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- Keyword:
- Process Philosophy, Affect Theory, Alfred North Whitehead, Eric Wubbels, Gilles Deleuze, and Marcel Proust
- Subject:
- Affect (Psychology), Philosophy, and Musicology
- Creator:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Owner:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/12/2023
- Date Modified:
- 12/12/2023
- Resource Type:
- Part of Book
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- Keyword:
- Adriana Cavaero, Voice, Philosophy, Ontology, and Ethics
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Ontology
- Creator:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Owner:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/12/2023
- Date Modified:
- 12/12/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015
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- Keyword:
- Henri Bergson, Merle Marsicano, Morton Feldman, and Experimental Music
- Subject:
- Musicology, Philosophy, and Dance
- Creator:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Owner:
- Ryan Dohoney
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/12/2023
- Date Modified:
- 12/12/2023
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Article
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- This dissertation explores critiques of mass education alongside the rise of the research university as they appear in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin. More specifically, it traces the development of a theory of (un)learning that inserts distance into the pedagogical relation to produce a discretized educational...
- Keyword:
- Bildung, Nietzsche, Education, Benjamin, Youth Movement, and Pathos of Distance
- Subject:
- German literature and Philosophy
- Creator:
- Laport, Theodore F.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013555 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16750
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- This thesis investigates Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s undermining of soteriological poetics in his comedy Der Schwierige (“The Difficult Man”), with a focus on the complex interplay between meta-language (e.g., stage directions) and dramatic dialogue, normative and contingent speech (i.e., ‘ironic speech’). By challenging what I term the “soteriological agenda” of comedy...
- Keyword:
- Subversion, Critical Theory, Ironie, Geschwätz, Schweigen, and Gemeinschaft unendliche
- Subject:
- German literature, Philosophy, and Theater
- Creator:
- Feliciano, Hector Joniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- de
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1012508 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16724
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- This dissertation is an in-depth exploration of Clarke Distributions (for 10), an original musical composition based on the use of text to establish interrelational listening and performance patterns between performers, in place of any fixed musical material. Inspired by research into improvisation, cognition, aesthetics, and linguistics, these patterns manifest as...
- Keyword:
- music composition, music philosophy, experimental music, text scores, and indeterminacy
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Music, and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Zucker, Benjamin Bartels
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16469 and etdadmin_upload_977600
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stewart, Lindsey
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2
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- This dissertation reinterprets Michel Foucault’s theory of sovereignty to offer an explanation and critique of repressive state violence. Commentators typically locate Foucault’s contribution to political thought in concepts of power that are irreducible to sovereignty or the state. In contrast, I draw on Foucault’s early genealogies of power to argue...
- Keyword:
- Violence, Foucault, Critique, Sovereignty, and Genealogy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Lichtenstein, Eli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_934011 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16293
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to...
- Keyword:
- analysis, emotionality, philosophy, Hegel, emotion, and mediation
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Pahl, Katrin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2784-5, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6567-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2785-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Time and the Shared World challenges the common view that Heidegger offers few resources for understanding humanity’s social nature. The book demonstrates that Heidegger’s reformulation of traditional notions of subjectivity has wide-ranging implications for understanding the nature of human relationships. Irene McMullin shows that, contrary to entrenched critiques, Heidegger’s characterization...
- Keyword:
- phenomenology, Sartre, embodiment, Husserl, Heidegger, existentialism, ontology, and Scheler
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McMullin, Irene
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2902-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2903-0, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6656-1
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- A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, geoculture, essays, and globalization
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moraru, Christian and Amy J. Elias
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3073-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3075-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3074-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
- Keyword:
- individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Rabinoff, Eve
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, Aristotle, literary criticism, essays, invention, and Montaigne
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hartle, Ann
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6733-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2932-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2965-8
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- Description:
- Contemporary decolonial criticism and critical phenomenological thought may be characterized as proceeding from a disenchantment with the philosophical aspiration towards universality. The overarching argument put forward in this dissertation is that there is, to the contrary, an intimate and even necessary connection between the decolonization of philosophy and the affirmation...
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- De Schryver, Carmen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16144 and etdadmin_upload_915763
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- Description:
- Aristotle says that true assertions in practical philosophy are true “for the most part.” I argue an assertion is true “for the most part” if it refers to the hypothetical realization of a substance’s essential capacities under some set of impediments. The removal of impediments to the full realization of...
