Leibniz and Materialism.Margaret D. Wilson -1974 -Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (4):495 - 513.detailsSeventeenth century discussions of materialism, whether favorable or hostile towards the position, are generally conducted on a level of much less precision and sophistication than recent work on the problem of the mind-body relation. Nevertheless, the earlier discussions can still be interesting to philosophers, as the plethora of references to Cartesian arguments in the recent literature makes clear. Certainly the early development of materialist patterns of thought, and efforts on both the materialist and immaterialist side to establish fundamental points in (...) the philosophical analysis of mind, have considerable historical interest at the present time. This paper attempts to clarify the significance of some of leibniz's views in connection with the materialist thesis. I do not have in mind his rather notorious parallelism, though some of the points made below bear indirectly on the character of this position. Instead, I will examine his approach to arguments against materialism. (shrink)
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Descartes on the Perception of Primary Qualities.Margaret D. Wilson -1993 - In Stephen Voss,Essays on the philosophy and science of René Descartes. New York: Oxford University Press.detailsThis chapter explains Descartes confusion on sensations, size, shape, position, and motion. Descartes in detail explains that we perceive particular figures or actual bodies affecting our senses much more distinctly than their colours. Descartes construe the perception of position, distance, size, and shape as involving strong intellectual elements and he holds that they differ in this fundamental respect from ordinary perceptions of color, sound, heat and cold, taste, and the like, which are said to consist just in having “sensations” that (...) “arise from the mind-body union.” This position leaves room for uncertainty about what he means when he speaks elsewhere of the near-uselessness of sense perceptions in informing us of particular qualities of bodies, in so far as it opens the possibility of a quite restricted understanding of “sense perception” in these contexts. (shrink)
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Possible Gods.Margaret D. Wilson -1979 -Review of Metaphysics 32 (4):717-733.detailsAt least some of these commentators have then, rather naturally, taken a step which it will be the business of this essay to criticize. They have suggested that Leibniz’s "counter-part theory" can be understood as providing an interpretation of counter-factuals and certain forms of modal discourse within his system. For example, Mondadori writes.
Disabled bodies on earth and in heaven.Margaret D. Kamitsuka -2021 -Journal of Religious Ethics 49 (2):358-380.detailsJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 358-380, June 2021.
Women’s reproductive authority in religious ethics.Margaret D. Kamitsuka -2021 -Journal of Religious Ethics 49 (2):219-225.detailsJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 219-225, June 2021.
The Normative, the Proper, and the Sublime: Notes on the Use of Figure and Emotion in Prophetic Argument.Margaret D. Zulick -1998 -Argumentation 12 (4):481-492.detailsToo often in argumentation studies, an emphasis on argumentative norms fails to give adequate weight to elements of emotion and style that are essential to public speech at its best, not only in ordinary practice but especially in those rare moments where public speech arrives at the sublime. In this paper we examine the coordination of argument with figurative and emotive language whose combination yields sublime effects in the poetry of the Hebrew prophets as well as in examples of modern (...) discourse. It is shown that poetic figures, while not fully reducible to argumentative norms, nor rational in the sense commonly applied to argumentation, do in fact contribute in propriety in public discourse; moreover, they surpass mere propriety to generate moments of the sublime. (shrink)
The Role of Female Directors in the Boardroom: Examining Their Impact on Competitive Dynamics.Kathleen Rehbein,Margaret Hughes-Morgan &Kalin D. Kolev -2021 -Business and Society 60 (4):811-843.detailsThis study contributes simultaneously to research on women board members and competitive dynamics by investigating two unresolved research questions: What is the effect of female directors on the firm’s competitive repertoire? Under what conditions is this effect more pronounced? Leveraging the “Awareness-Motivation-Capability” (AMC) framework, we predict that having women on the board of directors should impact the complexity, heterogeneity, and volume of the firm’s competitive moves. Relying upon a sample of U.S. pharmaceutical firms for the years 2000 to 2017, we (...) find that adding female directors on the board positively affects the complexity and volume of a firm’s competitive moves, but negatively impacts the heterogeneity of competitive actions. In addition, the presence of a female CEO moderates these effects, leading to more complex competitive actions and increased volume. Thus, our study lends a greater understanding of how female board members influence competitive dynamics and shape the strategic direction of the firm. (shrink)
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The Empiricists: Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.M. R. Ayers,Phillip D. Cummins,Robert Fogelin,Don Garrett,Edwin McCann,Charles J. McCracken,George Pappas,G. A. J. Rogers,Barry Stroud,Ian Tipton,Margaret D. Wilson &Kenneth Winkler -1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThis collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke , George Berkeley , and David Hume , provides a deepened understanding of major issues raised in the Empiricist tradition. In exploring their shared belief in the experiential nature of mental constructs, The Empiricists illuminates the different methodologies of these great Enlightenment philosophers and introduces students to important metaphysical and epistemological issues including the theory of ideas, personal identity, and skepticism. It will be especially useful in courses devoted (...) to the history of modern philosophy. (shrink)
Descartes's Meditations: Critical Essays.John P. Carriero,Peter J. Markie,Stephen Schiffer,Robert Delahunty,Frederick J. O'Toole,David M. Rosenthal,Fred Feldman,Anthony Kenny,Margaret D. Wilson,John Cottingham &Jonathan Bennett (eds.) -1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsThis collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers.