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- To see or not to see (again): Dealbreakers and dealmakers in relation to social inclusion.Peter K. Jonason,Kaitlyn P.White,Abigail H. Lowder &Laith Al-Shawaf -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.In this study, we replicated what is known about the relative importance of dealbreakers and dealmakers in romantic and sexual relationships and extended it to an examination of self-reports of mate value, self-esteem, and loneliness. In two experiments we manipulated the information people were told about potential partners and asked them about their intentions to have sex again with or go on a second date with opposite sex targets. People were less interested in partners after learning dealbreakers, effects which operated (...) more strongly in the long-term than short-term context, but similarly in men and women. People who reported less self-esteem or more loneliness were more receptive to people with dealbreakers. People who thought they had more mate value, more self-esteem, or less loneliness were more receptive to dealmakers. Results are discussed using sociometer, prospect, and sexual strategies theories. (shrink)
- The Causal Theory of Perception.H. P. Grice &Alan R.White -1961 -Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 35 (1):121-168.
- Restriction of burial rites during the COVID-19 pandemic: An African liturgical and missional challenge.Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini &PeterWhite -2021 -HTS Theological Studies 77 (4):6.Burial rites are very common among many Africa communities. In the African context, burials are not the end of life but rather the beginning of another life in the land of the ancestors. In spite of the importance of the African funeral rites, the missional role of the church in mourning and the burial of the dead in the African communities, the COVID-19 pandemic led protocols and restrictions placed a huge challenge on the African religious and cultural practices. Contribution: In (...) the light of the above-named challenges, the article discusses the religious-cultural effect of the pandemic with special focus on the African liturgical and missiological challenges in the context of the COVID-19 restrictions on funerals and burial rites. (shrink)
- Psycholinguistic processes affect fixation durations and orthographic information affects fixation locations: Can e-z reader cope?Simon P. Liversedge &Sarah J.White -2003 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (4):492-493.This commentary focuses on two aspects of eye movement behaviour that E-Z Reader 7 currently makes no attempt to explain: the influence of higher order psycholinguistic processes on fixation durations, and orthographic influences on initial and refixation locations on words. From our understanding of the current version of the model, it is not clear how it may be readily modified to account for existing empirical data.
- Mind – your head!R. P. Ingvaldsen &H. T. A. Whiting -1995 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4):685-686.Gray takes an information-processing paradigm as his departure point, invoking a comparator as part of the system. He concludes that consciousness is to be found “in” the comparator but is unable to point to how the comparison takes place. Thus, the comparator turns out not to be an entity arising out of brain research per se, but out of the logic of the paradigm. In this way, Gray both reinvents dualism and remains trapped in the language game of his own (...) model – ending up dealing with the unknowable. (shrink)
- Predicting visual search accuracy in symbolic displays and medical images.M. P. Eckstein,J. P. Thomas &J. S. Whiting -1996 - In Enrique Villanueva,Perception. Ridgeview Pub. Co. pp. 5-5.Export citation
Bookmark - Increases in Stressors Prior to-Versus During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Are Associated With Depression Among Middle-Aged Mothers.Brittany K. Taylor,Michaela R. Frenzel,Hallie J. Johnson,Madelyn P. Willett,Stuart F.White,Amy S. Badura-Brack &Tony W. Wilson -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.Working parents in are struggling to balance the demands of their occupation with those of childcare and homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, studies show that women are shouldering more of the burden and reporting greater levels of psychological distress, anxiety, and depression relative to men. However, research has yet to show that increases in psychological symptoms are linked to changes in stress during the pandemic. Herein, we conduct a small-N study to explore the associations between stress and psychological symptoms (...) during the pandemic among mothers using structural equation modeling, namely latent change score models. Thirty-three mothers completed questionnaires reporting current anxious and depressive symptoms, as well as stressful life experiences prior to-versus during the pandemic. Women endorsed significantly more stressful events during the pandemic, relative to the pre-pandemic period. Additionally, 58% of mothers scored as moderate-to-high risk for developing a stress-related physical illness in the near future because of their pandemic-level stress. Depressive symptoms were associated with the degree of change in life stress, whereas anxiety symptoms were more related to pre-pandemic levels of stress. The present study preliminarily sheds light on the nuanced antecedents to mothers’ experiences of anxious and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although further work is needed in larger, more diverse samples of mothers, this study highlights the potential need for appropriate policies, and prevention and intervention programs to ameliorate the effects of pandemics on mothers’ mental health. (shrink)
