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- Kants Ablehnung jeglicher Erbsündenlehre.Christoph Simm -1991 - Münster: Lit.
- Comment on a.ChristopherSimms -1991 -The Chesterton Review 17 (1):113-115.No categories
- Stakeholder analysis in higher education.Chris Chapleo &ChristopherSimms -2010 -Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 14 (1):12-20.No categories
- Teenage Mothers and Their Partners. By MadeleineSimms &Christopher Smith (HM Stationery Office, London, 1986.) £6.90. [REVIEW]Peter Diggory -1987 -Journal of Biosocial Science 19 (1):125-126.
- Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency.Christopher Yeomans -2011 - New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press.Hegel’s Logic reveals an insightful and subtle engagement with the traditional problem of free will as it emerges from our basic commitment to the explicability of the world. While the dominant current interpretations of Hegel’s theory of agency find little of significance in the Logic and suggest that Hegel avoided the traditional problem, Yeomans argues both that the problem is unavoidable, and that the two versions of the Logic fruitfully engage the tensions between explicability and both the control and alternate (...) possibilities constitutive of free agency. In particular, Yeomans examines Hegel’s response to three different versions of the principle of sufficient reason that have historically seemed to make free will problematic. The central three chapters take up each of these versions in turn. For each, Yeomans first explores the nature of its challenge to free will with glances both at Hegel’s precursors and contemporaries and at the philosophy of action of our own time. Then Yeomans delves into the arguments of Hegel’s Logic to see how he construed the problematic concepts in question. Finally, Yeomans returns to the issue of free will to bring Hegel’s interpretations of the concepts in the Logic together with elements of his moral psychology from his practical philosophy both to show how the problem of free will can be resolved, and to trace in outline the shape of free will that such a resolution produces. The key connection between the Logic’s reflections on the form of explanation and the practical philosophy’s theory of the will is that both attempt to do justice to the mutual necessity of self-determination and external influence. (shrink)
- Which words are hard to recognize? Prosodic, lexical, and disfluency factors that increase ASR error rates.Christopher D. Manning -unknownMany factors are thought to increase the chances of misrecognizing a word in ASR, including low frequency, nearby disfluencies, short duration, and being at the start of a turn. However, few of these factors have been formally examined. This paper analyzes a variety of lexical, prosodic, and disfluency factors to determine which are likely to increase ASR error rates. Findings include the following. (1) For disfluencies, effects depend on the type of disfluency: errors increase by up to 15% (absolute) for (...) words near fragments, but decrease by up to 7.2% (absolute) for words near repetitions. This decrease seems to be due to longer word duration. (2) For prosodic features, there are more errors for words with extreme values than words with typical values. (3) Although our results are based on output from a system with speaker adaptation, speaker differences are a major factor influencing error rates, and the effects of features such as frequency, pitch, and intensity may vary between speakers. (shrink)
- Community and Discrimination.Christopher McCrudden -1987 - In John Eekelaar & John Bell,Oxford essays in jurisprudence. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 221--238.Export citation
Bookmark - The Connection Between Spatial and Mathematical Ability Across Development.Christopher J. Young,Susan C. Levine &Kelly S. Mix -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9:358219.In this article, we review approaches to modeling a connection between spatial and mathematical thinking across development. We critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of factor analyses, meta-analyses, and experimental literatures. We examine those studies that set out to describe the nature and number of spatial and mathematical skills and specific connections between these abilities, especially those that included children as participants. We also find evidence of strong spatial-mathematical connections and transfer from spatial interventions to mathematical understanding. Finally, we map (...) out the kinds of studies that could enhance our understanding of the mechanisms by which spatial and mathematical processing are connected and the principles by which mathematical outcomes could be enhanced through spatial training in educational settings. (shrink)
- De generatione et corruptione.Christopher John Fards Aristotle & Williams -1922 - Oxford: Clarendon Press. Edited by Harold H. Joachim.
- Science or Reflection: Habermas on Freud.Christopher Nichols -1972 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2 (3):261.
