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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
The Completeness Of The Pragmatic Solution To Moore’ Paradox: A Reply To Chan, John N. Williams
The Completeness Of The Pragmatic Solution To Moore’ Paradox: A Reply To Chan, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
Wrongful Life And Procreative Decisions, Bonnie Steinbock
Wrongful Life And Procreative Decisions, Bonnie Steinbock
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
This paper defends and refines the claim that procreation can be wrongful. Procreation is wrongful first when the "nonexistence condition" is met: the person's life will be filled with suffering that cannot be ameliorated or empty of all the things that make life worth living. Recognizing that this condition is rarely met, the paper then argues that it is wrong to create a person in less extreme circumstances: when the person is likely not to have a minimaly decent life, one in which certain important interests cannot be satisfied. Although we must be very cautious about concluding that any particular …
The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett
The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Annotated Bibliography On O.K. Bouwsma Collection, Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
Annotated Bibliography On O.K. Bouwsma Collection, Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
O.K. Bouwsma Collection
Dr. Ronald Hustwit is the author of O.K. Bouwsma: A Philosophers Journey, Something About O.K. Bouwsma, An Annotated Bibliography of Bouwsma’s works, and an Index of The Bouwsma Collection at The Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas. He has edited five works of O.K. Bouwsma’s papers: Toward a New Sensibility, Without Proof or Evidence, Wittgenstein Conversations, Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy and Bouwsma’s Commonplace Book.
Reasons And Real Selves, Manuel R. Vargas
Aesthetic Sensibility And Political Praxis: Foucault, Lyotard And The Darfur Crisis, Anne Bartlett, Gerard Kuperus, Marjolein Oele
Aesthetic Sensibility And Political Praxis: Foucault, Lyotard And The Darfur Crisis, Anne Bartlett, Gerard Kuperus, Marjolein Oele
Philosophy
This paper develops insights from Foucault and Lyotard to examine the Darfur crisis and the transformative potential of spaces of alterity. We show that Foucault’s quest for an aesthetics of existence is an attempt to found an alternative form of ethics based on wakefulness, sensibility, and suspicion on the part of the subject. In the final part of the paper we link this idea to Lyotard’s sensibility of the sublime. We show how aesthetic sensibility can be transformed in a political sensibility which bears witness to political injustices that result from the incommensurability of different genres of discourse. We illustrate …
Playing [With] Multiple Roles: Readers, Authors, And Characters In "Who Is Blaise Zabini?", Anne Collins Smith
Playing [With] Multiple Roles: Readers, Authors, And Characters In "Who Is Blaise Zabini?", Anne Collins Smith
Faculty Publications
Fans who produce fan works in genres such as fiction, music, and music video take on dual roles in the process, as readers of the original canon and as creators of their own products. These roles -and more- are creatively explored in the Parselmouths' wizard rock composition "Who Is Blaise Zabini?". Like many works of fan fiction, the Parselmouths' songs move beyond a reader's ordinary role, taking on an authorial role to generate new characters and events in the Harry Potter universe. What makes this particular work unusual is that at the same time that they are adopting the roles …
Introduction, Andrew Kania
Introduction, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
To say that Memento (2000) is thought-provoking would be, at best, an understatement. One of the main reasons for this neo-noir's popular success is that audiences were hooked by the very puzzles that make the film a challenging one. These puzzles occur at various levels. There is the initial question of what exactly the structure of the film is and, once this is solved, the much more difficult task of extracting the story—what actually happens in the film, and the chronological order of the fictional events—from the fragmented plot. At the same time, however, the film quite explicitly raises philosophical …
Against The Intrinsic Value Of Pleasure, Matthew Pianalto
Against The Intrinsic Value Of Pleasure, Matthew Pianalto
Philosophy and Religion Faculty and Staff Research
Hedonism claims that only pleasure has intrinsic value. Many philosophers contest hedonism by arguing that other things, in addition to pleasure, have intrinsic value. In this paper, I suggest that one could contest the more basic thesis that pleasure has intrinsic value. DOI 10.1007/s10790-009-9145-0
Foucault, Secularization Theory, And The Theological Origins Of Totalitarianism, Michael Lackey
Foucault, Secularization Theory, And The Theological Origins Of Totalitarianism, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Paul Redding, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying So Much About Meaning And Love Hegel’S Metaphysics And Kant’S Epistemic Modesty, James Kreines
Paul Redding, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying So Much About Meaning And Love Hegel’S Metaphysics And Kant’S Epistemic Modesty, James Kreines
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
In this interest of time, I’ll just say something directly: this is an incredible book. Reading it, thinking it through, is extremely rewarding. I haven’t read a work of philosophy that had as much impact on me since being in school myself. The book presents you with new ideas and connections and it forces you to see philosophy and its history in new ways, even if you (like me) had been quite attached to your old ways. The book got into my head. Now I find myself, in idle moments, arguing with Paul up there in my head; as if …
Citizenship And Participation In Government In Ancient Greek Political Thought, Anthony Preus
Citizenship And Participation In Government In Ancient Greek Political Thought, Anthony Preus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
Sections cover a historical account of citizenship, comments on Plato's account of citizenship, the political motivation of Aristotle's definition of citizenship, and the historical consequences of Aristotle's definition of citizenship.
