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- Philosophical keys to the social sciences.EileenBarker -1972 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 15 (1-4):463-484.
- I. Apes and angels: Reductionism, selection, and emergence in the study of man.EileenBarker -1976 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 19 (1-4):367-387.
- LSE On Freedom.EileenBarker (ed.) -1995 - LSE Books.The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has never confined itself to economics and political science but has embraced the full range of the social sciences and its related disciplines. Contributors to this book were invited to write on what they considered of importance concerning the subject of freedom. The volume is an exemplary reflection of the variety, the individuality, the different interests, and the range of assumptions found in the scholars of the LSE. The authors come from (...) varied backgrounds - linguistics, mathematics, computer science, sociology, geography, economics, industrial relations, anthropology, political science. They provide a stimulating array of viewpoints on the universally discussed issue of freedom. (shrink)
- (1 other version)No Title available.EileenBarker -1980 -Religious Studies 16 (1):124-125.
- Bryan Ronald Wilson 1926-2004.EileenBarker -2009 - In Barker Eileen,Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 161, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VIII. pp. 381.Bryan Ronald Wilson, a Fellow of the British Academy, was a world-renowned sociologist of religion. He was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Oxford in 1994, the same year that he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Wilson was also awarded an Arnold Gerstenberg studentship, which allowed him to take up a place at the London School of Economics, where Maurice Ginsberg introduced him to the literature of the sociology of religion and where he developed a life-long (...) interest in sectarian movements. He returned to Yorkshire to take up an Assistant Lectureship in Sociology in the Department of Social Studies at the University of Leeds in October 1955, being promoted to Lecturer in 1957. There Wilson taught courses on urban sociology, sociological theory, and the social institutions of modern Britain, as well as on the sociology of religion. He was a Fellow of All Souls College for thirty years. The themes of secularisation, rationalism, and sectarianism were of particular interest to Wilson throughout his academic life. (shrink)No categories
- The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice.EileenBarker -1986 -British Journal of Educational Studies 34 (1):106-107.
- Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 161, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VIII.BarkerEileen -2009No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Social Science as a Complement to the Historical Perspective. The Case of New Religions.EileenBarker -2006 -Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 14 (2):121-132.No categories
- The Unification Church.EileenBarker -2018 -Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 9 (1):91-105.The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, founded in Seoul in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has been more popularly known as the Unification Church or ‘the Moonies.’ Following revelations that he reports having received as a young man, Moon devoted his life to preaching and eventually publically proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, or Lord of the Second Advent, come to fulfil the mission of restoring God’s Kingdom of Heaven on earth. His early struggles (...) in Korea clearly had a considerable influence on the trajectory of his life and the development of the UC into a world-wide movement that reached into a wide variety of areas, such as anti-communist politics, the media, the arts, the sciences and vast businesses. Following Moon’s death, the movement has split into three separate factions, the largest of which is run by his widow, and the other two by, respectively, his oldest living and youngest sons. (shrink)No categories
- New Religious Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society.EileenBarker -1983 -Religious Studies 19 (4):526-528.
- Introduction: Sects and new religious movements.Anthony Dyson &EileenBarker -1988 -Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 70 (3):3-6.No categories
- Does it matter how we got here? Dangers perceived in literalism and evolutionism.EileenBarker -1987 -Zygon 22 (2):213-225.Creationism and evolutionism are taken to typify a fundamental opposition among the diverse beliefs about creation to be found in the United Kingdom and the United States. A comparison between the two types and the two countries suggests that people may be more concerned about the credibility and consequences of belief in an alternative account of our origins than about the actual method by which we were created. Examples of concern include interpretations of the Bible, ethical implications, and the epistemological (...) standings of revelation and/or science that are thought to follow from acceptance of a particular belief concerning how we got here. (shrink)
- On freedom: a centenary anthology.EileenBarker (ed.) -1995 - New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.D. J. Bartholomew Social law and human choice Samuel Johnson spoke for many in saying, 'Sir, we know our will is free, and there's an end on't. ...
