Results for 'Peter E. Konrad'
962 found
Order:
1 filter applied
- Potential Subjects’ Responses to an Ethics Questionnaire in a Phase I Study of Deep Brain Stimulation in Early Parkinson’s Disease.Stuart G. Finder,Mark J. Bliton,Chandler E. Gill,Thomas L. Davis,Peter E.Konrad &P. D. Charles -2012 -Journal of Clinical Ethics 23 (3):207-216.BackgroundCentral to ethically justified clinical trial design is the need for an informed consent process responsive to how potential subjects actually comprehend study participation, especially study goals, risks, and potential benefits. This will be particularly challenging when studying deep brain stimulation and whether it impedes symptom progression in Parkinson’s disease, since potential subjects will be Parkinson’s patients for whom deep brain stimulation will likely have therapeutic value in the future as their disease progresses.MethodAs part of an expanded informed consent process (...) for a pilot Phase I study of deep brain stimulation in early stage Parkinson’s disease, an ethics questionnaire composed of 13 open-ended questions was distributed to potential subjects. The questionnaire was designed to guide potential subjects in thinking about their potential participation.ResultsWhile the purpose of the study (safety and tolerability) was extensively presented during the informed consent process, in returned responses 70 percent focused on effectiveness and 91 percent included personal benefit as potential benefit from enrolling. However, 91 percent also indicated helping other Parkinson’s patients as motivation when considering whether or not to enroll.ConclusionsThis combination of responses highlights two issues to which investigators need to pay close attention in future trial designs: (1) how, and in what ways, informed consent processes reinforce potential subjects’ preconceived understandings of benefit, and (2) that potential subjects see themselves as part of a community of Parkinson’s sufferers with responsibilities extending beyond self-interest. More importantly, it invites speculation that a different paradigm for informed consent may be needed. (shrink)
- Der Traum vom Glück: Orte der Imagination: interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe des Lehrstuhls für Praktische Theologie und Sozialethik und der Arbeitseinheit Organisations- und Medienpsychologie an der Universität des Saarlandes in Zusammmenarbeit mit dem Medienpsychologischen Forschungsinstitut Saarland (MEFIS e.V.)..Konrad Hilpert &Peter Winterhoff-Spurk (eds.) -2002 - St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag.
- E. M. Cioran: Notizen 1957–1972. Hrsg. von Simone Boué, aus dem Französischen vonPeter Weiß, Verena von der Heyden-Rynsch,Konrad Weiß. [REVIEW]Jürgen Große -2012 -Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 65 (4):319-323.No categories
- Galileo the Scientist.Peter E. Hodgson -2003 -Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6 (3):13-40.
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought. Vol. 2.Peter E. Gordon &Warren Breckman (eds.) -2019No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Afterword: Tribute to George Butterworth.Peter E. Bryant -2003 - In Gavin Bremner & Alan Slater,Theories of Infant Development. Blackwell. pp. 355--361.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Galileo the Theologian.Peter E. Hodgson -2005 -Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8 (1):28-51.
- Heidegger, neo-kantianism, and Cassirer.Peter E. Gordon -2013 - In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson,The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 143.
- The Old Gallus.Peter E. Knox -1985 -Hermes 113 (4):497.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Blackwell Companion to Adorno.Peter E. Gordon,Espen Hammer &Maxim Pensky (eds.) -forthcoming - Wiley-Blackwell.No categories
- Is there an asymmetry problem in the genealogy of postmetaphysical reason?Peter E. Gordon -2021 -Constellations 28 (1):45-50.
- Researcher Views on Changes in Personality, Mood, and Behavior in Next-Generation Deep Brain Stimulation.Peter Zuk,Clarissa E. Sanchez,Kristin Kostick-Quenet,Katrina A. Muñoz,Lavina Kalwani,Richa Lavingia,Laura Torgerson,Demetrio Sierra-Mercado,Jill O. Robinson,Stacey Pereira,Simon Outram,Barbara A. Koenig,Amy L. McGuire &Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz -2023 -American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (3):287-299.The literature on deep brain stimulation (DBS) and adaptive DBS (aDBS) raises concerns that these technologies may affect personality, mood, and behavior. We conducted semi-structured interviews with researchers (n = 23) involved in developing next-generation DBS systems, exploring their perspectives on ethics and policy topics including whether DBS/aDBS can cause such changes. The majority of researchers reported being aware of personality, mood, or behavioral (PMB) changes in recipients of DBS/aDBS. Researchers offered varying estimates of the frequency of PMB changes. A (...) smaller majority reported changes in personality specifically. Some expressed reservations about the scientific status of the term ‘personality,’ while others used it freely. Most researchers discussed negative PMB changes, but a majority said that DBS/aDBS can also result in positive changes. Several researchers viewed positive PMB changes as part of the therapeutic goal in psychiatric applications of DBS/aDBS. Finally, several discussed potential causes of PMB changes other than the device itself. (shrink)
- Think pieces.Peter E. Hodgson,Nigholas T. Saunders,Jeffrey Koperski,Ursula Goodenough Religiopoiesis,Ursula Goodenough,Loyal Rue,David Knight,Philip Clayton,Joseph M. Zycinski &Michael Heller -2000 -Zygon 35 (3-4):716.
