Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds: The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I.Annette D. Digby,Gadi Alexander,Carole G. Basile,KevinCloninger,F. Michael Connelly,Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby,John P. Gaa,Herbert P. Ginsburg,Angela McNeal Haynes,Ming Fang He,Terri R. Hebert,Sharon Johnson,Patricia L. Marshall,Joan V. Mast,Allison W. McCulloch,Christina Mengert,Christy M. Moroye,F. Richard Olenchak,Wynnetta Scott-Simmons,Merrie Snow,Derrick M. Tennial,P. Bruce Uhrmacher,Shijing Xu &JeongAe You (eds.) -2009 - R&L Education.detailsPresents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes accountability.
How Neoliberalism Reproduces Itself: A Marxian Theory of Management.Kevin Young -2005 -Philosophy of Management 5 (2):79-88.detailsThis paper explicates a Marxian theory of management that suggests that the social relation to be managed in capitalism is the separation of the political from the economic. While it is commonly understood that this must be an active process of management taken up on behalf of modern capitalist states, this paper suggests that the market mechanism itself also assumes this role without the active intervention of any managerial direction. The intensive expansion of the market facilitates a management function of (...) subverting the political deliberation which challenges the political-economic separation that could otherwise be expected in neoliberal restructuring. Both the changing nature of consumption and the growth of the small business sector are cited as examples of ways in which neoliberalism reproduces itself in the presence of social contradiction but in the absence of any actively planned strategy of management to deal with those contradictions. (shrink)
why Heidegger Is Not An Existentialist: Interpreting Authenticity And Historicity In Being And Time.Kevin Aho -2003 -Florida Philosophical Review 3 (2):5-22.detailsHeidegger's Being and Time is often interpreted as an important contribution to the canon of Existentialist philosophy. This popular interpretation is due largely to the theme of "authenticity" that is carefully developed in Division II. Here, Heidegger explains how we, as human beings, can temporarily sever ourselves from our bondage to a "fallen" public world by owning up to the anxious awareness of our inevitable death. It is in resolutely facing death that we can become individuals for the first time (...) and see through the illusions of stability and comfort that our roles in public life offer us. As "beings-towards-death" we can soberly come to grips with our finitude and bring this awareness back into our everyday lives, realizing and accepting that there is no security or permanence to our existence.But this existentialist interpretation fails to acknowledge the fundamental role that historicity plays in Heidegger's conception of authenticity. The experience of anxiety that can motivate us to authenticity and resoluteness is only initially an individuating experience. Our historicity determines the structure of our existence in such a way that the authentic human being is never an isolated individual . Human beings can never rebel against or overcome their own socio-cultural and historical world because they are always already interwoven to a specific historical situation. In this paper I will attempt to explain the relevance of historicist authenticity as a critical response to the common, existentialist interpretation. I will focus on the crucial role that one's historical background, in the sense of community and heritage, has on Heidegger's interpretation of authenticity. (shrink)
The Faith of Our Sons and the Tragic Quest.Kevin Corn -2013 - In George A. Dunn & Jason T. Eberl,Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy. Wiley. pp. 117–127.detailsThe solemnity, sacrifice, and concern for the state of the soul portrayed at Opie's funeral seems out of place among anarchists on motorcycles. The chapter analyzes if Opie's wake should be regarded as a religious rite as Sons of Anarchy are not a Christian sect, nor do they belong to any religious body that Americans commonly embrace. The chapter touches upon gender inequality in religious rites, and male bonding that becomes a primary good and maybe even something like a religious (...) duty. German classicist Walter Burkert terms such a group is a Männerbund (or MB), literally an “all‐male society.” The chapter explains the significance of ubiquitous symbol for the Sons of Anarchy MC – the Grim Reaper logo. Like the image of Santa Muerte, the Reaper logo is what scholars of religion call a hierophany. Finally, the chapter talks about the tragic flaws in the faith of SAMCRO. (shrink)
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Re-evaluating the hiddenness argument from above.Kevin Vandergriff -2019 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 85 (2):193-211.detailsJ. L. Schellenberg’s hiddenness argument for atheism assumes that God’s perpetual openness to a relationship with any finite person is consistent with their perpetual flourishing. However, I argue that if Aquinas-Stump’s account of the nature of love is true, then any finite person flourishes the most only if they attain the greatest degree of union among God and all relevant parties. Moreover, if Humean externalism is true, then any finite person might not have their greatest attainable degree of union among (...) God and all relevant parties, as soon as possible, unless God sacrifices some time in the union—not the whole union—with them. Accordingly, God’s perpetual openness might not be consistent with the future flourishing of any finite person—from which it follows that a crucial assumption of the hiddenness argument might not be true. (shrink)
Schubmehl-Prein essay competition: What are the Potential Social and Ethical Implications of the $100 Laptop?Kevin W. Bowyer -2010 -Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 40 (1):14-16.detailsThe 2009 competition was the fifth year of the Schubmehl-Prein contest for the Best Essay on Social Impact of Computing. The competition is open to high school juniors each year, with a submission deadline at the end of May. The essay topic varies each year, with the 2009 topic being, "What are the potential social and ethical implications of the $100 laptop?" The 2009 competition attracted a number of essays that strongly engaged with the topic. The 2009 First Place winner (...) is Katherine Heit, the Second Place winner is Danielle Harris, and the Third Place winner is David Purington. In addition, this year, for the first time, two Honorable Mention winners were also selected: Bryan Dongre and Erica Smith. Revised versions of the First, Second and Third Place essays appear in this issue of Computers and Society. Congratulations to all of this year's winners. Thanks to all of the students who prepared and submitted an entry to the competition. And thanks as well to all of the teachers and school counselors who worked with all of the students. (shrink)
What Would Some Confucians Think About Genetic Enhancement from the Perspective of “Human Nature”?Kevin Chien-Chang Wu -2010 -American Journal of Bioethics 10 (4):80-82.detailsFan (2010) did a good job in applying his interpretation of Confucian ethics of giftedness to genetic enhancement. To him, it is God-like Heaven that gives lives to us and our ancestors as gifts th...
Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions: From Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period.Kevin Corrigan,John D. Turner &Peter Wakefield (eds.) -2012 - Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag.detailsThis book explores the intimate connections, conflicts and discontinuities between religion and philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions from Antiquity to the early Medieval period. It presents a broader comparative view of Platonism by examining the strong Platonist resonances among different philosophical/religious traditions, primarily Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Hindu, and suggests many new ways of thinking about the relation between these two fields or disciplines that have in modern times become such distinct and, at times, entirely separate domains.
A Memo from the Central Office: The "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services".Kevin Wm Wildes -1995 -Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 5 (2):133-139.detailsIn 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops revised the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." A goal of the Directives is to maintain the moral integrity of Catholic health care institutions and to address controversies in bioethics and health care. The Directives represent a shift to an exclusively principle-based approach to moral reason. This shift threatens to undermine the very tradition that the bishops seek to protect.
The Philosopher's Song: The Poets' Influence on Plato.Kevin Crotty -2009 - Lexington Books.detailsThe Philosopher's Song explores the complex and fruitful relation between the great poets of Greek culture and Plato's invention of philosophy, especially as this bears on Plato's treatment of justice. The author shows how the poets helped shape the development of Plato's thinking throughout the course of his philosophical career.
Heisenbergian explanation and Husserlian evidence: ontological significance in idealized language.Kevin Mager -2021 -Continental Philosophy Review 54 (4):521-540.detailsIn contemporary philosophy of science many theories of explanation are rooted in positivist or post-positivists accounts of explanation. This paper attempts to ground a phenomenological account of scientific explanation by using the works of Werner Heisenberg and Patrick Heelan. To explain something for Heisenberg is to describe what can be intersubjectively observed and conceptualized in an adequate language. However, this needs to be qualified, as not any adequate account will do. While Heisenberg thinks that Kant is right to think that (...) a priori concepts are the conditions which make science, and thus explanation, possible, he also believes pure a priori concepts have a limited range of applicability. Neils Bohr shared this belief with Heisenberg, but thinks human thought can go no further. However, Heisenberg never gave up on the idea that we could create new concepts that act as a priori grounds for quantum entities. To go beyond Heisenberg, I believe that we should look to Husserl’s account of Evidenz and the material a priori to help us think about a phenomenological account of explanation. (shrink)
The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature.Kevin L. Morris -1984 - Routledge.detailsOriginally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18th and 19th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism. The book suggests that religious medievalism was not a superficial cultural phenomenon and that the romantic spirit with which it was chronologically connected, was intimately associated with the metaphysical. The book suggests that this belief gave birth to the metaphysical yearning and cultural expression of the (...) eighteenth and nineteenth century. The book seeks to clarify the post-Enlightenment relationship between aesthetic culture and 'aesthetic' religion, romanticism, medievalism and religious trends. (shrink)
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Definitions Come in Many Kinds: Reply to Comments.Kevin Mulligan &Klaus R. Scherer -2012 -Emotion Review 4 (4):389-390.detailsWe conclude that the commentators seem to fundamentally agree on the substance of our proposal of a partial real definition of emotion as a dynamic episode which has to fulfill a certain number of conditions to count as a member of the class. We raise the issue of prescriptive functions of a definition, suggesting parallels to biomedical ontologies. We also clarify the issues of linguistic and cultural relativity and of differences in the nature of individual emotions.
Approval and Withdrawal of New Antibiotics and other Antiinfectives in the U.S., 1980–2009.Kevin Outterson,John H. Powers,Enrique Seoane-Vazquez,Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio &Aaron S. Kesselheim -2013 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (3):688-696.detailsAntibiotic use triggers evolutionary and ecological responses from bacteria, leading to antibiotic resistance and harmful patient outcomes. Two complementary strategies support long-term antibiotic effectiveness: conservation of existing therapies and production of novel antibiotics. Conservation encompasses infection control, antibiotic stewardship, and other public health interventions to prevent infection, which reduce antibiotic demand. Production of new antibiotics allows physicians to replace existing drugs rendered less effective by resistance.In recent years, physicians and policymakers have raised concerns about the pipeline for new antibiotics, pointing (...) to a decline in the number of antibiotics approved since the 1980s. This trend has been attributed to high research and development costs, low reimbursement for antibiotics, and regulatory standards for review and approval. Professional societies and researchers around the world have called for renewed emphasis on antimicrobial stewardship, while also supporting antibiotic research and development through grants, changes to intellectual property laws to extend market exclusivity periods, and modification of premarket testing regulations to reduce antibiotic development time and expenses. (shrink)