- In the beginning: the battle of creationist science against evolutionism.EileenBarker -1979 - In Roy Wallis,On the margins of science: the social construction of rejected knowledge. Keele: University of Keele. pp. 179--200.No categories
- The Cage of Freedom and the Freedom of the Cage.EileenBarker -1995 - InLSE On Freedom. LSE Books. pp. 103.No categories
- Book reviews : Interpreting religious phenomena: Studies with reference to the phenomenology of religion. By olaff Pettersson and Hans åkerberg. Stockholm: Almqvist and wiksell, and atlantic highlands, N.j.: Humanities press inc., 1981. Pp. 201. $25.00 (paper. [REVIEW]EileenBarker -1985 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (1):88-89.
- Kant on Modality.Colin Marshall &AaronBarker -2024 - In Andrew Stephenson & Anil Gomes,[no title]. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.This chapter analyzes several key themes in Kant’s views about modality. We begin with the pre-critical Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God, in which Kant distinguishes between formal and material elements of possibility, claims that all possibility requires an actual ground, and argues for the existence of a single necessary being. We then briefly consider how Kant’s views change in his mature period, especially concerning the role of form and thought in defining modality. (...) Kant’s mature views, however, present two difficult interpretive puzzles. The first puzzle concerns whether Kant has a generally reductive view of modality. While Kant’s views on logical modality, the role of actuality in grounding possibility, and the relation of modality to cognition all suggest reduction, we argue that the categorial status of modal concepts and the difficulty in even identifying amodal grounds for modal facts all suggest a non-reductive view. The second puzzle concerns whether Kant accepts modal facts or properties at the noumenal level. While Kant’s appeal to noumenal necessary connections, the contingency of noumenal willing, and the idea of a necessary noumenal being suggest that he endorses noumenal modality, his claims that modal concepts express only relations to the faculty of cognition and his claim that modal concepts arise from our distinctive psychological structures, we argue, suggest that he rejects noumenal modality. We conclude by considering potential solutions to these puzzles. (shrink)
- Learning to be a writer from early reading.Eileen John -2019 -British Journal of Educational Studies 67 (3):291-306.The role of reading in educating a future writer is discussed through study of memoirs by writers including Janet Frame, James Baldwin, and Eudora Welty. The memoirs show reading books to have been a transformative way of melding forms of experience. The following features of childhood reading are examined: (1) the role of the physical book, (2) the cognitive-aesthetic-affective impact of letters, words and ‘voices’, (3) the partially unplanned and challenging path of children’s exposure to texts, and (4) absorption of (...) models that can be imitated and outgrown. The discussion links sympathetically to views in philosophy of education about the importance of content and beauty and of influences whose impact cannot be planned, measured or captured as generic skills. The autobiographical evidence considered here suggests that these influences can nonetheless be crucial to expanding learners’ horizons and stimulating their educational and artistic progress. (shrink)
- The Legacy of Logical Positivism: Studies in the Philosophy of Science.Peter Achinstein &Stephen FrancisBarker (eds.) -1969 - Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Beat the (Backward) Clock.Fred Adams,John A.Barker &Murray Clarke -2016 -Logos and Episteme 7 (3):353-361.In a recent very interesting and important challenge to tracking theories of knowledge, Williams & Sinhababu claim to have devised a counter-example to tracking theories of knowledge of a sort that escapes the defense of those theories by Adams & Clarke. In this paper we will explain why this is not true. Tracking theories are not undermined by the example of the backward clock, as interesting as the case is.
- Cognitive appraisal and power: David Brewster, Henry Brougham, and the tactics of the emission—Undulatory controversy during the early 1850s.Xiang Chen &PeterBarker -1992 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (1):75-101.Previous studies of the history of optics reveal that the confrontation between the emission theory of light and the undulatory theory of light in Britain occupied a considerable period during the early nineteenth century. After the majority of British physicists accepted the undulatory theory in the mid-1830s a few emissionists in Britain did not immediately surrender. They continued to fight a rear-guard action against the undulatory theory, hoping that someday they could reinstate their theory.’ The longevity of the confrontation between (...) the emission and the undulatory theory is consistent with recent philosophical and sociological accounts of science, which expect scientific controversy to last a considerable time. Lakatos’s philosophical account, for example, holds that a degenerating theory does not disappear immediately and may revive at any time through a burst of ‘heuristic power’. But this account only allows one universal standard-the verification of excess empirical content-as the basis for both the generation and the closure of scientific controversies.’ On the other hand, sociological accounts such as actor-network theory have also done much to dispel the impression that rapid closure is inevitable in scientific controversies. But perhaps they risk a new orthodoxy: that controversy itself is inevitable. (shrink)
- Chronology of Eclipses and Comets, A.D. 1-1000D. Justin Schove Alan Fletcher.Roger Ariew &PeterBarker -1986 -Isis 77 (2):347-348.
