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- The Head and the Groin of Rock.John E.Huss -2011 - In George Reisch & Luke Dick,The Rolling Stones and Philosophy: It's Just a Thought Away. Open Court Publishing. pp. 57-66.Export citation
Bookmark - (1 other version)Paleontology: Outrunning Time.John E.Huss -2017 -Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 326:211-235.In this paper, I discuss several temporal aspects of paleontology from a philosophical perspective. I begin by presenting the general problem of “taming” deep time to make it comprehensible at a human scale, starting with the traditional geologic time scale: an event-based, relative time scale consisting of a hierarchy of chronological units. Not only does the relative timescale provide a basis for reconstructing many of the general features of the history of life, but it is also consonant with the cognitive (...) processes humans use to think about time. Absolute dating of rocks, fossils, and evolutionary events (such as branching events on the tree of life) can be accomplished through the use of radiometric dating, chronological signals extractable from fossil growth patterns, and the “molecular clock.” Sometimes these different methods of absolute dating, which start from largely independent assumptions and evidentiary bases, converge in their temporal estimates, resulting in a consilience of inductions. At other times they fail to agree, either because fossils and molecules are giving temporal information about different aspects of nature and should not be expected to agree, or because of flawed assumptions that give rise to an inaccurate estimate. I argue that in general, despite the fact that it can be difficult to integrate disparate kinds of evidence, the principle of total evidence should be applied to the dating of evolutionary events. As a historical science, paleontology studies past events we cannot observe directly. This raises questions of epistemic access, meaning that due to the fragmentary nature of the fossil record we may find ourselves without access to the relevant traces to adjudicate between rival hypotheses about the past. The problems and prospects of epistemic access are explored through a case study of the reconstruction of the colors of dinosaurs. The paper closes with a reflection on the Darwin- Lyell metaphor of the fossil record as a highly fragmentary history book, and a call for a reconsideration of the book metaphor in favor of a systems view of the geologic and fossil records. (shrink)
- Book Forum.John E.Huss -2024 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 104 (C):1-2.
- Recent Work in the Philosophy of Medicine: An Essay Review. [REVIEW]John E.Huss -2022 -Philosophy of Science 89 (1):193-201.
- Comments on Beth J. Singer's "John E. Smith on Pragmatism".John E. Smith -1980 -Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 16 (1):26 - 33.
- How We Cooperate: A Theory of Kantian Optimization.John E. Roemer -2019 - Yale University Press._A new theory of how and why we cooperate, drawing from economics, political theory, and philosophy to challenge the conventional wisdom of game theory_ Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don’t just compete, however; they also cooperate.John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for cooperation leave much to be desired. Unlike competing players, cooperating players take those actions that they would like others to take—which Roemer (...) calls “Kantian optimization.” Through rigorous reasoning and modeling, Roemer demonstrates a simpler theory of cooperative behavior than the standard model provides. (shrink)No categories
- Psychophysical and computational studies towards a theory of human stereopsis.John E. W. Mayhew &John P. Frisby -1981 -Artificial Intelligence 17 (1-3):349-385.
- The moral gap: Kantian ethics, human limits, and God's assistance.John E. Hare -1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.Is morality too difficult for human beings? Kant said that it was, except with God's assistance. Contemporary moral philosophers have usually discussed the question without reference to Christian doctrine, and have either diminished the moral demand, exaggerated human moral capacity, or tried to find a substitute in nature for God's assistance. This book looks at these philosophers--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Swinburne, Russell, and R.M. Hare--and the alternative in Christianity.
- Ends and principles in Kant's moral thought.John E. Atwell -1986 - Norwell, MA, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers [distributor].As a work of a scholarship it seems to me to compare favourably with the best books on the subject, including those by Marcus Singer and Onora Nell.' Prof.
