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McMaster University
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Laderoute, Karl W.
Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge.
Degree: PhD, 2013, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13327 
► This thesis examines Nietzsche’s epistemology. Its main interlocutors are two previously existing attempts to explain Nietzsche’s views on truth and knowledge. One of these…
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▼ This thesis examines Nietzsche’s epistemology. Its main interlocutors are two previously existing attempts to explain Nietzsche’s views on truth and knowledge. One of these interpretationsI dub the ‘postmodern’ reading, held most notably by Sarah Kofman, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. The other is the ‘modern’ reading of Walter Kaufmann, John T. Wilcox, and most prominently Maudemarie Clark and Brian Leiter. Each of these readings emphasizes one aspect of Nietzsche’s thought. The postmodern reading focuses on Nietzsche’s more radical pronouncements, and promotes a type of scepticism and subjectivism. The modern reading, by contrast, emphasizes Nietzsche’s more traditional claims, and argues that he lauds science and preserves our ability to attain truth. However, neither reading is entirely satisfactory. In what follows, I first critically examine both of these readings in detail. The first chapter highlights the major points of these two readings, as well as some issues in each. After detailing these positions, I then turn to a largely chronological reading of Nietzsche’s works to establish an alternative account of his epistemology. Chapters two through four provide readings of Nietzsche’s epistemological claims in his major works from Human, All Too Human (1878) until Twilight of the Idols(1888). I combine this chronological reading withother informative aspects of Nietzsche’s thought. These other aspects include Nietzsche’s reading of Roger Boscovich (1711-1787) and his adoption of force-point ontology, his ontological commitment to nominalism, his views on evolution and its role in epistemology, and his similarities with Ernst Mach (1838-1916). Finally, I also connect Nietzsche’s epistemology with his critiques of morality and religion. I show that my reading is buttressed by the deep congruity between Nietzsche’s epistemology and his critiques, while the modern and postmodern readings are both unable to account for this congruity in a satisfactory manner.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Advisors/Committee Members: Allen, Barry, Sciaraffa, Stefan, Sassen, Brigitte, Philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: Nietzsche; History of Philosophy; Epistemology; Ethics; History of Philosophy; History of Philosophy
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Laderoute, K. W. (2013). Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13327
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Laderoute, Karl W. “Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13327.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Laderoute, Karl W. “Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge.” 2013. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Laderoute KW. Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2013. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13327.
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Laderoute KW. Between Modern and Postmodern: Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13327
University of New Mexico
2.
Signoracci, Gino.
Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism.
Degree: Philosophy, 2017, University of New Mexico
URL: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/24
► This study examines nineteenth-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s appraisal of philosophies of India. In Hegel’s time, classical Indian texts such as the Vedas, Upaniṣads,…
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▼ This study examines nineteenth-century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s appraisal of philosophies of India. In Hegel’s time, classical Indian texts such as the Vedas,
Upaniṣads, and
Bhagavadgītā had only recently been translated into European languages, and were generating tremendous controversy. Hegel carved out a unique and hugely influential position by devotedly reading fledgling translations of source texts alongside European interpretations, attempting to comprehend the philosophical significance of Indian thought. Hegel’s legacy proved deeply problematic, however, both because his views were not entirely consistent or unambiguous over time, and because his evident relegation of Indian ideas to pre- or unphilosophical status became the dominant practice among Europeans and Westerners through the twentieth century even while Hegel’s star, relatively speaking, went into a period of decline. While Hegel spent much more time and space discussing Indian
philosophy in detail than did many philosophers who succeeded him in Europe and elsewhere, today his
philosophy is too-frequently either reflexively labeled Eurocentric to legitimize ignoring or summarily dismissing it, or studied and written about exclusively in the context of “Western” ideas as if India were of little or no serious concern to him.
This work first situates Hegel’s interest in and attention to Indian ideas in the context of the philosophical trends of Spinozism and Romanticism that he sought to navigate from his earliest forays into theology and
philosophy. It then interrogates his analyses and judgments of Indian philosophical systems over the course of his career, revealing the increasing depth and innovation in his engagement with India over time while also critiquing his readings of Indian texts and his characterizations of Indian thought and culture. In doing so, it endeavors to supply the complete account of Hegel’s approach to Indian
philosophy in its full complexity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Adrian Johnston, John Taber, Brent Kalar, Iain Thomson.