- Classically conditioned enhancement of antibody production.Peter E. Jenkins,Robin A. Chadwick &John A. Nevin -1983 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 21 (6):485-487.
- Adorno.Peter E. Gordon -2020 - In Peter Eli Gordon,A companion to Adorno. Hoboken: Wiley. pp. 1–20.This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a brief biographical overview of Adorno's life and thought, with an emphasis on the key turning points in his career. It discusses his childhood, his education in Frankfurt, his musical studies, his emigration first to Oxford and then to the United States, his return to Germany after the Second World War, his tenure as professor at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt and his prominence as a public intellectual, and his confrontation with students. (...) Together with biographical details the chapter also offers a simple overview of Adorno's major concerns as a philosopher. (shrink)
- Face transplantation: When and for whom?Peter E. M. Butler,Alex Clarke &Richard E. Ashcroft -2004 -American Journal of Bioethics 4 (3):16 – 17.
- An investigation into the acceptability of workplace behaviors of a dubious ethical nature.Peter E. Mudrack -1993 -Journal of Business Ethics 12 (7):517 - 524.Jones (1990) described ten workplace behaviors of a dubious ethical nature and determined that the hierarchical position adopted by respondents influenced the perceived acceptability of these behaviors. This measure seems promising, and therefore the purpose of this investigation is two-fold: (1) to explore further the psychometric properties of these ten items; and (2) to examine the role of individual difference variables as correlates of perceived acceptability. In two samples of working people, the Jones items were found to be internally consistent, (...) not obviously subject to range restriction, modestly related to social desirability, largely orthogonal to age and managerial status, but clearly linked with Machiavellianism. The nature of the linkage between perceived acceptability and both sex and the Protestant work ethic differed across the two studies, which underscores the need for future research. Two additional variables worth investigating in such research may be locus of control and equity sensitivity. (shrink)
- Review. Ovid: Fasti, Book IV. E Fantham [ed].Peter E. Knox -1999 -The Classical Review 49 (2):395-397.
- Plagiarism in five universities in Mozambique: Magnitude, detection techniques, and control measures: Magnitude, detection techniques, and control measuresa.Peter E. Coughlin -2015 -International Journal for Educational Integrity 11 (1).Hugely facilitated by the Internet, plagiarism by students threatens educational quality and professional ethics worldwide. Plagiarism reduces learning and is correlated with increased fraud and inefficiency on the job, thus lessening competitiveness and hampering development.In this context, the present research examines 48 licenciatura theses and 102 masters theses from five of Mozambique’s largest universities. Of the 150 theses, 75% contained significant plagiarism (>100 word equivalents) and 39%, very much (>500 word equivalents). Significant plagiarism was detected in both licenciatura and masters (...) theses. By using both Turnitin and Urkund to identify potentially plagiarized passages, professionally verifying whether those passages contain plagiarism, and, if confirmed, counting the words involved, the study presents a new method for classifying the quantity and significance of plagiarism. The use of two text-similarity-recognition programs also improved the rate of detection and, in some theses, significantly increased the classification of the gravity of the plagiarism encountered.Based on a broad review of the literature, the article argues that, to combat wide-scale plagiarism, academic institutions need to cultivate a consensus among faculty and students about the definition and types of plagiarism, the appropriate penalties, and the paramount professional and economic need to nurture professional ethics. However, to achieve even partial success requires significant involvement by administrators, faculty, students and student leaders guided by a holistic strategy using technological, pedagogical, administrative and legal components to prevent and detect plagiarism and then reeducate or discipline students caught plagiarizing. (shrink)No categories
- Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition in the Evolution of Musical Behavior: Sex-Related Modulations of the Singer's Formant in Human Chorusing.Peter E. Keller,Rasmus König &Giacomo Novembre -2017 -Frontiers in Psychology 8.