- Philosophical Issues in High-Tech Leisure and Sport.Christopher Jones &Dennis Hemphill -unknownThis paper examines several philosophical issues related to emerging technologies in sport and leisure. There are a range of technologies that will likely be offered to boost performance in sport, ranging from prosthetic devices and cyborg-like implants to gene therapy and enhancement. Computer generated simulations are already in use in work and leisure, and are expected to be pervasive in the future. Technological developments such as these present a challenge to some of the traditional assumptions and cherished beliefs not only (...) about the nature of sport and leisure and how they should be conducted, but also about the very nature of reality and what it means to be human. It is hoped that this paper can shed some light on the challenges and possibilities facing sport and leisure in the upcoming high-tech future. (shrink)
- Dear reader of this letter, I am writing to you about the magazine called Vedanta and the West..Christopher Isherwood (ed.) -1960 - Hollywood, California: Vedanta Society of California.Export citation Bookmark
- Essentials of Vedanta.Christopher Isherwood -1969 - Hollywood, California: Vedanta Press. Edited by Christopher Isherwood.Export citation Bookmark
- Nietzsche on reason and emotion.Christopher Janaway -unknownExport citation Bookmark
- Reading Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary.Christopher Janaway (ed.) -2005 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject, this concise anthology brings together key texts in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject. Presents two contrasting pieces on each of six topics. Texts range from Plato’s famous critique of art in the ‘Republic’ through Nietzsche’s ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ to Barthes’ ‘The Death of the Author’ 'and pieces in recent philosophical aesthetics from a number of (...) traditions. Interactive editorial commentary helps readers to engage with the philosophical train of thought. Explains the argumentative and historical context in which each piece was written. Includes questions for debate and suggestions for further reading. (shrink)
- Dear fellow time-binder: letters on general semantics.Christopher W. Mayer -2022 - Forest Hills: The Institute of General Semantics.This is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into many insights offered with general semantics, and just as equally, it represents how principles of general semantics can be applied within everyday life.No categories
- Propensities, Chance, Causation, and Contrastive Explanation.Christopher S. I. Mccurdy -1994 - Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada)A pragmatic account of scientific understanding is used both to examine and to unify fundamental questions concerning the propensity interpretation of probability and theories of chance, causation, and explanation. One of the most important problems to be addressed is the problem of defining homogeneous reference classes in theories of chance, causation, and explanation. The consistency of the propensity interpretation is defended against traditional criticisms such as "Humphreys's paradox." It is demonstrated that the application of this interpretation to theories of chance (...) and probabilistic causation provides insights into problems common to both theories. Various approaches to causation are examined, including those based on identifying sufficient causal factors, necessary causal factors, and contrastive causes. These insights are applied to quantum mechanics and are presented in terms of a set of controlled experiments. The study of quantum mechanics focuses on the paradox of the two slit experiment and quantum logical and quantum probabilistic attempts to resolve this paradox. Finally, the analysis of chance and causation provides the basis for a version of the contrastive theory of explanation. This theory of explanation provides a unique understanding of the nature of explanation, and lessens the impact of the problems of homogeneity and of explanatory ambiguity. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Organizations and business ethics.Christopher McMahon -2001 - In Alan R. Malachowski,Business ethics: critical perspectives on business and management. New York: Routledge. pp. 1--4.
- Three Philosophical Lessons for the Analysis of Criminal and Military Intelligence.Christopher Mole -2012 -Intelligence and National Security 27 (4):441-58.It has recently been suggested that philosophy – in particular epistemology – has a contribution to make to the analysis of criminal and military intelligence. The present article pursues this suggestion, taking three phenomena that have recently been studied by philosophers, and showing that they have important implications for the gathering and sharing of intelligence, and for the use of intelligence in the determining of military strategy. The phenomena discussed are: (1) Simpson's Paradox, (2) the distinction between resiliency and reliability (...) of data, and (3) the Causal Markov Condition. (shrink)
- Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation Between Thought and Language.Christopher Gauker -1995 - Princeton University Press.An Essay on the Relation Between Thought and LanguageChristopher Gauker. things possible? How, having once perceived the herds by the lake, does the agent remember this for later use? My answer is that one way he may do it is ...
- Praetextati mores: Juvenal's Second Satire.Christopher Nappa -1998 -Hermes 126 (1):90-108.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Associative allegiances and political Obligations.Christopher Wellman -1997 -Social Theory and Practice 23 (2):181–204.
- Nature, Value Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III.Christopher J. Preston &Wayne Ouderkirk (eds.) -2006 - Springer.This is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. Rolston himself, in a detailed reply to each of his critics at the end of the volume, reveals where some of these criticisms sting him the most.
- A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinematic'Worlds'.Christopher S. Yates -2006 -Contemporary Aesthetics 4.
- The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Judicial Interpretation to Judge-Made Law (2nd edition).Christopher Wolfe -1994 - Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.'A clear, readable and fair account of the development of judicial review.'-Ashley Montagu.
- Literature, Morality and the Individual in the Shadows of Postmodernism.Christopher Cordner -1998 -Literature & Aesthetics 8:60-77.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Professional responsibility and the banks.Christopher Cowton -2019 - In Christopher Cowton & James Dempsey,Business Ethics After the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons From the Crash. New York: Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- Mediaeval Religion and Other Essays.Christopher Dawson -1935 -The Monist 45:309.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Epistemology, the constitutive, and the principle-based account of modality.Christopher Peacocke -2018 - In Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski,The Routledge Handbook of Modality. New York: Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- Does the Philosophy of Art Have a Mind/Body Problem?Christopher Perricone -2004 -Philosophy Now 46:23-26.