- Developmental Trends of Visual Processing of Letters and Objects Using Naming Speed Tasks.Kaitlyn Easson,Noor Z. Al Dahhan,Donald C. Brien,John R. Kirby &Douglas P. Munoz -2020 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14.Studying the typical development of reading is key to understanding the precise deficits that underlie reading disabilities. An important correlate of efficient reading is the speed of naming arrays of simple stimuli such as letters and pictures. In this cross-sectional study, we examined developmental changes in visual processing that occurs during letter and object naming from childhood to early adulthood in terms of behavioral task efficiency, associated articulation and eye movement parameters, and the coordination between them, as measured by eye-voice (...) span in both the spatial and temporal domains. We used naming speed tasks, in which participants were required to name sets of letters or simple objects as quickly and as accurately as possible. Single stimulus manipulations were made to these tasks to make the stimuli either more visually and/or phonologically similar to one another in order to examine how these manipulations affected task performance and the coordination between speech and eye movements. Across development there was an increased efficiency in speech and eye movement performance and their coordination in both the spatial and temporal domains. Furthermore, manipulations to the phonological and visual similarity of specific letter and object stimuli revealed that orthographic processing played a greater role than phonological processing in performance, with the contribution of phonological processing diminishing across development. This comprehensive typical developmental trajectory provides a benchmark for clinical populations to elucidate the nature of the cognitive dysfunction underlying reading difficulties. (shrink)
- Sophist. Plato &Nicholas P.White -1961 - Hackett Publishing Company.A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, all of Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporary analytical philosophers.White's extensive introduction explores the dialogue's center themes, its connection with related discussions in other dialogues, and its implication for the interpretation of Plato's metaphysics.
- A Companion to Plato's Republic.Nicholas P.White -1979 - Hackett Publishing.A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic.White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its complex philosophical reasoning. In his extensive introduction,White describes Plato's aims, introduces the argument, and discusses the major philosophical and ethical theories embodied in the Republic. He then summarizes each of its ten books and provides substantial explanatory and (...) interpretive notes. (shrink)
- Plato on Knowledge and Reality.Nicholas P.White -1976 - Hackett Publishing Company."A complete and unified account of Plato's epistemology... scholarly, historically sensitive, and philosophically sophisticated. Above all it is sensible....White's strength is that he places Plato's preoccupation in careful historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the problems he tackled....White's project is to find a continuous argument running through Plato's various attacks on epistemological problems. No summary can do justice to his remarkable success." --Ronald B. De Sousa, University of Toronto, in Phoenix.No categories
- Rational Self-Sufficiency and Greek EthicsThe Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Martha C. Nussbaum.Nicholas P.White -1988 -Ethics 99 (1):136-.
- Indoctrination. Reply to I. M. M. Gregory and R. G. Woods.J. P.White -1970 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 4 (1):107–120.J PWhite; Indoctrination, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 4, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 107–120, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1970.tb00429.x.
- Classical Culture in a Changing World.P. C.White -1951 -Classical Weekly 45:81.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Towards a Compulsory Curriculum.J. P.White -1974 -British Journal of Educational Studies 22 (2):207-208.
- Love First.P. QuinnWhite -forthcoming -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.How should we respond to the humanity of others? Should we care for others’ well-being? Respect them as autonomous agents? Largely neglected is an answer we can find in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism: we should love all. This paper argues that an ideal of love for all can be understood apart from its more typical religious contexts and moreover provides a unified and illuminating account of the the nature and grounds of morality. I defend a novel (...) account of love for all that avoids serious worries about the incoherence or impossibility of loving everyone. Doing so requires countenancing a neglected form of love. Love admits as its object not just individual entities like people and groups; we can also bear a love for the Fs in general---for all the Joneses, all the philosophers, or even all the human beings. I go on to argue that while it is possible for ordinary agents like us to love all, we shouldn't. Instead, we should approximate love for all. The minimal approximation of love for all is, surprisingly, respect; I derive the basic, structural features of deontological ethics (including anti-paternalism and anti-aggregation) from the ideal of loving all. (NB: This paper used to be titled "Ethics in the Shadow of Love" and has been cited as an unpublished manuscript under that title.). (shrink)
- Aristotle on sameness and oneness.Nicholas P.White -1971 -Philosophical Review 80 (2):177-197.
