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- Forgas, Joseph P. & Bower, Gordon H.(1987). Mood effects on person.Jill M. Hooley,John E. Richters,SheldonWeintraub &John M. Neale -1988 -Cognition and Emotion 2 (1):71-80.Export citation
Bookmark - Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics.Sheldon Goldstein -unknownIn the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Boltzmann explained how irreversible macroscopic laws, in particular the second law of thermodynamics, originate in the time-reversible laws of microscopic physics. Boltzmann’s analysis, the essence of which I shall review here, is basically correct. The most famous criticisms of Boltzmann’s later work on the subject have little merit. Most twentieth century innovations – such as the identification of the state of a physical system with a probability distribution on its phase space, (...) of its thermodynamic entropy with the Gibbs entropy of , and the invocation of the notions of ergodicity and mixing for the justification of the foundations of statistical mechanics – are thoroughly misguided. (shrink)
- Persuasion as Respect for Persons: An Alternative View of Autonomy and of the Limits of Discourse.MosheWeintraub &Y. Michael Barilan -2001 -Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (1):13-34.The article calls for a departure from the common concept of autonomy in two significant ways: it argues for the supremacy of semantic understanding over procedure, and claims that clinicians are morally obliged to make a strong effort to persuade patients to accept medical advice. We interpret the value of autonomy as derived from the right persons have to respect, as agents who can argue, persuade and be persuaded in matters of utmost personal significance such as decisions about medical care. (...) Hence, autonomy should and could be respected only after such an attempt has been made. Understanding suffering to a significant degree is a prerequisite to sincere efforts of persuasion. It is claimed that a modified and pragmatic form of discourse is the necessary framework for understanding suffering and for compassionately interacting with the frail. (shrink)
- Fugitive democracy: and other essays.Sheldon S. Wolin -2016 - Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Edited by Nicholas Xenos.Political Theory as a Vocation -- Transgression, Equality, and Voice -- Norm and Form : The Constitutionalizing of Democracy -- Fugitive Democracy -- Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -- Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -- On Reading Marx Politically -- Max Weber : Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory -- Reason in Exile : Critical Theory and Technological Society -- Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political -- Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -- The (...) Liberal/Democratic Divide : On Rawls's Political Liberalism -- On the Theory and Practice of Power -- Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -- Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -- The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -- From Progress to Modernization : The Conservative Turn -- Editorial -- What Revolutionary Action Means Today -- The People's Two Bodies -- The New Public Philosophy -- Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -- Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence and Modern Power -- Agitated Times. (shrink)
- Claveau, François; Herfeld, Catherine (2018). Social network analysis: A complementary method of discovery for the history of economics. In:Weintraub, E Roy; Düppe, Till. A contemporary historiography of economics. London: Routledge, n/a.François Claveau,Catherine Herfeld,E. RoyWeintraub &Till Düppe (eds.) -2018No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Religious education: A re-synthesis.Sheldon Ackley -1948 -Philosophical Forum 6:9.Export citation Bookmark
- Value-propositions and empirical verification.Sheldon C. Ackley -1944 -Philosophical Forum 2:19.Export citation Bookmark
- Next: About this document.Sheldon Goldstein -manuscriptHow can electrons behave sometimes like particles and sometimes like waves? How does an atom know, when it passes through one slit of a double-slit apparatus, that the other slit is also open, so that it should behave so as to contribute to an interference pattern? How does a radioactive atom know when to decay? How can electrons tunnel across classically forbidden regions? How can Schrödinger's cat be simultaneously dead and alive - but only until we look at it and (...) find that it is one or the other? (shrink)
- Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge.E. RoyWeintraub &Mark Perlman -1993 -Philosophy of Science 60 (4):659.Export citation Bookmark
- Dispositionalism and Decision.RuthWeintraub -1987 -Ratio (Misc.) 29 (2):148.
- Pan Tadeusz [master thaddeus].W.Weintraub -2000 -Dialogue and Universalism 10:61-101.
