Experimental philosophy needs to matter: Reply to Andow and Cova.Adam Feltz,Edward T. Cokely &BrittanyNelson -2016 -Philosophical Psychology 29 (4):567-569.detailsNearly a decade of research has provided overwhelming evidence that there is no the folk intuition about many fundamental philosophical questions, just as there is no the gender of human beings or...
Culture and Character Education: Problems of Interpretation in a Multicultural Society.John Chambers Christopher,TamaraNelson &Mark D.Nelson -2003 -Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (2):81-101.detailsIn response to a growing perception that America's youth lack the necessary values to grow and develop into adulthood in a socially healthy manner, character education has emerged as a rapidly growing proactive approach that serves to develop good character among young people. The authors examine several of the virtues thought to underlie good character from Character Counts!, a popular character education program, and emphasize the cultural complexities involved when promoting character education in a pluralistic society. 2012 APA, all rights (...) reserved). (shrink)
Spanish nursing under Franco: reinvention, modernization and repression (1956–1976).Margalida Miró,Denise Gastaldo,SiobanNelson &Gloria Gallego -2012 -Nursing Inquiry 19 (3):270-280.detailsMIRÓ M, GASTALDO D,NELSON S and GALLEGO G. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 270–280 Spanish nursing under Franco: reinvention, modernization and repression (1956–1976)This article examines Spanish nursing during a critical 20‐year period (1956–76) when, under the dictatorial government of General Franco, nursing became the target of a modernization strategy. In the national standardized system of state‐run schools, the previously distinct nursing and midwifery programmes were merged into a new training programme which created the single professional denomination of ATS–Ayudante Técnico (...) Sanitario (Technical Sanitary Assistant). Under the leadership of medicine, and with the blessing of the Catholic Church and the Sección Femenina (Women’s Section of the Falangist Party), nursing was positioned as feminized and subordinate to medicine, a predominantly male profession in mid‐twentieth century Spain. This article discusses this crucial phase of Spanish nursing history by focusing on one influential historical document (published in 1956), Professional Moral Orientation for the Sanitary Technical Assistants, a nursing textbook on professional morals for first‐year nursing students written by Rosamaria Miranda, a Catholic nun and a trained nurse. Our analysis reveals that gender‐related and technical discourses concerning disciplinary and pastoral power relations presented in this textbook legitimate the core beliefs of Franquism put forward by the politically powerful women’s branch of the ruling Falangist Party in mid‐twentieth century Spain. (shrink)
Correction to: Valencies of the lanthanides.David A. Johnson &Peter G.Nelson -2018 -Foundations of Chemistry 21 (1):47-48.detailsThe authors regret that there are errors in equation and subsequent discussion. The correct version is as follows.
Divergent Effects of Metaphoric Company Logos: Do They Convey What the Company Does or What I Need?Mark J. Landau,Noelle M.Nelson &Lucas A. Keefer -2015 -Metaphor and Symbol 30 (4):314-338.detailsMany corporate logos use pictorial metaphors to influence consumer attitudes. Priming concrete concepts—by means of logo exposure or other procedures—changes attitudes toward dissimilar abstract targets in metaphor-consistent ways. It is assumed, however, that observers apply a logo’s metaphor externally to interpret the company and its service. This research examined the possibility that observers may instead apply that metaphor internally to interpret their current condition and hence their need for the company’s service. We hypothesized that the same logo can have divergent (...) effects on company liking depending on the direction of metaphor application. To test this possibility, we built on evidence that people apply available metaphors especially when they feel unsure about the target. We predicted that observers would apply a logo’s metaphor externally when unsure about the company, but internally when unsure about themselves. Three experiments provide convergent support for hypotheses. We discuss impli.. (shrink)
Hume's 'New Scene of Thought' and the Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.Jeff Broome &John O.Nelson -2009 - Upa.detailsThis book is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature.Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound masterpiece in philosophical literature, worthy of serious study and acceptance. It is argued that Dialoguesis a reflective philosophical autobiography of Hume himself.
The Organization of Interests: A Thesis Presented to Department of Philosophy.HenryNelson Wieman &Cedric Lambeth Hepler -1985 - Upa.detailsThe thesis is two-fold: to show that to be human is to have a nature disposed to inalienable conflict of interests, and to show that creativity is the best principle by which to organize interests.
The growth of religion.HenryNelson Wieman -1938 - Chicago,: Willett, Clark. Edited by Walter Marshall Horton.detailspt. I. The historical growth of religion, by W. M. Horton.--pt. II. Contemporary growth of religion, by H. N. Wieman.
The Ethical Role of the Consultant.William B. Weeks &William A.Nelson -1993 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (4):477.detailsIn the United States, physicians are Increasingly functioning In the consultative role. This change in role Is undoubtedly a result of a surge in the numbers of specialists, the relative decreasing number of primary care physicians, and the emergence of tertiary care centers as primary treatment providers. This change In the style of practicing medicine has led to role confusion In attending physician-patient-consultant relationships.
A modern version of Lewis’s theory of valency.Peter G.Nelson -2015 -Foundations of Chemistry 17 (2):153-162.detailsA modern version of Lewis’s theory of valency is presented. This takes account of the results of quantum–mechanical calculations on molecules. Topics covered are polar covalent bonds, hypervalency, coordinate bonds, nonintegral bonds, oxo-anions, variable valency among transition elements, and nonclassical compounds. A distinction is drawn between the valence shell of an atom and the Lewis shell. The concept of a fractional bond pair is presented.
A note on parsimony.Everett J.Nelson -1936 -Philosophy of Science 3 (1):62-66.detailsIn this paper I wish to offer a suggestion in support of the thesis that if a given set of facts is explained by two rival explanations A and B, where A consists of a single hypothesis H1, and B consists of at least two independent hypotheses H2 and H3, then, other things being equal, A is more probable than B. That this view is true is seldom questioned, though I have never seen any reason given for it, which would (...) justify the methodological value so many philosophers attribute to it. It is not my purpose to discuss simplicity of explanation in general, but simply to point out that the Multiplicative Axiom of the calculus of probabilities justifies the above thesis. I shall call this thesis the Principle of Parsimony. (shrink)
Approaches, opportunities and priorities in the rhetoric of political inquiry: A critical synthesis.John S.Nelson -1988 -Social Epistemology 2 (1):21 – 42.details(1988). Approaches, opportunities and priorities in the rhetoric of political inquiry: A critical synthesis. Social Epistemology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 21-42.
Ethics and Environmental Decision Making.R. J.Nelson -1979 -Environmental Ethics 1 (3):263-278.detailsEnvironmental ethics tends to be dominated by the idea that the right environmental actions require a change in the value systems of many people. I argue that the “rebirth” approach is perverse in that moral attitudes are not easily changed by moral suasion. A properly ethical approach must begin where we are, as moderately moral people desiring the best for all. The real ethical problem is to develop procedures for collectively defining environmental ends that will be fair to the parties (...) participating in the decision process. This idea is essentially utilitarian, and depends on the maximization of expected social utility. This type of environmental ethics is contrasted with current theories of social choice in welfare economics and with Rawls’ theory of justice as fairness. (shrink)
Four-year-old humans are different: Why?KatherineNelson -1996 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (1):134-135.detailsThe intentionality schema is an abstraction that relates phylogenetic and ontogenetic sequences of social understanding, but it also obscures the differences between humans and other primates. In particular, it ignores human social developmental and communicative history and the important roles that language plays in human understanding of others' intentional states.