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- A ‘Music, Mind and Movement’ Program for People With Dementia: Initial Evidence of Improved Cognition.Olivia Brancatisano,AmeeBaird &William Forde Thompson -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy.J.Baird Callicott (ed.) -1999 - State University of New York Press.A leading theorist addresses a wide spectrum of topics central to the field of environmental philosophy.
- (1 other version)Is endurantism the folk friendly view of persistence?Sam Baron,Andrew J. Latham,Jordan Veng Oh &Kristie Miller -2024 -Philosophical Studies 181 (10).Many philosophers have thought that our folk, or pre-reflective, view of persistence is one on which objects endure. This assumption not only plays a role in disputes about the nature of persistence itself, but is also put to use in several other areas of metaphysics, including debates about the nature of change and temporal passage. In this paper, we empirically test three broad claims. First, that most people (i.e. most non-philosophers) believe that, and it seems to them as though, objects (...) persist by enduring rather than perduring. Second, that most people have a view of change on which enduring but not perduring objects count as changing. Third, that one reason why the folk represent time as dynamical is because it seems to them, and they believe that, they endure through time. We found no evidence to support these claims. While there are certainly plenty of ‘folk’ endurantists in the population we tested, there are also plenty of ‘folk’ perdurantists. We did not find robust evidence that a majority of people believed that, or it seemed to them as though, objects endure rather than perdure. We conclude that many arguments in favour of endurantism that appeal to folk beliefs about, or experiences of, persisting objects and change rest on views about those beliefs and experiences that are empirically unsupported. There is no evidence to suggest that endurantism is the folk friendly view of persistence, and so we should stop treating it as such without argument. (shrink)
- In Defense of the Land Ethic : Essays in Environmental Philosophy, coll. « SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology ».J.Baird Callicott -1989 -Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 179 (4):642-642.
- The Psychology of Vagueness: Borderline Cases and Contradictions.Sam Alxatib &Francis Jeffry Pelletier -2011 -Mind and Language 26 (3):287-326.In an interesting experimental study, Bonini et al. (1999) present partial support for truth-gap theories of vagueness. We say this despite their claim to find theoretical and empirical reasons to dismiss gap theories and despite the fact that they favor an alternative, epistemic account, which they call ‘vagueness as ignorance’. We present yet more experimental evidence that supports gap theories, and argue for a semantic/pragmatic alternative that unifies the gappy supervaluationary approach together with its glutty relative, the subvaluationary approach.
- Keeping Vague Score.Sam Carter -forthcoming -Journal of Philosophy.This paper introduces a novel theory of vagueness. Its main aim is to show how naïve judgments about tolerance and indeterminacy can be preserved while departing from classical logic only in ways which are independently motivated. -/- The theory makes use of a bilateral approach to acceptance and rejection. Combined with a standard account of validity, this approach gives rise to an entailment relation which is non-transitive. I argue that this is desirable: it is both pre-theoretically plausible and provides a (...) compelling solution to a number of longstanding puzzles. The theory aims to preserve the naïve picture of vagueness. It combines tools from expressivist and dynamic treatments of information in conversation to show how principles which are generally assumed to be in tension are compatible. The resulting logic departs from classical logic in precisely those places we should expect it to. -/- . (shrink)
- The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics: Forging a New Discourse.J.Baird Callicott -2002 -Environmental Values 11 (1):3-25.Pragmatist environmental philosophers have (erroneously) assumed that environmental ethics has made little impact on environmental policy because environmental ethics has been absorbed with arcane theoretical controversies, mostly centred on the question of intrinsic value in nature. Positions on this question generate the allegedly divisive categories of anthropocentrism/nonanthropocentrism, shallow/deep ecology, and individualism/holism. The locus classicus for the objectivist concept of intrinsic value is traceable to Kant, and modifications of the Kantian form of ethical theory terminate in biocentrism. A subjectivist approach to (...) the affirmation of intrinsic value in nature has also been explored. Because of the academic debate about intrinsic value in nature, the concept of intrinsic value in nature has begun to penetrate and reshape the discourse of environmental activists and environmental agency personnel. In environmental ethics, the concept of intrinsic value in nature functions similarly to way the concept of human rights functions in social ethics. Human rights has had enormous pragmatic efficacy in social ethics and policy. The prospective adoption of the Earth Charter by the General Assembly of the United Nations may have an impact on governmental environmental policy and performance similar to the impact on governmental social policy and behaviour of the adoption by the same body in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Belatedly, but at last, the most strident Pragmatist critics of the concept of intrinsic value in nature now acknowledge its pragmatic power and promise. (shrink)
