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- ERP correlates of attentional processing in spider fear: evidence of threat-specific hypervigilance.RebeccaVenetacci,Amber Johnstone,Kenneth C. Kirkby &Allison Matthews -2017 -Cognition and Emotion 32 (3):437-449.Attentional bias towards threat can be demonstrated by enhanced processing of threat-related targets and/or greater interference when threat-related distractors are present. These effects are argued to reflect processing within the orienting and executive control networks of the brain respectively. This study investigated behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of early selective attention and top-down attentional control among females with high or low spider fear. Participants completed a novel flanker go/nogo task in which a central schematic flower or spider stimulus was flanked by (...) either congruent or incongruent distractors. Participants responded to green stimuli and withheld response to yellow stimuli. High fear participants demonstrated significantly shorter reaction times and greater P1 amplitude to spider targets, suggesting specific hypervigilance towards threat-relevant stimuli. In contrast to predictions, there was little evidence for behavioural interference effects or differences in N2 amplitude when distractor stimuli were threat-relevant. (shrink)
- The Point of Change: Marxism/Australia.Carole Ferrier &Rebecca Pelan -forthcoming -History/Theory.Export citation
Bookmark - Zum Verhältnis vom Kosmopolitismus und Religion bei Fichte.Marc Maesschalck &Rebecca Reichenberg -2022 - In Georg Sans & Johannes Stoffers,Religionsphilosophie nach Fichte: das Absolute im Endlichen. Berlin, Germany: J.B. Metzler.Export citation Bookmark
- Digital Suspicion, Politics and the Middle East.Adi Kuntsman &Rebecca L. Stein -forthcoming -Critical Inquiry.Export citation Bookmark
- The Literature of Islam: A Guide to the Primary Sources In English Translation.Paula Youngman Skreslet &Rebecca Skreslet -2006No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The role of values in scientific theory selection and why it matters to medical education.Rebecca D. Ellis -2019 -Bioethics 33 (9):984-991.In this paper, I argue that the role of values in theory selection is an important issue within medical education. I review the underdetermination argument, which is the idea within philosophy of science that the data serving as evidence for theories are by themselves not sufficient to support a theory to the exclusion of alternatives. There are always various explanations compatible with the data, and we ultimately appeal to certain values as our grounds for choosing one theory over another. I (...) explore some of the ways contemporary feminist philosophers have chosen to grapple with the problem of underdetermination and proposed solutions to systematize how values might be incorporated into theory choice, drawing primarily from the work of Helen Longino and Elizabeth Anderson. I conclude by discussing how value‐laden inquiry should be incorporated within medical education to promote reflection towards medicine’s normative underpinnings. (shrink)
- The mystery of the missing middle-tenants: The “negative” case of fixed-term leasing and agricultural investment in fifteenth-century Tuscany.Rebecca Jean Emigh -1998 -Theory and Society 27 (3):351-375.
- The Relationship Between Social and Financial Performance: Evidence from Austrasia.Matthew BrineandRebecca Brown -forthcoming -Business and Society.Export citation Bookmark
- Introduction : ways of inquiry pathways and partnerships for grassroots innovation.Jeff Galle &Rebecca L. Harrison -2018 - In Jeffery Galle & Rebecca L. Harrison,Revitalizing classrooms: innovations and inquiry pedagogies in practice. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.Export citation Bookmark
- Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms.Robert L. Infantino &Rebecca Lynn Wilke -2009 - R&L Education.In Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms, Infantino and Wilke help student teachers, new teachers, and experienced teachers think more deeply about ethical concerns. The case studies included by the authors involve ethical dilemmas dealing with honesty, integrity, and proper professional behavior.
- Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Case Studies From Today’s Schools and Classrooms.Robert L. Infantino &Rebecca Lynn Wilke -2019 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Edited by Rebecca Lynn Wilke.Tough Choices for Teachers examines ethical issues in today’s educational settings using a case study approach. Fourteen descriptive case studies offer readers the opportunity to reflect upon current ethical dilemmas, and pertinent questions provide prompts to improve their decision-making process.
- Simone Weil: a very short introduction.A.Rebecca Rozelle-Stone -2024 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and prescience of Weil's philosophy has much to offer us in our times of personal, communal, political, and environmental crises.No categories
- Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680-1740.Rebecca Tierney-Hynes -2012 - Palgrave-Macmillan.Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction: From Passions to Language: The Transformation of the ImaginationLocke: Metaphorical Romances Behn: Romance from the Stage to the Letter Shaftesbury: Conversation and the Psychology of Romance Hume: Reading Romances, Writing the Self Richardson: How to Read Romance NotesBibliographyIndex.