Subjects/Keywords: Hegel; Indian Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Comparative Philosophy; Eurocentrism; Comparative Philosophy; Continental Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Philosophy
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Signoracci, G. (2017). Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/24
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Signoracci, Gino. “Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/24.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Signoracci, Gino. “Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism.” 2017. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Signoracci G. Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/24.
Council of Science Editors:
Signoracci G. Hegel on Indian Philosophy: Spinozism, Romanticism, Eurocentrism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/24
Indiana University
3.
Keele, Lisa.
Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century.
Degree: 2008, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319910
► The concept of continuity recurs in many different philosophical contexts. Aristotle and Kant believed it to be an essential feature of space and time.…
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▼ The concept of continuity recurs in many different philosophical contexts. Aristotle and Kant believed it to be an essential feature of space and time. Medieval scholars believed it to be the key to unlock the mysteries of motion and change. Bertrand Russell believed that, while everyone talked about continuity, no one quite knew what it was they were talking about. The subject of this dissertation is mathematical continuity in particular. By mathematical continuity, I mean continuity as it applies to or is found in mathematical systems such as sets of numbers. Mathematical continuity is a relatively recent concern. The need to address whether numerical systems are continuous came about with the creation of calculus, specifically, of limit theory. The dissertation focuses on four mathematicians/philosophers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were concerned with mathematical continuity. Richard Dedekind and Georg Cantor, in the 1870s and 1880s, developed the concept of a 'point-continuum;' i.e. a continuum composed of discrete entities, such as a collection of numbers arranged on a straight line. Paul du Bois-Reymond, in 1882, and Charles S. Peirce, especially in his post-1906 essays, criticized this compositional point-continuum. Du Bois-Reymond believed infinitesimals were necessary for continuity; Peirce believed no compositional continuum could ever satisfy our intuitions. My ultimate conclusions are that (1) the concept of the mathematical point-continuum does suffer from philosophical difficulties, (2) the concept of the infinitesimal is neither as philosophically problematic nor as mathematically useless as is often charged, but that (3) infinitesimals by themselves cannot solve the problems raised by a compositional view of continuity.
Subjects/Keywords: Mathematics; Philosophy; History of Science
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Keele, L. (2008). Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319910
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Keele, Lisa. “Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century.” 2008. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319910.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Keele, Lisa. “Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century.” 2008. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Keele L. Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2008. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319910.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Keele L. Theories of continuity and infinitesimals| Four philosophers of the nineteenth century. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2008. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319910
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Rice University
4.
Ying, Chinghui Jianying.
Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation.
Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2010, Rice University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61982
► Responding to onto-theology, Eliot Deutsch proposes the idea of "knowing religiously," stating "religious knowledge doesn't so much have a distinctive or special object as it…
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▼ Responding to onto-theology, Eliot Deutsch proposes the idea of "knowing religiously," stating "religious knowledge doesn't so much have a distinctive or special object as it has a unique style or manner...a reverential knowing that is centered in reality." Based on the teachings of Chinese Chan and Tibetan Dzogchen, this dissertation builds upon Deutsch's premise to investigate the mechanism of 'im-mediate' knowing, or the logic of immediacy, in contemplation and philosophical expression.
In particular, this dissertation shows that the meaning of one's being lies in spontaneous self-or-open awareness rather than in a highest being or transcendental divinity. Similar to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "question-knowing," this open awareness has "an original manner of aiming at something," for it inspires one to embrace all but reify none. With this non-reifying-yet-all-embracing awareness, one's relationship with Being is embodied in a nondual dynamic, in which one unfolds being and knowing in wholeness. This holistic relationship is the insight derived from the logic of immediacy. It also provides an alternative paradigm to explore the nature of religious knowledge.
This dissertation also shows that the logic of immediacy does not reject nominal intermediaries. Rather, it employs them in specific ways so that immediacy is realized without the dualistic bondages and conceptual limitations implied by methods of mediation. As this understanding is seen via a contemplative perspective, it offers an alternative to the sociopolitical perspective in extending our reach beyond the sectarian and the historical so that we can better appreciate the nuances of the teachings and the values of religious developments.
