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- Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education.David J. Feith,Seth Andrew,Charles F. Bahmueller,Mark Bauerlein,John M. Bridgeland,BruceCole,Alan M. Dershowitz,Mike Feinberg,Senator Bob Graham,Chris Hand,Frederick M. Hess,Eugene Hickok,Michael Kazin,Senator Jon Kyl,Jay P. Lefkowitz,Peter Levine,Harry Lewis,Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,Secretary Rod Paige,Charles N. Quigley,Admiral Mike Ratliff,Glenn Harlan Reynolds,Jason Ross,Andrew J. Rotherham,John R. Thelin &Juan Williams -2011 - R&L Education.This book taps the best American thinkers to answer the essential American question: How do we sustain our experiment in government of, by, and for the people? Authored by an extraordinary and politically diverse roster of public officials, scholars, and educators, these chapters describe our nation's civic education problem, assess its causes, offer an agenda for reform, and explain the high stakes at risk if we fail.
- The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory.AndrewCole &D. Vance Smith (eds.) -2010 - Durham: Duke University Press.This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should—indeed must—reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his _Legitimacy of the Modern Age_ describes the “modern age” as a complete departure from the Middle Ages, these essays forcefully show that thinkers from Adorno to Žižek have repeatedly drawn from medieval sources to theorize modernity. To forget the medieval, or to discount its continued effect on contemporary thought, is to (...) neglect the responsibilities of periodization. In _The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages_, modernists and medievalists, as well as scholars specializing in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century comparative literature, offer a new history of theory and philosophy through essays on secularization and periodization, Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism, Heidegger’s scholasticism, and Adorno’s nominalist aesthetics. One essay illustrates the workings of medieval mysticism in the writing of Freud’s most famous patient, Daniel Paul Schreber, author of _Memoirs of My Nervous Illness_. Another looks at Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s _Empire_, a theoretical synthesis whose conscientious medievalism was the subject of much polemic in the post-9/11 era, a time in which premodernity itself was perceived as a threat to western values. The collection concludes with an afterword by Fredric Jameson, a theorist of postmodernism who has engaged with the medieval throughout his career. _Contributors_: Charles D. Blanton, AndrewCole, Kathleen Davis, Michael Hardt,Bruce Holsinger, Fredric Jameson, Ethan Knapp, Erin Labbie, Jed Rasula, D. Vance Smith, Michael Uebel. (shrink)
- Metacontrast and lateral inhibition.Bruce Bridgeman -1971 -Psychological Review 78 (6):528-539.
- Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration.PhillipCole -2000 - Edinburgh University Press.The mass movement of people across the globe constitutes a major feature of world politics today. -/- Whatever the cause of the movement - often war, famine, economic hardship, political repression or climate change - the governments of western capitalist states see this 'torrent of people in flight' as a serious threat to their stability and the scale of this migration indicates a need for a radical re-thinking of both political theory and practice, for the sake of political, social and (...) economic justice. -/- This book argues that there is at present a serious gap between the legal and social practices of immigration and naturalisation in liberal democratic states and any theoretical justification for such practices that can be made within the tradition of liberal political philosophy. How can liberal states develop institutions of democratic citizenship and at the same time justifiably exclude 'outsiders' from participating in those institutions? The book examines various responses to this contradiction within the liberal tradition, and finds none of them satisfactory - there are no consistently liberal justifications for immigration control and this has serious implications both for liberal practice and theory. (shrink)
- Friedrich Froebel: a critical introduction to key themes and debates.TinaBruce -2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.Friedrich Froebel considers the origins of Froebelian early childhood education providing context to the development of his theories and ideas, critically examines the key themes of this philosophy of education and explores the relevance of Froebelian practice today. TinaBruce explores the key aspects of Froebelian philosophy of education: the importance of family, the importance of highly trained teachers, the importance of nature, the whole child and the Froebelian concept of unity, mother songs, movement games, play and self-activity of (...) the child.Bruce considers the implication for Froebelian practice, the views of critics and supporters, the implications for education today and for research. (shrink)
- Is it still cheating if I don't get caught?Bruce Weinstein -2009 - New York: Roaring Brook Press. Edited by Harriet Russell.Uses real-life examples and five basic moral principles to encourage teens to make the right choices in various situations related to friends, family, school, and relationships.
- Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian.Bruce Woll -2009 -American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 30 (2):218-221.