- Dromenon.Christopher S. Wood -2012 -Common Knowledge 18 (1):106-116.“Dromenon” was and is the rubric governing the fourth and final floor of Aby Warburg's Library. The word means “the thing done,” “the action,” and in the context of the Greek Mysteries referred to rites, as opposed to words and images. In the Warburg Library in London, dromenon covers law, social institutions, folklore, and customs, among which Warburg located politics. This essay is in large part a reflection on what Warburg understood by politics and its inherent conflict with libraries. For (...) Warburg, both politics and libraries were ways of managing time; and the basic irony underscored in this article is that academic politics in the UK is now threatening the Warburg Library's continued existence. (shrink)No categories
- Richard Kearney, Terrence Malick, and the hidden life of sense.Christopher Yates -2023 - In Brian Treanor & James Taylor,Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Universal human rights from an African social contract.Christopher Allsobrook -2018 - In Edwin E. Etieyibo,Perspectives in social contract theory. Washington DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
- Democracy as a non–instrumentally just procedure.Christopher Griffin -2003 -Journal of Political Philosophy 11 (1):111–121.
- Do Codes Make a Difference? The Case of Bank Lending and the Environment.Christopher J. Cowton &Paul Thompson -2000 -Journal of Business Ethics 24 (2):165 - 178.Codes of conduct are a conspicuous feature of modern business organization, but doubts have been raised regarding their efficacy in ensuring high standards of behavior. Although some of the issues involved have been discussed at some length in the business ethics literature, the amount of systematic empirical evidence on the impact of codes is very limited. This paper seeks to make a contribution to that body of knowledge by studying the policies and procedures of a sample of banks which have (...) signed a statement on banking and the environment promulgated by the United Nations Development Programme. Although some differences are found when compared with a sample of banks which did not sign the Statement, they are not extensive. The implications of the findings, for codes of conduct and for future empirical studies, are then discussed. (shrink)
- What could be caused must actually be caused.Christopher Gregory Weaver -2012 -Synthese 184 (3):299-317.I give two arguments for the claim that all events which occur at the actual world and are such that they could be caused, are also such that they must actually be caused. The first argument is an improvement of a similar argument advanced by Alexander Pruss, which I show to be invalid. It uses Pruss’s Brouwer Analog for counterfactual logic, and, as a consequence, implies inconsistency with Lewis’s semantics for counterfactuals. While (I suggest) this consequence may not be objectionable, (...) the argument founders on the fact that Pruss’s Brouwer Analog has a clear counterexample. I thus turn to a second, “Lewisian” argument, which requires only an affirmation of one element of Lewis’s analysis of causation and one other, fairly weak possibility claim about the nature of wholly contingent events. The final section of the paper explains how both arguments escape objections from supposed indeterminacy in quantum physics. (shrink)
- Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings.Christopher W. Gowans (ed.) -2000 - New York: Routledge.Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one of the central problems in moral thinking. It also provides a stimulating stepping-stone to some of the perennial problems of philosophy, such as relativism, scepticism, and objectivity. _Moral Disagreements_ is the first anthology to bring together classic and contemporary readings on this key topic. Clearly divided into five parts; The Historical Debate; Voices from Anthropology; Challenges to (...) Moral Objectivity; Defenses of Moral Objectivity; and New Directions, the anthology presents readings from the following key thinkers: * Sextus, Empiricus, Chagnon, Wong, MacIntyre * Aquinas, Shweder, Brink, Rawls * Montaigne, Turner, Nussbaum, Narayan * Hume, Mackie, Gewirth * Nietzsche, Williams, Berlin. A distinctive feature of the anthology is that it brings philosophers into dialogue with well-known anthropologists. Also included is a comprehensive introduction byChristopher Gowans, introducing the problem of moral disagreement to those coming to the topic for the first time. (shrink)
- From the Critique of Hegel to the Critique of Capital.Christopher J. Arthur -2000 - In Tony Burns & Ian Fraser,The Hegel-Marx connection. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 105--130.