- The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy.Nicholas P.White -1989 -Noûs 23 (2):254-256.No categories
- Teacher Accountability and School Autonomy.J. P.White -1976 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 10 (1):58-78.J PWhite; Teacher Accountability and School Autonomy, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 10, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 58–78, https://doi.org/10.1111.
- Residential assimilation and residential attainment: examining the effects of ethnicity and immigration.Michael J.White,Sharon Sassler,S. Kirchengast,E. M. Winkler,D. L. Blackwell,Y. Weiss,R. J. Willis,B. J. Oddens,P. Lehert &F. Kalter -1996 -Journal of Biosocial Science 28 (2):193-210.Export citation Bookmark
- Intelligence and the logic of the nature-nurture issue.J. P.White -1974 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 8 (1):30–51.J PWhite; Intelligence and the Logic of the Nature-Nurture Issue, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 8, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 30–51, https://doi.
- The Handbook (The Encheiridion). Epictetus &Nicholas P.White -1983 - Hackett Publishing Company._From the Introduction:_ "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50–130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 b.c., but all of his philosophical activity took place in Athens. For more than 500 years Stoicism was one of the most influential and fruitful philosophical movements in the Graeco-Roman world. The works (...) of the earlier Stoics survive only in fragmentary quotations from other authors, but from the Renaissance until well into the nineteenth century, Stoic ethical thought was one of the most important ancient influences on European ethics, particularly because of the descriptions of it by Cicero, through surviving works by the Stoics Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and also Epictetus--and also because of the effect that it had had in antiquity, and continued to have into the nineteenth century, on Christian ethical views. Nowadays an undergraduate or graduate student learning about ancient philosophy in a university course may well hear only about Plato and Aristotle, along perhaps with the presocratics; but in the history of Western thought and education this situation is somewhat atypical, and in most periods a comparable student would have learned as much or more about Stoicism, as well as two other major ancient philosophical movements, Epicureanism and Scepticism. In spite of this lack of explicit acquaintance with Stoic philosophers and their works, however, most students will recognize in Epictetus various ideas that are familiar through their effects on other thinkers, notably Spinoza, in our intellectual tradition.". (shrink)No categories
- The role of law in decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity: a cross-sectional study.Benjamin P.White,Lindy Willmott,Gail Williams,Colleen Cartwright &Malcolm Parker -2017 -Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (5):327-333.Objectives To determine the role played by law in medical specialists9 decision-making about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity, and the extent to which legal knowledge affects whether law is followed. Design Cross-sectional postal survey of medical specialists. Setting The two largest Australian states by population. Participants 649 medical specialists from seven specialties most likely to be involved in end-of-life decision-making in the acute setting. Main outcome measures Compliance with law and the impact of legal knowledge (...) on compliance. Results 649 medical specialists (of 2104 potential participants) completed the survey (response rate 31%). Responses to a hypothetical scenario found a potential low rate of legal compliance, 32% (95% CI 28% to 36%). Knowledge of the law and legal compliance were associated: within compliers, 86% (95% CI 83% to 91%) had specific knowledge of the relevant aspect of the law, compared with 60% (95% CI 55% to 65%) within non-compliers. However, the reasons medical specialists gave for making decisions did not vary according to legal knowledge. Conclusions Medical specialists prioritise patient-related clinical factors over law when confronted with a scenario where legal compliance is inconsistent with what they believe is clinically indicated. Although legally knowledgeable specialists were more likely to comply with the law, compliance in the scenario was not motivated by an intention to follow law. Ethical considerations (which are different from, but often align with, law) are suggested as a more important influence in clinical decision-making. More education and training of doctors is needed to demonstrate the role, relevance and utility of law in end-of-life care. (shrink)
- Dieu L’Inconnu.O. P. VictorWhite -1958No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Origins of Aristotle’s Essentialism.Nicholas P.White -1972 -Review of Metaphysics 26 (1):57 - 85.My account is subject to two important limitations. First, I shall be discussing whether or not Aristotle holds to an essentialistic doctrine with regard to sensible particulars, and shall neglect entirely his views about such things as species, genera, universals, and the like. Secondly, I shall be leaving out of account such chronologically late productions as Metaphysics VI-X and IV. Thus I shall be concentrating on the Categories, the Topics, the Physics, and the De Generatione et Corruptione. I am not (...) convinced that later works show substantial change over the works which I shall be discussing, but the later works do present severe exegetical difficulties which could not be adequately met within the scope of this essay. (shrink)
- Partitioning natural face image variability emphasises within-identity over between-identity representation for understanding accurate recognition.DavidWhite,Tanya Wayne &Victor P. L. Varela -2022 -Cognition 219 (C):104966.