- Assets and poverty.Andrew Gamble &Rajiv Prabhakar -2005 -Theoria 44 (107):1-18.Asset egalitarianism is a new agenda but an old idea. At its root is the notion that every citizen should be able to have an individual property stake, and it has recently been revived in Britain and in the U.S. in a number of proposals aimed at countering the huge and growing inequality in the distribution of assets. Such asset egalitarianism is fed from many streams; it has a long history in civic republican thought, beginning with Thomas Paine and Thomas (...) Jefferson, but has also featured in the distributist theories of G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc; the guild socialism of G.D.H.Cole and the ethical socialism of R.H. Tawney; the market liberalism of the Ordo Liberals and some of the Austrian School, particularly F.A. Hayek; and more recently the market socialism of James Meade, A.B. Atkinson and Julian Le Grand, and the market egalitarianism of Michael Sherraden, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Richard Freeman andBruce Ackerman. There are also important links to the proponents of a citizens' income as a different approach to the welfare state (White 2002) as well as to the ideas of stakeholding (Dowding et al. 2003). (shrink)
- Civilization, the next stage: the importance of individuals in the modern world.Bruce Allsopp -1969 - Newcastle upon Tyne,: Oriel P..No categories
- A foveal discriminability difference for one vs. four letters.Bruce A. Ambler,Raymond Keel &Elaine Phelps -1978 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 11 (5):317-320.
- Information reduction, internal transformations, and task difficulty.Bruce A. Ambler,Sebastiano A. Fisicaro &Robert W. Proctor -1977 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 10 (6):463-466.No categories
- Thought and thought experiments.DavidCole -1984 -Philosophical Studies 45 (May):431-44.Thought experiments have been used by philosophers for centuries, especially in the study of personal identity where they appear to have been used extensively and indiscriminately. Despite their prevalence, the use of thought experiments in this area of philosophy has been criticized in recent times. Bernard Williams criticizes the conclusions that are drawn from some experiments, and retells one of these experiments from a different perspective, a retelling which leads to a seemingly opposing result. Wilkes criticizes the method of thought (...) experimentation itself, suggesting that the results drawn from the experiments are tainted by a faulty method. This paper examines both these types of objection, and concludes that neither can be sustained. (shrink)
- Artificial intelligence and personal identity.DavidCole -1991 -Synthese 88 (3):399-417.Considerations of personal identity bear on John Searle's Chinese Room argument, and on the opposed position that a computer itself could really understand a natural language. In this paper I develop the notion of a virtual person, modelled on the concept of virtual machines familiar in computer science. I show how Searle's argument, and J. Maloney's attempt to defend it, fail. I conclude that Searle is correct in holding that no digital machine could understand language, but wrong in holding that (...) artificial minds are impossible: minds and persons are not the same as the machines, biological or electronic, that realize them. (shrink)
- On the immunity principle: a view from a robot.JonathanCole &Oliver Sacks -2000 -Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (5):167.Preprint ofCole, Sacks, and Waterman. 2000. "On the immunity principle: A view from a robot." Trends in Cognitive Science 4 (5): 167, a response to Shaun Gallagher, S. 2000. "Philosophical conceptions of the self: implications for cognitive science," Trends in Cognitive Science 4 (1):14-21. Also see Shaun Gallagher, Reply toCole, Sacks, and Waterman Trends in Cognitive Science 4, No. 5 (2000): 167-68.
- Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark.Bruce H. Kirmmse -1990 - Indiana University Press."... the most important contribution to Kierkegaard studies to be published in English in recent years.... Not only is it a fascinating, surprising, and perceptive study of Kierkegaard within his time and world, Kirmmse has produced a research resource, a reference work, that is simply without parallel or equal." —Michael Plekon "It is a rare work of philosophy that not only clarifies its subject but also places it within an intellectual and historical context. In his study of 19th-century Danish philosopher (...) Kierkegaard, Kirmmse accomplishes both, setting a standard... " —Library Journal "... an outstanding contribution to Kierkegaard research... The book is intellectual history of the highest calibre." —So[slash]ren Kierkegaard Newsletter "This excellent book is recommended for all collections on Kierkegaard... For all readers." —Choice "This richly researched and readable book supplies an important contribution to the widespread reappropriation of Kierkegaard’s thought currently taking place."—Theology Today "This book is a tour de force in intellectual history." —Review of Metaphysics "Kirmmse's book is a major work of scholarship that confers on Kierkegaard's social and intellectual universe a depth and a richness of detail that will permanently alter the familiar stereotypes about Kierkegaard's isolation from his fellow Danes and his supposedly fanatical campaign against philistine Denmark and its corrupt state church." —American Historical Review Against the background of Denmark’s evolution from a mercantile economy to a broad-based agricultural economy, Kirmmse reinterprets Kierkegaard’s thought as a reaction to the tensions within his society. (shrink)
- Reconciling the HEC-C and Clinical Ethics Fellowship Training Programs: Implications of the Baylor Experience.CristieCole Horsburgh &Joshua S. Crites -2020 -American Journal of Bioethics 20 (3):37-39.Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 37-39.