- A Course in Baluchi.Herbert Penzl,Muhammad Abd-al-RahmanBarker &Aqil Khan Mengal -1972 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (1):135.No categories
- Grounding and the Myth of Ontological Innocence.JonathanBarker -2021 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (2):303-318.According to the Ontological Innocence Thesis (OIT), grounded entities are ontologically innocent relative to their full grounds. I argue that OIT entails a contradiction, and therefore must be discarded. My argument turns on the notion of “groundmates,” two or more numerically distinct entities that share at least one of their full grounds. I argue that, if OIT is true, then it is both the case that there are groundmates and that there are no groundmates. Therefore, so I conclude, OIT is (...) false. Moreover, once we have seen why OIT is false, only three heterodox views about reality's structure remain. So this paper’s second conclusion is that, even after we have discarded OIT, we are in for an additional surprise. (shrink)
- Eileen F. Tupaz Doors-Photographs.Eileen F. Tupaz -2008 -Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 12 (2).Export citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Global Expressivism.StephenBarker -2020 - In Ricki Bliss & James Miller,The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 270-283.In this chapter I consider the prospects of globalizing expressivism. Expressivism is a position in the philosophy of language that questions the central role of representation in a theory of meaning or linguistic function. An expressivist about a domain D of discourse proposes that utterances of sentences in D should not be seen, at the level of analysis as representing how things are, but as expression of non-representational states. So, in the domain of value-utterances, the standard idea is that speakers (...) are expressing affective-states, such as approval or disapproval focused on objects or conditions. Global expressivism is the thesis that for all domains of discourse, we treat utterances, at the level of analysis, as expressing non-representational states. I set out several conceptions of how one might formulate this programme. The first involves minimalism about truth and semantic content – and only partially gives up representationalism (viz., the thesis that some utterances express representational states). The second is Price’s conception, which incorporates minimalism, Brandomian inferentalism, and concepts from Carnap, but still clings to representationalism. I then arrive at my favoured third conception, which does not employ minimalism or inferentialism, and eliminates vestiges of representationalism. It does the latter by embracing expressivism about meaning-attribution. Having set out key aspects of the approach I then address the question of metaphysics. What metaphysical conception of reality goes with global expressivism so understood? I argue it implies a form of metametaphysical nihilism. This is that idea that reality lacks any ultimate nature. (shrink)
- Against Purity.JonathanBarker -2023 -Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 9.A fundamental fact is “pure” just in case it has no grounded entities—ex. Tokyo, President Biden, the River Nile, {Socrates}, etc.—among its constituents. Purity is the thesis that every fundamental fact is pure. I argue that Purity is false. My argument begins with a familiar conditional: if Purity is true, then there are no fundamental “grounding facts” or facts about what grounds what. This conditional is accepted by virtually all of Purity’s defenders. However, I argue that it is also the (...) first step toward Purity’s undoing. For, if every grounding fact has a ground, then some grounded entities have “groundmates” or distinct grounded entities that share their full grounds. But, if there are groundmates, then Purity is false. So Purity leads to a contradiction. Therefore, it is false. I close by noting that my argument against Purity also gives us a powerful reason to think that some grounding facts are fundamental. (shrink)
- Mind-Body Interaction and Metaphysical Consistency: A Defense of Descartes.Eileen O' Neill -1987 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (2):227.
- Capital and Revolutionary Practice.ColinBarker -2006 -Historical Materialism 14 (2):55-82.
