democratic values and practices? And, what is thereby implied for …


The Way Of The Dialetheist: Contradictions In Buddhism, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest Jul 2008

The Way Of The Dialetheist: Contradictions In Buddhism, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott Jul 2008

Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Mead And The International Mind, Marilyn Fischer Jul 2008

Mead And The International Mind, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In this paper I analyze the conceptions of internationalism and the international mind that Mead uses in "The Psychological Bases of Internationalism" (1915); in his 1917 Chicago Herald columns defending U.S. entry into the war; in Mind, Self, and Society (1934); and in "National- Mindedness and International Mindedness" (1929). I show how the terms "internationalism" and "the international mind" arose within conversations among some Anglo-American thinkers. While Mead employs these terms in his own philosophical and sociological theorizing, he draws their meaning from these conversations and does not generate their meaning from within his own theorizing. This places Mead among …


Review Of Frontiers Of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership By Martha Nussbaum, Margaret Urban Walker Jul 2008

Review Of Frontiers Of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership By Martha Nussbaum, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Rousseau, The Anticosmopolitan?, Helena Rosenblatt Jul 2008

Rousseau, The Anticosmopolitan?, Helena Rosenblatt

Publications and Research

Rousseau's repeated criticisms of the Enlightenment's ideal of cosmopolitanism has led to his thought being characterized as 'anticosmopolitan'. His work abounds in denunciations of the ideals of equality of treatment and universal rights supported by his contemporaries. Moreover, his liking of solitude, introspection and socialization in small circles and his preference for patriotism over equity among all men seem to set him up as the counterpoint of the universalism his contemporaries defended. However, a deeper insight into the work of the author of The Reveries of the Solitary Walker shows that, far from being incompatible with true cosmopolitanism, the moral …


Heuristics, Biases, And Philosophy, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski Jul 2008

Heuristics, Biases, And Philosophy, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Commenting on Professor Cass Sunstein's work is a daunting task. There is simply so much of it. Professor Sunstein produces scholarship at a rate that is faster than I can consume it. Scarcely an area of law has failed to feel his impact. One cannot today write an article on administrative law, free speech, punitive damages, Internet law, law and economics, separation of powers, or animal rights law without addressing one or more of Sunstein's papers. And his work is typically not a mere footnote. Sunstein has changed how scholars think about each of these areas of law. More broadly, …


Philosophy And Theology: Notes On “The Limits Of Conscientious Refusal In Reproductive Medicine”, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2008

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On “The Limits Of Conscientious Refusal In Reproductive Medicine”, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Review Of Thomas Reid’S Theory Of Perception By Ryan Nichols, Jennifer Mckitrick Jul 2008

Review Of Thomas Reid’S Theory Of Perception By Ryan Nichols, Jennifer Mckitrick

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

In Thomas Reid’s Theory of Perception, Ryan Nichols presents an interpretation and critique of the views of one of the most interesting thinkers of the early modern period, in particular, as the title indicates, those relating to perception. The book covers Reid’s Newtonian method, perception through touch and vision, the intentionality of perceptual states, the role of sensations in perception, perception of primary and secondary qualities, and the unity of perception via a discussion of Molyneux’s question regarding the perceptual abilities of one with recently acquired sight. Nichols’s book is somewhat challenging, more suitable to someone who is familiar …


Las Cuestiones Sicilianas De Ibn Sab‘Īn: El Texto, Sus Fuentes Y Su Contexto Histórico, Anna Ayşe Akasoy Jun 2008

Las Cuestiones Sicilianas De Ibn Sab‘Īn: El Texto, Sus Fuentes Y Su Contexto Histórico, Anna Ayşe Akasoy

Publications and Research

The Sicilian Questions are the earliest pre-served text of the philosopher and Sufi Ibn Sab‘īn of Murcia (c. 614/1217-668/1270). Even though the prologue of the text claims that it is a response to questions sent by Frederick II to the Arab world, it seems more likely that it was an introductory manual for Arab students of philosophy, dealing with four specific and controversial problems as away of presenting general concepts of Aristotelian philosophy. This article analyses the structure and way of argumentation in the Sicilian Questions. Particular attention is being paid to the relationship between mysticism and philosophy and …


Which Party Most Supports Life? The Angst Of A Pro-Life Democrat, Howard P. Kainz Jun 2008

Which Party Most Supports Life? The Angst Of A Pro-Life Democrat, Howard P. Kainz

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Concrete Containment In Late Capitalism, Mysticism, The Marquis De Sade, And Phenomenological Anthropology, Apple Igrek Jun 2008

Concrete Containment In Late Capitalism, Mysticism, The Marquis De Sade, And Phenomenological Anthropology, Apple Igrek