- Lisa Campo-Engelstein is an as.I. Glenn Cohen &Rebecca Dresser -forthcoming -Hastings Center Report.
- A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep : Selected Writings.Haun Saussy,Rebecca Handler-Spitz &Pauline Lee (eds.) -2016 - Cambridge University Press.Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming. The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will (...) captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play _The Peony Pavilion_ or the eighteenth-century novel _Dream of the Red Chamber_. In _A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep _, Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture. (shrink)No categories
- Methodological Reflections on Normative Case Studies: What They are and Why We Need Better Quality Criteria to Inform Their Use.Rebecca M. Taylor -2024 -Educational Theory 74 (3):301-311.Normative case studies represent empirically grounded phenomena that raise normative philosophical questions. Growth in the popularity of case-based inquiry in philosophy reflects a recent trend in the field not to shy away from engaging with empirical realities, but instead to advance philosophical projects that recognize and speak directly to these realities, including social inequities endemic to our societies. Yet, as the use of case studies and other empirically engaged philosophical approaches has grown, concerns have been raised about whether these methods (...) risk reducing philosophy to social science and, in turn, burdening philosophy with the constraints of social science research. Responding to these concerns calls for more attention to the methodological dimensions of case-based inquiry in philosophy. In this article,Rebecca Taylor offers reflections on two core clarifying questions: (1) What makes normative case studies distinct from other related tools for inquiry — in particular, philosophical thought experiments and qualitative case studies? (2) What quality criteria should guide the development of normative case studies? (shrink)
- Letter to the Editor: The Function of Animal Ethics Committee.David G. Allen &Rebecca Halligan -2013 -Between the Species 16 (1):1.
- Glitch.Megan Flocken &Rebecca Weisman -2015 -International Journal of Žižek Studies 9 (1).A ‘glitch’, the parallax gap brokered by communication technologies, is a hiccough in smooth technological operation, one that is both undeniable and unresolvable. The glitch draws attention to the inherent contradictions of the technological proffer to seamlessly augment and enhance a life unaided by technology. There is no life unaided by technology, and the glitch is what introduces to life the gap between failure and fantasy, self and other, individual and community, inside and outside, representation and nature. Communication technologies attempt (...) to dub these glitches an error in their pretense of connection. But the glitch is unavoidable. As a multi-media installation, 'glitch' draws attention to this confusion over connection and, as a mode of resistance, proffer spaces of tension--between technologies and the environments they condition. (shrink)
- Escala de Altruísmo Autoinformado: evidências de validade de construto.Valdiney V. Gouveia,Rebecca Alves Aguiar Athayde,Rildésia Sv Gouveia,Ana Isabel Araújo Silva de Brito Gomes &Roosevelt Vilar Lobo de Souza -2010 -Revista Aletheia 33:30-44.No categories
- How Croce Became a Philosopher.Brian P. Copenhaver &Rebecca Copenhaver -2008 -History of Philosophy Quarterly 25 (1):75 - 94.
- Richard Corry's Power and Influence. [REVIEW]AnaïsRebecca White -2020 -BJPS Review of Books.
- Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity.Rebecca Lemoine -2020 - New York, NY: Oup Usa.From student protests over the teaching of canonical texts such as Plato's Republic to the use of images of classical Greek statues in white supremacist propaganda, the world of the ancient Greeks is deeply implicated in a heated contemporary debate about identity and diversity. In Plato's Caves,Rebecca LeMoine defends the bold thesis that Plato was a friend of cultural diversity, contrary to many contemporary perceptions. Through close readings of four Platonic dialogues--Republic, Menexenus, Laws, and Phaedrus--LeMoine shows that, across (...) Plato's dialogues, foreigners play a role similar to that of Socrates: liberating citizens from intellectual bondage. (shrink)
- Missed Revolutions, Non-Revolutions, Revolutions to Come: An Encounter with Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution,Rebecca Comay.Rebecca Comay In Conversation With Joshua Nichols -2012 -PhaenEx 7 (1):309-346.No categories
- (1 other version)Just how cognitive is emotion? The continuing importance of the philosophy of emotion in enhancement ethics.Rebecca Bamford -2013 -American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 4 (1):18-19.Export citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Re‐Thinking Relations in Human Rights Education: The Politics of Narratives.Rebecca Adami -2014 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 48 (2):293-307.Human Rights Education (HRE) has traditionally been articulated in terms of cultivating better citizens or world citizens. The main preoccupation in this strand of HRE has been that of bridging a gap between universal notions of a human rights subject and the actual locality and particular narratives in which students are enmeshed. This preoccupation has focused on ‘learning about the other’ in order to improve relations between plural ‘others’ and ‘us’ and reflects educational aims of national identity politics in citizenship (...) education. The article explores the learning of human rights through narratives in relations, drawing on Hannah Arendt and Sharon Todd. For this re-thinking of relations in learning human rights, the article argues that HRE needs to address both competing historical narratives on the drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) as well as unique life narratives of learners. (shrink)
- Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide.Rebecca Adami -2014 -Ethics and Global Politics 7 (4).This paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical approach to human rights education and the political implications of its increasingly legal discourse. Like Arendt, Cavarero is concerned with a radical rethinking of political space, as not limited to place or legal borders, but bound by our human condition of plurality and relationality. Both Arendt and Cavarero want politics to be (...) coupled with justice, nevertheless, Cavarero provides a notion of politics that lets us think beyond territorial terms of a polis, which opens for exploring an expanded conceptualization of human rights politics, as not bound by national legislative measures, but as concerning political action in-between human beings. In contrast to the dominant discourse on ‘human rights experts’ who frame the content for HRE, the notion of ‘absolute local space’ questions the dichotomy of universal/particular in raising the importance of a plurality of unique voices who create a spectrum for the universality of rights. (shrink)
- Reid on consciousness: Hop, hot or for?Rebecca Copenhaver -2007 -Philosophical Quarterly 57 (229):613-634.Thomas Reid claims to share Locke's view that consciousness is a kind of inner sense. This is puzzling, given the role the inner-sense theory plays in indirect realism and in the theory of ideas generally. I argue that Reid does not in fact hold an inner-sense theory of consciousness and that his view differs importantly from contemporary higher-order theories of consciousness. For Reid, consciousness is a first-order representational process in which a mental state with a particular content suggests the application (...) of recognitional concepts in forming beliefs or judgements to the effect that one is currently undergoing a state with that content. I take up the question of whether Reid's theory leads to a regress, and I argue that while the regress cannot be eliminated, it is mitigated by the non-hierarchical nature of Reid's theory of mind. (shrink)
- Should We Criminalize HIV Transmission?Rebecca Bennett -2007 - In Charles A. Erin & Suzanne Ost,The Criminal Justice System and Health Care. Oxford University Press.
- Thomas Reid's philosophy of mind: Consciousness and intentionality.Rebecca Copenhaver -2006 -Philosophy Compass 1 (3):279-289.Thomas Reid’s epistemological ambitions are decisively at the center of his work. However, if we take such ambitions to be the whole story, we are apt to overlook the theory of mind that Reid develops and deploys against the theory of ideas. Reid’s philosophy of mind is sophisticated and strikingly contemporary, and has, until recently, been lost in the shadow of his other philosophical accomplishments. Here I survey some aspects of Reid’s theory of mind that I find most interesting. I (...) examine whether Reid is a mysterian about the mind, whether Reid has a direct realist theory of perception, and whether Reid has a higher-order, or “inner-sense,” view of consciousness. Along the way I will mention portions of the secondary literature that examine these aspects and point out whether and to what degree I part ways with the interpretations present in the literature. (shrink)
- Darwin's ghosts: the secret history of evolution.Rebecca Stott -2012 - New York: Spiegel & Grau.Evolution was not discovered single-handedly,Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
- Reflections on the 2021 Conference and the Future of COV&R from the Point of View of Loving Mimesis.Rebecca Adams,Felicity McCallum,Julia Robinson Moore &Vern Neufeld Redekop -2021 -The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 70:9-14.No categories
- Mapping the Terrain of the Post-Modern Subject : Post-Structuralism and the Educated Woman.Rebecca A. Martusewicz -2016 - In William F. Pinar & William M. Reynolds,Understanding curriculum as phenomenological and deconstructed text. Kingston, NY: Educators International Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Narrating and Comparing in the Organization of Research Projects.Rebecca Mertens -2021 - In Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens & Carsten Reinhardt,Narratives and comparisons: adversaries or allies in understanding science? [Bielefeld]: Bielefeld University Press, an imprint of Transcript Verlag.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Plato at the Googleplex: why philosophy won't go away.Rebecca Goldstein -2014 - New York: Pantheon.From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to (...) raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher's depth and a novelist's imagination,Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us. (shrink)
