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- Arguing from the Evidence.Brian A.Thomasson -2011 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (4):495-534.In Kitzmiller v. Dover (2005), the only U.S. federal case on teaching Intelligent Design in public schools, the plaintiffs used the same argument as in the creation-science trials of the 1980s: Intelligent Design is religion, not science, because it invokes the supernatural; thus teaching it violates the Constitution. Although the plaintiffs won, this strategy is unwise because it is based on problematic definitions of religion and science, leads to multiple truths in society, and is unlikely to succeed before the present (...) right-leaning Supreme Court. I suggest discarding past approaches in favor of arguing solely from the evidence for evolution. (shrink)
- Corporate loyalty, does it have a future?Brian A. Grosman -1989 -Journal of Business Ethics 8 (7):565 - 568.A promotion of concepts of corporate family and employee participation as well as euphemisms which stress employee-employer long-term continuity makes the loss of loyalty flowing from downsizings and mass firings as well as corporate restructurings more difficult both for the employer and employee. The promotion of reciprocal obligations between employer and employee misleads both into a belief system which is to their mutual disadvantage.Corporate semanatics that soften employment realities and the implications of dislocation with positive rhetoric increases the sense of (...) failure and guilt on the part of both employer and employee. Unrealistic expectations create hostility. If employment dislocation is seen as part of a continual economic evolution, not shrouded in semantic double-speak, loss of employment no longer becomes an outrageous afront to the dignity of those involved but rather a normal process of economic change and renewal. (shrink)
- How Many Kinds of Glue Hold the Social World Together.Brian Epstein -2014 - In Mattia Gallotti & John Michael,Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition. Dordrecht: Springer.In recent years, theorists have debated how we introduce new social objects and kinds into the world. Searle, for instance, proposes that they are introduced by collective acceptance of a constitutive rule; Millikan and Elder that they are the products of reproduction processes;Thomasson that they result from creator intentions and subsequent intentional reproduction; and so on. In this chapter, I argue against the idea that there is a single generic method or set of requirements for doing so. Instead, (...) there is a variety of what I call “anchoring schemas,” or methods by which new social kinds are generated. Not only are social kinds a diverse lot, but the metaphysical explanation for their being the kinds they are is diverse as well. I explain the idea of anchoring and present examples of social kinds that are similar to one another but that are anchored in different ways. I also respond to Millikan’s argument that there is only one kind of “glue” that is “sticky enough” for holding together kinds. I argue that no anchoring schema will work in all environments. It is a contingent matter which schemas are successful for anchoring new social kinds, and an anchoring schema need only be “sticky enough” for practical purposes in a given environment. (shrink)
- Mechanisms of value-learning in the guidance of spatial attention.Brian A. Anderson &Haena Kim -2018 -Cognition 178 (C):26-36.
- Counterintuitive effects of negative social feedback on attention.Brian A. Anderson -2017 -Cognition and Emotion 31 (3).
- Oculomotor feedback rapidly reduces overt attentional capture.Brian A. Anderson &Lana Mrkonja -2021 -Cognition 217 (C):104917.
- Moderators of the relationship between implicit and explicit evaluation.Brian A. Nosek -2005 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 134 (4).
- Are Accounting Standards Memes? The Survival of Accounting Evolution in an Age of Regulation.Brian A. Rutherford -2020 -Philosophy of Management 19 (4):499-523.This paper employs memetics to argue against the view that standardisation overwhelms the evolution of accounting. I suggest that, in an unregulated setting, accounting procedures constitute classic memes and survive according to their fitness for their environment, which is predominantly a matter of their suitability for investment decision-making. In a standardising regime, the standardising canon embodies a special kind of meme encoding ideas as actions to be imitated to realise those ideas. Evolutionary pressures and the canon develop in tandem, although (...) not necessarily synchronously.If we accept the central tenet of memetics, which is also the assumption underlying the argument challenged here, that memes emerging before regulation were responsive to evolutionary pressures, we can analyse the responsiveness of the standardising canon by examining its relationship to a counterfactual continuation of the pre-regulated regime. The degree of synchronicity is an empirical, but elusive, question and we should follow Dennett’s recommendation that we settle for the philosophical realisations we can glean from memetics.I argue that three factors are of importance in addressing the question. Accounting memes function within a dense ecology, limiting radical and destabilising change. There has been a high degree of continuity, permeability and commonality in the intellection driving development: the same thinking has influenced policy design wherever it has taken place. Finally, the principal determinant of successful adaptation did not change on the transition to standardisation and the canon and its vehicles have survived. Consequently, we can conclude that standardisation has not disrupted the development of accounting. (shrink)
- “The Scientific Method” as Myth and Ideal.Brian A. Woodcock -2014 -Science & Education 23 (10):2069-2093.
- Reward predictions bias attentional selection.Brian A. Anderson,Patryk A. Laurent &Steven Yantis -2013 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
- Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition: The Philosophy of Being as First Known.Brian A. Kemple -2017 - Boston: Brill | Rodopi.Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition presents a reading of Thomas Aquinas' claim that "being" is the first object of the human intellect. Blending the insights of both the early Thomistic tradition (c.1380--1637AD) and the Leonine Thomistic revival (1879--present),Brian Kemple examines how this claim of Aquinas has been traditionally understood, and what is lacking in that understanding. While the recent tradition has emphasized the primacy of the real (so-called ens reale) in human recognition of the (...) primum cognitum, Kemple argues that this misinterprets Aquinas, thereby closing off Thomistic philosophy to the broader perspective needed to face the philosophical challenges of today, and proposes an alternative interpretation with dramatic epistemological and metaphysical consequences. (shrink)
- An examination of the motivation to manage distraction.Brian A. Anderson -2024 -Cognition 250 (C):105862.
- Filtering distractors is costly.Brian A. Anderson -2024 -Cognition and Emotion 38 (5):834-840.
- New Pragmatism and Accountants’ Truth.Brian A. Rutherford -2017 -Philosophy of Management 16 (2):93-116.This paper offers a rigorous philosophical defence for the approaches and methods of classical financial accounting research, drawn from New Pragmatism and, in particular, the ideas of Huw Price and Michael Lynch’s functional theory of truth. Such an underpinning is important because classical approaches and methods are often characterised as unscientific and lacking theoretical support. It can justify the resumption of scholarly efforts to employ classical approaches and methods to contribute to the development and refinement of accounting practice, including, and (...) especially, accounting’s conceptual framework, as part of the mainstream of the academy’s work. In addition, giving explicit attention to aspects of the functional theory of truth in the design of accounting research may improve its rigour and coherence. (shrink)
- Implicit attitude.Brian A. Nosek &Mahzarin R. Banaji -2009 - In Patrick Wilken, Timothy J. Bayne & Axel Cleeremans,The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 84--85.
- Proceedings of the British Academy, 138 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, V.A. SparkesBrian -2006No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - The metaphysics of financial performance in financial accounting.Brian A. Rutherford -2022 -Philosophy of Management 22 (2):205-226.This paper argues that the metaphysics of financial performance in the conceptual framework employed by accounting standard-setters is incoherent: income and expenses cannot, as the framework holds, both be independent elements of financial statements, identified from underlying events, tested for recognition and measured by discrete acts, separately from the identification, testing and measurement of other elements and satisfy the analytical relationship between performance and position embraced by the framework. An alternative conceptualisation is proposed, under which income and expenses are part (...) of a wider system of classifying all changes in assets and liabilities, measured indirectly. This approach improves the metaphysical coherence, and thus the intellectual strength, of the framework project; while it leaves the measurement of financial performance unchanged, by emphasising the importance of classification, it invites further attention to the presentation of financial performance, with the potential for improving the usefulness of disclosures. (shrink)
- Positive and negative redundancy in multiple cue probability tasks.Brian A. Knowles,Kenneth R. Hammond,Thomas R. Stewart &David A. Summers -1971 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 90 (1):157.No categories
- Mill on Bentham: From ideology to humanized utilitarianism.Brian A. Anderson -1983 -History of Political Thought 4 (2):341-356.Export citation Bookmark
- Applications of Priestley duality in transferring optimal dualities.Brian A. Davey &Miroslav Haviar -2004 -Studia Logica 78 (1-2):213 - 236.This paper illustrates how Priestley duality can be used in the transfer of an optimal natural duality from a minimal generating algebra for a quasi-variety to other generating algebras. Detailed calculations are given for the quasi-variety of Kleene algebras and the quasi-varieties n of pseudocomplemented distributive lattices (n 1).
