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- Bengall: The Nationalist Movement, 1876 to 1940.David Washbrook &Leonard A.Gordon -1975 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (2):322.No categories
- The Academy and Cyberspace Ethics.John Michael Kittross &A.DavidGordon -2003 -Journal of Mass Media Ethics 18 (3-4):286-307.This article discusses ethical implications for the academy in the use of cyberspace and virtual reality in conducting its teaching and research responsibilities. It identifies important cyberspace ethics concerns as they intersect with the academy and provides an ethical framework for coming to grips with them. Topics discussed here include the sine qua non of academic collegiality and civility, concerns about digital alteration of images and sounds, and issues pertaining to academic administration and infrastructure.
- Ethics and the Possibility of Failure: Getting it Right about Getting it Wrong.DavidGordon Dick -2009 - Dissertation, University of MichiganEntire moral philosophies have been rejected for ruling out the possibility of failure. This “fallibility constraint” (also sometimes called the “error constraint”) cannot be justified by appealing either to Wittgensteinian considerations about rules or to the moral importance of alternate possibilities. I propose instead that support for such a constraint in ethics can be found in the Strawsonian reactive attitudes. I then use the constraint to reveal hidden weaknesses in contemporary contstitutivist strategies to ground moral normativity such as Christine Korsgaard’s, (...) and also to reveal hidden strengths in historical accounts of morality such as Bishop Butler’s. We will have reason to reject any moral theory that makes constitutivism’s mistake, but only because we have reason not to reject the fallibility constraint itself. The way this ethical fallibility can be justified suggests a general principle that could be used to justify fallibility constraints in other normative domains such as practical reason, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. (shrink)
- A Journey in the World of the Tantras.DavidGordon White &Mark S. G. Dyczkowski -2004 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (4):823.No categories
- Tantra in Practice.DavidGordon White (ed.) -2000 - Princeton University Press.AsDavid White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, ranging from the seventh century to the present day, and representing the full range of Tantric experience--Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and even (...) Islamic. Each text has been chosen and translated, often for the first time, by an international expert in the field who also provides detailed background material. Students of Asian religions and general readers alike will find the book rich and informative. The book includes plays, transcribed interviews, poetry, parodies, inscriptions, instructional texts, scriptures, philosophical conjectures, dreams, and astronomical speculations, each text illustrating one of the diverse traditions and practices of Tantra. Thus, the nineteenth-century Indian Buddhist Garland of Gems, a series of songs, warns against the illusion of appearance by referring to bees, yogurt, and the fire of Malaya Mountain; while fourteenth-century Chinese Buddhist manuscripts detail how to prosper through the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper by burning incense, making offerings to scriptures, and chanting incantations. In a transcribed conversation, a modern Hindu priest in Bengal candidly explains how he serves the black Goddess Kali and feeds temple skulls lentils, wine, or rice; a seventeenth-century Nepalese Hindu praise-poem hammered into the golden doors to the temple of the Goddess Taleju lists a king's faults and begs her forgiveness and grace. An introduction accompanies each text, identifying its period and genre, discussing the history and influence of the work, and identifying points of particular interest or difficulty. The first book to bring together texts from the entire range of Tantric phenomena, Tantra in Practice continues the Princeton Readings in Religions series. The breadth of work included, geographic areas spanned, and expert scholarship highlighting each piece serve to expand our understanding of what it means to practice Tantra. (shrink)No categories
- The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: a biography.DavidGordon White -2014 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. AsDavidGordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic (...) status--and translated into more than forty languages--only in the course of the past forty years. White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth century. First introduced to the West by the British Orientalist Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the Yoga Sutra was revived largely in Europe and America, and predominantly in English. White brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations--and misappropriations--of the Yoga Sutra led to its revered place in popular culture today. Tracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, White's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of India's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced today. (shrink)
