Fodor and psychological explanation.John Perry &David J.Israel -1990 - In Barry M. Loewer,Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics. Cambridge: Blackwell.details[In Meaning in Mind, edited by Barry Loewer and Georges Rey. Oxford: Basil Black- well, 1991, 165.
(1 other version)Executions, Motivations, and Accomplishments.DavidIsrael,John Perry &Syun Tutiya -1993 -Philosophical Review 102 (4):515 - 540.detailsBrutus wanted to kill Caesar. He believed that Caesar was an ordinary mortal, and that, given this, stabbing him (by which we mean plunging a knife into his heart) was a way of killing him. He thought that he could stab Caesar, for he remembered that he had a knife and saw that Caesar was standing next to him on his left, in the Forum. So Brutus was motivated to stab the man to his left. He did so, thereby killing (...) Caesar. (shrink)
(1 other version)Where monsters dwell.DavidIsrael &John Perry -1996 - In Jerry Seligman & Dag Westerstahl,Logic, Language and Computation. Center for the Study of Language and Inf. pp. 1--303.detailsKaplan says that monsters violate Principle 2 of his theory. Principle 2 is that indexicals, pure and demonstrative alike, are directly referential. In providing this explanation of there being no monsters, Kaplan feels his theory has an advantage over double-indexing theories like Kamp’s or Segerberg’s (or Stalnaker’s), which either embrace monsters or avoid them only by ad hoc stipulation, in the sharp conceptual distinction it draws between circumstances of evaluation and contexts of utterance. We shall argue that Kaplan’s prohibition is (...) also essentially stipulative, and that it is too general. The main difference between ourselves and Kaplan is that the basic carriers of a truth-value is a sentence-in-a-context; our account is utterance-based. (shrink)
“Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis.Roni Granot,Daniel H. Spitz,Boaz R. Cherki,Psyche Loui,Renee Timmers,Rebecca S. Schaefer,Jonna K. Vuoskoski,Ruth-Nayibe Cárdenas-Soler,João F. Soares-Quadros,Shen Li,Carlotta Lega,Stefania La Rocca,Isabel Cecilia Martínez,Matías Tanco,María Marchiano,Pastora Martínez-Castilla,Gabriela Pérez-Acosta,José Darío Martínez-Ezquerro,Isabel M. Gutiérrez-Blasco,Lily Jiménez-Dabdoub,Marijn Coers,John Melvin Treider,David M. Greenberg &SalomonIsrael -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsMusic can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural variables in maintaining wellbeing during times of stress and social isolation as imposed by the COVID-19 crisis. In an online questionnaire, administered in 11 countries, participants rated the relevance of wellbeing goals during the pandemic, and the effectiveness of different activities in obtaining these goals. Music was found to be the most effective activity (...) for three out of five wellbeing goals: enjoyment, venting negative emotions, and self-connection. For diversion, music was equally good as entertainment, while it was second best to create a sense of togetherness, after socialization. This result was evident across different countries and gender, with minor effects of age on specific goals, and a clear effect of the importance of music in people's lives. Cultural effects were generally small and surfaced mainly in the use of music to obtain a sense of togetherness. Interestingly, culture moderated the use of negatively valenced and nostalgic music for those higher in distress. (shrink)
The Stories of Logic and Information.Johan van Benthem,Maricarmen Martinez,DavidIsrael &John Perry -unknowndetailsInformation is a notion of wide use and great intuitive appeal, and hence, not surprisingly, different formal paradigms claim part of it, from Shannon channel theory to Kolmogorov complexity. Information is also a widely used term in logic, but a similar diversity repeats itself: there are several competing logical accounts of this notion, ranging from semantic to syntactic. In this chapter, we will discuss three major logical accounts of information.
TheIsrael/Palestinian conflict: How did it begin? Will it ever end?John Kilcullen -unknowndetailsWe all follow the news and we all think about theIsrael/Palestine conflict, I believe, but it is not much discussed in this country. Our politicians leave it to the Americans. General Petraeus, in a statement to the US Senate Armed Services Committee, last year, listed this issue as one of the “major drivers of instability, inter-state tensions, and conflict” in the Middle East. “The conflict foments anti- American sentiment,” he said, “due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for (...)Israel”. Because Australia closely follows the US in foreign affairs, our relations with the Muslim world are affected also. There are many Muslims living in Australia. The country with the largest Muslim population in the world is our neighbour, Indonesia. (shrink)
Ethics in AncientIsrael.John Barton -2014 - New York: Oxford University Press.detailsThis book considers ethical thinking in ancientIsrael in the period from the 8th to the 2nd century BC.
(1 other version)Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey.Israel Scheffler -1974 - New York,: Routledge.detailsFirst published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead andJohn Dewey. Alongside providing a general historical and biographical account of the pragmatist movement, the work offers an in depth critical response to the philosophical doctrines of the four main thinkers of the pragmatist movement, with reference to the theories of meaning, knowledge and conduct which have come to define pragmatism.
