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- Frontal eye field: A cortical salience map.Kirk G.Thompson &Narcisse P. Bichot -1999 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (4):699-700.The concept of a salience map has become important for the development of theories of visual attention and saccade generation. Recent studies have shown that the frontal eye fields have all of the characteristics of a salience map.
- The Presocratic Philosophers.G. S.Kirk,J. E. Raven &M. Schofield -1983 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (4):465-469.
- Os filósofos Pré-socráticos.G. S.Kirk &J. E. Raven -1980 -Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 36 (1):117-119.
- The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts.G. S.Kirk &J. E. Raven -1983 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by J. E. Raven & Malcolm Schofield.This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.No categories
- The presocratic philosophers.G. S.Kirk -1957 - Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press. Edited by J. E. Raven.This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.
- Pre-Christian Speculation.G. S.Kirk -1957 -Review of Metaphysics 11 (1):160 - 161.I do not mean to suggest that Kroner's book is not in many places interesting and learned, nor that, in its original form of lectures, it had no value. But, apart from the exaggeration and distortion of the central thesis, the detailed treatment of historical points leaves one with little confidence and robs the work of what usefulness it might have had. Thus an unquestioning application of Nietzche's division of Greek thinkers into 'Dionysiac' and 'Apollonian' leads to remarks like the (...) following: "Aristotle has little in common with the Dionysian romanticism and universal dynamism of Heraclitus, and yet there is a kinship between them based upon becoming instead of being". What evidence we have for the Presocratic period is harshly treated. On p. 85 this is the 'more literal' of two versions of Anaximander's fragment and its introduction: "All things are going back through destruction, whence they had come through generation, according to what is due; for they suffer just punishment by repayment to each other the wrong in the succession of time"--but Anaximander did not, in fact, write nonsense like this. Even a simple sentence like Heraclitus fr. 113 is mistranslated as "Thinking is the same for all," where the Greek is ξυνόν and not τὸ αὐτό. Nor is Kroner incapable of rebuking others for mistakes of his own; thus on p. 110 he writes: "J. Burnet, e.g., waters down the words of Parmenides which literally rendered are: 'The same is to know and that on behalf of which thought is,' by letting Parmenides say: 'You cannot find thought without something that is as to which it is uttered.'" But Burnet was translating not the line translated by Kroner, but the following one, a line ignored by Kroner and one which seriously damages his interpretation of Parmenides. Then the Greek word ἰδέαι, used of Plato's Forms, is implied to connote ideas existing in the mind; Socrates is the most worth-while of Greek thinkers because in some respects he resembled Jesus Christ; he was not really an ethical thinker, though, and in any case Plato's Forms owed nothing to him--and so on. The best treatment is of Aristotle; and there are many short sections of acute discussion, as, for example, on the meaning of the second part of the Parmenides. But the mind may be spinning so wildly by the time it reaches them that it is incapable of recognizing them. Cambridge University. (shrink)
- Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments.G. S.Kirk (ed.) -2010 - Cambridge University Press.This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. ProfessorKirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, ProfessorKirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he (...) attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal translation and and an extended commentary in which problems of textual and philosophical criticism are discussed. Ancient accounts of Heraclitus were inadequate and misleading, and asKirk wrote, understanding was often hindered by excessive dogmatism and a selective use of the fragments. ProfessorKirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought. (shrink)
- Investigating the Role of the Primary Motor Cortex in Musical Creativity: A Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study.Aydin Anic,Kirk N. Olsen &William FordeThompson -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Chinese Religion: An Introduction.Laurence G.Thompson -1989
- (1 other version)Natural change in Heraclitus.G. S.Kirk -1951 -Mind 60 (237):35-42.
- Popper on science and the presocratics.G. S.Kirk -1960 -Mind 69 (275):318-339.
- Parmenides' Refutation of Motion.G. S.Kirk &Michael C. Stokes -1960 -Phronesis 5 (1):1 - 4.
- Some Problems in Anaximander.G. S.Kirk -1955 -Classical Quarterly 5 (1-2):21-.This article deals with four almost classic problems in Anaximander. of these the first is of comparatively minor importance, and the second is important not for what Anaximander thought but for what Aristotle thought he thought. Problem i is: Did Anaximander describe his as ? Problem 2: Did Aristotle mean Anaximander when he referred to people who postulated an intermediate substance ? Problem 3: Did Anaximander think that there were innumerable successive worlds? Problem 4: What is the extent and implication (...) of the extant fragment of Anaximander? Appended is a brief consideration of the nature of Theophrastus' source-material for Anaximander; on one's opinion of this question the assessment of the last two problems will clearly depend. (shrink)
- Orality and sequence.G. S.Kirk -1983 - In Kevin Robb,Language and thought in early Greek philosophy. La Salle, Ill.: Hegeler Institute.
- Logos, ἁρμουίη, lutte, dieu et feu dans Héraclite.G.Kirk -1957 -Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 147:289 - 299.