- The New Monetary Policy.SidneyWeintraub -forthcoming -Social Research: An International Quarterly.Export citation Bookmark
- Individualist and Ensemblist Approaches to the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.Sheldon Goldstein -2019 -The Monist 102 (4):439-457.I will contrast the two main approaches to the foundations of statistical mechanics: the individualist approach and the ensemblist approach. I will indicate the virtues of each, and argue that the conflict between them is perhaps not as great as often imagined.No categories
- Epistemology without knowledge?RuthWeintraub -1991 -Ratio 4 (2):157-169.Epistemologists have traditionally been concerned with two issues: the justification of particular beliefs or sets of beliefs, and claims to knowledge. I propose to examine the relative import of these questions by comparing the gravity of the threat posed by two sceptics: one who questions the justifiability of our beliefs, and one who doubts our knowledge claims.
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought.Sheldon S. Wolin -1960 - Princeton University Press.This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory.Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. This new edition retains intact the original ten chapters about political thinkers from Plato to Mill, and adds seven chapters about theorists from Marx and Nietzsche to Rawls and the postmodernists. The new chapters, which show how thinkers have grappled with the immense possibilities and dangers (...) of modern power, are themselves a major theoretical statement. They culminate in Wolin's remarkable argument that the United States has invented a new political form, "inverted totalitarianism," in which economic rather than political power is dangerously dominant. In this new edition, the book that helped to define political theory in the late twentieth century should energize, enlighten, and provoke generations of scholars to come. Wolin originally wrote Politics and Vision to challenge the idea that political analysis should consist simply of the neutral observation of objective reality. He argues that political thinkers must also rely on creative vision. Wolin shows that great theorists have been driven to shape politics to some vision of the Good that lies outside the existing political order. As he tells it, the history of theory is thus, in part, the story of changing assumptions about the Good. In the new chapters, Wolin displays all the energy and flair, the command of detail and of grand historical developments, that he brought to this story forty years ago. This is a work of immense talent and intense thought, an intellectual achievement that will endure. (shrink)
- Fugitive Democracy.Sheldon S. Wolin -1994 -Constellations 1 (1):11-25.
- Sheldon Krimsky, Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis. [REVIEW]Sheldon Krimsky -2001 -Journal of the History of Biology 34 (1):195-226.
- Agapology.Wilmon HenrySheldon -1965 - Boston,: Christopher Pub. House."This book, expounding an exciting new thesis for the history of philosophy, is an up-to-date compilation of Dr.Sheldon's philosophical thought. Although incorporating many aspects of his previous books, it sets forth a bold new philosophy of life, based on an entirely new concept - AGAPOLOGY. Loosely defined, Agapology is the union of love and reason. Reason, wedding to the former, sees that love, as taught by Christianity, is the very basis of reality. The author concludes, after a thorough (...) examination and analysis of these terms, that our present civilization will feel the unity of love and reason as it advances in intelligence toward a peace on earth beyond that aforeto attained in any age. Thus, by studying the nature of love in a thoroughly rational way, he shows that love and reason are actually two phases in the same principle. This investigation of love's meaning also enhances our respect for reason in religion." --. (shrink)No categories
- Appraising general equilibrium analysis.E. RoyWeintraub -1985 -Economics and Philosophy 1 (1):23-.General equilibrium analysis is a theoretical structure which focuses research in economics. On this point economists and philosophers agree. Yet studies in general equilibrium analyses are not well understood in the sense that, though their importance is recognized, their role in the growth of economic knowledge is a subject of some controversy. Several questions organize an appraisal of general equilibrium analysis. These questions have been variously posed by philosophers of science, economic methodologists, and historians of economic thought. Is general equilibrium (...) analysis a theory, a paradigm, a scientific research program, or a set of interrelated theories? Is it not any of these but rather a branch of applied mathematics? Is GE analysis associated with the growth of knowledge, or does it waste intellectual resources? How is it related to other work in economics? Is it connected to, or is it apart from, the concerns of applied economists? (shrink)
- Commentary on DAMMIT-- Dominant Adversarial Model: Minded Instead of Terminated.Sheldon Wein -unknownNo categories
- Practical solutions to the surprise-examination paradox.RuthWeintraub -1995 -Ratio 8 (2):161-169.In this paper I consider the surprise examination paradox from a practical perspective, paying special attention to the communicative role of the teacher’s promise to the students. This perspective, which places the promise within a practice, rather than viewing it in the abstract, imposes constraints on adequate solutions to the paradox. In the light of these constraints, I examine various solutions which have been offered, and suggest two of my own.