- Distractibility during retrieval of long-term memory: domain-general interference, neural networks and increased susceptibility in normal aging.Peter E. Wais &Adam Gazzaley -2014 -Frontiers in Psychology 5:76196.The mere presence of irrelevant external stimuli results in interference with the fidelity of details retrieved from long-term memory (LTM). Recent studies suggest that distractibility during LTM retrieval occurs when the focus of resource-limited, top-down mechanisms that guide the selection of relevant mnemonic details is disrupted by representations of external distractors. We review findings from four studies that reveal distractibility during episodic retrieval. The approach cued participants to recall previously studied visual details when their eyes were closed, or were open (...) and irrelevant visual information was present. The results showed a negative impact of the distractors on the fidelity of details retrieved from LTM. An fMRI experiment using the same paradigm replicated the behavioral results and found that diminished episodic memory was associated with the disruption of functional connectivity in whole-brain networks. Specifically, network connectivity supported recollection of details based on visual imagery when eyes were closed, but connectivity declined in the presence of visual distractors. Another experiment using auditory distractors found equivalent effects for auditory and visual distraction during cued recall, suggesting that the negative impact of distractibility is a domain-general phenomenon in LTM. Comparisons between older and younger adults revealed an aging-related increase in the negative impact of distractibility on retrieval of LTM. Finally, a new study that compared categorization abilities between younger and older adults suggests a cause underlying age-related decline of visual details in LTM. The sum of our findings suggests that cognitive control resources, although limited, have the capability to resolve interference from distractors during tasks of moderate effort, but these resources are overwhelmed when additional processes associated with episodic retrieval, or categorization of complex prototypes, are required. (shrink)
- Corporations, Stakeholders and Sustainable Development I: A Theoretical Exploration of Business–Society Relations.Reinhard Steurer,Markus E. Langer,AstridKonrad &André Martinuzzi -2005 -Journal of Business Ethics 61 (3):263-281.Sustainable development (SD) – that is, “Development that meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs and aspirations” – can be pursued in many different ways. Stakeholder relations management (SRM) is one such way, through which corporations are confronted with economic, social, and environmental stakeholder claims. This paper lays the groundwork for an empirical analysis of the question of how far SD can be achieved through SRM. It describes the so-called SD–SRM (...) perspective as a distinctive research approach and shows how it relates to the wider body of stakeholder theory. Next, the concept of SD is operationalized for the microeconomic level with reference to important documents. Based on the ensuing SD framework, it is shown how SD and SRM relate to each other, and how the two concepts relate to other popular concepts such as Corporate Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. The paper concludes that the significance of societal guiding models such as SD and of management approaches like CSR is strongly dependent on their footing in society. (shrink)
- Critical Theory between the Sacred and the Profane.Peter E. Gordon -2016 -Constellations 23 (4):466-481.
- Adorno and Music: Critical Variations.Peter E. Gordon &Alexander Rehding (eds.) -2016 - Duke University Press.A special issue of_ New German Critique_ The posthumous publication of Theodor W. Adorno’s works on music continues to reveal the special relationship between music and philosophy in his thinking. These important works have not, however, received as much scholarly attention as they deserve. Contributors to this issue seek to provide insight into some of the key themes raised in these works, including the sociology of musical genre, the historical transformation of music from the "heroic" or high-bourgeois era to late (...) modernity, the meaning of both performance and listening in the era of mass communication, and the specific challenges or deformations of the radio on musical form, a theme that implicates many of the digital practices of our own age. There is much left to discover in these new publications, and they pose again, with renewed vigor, the question of Adorno’s _Aktualität_—his polyvalent, untranslatable term for, among other things, the intellectual relationship between the present and the past. Contributors Daniel K. L. Chua, Lydia Goehr,Peter E. Gordon, Martin Jay, Brian Kane, Max Paddison, Alexander Rehding, Fred Rush, Martin Scherzinger. (shrink)
