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- Confidence and accuracy of near-threshold discrimination responses.CraigKunimoto,Jeff Miller &Harold Pashler -2001 -Consciousness and Cognition 10 (3):294-340.This article reports four subliminal perception experiments using the relationship between confidence and accuracy to assess awareness. Subjects discriminated among stimuli and indicated their confidence in each discrimination response. Subjects were classified as being aware of the stimuli if their confidence judgments predicted accuracy and as being unaware if they did not. In the first experiment, confidence predicted accuracy even at stimulus durations so brief that subjects claimed to be performing at chance. This finding indicates that subjects's claims that they (...) are ''just guessing'' should not be accepted as sufficient evidence that they are completely unaware of the stimuli. Experiments 2-4 tested directly for subliminal perception by comparing the minimum exposure duration needed for better than chance discrimination performance against the minimum needed for confidence to predict accuracy. The latter durations were slightly but significantly longer, suggesting that under certain circumstances people can make perceptual discriminations even though the information that was used to make those discriminations is not consciously available. (shrink)
- Tomoka Takeuchi, Robert D. Ogilvie, Anthony V. Ferrelli, Timothy I. Murphy, and Kathy Belicki.Kelly A. Forrest,CraigKunimoto,Jeff Miller,Harold Pashler,J. G. Taylor &Valerie Hardcastle -2001 -Consciousness and Cognition 10:158.
- The Tensed Theory of Time : A Critical Examination.William LaneCraig -2000 - Kluwer Academic.In this book and the companion volume The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination,Craig undertakes the first thorough appraisal of the arguments for and against the tensed and tenseless theories of time.
- Introduction to Virtues and Their Vices.Kevin Timpe &Craig Boyd -2013 - In Timpe Kevin & Boyd Craig,Virtues and Their Vices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 1-34.No categories
- Faith and reason: three views.Steve Wilkens,Craig A. Boyd,Alan G. Padgett &Carl A. Raschke (eds.) -2014 - Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press.Steve Wilkens edits a debate between three different understandings of the relationship between faith and reason, between theology and philosophy. The three views include: Faith and Philosophy in Tension, Faith Seeking Understanding and the Thomistic Synthesis. This introduction to a timeless quandary is an essential resource for students.No categories
- Beyond man: race, coloniality, and philosophy of religion.An Yountae &EleanorCraig (eds.) -2021 - Durham: Duke University Press.Beyond Man offers models, methods, and new directions for the still nascent, long overdue conversation between philosophical studies of religion and critical studies of race and coloniality. The interdisciplinary contributors approach this work through philosophical, theological, historical, and aesthetic lenses. Euro-descended Christianity has historically defined itself by its Others while paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its totality. The essays in Beyond Man disrupt the normative categories of religion and philosophy by rearranging presumptions about what constitutes philosophy (...) of religion. (shrink)
- Habermas and Religion.Craig J. Calhoun,Eduardo Mendieta &Jonathan VanAntwerpen (eds.) -2012 - Malden, MA: Polity.To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspective and engaging key themes in philosophy, politics and social theory. Habermas argues that the once widely accepted hypothesis of progressive secularization fails to account for the multiple trajectories of (...) modernization in the contemporary world. He calls attention to the contemporary significance of "postmetaphysical" thought and "postsecular" consciousness - even in Western societies that have embraced a rationalistic understanding of public reason. Edited byCraig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, _Habermas and Religion_ presents a series of original and sustained engagements with Habermas's writing on religion in the public sphere, featuring new work and critical reflections from leading philosophers, social and political theorists, and anthropologists. Contributors to the volume respond both to Habermas's ambitious and well-developed philosophical project and to his most recent work on religion. The book closes with an extended response from Habermas - itself a major statement from one of today's most important thinkers. (shrink)
- Unifying default reasoning and belief revision in a modal framework.Craig Boutilier -1994 -Artificial Intelligence 68 (1):33-85.
- Optimal social choice functions: A utilitarian view.Craig Boutilier,Ioannis Caragiannis,Simi Haber,Tyler Lu,Ariel D. Procaccia &Or Sheffet -2015 -Artificial Intelligence 227 (C):190-213.