- Digging Wells while houses burn? Writing histories of hinduism in a time of identity politics.DavidGordon White -2006 -History and Theory 45 (4):104–131.Over the past fifty years, a number of approaches to the recovery of the multiple pasts of Hinduism have held the field. These include that of the discipline of History of Religions as it is constituted in North America as well as those of the Hindu nationalists, the col and post-colonial historians, and the Subaltern Studies School. None of these approaches have proven satisfactory because, for methodological or ideological reasons, none have adequately addressed human agency or historical change in their (...) accounts of the pasts out of which modern-day Hinduism has emerged. The Hindu nationalist historians hark back to an extended Vedic golden age in which religious practice remained unchanged until the corruptions spawned by the Turkish invasions of the eleventh century. Many Western indologists and historians of religion specializing in Hinduism never leave the unalterable ideal worlds of the scriptures they interpret to investigate the changing real-world contexts out of which those texts emerged. The colonial and postcolonial historians focus on the past two hundred years as the period in which all of the categories through which India continues to interpret itself—including Hinduism—were imposed upon it from without. Adducing examples of Hindu practitioners and thinkers from the colonial period, subaltern theorists and others argue that historical thought is itself alien to the authentic Indian mind. This article suggests a number of interpretive strategies for retrieving the multiple Hinduisms of the past and of the medieval period in particular as that time out of which most modern-day practices of Hinduism emerged. These include an increased emphasis on non-scriptural sources and a focus on regional traditions. (shrink)
- Variations on the Indo-European “Fire and Water” Mytheme in Three Alchemical Accounts.DavidGordon White -2021 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 137 (4):679.Five medieval Sanskrit-language descriptions of a fabulous technique for extracting mercury from the “wells” in which it naturally resides are shown to be remarkably similar to accounts preserved in Chinese and Syriac. Whereas the Sanskrit and Chinese versions date from no earlier than the thirteenth century C.E., the Syriac version dates from no later than the tenth century. The present article first compares and contrasts these three alchemical narratives, and then suggests that all three are perhaps related to a broader (...) and far more ancient Indo-European mythic tradition of a deity associated with the phenomenon of “Fire in Water,” as attested in Vedic, Avestan, Roman, Irish, and Greek sources. All eight of these witnesses appear to attest to ancient religious and scientific traditions relative to geothermal phenomena. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, vol. II: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. By Csaba Kiss. [REVIEW]DavidGordon White -2022 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 138 (3).The Brahmayāmalatantra or Picumata, vol. II: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals of the Tantric Practitioner: Chapters 3, 21, and 45. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. By Csaba Kiss. Collection Indologie, vol. 130, Early Tantra Series, vol. 3. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry/eÉcole Française d’extrême-Orient; Hamburg: Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 2015. Pp. 373. €32, Rs. 750.
- Book reviews and notices. [REVIEW]Sita Anantha Raman,Robert Nichols Richard,Joshua Searle-White,Heather T. Frazer,Timothy Lubin,Robin Rinehart,Joel R. Smith,Andrea Pinkney,DavidGordon White,John Powers,Phyllis Herman,Lawrence A. Babb,Carl Olson,June McDaniel,Knut A. Jacobsen,John E. Cort,Gregory P. Fields &Jeffrey J. Kripal -2000 -International Journal of Hindu Studies 4 (2):185-216.
- JC Lester, Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled.DavidGordon &R. A. Modugno -2003 -Journal of Libertarian Studies 17 (4):101-109.Export citation
Bookmark - Relative effects of acoustic and semantic relatedness on clustering in free recall.David Long &Gordon A. Allen -1973 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 1 (5):316-318.
- Short notices.A. C. F. Beales,R. F. Dearden,W. B. Inglis,R. R. Dale,Gordon R. Cross,John Hayes,S. Leslie Hunter,Robert J. Hoare,M. F. Cleugh,T. Desmond Morrow,Dorothy A. Wakeford,W. H. Burston,P. H. J. H. Gosden,Evelyn E. Cowie,Kartick C. Mukherjee,J. M. Wilson,H. C. Barnard &David Johnston -1968 -British Journal of Educational Studies 16 (1):98-112.