- Suspicion and Recovery.Eileen DeNeeve -1997 -Method 15 (1):29-49.No categories
- Positionality of African Americans and a theoretical accommodation of it: Rethinking science education research.Eileen R. Carlton Parsons -2008 -Science Education 92 (6):1127-1144.Export citation Bookmark
- Non-Canonical Psalms from Qumran: A Pseudepigraphic Collection.Eileen M. Schuller -1986 - BRILL.No categories
- We are Nearly Ready to Begin the Species Problem.Matthew J.Barker -2022 - In John S. Wilkins, Igor Pavlinov & Frank Zachos,Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice. Boca Raton: CRC Press. pp. 3-38.This paper isolates a hard, long-standing species problem: developing a comprehensive and exacting theory about the constitutive conditions of the species category, one that is accurate for most of the living world, and which vindicates the widespread view that the species category is of more theoretical import than categories such as genus, sub-species, paradivision, and stirp. The paper then uncovers flaws in several views that imply we have either already solved that hard species problem or dissolved it altogether – so-called (...) We Are Done views. In doing so the paper offers new criticisms of the general lineage species concept (GLSC), evolutionary species concept (EvSC), biological species concept (BSC), other similar concepts, Ereshefsky’s eliminative pluralism about the species category, and both Mishler’s pessimism and Wilkins’ phenomenalism about that category. Opposed to We Are Done views, the paper argues for a Revving Up view, on which we are nearly ready to begin the hard species problem in earnest. To help work towards these conclusions, the paper begins with an outline of a new kind of view of species (Barker 2019a), which proposes they are feedback systems of a mathematically specifiable and empirically testable sort. (shrink)
- Debunking Arguments and Metaphysical Laws.JonathanBarker -2020 -Philosophical Studies 177 (7):1829-1855.I argue that one’s views about which “metaphysical laws” obtain—including laws about what is identical with what, about what is reducible to what, and about what grounds what—can be used to deflect or neutralize the threat posed by a debunking explanation. I use a well-known debunking argument in the metaphysics of material objects as a case study. Then, after defending the proposed strategy from the charge of question-begging, I close by showing how the proposed strategy can be used by certain (...) moral realists to resist the evolutionary debunking arguments. (shrink)
- Rounding, work intensification and new public management.Eileen Willis,Luisa Toffoli,Julie Henderson,Leah Couzner,Patricia Hamilton,Claire Verrall &Ian Blackman -2016 -Nursing Inquiry 23 (2):158-168.In this study, we argue that contemporary nursing care has been overtaken by new public management strategies aimed at curtailing budgets in the public hospital sector in Australia. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 nurses from one public acute hospital with supporting documentary evidence, we demonstrate what happens to nursing work when management imposesroundingas a risk reduction strategy. In the case study outlined rounding was introduced across all wards in response to missed care, which in turn arose as a result (...) of work intensification produced by efficiency, productivity, effectiveness and accountability demands. Rounding is a commercially sponsored practice consistent with new public management. Our study illustrates the impact that new public management strategies such as rounding have on how nurses work, both in terms of work intensity and in who controls their labour. (shrink)
- Empathy in Literature.Eileen John -2017 - In Heidi Lene Maibom,The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy. Routledge. pp. 306-16.
- Forever Young: potential age-defying effects of long-term meditation on gray matter atrophy.Eileen Luders,Nicolas Cherbuin &Florian Kurth -2014 -Frontiers in Psychology 5.