- Keyword:
- Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Nussbaum, Aristotle, Marx, and Bookchin
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hull, Andrew Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929335 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16267
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- Description:
- My dissertation defends a hermeneutic conception of ideology and its critique that situates both in the world-disclosing function of language.I argue that we must conceive of ideologies as world-disclosing embodied interpretive schemas insofar as they guide our cognitive, affective, and conative access to reality by providing the background knowledge, meanings,...
- Keyword:
- Linguistic world-disclosure, Heidegger, Epistemic injustice, Immanent critique, Hermeneutics, and Ideology critique
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Schwarz, Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16154 and etdadmin_upload_916701
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- Description:
- The Middle Included is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word logos in Aristotelian philosophy. Logos means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of logos... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- mind & body, ancient & classical, history & surveys, language, Aristotle, and philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Aygün, Ömer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3401-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3400-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3402-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth‑century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose,...
- Keyword:
- dance, music, existentialism, philosophy, visual arts, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ziolkowski, Eric
- Contributor:
- Jothen, Peder, Lorentzen, Jamie A., Linnet, Ragni, Fiskvik, Anne Margrete, Peterson, Nils Holger, Garff, Joakim, Pattison, George, Mooney, Edward F., Barnett, Christopher B. , Robinson, Marcia C., Pickett, Howard, Rovira, James, Boven, Martijn, and Green, Ronald M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3597-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3596-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3598-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Kierkegaard’s psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich—Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine—and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across...
- Keyword:
- psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard, and pscyhologist
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McCarthy, Vincent A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3181-1, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3131-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3132-3
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, language game, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and logic
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Golub, Spencer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2992-4 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6779-7
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- Description:
- In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. To the contrary, she agrees, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. While they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, and Levinas
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Achtenberg, Deborah
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6782-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3563-5, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2994-8
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a causal theory of the relevant alternatives in a situation and applies this theory to the semantics and epistemology of conditionals, the theory of knowledge, and the epistemology of stereotyping. The first chapter presents the theory of causal models and causal alternatives. The second chapter applies this...
- Keyword:
- Causal Modeling, Counterfactuals, and Knowledge
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vandenburgh, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903305 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16094
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- Description:
- Does race matter globally, beyond national and regional contexts? If yes, then how exactly? I argue that race matters globally and develop an account for understanding that significance. I call the account “global racial capitalism.” In chapter 1, I offer background to motivate and defend the thesis that race matters...
- Keyword:
- Race, Global Justice, Racism, Justice, Capitalism, and Racial Capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Political science
- Creator:
- Alnusf, Marzouq
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_897062 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16000
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses two distinct but related questions. First, how should we conceive of social freedom? Second, given this conception, what ideals would best satisfy the demands we are under as citizens and moral agents? In answer to the first question, I defend a novel account of social freedom, where...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Ethics, Equality, Republican, Liberal, and Freedom
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Kissel, Joshua Paul
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15839 and etdadmin_upload_858535
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- Description:
- This dissertation reorients political theory to the concepts of use and utility for a more critical and emancipatory perspective on contemporary communal life. The reorientation entails a recovery of Aristotle’s and Marx’s overlapping approaches to use, whose contemporary reception indexes the surprising alignment of critical political theory with economics. That...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Critical Theory, Aristotle, Marx, Indeterminacy, and Utility
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Tristan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15868 and etdadmin_upload_863374
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- Description:
- To be tempted is to be conflicted, but the conflict is not one of oscillation between two good options. Rather, it is normally easy to act on temptation and difficult to act against it. But this is puzzling, because unless temptation is a force that acts on us, it’s not...
- Keyword:
- inclination, temptation, philosophy of action , motivation, moral psychology, and desire
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Creator:
- Bruxvoort, Abigail
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_854362 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15809
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
- Keyword:
- Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
- Subject:
- History, Philosophy, and Political science
- Creator:
- Day, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265
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- Description:
- Dass Gewalt ein intrinsisches Element moderner westlicher Gesellschaften ist, wurde von vielen politischen Theoretiker*innen dargelegt. Was aber ist Gewalt? Ist die Verhinderung von Lebenschancen Gewalt? Ist Gewalt eine Struktur? Gibt es eine Gewalt der Normen? Wie verhalten sich Politik und Gewalt? Kann der Staat Schutz vor Gewalt bieten? Wie unterscheidet...