Since the complex set of theses regarding the experience and thematization of immediacy emerges over time and in conversation with thinkers from different quarters of the religious-philosophizing spectrum, the narration of this dissertation starts with an origin narrative and an exemplar of the logic of immediacy in Chan Following the footsteps of Chan monks westwards, it delves into the development and teachings of sTon mun, a tradition of encounter between Chinese Chan monks and Tibetan tantric practitioners. It concludes this tracing of the logic of immediacy with the early teachings of Dzogchen which emphasizes spontaneity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Klein, Anne C. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; Philosophy of Religion
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Ying, C. J. (2010). Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61982
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ying, Chinghui Jianying. “Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61982.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ying, Chinghui Jianying. “Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation.” 2010. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Ying CJ. Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2010. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61982.
Council of Science Editors:
Ying CJ. Being and knowing in wholeness Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the logic of immediacy in contemplation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61982
University of Guelph
5.
Jordan-Stevens, Christopher.
Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
.
Degree: 2018, University of Guelph
URL: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/14109
► Kant grounds the possibility of a priori knowledge by reversing the traditional model of cognition. For him, synthetic a priori knowledge is possible only if…
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▼ Kant grounds the possibility of a priori knowledge by reversing the traditional model of cognition. For him, synthetic a priori knowledge is possible only if objects conform to cognition; he “does not see how we can know anything a priori [about objects]” except if “objects conform to cognition”. Kant’s idealism (at least ‘in a nutshell’) consists in this tracing of objectivity back to functions that are, in fact, subjective. This idealism comes at a cost, however. For if we assume that objects conform to our cognition, then we are faced with the ‘thing in itself’, which is the unknowable, wahres Korrelatum (true correlate) of what appears. All kinds of metaphysically heavy problems follow from the introduction of this elusive, utterly transcendent entity. In my thesis, I hope to offer an alternative model to Kant’s own, one that is able to ground the possibility of a priori knowledge without having to resort to an idealism that results in the ‘thing in itself’. Instead of arguing that objects conform to cognition, I will claim that, at the formal level, cognition and its object are the same. They are not in need of reconciliation at all. In one way, I agree with Kant: we know this form of nature a priori because it resides in the mind. Contra Kant, however, I maintain that the objectivity of these forms – i.e. their validity with respect the empirical world – does not result from ‘subjectification’, or the constitution of objects by mind. I argue that his line of thinking develops not into rationalism or into an absolute idealism, but into a different conception of nature altogether.
Advisors/Committee Members: Houle, Karen (advisor), Mitscherling, Jeff (advisor), Novak, Joseph (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Kant;
Metaphysics;
History of Philosophy
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Jordan-Stevens, C. (2018). Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
. (Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/14109
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jordan-Stevens, Christopher. “Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
.” 2018. Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/14109.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jordan-Stevens, Christopher. “Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
.” 2018. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Jordan-Stevens C. Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2018. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/14109.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Jordan-Stevens C. Resolving a Kantian Problem: Beyond Reconciliation to Formal Unity
. [Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2018. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/14109
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Harvard University
6.
Kaminsky, Gregory.
Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola.
Degree: 2017, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736780
► This thesis investigates the syncretic ideas of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (“Pico” hereafter) (1463-1494) and his angelology in order to interpret the…
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▼ This thesis investigates the syncretic ideas of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (“Pico” hereafter) (1463-1494) and his angelology in order to interpret the process of spiritual ascension that he prescribed in his Oration (1486). This process drew from philosophic and western wisdom traditions but primarily involved the emulation of angels. Central to Pico’s spiritual system was a philosophical analysis of specific characteristics of angelic orders and their hierarchy. Pico developed his own unique arrangement of traditional Jewish and Christian angelic orders to support his anthropology. He argued that humans have the potential to not only walk among the angels, but, in fact, fully to unite with the divine without human mediation even before death. Inextricably intertwined with Pico’s angelology was the biblical story of Jacob’s ladder and its symbolism, as well as the Jewish Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and the ancient tradition from which it originated. Pico’s conception of the Cherubim as the angelic order that could, by example, guide humanity to an individual gnosis, or even theosis (union with, or metamorphosis from human to divine), demonstrated his syncretic thinking, combining elements of both tradition and originality.