Religious conventions and science in the early Restoration: Reformation and ‘Israel’ in Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society.John Morgan -2009 -British Journal for the History of Science 42 (3):321-344.detailsSprat situated his analysis of the Royal Society within an emerging Anglican Royalist narrative of the longue durée of post-Reformation England. A closer examination of Sprat's own religious views reveals that his principal interest in the History of the Royal Society, as in the closely related reply to Samuel de Sorbière, the Observations, was to appropriate the advantages and benefits of the Royal Society as support for a re-established, anti-Calvinist Church of England. Sprat connected the two through a reformulation of (...) the powerful conventions of ‘Reformation’ and ‘Israel’, both of which still resonated strongly in the religious politics of the 1660s. Applying his voluntarist theology, Sprat changed especially the representation of the chosen nation from a tale of divine castigation and punishment to a rational and probabilistic covenant based on material success as the indicator of God's pleasure. Sprat proposed that the knowledge and application of nature, through the experimental labours of the Royal Society, could build an increasingly wealthy nation and so a permanent home for the reconfiguredIsrael. Attaching this to a renewed monarchical and Anglican state also meant security for the traditional forms of rule. (shrink)
Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion: How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences.JeffreyIsrael -2019 - Columbia University Press.detailsIn the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that historical grievances must eventually be left behind in the interest of progress toward a more just and unified society. But too much in American history is unforgivable and cannot be forgotten. How then can we imagine a way to live together that does not expect people to let go of their entrenched resentments? Living with Hate in American Politics (...) and Religion offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. JeffreyIsrael explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.Israel calls on us to distinguish between what belongs in a raucous “domain of play” and what belongs in the domain of the political. He builds on the thought ofJohn Rawls and Martha Nussbaum to defend the liberal tradition against challenges posed by Frantz Fanon from the left and Leo Strauss from the right. In provocative readings of Lenny Bruce’s stand-up comedy, Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, and Norman Lear’s All in the Family,Israel argues that postwar Jewish American popular culture offers potent and fruitful examples of playing with fraught emotions. Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion is a powerful vision of what it means to live with others without forgiving or forgetting. (shrink)
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Work, Education, and Leadership: Essays in the Philosophy of Education.Vernon Alfred Howard &Israel Scheffler -1995 - Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers.detailsThis book examines the relations among work, education and leadership in philosophical and practical perspective. Among the topics included are the concepts of education and training, the nature of vocational education, the relations of art and utility in schooling, and the roles of leadership in education and work. This book draws together influences from the American Pragmatist,John Dewey, and the British Idealist R. G. Collingwood.
Reflexivity, Indexicality and Names.John Perry -1997 - In M. Anduschus, Albert Newen & Wolfgang Kunne,Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes. CSLI Press. pp. 3--19.detailsIt has been persuasively argued by David Kaplan and others that the proposition expressed by statements like (1) is a singular proposition, true in just those worlds in which a certain person, DavidIsrael, is a computer scientist. Call this proposition P . The truth of this proposition does not require that the utterance (1) occur, or even thatIsrael has ever said anything at all. Marcus, Donnellan, Kripke and others have persuasively argued for a view of proper (...) names that, put in Kaplan’s terms and applied to this example, implies that the proposition expressed by (2) is also simply P .1 The thesis that expressions of a certain category (names, indexicals, demonstratives, pronouns, descriptions, etc.) are referential 2holds that these expressions contribute the object to which they refer, rather than a mode of presentation of that object, to the propositions expressed by statements containing them. The thesis that indexicals and names are referential creates the challenge of explaining the difference in cognitive significance between statements like (1) and (2), that express the same proposition[Wettstein, 1986]. The problem has two parts, which.. (shrink)
Situation Theory and its Applications Vol.Peter Aczel,DavidIsrael,Yosuhiro Katagiri &Stanley Peters (eds.) -1993 - CSLI Publications.detailsSituation Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1 . Robin Cooper, Kuniaki Mukai, andJohn Perry (Eds.). Lecture Notes No. 22. ...
Attitudes towards Business Ethics of Future Managers in the U.S. andIsrael.John F. Preble &Arie Reichel -1988 -Journal of Business Ethics 7 (12):941-949.detailsAn examination and comparison of American and Israeli management students attitudes towards business ethics is made. The data were collected using both English and Hebrew versions of a thirty item attitudes towards business ethics questionnaire. Since the two groups differed on geographic, cultural, economic, and religious dimensions, it was not surprising to find that these prospective managers also differed on a number of their attitudes towards business ethics. However, a large number of similarities were also noted. Moreover, contrary to a (...) number of extant research studies, both groups held relatively high moral standards. The implications of these findings are discussed. (shrink)
The Mystery of Consciousness.John R. Searle -1990 - Granta Books.detailsIt has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now,John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body? In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books,John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David (...) Chalmers, andIsrael Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functions can be reproduced by computer programs. With a sharp eye for confusion and contradiction, he points out which avenues of current research are most likely to come up with a biological examination of how conscious states are caused by the brain. Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings. (shrink)
The Bloomsbury handbook of continental philosophy of education.John Baldacchino &Herner Saeverot (eds.) -2024 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.detailsThis is the first reference work to explore and define what continental philosophy of education is and what its boundaries are. The book includes 28 chapters written by leading scholars based in Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland,Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, The UK and the USA. It is subdivided into three sections covering the metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics of education and the chapters focus on philosophical concepts such otherness, (...) empathy, personhood and problems including political influences on education and the limits of education. (shrink)