- Was Aldo Leopold a Pragmatist? Rescuing Leopold from the Imagination of Bryan Norton.J.Baird Callicott,William Grove-Fanning,Jennifer Rowland,Daniel Baskind,Robert Heath French &Kerry Walker -2009 -Environmental Values 18 (4):453 - 486.Aldo Leopold was a pragmatist in the vernacular sense of the word. Bryan G. Norton claims that Leopold was also heavily influenced by American Pragmatism, a formal school of philosophy. As evidence, Norton offers Leopold's misquotation of a definition of right (as truth) by political economist, A.T. Hadley, who was an admirer of the philosophy of William James. A search of Leopold's digitised literary remains reveals no other evidence that Leopold was directly influenced by any actual American Pragmatist or by (...) Pragmatism (although he may have been indirectly influenced by Pragmatism early in his career). A 1923 reference, by Leopold, to Hadley and Hadley's putative definition of truth, cited by Norton, is dripping with irony. Leopold, as he matured philosophically, regarded a profound cultural shift from anthropocentric dominionism and consumerism to an evolutionary-ecological worldview and an associated non-anthropocentric 'land ethic' to be necessary for successful and sustainable conservation. Hadley espoused a brutal form of Social Darwinism and his philosophy, as expressed in the book of Hadley's that Norton cites, is politically reactionary, militaristic and unconcerned with conservation. Leopold's mature philosophy and Hadley's – far from consonant, as Norton claims – are diametrically opposed. (shrink)
- Brute ignorance.Sam Carter -2025 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 110 (1):113-128.We know a lot about what the world is like. We know less, it seems, about what we know about what the world is like. According to a common thought, it is easier for us to come to know about the state of the world than to come to know about the state of our own knowledge. What explains this gap? An attractively simple hypothesis is that our ignorance about what we know is explained by our ignorance about the world. (...) There are things we fail to know about what we know about the world because there are things we fail to know about the world. This hypothesis is often motivated by the idea that knowledge requires a margin‐for‐error. In this paper, I'll argue that this simple hypothesis is inadequate. Not all our ignorance of our knowledge can be explained by our ignorance about the world. In this sense, at least some of our ignorance about what we know is brute. (shrink)
- Curricular Aspects of the Fogarty Bioethics International Training Programs.Sam Garner,Amal Matar,J. Millum,B. Sina &H. Silverman -2014 -Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal 9 (2):12-23.The curriculum design, faculty characteristics, and experience of implementing masters' level international research ethics training programs supported by the Fogarty International Center was investigated. Multiple pedagogical approaches were employed to adapt to the learning needs of the trainees. While no generally agreed set of core competencies exists for advanced research ethics training, more than 75% of the curricula examined included international issues in research ethics, responsible conduct of research, human rights, philosophical foundations of research ethics, and research regulation and ethical (...) review process. Common skills taught included critical thinking, research methodology and statistics, writing, and presentation proficiency. Curricula also addressed the cultural, social, and religious context of the trainees related to research ethics. Programs surveyed noted trainee interest in Western concepts of research ethics and the value of the transnational exchange of ideas. Similar faculty expertise profiles existed in all programs. Approximately 40% of faculty were female. Collaboration between faculty from low- and middleincome countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs) occurred in most programs and at least 50% of HIC faculty had previous LMIC experience. This paper is part of a collection of papers analyzing the Fogarty International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development program. (shrink)
- Conceptual resources for environmental ethics in asian traditions of thought: A propaedeutic.J.Baird Callicott -1987 -Philosophy East and West 37 (2):115-130.