- Intervening on the Indian Renaissance, or a User’s Guide to the Dreary Sands of Dead Habit.Brian A. Hatcher -2019 -Sophia 58 (1):13-17.In response to the publication of a lively new volume on modern Indian philosophy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this essay offers four brief interventions intended to prompt further critical reflection on the concept of the Indian Renaissance.
- What is International Labor Law For?Brian A. Langille -2009 -Law and Ethics of Human Rights 3 (1):48-82.This Paper suggests that the answer to the question “what is domestic labor law for?”—commonly regarded as securing “justice against markets” or a justified tax on market activity—has informed the search for the answer for the question “what is international labor law for.” This is reflected in what this Paper refers to as P2, which provides that “the failure of any country to adopt humane conditions of labor is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve (...) the conditions in their own countries.” P2 envisions a “race to the bottom” by rational states trapped in a Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The author maintains that this cannot be the objective of ILO which cannot stop “the race” given its deficient enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance. This Paper suggests an alternative raison d’etre for the ILO, which is called P1, namely social justice: “universal peace can only be established if it is based upon social justice.” P1 reflects what states actually seek to achieve. Following Sen, this Paper suggests that there is no tradeoff between social justice and economic efficiency. Therefore the promotion of labor rights by the ILO will contribute both to social justice and to economic success. Thus the ILO should promote international labor law so as to lead member states to pursue their self-interest which is consistent with the collective goal of humanity. (shrink)
- Percy on the Allure of Violence and Destruction.Brian A. Smith -2018 - In Leslie Marsh,Walker Percy, Philosopher. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 251-269.Anxiety concerning the decline and fall of civilization appears throughout Walker Percy’s body of work. Smith argues that what sets Percy’s account of this issue apart from others rests in his preoccupation not so much with depicting actual disaster for what it might tell us about human nature, politics, or our souls, but rather, with his focus on the end of our society as a clue that might help explain our predicament. Percy saw his role as reading the signs of (...) our spiritual and social disorders, and rendering them intelligible to an audience that increasingly possessed a language inadequate to understanding the situation. Percy’s analysis of our attitudes toward catastrophe, disaster, war, and the end of civilization proves a fertile ground for exploring the fault lines in our social and political life. (shrink)No categories
- New-from-old full dualities via axiomatisation.Brian A. Davey,Jane G. Pitkethly &Ross Willard -2018 -Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 169 (7):588-615.
- Bloch's paradox and the nonlocality of chance.Brian A. Woodcock -2007 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2):137 – 156.I show how an almost exclusive focus on the simplest case - the case of a single particle - along with the commonplace conception of the single-particle wave function as a scalar field on spacetime contributed to the perception, first brought to light by I. Bloch, that there existed a contradiction between quantum theory with instantaneous state collapses and special relativity. The incompatibility is merely apparent since treating wave-function values as hypersurface dependent avoids the contradiction. After clarifying confusions which fueled (...) the perception of a paradox, I elaborate on an analysis of the wave function due to Wayne Myrvold to show that nothing special, or ad hoc, is required in treating wave-function values, even in the single-particle case, as hypersurface-dependent; rather, the hypersurface dependence of these values is the natural development of nonlocal entanglement in the context of the relativity of simultaneity. Properly understood, what Bloch's paradox reveals is that the combination of nonlocal entanglement together with a hypersurface-dependent process of state collapse conflicts with the thesis of spatiotemporal separability and, in particular, with the idea that chances are local matters of fact. (shrink)
- Understanding and using the implicit association test.Brian A. Nosek -2007 - In Bernd Wittenbrink & Norbert Schwarz,Implicit Measures of Attitudes. Guilford Press. pp. 59–102.Many recent experiments have used parallel Implicit Association Test (IAT) and selfreport measures of attitudes. These measures are sometimes strongly correlated. However, many of these studies find apparent dissociations in the form of (a) weak correlations between the two types of measures, (b) separation of their means on scales that should coincide if they assess the same construct, or (c) differing correlations with other variables. Interpretations of these empirical patterns are of three types: single-representation — the two types of measures (...) assess a single attitude, but under the influence of different extra-attitudinal process influences; dual-representation — the two types of measures assess distinct forms of attitudes (e.g., conscious vs. unconscious; implicit vs. explicit); and person vs. culture — a variant of the dualrepresentation view in which self-report measures reflect personal attitudes, whereas IAT measures reflect non-attitudinal cultural or semantic knowledge. Proponents sometimes interpret evidence for single versus dual constructs as evidence for single versus dual structural representations. Behavioral evidence can establish the discriminant validity of implicit and explicit attitude phenomena (dual constructs), but cannot choose among single- vs. dual-representation interpretations because the distinct constructs remain susceptible to interpretation in terms of either one or two representations. Selecting among representational accounts must therefore be based on considerations of explanatory power or parsimony. (shrink)
- 11. Badiou and Sartre: Freedom, from Imagination to Chance.Brian A. Smith -2012 - In Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy,Badiou and Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 203-224.
- Deleuze and Music (review).Brian A. Smith -2005 -Symploke 13 (1):363-364.
- From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution and Popular Culture (review).Brian A. Smith -2008 -Symploke 16 (1-2):371-372.
- The associations in our heads belong to us: Searching for attitudes and knowledge in implicit evaluation.Brian A. Nosek &Jeffrey J. Hansen -2008 -Cognition and Emotion 22 (4):553-594.
- Greetings from the New Editor.Brian A. Bartelt -2019 -Anthropology of Consciousness 30 (1):5-6.
- The Crisis of Civilization.Brian A. McGrath -1938 -Modern Schoolman 15 (2):42-42.No categories
- Missing link in mate preference studies: Reproduction.Brian A. Gladue -1989 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (1):21-21.
- Kierkegaard's conception of psychology.Brian A. Sharpless -2013 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 33 (2):90.
- Measurement of small color differences.Brian A. Wandell -1982 -Psychological Review 89 (3):281-302.
- Charles Martin Robertson 1911-2004.Brian A. Sparkes -2006 - In Sparkes Brian A.,Proceedings of the British Academy, 138 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, V. pp. 321-335.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Illustrating Aristophanes.Brian A. Sparkes -1975 -Journal of Hellenic Studies 95:122-135.
- An enactivist account of abstract words: lessons from Merleau-Ponty.Brian A. Irwin -2017 -Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1):133-153.Enactivist accounts of language use generally treat concrete words in terms of motor intentionality systems and affordances for action. There is less consensus, though, regarding how abstract words are to be understood in enactivist terms. I draw on Merleau-Ponty’s later philosophy to argue, against the representationalist paradigm that has dominated the cognitive scientific and philosophical traditions, that language is fundamentally a mode of participation in our world. In particular, language orients us within our milieus in a manner that extends into (...) the depth of the idea-endowed world. This conceptualization of language allows us to see that abstract words orient us bodily just as surely as concrete words do, albeit in a manner that is more diffuse across the entirety of given situations, as I will show with an example of abstract language use in Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld. These insights are applied to some of the recent enactivist discourse to suggest some ways in which representationalism maintains a latent presence in this discourse. I conclude by pointing to developments in conceptual metaphor theory that can enrich our sense of how abstract language is involved in embodied understanding. (shrink)
- Arbitria Vrbanitatis: Language, Style, and Characterization in Catullus cc. 39 and 37.Brian A. Krostenko -2001 -Classical Antiquity 20 (2):239-272.This article describes how cc. 39 and 37 create distinct tones of voice and use them to preclude the social pretensions of Egnatius in different spheres. The style of c. 39, markedly oratorical—and non-Catullan—in the syntax of its opening lines, develops into the voice of a respectable senex by way of archaisms of vocabulary and syntax and is capped by a figure of humor otherwise absent from the polymetrics, the apologus. The style thus creates a voice perfectly suited to chastise (...) Egnatius' social ineptitudes and, more importantly, constitutes on the verbal level an embodiment of the standards of the urban elite. Catullus thus illustrates to Egnatius that a subtle system of social gestures can be learned - something which Egnatius, for all his apparent pretensions to social prominence, manifestly has not grasped, marred as he is by the habit of grinning inappropriately. C. 37, which ends with an attack on the same Egnatius, is far different in tone, commingling tokens of artfulness with vulgarity and forcefulness. That mixed style exercises ironic decorum towards Lesbia's lovers, who are themselves an oddly mixed group, well-off on the one hand, but "backstreet adulterers" on the other. But the two tones of voice, and indeed the two groups of lovers, also embody the paradoxes of the Roman construction of stylish behavior, which could be represented as elegant dalliance or reprehensible vice. Inasmuch as Egnatius' fashion affectations, ridiculed at the poem's end, fail to qualify him for the ranks of Lesbia's lovers, he is represented as outside sophisticated society, however it be constructed. In concert the two poems utterly derail Egnatius' social pretensions: c. 39 as it were outflanks him on the "right," barring him from respectable society, and c. 37 outflanks him on the "left," barring him from the "jet set.". (shrink)
- On taxonomies of neural coding.Brian A. Wandell -1979 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (2):287-288.