- Inquiry.Nicholas P.White -1974 -Review of Metaphysics 28 (2):289 - 310.AS SOME PHILOSOPHERS KNOW, the paradox about inquiry at 80d-e of Plato’s Meno is more than a tedious sophism. Plato is one such philosopher. The puzzle is an obstacle to his project of discovering definitions, and is introduced as such. And it is met with an elaborate response: the theory of recollection, explicitly presented as an answer to the obstacle. But then what of the famous conversation in which Socrates coaxes a geometrical theorem from a slave boy Is the theory (...) not designed to explain the boy’s ability to respond to the coaxing? It is, certainly, but that is not its only purpose. The structure of the passage is this: the theory is there to disarm the paradox, and the conversation is there to support the theory. To see this structure is to understand a notorious and otherwise troubling fact, that Plato is so very quick to take the slave’s behavior—which he might have tried to explain in some other way-to be clear evidence for recollection. The reason why he so takes it is that the paradox has led him to think that only if recollection occurs is fruitful inquiry possible—and he is very anxious indeed to be assured that it is possible. He would not have been so enticed by explanations of the boy’s behavior which did not also seem to him to dispose of the puzzle. Here now is Plato’s setting of the paradox. (shrink)
- Scattering of lattice waves by point defects.P. G. Klemens,G. K.White &R. J. Tainsh -1962 -Philosophical Magazine 7 (80):1323-1335.
- Honesty and Discretion.P. QuinnWhite -2021 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 50 (1):6-49.Philosophy & Public Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 6-49, Winter 2022.
- What numbers are.Nicholas P.White -1974 -Synthese 27 (1-2):111 - 124.
- The aims of education: Three legacies of the british idealists.J. P.White -1978 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 12 (1):5–12.J PWhite; The Aims of Education: three legacies of the British idealists, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 12, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 5–12, http.
- Dysregulated but not decreased salience network activity in schizophrenia.Thomas P.White,James Gilleen &Sukhwinder S. Shergill -2013 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
- Educational Theory and Its Foundation Disciplines.JohnWhite &P. H. Hirst -1984 -British Journal of Educational Studies 32 (3):265.
- Eluding the illusion? Schizophrenia, dopamine and the McGurk effect.Thomas P.White,Rebekah L. Wigton,Dan W. Joyce,Tracy Bobin,Christian Ferragamo,Nisha Wasim,Stephen Lisk &Sukhwinder S. Shergill -2014 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8.