- Some Ethical Implications of Individual Competitiveness.Peter E. Mudrack,James M. Bloodgood &William H. Turnley -2012 -Journal of Business Ethics 108 (3):347-359.This study examined some ethical implications of two different individual competitive orientations. Winning is crucially important in hypercompetitiveness , whereas a personal development (PD) perspective considers competition as a means to self-discovery and self-improvement. In a sample of 263 senior-level undergraduate business students, survey results suggested that hypercompetitiveness was generally associated with “poor ethics” and PD competitiveness was linked with “high ethics”. For example, hypercompetitive individuals generally saw nothing wrong with self-interested gain at the expense of others, but PD competitors (...) viewed such activities as largely inappropriate. Hypercompetitive people also tended to be highly Machiavellian but not ethically idealistic. In contrast, PD competitors tended to be ethically idealistic but not Machiavellian. Managers that are interested in both high ethics and high functioning work groups may wish to consider the potential importance of attempting to channel hypercompetitive tendencies into PD directions. (shrink)
- God's Action in the World: The Relevance of Quantum Mechanics.Peter E. Hodgson -2000 -Zygon 35 (3):505-516.It has been suggested that God can act on the world by operating within the limits set by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (HUP) without violating the laws of nature. This requires nature to be intrinsically indeterministic. However, according to the statistical interpretation the quantum mechanical wavefunction represents the average behavior of an ensemble of similar systems and not that of a single system. The HUP thus refers to a relation between the spreads of possible values of position and momentum and so (...) is consistent with a fully deterministic world. This statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics is supported by reference to actual measurements, resolves the quantum paradoxes, and stimulates further research. If this interpretation is accepted, quantum mechanics is irrelevant to the question of God's action in the world. (shrink)
- The flourishing and dehumanization of students in higher education.Peter E. Kahn -2017 -Journal of Critical Realism 16 (4):368-382.An economic agenda, characterized by the mastery of subject knowledge or expertise, increasingly dominates higher education. In this article, I argue that this agenda fails to satisfy the full range of students’ aspirations, responsibilities and needs. Neither does it meet the needs of society. Rather, the overall purpose of higher education should be the morphogenesis of the agency of students, considered on an individual and on a collective basis. The article builds on recent critical realist theorizing to trace the generative (...) mechanisms that affect the morphogenesis of such agency. I argue that reflexive deliberation shapes the agency of students as they engage in teaching–learning interactions. It may be possible to enhance the agency of students if approaches are used that consider curricular knowledge, the presence of supportive social relations and the dedication of students. The article offers ways to promote the flourishing of students rather than their dehumanization. (shrink)No categories
- Milestones in the Career of Tibullus.Peter E. Knox -2005 -Classical Quarterly 55 (01):204-216.
- Late events in regulated exocytosis.Peter E. R. Tatham &Bastien D. Gomperts -1991 -Bioessays 13 (8):397-401.To understand the intracellular mechanisms that control exocytosis it is necessary to have access to the cell interior. This is achieved by plasma membrane permeabilisation or by application of patch‐pipettes. These conditions permit control over the cytosol composition and also allow leakage of soluble factors that may have roles in the exocytotic mechanism. Different permeabilisation methods allow different extents of leakage and therefore provide complementary data. The exocytotic machinery itself remains intact and can be activated by providing Ca2+ and/or a (...) guanine nucleotide. In some cells there is evidence for the participation of two guanine nucleotide‐binding proteins (Gp and GE), as well as a Ca2+ ‐binding protein. In others Ca2+ is the only requirement. In a number of cell types, ATP is not required for the late steps in the secretory pathway. (shrink)
- Severance Pay: Moving from Managerial Prerogative to Worker Entitlement.Peter E. Millspaugh -1989 -Business and Society 28 (1):6-11.
- The Mind of the Universe, by Mariano Artigas.Peter E. Hodgson -2001 -The Chesterton Review 27 (3):360-363.
- The Significance of the Work of Stanley L. Jaki.Peter E. Hodgson -2009 -The Chesterton Review 35 (1/2):182-201.No categories
- An unnoticed imitation of callimachus, aetia fr. 1.1 pf.Peter E. Knox -2006 -Classical Quarterly 56 (02):639-.
- Cicero as a hellenistic poet.Peter E. Knox -2011 -Classical Quarterly 61 (1):192-204.
- D. Liuzzi: M. Manilius, Astronomica, Libro V. Pp. 233. Galatino: Congedo Editore, 1997. Paper. ISBN: 8-8808-6169-7.Peter E. Knox -2000 -The Classical Review 50 (1):297-297.
- Texts and topography.Peter E. Knox -2009 -Classical Quarterly 59 (2):658-.
