Department of Philosophy

• Philosophy and Disaster

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), April , 2006)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-05-03 2006-05-03 2006-04 Homeland Security Affairs. Vol. 2, No. 1, Article 5, April 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2639 15 p. article for an E-publication. Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of homeland security and disaster studies through extensions of social contract theory from political philosophy, and applications of moral systems. The idea of a state of nature is relevant to government’s role in disaster preparation, response and planning, because disasters often result in a second state of nature. All three of the main ethical systems of virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism, are relevant to disaster-related situations in ways that suggest the importance of being able to combine all three. Both the applications of political philosophy and moral theory can be augmented by John Rawls’s idea of distributive justice and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idea of the common good. Finally, the inevitability of human mortality, as emphasized by existentialist philosophers, can create a wider perspective on disaster. 2468 bytes 13778253 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) Philosophy and Disaster Article
• Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense

  Toadvine, Ted, 1968- (Trivium Publications, 2004)

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  Toadvine, Ted, 1968- 2006-03-30T17:29:48Z 2006-03-30T17:29:48Z 2004 Janus Head. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2004 (273-283). http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2532 11 p. To what extent can meaning be attributed to nature, and what is the relationship between such “natural sense”and the meaning of linguistic and artistic expressions? To shed light on such questions, this essay lays the groundworkfor an “ontology ofsense ” drawing on the insights of phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s theory of expression. We argue that the ontological continuity of organic life with the perceived world of nature requires situating sense at a level that is morefundamental than has traditionaly been recognized. Accounting for the genesis of this primordial sense and the teleology of expressive forms requires the development of an ontology ofbeing as interrogation, as suggested by Merleau-Ponty’s later investigations. 6181595 bytes 1263 bytes application/pdf text/plain en_US Trivium Publications Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense Article
• Human Values as a Source for Sustaining the Environment

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-03-28T23:50:22Z 2006-03-28T23:50:22Z 2002 Just ecological integrity : the ethics of maintaining planetary life. Ed. Peter Miller and Laura Westra. 2002 (69-74). 0742512851 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2520 5 p. 4074048 bytes application/pdf en_US Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Human Values as a Source for Sustaining the Environment Book chapter
• Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body

  Mann, Bonnie (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003)

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  Mann, Bonnie 2006-03-12T03:37:16Z 2006-03-12T03:37:16Z 2003 Recognition, responsibility, and rights : feminist ethics and social theory. Ed. Robin N. Fiore and Hilde Lindemann Nelson, 2003. 0742514420 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2438 30 p. Appears as a chapter in Recognition, responsibility, and rights: feminist ethics and social theory. 1160 bytes 19266620 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body Article
• Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place

  Mann, Bonnie (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)

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  Mann, Bonnie 2006-03-12T03:36:28Z 2006-03-12T03:36:28Z 2002 The subject of care : feminist perspectives on dependency. Ed. Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen K. Feder. 2002 (348-368) 0742513629 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2437 33 p. Appears as a chapter in The subject of care : feminist perspectives on dependency. 1160 bytes 19724541 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place Article
• How Moral Psychology Changes Moral Theory

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (MIT Press, 1996)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- 2006-03-12T03:35:29Z 2006-03-12T03:35:29Z 1996 Mind and morals : essays on cognitive science and ethics. Ed. Larry May, Marilyn Friedman, and Andy Clark. 1996 (45-68) 026213313X http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2436 24 p. Appears as a chapter in Mind and morals: essays on cognitive science and ethics, available from MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu 1206 bytes 17870515 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US MIT Press How Moral Psychology Changes Moral Theory Article
• A Philosophically Serious Comparison of the Ontologies of Race and Gender

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (December , 2005)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-03-04 2006-03-04 2005-12 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2419 A presentation to the Committee on the Status of Women, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, New York, Dec. 2005. Text also available at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/women/ 14 p. Race and gender are not ontologically or epistemologically symmetrical. Ontologies of human races are more recent historical ideas than male-female taxonomies of gender, although ontologies of gender that include intersexuals, trans-sexuals and non-sexuals are new. Taxonomies of race rely on justification from the physical sciences, while taxonomies of gender have been more dependent on ordinary life. Current biological science does not support racial ontologies, although belief in biological race is recalcitrant. I explain this with criticism of “the new biology” of race as advanced by Michael Hardimon and Robin Andreasen in recent Journal of Philosophy articles that are related to a 1999 anthology article by Philip Kitcher. It is not necessary to have a biological notion of race to talk about or oppose racism. However, even politically viable racial identities could not address that rule by men through their gender constructions, which is violent and exploitative. But with gender, post intersectionality, it may be possible to revise men’s rule given a unifying relational definition of women, based on their history. Women are those human beings who are assigned to or identify with the disjunction of biological mothers or men’s heterosexual choices or females birth designees (category FMP). As FMP, women constitute over 50% of democratic electorates and we should look toward a gender change in the now hyper-masculine constructions of high politics, via global women’s political parties. 2647 bytes 9254808 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US A Philosophically Serious Comparison of the Ontologies of Race and Gender Presentation
• Law Incarnate

