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- Considerations of Mutual Exchange in Prosocial Decision-Making.Suraiya Allidina,Nathan L. Arbuckle &William A. Cunningham -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10:455577.Research using economic decision-making tasks has established that direct reciprocity plays a role in prosocial decision-making: people are more likely to help those who have helped them in the past. However, less is known about how considerations of mutual exchange influence decisions even when the other party’s actions are unknown and direct reciprocity is therefore not possible. Using a two-party economic task in which the other’s actions are unknown, study 1 shows that prosociality critically depends on the potential for mutual (...) exchange; when the other person has no opportunity to help the participant, prosocial behavior is drastically reduced. In study 2, we find that theories regarding the other person’s intentions influence the degree of prosociality that participants exhibit, even when no opportunity for direct reciprocity exists. Further, beliefs about the other’s intentions are closely related to one’s own motivations in the task. Together, the results support a model in which prosociality depends on both the social conditions for mutual exchange and a mental model of how others will behave within these conditions, which is closely related to knowledge of the self. (shrink)
- Attentional bias differences between fear and disgust: Implications for the role of disgust in disgust-related anxiety disorders.Josh M. Cisler,Bunmi O. Olatunji,Jeffrey M. Lohr &Nathan L.Williams -2009 -Cognition and Emotion 23 (4):675-687.Research demonstrates a relation between disgust and anxiety-related pathology; however, research has yet to reveal mechanisms by which disgust may contribute to anxiety. The current experiment examined attentional bias characteristics as one route by which disgust influences anxiety. Eighty undergraduate participants completed a rapid serial visual presentation attention task using fear, disgust, or neutral target stimuli. Task-relevance of the target's presentation was also manipulated. Results revealed that task-relevant disgust targets impaired attention among all participants, but task-irrelevant disgust targets impaired attention (...) only in high disgust prone individuals. Difficulty in disengagement characterised both disgust and fear attentional biases, but the difficulty in disengagement was greater for disgust compared to fear attentional biases. High disgust prone individuals displayed exaggerated difficulty in disengaging attention from disgust targets compared to low disgust prone individuals. The results suggest that disgust attentional biases differ from fear attentional biases. The characteristics of disgust attentional biases are discussed as possible mechanisms by which disgust functions in certain anxiety disorders. (shrink)
- Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics.Robert K. Garcia &Nathan L. King (eds.) -2008 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.Morality and religion: intimately wed, violently opposed, or something else? Discussion of this issue appears in pop culture, the academy, and the media―often generating radically opposed views. At one end of the spectrum are those who think that unless God exists, ethics is unfounded and the moral life is unmotivated. At the other end are those who think that religious belief is unnecessary for―and even a threat to―ethical knowledge and the moral life. -/- This volume provides an accessible, charitable discussion (...) that represents a range of views along this spectrum. The book begins with a lively debate between Paul Kurtz and William Lane Craig on the question, Is goodness without God good enough? Kurtz defends the affirmative position and Craig the negative. Following the debate are new essays by prominent scholars. These essays comment on the debate and advance the broader discussion of religion and morality. The book closes with final responses from Kurtz and Craig. (shrink)
- Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach.Juliette L. Ratchford,William Fleeson,Nathan L. King,Laura E. R. Blackie,Qilin Zhang,Tenelle Porter &Eranda Jayawickreme -forthcoming -Topoi:1-10.What does it mean to be a good thinker? Which virtues work together in someone who possesses good intellectual character? Although recent research on virtues has highlighted the benefits of individual intellectual virtues, being an excellent thinker is likely a function of possessing multiple intellectual virtues. Specifically, a good thinker would both recognize one’s intellectual shortcomings and possess an eagerness to learn driven by virtues such as love of knowledge, curiosity, and open-mindedness. Good intellectual character may only successfully manifest when (...) individuals possess not just one or a few intellectual virtues, but a larger set of such virtues to different degrees. However, little is currently known about what combination of virtues are necessary for good thinking. We argue that it is important to identify and clarify the nature of the good thinker and outline a profile methodology for achieving this goal. This approach characterizes the good thinker in terms of a profile of multiple intellectual virtues. Understanding this profile can allow greater insight into the extent to which people possess such a profile, and the potential for societal benefits of educating for these qualities. (shrink)
- Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by William Werpehowski and Kathryn Getek Soltis. Pp ix, 209, Lexington Books, 2014, £51.95/$85.00. [REVIEW]Nathan L. Cartagena -2015 -Heythrop Journal 56 (4):719-720.