- What a Scholastic Philosopher Has Found in “What Man Has Made of Man”.Peter E. Nolan -1938 -Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 13 (2):299-302.No categories
- The people with Asperger Syndrome and anxiety disorders (PAsSA) Trial: A pilot multi-centre single blind randomised trial of group cognitive-behavioural therapy.Peter E. Langdon,Glynis H. Murphy,Lee Shepstone,Edward C. F. Wilson,David Fowler,David Heavens,Aida Malovic,Alexandra Russell,Alice Rose &Louise Mullineaux -unknownBackgroundThere is a growing interest in using cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) with people who have Asperger syndrome and comorbid mental health problems.AimsTo examine whether modified group CBT for clinically significant anxiety in an Asperger syndrome population is feasible and likely to be efficacious.MethodUsing a randomised assessor-blind trial, 52 individuals with Asperger syndrome were randomised into a treatment arm or a waiting-list control arm. After 24 weeks, those in the waiting-list control arm received treatment, while those initially randomised to treatment were followed (...) up for 24 weeks.ResultsThe conversion rate for this trial was high (1.6:1), while attrition was 13%. After 24 weeks, there was no significant difference between those randomised to the treatment arm compared with those randomised to the waiting-list control arm on the primary outcome measure, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety.ConclusionsTrials of psychological therapies with this population are feasible. Larger definitive trials are now needed. (shrink)No categories
- Alexis de Tocqueville en de democratische revolutie: een cultuursociologische interpretatie.Peter E. J. Buiks -1979 - Assen: Van Gorcum.
- The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, the Twentieth Century.Warren Breckman &Peter E. Gordon (eds.) -2019 - Cambridge University Press.The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of (...) twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism,, Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period,Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age. (shrink)No categories
- Contents.Peter E. Gordon -2016 - In Peter Eli Gordon,Adorno and Existence. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.No categories
- 3. The Jargon of Authenticity.Peter E. Gordon -2016 - In Peter Eli Gordon,Adorno and Existence. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 84-119.No categories
- 8. Weimar Theology: From Historicism to Crisis.Peter E. Gordon -2013 - In John P. McCormick & Peter E. Gordon,Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy. Princeton University Press. pp. 150-178.
- Must the Sacred be Transcendent?Peter E. Gordon -2011 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (2):126-139.In his book A Secular Age, Charles Taylor appeals to the metaphysical?normative distinction between ?immanence? and ?transcendence? as definitive for post-Axial religion. On Taylor's view, therefore, those of us who embrace a fully secular modernity can be described as having abandoned ?transcendence? to take up our lives wholly within the confines of the immanent frame, though he grants we may seek alternative satisfactions or ?substitutes? for eternity. But the notion that any metaphysical?normative model of sacred experience can serve as an (...) irresistible foundation is open to doubt if one recalls the Heideggerian insight that any metaphysical picture both reveals and conceals aspects of our experience. Taylor's own description of sacred and non-sacred experience within the immanent frame seems to rely upon this foundational distinction, without entertaining the possibility that the language itself may very well actually distort what our experience is like. This paper pursues the above objections to Taylor's argument, focusing special attention on the assumption that one can judge aesthetic experience (such as listening to a Beethoven string quartet) with the criteria we have inherited from post-Axial religion. The overwhelming authority of the Axial tradition might seem to validate questions such as, ?Is there an object?? or ?Is the experience purely immanent?? But to such questions we might respond that such language simply has no grip on the phenomena. Any such talk of ?substitution? might therefore be understood as an historical remnant in Taylor's book of the traditional monotheist's critique of idolatry. (shrink)
- Agonies of the real: Anti-realism from Kuhn to Foucault.Peter E. Gordon -2012 -Modern Intellectual History 9 (1):127-147.When did historians begin to put quotation marks around the wordreal? There are many examples of this habit and some of them will be set forth as evidence in what follows. But before doing so we might ask a preliminary question: What are the quotation marksthemselvessupposed to mean? Today we find them so familiar they hardly need to be written and they are more frequently consigned to the everyday repertoire of silent gesture: two fingers on either hand clutch at the (...) air as if they meant to tickle the flanks of the invisible beast between them. The popular term is “scare-quotes,” a pun on the word “scarecrow.” Its etymology is revealing: just as a mere representation of a body in a field may scare off birds, so too scare-quotes permit someone to deploy a word without sincere commitment