- Case Studies: C-Section for Organ Donation.Sheldon T. Berkowitz,Louis E. Newman &Deborah R. Mathieu -1990 -Hastings Center Report 20 (2):22.
- The Ethical Educator: Pointers and Pitfalls for School Administrators.Sheldon Berman,David B. Rubin &Joyce A. Barnes -2022 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Edited by David B. Rubin & Joyce A. Barnes.Describes 100 real-life ethical dilemmas faced by school administrators.
- Ethical Naturalism and Real Definition.Sheldon Marc Cohen -1970 - Dissertation, Northwestern UniversityExport citation Bookmark
- A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the History of Chemistry and Chemical TechnologyGeorge D. Tselos Colleen Wickey.Sheldon Hochheiser -1988 -Isis 79 (1):131-132.
- The basis of justification.RuthWeintraub -1994 -Philosophical Papers 23 (1):19-29.Many epistemologists agree with the intuition that “there is no exit from the circle of one’s beliefs”. I shall construe this vague intuition as the claim that justification supervenes on the totality of one’s beliefs: two agents with identical beliefs will be indistinguishable with respect to which of their beliefs are justified and to what degree. My central purpose in this paper is to undermine the supervenience thesis. To this end I shall consider the role(s) of the concept of justification.
- Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life.Sheldon S. Wolin -2001 - Princeton University Press.There is no grander topic for us today, and Wolin's treatment is penetrating, thorough, and authoritative. This is a major work of political theory.
- Typicality and Notions of Probability in Physics.Sheldon Goldstein -2012 - In Yemima Ben-Menahem & Meir Hemmo,Probability in Physics. Springer. pp. 59--71.
- Mīmāṃsā and the Problem of History in Traditional IndiaMimamsa and the Problem of History in Traditional India.Sheldon Pollock -1989 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 109 (4):603.No categories
- Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance.Sheldon M. Cohen -1996 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.This book examines Aristotle's metaphysics and his account of nature, stressing the ways in which his desire to explain observed natural processes shaped his philosophical thought. It departs radically from a tradition of interpretation, in which Aristotle is understood to have approached problems with a set of abstract principles in hand, principles derived from critical reflection on the views of his predecessors. A central example of the book interprets Aristotle's essentialism as deriving from an examination of the kinds of unity (...) that various sorts of things have: elemental motion, alteration, transformation and the growth of organisms. An important conclusion of this argument is that an essence may, under certain circumstances, lack some of its essential attributes. This is a major re-evaluation of Aristotle's metaphysics that will interest philosophers, classicists and historians of science. (shrink)
- The Sceptical Challenge.RuthWeintraub -1996 - New York: Routledge.Do we really know the things we think we know? Are any of our beliefs reasonable? Scepticism gives a pessimistic reply to these important epistemological questions - we don't know anything; none of our beliefs are reasonable. But can such a seemingly paradoxical claim be more than an intellectual curiousity? And if it is, can it be refuted? RuthWeintraub answers yes to both these questions. The sceptical challenge is a formidable one, and should be confronted, not dismissed. The (...) theoretical and practical difficulties it presents - in that the sceptical life cannot be lived, and the doctrine seems self-defeating - are in fact superficial, according to RuthWeintraub. Her study looks at the sceptical arguments of Descartes, Hume and the ancient Greek sceptic, Sextus Empiricus. The author argues that by drawing on philosophy, rather than science, the sceptical challenge can be answered. _The Sceptical Challenge_ is a bold and original response to scepticism; it represents a new way of looking at the field for philosophers of epistemology. (shrink)
- Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance.Sheldon Cohen -1996 - In[no title]. Cambridge University Press.No categories
- St. Thomas Aquinas on the immaterial reception of sensible forms.Sheldon M. Cohen -1982 -Philosophical Review 91 (2):193-209.