- Players, Characters, and the Gamer's Dilemma.Craig Bourne &Emily Caddick Bourne -2019 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (2):133-143.Is there any difference between playing video games in which the player’s character commits murder and video games in which the player’s character commits pedophilic acts? Morgan Luck’s “Gamer’s Dilemma” has established this question as a puzzle concerning notions of permissibility and harm. We propose that a fruitful alternative way to approach the question is through an account of aesthetic engagement. We develop an alternative to the dominant account of the relationship between players and the actions of their characters, and (...) argue that the ethical difference between so-called “virtual murder” and “virtual pedophilia” is to be understood in terms of the fiction-making resources available to players. We propose that the relevant considerations for potential players to navigate concern (1) attempting to make certain characters intelligible, and (2) using aspects of oneself as resources for homomorphic representation. (shrink)
- Future contingents, non-contradiction, and the law of excluded middle muddle.Craig Bourne -2004 -Analysis 64 (2):122-128.
- Temporal vs. spatial information as a reinforcer of observing.Craig A. Bowe &James A. Dinsmoor -1981 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 17 (1):33-36.
- Personification without Impossible Content.Craig Bourne &Emily Caddick Bourne -2018 -British Journal of Aesthetics 58 (2):165-179.Personification has received little philosophical attention, but Daniel Nolan has recently argued that it has important ramifications for the relationship between fictional representation and possibility. Nolan argues that personification involves the representation of metaphysically impossible identities, which is problematic for anyone who denies that fictions can have impossible content. We develop an account of personification which illuminates how personification enhances engagement with fiction, without need of impossible content. Rather than representing an identity, personification is something that is done with representations—a (...) matter of use rather than content—and involves only a comparison of possibilities. We illustrate our account using the personification of death in the film Meet Joe Black, and show that there are no grounds for taking it to be fictionally true that there is a metaphysically impossible identity between Death and death. (shrink)
- Alliance Network Centrality, Board Composition, and Corporate Social Performance.Craig D. Macaulay,Orlando C. Richard,Mike W. Peng &Maria Hasenhuttl -2018 -Journal of Business Ethics 151 (4):997-1008.What critical characteristics do firms have that determine the scale and scope of corporate social responsibility activities they undertake? This paper examines two disparate predictors of corporate social performance. First, using the lens of the resource-based view, we examine the role of alliance network centrality on corporate social performance. We find that centrality enhances corporate social performance. Second, we investigate how board composition affects corporate social performance. Specifically, drawing on stakeholder theory, we find that the percentage of female directors predicts (...) greater corporate social performance. In addition, we look at the influence of outside directors on this relationship. Our findings show that the presence of more outside directors positively moderates the relationship between female directors and corporate social performance. (shrink)
- Framing effects and rationality.Shlomi Sher & McKenzie &R. M.Craig -2008 - In Nick Chater & Mike Oaksford,The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.Export citation
Bookmark - Subverting Aristotle: religion, history, and philosophy in early modern science.Craig Martin -2014 - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.Scholasticism, appropriation, and censure -- Humanists' invectives and Aristotle's impiety -- Renaissance Aristotle, Renaissance Averroes -- Italian Aristotelianism after Pomponazzi -- Religious reform and the reassessment of Aristotelianism -- Learned anti-Aristoteliansim -- History, erudition, and Aristotle's past -- Pious novelty.
- The choice of criteria in ethical investment.Craig Mackenzie -1998 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 7 (2):81–86.How do ethical investment funds choose their ethical criteria? How intelligent is this process from an ethical point of view? This paper reports on his field work carried out as part of the Bath University ‘Morals and Money’ Project. After completing this research, Dr.Craig Mackenzie left academia to become ethics development officer at Friends Provident. He can be contacted at 15 Old Bailey, London, EC4M 7AP;[email protected].