- The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America.J. Grimley Evans &Thomas R.Cole -1993 -Hastings Center Report 23 (2):41.Book reviewed in this article: The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America. by Thomas R.Cole.
- Entheogens, mysticism, and neuroscience.RonCole-Turner -2014 -Zygon 49 (3):642-651.Entheogens or psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin are associated with mystical states of experience. Drug laws currently limit research, but important new work is under way at major biomedical research facilities showing that entheogens reliably occasion mystical experiences and thereby allow research into brain states during these experiences. Are drug-occasioned mystical experiences neurologically the same as more traditional mystical states? Are there phenomenological and theological differences? As this research goes forward and the public becomes more (...) widely aware of its achievements, religious scholars and experts in science and religion will be called upon to interpret the philosophical and theological presuppositions that underpin this research and the significance of the findings that flow from it. (shrink)
- A Call for Empirical Research on Uterine Transplantation and Reproductive Autonomy.CristieCole Horsburgh -2017 -Hastings Center Report 47 (s3):S46-S49.Uterine transplantation could give women who suffer from uterine factor infertility the possibility of experiencing gestation. Much of the ethical discussion about uterine transplantation has focused on whether research on it should even be pursued, but researchers are nevertheless moving forward with several uterine transplant research protocols. Scholars should therefore already be identifying and engaging in an intimate examination of the ethical realities of offering uterine transplantation in a clinical setting. Given the potential for the procedure to expand reproductive options (...) for women, reproductive autonomy has been a primary principle underlying much of the ethical discourse about the hypothetical impact of uterine transplantation. Yet the factors that will affect whether uterine transplants promote or undermine a patients’ reproductive autonomy if the procedure is integrated into clinical practice have yet to be rigorously explored. Focusing on the clinical realities of patient autonomy, I argue that empirical data exploring prospective recipients’ motivations and their perceptions of the benefits of the procedure in the context of their lived experiences are critical to a robust analysis of the ethical dimensions of uterine transplantation. (shrink)
- Divine Providence: God's Love and Human Freedom.Bruce R. Reichenbach -2016 - Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.We ask God to involve himself providentially in our lives, yet we cherish our freedom to choose and act. Employing both theological reflection and philosophical analysis, the author explores how to resolve the interesting and provocative puzzles arising from these seemingly conflicting desires. He inquires what sovereignty means and how sovereigns balance their power and prerogatives with the free responses of their subjects. Since we are physically embodied in a physical world, we also need to ask how this is compatible (...) with our being free agents. Providence raises questions about God's fundamental attributes. The author considers what it means to affirm God's goodness as logically contingent, how being almighty interfaces with God's self-limitation, and the persistent problems that arise from claiming that God foreknows the future. Discussion of these divine properties spills over into the related issues of why God allows, or even causes, pain and suffering; why, if God is all-knowing, we need to petition God repeatedly and encounter so many unanswered prayers; and how miracles, as ways God acts in the world, are possible and knowable. Throughout, the author looks at Scripture and attends to how providence deepens our understanding of God and enriches our lives. (shrink)
- Family members, ambulance clinicians and attempting CPR in the community: the ethical and legal imperative to reach collaborative consensus at speed.RobertCole,Mike Stone,Alexander Ruck Keene &Zoe Fritz -2021 -Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (10):650-653.Here we present the personal perspectives of two authors on the important and unfortunately frequent scenario of ambulance clinicians facing a deceased individual and family members who do not wish them to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We examine the professional guidance and the protection provided to clinicians, which is not matched by guidance to protect family members. We look at the legal framework in which these scenarios are taking place, and the ethical issues which are presented. We consider the interaction between (...) ethics, clinical practice and the law, and offer suggested changes to policy and guidance which we believe will protect ambulance clinicians, relatives and the patient. (shrink)
- Hominin Language Development: A New Method of Archaeological Assessment.JamesCole -2015 -Biosemiotics 8 (1):67-90.The question of language development and origin is a subject that is vital to our understanding of what it means to be human. This is reflected in the large range of academic disciplines that are dedicated to the subject. Language development has in particular been related to studies in cognitive capacity and the ability for mind reading, often termed a theory of mind. The Social Brain Hypothesis has been the only attempt to correlate a cognitive scale of complexity incorporating a (...) theory of mind and intentionality orders to the archaeological record and hominin phylogeny. However, a method is still lacking that allows a correlation of the orders of intentionality (and by inference a theory of mind and language development) to the archaeological signatures that represent the physical expression of hominin behaviour. This paper is primarily concerned with introducing a new theoretical perspective – termed the identity model – which facilitates such a correlation between a scale of cognitive acuity, hominin behaviour through the archaeological record and subsequently language development within an evolutionary context. (shrink)
- Commentary On The Character Gap.JenniferCole Wright -2019 -Journal of Philosophical Research 44:213-224.The Character Gap by Christian Miller is an excellent discussion of how the empirical research conducted on virtue bears upon the larger question of whether or not people are virtuous, especially when we consider the question through the lens of a philosophically rigorous account of virtue. His conclusion is that overall people are not virtuous—but then, neither are they vicious. In this commentary, I challenge the latter. I explore two alternative ways of conceiving of vice and utilize a range of (...) empirical findings—on topics ranging from bullying, to sexual assault, to factory farming—to argue that perhaps vice is much more prevalent than Miller believes, a worry that deserves our attention and concern. (shrink)No categories
- Rights as Constraints: Nozick versus Sen.Bruce Chapman -1983 -Theory and Decision 15 (1):1.
- The Actions of Affect in Deleuze: Others using language and the language that we make ..David R.Cole -2011 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 43 (6):549-561.The actions of affect are prominent in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and can be broken down for the purposes of education into two roles. The first alludes to the history of philosophy and the ways in which affect has been used by Spinoza (Deleuze, 1992) Nietzsche (Deleuze, 1983) or Bergson (Deleuze, 1991). In this role, Deleuze reinvigorates and challenges definitions of affect that would place them into systems of understanding that could take paths to metaphysics or to becoming paradigms (...) for capture in any further theorisation of affect. For example, scholars might attest to the use of affect as defined by Spinoza in the Ethics. Deleuze (1983, 1991, 1992) attends to the ways in which scholarly understanding of affect has been broached in order to free the idea up for empirical studies and also to show that the power of didactic language may be subsumed and subverted. The second role of affect in the work of Deleuze comes about in his first two co-authored books that he produced with Félix Guattari (Deleuze & Guattari, 1984, 1988). These publications have a distinct purpose from the scholarly work, which this article shall examine in terms of educational activism, group identities and the sociology of education. This level imbues the use of language in pedagogic acts with an intense affective resonance and the multiple traces of becoming that might be present in any teaching and learning context. (shrink)
- Must God Create the Best Possible World?Bruce R. Reichenbach -1979 -International Philosophical Quarterly 19 (2):203-212.I ARGUE THAT THE NOTION OF THE BEST POSSIBLE WORLD IS MEANINGLESS AND THEREFORE A CHIMERA, BECAUSE FOR ANY WORLD WHICH MIGHT BE SO DESIGNATED, THERE COULD ALWAYS BE ANOTHER WHICH WAS BETTER, EITHER IN BEING POPULATED BY BEINGS WITH BETTER OR A GREATER QUANTITY OF GOOD CHARACTERISTICS, OR ELSE BY BEING MORE OPTIMIFIC.
- Omniscience and deliberation.Bruce R. Reichenbach -1984 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 16 (3):225 - 236.I argue that if deliberation is incompatible with (fore)knowing what one is going to do at the time of the deliberation, then God cannot deliberate. However, this thesis cannot be used to show either that God cannot act intentionally or that human persons cannot deliberate. Further, I have suggested that though omniscience is incompatible with deliberation, it is not incompatible with either some speculation or knowing something on the grounds of inference.
- The Law of Karma.Bruce R. Reichenbach -1990 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35 (1):59-61.