- Introduction.Robert K. Garcia &Nathan L. King -2008 - In Robert K. Garcia & Nathan L. King,Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Labor Relations in Republican Germany.Nathan Reich,Harwood L. Childs,William E. Dodd,Aurel Kolnai &Martha Dodd -1939 -Science and Society 3 (4):538-542.Export citation
Bookmark - Revolutionary hope: essays in honor of William L. McBride.Nathan J. Jun &William Leon McBride (eds.) -2013 - Lanham: Lexington Books.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar.No categories
- Philoso.Abigail L. Rosenthal,Hallvard Lillehammer,NmlNathan,William Lane Craig,Roy Sorensen &Christopher Miles Coope -2011 -Philosophy 86 (2).No categories
- In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin.Ryan Balot,Timothy W. Burns,Paul A. Cantor,Brent Edwin Cusher,Hugh Donald Forbes,Steven Forde,Bryan-Paul Frost,Kenneth Hart Green,Ran Halévi,L. Joseph Hebert,Henry Higuera,Robert Howse,Seth N. Jaffe,Michael S. Kochin,Noah Laurence,Mark L. Lutz,Arthur M. Melzer,Miguel Morgado,Waller R. Newell,Michael Palmer,Lorraine Smith Pangle,Thomas L. Pangle,William B. Parsons,Marc F. Plattner,Linda R. Rabieh,Andrea Radasanu,Michael Rosano &Nathan Tarcov (eds.) -2015 - Lexington Books.This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy.
- In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin.Ryan Balot,Timothy W. Burns,Paul A. Cantor,Brent Edwin Cusher,Donald Forbes,Steven Forde,Bryan-Paul Frost,Kenneth Hart Green,Ran Halévi,L. Joseph Hebert,Henry Higuera,Robert Howse,S. N. Jaffe,Michael S. Kochin,Noah Lawrence,Mark J. Lutz,Arthur M. Melzer,Jeffrey Metzger,Miguel Morgado,Waller R. Newell,Michael Palmer,Lorraine Smith Pangle,Thomas L. Pangle,Marc F. Plattner,William B. Parsons,Linda R. Rabieh,Andrea Radasanu,Michael Rosano,Diana J. Schaub,Susan Meld Shell &Nathan Tarcov (eds.) -2015 - Lexington Books.This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy.