Free Trade And The Environment, Nicole Hassoun
Free Trade And The Environment, Nicole Hassoun
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
What should environmentalists say about free trade? Many environmentalists object to free trade by appealing the “Race to the Bottom Argument.” This argument is inconclusive, but there are reasons to worry about unrestricted free trade’s environmental effects nonetheless; the rules of trade embodied in institutions such as the World Trade Organization may be unjustifiable. Programs to compensate for trade-related environmental damage, appropriate trade barriers, and consumer movements may be necessary and desirable. At least environmentalists should consider these alternatives to unrestricted free trade if they do not prevent the achievement of other important moral objectives, can efficiently reduce environmental problems, …
Incorporating Ethics Into Rcr Classrooms, Sara Vollmer, Nancy J. Matchett
Incorporating Ethics Into Rcr Classrooms, Sara Vollmer, Nancy J. Matchett
Philosophy Faculty Publications
From the article: Philosophy departments have been expanding their offerings in applied ethics and ethical decision making for a number of years, yet relatively little attention has been paid to incorporating ethical thinking in the context of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) instruction.
Rawls, Self-Respect, And The Opportunity For Meaningful Work, Jeffrey Moriarty
Rawls, Self-Respect, And The Opportunity For Meaningful Work, Jeffrey Moriarty
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In his late work The Law of Peoples, John Rawls identifies the opportunity for meaningful work as a social basis of self-respect. This constitutes a significant shift in his account of self-respect, one that has been so far overlooked. In this paper I examine this shift. I begin by clarifying Rawls’s account of self-respect in A Theory of Justice (hereafter, Theory), then consider some post-Theory developments in it. After exploring the nature of Rawls’s commitment to the opportunity for meaningful work, I ask why he thinks it is a social basis of self-respect. I extract a partial …
How Much Compensation Can Ceos Permissibly Accept?, Jeffrey Moriarty
How Much Compensation Can Ceos Permissibly Accept?, Jeffrey Moriarty
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Debates about the ethics of executive compensation are dominated by familiar themes. Many writers consider whether the amount of pay CEOs receive is too large – relative to firm performance, foreign CEO pay, or employee pay. Many others consider whether the process by which CEOs are paid is compromised by weak or self-serving boards of directors. This paper examines the issue from a new perspective. I focus on the duties executives themselves have with respect to their own compensation. I argue that CEOs’ fiduciary duties place a moral limit on how much compensation they can accept, and hence seek in …
Deserving Jobs, Deserving Wages, Jeffrey Moriarty
Deserving Jobs, Deserving Wages, Jeffrey Moriarty
Philosophy Faculty Publications
This chapter applies recent work on desert to two sets of issues in business ethics. The first set of issues concerns who ought to be hired, fired, promoted, and demoted. Call these issues of “job justice.” The second set of issues concerns how much workers, including managers, ought to be paid. Call these issues of “wage justice.” I focus on job and wage justice because considerations of desert play an important, though sometimes tacit, role in discussions of these issues.