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Brooklyn [Brooklyn Law School], 2002)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- 2006-03-04 2006-03-04 2002 Brooklyn Law Review. Vol.67, No.4, Summer 2001 (949-962) 0007-2362 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2420 15 p. 1197 bytes 10255220 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Brooklyn [Brooklyn Law School] Law Incarnate Article
• Race and Mixed Race

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Temple University Press, 1993)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-02-14T19:46:32Z 2006-02-14T19:46:32Z 1993 1-56639-265-9 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2255 1 p. abstract. Print (xv, 215 p.) available for circulation through the University of Oregon's Knight Library under the call number: E185.615 .Z33 1993. For more information, visit the publisher's web site at: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1004_reg.html In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, she discusses why race is a matter of such importance in America and examines the treatment of mixed race in law, society, and literature. Zack argues that black and white designations are themselves racist because the concept of race does not have an adequate scientific foundation. The "one drop" rule, originally a rationalization for slavery, persists today even though there have never been "pure" races and most American blacks have "white" genes. Exploring the existential problems of mixed race identity, she points out how the bi-racial system in this country generates a special racial alienation for many Americans. Ironically suggesting that we include "gray" in our racial vocabulary, Zack concludes that any racial identity is an expression of bad faith. 78105 bytes application/pdf en_US Temple University Press United States -- Race relations Racism -- United States Racially mixed people -- United States Families -- United States Race and Mixed Race Book
• Inquiry and Analysis: Dewey and Russell on Philosophy

  Pratt, Scott L. (Springer Science+Business Media B.V., June , 1998)

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  Pratt, Scott L. 2006-02-12T17:47:56Z 2006-02-12T17:47:56Z 1998-06 Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 17, No. 2-3, p. 101-122 1573-191X http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2241 Full text available only to subscribing institutions or individuals through SpringerLink at: http://springerlink.metapress.com/ (qysw3s55jdrtdn2mgeoqyrab)/app/home/ contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,2,12;journal,36,92; browsepublicationsresults,1436,1548 In an environment characterized by the emergence of new and diverse (and often opposed) philosophical efforts, there is a need for a conception of philosophy that will promote the exchange and critical consideration of divergent insights. Depending upon the operative conception, philosophical efforts can be viewed as significant, insightful and instructive, or unimportant, misguided and not real philosophy. This paper develops John Dewey's conception of philosophy as a mode of inquiry in contrast with Bertrand Russell's conception of philosophy as a mode of analysis. I argue that while Russell's analytic conception of philosophy justifies the dismissal of non-analytic philosophies, Dewey's conception of philosophy provides a theoretical framework for the comparison, evaluation and interaction of alternatives. 14601 bytes application/pdf en_US Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Conceptions of philosophy Dewey, John, 1859-1952 Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 Theory of inquiry Analytic philosophy Inquiry and Analysis: Dewey and Russell on Philosophy Article
• Philosophical aspects of the `AAA Statement on "Race"'

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (SAGE Publications, December , 2001)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-02-12T17:35:57Z 2006-02-12T17:35:57Z 2001-12 Anthropoligical Theory. Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec 2001 (445-465) http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2240 20 p. I apply philosophical analysis to the AAA Statement on "Race"' (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter (1997). Racial essentialism is the theory that there are distinct and general human biological traits that determine racial membership and cause the presence of specific racial traits. This theory is false, as is the belief that a taxonomy of human races, or race, exists. But the 1998 `AAA Statement on "Race"'fails to repudiate racial essentialism explicitly. Instead, the Statement denies that race determines culture or psychology and thereby misses the broad logical point that race cannot determine anything, because it does not exist. In the AN discussion of Kennewick Man, which appeared to be a debate about racial essentialism, contributors spoke past one another in confusing population-based measures of human diversity with race. The same confusion clouds contemporary concerns about the relevance of common-sense racial categories to medical diagnosis and treatment. Education is the solution to the public's ignorance about the scientific foundation for its ideas about race. It is an empirical question whether such education will remedy racism or unjust treatment based on the false racial taxonomy. Although mixed-race categories are no more real than 'pure' ones, their acceptance may help unsettle the prevailing false taxonomy of race. 2849 bytes 18891999 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US SAGE Publications Philosophical aspects of the `AAA Statement on "Race"' Article
• Psychotherapy and schizophrenia: an analysis of requirements of an individual psychotherapy for persons with profoundly disorganized selves