- Sharing values to safeguard the future: British Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration as epideictic rhetoric.John E. Richardson -2018 -Discourse and Communication 12 (2):171-191.This article explores the rhetoric, and mass mediation, of the national Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration ceremony, as broadcast on British television. I argue that the televised national ceremonies should be approached as an example of multi-genre epideictic rhetoric, working up meanings through a hybrid combination of genres, author/animators and modes. Epideictic rhetoric has often been depreciated as simply ceremonial ‘praise or blame’ speeches. However, given that the topics of praise/blame assume the existence of social norms, epideictic also acts to presuppose (...) and evoke common values, in general, and a collective recognition of shared social responsibilities, in particular. My methodology draws on the Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, given, first, its central prominence in analysing argumentative strategies in discourse and, second, the ways it facilitates a reflexive ‘shuttling’ between text-discursive features, intertextual relations and wider contexts of society and history. Here, I examine how a catastrophic past is invoked in speech and evoked through image and music, in response to the demands that uncertainty of the future ‘places upon one’s conscience’. (shrink)No categories
- Sensibility and Singularity: The Problem of Phenomenology in Levinas.John E. Drabinski -2001 - State University of New York Press.Establishes the importance of Husserl's phenomenology for Levinas's ethics.
- God's Command.John E. Hare -2015 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.This work is an exploration of divine command theory, which is the theory that what makes something morally obligatory is that God commands it.
- The architecture of working memory.John Jonides &Edward E. Smith -1997 - In Michael D. Rugg,Cognitive Neuroscience. MIT Press. pp. 243--276.
- Panentheism.John E. Culp -2009 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India.John E. Cort -2011 - Oup Usa.This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature,John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today.No categories
- Time and Qualitative Time.John E. Smith -1986 -Review of Metaphysics 40 (1):3 - 16.IN A PREVIOUS study entitled, "Time, Times and the 'Right Time': Chronos and Kairos," I explored the distinction between these two aspects of time and their relations to each other. I wish to return to the topic in this paper, building on my previous discussion but bringing in some new dimensions that were unknown to me earlier on. I did not know, for example, that kairos, although it has metaphysical, historical, ethical and esthetic applications, is a concept whose original home, (...) so to speak, was in the ancient rhetorical traditions. A recent study is aimed at recovering this important idea in the present situation. It is not insignificant that, while kairos has important philosophical implications, students of rhetoric have not been alone in neglecting it as can be seen from the fact that it is not listed in the four volume Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Philip Wiener, nor is it to be found in The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon, edited by Mortimer Adler. One reason for the omission is no doubt the absence of any cognate word in English for kairos whereas its partner, chronos, appears in a host of forms throughout any English dictionary. The only exception that occurs to me is the quite rare word 'Kairotic' which is listed only in the most complete dictionaries. The loss of the concept of kairos is doubly unfortunate for, on the one hand, the idea has been of enormous significance in the past figuring essentially, for instance, in the religious traditions of the West, and, on the other hand, it expresses a most important feature of temporal process which, despite exceptions here and there, is not expressed in the concept of chronos. It is with these facts in mind that I am attempting to rehabilitate, as it were, the kairos aspect of time and to show its philosophical importance. (shrink)
- Are Socialist Economics Consistent with Efficiency?John E. Roemer -1983 -Philosophical Forum 14 (3):369.
- The development of children's knowledge about attentional focus.John H. Flavell,F. L. Green &E. R. Flavell -1995 -Developmental Psychology 31:706-12.
- Free to lose: an introduction to Marxist economic philosophy.John E. Roemer -1988 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Introduction Marxism is a set of ideas from which sprang particular approaches to economics, sociology, anthropology, political theory, literature, art, ...
- Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Preservation.John J. Berger &Charles E. Little -2008 - Center for American Places.Fragile kingdoms of innumerable organisms and rich beauty, forests today are both our most plentiful and our most endangered natural resource. Understanding their workings and how to sustain them is imperative to ensuring the future of humanity.John Berger urges us to learn what can be done to preserve these treasures, and he offers here a compelling guide to the complex issues surrounding forest preservation. An expanded and revised version of Berger’s bestselling Understanding Forests, Forests Forever offers a clear (...) and readable survey of forest history and management. Berger draws upon diverse sources in law, ecology, economics, politics, and anthropology to argue that ecology, rather than the marketplace, should be the driving force behind forest management. Historical case studies of forests worldwide support this contention, the book reveals, as does the history of governments’ forest policy. Keeping pace with today’s issues, Berger critically evaluates government policy over the last seven years, including a contrast between the destructive policies of the Bush Administration and model programs instituted by the Canadian Boreal Initiative and others. Ultimately, he offers us the guiding principles of sustainable forestry as an answer to the ever-increasing demand for wood products. Anchoring the account are galleries of breathtaking full-color images of trees, forest, wildlife, and other forestry subjects taken by the world’s leading nature photographers. A concise and wholly readable account, Forests Forever issues a call to arms for all those concerned with preserving and managing the world’s forests today. (shrink)
- Philosophy and the Enterprise of Science in the Later Middle Ages.John E. Murdoch -1974 - In Yehuda Elkana & Samuel Sambursky,The Interaction between science and philosophy. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.,: Humanities Press. pp. 51--74.
- Why teach science? Setting rational goals for science education.John E. Longbottom &Philip H. Butler -1999 -Science Education 83 (4):473-492.No categories
- America's Philosophical Vision.John E. Smith -1992 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.In these previously uncollected essays, Smith argues that American philosophers like Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey have forged a unique philosophical tradition—one that is rich and complex enough to represent a genuine alternative to the analytic, phenomenological, and hermeneutical traditions which have originated in Britain or Europe. "In my judgment,John Smith has no equal today in combining two scholarly qualities: the analysis of philosophical texts with penetration and rigor, and the discernment of what it is in these texts (...) that matters. These qualities are in evidence throughout the essays in _America's Philosophical Vision._ Whether he is evaluating Rorty's view of Dewey; the pragmatic theory of experience and truth; theories of freedom, creativity, and the self; Royce's conception of community; or synoptic philosophic visions, Smith always succeeds in uniting a comprehensive understanding of philosophic writings with a sure grasp of their import for human culture and aspiration. It is a great benefit to students of American thought that these papers have now been collected into one volume."—James Gouinlock, Emory University. (shrink)
- What is exploitation? Reply to Jeffrey Reiman.John E. Roemer -1989 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 18 (1):90-97.
- Review ofJohn E. Atwell:Schopenhauer: the human character. [REVIEW]John E. Atwell -1992 -Ethics 102 (2):410-411.
- Experience and God.John E. Smith -1970 -Philosophy 45 (171):74-74.No categories
- Representational change and magnitude estimation: Why young children can make more accurate salary comparisons than adults.John E. Opfer &Jeffrey M. DeVries -2008 -Cognition 108 (3):843-849.
- Distinctions between autobiographical memory specificity and detail: Trajectories across cue presentations.John E. Roberts,Paula Yanes-Lukin &Yoonhee Kyung -2018 -Consciousness and Cognition 65:342-351.
- Hume’s Philosophy of Mind.John Bricke,Richard H. Popkin,Richard A. Watson,James E. Force,David Fate Norton &Nicholas Capaldi -1980 -Ethics 92 (2):346-349.
