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- Michael H. v. Gerald D.: A Case Study of Political Ideology Disguised in Legal Thought.Jeffrey A.Ellsworth -2009 -International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 22 (1):105-122.The author attempts to apply semiotic analysis to a question of family law. By examining the language used by the Supreme Court in the title case, Michael H. v. Gerald D., along with the case briefs, lower court opinions, other Supreme Court cases and prior legal scholarship, the author attempts to determine the requisite relationships between father–child and father–mother in order for a legal tie to exist between a father and his biological child. The author tries to not only determine (...) the necessary circumstances but also the political ideology that distinguishes these familial ties. The author further attempts to analyze the goals of these underlying political ideologies. (shrink)
- Seeing Trees: Investigating Poetics of Place‐Based, Aesthetic Environmental Education with Heidegger and Wittgenstein.Jeffrey A. Stickney -2020 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 54 (5):1278-1305.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1278-1305, October 2020.
- Situated observation in Bohmian mechanics.Jeffrey A. Barrett -2021 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 88 (C):345-357.
- Complexity & Society.Jeffrey A. Goldstein &James K. Hazy -2011 -Emergence: Complexity and Organization 13 (3).No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - The Last Animal.Jeffrey A. Golub -2021 -Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (2):309-321.In this essay, I argue that Socrates adopts a philosophical stance of indifference that is particularly unique to the Protagoras. The peculiarity stems from Socrates’s significant interest in dealing with Protagoras as a certain kind of thinker rather than merely a sophist in general. The stance of indifference is shown to be a dramatic reaction to the attitude sophists like Protagoras take toward philosophical problems, specifically, thinkers who understand solutions to philosophical problems as commodities. The stance is shown to anticipate (...) certain Academic skeptical methods, to embolden Socratic ignorance, and shore up defenses against the sophistic insecurity of needing to succeed for the sake of success. This stance is elaborated upon in three specific aspects of Socrates’s dramatic portrayal culminating in a re-reading of the poem of Simonides and the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus. I resist readings that try to see the Protagoras as a simple takedown of sophistry or as a catalog of platonic doctrine, and instead treat Protagoras as a “philosopher in decline,” a significantly dangerous type of thinker who is savvy enough to repurpose genuine insight for the sake of easy answers to immensely difficult problems. (shrink)
- Irrational “Coefficients” in Renaissance Algebra.Jeffrey A. Oaks -2017 -Science in Context 30 (2):141-172.ArgumentFrom the time of al-Khwārizmī in the ninth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century algebraists did not allow irrational numbers to serve as coefficients. To multiply$\sqrt {18} $byx, for instance, the result was expressed as the rhetorical equivalent of$\sqrt {18{x^2}} $. The reason for this practice has to do with the premodern concept of a monomial. The coefficient, or “number,” of a term was thought of as how many of that term are present, and not as the scalar (...) multiple that we work with today. Then, in sixteenth-century Europe, a few algebraists began to allow for irrational coefficients in their notation. Christoff Rudolff was the first to admit them in special cases, and subsequently they appear more liberally in Cardano, Scheubel, Bombelli, and others, though most algebraists continued to ban them. We survey this development by examining the texts that show irrational coefficients and those that argue against them. We show that the debate took place entirely in the conceptual context of premodern, “cossic” algebra, and persisted in the sixteenth century independent of the development of the new algebra of Viète, Decartes, and Fermat. This was a formal innovation violating prevailing concepts that we propose could only be introduced because of the growing autonomy of notation from rhetorical text. (shrink)No categories
- Employment and Public Policy Issues Surrounding Medical Marijuana in the Workplace.Jeffrey A. Mello -2013 -Journal of Business Ethics 117 (3):659-666.The status of marijuana as an illegal drug has greatly evolved in recent years. Many countries have decriminalized possession of marijuana for personal use. Others have not decriminalized it but simply “tolerate” it for private personal use. Four countries have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana and one other tolerates the use of marijuana for medical purposes without having legislated a specific right for such possession and use. To date, 17 of the United States and the District of Columbia have also (...) passed laws regarding medical marijuana. However, state medical marijuana laws are at odds with the federal Controlled Substances Act, which prohibits possession of marijuana. This fact, in tandem with employer requirements under the Drug-Free Workplace Act, has created a dilemma for employers who have employees with medical conditions for which medical marijuana has been recommended. Given that 18 additional states currently have medical marijuana legislation pending, medical marijuana in the workplace is an issue which is not going to go away. As a result, it is time to examine the interface between federal and state laws as well as the public policy issues surrounding the lack of rights which medical marijuana patients have in their workplaces. (shrink)
- Psychosocial maturity and the forming of impressions.Jeffrey A. Goldman &Paul V. Olczak -1978 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 12 (1):5-7.