- Absolute Becoming and the Myth of Passage.L.Nathan Oaklander -2004 -Philo 7 (1):36-46.In a recent paper, Steven Savitt attempts to demonstrate that there is an area of common ground between one classic proponent of temporal passage, C.D. Broad, and one classic opponent of passage, D.C.Williams. According to Savitt, Broad's notion of “absolute becoming” as the ordered occurrence of (simultaneity sets of) events, andWilliams’ notion of “literal passage,” as the happening of events strung along the four-dimensional space-time manifold, are indistinguishable. Savitt recognizes that some might think it preposterous to (...) maintain that Broad andWilliams agree regarding the nature of passage, but by a consideration of Broad’s “OstensibleTemporality,” andWilliams’ “The Myth of Passage,” Savitt attempts to demonstrate that they do in fact hold the same, and indeed the correct, view of passage. I shall argue, however, that Broad’s account of the transitory aspect of time is ontologically distinguishable fromWilliams’ and that only by confusing Broad’s A-theory withWilliams’ B-theory orWilliams’ B-theory with Broad’s A-theory could Savitt have thought that there is an area of overlap between them. A demonstration of these points will have the benefit of enabling us to clarify the ontological character ofthe dispute, of which Broad was well-aware, between the A- and B-theories of time. (shrink)
- Is There a Difference Between the Metaphysics of A- and B-Time?L.Nathan Oaklander -2001 -Journal of Philosophical Research 26:23-36.CliffordWilliams has recently argued that the dispute between A- and B-theories, or tensed and tenseless theories of time, is spurious because once the confusions between the two theories are cleared away there is no real metaphysical difference between them. The purpose of this paper is to disputeWilliams’s thesis. I argue that there are important metaphysical differences between the two theories and that, moreover, some of the claims thatWilliams makes in his article suggest that he (...) is sympathetic with a B-theoretic ontology. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Presentism, Ontology and Temporal Experience.L.Nathan Oaklander -2002 -Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50:73-90.In a recent article, ‘Tensed Time and Our Differential Experience of the Past and Future,’ William Lane Craig attempts to resuscitate A. N. Prior's ‘Thank Goodness’ argument against the B-theory by combining it with Plantinga's views about basic beliefs. In essence Craig's view is that since there is a universal experience and belief in the objectivity of tense and the reality of becoming, ‘this belief constitutes an intrinsic defeater-defeater which overwhelms the objections brought against it.’ An intrinsic defeater-defeater is a (...) belief that enjoys such warrant for us that it simply overwhelms the defeaters brought against it without specifically rebutting or undercutting them. Thus, Craig claims that an effete philosophical argument like McTaggart's paradox is nothing more than ‘an engaging and recalcitrant brain teaser whose conclusion nobody really takes seriously.’ It is difficult to reconcile this statement with Craig's own writings elsewhere. For Craig has vigorously argued in at least two other articles that 'hybrid A-B theorists like McCall, Schlesinger, and Smith [who give ontological status to both A-properties and B-relations] are in deep trouble’ since they are all effectively refuted by McTaggart's Paradox. It is not Craig's inconsistency regarding the significance of McTaggart conundrum that I want to draw attention to, however. Rather I wish to raise a different issue. (shrink)
- Phenomenology and Metaphysics.William L. Reese -1965 -Review of Metaphysics 19 (1):103 - 114.Aaron Gurwitsch's The Field of Consciousness develops with great care a phenomenological "field theory of conscience." The explorations of various aspects of, and approaches to, experience include extensive references to the literature; both mention and use are made of the work of Husserl, James, Piaget, von Ehrenfels, Stumpf, Koffka, Bergson, Ward, G. F. Stout, and Merleau-Ponty. Out of this research a phenomenological basis is provided for the concepts of an objective space, time, and existence. Roman Ingarden's Time and Modes of (...) Being, a translation of part of the first volume of his two-volume Spór o istnienie swiata, published in Polish in 1946-7, is concerned with developing for metaphysical use the concepts of all possible modes of being, once time, space, and individual existence are granted. Gurwitsch and Ingarden use highly sophisticated phenomenological tools originating with Husserl to gain phenomenological and ontological results.Nathan Rotenstreich in Spirit and Man, 1963, uses introspection as his method, accommodating himself to a number of the distinctions of phenomenology, e.g., intentionality; but the puristic stance of the phenomenologist is missing; hence the average number of conclusions per paragraph is notably higher than in either of the other works. Rotenstreich begins with awareness, like Gurwitsch; like Ingarden he discusses modes of being; but his purpose lies in discovering and interrelating the basic themes appropriate to certain conclusions about man's status in and over against the space-time world. (shrink)
- Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. McBride.Nathan J. Jun &Shane Wahl (eds.) -2013 - Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar.
- Introduction to "Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. McBride".Nathan Jun &Shane Wahl -2013 - In Nathan J. Jun & William Leon McBride,Revolutionary hope: essays in honor of William L. McBride. Lanham: Lexington Books. pp. 1-6.