- Keyword:
- Politische Theorie and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie Queer Theorie und LGBTQI Theorien
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ludwig, Gundula
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/05/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/05/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- Michel Foucaults erster Band seines Projekts einer »Geschichte der Sexualität« ist längt ein moderner Klassiker der politischen Theorie/Philosophie. Sein seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre entwickelter Machtbegriff wird darin systematisch expliziert und zugleich in Auseinanderset-zung mit dem historischen Material seiner Untersuchungen weiterentwickelt. Mithilfe dieser methodologischen Begriffsentwicklung kommt Foucault dann zu seinen...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie and Biopolitik
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vogelmann, Frieder
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2017
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies and Ästhetik und Kunstphilosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Martinez Mateo, Marina
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/03/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/03/2021
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- Description:
- The aim of this course is to introduce some central methods and motifs in critical theory. In this seminar, the term “critical theory” is not limited to particular traditions or philosophical schools (like the “Frankfurt School”) but has a broader meaning: a theory is to be called ‘critical’ if it...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie and Frankfurter Schule
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Loick, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- Seit einigen Jahrzehnten – und heute mit neuer Vehemenz – gibt es von feministischer, postkolonialer und rassismustheoretischer Seite Interventionen in den philosophischen Kanon und das Selbstverständnis der Philosophie. Nicht nur stecken die klassischen philosophischen Texte voller misogyner und rassistischer Anekdoten und Andeutungen, sondern auch die scheinbar neutralen Begriffe und Themen,...
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Decolonizing Critical Theory, and Ethik
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Martinez Mateo, Marina
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- "Commodification", "propertization", and "objectification" are all concepts which serve both as descriptive tools for certain tendencies in the historical development of modern, capitalistic social relations and as critical diagnoses of their particular distortions or pathologies. In the seminar, we will first try to highlight the analytic specificity of each phenomenon...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Frankfurter Schule, Grundlagen und Vorläufer*innen der kritischen Theorie, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- von Redecker, Eva
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
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- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Keyword:
- Kritische politische Theorien / Radikale Demokratie and Migration und Diaspora
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies and Kritische Sozialtheorien
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- Die Frage, wie etwas wirklich ist, also ob Wissen und Diskurse Wirklichkeit abbilden oder diese Wirklichkeit performativ hervorbringen, ist eine der zentralen Fragen, wenn es gilt, das differenzierende Gewicht der Kategorien »Geschlecht« und »Rasse« zu bemessen. In diesem Seminar wollen wir zentrale Texte der besonders in den 1990 und frühen...
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Critical Race Studies, Decolonizing Critical Theory, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hark, Sabine
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Description:
- »Vernunftkritik« klingt heute altmodisch, nach einer abgelegten Debatte aus den 1980er Jahren. Doch sind die Fragen, die in der eher unglückselig verlaufenden sogenannten »Foucault-Habermas-Debatte« gestellt wurden, nie wirklich abgegolten worden. Im Seminar werden wir daher die Rolle von Vernunftkritik in der ganzen Bandbreite der Kritischen Theorie – von Theodor W....
- Keyword:
- Epistemologie, Frankfurter Schule, Poststrukturalismus, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vogelmann, Frieder
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2019
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies, Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Poststrukturalismus, Queer Theorie und LGBTQI Theorien, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jeromin, Gesche
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- German
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Description:
- “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
- Keyword:
- Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
- Creator:
- Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923
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- Description:
- Having an emotion involves having an evaluative point of view on one’s circumstances. For example, there is a sense in which being angry involves taking oneself to have been wronged, and fear seems to paint the scene as one of danger. A significant debate in contemporary philosophy of mind concerns...
- Keyword:
- Intentionality, Consciousness, Emotions, Representation, Perceptualism, and Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Thomson, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15485 and etdadmin_upload_797662
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- Description:
- The philosophical literature on modals is dominated by the following paradigm: modals are modeled as quantifiers over sets of possible worlds. The diversity of modal “fla- vors” (e.g., epistemic, deontic, teleological interpretations of modals) is accommodated within the paradigm by logical mechanisms that allow extralinguistic factors to restrict the quantificational...
- Keyword:
- epistemic modality, deontic modality, context-sensitity, modals, aspect, and semantics
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Skibra, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15323 and etdadmin_upload_770188
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- Description:
- Imagine someone who was raised to hold a number of irrational and objectionable beliefs. There seems to be an important sense in which they lack control over these beliefs, and so we might think they are not responsible for them. But many of our beliefs are like this: they are...