The Mythic Journey Of A Changeling, Lawrence Kimmel
The Mythic Journey Of A Changeling, Lawrence Kimmel
Philosophy Faculty Research
There are many such tales in the archaic moorings of our collective memory, but one in particular that seems inclusive if indeterminate: Once upon a time there was a creature that came out of the darkness with a only a faint memory of water, and sand, and cold, and fear to discover that its very life depended on telling a story about its origins—of which it had no clear memory, and its destiny—of which it had no certain knowledge. What more fabulous to conceive than this creature which, having lost its tail, dreams of growing wings? It is a being …
Musical Recordings, Andrew Kania
Musical Recordings, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
Over the course of the twentieth century, there was a major shift in the way that audiences experienced music. The advent of broadcasting and recording technology brought a sea-change in the standard situation in which music was heard. Where, before, music was rarely heard in the absence of musicians producing it live, now one could listen in one’s living room to a performance that was actually going on thousands of miles away, or, stranger still, one that was already finished, and one could listen to the latter kind over and over again. Musicians and theorists had quite a bit to …
Memento, Andrew Kania
Memento, Andrew Kania
Philosophy Faculty Research
The sleeper hit Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a brilliantly structured contemporary film noir, focused through the main character, Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who has a debilitating memory condition. Hit on the head during a home invasion – "the incident" – Leonard can remember his life as an insurance-claims investigator before the incident, but he cannot form new long-term memories. Thus, every fifteen minutes or so, he becomes a partial tabula rasa afresh. The audience comes to understand this condition through Leonard's recounting the story of Sammy Jankis (Stephen Tobolowsky) in order to explain his own condition to …
Sacrifice In A Post-Moral Society, Eric Bain-Selbo
Sacrifice In A Post-Moral Society, Eric Bain-Selbo
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Imagination, Religious Practice, And World Transformations: Sophia, Heidegger, And Jacob Bohme's The Way To Christ, Mark Allen Peckler
Imagination, Religious Practice, And World Transformations: Sophia, Heidegger, And Jacob Bohme's The Way To Christ, Mark Allen Peckler
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is offered as a work of original scholarship in the field of Religion and Psychological Studies (RPS). Through its hermeneutic preservation of Jacob Böhme's The Way to Christ in "conversation" with selected works of Martin Heidegger, I retrieve the question of imagination's relation to religious practice, attending to potentials for world transformations disclosed through this relationship, in order to develop a new hermeneutic option for the RPS field concerning this important question. This new hermeneutic option is developed in such a way as to ensure a subversive compatibility with psychoanalytic hermeneutics—our field's koiné—while opening to certain radical …
Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, The Eu And The Potential To Realize Nietzsche's Idea Of Europe, Michael J. Mcneal
Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, The Eu And The Potential To Realize Nietzsche's Idea Of Europe, Michael J. Mcneal
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation takes up Friedrich Nietzsche’s notion of ‘good Europeanism’ and his related idea of Europe to show how the former disposition may be cultivated to achieve the latter—a reinvigorated culture on the continent. It does so by applying his vitalist politics and power ontology (will to power hypothesis and theory of decadence) to critique European integration in the broader context of globalization. The analysis enables me to theorize how “healthy” individuals might exploit opportunities in the present to become 'good Europeans', with the aim of realizing Nietzsche’s quasi-cosmopolitan idea of Europe. It is my primary contention that Nietzsche’s diagnosis …
Method And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy
Method And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Review- Starting Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight By Richard M. Liddy, Andrew Beards
Review- Starting Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight By Richard M. Liddy, Andrew Beards
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Richard Liddy
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Robots In War: Issues Of Risk And Ethics, Patrick Lin, George A. Bekey, Keith Abney
Robots In War: Issues Of Risk And Ethics, Patrick Lin, George A. Bekey, Keith Abney
Philosophy
War robots clearly hold tremendous advantages-from saving the lives of our own soldiers, to safely defusing roadside bombs, to operating in inaccessible and dangerous environments such as mountainside caves and underwater. Without emotions and other liabilities on the battlefield, they could conduct warfare more ethically and effectively than human soldiers who are susceptible to overreactions, anger, vengeance, fatigue, low morale, and so on. But the use of robots, especially autonomous ones, raises a a host of ethical and risk issues. This paper offers a a survey of such emerging issues in this new but rapidly advancing area of technology.
Analysis Of The Problem Of Prediction In Physics From A Computational And Foundational Approach, Juan Ferret
Analysis Of The Problem Of Prediction In Physics From A Computational And Foundational Approach, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
In this paper, we analyze the problem of prediction in physics from a computational and foundational viewpoint. Besides showing that assumptions like Laplace determinism, statistical determinism, etc., can be naturally explained by this computational analysis, we use the concepts of Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic randomness from Algorithmic Information Theory, as well as the novel more physics-oriented variants of these notions, to show that the dynamical evolution of a system can be practically predicted with the dynamical laws, the initial, and final conditions of the system.
Anticipatory Systems In Physics, Juan Ferret
Anticipatory Systems In Physics, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role of anticipation of systems in physics. Previous work on the subject (DuBois, 2000) selected certain types of systems as anticipatory, but the argument here establishes that all dynamical systems in physics are necessarily anticipatory.
The Power Of Flowers: The Philosophy Of Organism Of The Maya, Juan Ferret
The Power Of Flowers: The Philosophy Of Organism Of The Maya, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
No abstract provided.