- Silencing Philosophers: Minteer and the Foundations of Anti-foundationalism.J.Baird Callicott -1999 -Environmental Values 8 (4):499-516.In 'No Experience Necessary: Foundationalism and the Retreat from Culture in Environmental Ethics'. Ben A. Minteer forgivably misconstrues my critique of moral pluralism. Contrary to Minteer’s representation: I do not accuse moral pluralists of ‘moral promiscuity’: nor do I posit a ‘master principle’ to govern all human action respecting the environment: and although I offer conceptual foundations for environmental ethics, I do not claim that they rest on certain, a priori, and non-empirical intuitions. Rather, the conceptual foundations I offer for (...) environmental ethics are largely scientific. Contrary to Minteer’s representation: I do consider a multiplicity of contexts in which ethical actions are situated: and I do respectfully attend to and creatively engage a variety of cultural points of view, both western and nonwestern. in constructing environmental ethics. Anti-foundationalists, such as Minteer and Bryan G. Norton, ironically pose an insidious threat to democratic discussion and debate of environmental values, because they themselves posit, but do not frankly acknowledge, foundational beliefs. (shrink)
- The Parenting Experience of Those With Borderline Personality Disorder Traits: Practitioner and Parent Perspectives.Abigail Dunn,Sam Cartwright-Hatton,Helen Startup &Alexandra Papamichail -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- (1 other version)Agroecology in context.J.Baird Callicott -1988 -Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 1 (1):3-9.Agriculture and medicine palpably manifest a culture's world view. Correspondingly, changes in agriculture and medicine may be barometers of change in a culture's overall outlook. Conventional industrial agriculture and modern surgical/chemical medicine clearly express the Newtonian mechanical model of nature. The modern classical world view represents nature to be an externally related, atomic, reductive, material, and mechanical aggregate. Modern medicine, correspondingly, treats the body as an elaborate mechanism and industrial agriculture regards soil as a substratum for monocultures assembled from fossil (...) fuels, synthetic fertilizers, and chemical pesticides. The nascent agroecology and wellness movements each express and reflect the new paradigm variously emerging from ecology and quantum physics. Ecology and the new physics, each in its own way, represent nature to be an internally related, systemic, integrated, organic whole. Agroecology translates this abstract new vision into a concrete agricultural vocabulary: The farmstead is regarded as an artificial ecosystem with a multiplicity of diverse plant and animal constituents interacting with one another and with environing natural ecosystems in complex and mutually supporting ways. (shrink)
- The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics.J.Baird Callicott -2005 - In Arthur W. Galston & Christiana Z. Peppard,Expanding horizons in bioethics. Norwell, MA: Springer. pp. 185--208.
- Moral Monism in Environmental Ethics Defended.J.Baird Callicott -1994 -Journal of Philosophical Research 19:51-60.In dealing with concern for fellow human beings, sentient animals, and the enviroment, Christopher D. Stone suggests that a single agent adopt a different ethical theory---e.g., Kant’s, Bentham’s, Leopold’s---for each domain. Ethical theories, however, and their attendant rules and principles are embedded in moral philosophies. Employing Kant’s categorical imperative in this case, Bentham’s hedonic caIculus in that, and Leopold’s land ethic in another, a single agent would therefore have either simultaneously or cyclically to endorse contradictory moral philosophies. Instead, I suggest (...) that different and sometimes conflicting duties and obligations are generated by an agent’s membership in multiple moral communities. Peter Wenz, Gary Varner, Andrew Brennan, Anthony Weston, and Eugene Hargrove, among others, variously misunderstand either what is at issue in the monism versus pluralism debate in environmental ethics or my suggested communitarian altemative to the sort of pluralism that Stone recommends. (shrink)
- Pour une didactique des langues kanak.Claude Lercari &Léonard Sam -2002 -Hermes 32:543.No categories
- Postmodern ecological restoration: Choosing appropriate temporal and spatial scales.J.Baird Callicott -2011 - In Kevin deLaplante, Bryson Brown & Kent A. Peacock,Philosophy of ecology. Waltham, MA: North-Holland. pp. 11--301.