- Procreating in an Overpopulated World: Role Moralities and a Climate Crisis.Craig Stanbury -2024 -Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 21 (4):611-623.It is an open question when procreation is justified. Antinatalists argue that bringing a new individual into the world is morally wrong, whereas pronatalists say that creating new life is morally good. In between these positions lie attempts to provide conditions for when taking an anti or pronatal stance is appropriate. This paper is concerned with developing one of these attempts, which can be called qualified pronatalism. Qualified pronatalism typically claims that while procreation can be morally permissible, there are constraints (...) on when it is justified. These constraints often concern whether an individual is motivated to procreate for the right reasons. For instance, if someone is not sufficiently concerned with the child’s future welfare, the qualified pronatalist will say that procreation is not justified. Moreover, David Wasserman says that this concern forms a role-based duty. That is, prospective parents have special duties to be concerned for the child’s future welfare by virtue of the role they occupy. In this paper, I argue that a proper examination of a prospective parent’s role-based duties entails that more is needed to justify procreation. Bringing a new person into the world leaves fewer resources for people who already need them, and the current size of the human population is unsustainable from a planetary point of view. Therefore, even if there is nothing wrong with procreation per se, the external condition of overpopulation, and its ensuing public health issues, plausibly gives rise to a role-based duty that prospective parents must account for when deciding whether to procreate. (shrink)
- Reaching for the unknown: Multiple target encoding and real-time decision-making in a rapid reach task.Craig S. Chapman,Jason P. Gallivan,Daniel K. Wood,Jennifer L. Milne,Jody C. Culham &Melvyn A. Goodale -2010 -Cognition 116 (2):168-176.No categories
- Freedom, Dialectic and Philosophical Anthropology.Craig Reeves -2013 -Journal of Critical Realism 12 (1):13-44.In this article I present an original interpretation of Roy Bhaskar’s project in Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom. His major move is to separate an ontological dialectic from a critical dialectic, which in Hegel are laminated together. The ontological dialectic, which in Hegel is the self-unfolding of spirit, becomes a realist and relational philosophical anthropology. The critical dialectic, which in Hegel is confined to retracing the steps of spirit, now becomes an active force, dialectical critique, which interposes into the ontological (...) dialectic at the ‘fourth dimension’ of a naturalistically reconfigured account of relational human nature, agency. This account allows Bhaskar to explain and vindicate the crucial role social criticism must play in any realistic project of self-emancipation, and to create a space that didn’t exist in Hegel for an open-ended concrete utopianism. Freedom is thus the actualization of human nature, but is not automatic: the relation of human nature to freedom is mediated historically through dialectical critique, which, informed by concrete utopianism, can have emancipatory power. Content Type Journal Article Category Article Pages 13-44 AuthorsCraig Reeves, Brunel University Journal Journal of Critical Realism Online ISSN 1572-5138 Print ISSN 1476-7430 Journal Volume Volume 12 Journal Issue Volume 12, Number 1 / 2013. (shrink)
- Two Routes "To Concreteness" in the Work of the Bakhtin Circle.Craig Brandist -2002 -Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (3):521.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 63.3 (2002) 521-537 [Access article in PDF] Two Routes "to Concreteness" in the Work of the Bakhtin CircleCraig Brandist In 1918 the young Georg Lukács published an obituary of the last major Baden School neo-Kantian Emil Lask in which the latter's varied work was commended for being "underlain by an essential common drive [Drang]: the drive to concreteness." 1 This "drive" (...) was especially problematic, however, in the work of thinkers overtly committed to neo-Kantianism, a doctrine that was in its own time a byword for abstruseness and academic abstraction. Just how concrete could a neo-Kantian idealism become without abandoning its core insistence that the world is "produced" by indwelling categories of mind? Lask pursued this problem with a thoroughness unmatched by any other German neo-Kantian, and in doing so he became an important influence on, among others, Lukács, Max Weber, and Martin Heidegger. This article discusses the prevalence of the same "drive" in the varied work of those Russian champions of neo-Kantianism, the Bakhtin Circle, where "concreteness" is invoked so frequently that it almost begins to take on the character of a