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(2.2) Some Thoughts On Transcendence And The “Vetula”, Therese Scarpelli Cory Jul 2012

(2.2) Some Thoughts On Transcendence And The “Vetula”, Therese Scarpelli Cory

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.3) Spirituality In The Peripatetic Philosophical Traditions Of Islam, Nader El-Bizri Jul 2012

(2.3) Spirituality In The Peripatetic Philosophical Traditions Of Islam, Nader El-Bizri

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.4) Some Thoughts On Identity Of Islamic Philosophy, Bo Mou Jul 2012

(2.4) Some Thoughts On Identity Of Islamic Philosophy, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Vol 3 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 3 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

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Vol 3 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2012

Vol 3 No 2 Content Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(1.1) In The Same Way That This One Is: Some Comments On Dotson, Graham Priest Jul 2012

(1.1) In The Same Way That This One Is: Some Comments On Dotson, Graham Priest

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.1) Precis Of Reason Unbound, Mohammad Azadpur Jul 2012

(2.1) Precis Of Reason Unbound, Mohammad Azadpur

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


(2.5) Thought-Spaces, Spiritual Practices And The Transformations Of Ta'wil, Sarah Pessin Jul 2012

(2.5) Thought-Spaces, Spiritual Practices And The Transformations Of Ta'wil, Sarah Pessin

Comparative Philosophy

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(2.6) Replies To Cory, El-Bizri, Mou And Pessin, Mohammad Azadpur Jul 2012

(2.6) Replies To Cory, El-Bizri, Mou And Pessin, Mohammad Azadpur

Comparative Philosophy

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Parsimony And Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis Of The Copenhagen And Bohmian Interpretations, Jhenna Voorhis Apr 2012

Parsimony And Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis Of The Copenhagen And Bohmian Interpretations, Jhenna Voorhis

Scripps Senior Theses

Parsimony, sometime referred to as simplicity, is an effective criterion of theory choice in the case of Quantum Mechanics. The Copenhagen and Bohmian interpretations are rival theories, with the Bohmian interpretation being more parsimonious. More parsimonious theories have a higher probability of being true than less parsimonious rivals. The Bohmian interpretation should thus be preferred on these grounds.


Capitalism And The Science Of History: Appleby, Marx, And Postmodernism, Patrick D. Anderson Apr 2012

Capitalism And The Science Of History: Appleby, Marx, And Postmodernism, Patrick D. Anderson

Grand Valley Journal of History

Joyce Appleby has written an extensive amount on the origins and development of capitalism, but her work is influenced by her belief that history is a science with at least some objectivity. She rejects Marxism as a relic of past historians with naïve beliefs about finding the laws of nature, but she also rejects postmodern criticisms of history because they undermine any chance for objectivity. Appleby believes the historian can be objective even if politics necessarily colors his or her work. For Appleby, her support of capitalism leads her to make policy recommendations with her historiography, recommendations that change with …


Review: James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, And John C. Maraldo (Eds), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Hawai'i, 2011), James Mark Shields Apr 2012

Review: James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, And John C. Maraldo (Eds), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Hawai'i, 2011), James Mark Shields

Other Faculty Research and Publications

Book Review: James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (eds), Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Hawai'i, 2011)


Special Obligations: The Structural Risks Of Friendship, Anna B. Myavec Apr 2012

Special Obligations: The Structural Risks Of Friendship, Anna B. Myavec

Student Publications

Friendship is often conceived of as a freely chosen intrinsic good, yet friendship gives rise to special obligations that can act against ethical regard for others. Philosophers who recognize the significance of special obligations, such as Diane Jeske in Rationality and Moral Theory: How Intimacy Creates Reason, argue that special obligations are an undeniable feature of friendship and give rise to conflicts between friends and others to whom one has responsibilities. I argue that friendship can pose insoluble problems of special obligation, not just because obligations to friends can conflict with other obligations we have, but because friendship can challenge …


