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Wisdom And Evil, Nancy E. Snow Jan 2013

Wisdom And Evil, Nancy E. Snow

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Childish Nonsense? The Value Of Interpretation In Plato's Protagoras, Franco Trivigno Jan 2013

Childish Nonsense? The Value Of Interpretation In Plato's Protagoras, Franco Trivigno

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Sodobno Slikarstvo S Tusem In Prihodnost Kitajske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter Jan 2013

Sodobno Slikarstvo S Tusem In Prihodnost Kitajske Umetnosti, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Social Contract: Rebellion And Dissent Aboard Serenity, Susanne Foster, James B. South Jan 2013

Social Contract: Rebellion And Dissent Aboard Serenity, Susanne Foster, James B. South

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Paul C. Taylor, Michael Monahan Jan 2013

Review Of Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Paul C. Taylor, Michael Monahan

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Plato’S Counterfeit Sophists By Håkan Tell, Franco Trivigno Jan 2013

Review Of Plato’S Counterfeit Sophists By Håkan Tell, Franco Trivigno

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Garden As Symbol: Nature/City, Curtis Carter Jan 2013

Garden As Symbol: Nature/City, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

My approach .to environmental aesthetics here begins with reflections on previous encounters with the subject, focusing initially on aesthetics of the city. Then follows a brief look at current theories of environmental aesthetics as they relate to nature aesthetics. The final section will consider garden as a symbolic link of nature/city. Nelson Goodman 's theory of exemplification will serve as an account of garden as a symbol linking nature and city .


Standing Wave, Curtis Carter Jan 2013

Standing Wave, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Sartre's Second Or Dialectical Ethics, Thomas C. Anderson Jan 2013

Sartre's Second Or Dialectical Ethics, Thomas C. Anderson

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Erkenntnis And Interesse: Schelling’S System Of Transcendental Idealism And Fichte’S Vocation Of Man, Michael Vater Jan 2013

Erkenntnis And Interesse: Schelling’S System Of Transcendental Idealism And Fichte’S Vocation Of Man, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Li Song: The Decay Of The Sublime, Curtis L. Carter Jan 2013

Li Song: The Decay Of The Sublime, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


A Question Of Values: Overpopulation And Our Choice Between Procreative Rights And Security-Survival, Megan T. Latta Jan 2013

A Question Of Values: Overpopulation And Our Choice Between Procreative Rights And Security-Survival, Megan T. Latta

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis analyzes the beliefs of population theorist Julian L. Simon through the creation of a harm principle. It specifically analyzes his argument that we value our freedom to choose how many children we want above all other values in the context of overpopulation and environmental destruction. The developed harm principle is meant to give us a method to decide how to balance our personal freedom with our security-survival. I begin with an overview of Simon’s work, as well as an exposition of other prominent population theorists. I then propose a principle that is a utilitarian alternative to John Stuart …


Speaking A Word For Nature: Thoreau's Philosophical Saunter, Gary Shapiro Jan 2013

Speaking A Word For Nature: Thoreau's Philosophical Saunter, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Thoreau's extraordinary essay "Walking" is obviously an encomium on what the author calls "the art of Walking" and an exhortation to readers to understand and practice that art. Yes, but we must realize that he speaks of the art of walking in no "pedestrian" sense (if this expression may be excused). Thoreau not only wants us to think the unthought in ordinary walking but to participate in the essay's performance of an allegory or analogue of the practice that he calls sauntering to the Holy Land; it becomes an itinerary through the fields of language that reveals unsuspected sights and …


Phenomenological Insights Into Oppression: Passive Synthesis And Personal Responsibility, Neal Deroo Jan 2013

Phenomenological Insights Into Oppression: Passive Synthesis And Personal Responsibility, Neal Deroo

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Drawing on phenomenology’s account of “passive synthesis,” this paper seeks to provide a phenomenological vocabulary that could be useful in explaining institutional oppression to those who find it difficult to understand that we can be responsible for acts and meanings that we do not intend. Though the main goal of the paper is to justify the use of the terminology of passive synthesis in the discourse on oppression, the paper ends by suggesting how employing passive synthesis in this manner suggests ways of combating oppression.


Bokrecension, Rory J. Conces Jan 2013

Bokrecension, Rory J. Conces

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Like so many who have survived American post-graduate education in philosophy, I entered the academy having neither formal training in teaching nor writing. (Oh, as I see it, taking a few college courses on composition and literature does not count as a means to avoiding dull prose.) I became a teacher by imitating my professors and through trial and error; I developed as a scholar, and only secondarily as a writer, through countless comments given to me during seminars and office visits, as well as in the margins of my papers. Yes, marginalia, the holy grail of insight!


On Kripke's Puzzle About Time And Thought, Rohit J. Parikh Jan 2013

On Kripke's Puzzle About Time And Thought, Rohit J. Parikh

Publications and Research

We discuss a variant of a puzzle introduced by Saul Kripke.