- Short notice.A. C. F. Beales,Robert M. Povey,Gordon R. Cross,Kenneth Garside,Roger R. Straughan,R. S. Peters,W. B. Inglis,Helen Coppen,David Johnston,P. H. Taylor,M. F. Cleugh,Charles Gittins,J. V. Muir &Evelyn E. Cowie -1970 -British Journal of Educational Studies 18 (3):276-355.
- ha-Adam ṿeha-ṭevaʻ: hegyonot ṿe-ḥalomot shel ḳitsoni = Man and nature: meditations and dreams of a radical.AaronDavidGordon -2020 - Yerushalayim: Hotsaʼat sefarim ʻa. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit. Edited by Yuval Jobani, Ron Margolin & Jacob Golomb.
- The science of fake news.David Lazer,Matthew Baum,Yochai Benkler,Adam Berinsky,Kelly Greenhill,Filippo Menczer,Miriam Metzger,Brendan Nyhan,Gordon Pennycook,David Rothschild,Michael Schudson,Steven Sloman,Cass Sunstein,Emily Thorson,Duncan Watts &Jonathan Zittrain -2018 -Science 359 (6380):1094-1096.Addressing fake news requires a multidisciplinary effort The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. However, much remains unknown regarding the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, and society to manipulations by malicious actors. A new system of safeguards is needed. Below, we discuss extant social and computer science research regarding belief in fake news and the mechanisms by which it spreads. Fake news has a long (...) history, but we focus on unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, politically oriented incarnation. Beyond selected references in the text, suggested further reading can be found in the supplementary materials. (shrink)No categories
- Cajal body function in genome organization and transcriptome diversity.Iain A. Sawyer,David Sturgill,Myong-Hee Sung,Gordon L. Hager &Miroslav Dundr -2016 -Bioessays 38 (12):1197-1208.Nuclear bodies contribute to non‐random organization of the human genome and nuclear function. Using a major prototypical nuclear body, the Cajal body, as an example, we suggest that these structures assemble at specific gene loci located across the genome as a result of high transcriptional activity. Subsequently, target genes are physically clustered in close proximity in Cajal body‐containing cells. However, Cajal bodies are observed in only a limited number of human cell types, including neuronal and cancer cells. Ultimately, Cajal body (...) depletion perturbs splicing kinetics by reducing target small nuclear RNA (snRNA) transcription and limiting the levels of spliceosomal snRNPs, including their modification and turnover following each round of RNA splicing. As such, Cajal bodies are capable of shaping the chromatin interaction landscape and the transcriptome by influencing spliceosome kinetics. Future studies should concentrate on characterizing the direct influence of Cajal bodies upon snRNA gene transcriptional dynamics.Also see the video abstract here. (shrink)
- Just a Cog in the Machine? The Individual Responsibility of Researchers in Nanotechnology is a Duty to Collectivize.Shannon L. Spruit,Gordon D. Hoople &David A. Rolfe -2016 -Science and Engineering Ethics 22 (3):871-887.Responsible Research and Innovation provides a framework for judging the ethical qualities of innovation processes, however guidance for researchers on how to implement such practices is limited. Exploring RRI in the context of nanotechnology, this paper examines how the dispersed and interdisciplinary nature of the nanotechnology field somewhat hampers the abilities of individual researchers to control the innovation process. The ad-hoc nature of the field of nanotechnology, with its fluid boundaries and elusive membership, has thus far failed to establish a (...) strong collective agent, such as a professional organization, through which researchers could collectively steer technological development in light of social and environmental needs. In this case, individual researchers cannot innovate responsibly purely by themselves, but there is also no structural framework to ensure that responsible development of nanotechnologies takes place. We argue that, in such a case, individual researchers have a duty to collectivize. In short, researchers in situations where it is challenging for individual agents to achieve the goals of RRI are compelled to develop organizations to facilitate RRI. In this paper we establish and discuss the criteria under which individual researchers have this duty to collectivize. (shrink)
- Two Castrated Bulls: A Study in the Haggadah of KaʿB Al-Aḥbār.David J. Halperin &Gordon D. Newby -1982 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 102 (4):631.No categories
- The Implications of Evolution for Metaphysics: Theism, Idealism, and Naturalism.David H.Gordon -2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.It is a central claim of the New Atheists that evolutionary theory disproves theism and demonstrates the truth of metaphysical naturalism. This book examines this claim and explores the implications of evolutionary theory for metaphysics.