- Species and Other Evolving Lineages as Feedback Systems.Matthew J.Barker -2019 -Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 11.This paper proposes a new and testable view about the nature of species and other evolving lineages, according to which they are feedback systems. On this view, it is a mistake to think gene flow, niche sharing, and trait frequency similarities between populations are among variables that interact to cause some further downstream variable that distinguishes evolving lineages from each other, some sort of “species cohesion” for example. Instead, gene flow, niche sharing, similarities between populations, and other causal variables feed (...) into each other—instances of these at earlier times help cause instances of these same variables at later times. And any lineage-identifying cohesion just is the recurrence or cycling of these feedback relations within metapopulations over generations. Such cohesion can then be represented as variable M within multi-dimensional variable spaces, where values of M vary dynamically with the frequency and magnitude of feedback relations. Related conditions for being a species or other evolving lineage are then clarified. To argue for the development and testing of this view, the paper shows how it improves upon others. (shrink)
- Well-being, Disability, and Choosing Children.Matthew J.Barker &Robert A. Wilson -2019 -Mind 128 (510):305-328.The view that it is better for life to be created free of disability is pervasive in both common sense and philosophy. We cast doubt on this view by focusing on an influential line of thinking that manifests it. That thinking begins with a widely-discussed principle, Procreative Beneficence, and draws conclusions about parental choice and disability. After reconstructing two versions of this argument, we critique the first by exploring the relationship between different understandings of well-being and disability, and the second (...) by more briefly focusing on the idea of a significant reason. By placing these results against the broader historical and ongoing contexts in which the lives of those with disabilities have been deemed of inferior quality, we conclude with a call for greater humility about disability and well-being in thought and practice. (shrink)
- Learning from Aesthetic Disagreement and Flawed Artworks.Eileen John -2020 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (3):279-288.ABSTRACT Disagreements about art are considered here for their potential to pose questions about reality beyond the artwork. The project of assessing artistic value is useful for bringing complex questions to light. The ambitiousness of the cognitive stock, in Richard Wollheim's term, that can be relevant to understanding an artwork may mean that confident evaluation will elude us. Thinking about artistic value judgment in this way shifts its centrality as the point of artistic interpretation and evaluation; the goal of judging (...) a work's meaning and value is a useful tool for prompting us to understand a work. But if we fail to reach that goal, that does not mean we have failed to engage with the work appropriately. The artistic value judgment, and achieving consensus on that value, can be secondary in importance to grasping the problems a work poses that are not immediately resolvable. Examples drawn from literary and philosophical imagining, in the work of Grace Paley and Mary Mothersill, and from Toni Morrison's literary criticism are used to illustrate and support the fruitfulness of this approach. (shrink)
- Philosophy of Literature, and Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, 2 Book Pack.Eileen John,Dominic McIver Lopes,Noël Carroll &Jinhee Choi (eds.) -2008 - Wiley-Blackwell.Pack includes 2 titles from the popular Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies Series: _ _ Philosophy of Literature_: Contemporary and Classic Readings_ _Edited byEileen John and Dominic McIver Lopes ISBN: 9781405112086 _ Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures_: An Anthology _Edited by No ë l Carroll and Jinhee Choi ISBN: 9781405120272.
- Some reflections on two books by Ellen Wood.ColinBarker -1997 -Historical Materialism 1 (1):22-65.Some time ago, the editors of Monthly Review invited me to submit a short review of two recent books by Ellen Wood: The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, and Democracy Against Capitalism. I found myself, in the course of re-reading these books, filled with admiration for most of what the author said, and indeed, for the manner in which she presented her case. At various points, however, I found myself not fully satisfied. But a short review was not the place to (...) develop my concerns. (shrink)
- Confidentiality in a Preventive Child Welfare System.Eileen Munro -2007 -Ethics and Social Welfare 1 (1):41-55.Emerging child welfare policies promoting preventive and early intervention services present a challenge to professional ethics, raising questions about how to balance respect for service users with concern for social justice. This article explains how the UK policy involves shifting the balance of power away from families towards state and professional decision making. The policy is predicated on sharing information between professionals to inform risk and need assessment and so poses a problem for the ethic of confidentiality in a helping (...) relationship. This article examines the arguments for information sharing and questions whether the predicted benefits for children outweigh the cost of eroding family privacy and changing the nature of professional relationships with service users. (shrink)
- Is Seventeenth Century Physics Indebted to the Stoics?PeterBarker &Bernard R. Goldstein -1984 -Centaurus 27 (2):148-164.No categories
- Reading fiction and conceptual knowledge: Philosophical thought in literary context.Eileen John -1998 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (4):331-348.
- Scholarship and Activism: The Cast of Welfare Justice.Eileen Boris -1998 -Feminist Studies 24 (1):27.
- Mental health and the population.Eileen M. Brooke -1960 -The Eugenics Review 51 (4):209.
- Mounier.Eileen Cantin -1973 - New York,: Paulist Press.
- goethe's Attitude To Science.Barker Fairley -1936 -Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 20 (2):297-311.
- nietzsche And The Poetic Impulse.Barker Fairley -1935 -Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 19 (2):344-361.No categories
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