- Reality and the Meaning of Evil: On the Moral Causality of Signs.Kirk G. Kanzelberger -2020 -Reality 1 (1):146-204.ABSTRACT: “Evil is really only a privation.” This philosophical commonplace reflects an ancient solution to the problem of theodicy in one of its dimensions: is evil of such a nature that it must have God as its author? Stated in this particular way, it also reflects the commonplace identification of the real with natural being—the realm of what exists independently of human thought and perspectives—as opposed to all that is termed, by comparison, “merely subjective” and “unreal”. If we stick with (...) this way of construing the meaning of “reality”, then by the excellent arguments of the tradition we are also stuck with defending the sufficiency of privation as a response to what evil “really is”. -/- In this article, we argue against both ways of being stuck. We argue, first, that a one-sided focus upon the being of nature blocks an adequate understanding of the world we actually live in: the semiotically constituted lifeworld that is the proper locus of human realities, including moral evil. We argue, second, that the positivity of moral evil consists not only, nor even primarily, in the positivity of “action” as such, but in structures of objectivity engendered by creative reason that oppose the due end, and that involve a specific genus of pure object which we call a mystical daydream. Like any objects, these objects are communicable and formative in relation to the lifeworld, within which they in turn engender further interpretants for both those who do and those who suffer evil, thanks to the causality of signs. (shrink)
- The Michigan Alcidamas-Papyrus; Heraclitus Fr. 56D; The Riddle of the Lice.G. S.Kirk -1950 -Classical Quarterly 44 (3-4):149-.During the excavations of 1924–5 at Karanis a papyrus of the second or early third century A.D. was discovered, and subsequently published by J. G. Winter , which under its single column has a subscribed title which should almost certainly be restored as ‘Alcidamas, On Homer’. The first fourteen lines of the papyrus give most of the story of Homer's death and the riddle that caused it, which is common to all the extant Lives of Homer; the remainder is a (...) general eulogy of Homer and a profession of transmitting his works to posterity. The interest of the discovery lies in the knowledge that it gives of a hitherto unrecorded work by Alcidamas, the rhetorician and contemporary of Isocrates, and the new fuel that it provides for an old controversy about the origins of the work known as the Certamen. The first part of this article aims at both re-examining the value of the papyrus and reopening some of the old questions on the Certamen. (shrink)
- Thinking About Thinking: What Kind of Conversation is Philosophy? By Adriaan Peperzak.Kirk G. Kanzelberger -2016 -International Philosophical Quarterly 56 (4):515-517.
- Homer and Modern Oral Poetry: Some Confusions.G. S.Kirk -1960 -Classical Quarterly 10 (3-4):271-.One of the curious things about Homeric studies is the way in which, although opinions in this field fluctuate violently, from time to time certain among them tend to become crystallized for no particular reason and are then accepted as something approaching orthodoxy. It is to try to delay such a crystallization, if it is not already too late, that I direct this brief coup d'ail at some current opinions on whether Homer—for the sake of clarity I apply this name (...) in the first instance to the monumental composer of the Iliad—used the aid of writing, and in general at the value of comparative inferences based on the heroic poetry of modern Yugoslavia. (shrink)
- A Passage inDe Plantis.G. S.Kirk -1956 -The Classical Review 6 (01):5-6.
- Heraclitus and Death in Battle.G. S.Kirk -1949 -American Journal of Philology 70 (4):384.
- The Nature of Greek Myths.G. S.Kirk -1977 -Philosophy and Rhetoric 10 (2):126-127.No categories
- The Presocratic Philosophers. A Critical History with a Selection of Texts.Peter Diamadopoulos,G. S.Kirk &J. E. Raven -1960 -American Journal of Philology 81 (1):100.
- Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures.Grundy Steiner &G. S.Kirk -1973 -American Journal of Philology 94 (1):107.
- (1 other version)A Fragment Of Sappho Reinterpreted.G. S.Kirk -1919 -Classical Quarterly 13 (1):51-52.It seems very commonly agreed that Sappho's wedding-songs display none of the ritual obscenity so frequent in the genre. Thus D. L. Page wrote of fr. i ioa that ‘There is no trace here or elsewhere in Sappho of that ribaldry which was characteristic of the songs recited at this and other stages of Greek wedding-ceremonies’. Similarly Sir Maurice Bowra asserted of fr. 111 that it is ‘neither bawdy nor exalted, but playful. If the humour is a bit primitive, that (...) is due to tradition, which expected jokes at this level’. On the next page he writes of the songs sung outside the bridal chamber, as distinct from those sung in the procession thither, that ‘Here too Sappho seems to avoid bawdry but is not averse from rather elementary jokes’. (shrink)No categories
- Ecpyrosis in Heraclitus: Some Comments'.G. S.Kirk -1959 -Phronesis 4 (2):73-76.