- Kielan Yarrow, Patrick Haggard, and John C. Rothwell. Action, arousal, and subjective time.David A. Gallo,John G. Seamon,L. Andrew Coward,Ron Sun,Jing Zhu,John F. Kihlstrom,Steven M. Platek,Jaime W. Thomson,Gordon G. Gallup Jr &Jeroen G. W. Raaijmakers -2003 -Consciousness and Cognition 12:783.Export citation Bookmark
- Conscious and subconscious arm movements: Application of signal detection theory to motor control.Andrew M.Gordon &David A. Rosenbaum -1984 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 22 (3):214-216.
- Doctoral Dissertations on China: A Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages, 1945-1970.David R. Knechtges,Leonard H. D.Gordon &Frank J. Shulman -1975 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1):128.No categories
- What Is It Like to Be a Bat?DavidGordon -forthcoming -Philosophical Quarterly.No categories
- Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism.David Wallace &ChristopherGordon Timpson -2010 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (4):697-727.What ontology does realism about the quantum state suggest? The main extant view in contemporary philosophy of physics is wave-function realism . We elaborate the sense in which wave-function realism does provide an ontological picture, and defend it from certain objections that have been raised against it. However, there are good reasons to be dissatisfied with wave-function realism, as we go on to elaborate. This motivates the development of an opposing picture: what we call spacetime state realism , a view (...) which takes the states associated to spacetime regions as fundamental. This approach enjoys a number of beneficial features, although, unlike wave-function realism, it involves non-separability at the level of fundamental ontology. We investigate the pros and cons of this non-separability, arguing that it is a quite acceptable feature, even one which proves fruitful in the context of relativistic covariance. A companion paper discusses the prospects for combining a spacetime-based ontology with separability, along lines suggested by Deutsch and Hayden. (shrink)
- Influence of intertrial interval during extinction on spontaneous recovery of conditioned eyelid responses.M.Gordon Howat &David A. Grant -1958 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 56 (1):11.
- Resurrecting Marx: The Analytical Marxists on Freedom, Exploitation, and Justice.DavidGordon -1990 - Transaction.The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these "Analytical Marxists" -- who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer -- is given a sustained examination and critique (...) inDavidGordon's Resurrecting Marx. The charge of the Analytical Marxists that capitalism is inherently exploitative and unjust is the primary subject ofGordon's book.Gordon takes issue with that contention; he argues that the Analytical Marxists' withering criticism of classical Marxism is essentially correct, but that they fail to replace it with a superior theoretical edifice.Gordon also analyzes the Analytical Marxists' reformulation of the Marxian notion of exploitation, the implications of their rejection of the labor theory of value, their differences over what rights people have, and their arguments for the compatibility of markets with socialism. (shrink)
- Being: A Study in Ontology.DavidGordon -2024 -Philosophical Quarterly 74 (2):695-698.Peter van Inwagen has been for decades one of the leading ontologists in the world, and reading Being makes it easy to see a reason why this is so. He insists o.No categories
- Kirkpatrick, Jerry. Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education. Claremont: TLJ Books, 2008. [REVIEW]DavidGordon -2008 -Reason Papers 30:129-133.Export citation Bookmark
- A recurrent 16p12.1 microdeletion supports a two-hit model for severe developmental delay.Santhosh Girirajan,Jill A. Rosenfeld,Gregory M. Cooper,Francesca Antonacci,Priscillia Siswara,Andy Itsara,Laura Vives,Tom Walsh,Shane E. McCarthy,Carl Baker,Heather C. Mefford,Jeffrey M. Kidd,Sharon R. Browning,Brian L. Browning,Diane E. Dickel,Deborah L. Levy,Blake C. Ballif,Kathryn Platky,Darren M. Farber,Gordon C. Gowans,Jessica J. Wetherbee,Alexander Asamoah,David D. Weaver,Paul R. Mark,Jennifer Dickerson,Bhuwan P. Garg,Sara A. Ellingwood,Rosemarie Smith,Valerie C. Banks,Wendy Smith,Marie T. McDonald,Joe J. Hoo,Beatrice N. French,Cindy Hudson,John P. Johnson,Jillian R. Ozmore,John B. Moeschler,Urvashi Surti,Luis F. Escobar,Dima El-Khechen,Jerome L. Gorski,Jennifer Kussmann,Bonnie Salbert,Yves Lacassie,Alisha Biser,Donna M. McDonald-McGinn,Elaine H. Zackai,Matthew A. Deardorff,Tamim H. Shaikh,Eric Haan,Kathryn L. Friend,Marco Fichera,Corrado Romano,Jozef Gécz,Lynn E. DeLisi,Jonathan Sebat,Mary-Claire King,Lisa G. Shaffer & Eic -unknownWe report the identification of a recurrent, 520-kb 16p12.1 microdeletion associated with childhood