- In the Name of Christ: A History of the Mennonite Central Committee and its Services 1920–1951.John D. Unruh &Walter E. Stuermann -1952No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Divine Command.John E. Hare -2015 - Oxford: Oxford University Press UK.Divine Command defends the thesis that what makes something morally obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something morally forbidden is that God forbids it.John E. Hare successfully defends a version of divine command theory, but also shows that there is considerable overlap with some versions of natural law theory. Hare engages with a number of Christian theologians, most especially Karl Barth, and extends into a discussion of divine command within Judaism and Islam. The work concludes (...) by examining recent work in evolutionary psychology, and argues that thinking of our moral obligations as produced by divine command offers us some help in seeing how a moral conscience could develop in a way that is evolutionarily stable. (shrink)No categories
- A Fifty-Year Retrospective in Philosophy.John E. Smith -1981 -International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (2):123-132.No categories
- La libertà umana ed alcune concezioni scientifiche.John E. Smith -1961 -Rivista di Filosofia 52 (2):139.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Person to Person.John E. Smith -1992 -The Personalist Forum 8 (1):41-54.
- Richard Kroner en Amérique.John E. Smith -1985 -Archives de Philosophie 48 (3):367.Export citation Bookmark
- Some Thoughts n Advice for Students.John E. Smith -1988 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 62:276.Export citation Bookmark
- Toward universal standards.John E. Jesus -2012 -Hastings Center Report 42 (3):8.
- Für eine Kultur des realen Humanismus.E.John -1962 -Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 10 (3):261.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Hegelianism: The Path toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805–1841.John E. Toews -1981.No categories
- (1 other version)The Pragmatist's Meaning of Truth.John E. Russell -1906 -Journal of Philosophy 3 (22):599.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Beyond Aristotle : indivisibles and infinite divisibility in the later Middle Ages.John E. Murdoch -2009 - In Christophe Grellard & Aurâelien Robert,Atomism in late medieval philosophy and theology. Boston: Brill. pp. 9--15.
- (1 other version)From metagenomics to the metagenome: Conceptual change and the rhetoric of translational genomic research.Eric Juengst &JohnHuss -2009 -Genomics, Society and Policy 5 (3):1-19.As the international genomic research community moves from the tool-making efforts of the Human Genome Project into biomedical applications of those tools, new metaphors are being suggested as useful to understanding how our genes work - and for understanding who we are as biological organisms. In this essay we focus on the Human Microbiome Project as one such translational initiative. The HMP is a new 'metagenomic' research effort to sequence the genomes of human microbiological flora, in order to pursue the (...) interesting hypothesis that our 'microbiome' plays a vital and interactive role with our human genome in normal human physiology. Rather than describing the human genome as the 'blueprint' for human nature, the promoters of the HMP stress the ways in which our primate lineage DNA is interdependent with the genomes of our microbiological flora. They argue that the human body should be understood as an ecosystem with multiple ecological niches and habitats in which a variety of cellular species collaborate and compete, and that human beings should be understood as 'superorganisms' that incorporate multiple symbiotic cell species into a single individual with very blurry boundaries. These metaphors carry interesting philosophical messages, but their inspiration is not entirely ideological. Instead, part of their cachet within genome science stems from the ways in which they are rooted in genomic research techniques, in what philosophers of science have called a 'tools-to-theory' heuristic. Their emergence within genome science illustrates the complexity of conceptual change in translational research, by showing how it reflects both aspirational and methodological influences. (shrink)
- Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis: Essays in History and Method.John E. Gedo -1986 - Routledge.In _Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis_,John Gedo's mastery of Freudian theory and broad historical consciousness subserve a new goal: an understanding of "dissidence" in psychoanalysis. Gedo launches his inquiry by reflecting expansively on recent assessments of Freud's character. His acute remarks on the intellectual and personal agendas that inform the portraits of Freud offered by Frank Sulloway, Jeffrey Masson, and Peter Swales pave the way for his own definition of psychoanalysis in historical context. Then, in topical studies on Sandor (...) Ferenczi, Melanie Klein, and Heinz Kohut, he explicates the commonalities that bind together three generations of dissidents, each of whom undertook to supplant the edifice of hypotheses erected by Freud with alternative theories. Interspersed with these essays are quite insightful studies of Lou Andreas-Salome and David Rapaport, whom Gedo sees as "epistemological referees" attempting to reconcile viewpoints unique to their generations. In the second part of the book, Gedo argue that analysis now has the opportunity to move beyond this pattern of dissidence followed by mediation by drawing on observational research about infancy and early childhood to validate or refute its clinical hypotheses. In these chapters, Gedo offers critical commentary on recent efforts to extrapolate from infant research to the psychoanalytic theory of development. Only then does he offer his own measured estimation of the "legacy of infancy and the technique of psychoanalysis." This review of "the challenge of scientific method" as it bears on analysis culminates in concluding chapters that probe the status of analysis as a hermeneutic discipline and the contribution of analysis to "vocabularies of moral deliberation.". (shrink)
- Selfhood, Conscience, and Dialectic in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.John E. Russon -1991 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 29 (4):533-550.