- The spatiality of the mental and the mind-body problem.RuthWeintraub -1998 -Synthese 117 (3):409-17.I consider a seemingly attractive strategy for grappling with the mind-body problem. It is often thought that materialists are committed to spatially locating mental events, whereas dualists are barred from so doing. The thought naturally arises, then, that reasons for or against the spatiality of the mental may be wielded to adjudicate between the different positions in the mind-body dispute. Showing that mental events are spatially located, it may be thought, is ipso facto showing the truth of materialism. Conversely, it (...) seems, if we can show that mental events are not spatially located, we will have refuted materialism. The strategy looks promising because it reduces a very abstruse problem to a much more tractable one. Unfortunately, I will argue, it can’t be implemented. (shrink)
- Preface: Apologia pro Vita philosophica.Sheldon C. Ackley -1943 -Philosophical Forum 1:1.Export citation Bookmark
- Heuristics, Concepts, and Cognitive Architecture: Toward Understanding How The Mind Works.Sheldon J. Chow -unknownHeuristics are often invoked in the philosophical, psychological, and cognitive science literatures to describe or explain methodological techniques or "shortcut" mental operations that help in inference, decision-making, and problem-solving. Yet there has been surprisingly little philosophical work done on the nature of heuristics and heuristic reasoning, and a close inspection of the way(s) in which "heuristic" is used throughout the literature reveals a vagueness and uncertainty with respect to what heuristics are and their role in cognition. This dissertation seeks to (...) remedy this situation by motivating philosophical inquiry into heuristics and heuristic reasoning, and then advancing a theory of how heuristics operate in cognition. I develop a positive working characterization of heuristics that is coherent and robust enough to account for a broad range of phenomena in reasoning and inference, and makes sense of empirical data in a systematic way. I then illustrate the work this characterization does by considering the sorts of problems that many philosophers believe heuristics solve, namely those resulting from the so-called frame problem. Considering the frame problem motivates the need to gain a better understanding of how heuristics work and the cognitive structures over which they operate. I develop a general theory of cognition which I argue underwrites the heuristic operations that concern this dissertation. I argue that heuristics operate over highly organized systems of knowledge, and I offer a cognitive architecture to accommodate this view. I then provide an account of the systems of knowledge that heuristics are supposed to operate over, in which I suggest that such systems of knowledge are concepts. The upshot, then, is that heuristics operate over concepts. I argue, however, that heuristics do not operate over conceptual content, but over metainformational relations between activated and primed concepts and their contents. Finally, to show that my thesis is empirically adequate, I consider empirical evidence on heuristic reasoning and argue that my account of heuristics explains the data. (shrink)No categories
- Absence of Chaos in Bohmian Dynamics.Sheldon Goldstein -unknownIn a recent paper [1], O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim, J. Florencio, and F. C. S´ a Barreto claim to have found numerical evidence of chaos in the motion of a Bohmian quantum particle in a double square-well potential, for a wave function that is a superposition of five energy eigenstates. But according to the result proven here, chaos for this motion is impossible. We prove in fact that for a particle on the line in a superposition of n + (...) 1 energy eigenstates, the Bohm motion x(t) is always quasiperiodic, with (at most) n frequencies. This means that there is a function F (y1, . . . , yn) of period 2π in each of its variables and n frequencies ω1, . . . , ωn such that x(t) = F (ω1t, . . . , ωnt). The Bohm motion for a quantum particle of mass m with wave function ψ = ψ(x, t), a solution to Schrödinger’s equation, is defined by.. (shrink)
- Ursache und Bedingung: Widerlegung des Konditionalismus und Aufbau der Kausalitätslehre auf der Mechanik.W. H.Sheldon -1914 -Philosophical Review 23 (6):695-695.