developmental delay. The microdeletion was detected in 20 of 11,873 cases compared with 2 of 8,540 controls and replicated in a second series of 22 of 9,254 cases compared with 6 of 6,299 controls. Most deletions were inherited, with carrier parents likely to manifest neuropsychiatric phenotypes compared to non-carrier parents. Probands were more likely to carry an additional large copy-number variant when compared to matched controls. The clinical (...) features of individuals with two mutations were distinct from and/or more severe than those of individuals carrying only the co-occurring mutation. Our data support a two-hit model in which the 16p12.1 microdeletion both predisposes to neuropsychiatric phenotypes as a single event and exacerbates neurodevelopmental phenotypes in association with other large deletions or duplications. Analysis of other microdeletions with variable expressivity indicates that this two-hit model might be more generally applicable to neuropsychiatric disease. © 2010 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. (shrink)No categories
- Ontology: A Bridge between Bioethics and Data-Driven Inquiry.DavidGordon Limbaugh,Peter Maloy Koch &Eric C. Merrell -2021 -American Journal of Bioethics 21 (6):51-53.Pavarini et al. argue for the potential benefits of using games and other technologies to collect empirical data to enhance bioethics research. They propose a methodology called “design bioe...No categories
- Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real World.DavidGordon -2024 -Philosophical Quarterly 74 (4):1389-1391.In this brilliantly conceived volume, William Talbott takes aim at the ‘Proof Paradigm’, composed of five erroneous principles, which as he sees it has dominated Western epistemology since the ancient Greeks, and proposes to replace it with a superior alternative, one that involves on his part daring speculation about the metaphysical necessity of the principles of proper reasoning. One may at first glance be inclined to dismiss Talbott's project: Who now adheres to the Proof Paradigm, which, among other things, holds (...) that knowledge is based on infallibly known premises and what is deduced from them? Does the book merely echo ‘battles long ago’? Talbott would reply that although strict adherence to the Proof Paradigm has gone by the boards, the efforts to replace it remain in the grip of some of its principles. Moreover, recognition of the Proof Paradigm's failure has led many people to embrace scepticism and relativism, a fact Talbott deems of deep concern. These challenges to knowledge lead to and exacerbate unfortunate trends in our society, in particular prejudiced thinking, the nature of which he explains with both care and passion in Chapter 7. Talbott discusses a vast number of issues in the book, and in what follows, I shall be able to comment on only a few of these. (shrink)No categories
- Power — the key to press freedom: A four-tiered social model.DavidGordon &John C. Merrill -1988 -Journal of Mass Media Ethics 3 (1):38 – 49.Raw (pragmatic) and potential (theoretical) power is seen as the key to press freedom in various global settings. Because the locus of power determines the locus of freedom, the authors suggest a model to understand where the raw and potential power resides within a matrix consisting of the State, the Media Elite, the Journalists, or the People. Numerous questions concerning accountability and ethics are raised concerning the practical application of a model that purports to overcome cultural biases inherent in traditional (...) theories of press and society. (shrink)
- Artificial Intelligence and the future of work.John-StewartGordon &David J. Gunkel -2025 -AI and Society 40 (3):1897-1903.In this paper, we delve into the significant impact of recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the future landscape of work. We discuss the looming possibility of mass unemployment triggered by AI and the societal repercussions of this transition. Despite the challenges this shift presents, we argue that it also unveils opportunities to mitigate social inequalities, combat global poverty, and empower individuals to follow their passions. Amidst this discussion, we also touch upon the existential question of the purpose of (...) human life in a world where machines predominantly perform work. Additionally, we explore the contentious issue of the moral status and rights of AI entities, contemplating the scenario where machines evolve to become sapient and sentient. The paper concludes with a call to action, emphasizing the necessity to acknowledge these potential outcomes and proactively seek solutions, as part of an inevitable journey through the evolution of human society shared with intelligent machines. (shrink)
- Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience.DavidGordon -2024 -Philosophical Quarterly 74 (3):1047-1049.