Reconciling Justice And Pleasure In Epicurean Contractarianism, John Thrasher Mar 2012

Reconciling Justice And Pleasure In Epicurean Contractarianism, John Thrasher

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

Epicurean contractarianism is an attempt to reconcile individualistic hedonism with a robust account of justice. The pursuit of pleasure and the requirements of justice, however, have seemed to be incompatible to many commentators, both ancient and modern. It is not clear how it is possible to reconcile hedonism with the demands of justice. Furthermore, it is not clear why, even if Epicurean contractarianism is possible, why it would be necessary for Epicureans to endorse a social contract. I argue here that Epicurean contractarianism is both possible and necessary once we understand Epicurean practical rationality in a new way. We are …


Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott Jan 2012

Aesthetics And Art Of Friendship, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Contributions to Books

In the spirit of exploring fresh perspectives, I offer this investigation into the aesthetic aspects of personal relationships with a focus on friendship.1 Glossing the aesthetic aspects of friendship, as we too often do, impoverishes our understanding of the value and meaning of friendships, relationships which give shape and content to our lives, which animate our lives or, as Nancy Sherman (1993) puts it, relationships which structure the good life. The friendships we forge and those we forgo, the loves we cultivate and those we lose, these varying and variable relations broaden (or impoverish) our experiences, intensify (or diminish) our …


Up In Smoke: The Place Of The Modern American Cigarette, Hannah B. Grose Jan 2012

Up In Smoke: The Place Of The Modern American Cigarette, Hannah B. Grose

Student Publications

Since its discovery, the use of tobacco products has acted as a form of meditation, social engagement, and reprieve. In the era following the late 1950’s, designated “smoking areas,” whether sequestered informally by social constraints or formally by the law, have led to a culture of very “implaced” cigarette smoking. These have become places of escape, places of exile, and places of compromise. This paper explores what it means to belong, and not to belong, to these places, and the role of designated smoking areas in the formation of our culture.


The Influence Of Intersecting Identities On Acceptance, Disclosure, And Internalized Homonegativity, Megan C. Lytle Jan 2012

The Influence Of Intersecting Identities On Acceptance, Disclosure, And Internalized Homonegativity, Megan C. Lytle

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Preservation, Passivity, And Pessimism, Sheila Lintott Oct 2011

Preservation, Passivity, And Pessimism, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

Many committed and passionate environmental thinkers currently champion restoration as an appropriate and positive model for human-nature interaction and interdependence. Recent philosophical defenses of restoration sidestep the issues that have been raised about the possibility of restoring degraded nature to a state that is identical, ontologically or evaluatively, to some pre-degraded state. Informed by feminist theory, I expose and explore some problematic assumptions and associations found in common defenses of restoration and defend the thesis that preservation is the more promising avenue to character remediation and the forging of a harmonious human-nature culture. I allow that many restoration projects will …


Symbolic Violence As Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Jonathan Beever Sep 2011

Symbolic Violence As Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Jonathan Beever

Re-visioning Terrorism

Jean Baudrillard’s semiotic analysis of violence leads us to understand the form of violence as three-fold: aggressive, historical, and semiotically virulent. Violence of the third form is the violence endemic to terrorism. If violence has been typically understood as of the first two types, terrorism should be understood as the virulence of simulacra. The conflation of these types of violence explains the failure of militaristic responses to terrorism. This paper will explore Baudrillard’s conception of symbolic violence as the virulence of signs and help us come to terms with the semiotic foundation of terrorism.