Renaissance studies; philosophy; angelology; syncretism; religion; Kabbalah; Cabala; angels;
Advisors/Committee Members: Patton, Kimberley C., Shoemaker, Stephen P..
Subjects/Keywords: Religion, Philosophy of; History, Medieval; Philosophy
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Kaminsky, G. (2017). Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. (Thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736780
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kaminsky, Gregory. “Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola.” 2017. Thesis, Harvard University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736780.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kaminsky, Gregory. “Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola.” 2017. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Kaminsky G. Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. [Internet] [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2017. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736780.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kaminsky G. Celestial Intelligences: The Syncretic Angelology of Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2017. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37736780
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Indiana University
7.
Inglehart, Ashley J.
Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries.
Degree: 2017, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268267
► This dissertation looks at the life and work of famed English Aristocrat Robert Boyle. Specifically, I examine his treatment of generation and its organizing…
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▼ This dissertation looks at the life and work of famed English Aristocrat Robert Boyle. Specifically, I examine his treatment of generation and its organizing forces—seminal principles, plastic powers, and petrifick spirits. Generation, I argue, provided the context by which Boyle was introduced both to chymistry and anatomy. The problem of generation would remain at the forefront of his concerns as he experimented in chymistry, pneumatics, minerals, anatomy, transmutation, and plants. Looking at the various communities in Europe with which Robert Boyle interacted, I show that the mechanical philosophy was actually quite diverse. As one of the most influential scholars of his time, Boyle presents a distinctly mechanical account of generation that would have a profound effect upon Western science.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Science history
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Inglehart, A. J. (2017). Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268267
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Inglehart, Ashley J. “Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries.” 2017. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268267.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Inglehart, Ashley J. “Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries.” 2017. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Inglehart AJ. Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268267.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Inglehart AJ. Seminal Ideas| The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10268267
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
8.
Canning, Gregory.
The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2011, The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9710
► Degree awarded: Ph.D. Philosophy. The Catholic University of America
The interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy has been a source of controversy ever since his lapse…
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▼ Degree awarded: Ph.D. Philosophy. The Catholic University of America
The interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy has been a source of controversy ever since his lapse into insanity at the beginning of 1889. One aspect of his thought, in particular, has been a point of contention among scholars since the 1930s – his thought of the eternal recurrence. This is when scholars first devoted considerable attention to the difficulty of interpreting this teaching within the context of his philosophy as a whole. The works of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Löwith were instrumental in establishing the eternal recurrence as an important part of Nietzsche's philosophy. Among the three, Löwith's interpretation of the eternal recurrence has been most influential: for Löwith, the recurrence breaks apart into two incommensurable halves, a cosmological doctrine regarding the eternity of the world and an anthropological doctrine regarding human life. These halves contradict one another and cannot be brought together to form a coherent unity – a position largely accepted in the scholarship since Löwith's time. This dissertation seeks to correct this interpretation by examining Nietzsche's works, beginning with the earliest and working its way toward his final writings (the opposite of Löwith's procedure). The result is a new interpretation of the eternal recurrence that illuminates the coherence of the doctrine. The source of the thought lies in Nietzsche's reflection on the nature of science and its detrimental influence on life in The Birth of Tragedy and, significantly, the "History" essay (1874). Nietzsche's struggle to find a life-affirming scientific position results in what he calls the "gay science," which unifies science and life in the eternal recurrence. While this thought remains central in such works as The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, it seems to fade to the background in his later works. Careful examination of these later works, however, demonstrates that Nietzsche's critiques of truth, science, and religion in the "revaluation of all values" are dependent on the foundation of the eternal recurrence. Reading Nietzsche's works chronologically not only yields an interpretation that demonstrates the coherence of the eternal recurrence, but also demonstrates the unity of his philosophy of history and philosophy of science.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Zaborowski, Holger (Advisor), Rohlf, Michael (Other), Hassing, Richard (Other).
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; history; Nietzsche; science
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Canning, G. (2011). The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9710
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Canning, Gregory. “The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, The Catholic University of America. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9710.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Canning, Gregory. “The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History.” 2011. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Canning G. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9710.
Council of Science Editors:
Canning G. The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Historical Account of Nietzsche's Philosophy of History. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9710
University of California – Irvine
9.
McNulty, Michael Bennett.
Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry.