- (1 other version)Education for justice.Brian A. Wren -1977 - Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books.
- Contextual variations in implicit evaluation.Jason P. Mitchell,Brian A. Nosek &Mahzarin R. Banaji -2003 -Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 132 (3):455.
- Reward learning biases the direction of saccades.Ming-Ray Liao &Brian A. Anderson -2020 -Cognition 196:104145.
- Bellelli V. Ed. La Ceramica a Figure Nere di Tipo Attico Prodotta in Italia, I and II. Mediterranea 7, 2010, pp. 277; 8, 2011, pp. 269. €995. 18270506. [REVIEW]Brian A. Sparkes -2013 -Journal of Hellenic Studies 133:265-266.
- Detection of redundancy in multiple cue probability tasks.Brian A. Knowles,Kenneth R. Hammond,Thomas R. Stewart &David A. Summers -1972 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 93 (2):425.
- Kant and the Discipline of Reason.Brian A. Chance -2015 -European Journal of Philosophy 23 (1):87-110.Kant's notion of ‘discipline’ has received considerable attention from scholars of his philosophy of education, but its role in his theoretical philosophy has been largely ignored. This omission is surprising since his discussion of discipline in the first Critique is not only more extensive and expansive in scope than his other discussions but also predates them. The goal of this essay is to provide a comprehensive reading of the Discipline that emphasizes its systematic importance in the first Critique. I argue (...) that its goal is to establish a set of rules for the use of pure reason that, if followed, will mitigate and perhaps even eliminate our tendency to make judgments about supersensible objects. Since Kant's justification for these rules relies crucially on claims he has defended in the Doctrine of Elements, I argue further that, far from being a dispensable part of the Critique as commentators have tended to claim, the Discipline is, in fact, the culmination of Kant's critique of metaphysics. (shrink)
- Sovereign Grace: Is Reformed Theology Obsolete?Brian A. Gerrish -2003 -Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 57 (1):45-57.The Reformed witness to grace may be even more needed today than it was in the sixteenth century, since now Pelagianism seems comfortably at home in the Reformed churches. But the question is whether “sovereign grace” requires the predestinarianism that the Reformers took over from Augustine.No categories
- Evolution, biosocial behavior and coercive sexuality.Brian A. Gladue -1992 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (2):388-389.
- Everyday ethics: moral theology and the practices of ordinary life.Michael Lamb &Brian A. Williams (eds.) -2019 - Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb andBrian Williams gathered some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology (including some Georgetown University Press authors) to explore that question in dialogue with anthropology and the social sciences. In a field largely begun by Michael Banner, contributors engage with and extend his ideas of ethics as it is (...) practiced in daily life. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, these scholars analyze the ethics of ordinary practices--from eating, learning, and loving the neighbor to borrowing and spending, using technology, and working in a flexible economy. Along the way, they consider the moral and methodological questions that emerge from this interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the implications for the future of moral theology. (shrink)
- A Brief Primer on Enhancing Islamic Cultural Competency for Deploying Military Medical Providers.Anisah Bagasra,Brian A. Moore,Jason Judkins,Christina Buchner,Stacey Young-McCaughan,Geno Foral,Alyssa Ojeda,Monty T. Baker &Alan L. Peterson -2022 -Journal of Military Ethics 21 (1):56-65.The contemporary operating environment for deployed United States military operations largely focuses on deployments to predominantly Islamic countries. The differences in cultural values between d...
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