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Goldberg, Robert A. | Don't know much about history | Most of us have heard of the "Greatest Generation," those who weathered the storms of the Great Depression and World War II. Many of us are Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1965. Other are part of the cynical and worldly Generation X-arriving between the mid '60s and the early '80s-raised in the ... | | 2003 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Negation of history | History is inevitably involved in our philosophical reflections about human nature and destiny. Yet in the past, Philosophy; has had an uneasy and questionable relationship to history. In this paper I would like to examine seven paradigmatic cases which hopefully will illustrate some crucial aspects... | | 1982 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some questions in R. G. Collingwood's theory of historical understanding | In this essay I would like to examine some problems that are suggested to me by R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy; of historical understanding. My method of examination will be as follows: (1) to show that Collingwood's struggle to maintain his thesis that "history is the re-thinking of past thoughts"... | History; Philosophy;; Collingwood, R. G. (Robin George), 1889-1943 | 1977 |
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Goldberg, Robert A. | Jewish perspective | OUR TOPIC POSES two key questions. First, what are the pitfalls of writing from within our own religious tradition? Second, what are the advantages? In thinking about the Jewish tradition, my mind conjures up and fixes upon a quotation from Sheriff Wyatt Earp, upholder of law and order in Dodge City... | | 2002 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Some issues in Ortega y Gasset's critique of Heidegger's doctrine of Sein | The purpose of this paper is to propose a hypothesis to illuminate Ortega's critical response to Heidegger's question of being (Seinsfrage). While Ortega integrated the classical requirements for the idea of Being into his idea of human life as radical reality, Heidegger's delineation of human life... | | 1991 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | History of political theory and other essays (Book Review) | Reviews the book `The History of Political Theory and Other Essays,' by John Dunn. | Books; Political Theory | 2001-09-17 |
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Goldberg, Robert A. | Zion in Utah: the Clarion colony and Jewish agrarianism | The history of the Jewish agricultural colony at Clarion, Utah, presented by Robert A. Goldberg is somewhat special, for western Jewish history has been notably small town and urban. In painstakingly reconstructing the story of those who organized, settled, and finally failed at Clarion, Goldberg ... | | 1991 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Jarrett Leplin, Novel Defense of Scientific Realism | Many historians of science may hope that philosophers will one day stop arguing about scientific realism and come and join in the hard business of achieving a historically informed understanding of science. But Jarrett Leplin's book guarantees that there will be more arguing about scientific realism... | Concept of novelty; Uniqueness; Logical relations | 1999 |
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Francis, Leslie | Knitting | My grandmother had long silver hair, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure. She wore the silver hair in a bun during the day and in a braid at night. I remember her sitting in the day parlor of my grandparents? southern Illinois bungalow, telling the same stories of their small town, ove... | | 2008 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Can scientific development and children's cognitive development be the same process? | Assesses the value of the developmental psychology of science proposed by Alison Gopnik and Andrew Meltzoff to the understanding of scientific development. Role of distinctions between ontogeny and phylogeny when appealing to biology for theoretical support; Conception of cognition as a set of verid... | Cognition; Developmental psychology; Ontogeny; Phylogeny; Science, Philosophy | 2001-09-11 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Truth deserves to be believed | Science seems generally to aim at truth. And governmental support of science is often premised on the instrumental value of truth in service of advancing our practical objectives, both as individuals and as communities, large and small. While there is some political expediency to this view, it is no... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Philosophical genesis of ideal types | The conception of ideal types as a method of the synthesis of sociohistorical phenomena was introduced by the German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1883-1911). However, this fact has been largely ignored in the literature. That he was the originator of this notion is, I suppose, of only historical in... | Philosophy;; Social Sciences | 1980 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Disunity of science (book review) | Review of the book `The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power,' edited by Peter Galison and David J. Stump | Books; Science; Disunity | 2001-09-24 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Review of angels of death: exploring the euthanasia underground | Roger Magnusson's angels of death describes the practice of extralegal assisted suicide and euthanasia by physicians, nurses, technicians, and other health care professionals who provide care to seriously ill patients and patients with AIDS who are dying. It is based on a snowball sample of 49 detai... | | 2003 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | On planning: toward a natural history of goal attainment | The goal of the essay is to articulate some beginnings for an empirical approach to the study of agency, in the firm conviction that agency is subject to scientific scrutiny, and is not to be abandoned to high-brow aprioristic Philosophy;. Drawing on insights from decision analysis, game theory, gen... | | 2008 |
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Hanna, Patricia Lee | Education, society, and human nature: an introduction to the Philosophy; of education (book review) | A review of the book "Education, society, and human nature: an introduction to the Philosophy; of education" by Anthony O'Hear. | Books, reviews; Education, Philosophy | 1982-07 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Marxism and philosophy in the twentieth century: a defense of vulgar Marxism (Book Review) | A review of "Marxism and philosophy in the twentieth century: a defense of vulgar Marxism" by Richard Hudelson. | Books; Marxism; Philosophy | 1991-10 |
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Goldberg, Robert A. | Esther Rosenblatt Landa: her price is far above rubies | Dr. Robert Goldberg has been a professor of history at the University of Utah since 1980. His teaching and research field is twentieth-century America with a focus on the American West, social, and political history. He has won five teaching awards and is the author of four books: Hooded Empire: Th... | Landa, Esther Rosenblatt | 1996 |
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Tuttle, Howard N. | Ortega's vitalism in relation to aspects of Lebensphilosophie and phenomenology | Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) claimed that since 1914, with the publication of his Meditations on Quixote, the basis of all his thinking had been the phenomenon of human life.' Both Ortega and his commentators have noted the similarity of his idea of human life to certain aspects of recent German... | | 1981 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Michael Gorman, Simulating Science | Michael Gorman has several projects in Simulating Science. First, he presents a reaearch program of psychological experiments on scientific reasoning. Second, he defends an interdisciplinary approach to science studies. Third, he critically examines recent computer models of scientific theorizing an... | Psychological experiments; Reasoning in psychology; Psychological literature | 1994 |
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Crowe, Benjamin D. | Heidegger and the prospect of a phenomenology of prayer | An attempt to contribute to a "phenomenology of prayer" ought to begin with the recognition that the word "phenomenology" means many different things to many different people. Moreover, it must be recognized that none of these usages has any obvious claim to being the normative one. Given these ines... | | 2005 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Review of Kim Sterelny, Evolution of Agency and Other Essays | Reviews the book 'The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays,' by Kim Sterelny. | Books; Agent; Non-fiction | 2002-09 |
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Gehl, Robert W. | The politics of cultural programming in public spaces | In our digital media saturated lives, where we spend increasing amounts of time in "virtual worlds" such as Second Life or online on blogs and video sites, it can be easy to forget about public spaces. Unlike much content in virtual worlds, cultural programs in public spaces are events that are live... | | 2007 |
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Crowe, Benjamin D. | Religion and the 'sensitive branch' of human nature | Abstract: While the theses that (1) human beings are primarily passional creatures and that (2) religion is fundamentally a product of our sensible nature are both closely linked to David Hume, Hume's contemporary Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782), also defended them and explored their implication... | | 2010-06 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Molecule-for-molecule duplication | Is a molecule-for-molecule duplicate D of some entity always a perfect duplicate of it? And in particular: is D a being with consciousness if its original is? These questions summarize a certain diagnostic tool used by metaphysicians, and prominently used in service of a form of dualism that is supp... | Molecule-for-molecule duplication; MFM | 2008 |