- The excellent mind: intellectual virtues for everyday life.Nathan L. King -2021 - New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.What makes for a good education? What does one need to count as well-educated? Knowledge, to be sure. But knowledge is easily forgotten, and today's knowledge may be obsolete tomorrow. Skills, particularly in critical thinking, are crucial as well. But absent the right motivation, graduates may fail to put their skills to good use. In this book,Nathan King argues that intellectual virtues-traits like curiosity, intellectual humility, honesty, intellectual courage, and open-mindedness-are central to any education worthy of the name. (...) Further, such virtues are crucial to our functioning well in everyday life, in areas as diverse as personal relationships, responsible citizenship, civil discourse, and personal success. Our struggles in these areas often result from a failure to think virtuously. Drawing upon recent work in philosophy and psychology, King paints a portrait of virtuous intellectual character-and of the vices such a character opposes. Filled with examples and applications, this book introduces readers to the intellectual virtues: what they are, why they matter, and how we can grow in them. (shrink)
- Military Ethics and the Situationist Critique.Nathan L. Cartagena -2017 -Journal of Military Ethics 16 (3-4):157-172.Many contributors to military ethics from diverse locations and philosophical perspectives maintain that virtues are central to martial theory and practice. Yet several contemporary philosophers and psychologists have recently challenged the empirical adequacy of this perspective. Their challenge is known as the situationist critique, a version of which asserts that: situational features rather than character traits such as virtues cause and explain human behavior, and ethical theories and development programs are empirically inadequate to the extent that they incorporate virtues. In (...) this paper, I assess the merit of this critique and consider some implications of my assessment for military practitioners and theorists. (shrink)
- Perseverance as an intellectual virtue.Nathan L. King -2014 -Synthese 191 (15):3501-3523.Much recent work in virtue epistemology has focused on the analysis of such intellectual virtues as responsibility, conscientiousness, honesty, courage, open-mindedness, firmness, humility, charity, and wisdom. Absent from the literature is an extended examination of perseverance as an intellectual virtue. The present paper aims to fill this void. In Sect. 1, I clarify the concept of an intellectual virtue, and distinguish intellectual virtues from other personal characters and properties. In Sect. 2, I provide a conceptual analysis of intellectually virtuous perseverance (...) that places perseverance in opposition to its vice -counterparts, intransigence and irresolution. The virtue is a matter of continuing in one’s intellectual activities for an appropriate amount of time, in the pursuit of intellectual goods, despite obstacles to one’s attainment of those goods. In Sect. 3, I explore relations between intellectually virtuous perseverance and other intellectual virtues. I argue that such perseverance is necessary for the possession and exercise of several other intellectual virtues, including courage. These connections highlight the importance of perseverance in a comprehensive account of such virtues. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Disagreement: What’s the Problem?or A Good Peer is Hard to Find.Nathan L. King -2012 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (2):249-272.
- Erratum to: Perseverance as an intellectual virtue.Nathan L. King -2014 -Synthese 191 (15):3779-3801.Much recent work in virtue epistemology has focused on the analysis of such intellectual virtues as responsibility, conscientiousness, honesty, courage, open-mindedness, firmness, humility, charity, and wisdom. Absent from the literature is an extended examination of perseverance as an intellectual virtue. The present paper aims to fill this void. In Sect. 1, I clarify the concept of an intellectual virtue, and distinguish intellectual virtues from other personal traits and properties. In Sect. 2, I provide a conceptual analysis of intellectually virtuous perseverance (...) that places perseverance in opposition to its vice-counterparts, intransigence and irresolution. The virtue is a matter of continuing in one’s intellectual activities for an appropriate amount of time, in the pursuit of intellectual goods, despite obstacles to one’s attainment of those goods. In Sect. 3, I explore relations between intellectually virtuous perseverance and other intellectual virtues. I argue that such perseverance is necessary for the possession and exercise of several other intellectual virtues, including courage. These connections highlight the importance of perseverance in a comprehensive account of such virtues. (shrink)
- McGrath on Moral Knowledge.Nathan L. King -2011 -Journal of Philosophical Research 36:219-233.Sarah McGrath has recently defended a disagreement-based argument for skepticism about moral knowledge. If sound, the argument shows that our beliefs about controversial moral issues do not amount to knowledge. In this paper, I argue that McGrath fails to establish her skeptical conclusion. I defend two main claims. First, the key premise of McGrath’s argument is inadequately supported. Second, there is good reason to think that this premise is false.
- Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism.Nathan L. King -2003 -Philosophia Christi 5 (1):295-301.
- Left‐Corner Parsing With Distributed Associative Memory Produces Surprisal and Locality Effects.Nathan E. Rasmussen &William Schuler -2018 -Cognitive Science 42 (S4):1009-1042.This article describes a left-corner parser implemented within a cognitively and neurologically motivated distributed model of memory. This parser's approach to syntactic ambiguity points toward a tidy account both of surprisal effects and of locality effects, such as the parsing breakdowns caused by center embedding. The model provides an algorithmic-level account of these breakdowns: The structure of the parser's memory and the nature of incremental parsing produce a smooth degradation of processing accuracy for longer center embeddings, and a steeper degradation (...) when they are nested, in line with recall observations by Miller and Isard and speed-accuracy trade-off observations by McElree et al.. Modeling results show that this effect is distinct from the effects of ambiguity and exceeds the effect of mere sentence length. (shrink)
- Religious diversity and its challenges to religious belief.Nathan L. King -2008 -Philosophy Compass 3 (4):830-853.Contemporary Western culture is experiencing a heightened awareness of religious diversity. This article surveys a range of possible responses to such diversity, and distinguishes between responses that concern the salvation or moral transformation of persons (soteriological views) and those that concern the alethic or epistemic status of religious beliefs (doctrinal views). After providing a brief taxonomy of these positions and their possible relations to one another, the article focuses primarily on competing views about the truth and rationality of religious beliefs (...) (e.g., pluralism, exclusivism, and skepticism). Here a heavy emphasis is placed on arguments for and against the rationality and moral propriety of retaining one's religious beliefs in the face of disagreement. The article surveys some of the more prominent arguments from the literature on this topic and closes with suggestions for further research. (shrink)
- A Commentary on “Human Plurality as Object: An Arendtian Framework for Making Sense of Trump”.Nathan L. Cartagena -2018 -Southwest Philosophy Review 34 (2):9-12.No categories
- Temporal Relations and Temporal Becoming: In Defense of a Russellian Theory of Time.Nathan L. Oaklander -1984 - Upa.To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
- Alan Watts and the infinite game : playing everything.Nathan L. Hulsey -2021 - In Peter J. Columbus,The Relevance of Alan Watts in Contemporary Culture: Understanding Contributions and Controversies. New York, NY: Routledge.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The emotions.Nathan L. Oaklander &Richard Gull -1978 -Philosophy Research Archives 1272.Export citation Bookmark
- Rejoinder to McGrath.Nathan L. King -2011 -Journal of Philosophical Research 36:243-246.In “Reply to King,” Sarah McGrath defends her argument for moral skepticism against my criticisms. Here I sketch some remaining reservations about the argument.
- Endurance.Nathan L. King (ed.) -forthcomingNo categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Responsibilist Virtue Epistemology: A Reply to the Situationist Challenge.Nathan L. King -2014 -Philosophical Quarterly 64 (255):243-253.
- The virtue of endurance.Nathan L. King (ed.) -2025 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Understanding the virtue of perseverance requires differentiating it from the skill of grit, the vice of pertinacity, and the related virtues of patience and constancy. The key feature of perseverance as persistence in the difficult good is carved out in this essay through reflection on the pagan and Christian history of reflection on perseverance (with particular attention to the context of martyrdom), Alasdair MacIntyre's questionable claims about constancy as a peculiarly modern virtue, and about Jane Austen as its exemplar, and (...) Angela Duckworth's influential popular account of grit. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- The Apologist's Dilemma.Nathan L. King -2021 - In Matthew A. Benton & Jonathan L. Kvanvig,Religious Disagreement and Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 142-179.
