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Philosophy and Disaster
(Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), 2006-04)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 ... -
Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense
(Trivium Publications, 2004)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 ... -
Human Values as a Source for Sustaining the Environment
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Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body
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Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place
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How Moral Psychology Changes Moral Theory
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A Philosophically Serious Comparison of the Ontologies of Race and Gender
(2005-12)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, ... -
Law Incarnate
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Race and Mixed Race
(Temple University Press, 1993)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, ... -
Inquiry and Analysis: Dewey and Russell on Philosophy
(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 1998-06)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 ... -
Philosophical aspects of the `AAA Statement on "Race"'
(SAGE Publications, 2001-12)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 ... -
Psychotherapy and schizophrenia: an analysis of requirements of an individual psychotherapy for persons with profoundly disorganized selves
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Cause and Effect Theories of Attention: The Role of Conceptual Metaphors
(American Psychological Association, 2002-06)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. ... -
Cultural Cartographies: The Logic of Domination and Native Cultural Survival
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Lockean Money, Indigenism and Globalism
(University of Calgary Press, 1999)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, ... -
Reversibility and intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's ontology
(Jackson Publishing and Distribution, 2002-05)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, ... -
Embodied meaning and cognitive science
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"Something in the way she moves" -- metaphors of musical motion
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2003)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 ... -
Image-Schematic Basis of Meaning
(Canadian Semiotic Association, 1989)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 ... -
Anonymity and Sociality: The Convergence of psychological and philosophical Currents in Merleau-Ponty's ontological Theory of Intersubjectivity
(Paris : Vrin ; Milan : Mimesis ; Memphis : University of Memphis, Dept. of philosophy, 2003)