- On Norton and the Failure of Monistic Inherentism.J.Baird Callicott -1996 -Environmental Ethics 18 (2):219-221.
- Text analysis shows conceptual overlap as well as domain-specific differences in Christian and secular worldviews.Joseph Watts,Sam Passmore,Joshua Conrad Jackson,Christoph Rzymski &Robin I. M. Dunbar -2020 -Cognition 201 (C):104290.No categories
- The land ethic today.J.Baird Callicott -1993 -Topoi 12 (1):41-51.
- Ontology facilitated community navigation–who is interesting for what i am interested in?Nils Malzahn,Sam Zeini &Andreas Harrer -2001 - In P. Bouquet V. Akman,Modeling and Using Context. Springer. pp. 292--303.No categories
- American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study.J.Baird Callicott &Michael P. Nelson (eds.) -2003 - Prentice-Hall."For courses in anthropology, cultural geography, environmental philosophy and ethics. Brief text focusing on environmental attitudes and practices of American Indians using the Ojibwa narrative, myths, legends, stories and rituals. Introductory essay offers theory of environmental ethics, an overview of the field of environmental ethics, and places the Ojibwa within this contemporary debate."--Publisher.
- Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum Revolution.Gal BenPorat &Sam Schweber -2015 - In Ana Simões, Jürgen Renn & Theodore Arabatzis,Relocating the History of Science: Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu. Springer Verlag.Export citation
Bookmark - “Being and time” in Jan Patočka.N'dré Sam Beugre -2025 -Revista Internacional de Filosofía Teórica y Práctica 5 (1):57-100.Este artículo intenta reconstruir la obra de Heidegger Ser y tiempo, llamando la atención sobre su concepto hermenéutico de ontología. La ontología fundamental de Heidegger se revela como un esfuerzo por restablecer una ontología que, en sus conceptos pasados, ha olvidado su fundamento específicamente humano. El concepto original de fenomenología permite así un nuevo destino para la comprensión de la ontología. La segunda parte está dedicada a la reconstrucción de la filosofía de Jan Patočka, considerado discípulo indirecto de Heidegger. Se (...) analiza temáticamente: el platonismo negativo, el problema del mundo natural, la existencia como movimiento corporal y una concepción particular de la historia. En el resumen no sólo se destaca la luz que Patočka aportó a la oscura interpretación de Heidegger, sino que también se subraya la contribución de Patočka a la cuestión de una comprensión más concreta del hombre y su relación con la verdad, el mundo y el cuerpo.. Aunque a ambos les une el deseo de evitar la cosificación, la posición de Pato čka es menos unilateral y más constructiva en la cuestión del autodescubrimiento. Sin embargo, debe tenerse en cuenta que el artículo no pretende abordar las complejas cuestiones de las dos filosofías, sino sólo resaltar algunos puntos fundamentales. (shrink)No categories
- The convergence hypothesis falsified: implicit intrinsic value, operational rights, and de facto standing in the endangered species act.J.Baird Callicott -2009 - In Ben Minteer,Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education.J.Baird Callicott &Fernando J. R. Da Rocha (eds.) -1996 - State University of New York Press.An international group of environmental philosophers and educators propose ways universities can produce and promote ecological literacy and environmental ethics.
- Reply.J.Baird Callicott -unknownNo categories
- Reply to Miller.J.Baird Callicott -1988 -Between the Species 4 (3):5.
- The challenge of a world environmental ethic.J.Baird Callicott -1997 -American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 18 (1):65 - 79.
- Valuing wildlife.J.Baird Callicott -2008 - In Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler,The animal ethics reader. New York: Routledge. pp. 439.Export citation Bookmark
- Using the British Education Index to Survey the Field of Educational Studies.Philip Sheffield &Sam Saunders -2002 -British Journal of Educational Studies 50 (1):165 - 183.Bibliographic records published by the British Education Index (BEI) between 1957 and 2000 are analysed in the context of a history of the BEI's changing presentation of information about the field. The value of frequency counts for BEI subject terms is discussed, in relation to their potential for revealing trends in the fields of educational studies and information management.