- (1 other version)Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of Pragmatism.John E. Smith -1980 -Mind 89 (356):620-622.No categories
- Ethics in business decisions and competitive advantage.John E. Triantis -2024 - New York, NY: Routledge.Business ethics are the set of practices and policies that companies use to guide them through decisions about finances, negotiations and deals, corporate social responsibility, and more. Without a strong set of ethics, a business can run afoul of the law, encounter financial pitfalls and moral dilemmas. The objective of this book is a practical, fair, balanced, and objective treatment of the role of ethics in business performance of companies in competitive markets that demonstrates how ethics affects business culture, strategy, (...) decision-making, and value creation, which then determine competitiveness and business viability. The universality of corruption and prevalence of unethical conduct is the background from which the narrative describes how ethical issues enter all functional areas. The ethics effects on the complexity of decisions and challenges are examined and the questions of why bother with ethical business and whether businesses invite government regulation are answered. Next, a framework is developed to identify and trace links and influences of business ethics on strategic decisions, corporate culture, and decision-making. The effects of strategy and culture on key business success factors and their interdependence are reviewed along with those with competitive advantage elements. These assessments then form the basis of characterizing competitive advantage in the framework developed. Decision-making and strategy links with competitive advantage elements and the inter-competitive advantage element interactions are evaluated along with competitive advantage organizational effects. The uniqueness of this book is the creation of a method to identify and assess how ethics impacts business decisions and competitive advantage based on accepted economic tenants. It lays the plan for quantitative assessments of the impact of ethical behavior and it is written from the perspective of a business economist. Other books deal with business ethics elements only; none explains how ethics effects permeate to business sustainability. The main contribution of this book is demonstrating that ethics is a necessary factor for business sustainability. It provides insights to regulators at all government levels and counter-balances ethicist claims about business ethics and points out how ethical business conduct affects the economy. (shrink)
- Introduction.John E. Murray -1994 - InIntroduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics. Yale University Press. pp. 1-16.No categories
- Concepts and theories of inequality.John E. Roemer -2011 - In Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan & Timothy M. Smeeding,The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford University Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Practical Magic: On the Front Lines of Teaching Excellence.John E. Roueche,Mark D. Milliron &Suanne D. Roueche -2003 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Gain new understanding ofwhat constitutes excellence in teaching. Learn what thousands of teachers who have been recognized for educational excellence—and who have been recipients of such teaching awards—believe make up the fabric of success in the classroom. Noted experts gathered thousands of insights directly from these educators and placed them within the context of history and research. Inspiring and informative, this book sheds new light on the components of excellence in education that are both definable and intangible.No categories
- Gender Differences in Human Cognition.John T. E. Richardson,Paula J. Caplan,Mary Crawford &Janet Shibley Hyde -1997 - Oxford University Press USA.For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatial, and scientific abilities across gender. This new volume in the Counterpoints series not only summarizes and addresses the validity of such research, but also questions its ideology and consequences. Why do we search so intently for these differences? (...) And what are the social and cultural implications of this relentless emphasis? Do biological mechanisms, in fact, contribute to the male-female differences in cognition? These are just a few of the questions generated by this controversial topic as it is debated throughout the book. (shrink)
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