- The contents of consciousness: A neuropsychological conjecture.Jeffrey A. Gray -1995 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4):659-76.Drawing on previous models of anxiety, intermediate memory, the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, and goal-directed behaviour, a neuropsychological hypothesis is proposed for the generation of the contents of consciousness. It is suggested that these correspond to the outputs of a comparator that, on a moment-by-moment basis, compares the current state of the organism's perceptual world with a predicted state. An outline is given of the information-processing functions of the comparator system and of the neural systems which mediate them. The hypothesis (...) appears to be able to account for a number of key features of the contents of consciousness. However, it is argued that neitherthis nor any existing comparable hypothesis is yet able to explain why the brain should generate conscious experience of any kind at all. (shrink)
- The Cultural Thought of Ludwig von Mises.Jeffrey A. Tucker &Llewellyn H. Rockwell -1991 -Journal of Libertarian Studies 10 (1):23-52.Export citation Bookmark
- Toward an Evolution of Mind: Implications for the Faithful?Jeffrey A. Kurland -1999 -Zygon 34 (1):67-92.Ever since its inception, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has challenged assumptions about the nature of humankind and human institutions. It did not escape the notice of Darwin, sympathetic allies, or hostile contemporaries that his theory had profound implications for ethics and theology. In this paper I review some current sociobiological hypotheses about the mind that are based on the theory that the human mind is primarily a social tool. Many researchers now believe that both complex human (...) within‐group cooperation and between‐group competition are the anvils that may have shaped the modules of the mind. Given this evolutionary theory of the mind, the Darwinian challenge to theism, ethics, and faith is now being relaunched with a vengeance. However, I suggest that modern physics, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science all seem to fit nicely into the atheistic and phenomenological niche defined by Buddhism. (shrink)
- Mother knows best?Jeffrey A. Kurland -1985 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (4):675-676.
- What is the relation between language and consciousness?Jeffrey A. Gray -1991 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (4):679-679.
- Dark Ground and Unconscious in Schelling and Freud.Jeffrey A. Bernstein -2020 -Comparative and Continental Philosophy 12 (2):148-155.The past is never dead. It isn’t even past. –William Faulkner There is nothing so whole as a broken heart. –Rabbi Menachem Mendel of KotskThere has been a familial quarrel in psychoanalysis, almost...
- How Leo Strauss Approached Hegel on Faith and God.Jeffrey A. Bernstein -2018 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 45 (1-2):72-90.Despite the relative scarcity of references to Hegel in Strauss’s published work, one can begin to get a sense of how Strauss regarded Hegel. This paper deals with Strauss’s views concerning the Hegelian construal of faith and God. For Strauss, Hegel’s construal of divine personality as subject rather than substance amounts to something like a rejection of the divine personality.
- The mind-brain identity theory as a scientific hypothesis.Jeffrey A. Gray -1971 -Philosophical Quarterly 21 (July):247-254.
- Quantum Mechanics and Dualism.Jeffrey A. Barrett -2014 - In Antonella Corradini & Uwe Meixner,Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 65-82.
- St. Matthew Passion, by Hans Blumenberg.Jeffrey A. Bernstein -2023 -Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 5 (1):125-127.No categories
- Messianism and eschatology in the later thought of Hermann Cohen.Jeffrey A. Barash -2019 - In Eveline Goodman-Thau & George Y. Kohler,Nationalismus und Religion: Hermann Cohen zum 100. Todestag. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Positive and negative contrast effects as a function of shifts in percentage of reward.Jeffrey A. Seybert -1979 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 13 (1):19-22.
- II. The Perceptual Noema.Jeffrey A. Bell -1998 - In Jeffrey Bell,The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism. University of Toronto Press. pp. 49-88.No categories
- Relation between stimulus intensity and operant response rate as a function of discrimination training and drive.Jeffrey A. Gray -1965 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 69 (1):9.
- Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus (review).Jeffrey A. Mason -1988 -Philosophy and Literature 12 (1):141-142.