mantra. The case of the Bakhtin Circle is especially illustrative because the "drive to concreteness," which all members of the Circle shared, resulted in a significant difference of opinion about the extent to which the central theses of neo-Kantianism can be salvaged. Like Lask, Bakhtin was particularly keen to maintain the core of neo-Kantian ideas, while Voloshinov and, following behind him, Medvedev, were much less averse to breaking with the central project of German idealism itself. In each case the Brentanian notion of intentionality, the doctrine that consciousness is always consciousness of something, plays a central role. Consciousness exists in acts directed towards objects, existent or otherwise, that are given to consciousness. Brentano and his followers were invariably anti-Kantian, and they were extremely hostile to the central tenet of neo-Kantian idealism, that objects of consciousness are "produced" from categories dwelling in a transcendental [End Page 521] "consciousness in general" (Bewusstsein überhaupt). While it is far from certain that Brentanian and Kantian principles are incompatible at every level, there is no doubt that any attempt to integrate the notion of intentionality into neo-Kantianism was going to threaten the basis of neo-Kantianism as such. 2 As Gabriel Motzkin notes, Lask's attempt to carry such a project through to its logical conclusion ultimately led to "the destruction of the neo-Kantian empire from within." 3 The Bakhtinian project led in precisely this direction, and this article examines the way in which the work of the Circle shows distinct and ultimately incompatible responses to the crisis of the "empire." Revising neo-Kantianism: Ernst Cassirer and Emil Lask The abstract, or what Bakhtin terms the "theoretist," character of neo-Kantianism derived from two fundamental and interrelated features. The first was a principled opposition to all distinctions between cognition and perception, and the second was an identification of subjectivity with the system of objectifying functions that have their true being in cultural documents. According to neo-Kantian principles, nothing is "given" and everything is posited in an act of subjective spontaneity: objects are constituted from transcendental categories dwelling in "pure consciousness." Summing up the philosophical project of Hermann Cohen, the leader of the Marburg School, Ernst Cassirer noted that "any appeal to a merely given should fall aside; in place of every supposed foundation in things there should enter the pure foundations of thinking, of willing, of artistic and religious consciousness." 4Though seeking to broaden his own enquiry beyond the "trichotomy of the Kantian Critiques," Cassirer, the last major Marburg neo-Kantian, remained wedded to the neo-Kantian project of deriving the transcendental preconditions of the "formations" in which the "objective spirit... consists and exists" and dealt only with a universal subject devoid of practical limitations. 5 Cassirer drew close to phenomenology in the 1920s, when he embarked on his great project The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, presenting... (shrink)
- The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence.Craig Brandist,David Shepherd,Lecturer in Russian Studies David Shepherd,Galin Tihanov &Junior Research Fellow in Russian and German Intellectual History Galin Tihanov -2004 - Manchester University Press.The Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has traditionally been seen as the leading figure in the group of intellectuals known as the Bakhtin Circle. The writings of other members of the Circle are considered much less important than his work, while Bakhtin's achievement has been exaggerated in proportion to the downgrading of the thinkers with whom he associated in the 1920s. This volume, which includes new translations and studies of the work of the most important members of the (...) Circle, sets out to correct the distortions in the established representations of its activity. The original contributions to literary and linguistic theory made by Valentin Voloshinov and Pavel Medvedev (but frequently credited to Bakhtin) are assessed, and the distinctiveness of their approaches is highlighted. (shrink)
- Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion.Craig Boutilier,Relu Patrascu,Pascal Poupart &Dale Schuurmans -2006 -Artificial Intelligence 170 (8-9):686-713.
- Bakhtin, Cassirer and symbolic forms.Craig Brandist -1997 -Radical Philosophy 85:20-27.
- Fairness and Performance Enhancement in Sport.Craig L. Carr -2008 -Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 35 (2):193-207.
- Paul Copan.William LaneCraig -2000No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Pride and Humility: Tempering the Desire for Excellence.Craig A. Boyd -2013 - In Timpe Kevin & Boyd Craig,Virtues and Their Vices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 245.