- Developing Good Soldiers: The Problem of Fragmentation Within the Army.Paul T. Berghaus &Nathan L. Cartagena -2013 -Journal of Military Ethics 12 (4):287-303.As social creatures, human beings possess a number of identities. A young woman, for example, is a daughter and a member of a particular ethnic group. She is also likely to be a citizen, a friend,...
- The Mystical Way in the Fourth Gospel.L. William Countryman -1987No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Nietzsche on freedom.Nathan L. Oaklander -1984 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (2):211-222.
- Stoics and Sceptics.Ν.Μ. L.Nathan -1997 - In Georg Meggle & Julian Nida-Rümelin,Analyomen 2, Volume I: Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. De Gruyter. pp. 278-282.
- Hobbes's religion and political philosophy: A reply to Greg Forster.Aloysius Martinich,S. Vaughan &D. L.Williams -2008 -History of Political Thought 29 (1):49-64.A.P. Martinich's interpretation that in Leviathan Thomas Hobbes believed that the laws of nature are the commands of God and that he did not rely on the Bible to prove this has been criticized by Greg Forster in this journal (2003). Forster uses these criticisms to develop his own view that Hobbes was insincere when he professed religious beliefs. We argue that Forster misrepresents Martinich's view, is mistaken about what evidence is relevant to interpreting whether Hobbes was sincere or not, (...) and is mistaken about some of Hobbes's central doctrines. Forster's criticisms are worth discussing at length for at least three reasons. He takes the debate about Hobbes's sincerity to a new level of sophistication; his misinterpretations of Hobbes may become accepted as correct; and his criticisms raise issues about the proper method of interpreting historical texts. (shrink)
- Religion, the Globalization of War, and Restorative Justice.Nathan L. Tierney -2006 -Buddhist-Christian Studies 26 (1):79-87.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Religion, the Globalization of War, and Restorative JusticeNathan TierneyAs the pace of globalization increases, the world's religions find themselves in a perilous dilemma that they have yet to resolve in either practical or conceptual terms. On the one hand, the globalization of markets exerts a powerful pressure toward consumerist and materialist values, which undermine and undercut religious perspectives and sensibilities. On the other hand, the globalization of war heightens (...) the intensity of these religious perspectives and sensibilities, and distorts them in the direction of violence and religious extremism. This dilemma plays itself out in different ways in the developed and developing world, but, as the term "globalization" indicates, it is a problem for all of us. Governments, in developing countries especially, often find themselves forced to choose between one horn of the dilemma or the other, with often disastrous results as they take one or the other side in a "West versus the rest" scenario. In the long run, the only viable solution is one that addresses both horns of the dilemma at the same time, and this is possible only if, in turn, religions themselves become truly global. This will require a large-scale and focused cooperative effort in which the religions of the world actively and jointly engage with both problems, working with governments, NGOs, religious communities, and interfaith groups to harmonize religious life with economics and to promote a culture of peace and justice.Because "globalization" is a familiar term in relation to markets, I'll begin by clarifying what I mean by the globalization of war. There are two main aspects to this phenomenon. First, the term refers to a specific transformation in the nature, purposes, and conditions of warfare brought about by the forces of globalization. By globalization I mean the growing trend of the world's cultural, economic, and political forces to bypass national borders and operate on a world scale. This process creates new possibilities for both integration and conflict. When that conflict passes beyond the possibility of diplomatic negotiation, we have the conditions for globalized war. Globalized war is not necessarily world war. It can be relatively local in its sphere of combat; for example, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was a collective response to a worldwide threat of terrorism. What makes it a globalized war, as distinct from international war, is the global nature of the forces that produced it and [End Page 79] are affected by it. Globalized war in this sense has come only lately onto the scene, but its scale and impact is likely to grow in the coming century.The second aspect of the globalization of war is the tendency of conflict to mutate beyond the interests and concerns of nation-states and be taken up by broader