- The spectral ontology of value.Christopher J. Arthur -2001 -Radical Philosophy 107:32-42.No categories
- The use of secondary data in business ethics research.Christopher J. Cowton -1998 -Journal of Business Ethics 17 (4):423-434.The relatively recent increase in empirical research conducted in business ethics has been accompanied by a growing literature which addresses its present shortcomings and continuing challenges. Particular attention has been focused on the difficulties of obtaining valid and reliable primary data. However, little or no attention has been paid to the use of secondary data. The aim of this paper is to stimulate the interest of business ethics researchers in using secondary data, either as a substitute or complement for primary (...) data, bearing in mind both the benefits and shortcomings of doing so. It is suggested that secondary data not only offer advantages in terms of cost and effort, as conventionally described in research methods books, but also that in certain cases their use may overcome some of the difficulties that particularly afflict business ethics researchers in the gathering of primary data. In order to help business ethicists respond to this call for greater consideration of the potential offered by secondary data, the wide variety of forms that such data may take is indicated and a number of themes regarding their use discussed. (shrink)
- Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction.Christopher W. Gowans -2014 - New York: Routledge.The first book of its kind, Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical interpretations and analyses of Buddhist ethics. It begins with a survey of traditional Buddhist ethical thought and practice, mainly in the Pali Canon and early Mahāyāna schools, and an account of the emergence of Buddhist moral philosophy as a distinct discipline in the modern world. It then examines recent debates about karma, rebirth and nirvana, well-being, normative ethics, moral objectivity, moral psychology, and the (...) issue of freedom, responsibility and determinism. The book also introduces the reader to philosophical discussions of topics in socially engaged Buddhism such as human rights, war and peace, and environmental ethics. (shrink)
- Logic of Choice or Logic of Care? Uncertainty, Technological Mediation and Responsible Innovation.Christopher Groves -2015 -NanoEthics 9 (3):321-333.The regulation of innovation reflects a specific imaginary of the role of governance that makes it external to the field it governs. It is argued that this decision and rule-based view of regulation is insufficient to deal with the inescapable uncertainties that are produced by innovation. In particular, relying on risk-based knowledge as the basis of regulation fails to deal sufficiently both with the problem that innovation ensures the future will not resemble the past, and with the problem that the (...) social priorities that underlie innovation often remain unquestioned. Recently, rights-based frameworks have been defended as principle-based approaches to innovation governance that address the gaps which trouble an understanding of regulation as guided by risk-based decision procedures. An alternative view of governance is defended, based on a concept of care drawn from feminist ethics and other traditions. Care aims, not at justifying punctual decisions, but at transforming institutions and practices, with the goal of creating specific institutional ‘virtues’, and requires the broad and deep participation of publics in shaping innovation. In this way, governance is made internal to innovation. (shrink)
- A Phenomenological Study of Thinking.Christopher M. Aanstoos -1983 -Duquesne Studies in Phenomenological Psychology 4:244-256.
- Playing by the rules: ethical criteria at an ethical investment fund.Christopher Cowton -1999 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 8 (1):60-69.Although ethical investment is a growing phenonenon which attracts a signficant amount of media interest, relatively little has been written about the internal operations of ethical investment funds. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with a fund manager and participant observation at meetings of the fund’s ethical advisory committee, this paper examines the decision making of one ethical unit trust operating in the United Kingdom. In particular, it describes the development of the ethical criteria and the ways in which (...) their implementation was monitored. Several significant parallels between publicly stated ethical investment criteria and corporate codes of ethics are then discusssed. (shrink)
- Accounting and financial ethics: From Margin to mainstream?Christopher Cowton -1999 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 8 (2):99–107.
- Understanding Team Learning Dynamics Over Time.Christopher W. Wiese &C. Shawn Burke -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- Unselfish Salvation.Christopher Arroyo -2005 -Faith and Philosophy 22 (2):160-172.
- What Is the Psychosocial Impact of Providing Genetic and Genomic Health Information to Individuals?An Overview of Systematic Reviews.Christopher H. Wade -2019 -Hastings Center Report 49 (S1):88-96.Optimistic predictions that genetic and genomic testing will provide health benefits have been tempered by the concern that individuals who receive their results may experience negative psychosocial outcomes. This potential ethical and clinical concern has prompted extensive conversations between policy‐makers, health researchers, ethicists, and the general public. Fortunately, the psychosocial consequences of such testing are subject to empirical investigation, and over the past quarter century, research that clarifies some of the types, likelihood, and severity of potential harms from learning the (...) results of the testing has accumulated. I aim to provide an overview of the findings of this research by looking at selected systematic reviews. This will convey the gist of the literature’s quality and coverage, reveal gaps in existing knowledge, and highlight promising areas for future scholarship. (shrink)
- Taking Other Human Beings Seriously: Rorty's Ethics of Choice and Responsibility.Christopher J. Voparil -2014 -Contemporary Pragmatism 11 (1):83-102.
- Expertise, wisdom and moral philosophers: A response to Gesang.Christopher Cowley -2012 -Bioethics 26 (6):337-342.In a recent issue of Bioethics, Bernard Gesang asks whether a moral philosopher possesses greater moral expertise than a non-philosopher, and his answer is a qualified yes, based not so much on his infallible access to the truth, but on the quality of his theoretically-informed moral justifications. I reject Gesang's claim that there is such a thing as moral expertise, although the moral philosopher may well make a valid contribution to the ethics committee as a concerned and educated citizen. I (...) suggest that wisdom is a lot more interesting to examine than moral expertise. Again, however, moral philosophers have no monopoly on wisdom, and the study of philosophy may even impede its cultivation. (shrink)
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