- Karye chiphae.Mong-sam Sin -1841 - Pusan Kwangyŏksi: Minjok Munhwa. Edited by Chang-Saeng Kim.
- How Environmental Ethical Theory May Be Put into Practice.J.Baird Callicott -1996 -Ethics and the Environment 1 (1):3-14.Environmentalists do not appear to walk their walk as consistently as animal liberationists and anti-abortionists. Are we therefore more hypocritical? Maybe; but there's another explanation. Unlike concern for individual animals or individual fetuses, environmental concerns are holistic —air and waterpollution, species extinction, diminished ecological health and integrity. One pro-life pregnant woman may preserve the life of one unborn baby, the one in her uterus; and one animal liberationist can save the life of one animal, the one he didn't eat. But (...) one environmentalist who refuses to own and operate an automobile has no measurable effect on air pollution. Only collective, social change—universal banning of automobiles, mandatory recycling, etc.—will effectively redress environmental insults. Thus, the best way to put environmental ethics into practice is not to try to do one's bit—retire one's own car, recycle one's own waste—and leave it to every other person to do his or her bit and hope that all such individual environmental ethical acts will aggregate into significance. The best way to put environmental ethics into practice is to work to instill environmental values in society as the foundation for coercive environmental policies, regulations, and laws. The mechanistic-materialistic worldview and its associated consumerist value system trickled down into the collective consciousness via its technological manifestation in a plethora of machines. The systemic worldview in which environmental values are embedded may be communicated to the general public less by means of discursive discourse than by a new generation of systemic-electronic technologies. (shrink)
- The Temporal and Spatial Scales of Global Climate Change and the Limits of Individualistic and Rationalistic Ethics.J.Baird Callicott -2011 -Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 69:101-116.Here I argue that the hyper-individualistic and rationalistic ethical paradigms – originating in the late eighteenth century and dominating moral philosophy, in various permutations, ever since – cannot capture the moral concerns evoked by the prospect of global climate change. Those paradigms are undone by the temporal and spatial scales of climate change. To press my argument, I deploy two famous philosophical tropes – John Rawls's notion of the original position and Derek Parfit's paradox – and another that promises to (...) become famous: Dale Jamieson's six little ditties about Jack and Jill. I then go on to argue that the spatial and especially the temporal scales of global climate change demand a shift in moral philosophy from a hyper-individualistic ontology to a thoroughly holistic ontology. It also demands a shift from a reason-based to a sentiment-based moral psychology. Holism in environmental ethics is usually coupled with non-anthropocentrism in theories constructed to provide moral considerability for transorganismic entities – such as species, biotic communities, and ecosystems. The spatial and temporal scales of climate, however, render non-anthropocentric environmental ethics otiose, as I more fully explain. Thus the environmental ethic here proposed to meet the moral challenge of global climate change is holistic but anthropocentric. I start with Jamieson's six little ditties about Jack and Jill. (shrink)
- Unraveling the Twists of Fight Club.George Wilson &Sam Shpall -2011 - In Thomas E. Wartenberg,Fight Club. Routledge.Analyzes cinematic conventions of transparency, and offers an interpretation of Fight Club.Export citation Bookmark
- Schematic information influences memory and generalisation behaviour for schema-relevant and -irrelevant information.Jamie P. Cockcroft,Sam C. Berens,M. Gareth Gaskell &Aidan J. Horner -2022 -Cognition 227 (C):105203.