  Lysaker, John T.; Lysaker, Paul H. (Taylor and Francis Group, 2006)

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  Lysaker, John T. Lysaker, Paul H. 2006-02-07T23:47:33Z 2006-02-07T23:47:33Z 2006 Journal of Constructivist Psychology. Vol. 19, 2006 (171-189) 1072-0537 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2215 13 p. 11762146 bytes application/pdf en_US Taylor and Francis Group Psychotherapy and schizophrenia: an analysis of requirements of an individual psychotherapy for persons with profoundly disorganized selves Article
• Cause and Effect Theories of Attention: The Role of Conceptual Metaphors

  Johnson, Mark, 1949-; Fernandez-Duque, Diego, 1967- (American Psychological Association, June , 2002)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- Fernandez-Duque, Diego, 1967- 2006-02-07T15:54:19Z 2006-02-07T15:54:19Z 2002-06 Review of General Psychology. Vol. 6, No.2, June 2002 (139-152) 1089-2680 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2208 35 p. This is a final draft manuscript. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA/EPF journal. It is not a copy of record. The published version can be viewed at http://www.apa.org/journals/by_title.html In everyday discourse, as well as in science, concepts of attention are defined by metaphors. In scientific theories these metaphors determine what attention is and what count as adequate explanations of the phenomena. We analyze these metaphors in the context of three types of attention theories: (1)'Cause' theories, in which attention is presumed to modulate information-processing (e .g., Attention as a Spotlight ; Attention as a Limited Resource), (2 )`effect' theories, in which attention is considered to be the by-product of information-processing (e.g., the Competition metaphor), and (3) hybrid theories that combine `cause' and `effect' aspects (e .g., Biased-Competition models). Our analysis reveals the crucial role of metaphors in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the efforts of scientists to find a resolution to the classic problem of `cause' versus `effect' interpretations. 2975 bytes 17581264 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US American Psychological Association Cause and Effect Theories of Attention: The Role of Conceptual Metaphors Article
• Cultural Cartographies: The Logic of Domination and Native Cultural Survival

  Pratt, Scott L.; Huhndorf, Shari M. (Shari Michelle), 1965- (Pennsylvania State University, 2000)

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  Pratt, Scott L. Huhndorf, Shari M. (Shari Michelle), 1965- 2006-02-07T15:53:13Z 2006-02-07T15:53:13Z 2000 The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 14, No. 4, 2000 (268-285) 0891-625X http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2207 18 p. 2680 bytes 12315268 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Pennsylvania State University Cultural Cartographies: The Logic of Domination and Native Cultural Survival Article
• Lockean Money, Indigenism and Globalism

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (University of Calgary Press, 1999)

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  Zack, Naomi, 1944- 2006-01-13T23:52:13Z 2006-01-13T23:52:13Z 1999 Civilization and oppression. Canadian journal of philosophy. Ed. Catherine Wilson. Supplementary volume; 25. 1999 (31-53) 0919491251 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2100 23 p. The term 'indigenism' is currently used to refer to the traditions, interests, and goals of the descendants of original, or "pre-contact," inhabitants of lands that Europeans and Americans invaded and exploited. In general, during the modern period, indigenist civilization has been oppressed by European civilization. Although liberatory critics have addressed the political and moral aspects of European colonial oppression, not much, at least by philosophers, has been written about the nature of money. Money was the nonviolent mechanism of land dispossession, which was the main material form of European oppression of indigenists. 1598 bytes 17204251 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US University of Calgary Press Lockean Money, Indigenism and Globalism Article
• Reversibility and intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's ontology

  Stawarska, Beata (Jackson Publishing and Distribution, May , 2002)