- Greek Science.G. S.Kirk -1961 -Philosophy Today 5 (2):108.
- History and The Homeric Iliad.G. S.Kirk -1961 -The Classical Review 11 (01):8-.
- On Defning Myths.G. S.Kirk -1973 -Phronesis 18:61.
- Writing about Writing about MythMyth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures.The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860. [REVIEW]Robert Ackerman,G. S.Kirk,Burton Feldman &Robert D. Richardson -1973 -Journal of the History of Ideas 34 (1):147.
- From continuous magnitudes to symbolic numbers: The centrality of ratio.Pooja G. Sidney,Clarissa A.Thompson,Percival G. Matthews &Edward M. Hubbard -2017 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.No categories
- Protagoras. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1957 -The Classical Review 7 (02):114-.
- Book Notices. [REVIEW]Kirk G. Kanzelberger -1999 -International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (4):488-489.No categories
- The Self Across Psychology: Self-Recognition, Self-Awareness, and the Self Concept.James G. Snodgrass &R. L.Thompson (eds.) -1997 - New York Academy of Sciences.
- Section 3. Local Boundaries.Deborah G. Johnson,PaulThompson &Albert Borgmann -2020 -Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (4):28-30.No categories
- Transport properties of metal-ammonia solutions in the non-metal transition range.J. P. Lelieur,G. Lepoutre &J. C.Thompson -1972 -Philosophical Magazine 26 (5):1205-1216.No categories
- Attenuating the effects of different levels of processing: The role of cue position and cue/word interval.David G. Elmes &Joseph B.Thompson -1977 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 10 (2):152-154.
- Magnitude estimation of imagery.David G. Elmes &Joseph B.Thompson -1976 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 8 (4):343-344.
- The importance of the within-trial interval in the superiority of the recall over anticipation method of paired-associate learning.Mitchell G. Brigell,Charles P.Thompson &Sam C. Brown -1975 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 6 (2):131-133.
- Environmental decision making in a technological age.R. G. Barry &B.Thompson -2002 -Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 2:28-29.
- The Perils of Confusing Nesting with Chaining in Psychological Explanations.Gillian A. Barker,Patrick G. Derr &Nicholas S.Thompson -2004 -Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):293 - 303.Despite its diminished importance amongst philosophers, the deductive-nomological framework is still important to contemporary behavioral scientists. Behavioral theorists operating within this framework must be careful to distinguish between nesting and chaining. Explanations are chained when the explanandum sentence of one explanation is one of the antecedent conditions of another. They are nested when one of the antecedent conditions or the explanandum sentence of one explanation is one of the covering laws of another. Confusion between nesting and chaining leads to explanation (...) nests that cannot be nomologically entrenched. They cannot, even in principle, be logically connected to laws arising from other sciences. This hazard should be particularly important for evolutionary psychologists to avoid, since many evolutionary psychologists tend to see themselves as dedicated to both nomological entrenchment and cognitive functionalist models. The hazard can be avoided if the intentional constructs of the behavioral sciences are construed not as ineffable and inaccessible antecedent conditions, but as complex, law-like patterns in behavior. (shrink)
- Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology by Charles H. Kahn. [REVIEW]G.Kirk -1962 -Isis 53:403-405.
- A. B. Lord: The Singer of Tales. Pp. xv+309. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1961. Cloth, 35s. net. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1963 -The Classical Review 13 (01):19-21.
- Die Vorzeichen im homerischen Epos: ihre Typik und ihre Bedeutung. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1961 -The Classical Review 11 (1):79-79.
- Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1974 -The Classical Review 24 (1):82-86.
- Homeric Companion - A Companion to Homer. Edited by A. J. B. Wace and F. H. Stubbings. Pp. xxix + 595; 40 plates, 69 text-figs. London: Macmillan, 1962. Cloth, £4. 4s. net. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1963 -The Classical Review 13 (02):133-136.
- Nature and the Greeks. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1955 -The Classical Review 5 (3-4):260-262.
- Some Translations of Greek Poetry - (1) Louis MacNeige: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Pp. 71. London: Faber, 1951. Cloth, 8s. 6d. net. - (2) Dudley Fitts And Robert Fitzgerald: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. Pp. 121. London: Faber, 1951. Cloth, 9s. 6d. net. - (3) R. C. Trevelyan: Translations from Greek Poetry. Pp. 73. London: Allen & Unwin, 1950. Boards, 5s. net. - (4) F. L. Lucas: Greek Poetry for Everyman. Pp. xxxiv + 414. London: Dent, 1951. Cloth, 16s. net. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1952 -The Classical Review 2 (3-4):219-221.
- The Physical World of the Greeks. [REVIEW]G. S.Kirk -1958 -The Classical Review 8 (2):111-116.
- The Songs of Homer.Albert B. Lord &G. S.Kirk -1964 -American Journal of Philology 85 (1):81.
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