- The effects of induced positive and negative affect on Pavlovian-instrumental interactions.Isla Weber,Sam Zorowitz,Yael Niv &Daniel Bennett -2022 -Cognition and Emotion 36 (7):1343-1360.Across species, animals have an intrinsic drive to approach appetitive stimuli and to withdraw from aversive stimuli. In affective science, influential theories of emotion link positive affect with strengthened behavioural approach and negative affect with avoidance. Based on these theories, we predicted that individuals’ positive and negative affect levels should particularly influence their behaviour when innate Pavlovian approach/avoidance tendencies conflict with learned instrumental behaviours. Here, across two experiments – exploratory Experiment 1 (N = 91) and a preregistered confirmatory Experiment 2 (...) (N = 335) – we assessed how induced positive and negative affect influenced Pavlovian-instrumental interactions in a reward/punishment Go/No-Go task. Contrary to our hypotheses, we found no evidence for a main effect of positive/negative affect on either approach/avoidance behaviour or Pavlovian-instrumental interactions. However, we did find evidence that the effects of induced affect on behaviour were moderated by individual differences in self-reported behavioural inhibition and gender. Exploratory computational modelling analyses explained these demographic moderating effects as arising from positive correlations between demographic factors and individual differences in the strength of Pavlovian-instrumental interactions. These findings serve to sharpen our understanding of the effects of positive and negative affect on instrumental behaviour. (shrink)
- A history of childhood schizophrenia and lessons for autism.Sam Fellowes -2024 -History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (3):1-23.The diagnosis of childhood schizophrenia was widely employed in the U.S. from the 1930s to the late 1970s. In this paper I will provide a history of the diagnosis. Some of the earliest publications on childhood schizophrenia outlined the notion that childhood schizophrenia had different types. I will outline the development of these types, outlining differing symptoms and causes associated with various types. I outline how different types of childhood schizophrenia were demarcated from one another primarily on age of onset (...) and the type of psychosis which was believed to be present. I will outline how various child psychiatrists viewed the types of childhood schizophrenia posited by other child psychiatrists. I will outline the process of abandoning childhood schizophrenia. I use my history to challenge what I believe are misconceptions about childhood schizophrenia. Also, I will use my history to draw lessons for thinking about modern notions of autism. It shows potential problems around formulating psychiatric diagnoses around causes and how compromises might be needed to prevent those problems. Additionally, childhood schizophrenia shows that psychiatrists could formulate subtypes that are not based upon functioning levels and that we can conceive of subtypes as dynamic whereby someone can change which subtype they exhibit over time. (shrink)
- Genesis Revisited: Murian Musings on the Lynn White, Jr. Debate.J.Baird Callicott -1990 -Environmental History Review 14 (1/2):65-90.
- True gender ratios and stereotype rating norms.Alan Garnham,Sam Doehren &Pascal Gygax -2015 -Frontiers in Psychology 6:150510.We present a study comparing, in English, perceived distributions of men and women in 422 named occupations with actual real world distributions. The first set of data was obtained from previous a large-scale norming study, whereas the second set was mostly drawn from UK governmental sources. In total, real world ratios for 290 occupations were obtained for our perceive vs. real world comparison, of which 205 were deemed to be unproblematic. The means for the two sources were similar and the (...) correlation between them was high, suggesting that people are generally accurate at judging real gender ratios, though there were some notable exceptions. Beside this correlation, some interesting patterns emerged from the two sources, suggesting some response strategies when people complete norming studies. We discuss these patterns in terms of the way real world data might complement norming studies in determining gender stereotypicality. (shrink)
- Should Endangered Species Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Listed Species.J.Baird Callicott -2009 -Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (2):317-352.The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is America's strongest environmental law. Its citizen-suit provision—permitting “any person” whomsoever to sue on behalf of a threatened or endangered species—awards implicit intrinsic value, de facto standing, and operational legal rights (sensu Christopher D. Stone) to listed species. Accordingly, some cases had gone forward in the federal courts in the name of various listed species between 1979 (Palila v. Hawaii Dept. of Land & Natural Resources) and 2004 (Cetacean Community v. Bush), when the (...) Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that animals could not sue in their own name. Because the Supreme Court has interpreted its habitat destruction as the “taking” of a listed species, some have argued that enforcement of the ESA's critical-habitat-protection provision is a “regulatory taking” of private property without just compensation, contrary to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. The courts have not agreed. The ESA citizen-suit provision appears to waive federal-court standing requirements devolved from Article III of the U.S. Constitution, creating much confusion and mutually contradictory rulings. A series of cases (culminating with Bennett v. Spear) reconciles the ESA's citizen-suit provision with the particularized and concrete “injury-in-fact” standing requirements devolved from Article III. (shrink)
- A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds.J.Baird Callicott -1996 -Environmental Ethics 18 (3):321-326.