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  Stawarska, Beata 2006-01-13T23:51:13Z 2006-01-13T23:51:13Z 2002-05 JBSP; the journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Vol.33, No.2, May 2000 (155-166) 0007-1773 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2099 12 p. In this essay I wish to examine critically Merleau-Ponty's treatment of relations with others in the light of his ontology of the flesh. I shall argue that the uniform character of the flesh and of its dynamic principle, reversibility leads to a reduction of the inter-subjective experience of the body manifest in an encounter with another embodied person, to a form of reflexivity operative within the body proper (le corps propre). The mechanics of the process by means of which the reduction is effectuated are the following: a specific, intra-subjective experience of the body is taken as a paradigm for relations to other embodied subjects. Simultaneously, its peculiar character is effaced for the sake of producing a single explanatory theory of the flesh. Deprived of its concrete specificity, the experience of one's own body comes to provide the standard norm for intersubjective or intercorporeal relations. These appear as a mere variant of the general schema, a "special case" contained in the universal dynamic of the flesh and subsumed under the heading of bodily reversibility. As a result, the peculiarities of intersubjective as well as intrasubjective lived experiences of the body are bracketed and a single category of reflexivity is applied to auto and hetero-relations alike. 531 bytes 11652677 bytes text/plain application/pdf en Jackson Publishing and Distribution Reversibility and intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's ontology Article
• Embodied meaning and cognitive science

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Northwestern University Press, 1997)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- 2006-01-13T23:50:24Z 2006-01-13T23:50:24Z 1997 Language beyond postmodernism : saying and thinking in Gendlin's philosophy. Ed. David Michael Levin, 1997 (148-175) 0810113589 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2098 31 p. Includes endnotes (356-358). Appears as a chapter in Language Beyond Postmodernism : Saying and Thinking in Gendlin's Philosophy. 80607 bytes 25049074 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Northwestern University Press Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy Embodied meaning and cognitive science Article
• "Something in the way she moves" -- metaphors of musical motion

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2003)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- 2006-01-13T23:49:23Z 2006-01-13T23:49:23Z 2003 Metaphor and Symbol. Vol.18, No.2, 2003 (63-84) 1092-6488 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2097 22 p. Our most fundamental concepts of musical motion and space, used by laypeople and music theorists alike, are defined by conceptual metaphors that are based on our experience of physical motion. We analyze the 3 most important metaphors of musical motion: the "MOVING MUSIC" metaphor, the "MUSICAL LANDSCAPE" metaphor, and the "MOVING FORCE" metaphor. We show how each metaphor is grounded in a particular basic experience of physical motion and physical forces and how the logic of physical motion shapes the logic of musical motion. We suggest that our conceptualization of, discourse about, and even our experience of musical motion depend on the logic of these 3 metaphors. 2192 bytes 16206440 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. "Something in the way she moves" -- metaphors of musical motion Article
• Image-Schematic Basis of Meaning

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Canadian Semiotic Association, 1989)

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  Johnson, Mark, 1949- 2005-12-21T23:31:40Z 2005-12-21T23:31:40Z 1989 RSSI : recherches sémiotiques = RSSI : semiotic inquiry. Vol. 9, No.1-3. 1989 (109-118) 0229-8651 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1981 10 p. According to a new program known as “Cognative Semantics,” there exists an intimate relation between perception and meaning. The allegedly “higher” cognitive functions that construct meaning and make reasoning possible are continuous with and inseparable from our sensorimotor activities. I explore the nature of an “image schema” as the basic imaginative structure that connects our embodied experience with our understanding of abstract domains and acts of inference. This account indicates the ways in which standard objectivist theories of meaning, knowledge, and rationality fail to capture crucial dimensions of our cognitive experience. 1194 bytes 6383294 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Canadian Semiotic Association Image-Schematic Basis of Meaning Article
• Anonymity and Sociality: The Convergence of psychological and philosophical Currents in Merleau-Ponty's ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity

  Stawarska, Beata (Paris : Vrin ; Milan : Mimesis ; Memphis : University of Memphis, Dept. of philosophy, 2003)

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  Stawarska, Beata 2005-12-21T23:22:10Z 2005-12-21T23:22:10Z 2003 Merleau-Ponty. Le réel et l'imaginaire = The real and the imaginary = Il reale e l'immaginario 2-7116-4324-7 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1980 16 p. Article in English followed by abstracts in French and Italian. 1485 bytes 23505 bytes text/plain application/pdf en_US Paris : Vrin ; Milan : Mimesis ; Memphis : University of Memphis, Dept. of philosophy Chiasmi international. Publication trilingue autour de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty nouv. sér. 5 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Anonymity and Sociality: The Convergence of psychological and philosophical Currents in Merleau-Ponty's ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity Anonymat et socialité. La convergence de la psychologie et de la philosophie dans l’ontologie merleau-pontienne de l’intersubjectivité Anonimato e socialità. Il convergence di motive psiocologici e filosofici nell’ontologia merleau-pontiana dell’intersoggettività Article

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