- Reflecting on Responsible Conduct of Research: A Self Study of a Research-Oriented University Community.Rebecca L. Hite,Sungwon Shin &Mellinee Lesley -2022 -Journal of Academic Ethics 20 (3):399-419.Research-oriented universities are known for prolific research activity that is often supported by students in faculty-guided research. To maintain ethical standards, universities require on-going training of both faculty and students to ensure Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). However, previous research has indicated RCR-based training is insufficient to address the ethical dilemmas that are prevalent within academic settings: navigating issues of authorship, modeling relationships between faculty and students, minimization of risk, and adequate informed consent. U.S. universities must explore ways to identify (...) and improve RCR concerns for current (faculty) and future researchers (students). This article reports the findings of a self-study (_N_ = 50) of research stakeholders (students and faculty) at a top tier research institution. First, we report on their perceived importance of applying RCR principles. Second, we explore relationships between stakeholder backgrounds (e.g., prior training, field, and position) and how they ranked the degree of ethical concerns in fictitious vignettes that presented different unethical issues university students could encounter when conducting research. Vignette rankings suggested concerns of inappropriate relationships, predatory authorship and IRB violations which were judged as most unethical, which was dissimilar to what sampled researchers reported in practice as the most important RCR elements to understand and adhere to for successful research. Regression models indicated there was no significant relationship between individuals’ vignette ethics scores and backgrounds, affirming previous literature suggesting that training can be ineffectual in shifting researcher judgments of ethical dilemmas. Recommendations for training are discussed. (shrink)
- From Clientelism to Cooperation: Local Government, Participatory Policy, and Civic Organizing in Porto Alegre, Brazil.Rebecca Abers -1998 -Politics and Society 26 (4):511-537.No categories
- When Intuition is Not Enough. Why the Principle of Procreative Beneficence Must Work Much Harder to Justify Its Eugenic Vision.Rebecca Bennett -2013 -Bioethics 28 (9):447-455.The Principle of Procreative Beneficence claims that we have a moral obligation, where choice is possible, to choose to create the best child we can. The existence of this moral obligation has been proposed by John Harris and Julian Savulescu and has proved controversial on many levels, not least that it is eugenics, asking us to produce the best children we can, not for the sake of that child's welfare, but in order to make a better society. These are strong (...) claims that require robust justification that can be open to scrutiny and debate. This article argues that robust justifications are currently lacking in the work of Savulescu and Harris. The justifications provided for their conclusions about this obligation to have the best child possible rely heavily on Derek Parfit's Non-Identity Problem and the intuitive response this provokes in many of us. Unfortunately Harris and Savulescu do not embrace the entirety of the Non-Identity Problem and the puzzle that it presents. The Non-Identity Problem actually provides a refutation of PPB. In order to establish PPB as a credible and defendable principle, Harris and Savulescu need to find what has eluded Parfit and many others: a solution to the Non-Identity Problem and thus an overturning of the refutation it provides for PPB. While Harris and Savulescu do hint at possible but highly problematic solutions to the Non-Identity Problem, these are not developed or defended. As a result their controversial is left supported by little more than intuition. (shrink)
- Deleuze and research methodologies.Rebecca Coleman &Jessica Ringrose (eds.) -2013 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.This book brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.
- The special role of rimes in the description, use, and acquisition of English orthography.Rebecca Treiman,John Mullennix,Ranka Bijeljac-Babic &E. Daylene Richmond-Welty -1995 -Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 124 (2):107.
- 6. Bertrando Spaventa. The Character and Development of Italian Philosophy from the Sixteenth Century Until Our Time.Rebecca Copenhaver &Brian P. A. Copenhaver -2012 - In Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver,From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950. University of Toronto Press. pp. 343-370.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- 10. Revolution and Recirculation.Rebecca Copenhaver &Brian P. A. Copenhaver -2012 - In Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver,From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950. University of Toronto Press. pp. 48-52.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Being together, worlds apart: a virtual-worldly phenomenology.Rebecca A. Hardesty &Ben Sheredos -2019 -Human Studies (3):1-28.Previous work in Game Studies has centered on several loci of investigation in seeking to understand virtual gameworlds. First, researchers have scrutinized the concept of the virtual world itself and how it relates to the idea of “the magic circle”. Second, the field has outlined various forms of experienced “presence”. Third, scholarship has noted that the boundaries between the world of everyday life and virtual worlds are porous, and that this fosters a multiplicity of identities as players identify both with (...) themselves-offline and themselves-in-game. Despite widespread agreement that these topics are targets for research, so far those working on these topics do not have mutually agreed-upon framework. Here we draw upon the work of Alfred Schutz to take up this call. We provide a phenomenological framework which can be used to describe the phenomena of interest to Game Studies, as well as open new avenues of inquiry, in a way acceptable and useful to all. This helps to distinguish the core of the field from the supplemental theoretical and critical commitments which characterize diverse approaches within the field. (shrink)