- Analysing the Matter Flows in Schools Using Deleuze’s Method.David R.Cole -2019 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 38 (3):229-240.Using Deleuzian theory for educational research and practice has become an increasingly popular activity. However, there are many theoretical complexities to the straightforward application of Deleuze to the educational context. For example, the ‘new materialism’ that Deleuze refers to in the 1960s takes its inspiration from Spinoza, and is an emancipatory project. Contrariwise, the ‘new materialism’ of the present moment is frequently applied to educational research and practice specifically as a way out of anthropocentric limits and enclosure. This paper explores (...) the combined forces of humanism and naturalism which are at work in Deleuze’s ‘new materialism’, as type of ‘more-than-human’ emancipation method derived from Bergson and Nietzsche; it is a mode of overcoming human limits, which fully takes into account the connections to and with the non-human world and the ecological consequences of human action. This paper will draw out the specific consequences for educational research and practice in schools of the ‘vitalist-nihilism’ we may derive from Bergson and Nietzsche to analyse matter flows as they enter, mingle with, and exit schools. (shrink)
- Steps toward a theology of Christian transhumanism.RonaldCole-Turner -2022 - In Arvin M. Gouw, Brian Patrick Green & Ted Peters,Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics. Lanham: Lexington Books.No categories
- Salt: Fragments from the History of a Medium.LiamCole Young -2020 -Theory, Culture and Society 37 (6):135-158.This essay explores histories of common salt, sodium chloride, using concepts and methods from media theory. It contributes to research on media and environment and the general ‘material turn’ taken across the Humanities. I conceive of salt as what Peters calls an ‘elemental’ medium so as to show, first, the imbrication of naturally-occurring substances in the operations and supply chains of digital culture. Second, the many lives salt has lived materially, in techniques of survival and exchange, and metaphorically, in cultural (...) expression, complicate conventional understandings of media. In showing how salt performs three functions, processing, storage, and transfer, which Kittler ascribed to technical and symbolic media, I argue for a more expansive use of ‘mediation’ as a bridge concept that speaks to matters of nature and culture, Arts and Science, and to account for deep histories of extraction and economy that shape digital culture and global supply chains. (shrink)No categories
- Kierkegaard and 1848.Bruce H. Kirmmse -1995 -History of European Ideas 20 (1-3):167-175.
- Modernizing UK health services: 'short‐sharp‐shock' reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine.Bruce G. Charlton &Peter Andras -2005 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 11 (2):111-119.
- Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship.Bruce Chapman &Robert Howse -1993 - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
- Democratic deficit and communication hyper-inflation in health care systems.Bruce G. Charlton -2002 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8 (3):291-297.
- Individual rights, good consequences, and the theory of social choice.Bruce Chapman -1982 -Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 12 (3):317–323.
- God in Strength: Jesus' Announcement of the Kingdom.Bruce David Chilton -1979No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Jesus' Baptism and Jesus' Healing: His Personal Practice of Spirituality.Bruce Chilton -1998No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Studying the New Testament: A Fortress Introduction.Bruce Chilton &Deirdre Good -2011No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Machines, AIs, cyborgs, systems.Bruce Clarke -2020 - In Sherryl Vint,After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Visual perception and regulatory conflict: Motivation and physiology influence distance perception.ShanaCole,Emily Balcetis &Sam Zhang -2013 -Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 142 (1):18.
- The grand illusion and Petit illusions: Interactions of perception and sensory coding.Bruce Bridgeman -2002 -Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (5-6):29-34.The Grand Illusion, the experience of a rich phenomenal visual world supported by a poor internal representation of that world, is echoed by petit illusions of the same sort. We can be aware of several aspects of an object or pattern, even when they are inconsistent with one another, because different neurological mechanisms code the various aspects separately. They are bound not by an internal linkage, but by the structure of the world itself. Illusions exploit this principle by introducing inconsistencies (...) into normally consistent patterns of stimulation. (shrink)
- ‘Ethical responsibility’ or ‘a whole can of worms’: differences in opinion on incidental finding review and disclosure in neuroimaging research from focus group discussions with participants, parents, IRB members, investigators, physicians and community members.CaitlinCole,Linda E. Petree,John P. Phillips,Jody M. Shoemaker,Mark Holdsworth &Deborah L. Helitzer -2015 -Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (10):841-847.