- Who Are Our Nomads Today?: Deleuze's Political Ontology and the Revolutionary Problematic.Craig Lundy -2013 -Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (2):231-249.This paper will address the question of the revolution in Gilles Deleuze's political ontology. More specifically, it will explore what kind of person Deleuze believes is capable of bringing about genuine and practical transformation. Contrary to the belief that a Deleuzian programme for change centres on the facilitation of ‘absolute deterritorialisation’ and pure ‘lines of flight’, I will demonstrate how Deleuze in fact advocates a more cautious and incremental if not conservative practice that promotes the ethic of prudence. This will (...) be achieved in part through a critical analysis of the dualistic premises upon which much Deleuzian political philosophy is based, alongside the topological triads that can also be found in his work. In light of this critique, Deleuze's thoughts on what it is to be and become a revolutionary will be brought into relief, giving rise to the question: who really is Deleuze's nomad, his true revolutionary or figure of transformation? (shrink)
- The emerging relationship of psychology and the internet: Proposed guidelines for conducting internet intervention research.Craig A. Childress &Joy K. Asamen -1998 -Ethics and Behavior 8 (1):19 – 35.The Internet is rapidly developing into an important medium of communication in modem society, and both psychological research and therapeutic interventions are being increasingly conducted using this new communication medium. As therapeutic interventions using the Internet are becoming more prevalent, it is becoming increasingly important to conduct research on psychotherapeutic Internet interventions to assist in the development of an appropriate standard of practice regarding interventions using this new medium. In this article, we examine the Internet and the current psychological uses (...) which are being initiated using this medium. Ethical concerns related to the psychological use of the Internet are discussed, and guidelines are proposed for the conduct of Internet intervention research. (shrink)
- Fatalism and the Future.Craig Bourne -2011 - In Craig Callender,The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time. Oxford University Press. pp. 41-67.
- Perception and presupposition in real-time language comprehension: Insights from anticipatory processing.Craig G. Chambers &Valerie San Juan -2008 -Cognition 108 (1):26-50.
- Psychiatry, Ethics, and Digital Phenotyping: Moral Challenges and Considerations for Returning Mental Health Research Results to College Students.Craig W. McFarland,Makenna E. Law,Ivan E. Ramirez,Ithika S. Senthilnathan &Kelisha M. Williams -2024 -American Journal of Bioethics 24 (2):105-108.The integration of digital phenotyping in psychiatry promises unprecedented insights into mental health, particularly in college settings where mental well-being is a growing concern. The COVID-19...
- The Call for a New Earth, a New People: An Untimely Problem.Craig Lundy -2021 -Theory, Culture and Society 38 (2):119-139.In their final book, Deleuze and Guattari state that the practice of philosophy ‘calls for a future form, for a new earth and people that do not yet exist’. This call is deeply problematic: aside from its aristocratic overtones, it is difficult to ascertain what it might sound like, how to give it voice, and what might come of it. But it is also problematic in form. In this paper I will explain how. After investigating its genesis in Deleuze’s engagements (...) with Nietzsche and Bergson, I will outline the geography of the call as it appears in the mature work of Deleuze and Guattari. Aided by this analysis, the paper will conclude by making some tentative remarks on what is to be done with the call for a new earth and people – or, more accurately, what might be done with it, for the benefit of what is to come. (shrink)No categories