- Précis ofThe neuropsychology of anxiety: An enquiry into the functions of the septo-hippocampal system.Jeffrey A. Gray -1982 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):469-484.A model of the neuropsychology of anxiety is proposed. The model is based in the first instance upon an analysis of the behavioural effects of the antianxiety drugs (benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and alcohol) in animals. From such psychopharmacologi-cal experiments the concept of a “behavioural inhibition system” (BIS) has been developed. This system responds to novel stimuli or to those associated with punishment or nonreward by inhibiting ongoing behaviour and increasing arousal and attention to the environment. It is activity in the BIS (...) that constitutes anxiety and that is reduced by antianxiety drugs. The effects of the antianxiety drugs in the brain also suggest hypotheses concerning the neural substrate of anxiety. Although the benzodiazepines and barbiturates facilitate the effects of γ-aminobutyrate, this is insufficient to explain their highly specific behavioural effects. Because of similarities between the behavioural effects of certain lesions and those of the antianxiety drugs, it is proposed that these drugs reduce anxiety by impairing the functioning of a widespread neural system including the septo-hippocampal system (SHS), the Papez circuit, the prefrontal cortex, and ascending monoaminergic and cholinergic pathways which innervate these forebrain structures. Analysis of the functions of this system (based on anatomical, physiological, and behavioural data) suggests that it acts as a comparator: it compares predicted to actual sensory events and activates the outputs of the BIS when there is a mismatch or when the predicted event is aversive. Suggestions are made as to the functions of particular pathways within this overall brain system. The resulting theory is applied to the symptoms and treatment of anxiety in man, its relations to depression, and the personality of individuals who are susceptible to anxiety or depression. (shrink)
- Retention following appetitive discrimination training: The Kamin effect.Jeffrey A. Seybert,Linda G. McClanahan &J. Wesley Gilliland -1982 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 19 (1):37-40.
- How much is control knowledge worth?Jeffrey A. Barnett -1984 -Artificial Intelligence 22 (1):77-89.
- Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion.Jeffrey A. Bell,Vikki Bell,Judith Butler,Daniel A. Dombrowski,Jeremy D. Fackenthal,Kirsten M. Gerdes,Sigridur Guðmarsdóttir,Catherine Keller,Matthew S. LoPresti,Astrid Lorange,Randy Ramal &Alan Van Wyk (eds.) -2012 - Lexington Books.Considered together, Butler and Whitehead draw from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. The contributors of this volume offer a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts.
- Ignatius’s Exercises, Descartes’s Meditations, and Lonergan’s Insight.Jeffrey A. Allen -2017 -Philosophy and Theology 29 (1):17-28.Both René Descartes and Bernard Lonergan were educated at Jesuit schools in their youth, and both had exposure—the former perhaps indirectly, the latter directly—to Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Several scholars have outlined parallels between Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy and the Exercises. This article reviews those parallels, and then uses them as guides for exploring traces of the Meditations in Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding.
- Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference.Jeffrey A. Bell -2006 - University of Toronto Press.From the early 1960s until his death, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. One of Deleuze's main philosophical projects was a systematic inversion of the traditional relationship between identity and difference. This Deleuzian philosophy of difference is the subject ofJeffrey A. Bell's Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos. Bell argues that Deleuze's efforts to develop a philosophy of difference are best understood by exploring both Deleuze's claim to be a (...) Spinozist, and Nietzsche's claim to have found in Spinoza an important precursor. Beginning with an analysis of these claims, Bell shows how Deleuze extends and transforms concepts at work in Spinoza and Nietzsche to produce a philosophy of difference that promotes and, in fact, exemplifies the notions of dynamic systems and complexity theory. With these concepts at work, Deleuze constructs a philosophical approach that avoids many of the difficulties that linger in other attempts to think about difference. Bell uses close readings of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Whitehead to illustrate how Deleuze's philosophy is successful in this regard and to demonstrate the importance of the historical tradition for Deleuze. Far from being a philosopher who turns his back on what is taken to be a mistaken metaphysical tradition, Bell argues that Deleuze is best understood as a thinker who endeavoured to continue the work of traditional metaphysics and philosophy. (shrink)No categories
- Reading Problems: Literacy and the Dynamics of Thought.Jeffrey A. Bell -2018 -Open Philosophy 1 (1):223-234.In this article, we address the problem of predication, or the problem of connecting conceptual predicates to the sets of properties and attributes that correspond to these predicates. We take as our starting point Mark Wilson’s work, especially “Predicate meets Property,” and add to it a metaphysics of problems that one finds in the work of Gilles Deleuze. This enables us to understand the relationship between a predicate and the set of properties in terms of the relationship between a solution (...) to a problem. The advantage of this approach is that it helps to illuminate the key issues involved in contemporary work on human reasoning. We sketch some of these advantages by looking to recent work on literacy and how literacy affects the capacity to engage in formal reasoning. (shrink)No categories
- Acquisition and extinction effects of partial reinforcement under conditions of thirst motivation.Jeffrey A. Seybert &Ivan C. Gerard -1976 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 8 (1):34-36.
- Effects of intertrial nonreinforcement in instrumental escape conditioning.Jeffrey A. Seybert,G. Lynn Vandenberg,Mark A. Wilson &Ivan C. Gerard -1977 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 10 (1):39-42.
- Effects of intertrial partial reinforcement and level of acquisition on resistance to extinction.Jeffrey A. Seybert,Ivan C. Gerard,James F. Myers,Lisa P. Baer &Robert C. Clipper -1976 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 8 (1):7-9.