- (1 other version)Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance.David B. Suits &DaneGordon (eds.) -2003 - Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press.The philosophy of Epicurus (c. 341-271 B. C. E.), has been a quietly pervasive influence for more than two millennia. At present, when many long revered ideologies are proven empty, Epicureanism is powerfully and refreshingly relevant, offering a straightforward way of dealing with the issues of life and death. The chapters in this book provide a kaleidoscope of contemporary opinions about Epicurus' teachings. They tell us also about the archeological discoveries that promise to augment the scant remains we have of (...) Epicurus's own writing. the breadth of this new work will be welcomed by those who value Epicurean philosophy as a scholarly and personal resource for contemporary life. "Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance," is the title of a 2002 conference on Epicurus held at Rochester Institute of Technology, when many of the ideas here were first presented. (shrink)
- The morality of globalization: is there a duty to transfer wealth?DavidGordon -2011 -Nuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 29 (1/2):359-370.Export citation Bookmark
- Beyond the Wasteland: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline.Samuel Bowles,DavidGordon &Thomas Weisskopf -1984 -Science and Society 48 (2):224-229.
- Limitations to Contingency Measures: Reflections from COVID-19 Surges in the UK.Sarah J. L. Edwards,David A. Lomas,Sarah Yardley &CaitlinGordon -2021 -American Journal of Bioethics 21 (8):31-34.Alfandre et al. helpfully outlines the case for attending to contingency planning as well as to crisis measures during a pandemic. The authors provides a helpful framework for reflecting on...No categories
- A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory.DavidGordon -1989 -International Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1):103-106.
- A utilitarian non-problem.DavidGordon -1983 -Journal of Value Inquiry 17 (4):313-316.
- How rods respond to single photons: Key adaptations of a G‐protein cascade that enable vision at the physical limit of perception.Jürgen Reingruber,David Holcman &Gordon L. Fain -2015 -Bioessays 37 (11):1243-1252.Rod photoreceptors are among the most sensitive light detectors in nature. They achieve their remarkable sensitivity across a wide variety of species through a number of essential adaptations: a specialized cellular geometry, a G‐protein cascade with an unusually stable receptor molecule, a low‐noise transduction mechanism, a nearly perfect effector enzyme, and highly evolved mechanisms of feedback control and receptor deactivation. Practically any change in protein expression, enzyme activity, or feedback control can be shown to impair photon detection, either by decreasing (...) sensitivity or signal‐to‐noise ratio, or by reducing temporal resolution. Comparison of mammals to amphibians suggests that rod outer‐segment morphology and the molecules and mechanism of transduction may have evolved together to optimize light sensitivity in darkness, which culminates in the extraordinary ability of these cells to respond to single photons at the ultimate limit of visual perception. (shrink)
- Six-Percent Unemployment Ain't Natural: Demystifying the Idea of a Rising "Natural Rate of Unemployment".DavidGordon -1987 -Social Research: An International Quarterly 54.