- The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions.Ben P.White,Ruthie Jeanneret,Eliana Close &Lindy Willmott -2023 -BMC Medical Ethics 24 (1):1-12.Background Voluntary assisted dying became lawful in Victoria, the first Australian state to permit this practice, in 2019 via the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic). While conscientious objection by individual health professionals is protected by the Victorian legislation, objections by institutions are governed by policy. No research has been conducted in Victoria, and very little research conducted internationally, on how institutional objection is experienced by patients seeking assisted dying. Methods 28 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 family caregivers and (...) one patient about the experience of 28 patients who sought assisted dying. Participants were interviewed during August-November 2021. Data from the 17 interviews (all with family caregivers) which reported institutional objection were analysed thematically. Results Participants reported institutional objection affecting eligibility assessments, medication access, and taking the medication or having it administered. Institutional objection occurred across health settings and was sometimes communicated obliquely. These objections resulted in delays, transfers, and choices between progressing an assisted dying application and receiving palliative or other care. Participants also reported objections causing adverse emotional experiences and distrust of objecting institutions. Six mediating influences on institutional objections were identified: staff views within objecting institutions; support of external medical practitioners and pharmacists providing assisted dying services; nature of a patient’s illness; progression or state of a patient’s illness; patient’s geographical location; and the capability and assertiveness of a patient and/or caregiver. Conclusions Institutional objection to assisted dying is much-debated yet empirically understudied. This research found that in Victoria, objections were regularly reported by participants and adversely affected access to assisted dying and the wider end-of-life experience for patients and caregivers. This barrier arises in an assisted dying system that is already procedurally challenging, particularly given the limited window patients have to apply. Better regulation may be needed as Victoria’s existing policy approach appears to preference institutional positions over patient’s choice given existing power dynamics. (shrink)
- Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life.P. QuinnWhite -forthcoming -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
- "I love you," "Don't Worry About it": A Theory of Non-Deontic Normative Powers.P. QuinnWhite -manuscriptNormative powers are often assumed or defined to be abilities to change requirements by one's say so. Promise and command generate duties (and so requirement), consent waives them. I argue that alongside such deontic powers, we enjoy a suite of non-deontic powers: abilities to shape non-requiring interpersonal norms by our say so. I call consent's non-deontic analogue “allowance.” Suppose that we are meeting and we explicitly agreed to talk for an hour; but I see that the day is really getting (...) away from you; it would be helpful to you to end early. That situation can be such that carrying on the meeting is permissible but still interpersonally defective—it's rude, imposing, graceless, etc. You can change that by your say so; you could, for instance, tell me “don't worry about it! we have the full hour.” Your say so is not deontic consent as it did not change what was permissible; but it did make a normative difference, rendering my carrying on no longer graceless or rude. I defend a set of four atomic non-deontic powers that I call “allowance,” “assurance” (like promise), “pressure” (like command), and “withdrawal” (like revocation). I also defend the existence of more complex molecular powers, most importantly the power exercised in telling another “I love you.” In addition to an argument from cases, I make a bigger picture, theoretical argument: we can shape non-deontic norms by (re)shaping our relationships with others; if we can shape non-deontic norms indirectly in that way, then we can do so directly by our say so. The upshot is a theory of ubiquitous, understudied normative phenomena and a picture on which the deontic and non-deontic dimensions of interpersonal life are continuous. (shrink)
- Forms and Sensibles.Nicholas P.White -1987 -Philosophical Topics 15 (2):197-214.
- Paying It Forward.P. QuinnWhite -manuscriptI have had extraordinary teachers who gave me far more than I was owed. Those gifts put a distinctive normative pressure upon me; I cannot ever repay the the gifts that were given me, but I can, and should, pay them forward. Not to do so would be a normative failing. Thinkers as varied as Jesus, Benjamin Franklin, Emerson, and Paul Erdős (of Erdős number fame) all seem to agree that we face some kind of injunction to pay it forward. (...) This paper asks why: why would receipt of an undeserved benefit from one party generate any normative pressure to do likewise for a third party? I show that attempts to explain the phenomenon of paying it forward via an appeal to beneficence, gratitude, or fairness all fail, and so we must look elsewhere. In bipolar relationships, like friendships, we are subject to norm of balance or harmony; when the other relates to me an especially generous way, I should in turn live up to that example and so relate back. Balance in bipolar relationships is a diachronic norm—healthy relationships sustain and thrive on local imbalances—but a relationship which remains one-sided is thereby flawed. I argue that so, too, are we subject to a norm of balance across generations. When we cannot or should not pay a gift back and achieve balance within a bipolar relationship, we can instead pay that gift forward and achieve balance across a larger time horizon. For me not to go above and beyond for my students would leave that broader multi-generational relationship—stretching from my teacher to me to my students—imbalanced with me at its normative focal point. In this paper I articulate and defend an intergenerational balance norm, showing that paying it forward arises within multi-generational relationships like that connecting me, my teachers, and my students—even though it does not always seem like that on the surface. Having defended an account of inter-generational balance, I ask to whom one can pay it forward, arguing that one can successfully achieve inter-generational balance with recipients quite different from one's initial giver(s). The upshot: among the tasks of responding to deep asymmetries and dependencies in our lives is the maintenance and forging of multi-generational relationships within which we can achieve an ideal of balance.. (shrink)
- Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach.Ben P.White,Lindy Willmott &Eliana Close -2022 -Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 19 (4):683-693.Existing regulation of end-of-life care is flawed. Problems include poorly-designed laws, policies, ethical codes, training, and funding programs, which often are neither effective nor helpful in guiding decision-making. This leads to adverse outcomes for patients, families, health professionals, and the health system as a whole. A key factor contributing to the harms of current regulation is a siloed approach to regulating end-of-life care. Existing approaches to regulation, and research into how that regulation could be improved, have tended to focus on (...) a single regulatory instrument (e.g., just law or just ethical codes). As a result, there has been a failure to capture holistically the various forces that guide end-of-life care. This article proposes a response to address this, identifying “regulatory space” theory as a candidate to provide the much-needed holistic insight into improving regulation of end-of-life care. The article concludes with practical implications of this approach for regulators and researchers. (shrink)
- Enhancement of conditioned fear during extinction.Nicholas R.White &Paul T. P. Wong -1982 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 20 (5):272-274.