- Keyword:
- Norms, Answerability, Epistemic, Responsibility, Doxastic, and Belief
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Osborne, Robert Carry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_779868 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15379
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- Description:
- This dissertation offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s notion of teaching (didaskalia). In Part I, I defend my claim that we can find in Aristotle’s works a conception of teaching, which is a crucial yet under-explored part of his theory of education. In Part II, I use this interpretation to...
- Keyword:
- Teaching, Education, Aristotle, and Moral Education
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Cochran, William Bruce McBean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15114 and etdadmin_upload_743644
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original...
- Keyword:
- phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- de Warren, Nicolas
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4280-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4279-4, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4278-7
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that...
- Keyword:
- metaphysics, philosophy, Aristotle, physics, rereading ancient philosophy, and ancient philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Sentesy, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4190-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4188-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4189-6
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- Description:
- Plato's readers struggle to reconcile his combination of conceptual argument and mimetic fiction. In this dissertation, I suggest we can understand this discomfiting combination if we understand the dialogues as "the mimesis of people in speech." Because speech is both referential and performative, speech is a hybrid of thought and...
- Keyword:
- Bakhtin, tragedy, poetics, Aristotle, and Platonic dialogue
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Literature
- Creator:
- Curry, Ruth Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640197 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14536
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- Description:
- The concept of epistemic infringement marks a novel entry into the social epistemology literature concerning epistemic misconduct. Epistemic infringement constitutively involves the systematic contravention of social and epistemic norms, particularly in a manner that serves to erode epistemic agency. This dissertation identifies epistemic infringement as a useful theoretical tool for...
- Keyword:
- Predatory Grooming, Gaslighting, Epistemic Agency, Collective Epistemology, Epistemic Misconduct, and Propaganda
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Leydon-Hardy, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14687 and etdadmin_upload_663369
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- Description:
- In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
- Keyword:
- experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287
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- Description:
- If I mistakenly hear you ask for directions to the “shore” when instead you asked for directions to the “store,” the miscommunication is probably an innocent mistake. If, on the other hand, a man misunderstands a woman’s refusal of his sexual advances as consent, the mistake seems like it might...
- Keyword:
- Context, Normativity, and Philosophy of Language
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ellefson, Gretchen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14796 and etdadmin_upload_684502
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
- Keyword:
- feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- LoTempio, Christina Frances
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733
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- Description:
- This dissertation is about three of Cicero’s notable projects in ideal theory in his middle and late periods (between roughly 54-43 BCE). It comes during a resurgence in interest in Cicero’s contributions as a philosopher. First, I discuss Cicero’s philosophical account of vera gloria (true glory) in contradistinction to mere...
- Keyword:
- Cicero, Ideal theory, Plato, Glory, Retrospective, and Utopia
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Classical studies
- Creator:
- Dutmer, Evan Robert William
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14843
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- Description:
- This dissertation has two main aims. The first is to show that relying on the testimony of others is not as “epistemically special” as many epistemologists have made it out to be. More specifically, I argue that relying on someone’s testimony neither provides us with a non-evidential, epistemic reason to...
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Epistemology
- Creator:
- Leonard, Nick
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14632 and etdadmin_upload_662248
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- Description:
- My dissertation draws on Heideggers interpretation of Kant to argue that Kant overestimates the role that causality plays in structuring our experience. Heidegger suggests that Kants analysis of experience mistakenly universalizes a fraction of our experience: the experience of material things. I defend the merits of this suggestion by offering...
- Keyword:
- Causality, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Imagination, Transcendental Philosophy, and Kant
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Morganna Lambeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Artificial agent development is motivated by the dream of making machines perform undesirable labor instead of humans. To replace humans in undesirable labor, it follows that the machines should not engage in actions that will lead to devastating consequences. They should be “moral” artificial agents. In my paper, I deal...
- Keyword:
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jun Kyung You
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 3/21/2019
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I pose a new puzzle about desire, one grounded in three plausible but jointly inconsistent propositions. According to the standard view in metaphysics, (1) all desires are dispositional states. Epistemologists, though, think that (2) we have privileged access to some of our desires. But (3) it is...