Degree: Philosophy, 2014, University of California – Irvine
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw2r7hp
► In his Metaphysiche Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft(1786), Immanuel Kant claims that chemistry is an improper, but rational, science. In this dissertation, I explain Kant's conception of…
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▼ In his Metaphysiche Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft(1786), Immanuel Kant claims that chemistry is an improper, but rational, science. In this dissertation, I explain Kant's conception of chemistry by situating his discussions of the science with respect to his theoretical philosophy and his scientific context. In the first chapter, I explain why Kant believes chemistry to be an improper science. In the Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft, Kant maintains that the a priori application of mathematics in proper science distinguishes it from improper science. Because of his opposition to mechanical philosophy, which reduces natural phenomena to mathematically expressible qualities, Kant took the application of mathematics to be a nontrivial problem. He contends that there must be a priori, metaphysical principles that validate the application of mathematics to a proper science. Ultimately, Kant argues that the forces of chemistry, unlike those of physics, are incapable of such a priori validation, making chemistry a merely improper science. The second chapter concerns chemistry's status as a rational science. I contend that rational sciences, unlike mere sciences, are capable of genuine, causal laws for Kant. I argue that there are different kinds of causal laws in different sciences: whereas the laws of physics are conditions for the possibility of experience of external objects, the laws of chemistry are quite different. Kant believes that the cognitive faculty of reason postulates chemical elements as the absolute, fundamental bearers of chemical powers, and that chemical laws are possible only insofar as they follow from the nature of these postulated entities. In the last chapter, I argue that Kant continues to believe chemistry to be an improper, though rational, science in his unfinished Opus Postumum (ca. 1795-1803). In this work, after his exposure to Lavoisier's chemical revolution, Kant claims that the existence of the caloric can be deduced a priori and that the elements can be enumerated a priori. Nevertheless, I contend that the newly added a priori components neither belong to chemistry nor validate the mathematization of the science. Rather, they are parts of the transition (Übergang), which explains the systematicity of natural science.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Philosophy of science; History of science; Causality; Early Modern Philosophy; Kant; Philosophy of Chemistry; Philosophy of Mathematics; Philosophy of Science
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McNulty, M. B. (2014). Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry. (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw2r7hp
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McNulty, Michael Bennett. “Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry.” 2014. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw2r7hp.
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McNulty, Michael Bennett. “Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry.” 2014. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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McNulty MB. Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2014. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw2r7hp.
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Council of Science Editors:
McNulty MB. Kant's Philosophy of Chemistry. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2014. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7qw2r7hp
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
The University of Oklahoma
10.
Ratowt, Sylwester Jan.
Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930.
Degree: 2009, The University of Oklahoma
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3354927
► The history of investigation of the Earth's age during the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries has been…
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▼ The history of investigation of the Earth's age during the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries has been often presented as a narrative of a disciplinary conflict. In this dissertation, I investigate the evidence which supports such accounts as well as evidence contrary to it. I conclude that this disciplinary conflict narrative underestimates the complexity of the historical situation and points to broader inadequacies in understanding of group knowledge and consensus. The larger question I ask is "what does it mean for a group of people to know something?" I argue that we need view the historical actor as composed of (dialogically interacting) multiple subjects: the individual who strives for understanding and multiple community members who strive to communicate. Furthermore, I introduce the concept of an imagined community member, the image that an interlocutor has of an anonymous member of a given community, who represents its knowledge, assumptions, and expectations. Based on an investigation of previously unexamined archival and printed sources, I argue for a new periodization of dialogues on the Earth's age in America. Prior to the 1890s, only isolated American scientists spoke about the topic. After a period of intensified discussion during the years 1892–3, the scientific community started to give a uniform answer to the question about the Earth's age, which was the disciplinary conflict story. This uniform community response, however, corresponded only to a consensus of response, not a consensus of shared belief. The next period covering the first two decades of the next century, corresponded to the fragmentation of the discussion of the Earth's age into multiple, non-interacting, largely disciplinary dialogues. A new consensus did not emerge again until around 1930, when a new community emerged and claimed jurisdiction over the question of geological time. In addition to challenging the disciplinary conflict narrative I also argue that the significance of the discipline of chemistry, and of two individuals, Joseph Barrell and Alfred C. Lane, to the dialogues on the Earth's age has been undervalued in current historiography.