Metaphysical Dependence And Set Theory, John Wigglesworth Jan 2013

Metaphysical Dependence And Set Theory, John Wigglesworth

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this dissertation, I articulate and defend a counterfactual analysis of metaphysical dependence. It is natural to think that one thing x depends on another thing y if had y not existed, then x wouldn't have existed either. But counterfactual analyses of metaphysical dependence are often rejected in the current literature. They are rejected because straightforward counterfactual analyses fail to accurately capture dependence relations between objects that exist necessarily, like mathematical objects. For example, it is taken as given that sets metaphysically depend on their members, while members do not metaphysically depend on the sets they belong to. The set …


Cornelius Aurelius: The Upcycling Humanist - A Study Of The Libellus De Patientia, Samantha James Jan 2013

Cornelius Aurelius: The Upcycling Humanist - A Study Of The Libellus De Patientia, Samantha James

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Cornelius Aurelius’ Libellus de Patientia (MS Leiden, UB, Vulcanius 66 f.45r-f.57v. [1524]), in terms of the author’s reception of the Manipulus florum, reveals much about the development of Northern Humanism, in the context of late medieval scholasticism and the Reformation. By thoroughly examining Libellus de Patientia, this paper will discuss Aurelius’ use of numerous quotations derived from the Manipulus florum as evidence of how this text should be situated in terms of intellectual continuity vs. change during this turbulent period with regards to the intellectual context of medieval scholasticism and renaissance humanism.


From Up In The Air To The Roots Of Pandora’S Tree Of Souls: Hossein Nasr’S Islamic Traditionalism And The Hope For Western Futures Grounded In The Sacredness Of The Earth, Daniel O'Dea Bradley Jan 2013

From Up In The Air To The Roots Of Pandora’S Tree Of Souls: Hossein Nasr’S Islamic Traditionalism And The Hope For Western Futures Grounded In The Sacredness Of The Earth, Daniel O'Dea Bradley

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Of Termites And Men: On The Ontology Of Collective Individuals, Brian G. Henning Jan 2013

Of Termites And Men: On The Ontology Of Collective Individuals, Brian G. Henning

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Living With Differences: From Everyday Fundamentalisms To Invitational Communication, Lisa M. Watrous Jan 2013

Living With Differences: From Everyday Fundamentalisms To Invitational Communication, Lisa M. Watrous

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

This project examines fundamentalism understood as an everyday way of living poorly with difference. It demonstrates that the fundamentalist is not reducible to stereotypes of the terrorist, extremist, irrational madman, or religious zealot. All of these characterizations--common in mainstream media--depict the fundamentalist as them, and rarely, if ever, as us. Rather, this project understands fundamentalism in terms of fundamental interpretive constructs that constrain our ways of being-with others, skew our interpretive and responsive possibilities, distort our perceptions of difference, and affirm our poor treatment of others. Following Martin Heidegger's conception of the hermeneutic structure of existence, this dissertation calls attention …


Recent Publications Jan 2013

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Public Philosophy Of Technology, Dylan E. Wittkower, Evan Selinger, Lucinda Rush Jan 2013

Public Philosophy Of Technology, Dylan E. Wittkower, Evan Selinger, Lucinda Rush

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Philosophers of technology are not playing the public role which our own theoretical perspectives motivate us to take. A great variety of theories and perspectives within philosophy of technology, including those of Marcuse, Feenberg, Borgmann, Ihde, Michelfelder, Bush, Winner, Latour, and Verbeek, either support or directly call for various sorts of intervention—a call that we have failed to adequately heed. Barriers to such intervention are discussed, and three proposals for reform are advanced: (1) post-publication peer-reviewed reprinting of public philosophy, (2) increased emphasis on true open access publication, and (3) increased efforts to publicize and adapt traditional academic research.


Nunca Más: Truth Commissions, Prevention, And Human Rights Culture, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2013

Nunca Más: Truth Commissions, Prevention, And Human Rights Culture, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Phenomenology Of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury In Military Personnel, Roxana Enid Delgado Jan 2013

Phenomenology Of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury In Military Personnel, Roxana Enid Delgado

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI) in military personnel may have long-lasting physical, emotional and sociocultural effects. The experiences of living with TBI as a military Service Member wounded during combat operations is not well understood. In this article, we intend to describe the lived experiences of sustaining a TBI and the impact of the injury. The method of inquiry that we selected was transcendental phenomenology, applying Edmund Husserl's principles for the data analysis. The participants were all active duty military personnel, between the ages of 18-45 years old, that were wounded during combat. The findings demonstrated that sustaining a TBI …


Laughing Matters, Matthew Moore Jan 2013

Laughing Matters, Matthew Moore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis defends a weak version of the superiority theory of humor: the superiority theory explains some instances of humor better than the incongruity theory. This thesis features an overview of the philosophy of humor in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy; this section contains criticisms of the incongruity theory. Connections between the superiority theory and humor about death are explored. Parallels are then drawn between this type of humor and Aristotle's great-souled man. A new type of laughter, jubilant laughter, is subsequently identified as being similar to laughter classified under the superiority theory since both exhibit a triumphant quality. But …


Panpsychism And Mind-Dust, John Heath Hamilton Jan 2013

Panpsychism And Mind-Dust, John Heath Hamilton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

It is only recently that panpsychism has emerged as a viable position in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. As such, the exploration and defense of it is not yet on par with some competing views. The current project is a step towards a remedy to this unfortunate state of affairs. It concerns one of the most important objections to the view, which I label the 'mind-dust' objection in homage to William James. It is essentially the conceptual difficulty of how proto-experiential being at the micro-level is supposed to 'sum' in a way that forms the consciousness with which we are …


Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Cognitive Demands Of Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

The Cognitive Demands Of Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.