to what it normally means. But further reflection tells us that the effects are not so similar after all: To use a term without sincerity robs it of its original meaning and holds up its lifeless corpse to ridicule. The more knowing sort of crow can settle on the shoulder of the figure on the pole precisely because it recognizes that such a sorry excuse for a man can in fact harm no one. Similarly when one putsrealityin quotation marks we are put in mind of the living concept but we are immediately alerted to the fact that, for the user at least, the new term enjoys no metaphysical prestige. How did this happen? When and why did the single most privileged word in the entire lexicon of metaphysics begin to lose its authority such that in certain spheres of intellectual sophistication its sincere use would only seem an embarrassment and a sign of naïveté? (shrink)
- Überlegungen zu Continental Divide.Peter E. Gordon -2016 -Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (5):828-851.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 64 Heft: 5 Seiten: 828-851.No categories
- Displaced.Peter E. Gordon -2014 - In John E. Drabinski & Eric Sean Nelson,Between Levinas and Heidegger. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 209-225.No categories
- Frontmatter.Peter E. Gordon -2016 - In Peter Eli Gordon,Adorno and Existence. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.No categories
- Forum: Kuhn's structure at fifty introduction.Peter E. Gordon -2012 -Modern Intellectual History 9 (1):73-76.When did historians begin to put quotation marks around the wordreal? There are many examples of this habit and some of them will be set forth as evidence in what follows. But before doing so we might ask a preliminary question: What are the quotation marksthemselvessupposed to mean? Today we find them so familiar they hardly need to be written and they are more frequently consigned to the everyday repertoire of silent gesture: two fingers on either hand clutch at the (...) air as if they meant to tickle the flanks of the invisible beast between them. The popular term is “scare-quotes,” a pun on the word “scarecrow.” Its etymology is revealing: just as a mere representation of a body in a field may scare off birds, so too scare-quotes permit someone to deploy a word without sincere commitment to what it normally means. But further reflection tells us that the effects are not so similar after all: To use a term without sincerity robs it of its original meaning and holds up its lifeless corpse to ridicule. The more knowing sort of crow can settle on the shoulder of the figure on the pole precisely because it recognizes that such a sorry excuse for a man can in fact harm no one. Similarly when one putsrealityin quotation marks we are put in mind of the living concept but we are immediately alerted to the fact that, for the user at least, the new term enjoys no metaphysical prestige. How did this happen? When and why did the single most privileged word in the entire lexicon of metaphysics begin to lose its authority such that in certain spheres of intellectual sophistication its sincere use would only seem an embarrassment and a sign of naïveté? (shrink)
- Forum: The idea of the self.Peter E. Gordon -2006 -Modern Intellectual History 3 (2):323-331.
| 1 — 50 / 962 |
Off-campus access
Using PhilPapers from home?
Create an account to enable off-campus access through your institution's proxy server or OpenAthens.
Monitor this page
Be alerted of all new items appearing on this page. Choose how you want to monitor it:
 Email |  RSS feed |
Editorial team
General Editors:
David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Area Editors:
David Bourget
Gwen Bradford
Berit Brogaard
Margaret Cameron
David Chalmers
James Chase
Rafael De Clercq
Ezio Di Nucci
Esa Diaz-Leon
Barry Hallen
Hans Halvorson
Jonathan Ichikawa
Monte Johnson
Michelle Kosch
Øystein Linnebo
Paul Livingston
Brandon Look
Manolo Martínez
Matthew McGrath
Michiru Nagatsu
Susana Nuccetelli
Giuseppe Primiero
Jack Alan Reynolds
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Aleksandra Samonek
Constantine Sandis
Howard Sankey
Jonathan Schaffer
Thomas Senor
Daniel Star
Jussi Suikkanen
Aness Kim Webster
Other editors
Contact us
Learn more about PhilPapers
David Bourget (Western Ontario)
David Chalmers (ANU, NYU)
Area Editors:
David Bourget
Gwen Bradford
Berit Brogaard
Margaret Cameron
David Chalmers
James Chase
Rafael De Clercq
Ezio Di Nucci
Esa Diaz-Leon
Barry Hallen
Hans Halvorson
Jonathan Ichikawa
Monte Johnson
Michelle Kosch
Øystein Linnebo
Paul Livingston
Brandon Look
Manolo Martínez
Matthew McGrath
Michiru Nagatsu
Susana Nuccetelli
Giuseppe Primiero
Jack Alan Reynolds
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Aleksandra Samonek
Constantine Sandis
Howard Sankey
Jonathan Schaffer
Thomas Senor
Daniel Star
Jussi Suikkanen
Aness Kim Webster
Other editors
Contact us
Learn more about PhilPapers
Home |New books and articles |Bibliographies |Philosophy journals |About PhilPapers |API |Contact us |Code of conduct
PhilPapers logo byAndrea Andrews andMeghan Driscoll.
This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see ourterms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications).Use of this site is subject toterms & conditions.
All rights reserved byThe PhilPapers Foundation
Server: philpapers-web-5b9ff6f457-pc6d8 uwo