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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy of Mind
Reconciling Arguments About The Self-Preserving Soul With Evolutionary Theory, James M. Donovan
Reconciling Arguments About The Self-Preserving Soul With Evolutionary Theory, James M. Donovan
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Advocates of a self-preserving soul must somehow integrate that soul with an organic body which is the product of an evolutionary history. Efforts to resolve this version of the sorites paradox (at what point in the gradual evolution of Homo sapiens was the step taken from the soul-less to the ensouled?) can result in conflict between the two theories. The position is taken here that, given the standard of Popperian verisimilitude, any such conflict signals a weakness in the soul-theory, and not in evolutionism.
Five soul-theories (those by Plato, Aristotle, William of Auvergne, Hume, and Heidegger) are evaluated on three …
Lateral And Vertical Structures Of Politics: Psychological Movement And Principles Of The Natural Sciences. (Work In Progress), Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses Dr. Ji-Young Kim's theory of mind, and the political implications of it.
Bernard Lonergan On A Catholic Liberal Arts Education, Richard Liddy
Bernard Lonergan On A Catholic Liberal Arts Education, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Concepts: Core Readings, By Eric Margolis And Stephen Laurance, Robert Stainton
Concepts: Core Readings, By Eric Margolis And Stephen Laurance, Robert Stainton
Philosophy Publications
No abstract provided.
"This Is Not A Christ": Nietzsche, Foucault, And The Genealogy Of Vision, Gary Shapiro
"This Is Not A Christ": Nietzsche, Foucault, And The Genealogy Of Vision, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
There is nothing surprising about linking the names of Nietzsche and Foucault, something that Foucault himself frequently did. We know that the practices of archaeology and genealogy owe much to On the Genealogy of Morals; and in The Order of Things Foucault celebrates Nietzsche for being able to look beyond the epoch of "man and his doubles,'' thinking of the Obermensch as designating that which is beyond man, and for serving, along with Mallarme, as one of the prophets of the hegemony of language in the emerging episteme of the postmodern world. Here I want to focus on other affinities, …