- Bernard Lonergan's View of Natural Knowledge of God.Jeffrey A. Allen -2018 -Heythrop Journal 59 (3):484-496.
- Ready When You Are: A Correspondence on Claire Elise Katz's Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism.Jeffrey A. Bernstein &Claire E. Katz -2014 -Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 22 (2):123-136.A Conversation with Claire Katz about her book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism.
- Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide.Jeffrey A. Bell -2016 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Machine generated contents note: 1.What is a Concept? -- 2.Why Philosophy? -- 3.How to Become a Philosopher -- 4.Putting Philosophy in its Place -- 5.Philosophy and Science -- 6.Philosophy and Logic -- 7.Philosophy and Art.
- Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God: Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding.Jeffrey A. Bernstein,Maura Jane Farrelly,Robert Faulkner,Matthew Holbreich,Jonathan Israel,Peter McNamara,Carla Mulford,Vincent Philip Muñoz,Danilo Petranovich,Eran Shalev &Aristide Tessitore (eds.) -2013 - Lexington Books.This volume, with contributions from scholars in political science, literature, and philosophy, examines the mutual influence of reason and religion at the time of the American Founding.
- Teaching Applied Ethics in Fire & Emergency Medical Services.Jeffrey A. Thomas -2011 -Teaching Ethics 11 (2):7-13.
- PSA 2000 Symposium Paper Volume Introduction.Jeffrey A. Barrett &J. McKenzie Alexander -2002 -Philosophy of Science 69 (S3):vii-vii.
- Don't leave the “psych” out of neuropsychology.Jeffrey A. Gray &Ilan Baruch -1987 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2):215-217.
- Bernard Lonergan's Critique of Knowing as Taking a Look.Jeffrey A. Allen -2016 -Heythrop Journal 57 (3):451-460.
- (1 other version)2. The Unselfing Activity of the Holy Spirit in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar.Jeffrey A. Vogel -2007 -Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 10 (4).Export citation Bookmark
- Consciousness, schizophrenia and scientific theory.Jeffrey A. Gray -1993 - In Gregory R. Bock & Joan Marsh,Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Consciousness (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series, No. 174). Wiley. pp. 174--263.
- Self-assembling Games.Jeffrey A. Barrett &Brian Skyrms -2017 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (2):329-353.We consider how cue-reading, sensory-manipulation, and signaling games may initially evolve from ritualized decisions and how more complex games may evolve from simpler games by polymerization, template transfer, and modular composition. Modular composition is a process that combines simpler games into more complex games. Template transfer, a process by which a game is appropriated to a context other than the one in which it initially evolved, is one mechanism for modular composition. And polymerization is a particularly salient example of modular (...) composition where simpler games evolve to form more complex chains. We also consider how the evolution of new capacities by modular composition may be more efficient than evolving those capacities from basic decisions. (shrink)
- A Quantum-Mechanical Argument for Mind–Body Dualism.Jeffrey A. Barrett -2006 -Erkenntnis 65 (1):97-115.I argue that a strong mind–body dualism is required of any formulation of quantum mechanics that satisfies a relatively weak set of explanatory constraints. Dropping one or more of these constraints may allow one to avoid the commitment to a mind–body dualism but may also require a commitment to a physical–physical dualism that is at least as objectionable. Ultimately, it is the preferred basis problem that pushes both collapse and no-collapse theories in the direction of a strong dualism in resolving (...) the quantum measurement problem. Addressing this problem illustrates how the construction and evaluation of explanatorily rich physical theories are inextricably tied to the evaluation of traditional philosophical issues. (shrink)
- New Directions in the Thought of Leo Strauss.Jeffrey A. Bernstein -2014 -Idealistic Studies 44 (2-3):139-147.The figure and thought of Leo Strauss continues to provoke impassioned reactions from advocates and critics. The majority of these reactions are less engaged with Strauss’s thought than with his person and school. This volume seeks to contribute to the increase in philosophical attention paid to Strauss’s thought. The contributions collected herein exemplify both a deep and abiding familiarity with Strauss’s thought as well as a need to find new directions to explore within that thought.
- Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide, James Williams.Jeffrey A. Bell -2010 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 41 (2):223-224.
- Conclusion: The Search for ‘Rosebud’.Jeffrey A. Bell -1998 - In Jeffrey Bell,The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism. University of Toronto Press. pp. 223-240.No categories
- (1 other version)Index.Jeffrey A. Bell -1998 - In Jeffrey Bell,The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism. University of Toronto Press. pp. 287-294.No categories
- IV. From Psychology to Phenomenology.Jeffrey A. Bell -1998 - In Jeffrey Bell,The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism. University of Toronto Press. pp. 106-123.
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