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Arts and Humanities

Georges Bataille is known for being complex and multifaceted: influenced by Christian mystics as well as Hegelians and Marxists, his work is also linked with that of the surrealists and existentialists of his own mid-20th century France as well as the post-structuralists - in particular the Tel Quel collaboraters - who followed in his wake. It would be astonishing, then, if Bataille's thinking were not conflated with precisely those movements and those ideas with which he has so much in common, despite the fact that we should refuse to expect this. Much of Bataille's work was devoted to the ambivalent …


Moral Vices As Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin And Alice, Stephanie Patridge Jun 2008

Moral Vices As Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin And Alice, Stephanie Patridge

Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

Moralists hold that art criticism can and should take stock of moral considerations. Though moralists disagree over the proper scope of ethical art criticism, they are unified in their acceptance of the consistency of valence thesis: when an artwork fares poorly from the moral point of view, and this fact is art critically relevant, then it is thereby worse qua artwork. In this paper, I argue that a commitment to moralism, however strong, is unattractive because it requires that we radically revise our art critical practices in contexts where revision seems ill advised. I will consider two such cases, Pushkin's …


Simone Weil's Spiritual Critique Of Modern Science: An Historical-Critical Assessment, Joseph K. Cosgrove Jun 2008

Simone Weil's Spiritual Critique Of Modern Science: An Historical-Critical Assessment, Joseph K. Cosgrove

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This paper evaluates Simone Weil's philosophy and theology of science from the perspective of an historical phenomenology of science.


Raharimanana : « Le Viol Des Douceurs », Patricia Célérier Jun 2008

Raharimanana : « Le Viol Des Douceurs », Patricia Célérier

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

constant and paradoxical paradigm, violence is at the core of the Malagasy writer, Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s work. What are its representations, its modulations and functions in his shortstories, his novel, Nour, 1947, and his narrative, L’arbre anthropophage ? His poetic elaboration of violence puts his production at the juncture of postmodern and committed literatures and gives it a singular value in the world of postcolonial literature.


What's In A Name? Clues To Understanding Macdonald's Fairy Story Cross Purposes, Marie K. Hammond May 2008

What's In A Name? Clues To Understanding Macdonald's Fairy Story Cross Purposes, Marie K. Hammond

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Dorothy L. Sayers: An Exemplar For Lay Theology, Christine M. Fletcher May 2008

Dorothy L. Sayers: An Exemplar For Lay Theology, Christine M. Fletcher

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Sacred Journeys: C.S. Lewis And Frederick Buechner, Victoria S. Allen May 2008

Sacred Journeys: C.S. Lewis And Frederick Buechner, Victoria S. Allen

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Imbruted Souls In Milton, Macdonald, & Lewis, Larry E. Fink May 2008

Imbruted Souls In Milton, Macdonald, & Lewis, Larry E. Fink

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Tolkien's Theory Of Courage: The Good, The Bad, And The Evil, Emily Bowerman May 2008

Tolkien's Theory Of Courage: The Good, The Bad, And The Evil, Emily Bowerman

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Goblinisation: A Reading Of The Colonial Subject, Degeneration And Marginalisation In The Princess And The Goblin (1872) And The Princess And Curdie (1883) By George Macdonald (1824-1905), Rachel Johnson May 2008

Goblinisation: A Reading Of The Colonial Subject, Degeneration And Marginalisation In The Princess And The Goblin (1872) And The Princess And Curdie (1883) By George Macdonald (1824-1905), Rachel Johnson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


George Macdonald's Lilith As Mystical Document, Charles Beaucham May 2008

George Macdonald's Lilith As Mystical Document, Charles Beaucham

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


The Theme Of Desire In The Writings Of C.S. Lewis: Implications For Spiritual Formation, Connie Hintz May 2008

The Theme Of Desire In The Writings Of C.S. Lewis: Implications For Spiritual Formation, Connie Hintz

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


C.S. Lewis On Friendship, William L. Isley Jr. May 2008

C.S. Lewis On Friendship, William L. Isley Jr.

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Flight Instructor For The Soul: C.S. Lewis's Vision Of Human Freedom Through An Imaginative Obedience, Corey J. Kinna May 2008

Flight Instructor For The Soul: C.S. Lewis's Vision Of Human Freedom Through An Imaginative Obedience, Corey J. Kinna

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.


Collections And Collaboration: The University Of Worcester Research Collections In Partnership With The International Research Centre For Children's Literature, Literacy And Creativity, Rachel Johnson May 2008

Collections And Collaboration: The University Of Worcester Research Collections In Partnership With The International Research Centre For Children's Literature, Literacy And Creativity, Rachel Johnson

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.