- The visual terms of state violence in Israel/Palestine: An interview withRebecca L. Stein.Rebecca L. Stein,Noa Levin &Andrew Fisher -2023 -Philosophy of Photography 14 (1):7-18.This interview with media anthropologist,Rebecca L. Stein, conducted by Noa Levin and Andrew Fisher in Spring 2023, takes her recent book Screenshots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (2021) as its starting point in order to explore issues of state violence and the militarization of social media in Israel/Palestine. This book marks the culmination of a decade-long research project into the camera dreams introduced by digital imaging technologies and the fraught histories of their disillusionment. Stein discusses (...) the way her research has critically conceptualized the recent history of hopes invested in the digital image in this geopolitical context, by the occupier as much as the occupied, and charts the failures and mistakes, obstructions and appropriations that characterize the conflicted visual cultures of Israel/Palestine. (shrink)
- Neo-Aristotelian Supererogation.Rebecca Stangl -2016 -Ethics 126 (2):339-365.I develop and defend the following neo-Aristotelian account of supererogation: an action is supererogatory if and only if it is overall virtuous and either the omission of an overall virtuous action in that situation would not be overall vicious or there is some overall virtuous action that is less virtuous than it and whose performance in its place would not be overall vicious. I develop this account from within the virtue-ethical tradition. And I argue that it is intuitively defensible and (...) fully compatible with the doctrine of the mean. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Indoctrination and Social Context: A System‐based Approach to Identifying the Threat of Indoctrination and the Responsibilities of Educators.Rebecca M. Taylor -2016 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 50 (4).Debates about indoctrination raise fundamental questions about the ethics of teaching. This paper presents a philosophical analysis of indoctrination, including 1) an account of what indoctrination is and why it is harmful, and 2) a framework for understanding the responsibilities of teachers and other educational actors to avoid its negative outcomes. I respond to prominent outcomes-based accounts of indoctrination, which I argue share two limiting features—a narrow focus on the threat indoctrination poses to knowledge and on the dyadic relationship between (...) indoctrinator and indoctrinated person. I propose a system-based account of indoctrination in which actors with authority contribute to the production or reinforcement of closed-mindedness, which threatens both knowledge and understanding. By taking a system-based approach, my account is better equipped to identify the implications of indoctrination for educational policy and practice. (shrink)
- The Actual and the Possible.Rebecca Hanrahan -2017 -Journal of Philosophical Research 42:223-242.We can safely infer that a proposition is possible if p is the case. But, I argue, this inference from the actual to the possible is merely explicative in nature, though we employ it at times as if it were ampliative. To make this inference ampliative, we need to include an inference to the best explanation. Specifically, we can draw a substantive conclusion as to whether p is possible from the fact that p is the case, if via our best (...) explanation we can explain how p could occur again in the complete and coherent set of propositions that describes the actual world. (shrink)No categories
- Motivated proofs: What they are, why they matter and how to write them.Rebecca Lea Morris -2020 -Review of Symbolic Logic 13 (1):23-46.Mathematicians judge proofs to possess, or lack, a variety of different qualities, including, for example, explanatory power, depth, purity, beauty and fit. Philosophers of mathematical practice have begun to investigate the nature of such qualities. However, mathematicians frequently draw attention to another desirable proof quality: being motivated. Intuitively, motivated proofs contain no "puzzling" steps, but they have received little further analysis. In this paper, I begin a philosophical investigation into motivated proofs. I suggest that a proof is motivated if and (...) only if mathematicians can identify (i) the tasks each step is intended to perform; and (ii) where each step could have reasonably come from. I argue that motivated proofs promote understanding, convey new mathematical resources and stimulate new discoveries. They thus have significant epistemic benefits and directly contribute to the efficient dissemination and advancement of mathematical knowledge. Given their benefits, I also discuss the more practical matter of how we can produce motivated proofs. Finally I consider the relationship between motivated proofs and proofs which are explanatory, beautiful and fitting. (shrink)
- 19. Giovanni Gentile. The Rebirth of Idealism.Rebecca Copenhaver &Brian P. A. Copenhaver -2012 - In Rebecca Copenhaver & Brian P. A. Copenhaver,From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950. University of Toronto Press. pp. 665-682.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Borders : pedagogies and epistemologies.Rebecca Alexander -2019 - In Derek Ford,Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements. Boston: Brill.Export citation Bookmark
- Desire, disgust and indigestibility in John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb.Rebecca Anne Barr -2018 - In Rebecca Anne Barr, Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon & Sophie Vasset,Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century. Manchester: Manchester University Press.Export citation Bookmark
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