civilizational units, even if they were not originally a response to global pressures. The most likely trajectory for this mutation has been well described by Samuel P. Huntington in his influential article "The Clash of Civilizations" (1993) and his book-length treatment of the same subject (1997). Huntington argues that the fault lines of conflict will not be primarily ideological or economic but cultural, where "cultural" is to be understood at its broadest level—the level of civilizations. He divides the world into seven or eight competing civilizations: Western, Sinic, Japanese, Hindu, Islamic, Orthodox, Latin American, and possibly African. Societies sharing cultural affinities will cooperate with one another, and the attempt by the West to universalize its dominant version of consumer capitalism and liberal democracy will be resisted in an increasingly determined way—eventually to the point of outright war: "the next world war, if there is one, will be a war between civilizations."1In Huntington's analysis, then, the globalization of war refers to a coming clash of civilizations. He believes that religion will play a central role in this clash as the focal point of civilizations: "Civilizations are differentiated from each other by history, language, culture tradition and, most important, religion."2 While Western civilization has experienced several decades of decline and decay, in both its cultural unity and its sense of identity, other civilizations have grown both in economic terms and... (shrink)
- God, Value, and Nature. By Fiona Ellis. Pp ix, 220, Oxford University Press, 2014, £55.00/$99.00. [REVIEW]Nathan L. Cartagena -2015 -Heythrop Journal 56 (4):708-709.
- Information Processing and Dynamics in Minimally Cognitive Agents.Randall D. Beer &Paul L.Williams -2015 -Cognitive Science 39 (1):1-38.There has been considerable debate in the literature about the relative merits of information processing versus dynamical approaches to understanding cognitive processes. In this article, we explore the relationship between these two styles of explanation using a model agent evolved to solve a relational categorization task. Specifically, we separately analyze the operation of this agent using the mathematical tools of information theory and dynamical systems theory. Information-theoretic analysis reveals how task-relevant information flows through the system to be combined into a (...) categorization decision. Dynamical analysis reveals the key geometrical and temporal interrelationships underlying the categorization decision. Finally, we propose a framework for directly relating these two different styles of explanation and discuss the possible implications of our analysis for some of the ongoing debates in cognitive science. (shrink)
- Die Analogie im volkstümlichen Denken.L. William Stern -1894 -Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 37:331-332.Export citation Bookmark
- Processing of semantic information.L. Columbo &J.Williams -1987 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 25 (5):335-335.Export citation Bookmark
- Mental presence-time.L. William Stern -2005 - InThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 5, 2005, Burt Hopkins and Steven Crowell (Eds). Seattle: Noesis Press.
- Perfection in Death: The Christological Dimension of Courage in Aquinas. By Patrick M. Clark. Pp xxi, 317, The Catholic University of America Press, 2015, £60.50/$65.00. [REVIEW]Nathan L. Cartagena -2021 -Heythrop Journal 62 (6):1126-1127.
- New Approaches to the novel: From Terra Nostra to twitter literature.Williams Raymond L. -2015 -Co-herencia 12 (22):13-23.This article addresses new approaches to the novel in the twenty-first century. It begins with an affirmation that even the most avant-garde of contemporary critics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century share a commonality: a background in what was identified as “close reading” in the Anglo-American academic world and analyse de texte in French. After numerous declarations in recent decades about the death of the novel, the death of the author and the death of literary criticism, it is (...) evident that the novel as a genre has survived, authors remain a subject of study, and new approaches are possible. The study of trauma in fiction, as well as eco-criticism, are promising new points of departure. The required close reading implied by Twitter also opens up new possibilities. (shrink)No categories
- Military leaders, fragmentation, and the virtue of integrity.Nathan L. Cartagena &Michael D. Beaty -2017 - In Peter Olsthoorn,Military Ethics and Leadership. Leiden & Boston: Brill.Export citation Bookmark
- Involuntary Sins, Social Psychology, and the Application of Redemption.Paul T. Berghaus &Nathan L. Cartagena -2015 -Heythrop Journal 56 (4):593-603.
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