- The Modern Political Imaginary and the Problem of Hierarchy.Craig Browne -2019 -Social Epistemology 33 (5):398-409.Hierarchy has been a central concern of work on the modern political imaginary. The need to elucidate hierarchy’s deeper sources and its legitimations were some of the motivations behind Cornelius Castoriadis’ development of the notion of the imaginary. The work of Claude Lefort on the political imaginary similarly commences from a critical analysis of the hierarchical form of bureaucracy and its place in the constitution of totalitarian political regimes. In a different vein, Charles Taylor’s conception of the imaginary details a (...) long-term process of the erosion of preceding forms of hierarchy and their justifications. In the contemporary period, the opposition to hierarchy has penetrated organisations and institutions that had previously been shaped by it, like the family, the capitalist firm, the school, and the political movement. Despite the potentials that these initiatives suggest of a change in the political imaginary, it will be argued that forms of hierarchy have, to varying degrees, been reconstituted and that the problem of hierarchy appears in new ideological forms, both with respect to institutionalised power and the legitimating justifications for how things are organised. The critique of hierarchy was once associated with the radical democratic imaginary, however, there have recently been perverse mobilisations. (shrink)
- Contending with Christianity's Critics.Paul Copan &William LaneCraig (eds.) -2009 - B&H Publishing.Eighteen respected modern Christian apologists respond to the popular writings of New Atheists and others who doubt God's existence, the historical Jesus, and Christian doctrines.No categories
- The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of an Augustinian Phenomenology.Craig J. N. De Paulo -2006 - Lewiston, NY 14092, USA: The Edwin Mellen press.The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of an Augustinian Phenomenology, edited with an Introduction byCraig J. N. de Paulo Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Details: Preface by John Macquarrie and distinguished contributors include Robert Dodaro, O.S.A., Peg Birmingham, Theodore Kisiel, Daniel Dahlstrom, George Pattison, James K. A. Smith, Wayne Hankey and Matthias Fritsch. (Advance Praise by James J. O’Donnell, Jaroslav Pelikan and Joseph Margolis and reviewed in the American Catholic Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 82, Spring (...) 2008, issue no. 2, in article form.) Bishop de Paulo is the founder of "Augustinian phenomenology," a field within phenomenology that merges the Christian existential thought of Augustine with the methodology of Martin Heidegger. (shrink)
- Rethinking Renaissance Averroism.Craig Martin -2007 -Intellectual History Review 17 (1):3-28.
- Materializing Bakhtin: The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory.Craig Brandist &Galin Tikhanov -2000 - Palgrave-Macmillan.Interdisciplinary by design and intent, this volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain, and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history, and linguistics. The articles demonstrate that exploring the background of Bakhtinian thought is a better way of appreciating their significance for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural phenomena.
- The invention of atmosphere.Craig Martin -2015 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 52 (C):44-54.
- Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy.Marcia Morgan &MeganCraig (eds.) -2016 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. The chapters show the breadth and scope of his work while expanding key insights into new contexts and testing his work against thinkers outside the canon of his own scholarship.
- Relation and Rupture at the End of Life.MeganCraig -2024 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 38 (1):31-46.ABSTRACT This article considers three kinds of relations: being-there-alongside, waiting, and staying, that come into focus at or after the end of life. The first relation is explored in light of Heidegger’s and Levinas’s contrasting accounts of responsibility, the second in terms of Bergson’s notion of hesitation, and the third in relation to Winnicott’s description of a “holding environment.” The work serves as a plea for spaces and practices that support more generous, open-ended, and nuanced relations among those who are (...) dying and those who attend to and survive them. (shrink)
- A situated philosophical perspective would make some of the paradigm wars in qualitative evidence synthesis redundant: A commentary on Bergdahl’s critique of the meta‐aggregative approach.Craig Lockwood,Daphne Stannard,Merete Bjerrum,Judith Carrier,Catrin Evans,Karin Hannes,Zachary Munn,Kylie Porritt &Susan W. Salmond -2019 -Nursing Inquiry 26 (4):e12317.No categories
- Solidarity and Fear: Hegel and Sartre on the Mediations of Reciprocity.Craig Matarrese -2001 -Philosophy Today 45 (1):43-55.
- J. Howard Sobel on the Kalam Cosmological Argument.William LaneCraig -2006 -Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (4):565-84.Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA 90639, USA.
- Da Vinci’s Mental Code: Sacred Geometrics Identified within Psychology.Craig Matheson -2024 -Open Journal of Philosophy 14 (1):38-53.Objective: Based upon notions to a mental vision of the Vitruvian Man, to determine if any obvious asymmetries exist within Leonardo da Vinci’s timeless schematic—which is famous for its highly symmetrical presentation. Methods: A qualitative analysis performed upon a Vitruvian Man print (taken from the namesake Wikipedia article) to: closely examine if the man’s head is positioned to noticeably tilt toward either direction—left or right—of a dissecting line superimposed for equally splitting (vertically) the circle in the schematic; and, to closely (...) examine the man’s eyes for any artistic asymmetry therein drawn. Results: The man’s head is determined tilting toward his right half/hemisphere of the circle. Also noticeable: the man’s right eye appears being of a much brighter look relative to a darkness observable about his left eye; and, an outline to an inverted equilateral triangle is identifiably shaded surrounding his left eye, whereas a more contrastingly circular shape appears as so shaded around his right eye. Discussion: Once a certain awareness is drawn to such artistic anomalies, they can become so clearly observable that one may wonder if Leonardo da Vinci did as much intentionally. And if so, then why? This paper details a hypothesis necessarily built upon the assumption that Leonardo intentionally embedded such cues within his Vitruvian Man whereby speculations toward a hemispheric brain theory can be established of such cryptic nature, given a then-pronouncedly authoritarian Catholic Church, whereupon he may have figured it possible to receive credit posthumously if ever such notions were proven valid. Incidentally, the concerning analysis as to why the Vitruvian Man’s head tilts in such a fashion aligns with Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s peer-reviewed findings to a hemispheric hypothesis. (shrink)No categories
- Metaphilosophy.Paul Thagard &Craig Beam -unknownanalogies that epistemologists have used to discuss the structure and validity of knowledge. After reviewing foundational, coherentist, and other metaphors for knowledge, we discuss the metaphilosophical significance of the prevalence of such metaphors. We argue that they support a view of philosophy as akin to science rather than poetry or rhetoric.
- Deleuze’s political vision.Craig Lundy -2017 -Contemporary Political Theory 16 (3):417-421.
- Farmers’ Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds.Craig Borowiak -2004 -Politics and Society 32 (4):511-543.This article analyzes “farmers’ rights” as a strategy of resistance against the perceived inequities of intellectual property rights regimes for plant varieties. As commercial models of intellectual property have made their way into agriculture, farmers’ traditional seed-saving practices have been increasingly delegitimized. In response, farmers have adopted the language of farmers’ rights to demand greater material recognition of their contributions and better measures to protect their autonomy. This campaign has mixed implications. On one hand, farmers’rights are a unique form of (...) right that may help transform conventions of intellectual property in ways that are better suited for registering and materially encouraging alternative forms of innovation, such as those offered by farming communities. On the other hand, farmers’ rights have proved enormously difficult to enact. And by situating farmers’rights alongside easily enacted commercial breeders’rights, the campaign risks further legitimizing the inequities it is responding to. (shrink)No categories
- Was Thomas Aquinas a Sociobiologist? Thomistic Natural Law, Rational Goods, and Sociobiology.Craig A. Boyd -2004 -Zygon 39 (3):659-680.Abstract.Traditional Darwinian theory presents two difficulties for Thomistic natural‐law morality: relativism and essentialism. The sociobiology of E. O. Wilson seems to refute the idea of evolutionary relativism. Larry Arnhart has argued that Wilson's views on sociobiology can provide a scientific framework for Thomistic natural‐law theory. However, in his attempt to reconcile Aquinas's views with Wilson's sociobiology, Arnhart fails to address a critical feature of Aquinas's ethics: the role of rational goods in natural law. Arnhart limits Aquinas's understanding of rationality to (...) the Humean notion of economic rationality–that “reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions.” On Aquinas's view, rationality discovers goods that transcend the merely biological, viz., the pursuit of truth, virtue, and God. I believe that Aquinas's natural‐law morality is consistent with some accounts of sociobiology but not the more ontologically reductionist versions like the one presented by Wilson and defended by Arnhart. Moreover, Aquinas's normative account of rationality is successful in refuting the challenges of evolutionary relativism as well as the reductionism found in most sociobiological approaches to ethics. (shrink)
- Augustine, Aquinas, & Tolkien: Three Catholic views on Curiositas.Craig A. Boyd -2020 -Heythrop Journal 61 (2):222-233.
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