- Anti-dysthanasia.Sheldon E. Hermanson -1965 -The Eugenics Review 57 (4):207.No categories
- Reflections of a public health colleague.Sheldon Margen -1999 -Agriculture and Human Values 16 (3):319-320.
- Milton Howard Williams 1911-1967.Sheldon P. Peterfreund -1967 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 41:140 -.No categories
- Main contrasts between Eastern and Western philosophy.Wilmon HenrySheldon -1951 - In Charles Alexander Moore,Essays in East-West philosophy. Honolulu,: University of Hawaii Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Perceptual learning: An analysis based on selective attention measurements.Sheldon J. Tetewsky &W. R. Garner -1986 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24 (5):375-378.
- A basic goods approach to international corporate responsibility: The case of hiring in developing nations.Sheldon Wein -manuscriptConsider the following problem. A multinational corporation is expanding its operations to a developing country. The developing country in question is now a democracy or is in the process of becoming one, it has a (fairly) independent and corruption-free judiciary (or is in the process of establishing one), its human rights record, while not perfect, is improving, and its bureaucracy and police are not now terribly corrupt. But not too long ago, none of these things were true. A few years (...) back, the nation was run by a dictator, and the bureaucracy, judiciary, and police were all corrupt. Business people, and everyone else, had to operate within this corrupt system, and for business people this usually involved—at a minimum—lending tacit support to the existing regime, paying bribes, making financial “donations” to the ruling party, overlooking various “activities”, and so forth. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- IUDs, STIs, and DNA : reconsidering Hume's modesty proposal.Sheldon Wein -2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy,Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi.Export citation Bookmark
- Jan Narveson and John T. Sanders, eds., For and Against the State: New Philosophical Readings Reviewed by.Sheldon Wein -1997 -Philosophy in Review 17 (2):122-124.Export citation Bookmark
- Unconscious mental states.RuthWeintraub -1987 -Philosophical Quarterly 37 (October):423-32.The nature of consciousness has long been a central concern for philosophers of the mind. My purpose in this paper is to argue that it is the existence of some unconscious mental states which poses problems for the action theory of belief. Showing their existence to be compatible with theory is not straightforward, and requires an account of unconscious belief and desire which is at odds with that favoured by many action-theorists.
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought.S. I. Benn &Sheldon S. Wolin -1962 -Philosophical Review 71 (1):106.
- Desire as belief, Lewis notwithstanding.RuthWeintraub -2007 -Analysis 67 (2):116-122.In two curiously neglected papers, David Lewis claims to reduce to absurdity the supposition (commonly labeled DAB) that (some) desires are belief-like. My aim in this paper is to explain the significance of this claim and rebut the proof.
- Conflict of interest policies in science and medical journals: Editorial practices and author disclosures.Sheldon Krimsky &L. S. Rothenberg -2001 -Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (2):205-218.This study examines the extent to which scientific and biomedical journals have adopted conflict of interest (COI) policies for authors, and whether the adoption and content of such policies leads to the publishing of authors’ financial interest disclosure statements by such journals. In particular, it reports the results of a survey of journal editors about their practices regarding COI disclosures. About 16 percent of 1396 highly ranked scientific and biomedical journals had COI policies in effect during 1997. Less than 1 (...) percent of the articles published during that year in the journals with COI policies contained any disclosures of author personal financial interests while nearly 66 percent of the journals had zero disclosures of author personal financial interests. Nearly three fourths of journal editors surveyed usually publish author disclosure statements suggesting that low rates of personal financial disclosures are either a result of low rates of author financial interest in the subject matter of their publications or poor compliance by authors to the journals’ COI policies. (shrink)
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