- Framing the Refugee.PhilCole -2020 -Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 2:35-51.‘Framing the Refugee’ looks at the power of representation of liberal political theory with regard to refugees. In the author’s view, legal and political arbitrariness lies in the representing of refugees as lacking agency. His key point is that liberalism fails to conceive of refugees as politically capable actors, and he is thus complicit in the arbitrary neutralisation of their emancipatory potential and participatory powers. This paper emphasises the moral justifiability of that state of affairs by seeking some answers to (...) the question of why liberal political theory construes a concept of the refugee that does not contain any element of political agency. Most obviously, the author acknowledges that refugees perform a significant social role in contemporary societies and are hence active members in them. Nonetheless, they remain neglected in their political role by most political theory. What does it mean to have political agency for the author? It means to have the power of self-representation, that is, of being allowed and even enabled by a given legal system to bring about change in the political order, or at least to participate in that change. But the author also calls attention to the role of ‘theory’ in addressing this downside of the contemporary liberal democratic order. Theory becomes even more crucial at times of urgency, that is, when theorists have a moral responsibility to deepen their philosophical imagination, as Hannah Arendt so forcefully noted. The theoretical task of ‘re-framing’ the refugee entails reconfiguring political philosophy and its traditional categories of sovereignty, citizenship and nationality. The liberal inability to accommodate the political agency of many members of the political community – especially of non-nationals – is a sign of the historical contingency of the current rules of political membership. This inability makes evident the imperative of rethinking politics in ways that avoid the arbitrariness of treatment and aim instead at equality and justice. If political leaders can re-write the rules of membership to suit their own ideological agendas, the same demand should be addressed by – indeed demanded from – political and legal theorists. However, this is not as easy as it seems, according to the author. In his view, political theory is confronted with fundamental challenges, the most obvious one being that ‘theory’ is usually unequipped to defeat its own ‘topology’. Note that in saying this the author is raising a more pressing concern about arbitrary law-making: it may be that arbitrariness – especially the arbitrary treatment of aliens by the sovereign state and by liberal democracies in particular – is inscribed in the very DNA of liberalism. No matter how odd this may seem, the author advances the view that ideas, however creative of a new order, or transformative of a given status quo, never appear in "free form", and are instead deeply rooted in a structure that constrains our imagination. The challenge is thus to develop a meta-theory that reconceptualises the very way liberal political theory frames marginalised sectors of society – such as the "poor" – as a product of an international economic order that robs those sectors of their agency as the very condition of its internal functioning. We must therefore question how the very idea of the refugee is produced, because it symbolises the construction of an inside and an outside that is complicit with the arbitrary play of legal statuses involved in migration policy. The author’s main point regarding this is that certain groups are sidelined by economic, political and social systems because they are already excluded from theoretical systems to start with. Keywords: refugees, agency, political theory, migration. (shrink)No categories
- Introduction: Letting Nature Point beyond Nature.Bruce H. Kirmmse -2016 - In Søren Kierkegaard,The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses. Princeton University Press.No categories
- Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology.George Boas &ThomasCole -1969 -American Journal of Philology 90 (1):127.
- Die Alchemie in der europaischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Christoph Meinel.Bruce Moran -1987 -Isis 78 (3):482-483.
- Behavioral insights: The problem of control in education governance.Bruce Moghtader -2024 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 56 (11):1126-1138.This article offers a historical inquiry into behaviorism and its impact on standard of judgement concerning education policies. Drawing from Aldous Huxley’s reservation towards behaviorism as a scientific movement that naturalizes the role of control in human affairs, the paper maps the impact of behaviorism on economics of education. By tracing the influence of behaviorism in both rational (human capital theory) and quasi-rational (behavioral insight) economics, we draw attention to the activity of knowledge-making that describes and prescribes agency. The paper (...) demonstrates how policy instruments and outcomes are intimately linked to assumptions about personhood, and in the case of behavioral insight, they contribute to the scope of decision-making entrusted to government and business. Utilizing a genealogical approach, the paper invites ethical reflections on the long-term implications of behavioral economics in light of automation. (shrink)
- (1 other version)The Inductive Argument from Evil.Bruce R. Reichenbach -1980 -American Philosophical Quarterly 17 (3):221 - 227.First I employ Bayes's Theorem to give some precision to the atheologian's thesis that it is improbable that God exists given the amount of evil in the world (E). Two arguments result from this: (1) E disconfirms God's existence, and (2) E tends to disconfirm God's existence. Secondly, I evaluate these inductive arguments, suggesting against (1) that the atheologian has abstracted from and hence failed to consider the total evidence, and against (2) that the atheologian's evidence adduced to support his (...) thesis regarding the relevant probabilities is inadequate. (shrink)
- We shall bear the image of the man of heaven‘: Theology and the concept of truth.Bruce D. Marshall -1995 -Modern Theology 11 (1):93-117.
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