- The influence of certain conditions prior to learning upon subsequent recall.P. L. Whitely &A. B. Blankenship -1936 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 19 (4):496.
- The influence of certain prior conditions upon learning.P. L. Whitely &G. Blankfort -1933 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 16 (6):843.
- Using Illusions to Understand Delusions.Thomas P.White &Sukhi S. Shergill -2012 -Frontiers in Psychology 3.
- Mobilizing Identities.Harrison C.White,Frédéric C. Godart &Victor P. Corona -2007 -Theory, Culture and Society 24 (7-8):181-202.No categories
- Beautiful, troubling art: in defense of non-summative judgment.P. QuinnWhite -forthcoming -Philosophical Studies:1-25.Do the ethical features of an artwork bear on its aesthetic value? This movie endorses misogyny, that song is a civil rights anthem, the clay constituting this statue was extracted with underpaid labor—are facts like these the proper bases for aesthetic evaluation? I argue that this debate has suffered from a false presupposition: that if the answer is “yes” (for at least some such ethical features), such considerations feature as pro tanto contributions to an artwork’s overall aesthetic value, i.e., as (...) merits or flaws which make something have more or less overall aesthetic value. As the case of ethically laden aesthetic evaluation makes clear, however, good aesthetic judgement is irreducibly multi-dimensional, e.g., “the movie has an engaging soundtrack, tasteful camera work, and takes a misogynistically purient perspective on its female lead.” Such a “non-summative” judgement refuses to reduce those various dimensions of aesthetic value to a single aggregate aesthetic evaluation, like “it’s a 6/10” or “it’s a pretty good movie!” I defend both the modest claim that such non-summative evaluations are not mistaken and the extremist claim that summative (i.e., unidimensional) aesthetic evaluation is defective by considering other domains of normative assessment in which summing seems inappropriate, notably including evaluations of people’s character. (shrink)
- Charlie Gard: in defence of the law.Eliana Close,Lindy Willmott &Benjamin P.White -2018 -Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (7):476-480.Much of the commentary in the wake of the Charlie Gard litigation was aimed at apparent shortcomings of the law. These include concerns about the perceived inability of the law to consider resourcing issues, the vagueness of the best interests test and the delays and costs of having disputes about potentially life-sustaining medical treatment resolved by the courts. These concerns are perennial ones that arise in response to difficult cases. Despite their persistence, we argue that many of these criticisms are (...) unfounded. The first part of this paper sets out the basic legal framework that operates when parents seek potentially life-sustaining treatment that doctors believe is against a child’s best interests, and describes the criticisms of that framework. The second part of the paper suggests an alternative approach that would give decision-making power to parents, and remove doctors’ ability to unilaterally withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment that they regard is futile. This proposal is grounded in several values that we argue should guide these regulatory choices. We also contend that the best interests test is justifiable and since the courts show no sign of departing from it, the focus should be on how to better elucidate the underlying values driving decisions. We discuss the advantages of our proposed approach and how it would address some of the criticisms aimed at the law. Finally, we defend the current role that the judiciary plays, as an independent state-sanctioned process with a precedent-setting function. (shrink)
- Creativity and education: A philosophical analysis.J. P.White -1968 -British Journal of Educational Studies 16 (2):123-137.
- The Classification of Goods in Plato's Republic.Nicholas P.White -1984 -Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4):393-421.
- A behavioral field analysis of adjunctive activities.Nicholas R.White &Paul T. P. Wong -1982 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 20 (5):266-268.No categories
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