- What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology.DavidGordon -2022 -Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4):1043-1045.Robert M. Adams has written a fairly short book, but into it he has packed a lifetime of rigorous analytic thought, and, what is rarer, deep insight into the nature of things. The book expands and recasts Gifford Lectures that Adams delivered in 1999, as well as other lectures and papers, and though it addresses difficult issues, Adams's clear style, retaining the informality of lectures, considerably eases the task of the reader; and the book is not without an occasional touch (...) of humour, e.g. ‘As metaphysicians we may wish to assign a certain oomph to one side or the other in such lawgoverned relations; but it is not clear that the concept of oomph is at home in fundamental physics’ (p. 12).I cannot cover all the many and various topics in the book, but I shall endeavour in what follows to present a central thread of argument in it, the distinction between what is and what is in itself (the centrality of which is indicated by its presence in the book's title) and to show how this distinction leads to the theistic and idealist metaphysics to which the author is inclined. (shrink)No categories
- From Intuitions to Anarchism?DavidGordon -2020 -Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 26 (1).When libertarian political philosophy attracted wide public notice in the 1970s, a common view was that the distinctive individual rights advocated in libertarian theory required grounding in a theory of ethics. Recently, this view has come under challenge. It has been argued that resort to such grounding in ethical theory is unneeded. An appeal to common sense intuitions suffices to justify libertarianism. First, a brief account of libertarianism will be presented. Then, some examples of the older, pro-grounding position will be (...) discussed. Then, the principal defense of the newer view, Michael Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority, will be examined. This discussion constitutes the substance of the present paper. The principal contention of the present article will be that the argument to libertarianism from intuitions does not succeed. In conclusion, it will be suggested that a return to the earlier, grounding view is indicated for philosophers who wish to defend libertarianism. (shrink)No categories
- Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality.DavidGordon -forthcoming -Philosophical Quarterly.Idealism, Thomas Hofweber tells us, is decidedly not in fashion, but in this arresting book, he defends a version of idealism both unusual and unusually strong.No categories
- The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical Idealism.DavidGordon -2022 -Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3):847-849.Anja Jauernig here addresses with great scholarship and philosophical insight a central issue in the interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason: ‘The project.
- Restorative Utopias: The Settlers and the Bible.Liran ShiaGordon &David Ohana -2020 -Modern Theology 36 (4):719-742.The attitude to the Bible is a seismograph for scrutinizing the attitude of Zionism, in general, and that of the settlers, in particular, to their ideological and political world view. To where in the Bible are the settlers returning? To the Land of Canaan, to the land of the Patriarchs, or perhaps to the Kingdom ofDavid? And what is the meaning of this return? It is not only the land that is basic to this question, but the relationship (...) of the Land of Israel to the people of Israel. In this article, we will mainly address the radical theological facets of the settler movement, not the proponents of Greater Israel. Our article will focus on the replication of settler theology from the first stage of Gush Emunim and the act of settlement, which in the opinion of the settlers is in accord with the continuation and completion of the Zionist project, to a more metaphysical phase, in which the centrality of the act of settlement gives way to Hassidic or kabbalistic thinking. The models which we present, make possible a fresh look at the utopian thinking and radical theology that are nourished by the settler movement and reflect a new, non-homogeneous stage. (shrink)
- Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.DavidGordon -2023 -Philosophical Quarterly 74 (1):381-385.Analytic Philosophy contains thirty-three short articles and reviews, written for a popular audience; after an introductory essay, ‘Analytic Philosophy and Huma.No categories
- Marxism, Dictatorship, and the Abolition of Rights.DavidGordon -1986 -Social Philosophy and Policy 3 (2):145.Is a Marxist society liable to be an oppressive one? To ask this question is immediately to pose two others: what is meant by Marxism; and what counts as an oppressive society? To take these questions in reverse order, by an oppressive society I shall mean one in which, other things being equal, people do not possess basic civil liberties. Examples of basic civil liberties include, but are not limited to, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and, (...) if the society has a political system, the freedom to participate in that system. An example of what I mean by basic civil liberties is the system of basic liberties discussed by Rawls; the United States Bill of Rights is another example. (shrink)
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