- The Other in A Sand County Almanac.J.Baird Callicott,Jonathan Parker,Jordan Batson,Nathan Bell,Keith Brown &Samantha Moss -2011 -Environmental Ethics 33 (2):115-146.Much philosophical attention has been devoted to “The Land Ethic,” especially by Anglo-American philosophers, but little has been paid to A Sand County Almanac as a whole. Read through the lens of continental philosophy, A Sand County Almanac promulgates an evolutionary-ecological world view and effects a personal self- and a species-specific Self-transformation in its audience. It’s author, Aldo Leopold, realizes these aims through descriptive reflection that has something in common with phenomenology-although Leopold was by no stretch of the imagination a (...) phenomenologist. Consideration of human-animal intersubjectivity, thematized in A Sand County Almanac, brings to light the moral problem of hunting and killing animal subjects. Leopold does not confront that problem, but it is confronted and resolved by Jose Ortega y Gassett, Henry Beston, and Paul Shepard in terms of an appropriate human relationship with wild-animal Others. Comparison with the genuinely Other-based Leopold-Ortega-Beston-Shepard wild-animal ethic shows the purportedly Other-based humanand possibly animal ethic of Emmanuel Levinas actually to be Same-based after all. (shrink)
- Free Will and Necker's Cube: Reason, Language and Top-Down Control in cognitive neuroscience.Grant Gillett &Sam C. Liu -2012 -Philosophy 87 (1):29-50.The debates about human free will are traditionally the concern of metaphysics but neuroscientists have recently entered the field arguing that acts of the will are determined by brain events themselves causal products of other events. We examine that claim through the example of free or voluntary switch of perception in relation to the Necker cube. When I am asked to see the cube in one way, I decide whether I will follow the command (or do as I am asked) (...) using skills that reason and language give to me and change my brain states accordingly. The voluntary shift of perspective in seeing the Necker cube this way or that exemplifies the top-down control exercised by a human being on the basis of the role of language and meaning in their activity. It also indicates the lived story that is at the centre of each human consciousness. In the third part of this essay, three arguments are used to undermine metaphysical objections to the very idea of top-down self control. (shrink)
- Acceptable Contradictions: Pragmatics or Semantics? A Reply to Cobreros et al. [REVIEW]Sam Alxatib,Peter Pagin &Uli Sauerland -2013 -Journal of Philosophical Logic 42 (4):619-634.Naive speakers find some logical contradictions acceptable, specifically borderline contradictions involving vague predicates such as Joe is and isn’t tall. In a recent paper, Cobreros et al. (J Philos Logic, 2012) suggest a pragmatic account of the acceptability of borderline contradictions. We show, however, that the pragmatic account predicts the wrong truth conditions for some examples with disjunction. As a remedy, we propose a semantic analysis instead. The analysis is close to a variant of fuzzy logic, but conjunction and disjunction (...) are interpreted as intensional operators. (shrink)
- Review of The Great, New, Wilderness Debate. [REVIEW]J.Baird Callicott &Michael Nelson -2000 -Environmental Ethics 22:199-202.Export citation Bookmark
- Daniel Fairfax.Ideology and Politics and Aesthetics and Ontology, vols. 1–2 of The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 412 pp. and 395 pp. [REVIEW]Sam Di Iorio -2023 -Critical Inquiry 49 (4):687-688.
- Mustaqbal al-falsafah al-muʻāṣirah fī al-waṭan al-ʻArabī wa-al-ʻālam: aʻmāl al-Muʼtamar al-Falsafī al-ʻArabī al-Awwal li-Bayt al-Ḥikmah, 1-4 Shubāṭ-Fabrāyir 2000.ʻAbd al-Amīr Aʻsam (ed.) -2002 - Baghdād: Bayt al-Ḥikmah.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science.DavisBaird -1988 -Noûs 22 (2):299-307.No categories
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