- Keyword:
- Self-Knowledge, Attitudes, Desire, Phenomenology, Introspection, and Dispositional States
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Jared Thomas Peterson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three self-standing essays, each of which focuses on a dialogue from Plato's later period. Together, they touch on some of his well-known views in metaphysics and moral psychology, from his theory of forms to his theory of the tripartite soul. But the topic that unifies these...
- Keyword:
- dialectic, Plato, and philosophical method
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Tushar Irani
- Owner:
- Jason Christ Chandra
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- As Wilfrid Sellars put it, one of the principal aims of philosophy "is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term." In this I think Sellars is right: the discipline is charged with taking a "synoptic...
- Keyword:
- Idealism, Heidegger, Realism, Common Sense, and Pluralism
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Howard Michael Kaplan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this thesis, I argue that life and soul as analyzed in De Anima are examples of what Aristotle calls a "pros hen legomena" structure, a structure in which various things are said to be living in relation to one thing, which is the central meaning of life. The various...
- Keyword:
- God, Homonymy, Soul, Aristotle, and De Anima
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Eli Charles Diamond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In recent years, moral and political philosophers have begun to focus upon the impact of pluralism on conceptions of civic obligation, legitimacy, and justice. According to the political liberalism of John Rawls, citizens should justify their political views in terms of values that are neutral among divergent worldviews; they should...
- Keyword:
- discourse theory, pluralism, toleration, political liberalism, deliberation, and public reason
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Melissa Kristine Yates
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roy Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory assesses contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic movement, and the existentialist-phenomenologist movement. In refuting these trends, Henry B. Veatch argues that moral and ethical...
- Keyword:
- Ethics and Moral Philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Henry B. Veatch
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The teachings of Epicurus, whose philosophy focused on the pursuit of happiness, attracted adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. The Philosophy of Epicurus contains a long introductory essay on the philosophy of Epicurus and a selection of primary texts. In inGeorge K. Strodach translates...
- Keyword:
- Ancient and Classical
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Epicurus and George K. Strodach
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1963
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Science and the Humanitiescontains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C. P. Snow.
- Keyword:
- General
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moody E. Prior
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Anatomy of Disillusion is an introduction to Heideggers phenomenology that focuses on Heideggers notion of truth. Unlike many of his contemporaries, W.B. Macomber presents Heidegger as a systematic thinker, whose phenomenology is inextricably bound up with his ontology and epistemology.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- W. B. Macomber
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1967
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- InReason and Evidence in Husserls PhenomenologyDavid Michael Kleinberg-Levinexamines Husserls concept of necessary, a priori, and absolutely certain indubitable evidence, which he terms apodictic, and his related concept of complete evidence, which he terms adequate. To do so it explicates some of the more general relevant features of phenomenology as a...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- The Epistemology of G. E. Mooreis an examination of the philosophy of G. E. Moore, one of the foremost Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of the twentieth century.This book, together with Reinhardt Grossmanns Reflections on Freges Philosophy and Moltke Grams Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori, seeks to redress an imbalance in...
- Keyword:
- Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- E. D. Klemke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori is a close studyof Kants conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram aimsto show in what sense Kant is offering a theory of metaphysical propositions about objects in general. Gram presents a criticism of the tendency to focus on Kants theory of dialectic...
- Keyword:
- Metaphysics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moltke S. Gram
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 1968
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Hegel's lectures on aesthetics bear witness not to the cessation of artistic activity as such, but to a progressive decline in its significance for human self-understanding. Still, the nature and extent of this decline remain contested. Is the creation of new art a vestigial activity in a world governed by...
- Keyword:
- Philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Benjamin R Rutter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 05-15-2007
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We often criticize others for beliefs that are dogmatic, biased, or wishful. What, exactly, are we criticizing? Many epistemologists accept that such believing is problematic because it is not appropriately responsive to epistemic reasons. But why care about that? Or, to put it another way, why are epistemic norms authoritative...
- Keyword:
- Practical Reason, Agency, Epistemic Normativity, Normativity, and Epistemology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- A. K. Flowerree
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Pluralizing Critical Theory
Collection- Description:
- In cooperation with the Center for Humanities and Social Change Berlin and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, we invite all scholars to contribute to this collection, seminar plans and syllabi which serve to pluralize teaching in the field of critical theory/s. The list of categories according to which...
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Critical Theory, and German
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English and German
- Date Created:
- 2021
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