Smashing The Mirror Of Yamato: Sakaguchi Ango, Decadence & A Postmetaphysical Buddhist Critique Of Culture, James Mark Shields Sep 2011

Smashing The Mirror Of Yamato: Sakaguchi Ango, Decadence & A Postmetaphysical Buddhist Critique Of Culture, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

This article focuses on several key philosophical themes in the criticism of Sakaguchi Ango (1906–1955), one of postwar Japan’s most influential and controversial writers. Associated with the underground Kasutori culture as well as the Burai-ha of Tamura Taijirō (1911–1983), Oda Sakunosuke (1913–1947) and Dazai Osamu (1909–1948), Ango gained fame for two provocative essays on the theme of daraku or “decadence”—Darakuron and Zoku darakuron—pubished in 1946, in the wake of Japan’s traumatic defeat and the beginnings of the Allied Occupation. Less well-known is the fact that Ango spent his student years studying classical Buddhist texts in Sanskrit, Pali and …


Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2011

Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Cover Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Daoism As Critical Theory, Mario Wenning Jul 2011

Daoism As Critical Theory, Mario Wenning

Comparative Philosophy

Classical philosophical Daoism as it is expressed in the Dao-De-Jing and the Zhuang-Zi is often interpreted as lacking a capacity for critique and resistance. Since these capacities are taken to be central components of Enlightenment reason and action, it would follow that Daoism is incompatible with Enlightenment. This interpretation is being refuted by way of developing a constructive dialogue between the enlightenment traditions of critical theory and recent philosophy of action from a Daoist perspective. Daoism's normative naturalism does neither rest on a primitivist call for a return to the past, nor does it suggest future-directed activism. By way of …


Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2011

Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Constructive Engagement Of Analytic And Continental Approaches In Philosophy: From The Vantage Point Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou Jul 2011

Constructive Engagement Of Analytic And Continental Approaches In Philosophy: From The Vantage Point Of Comparative Philosophy, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

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Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Editor's Words, Bo Mou Jul 2011

Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

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Analytic And Continental Philosophy, Science, And Global Philosophy, Richard Tieszen Jul 2011

Analytic And Continental Philosophy, Science, And Global Philosophy, Richard Tieszen

Comparative Philosophy

Although there is no consensus on what distinguishes analytic from Continental philosophy, I focus in this paper on one source of disagreement that seems to run fairly deep in dividing these traditions in recent times, namely, disagreement about the relation of natural science to philosophy. I consider some of the exchanges about science that have taken place between analytic and Continental philosophers, especially in connection with the philosophy of mind. In discussing the relation of natural science to philosophy I employ an analysis of the origins of natural science that has been developed by a number of Continental philosophers. Awareness …


The Future Of Humanity: Heidegger, Personhood And Technology, Mahon James O'Brien Jul 2011

The Future Of Humanity: Heidegger, Personhood And Technology, Mahon James O'Brien

Comparative Philosophy

This paper argues that a number of entrenched posthumanist positions are seriously flawed as a result of their dependence on a technical interpretive approach that creates more problems than it solves. During the course of our discussion we consider in particular the question of personhood. After all, until we can determine what it means to be a person we cannot really discuss what it means to improve a person. What kinds of enhancements would even constitute improvements? This in turn leads to an examination of the technical model of analysis and the recurring tendency to approach notions like personhood using …


Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Whole Set, Comparative Philosophy Jul 2011

Comparative Philosophy Vol 2 No 2 Whole Set, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


The Status Of Students With Special Needs In The Instrumental Musical Ensemble And The Effect Of Selected Educator And Institutional Variables On Rates Of Inclusion, Edward C. Hoffman Iii Jul 2011

The Status Of Students With Special Needs In The Instrumental Musical Ensemble And The Effect Of Selected Educator And Institutional Variables On Rates Of Inclusion, Edward C. Hoffman Iii

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

The purpose of this study was to describe the current status of students with special needs in the instrumental musical ensemble and to examine the effect of selected educator and institutional variables on rates of inclusion. An online survey was designed by the researcher and distributed electronically to 600 practicing K-12 instrumental music educators in the states of Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. While 13.6% of the total school-aged population nationwide received special education services, demographic data provided by respondents revealed that students with special needs accounted for 6.8% of all students participating in bands, orchestras, …