Subjects/Keywords: History, United States; Philosophy; History of Science
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Ratowt, S. J. (2009). Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930. (Thesis). The University of Oklahoma. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3354927
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ratowt, Sylwester Jan. “Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930.” 2009. Thesis, The University of Oklahoma. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3354927.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ratowt, Sylwester Jan. “Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930.” 2009. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Ratowt SJ. Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Oklahoma; 2009. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3354927.
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Ratowt SJ. Discordant consensus| Dialogues on the Earth's age in American science, 1890 – 1930. [Thesis]. The University of Oklahoma; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3354927
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Yale University
11.
Griffith, Tyler James.
Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century.
Degree: 2015, Yale University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663481
► This dissertation examines the importance of geography, performance, and microscopy in the construction of theories of human difference in Europe in the eighteenth century,…
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▼ This dissertation examines the importance of geography, performance, and microscopy in the construction of theories of human difference in Europe in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on "fringe groups" such as albinos with black parents and individuals with complexion disorders. It joins a growing discussion in history, the history of science and medicine, and critical racial theory about the social and philosophic bases of early-modern human taxonomic schemas. Collectively, the fields analyzed in this study share a common conceptual root in their dependence on transferable physical processes—techniques—as much as on the intellectual frameworks investing those gestures with meaning. The necessarily embodied processes of exploration, spectatorship, and microscopic visual analysis produced discrete ways of seeing human difference which influenced the conclusions that natural philosophers reached through those embodied experiences. Marginal groups of individuals with unexpected or "abnormal" complexions drew a disproportionate amount of attention in the eighteenth century, because they were not easily identifiable with pre-existing conceptions of human difference and consequently provided a strong impetus to reconsider those epistemic categories. Overwhelmingly, the perspectives of eighteenth-century natural philosophers were profoundly non-racial in nature; instead, they drew upon ideas as varied as monstrosity, morality, self-analysis, dramatic tragedy, entertainment, and imagination to position experiences of unexpected human diversity in a distinctly valuative and sensational understanding of human difference. Through the interrogation of new and underutilized sources, this dissertation argues for an enrichment of our understanding of the "history of race" by taking into account the diversity of the physical techniques that were used by eighteenth century thinkers to arrive at ideas about human difference, while simultaneously demonstrating the centrality of hitherto understudied groups—such as albinos with black parents—in the formulation of systems of human difference.
Subjects/Keywords: Black history; Philosophy of science; Science history
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Griffith, T. J. (2015). Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century. (Thesis). Yale University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663481
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Griffith, Tyler James. “Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century.” 2015. Thesis, Yale University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663481.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Griffith, Tyler James. “Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century.” 2015. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Griffith TJ. Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century. [Internet] [Thesis]. Yale University; 2015. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663481.
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Griffith TJ. Seeing Race| Techniques of Vision and Human Difference in the Eighteenth Century. [Thesis]. Yale University; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663481
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Rice University
12.
Foster, Ryan J.
The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799.
Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2009, Rice University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61779
► The Naturphilosophie of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) has been neglected in the Anglophone world for over 200 years, but his detractors are wrong in…
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▼ The Naturphilosophie of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) has been neglected in the Anglophone world for over 200 years, but his detractors are wrong in insisting that his system represented a disguised mysticism and a rejection of empirical science. Although Schelling studied theology at the famous Tubingen seminary, he dedicated his life to philosophy by 1794, eventually turning to an intensive study of the natural sciences. By 1799, he had developed a systematic Naturphilosophie which harvested the discoveries of eighteenth century science in order to solve the philosophical problems left behind by Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Schelling relentlessly fought against the notion that nature is inert. Instead, he stressed its vibrancy, its activity, and ultimately its creativity. By reconstructing Schelling's intellectual development, we not only gain a new appreciation for his thought, but we also see aspects of his Naturphilosophie which are deeply sympathetic, and perhaps even useful in the twenty-first century.
Subjects/Keywords: European history; Philosophy; History of science
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Foster, R. J. (2009). The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61779
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Foster, Ryan J. “The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61779.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Foster, Ryan J. “The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799.” 2009. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Foster RJ. The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2009. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61779.
Council of Science Editors:
Foster RJ. The creativity of nature: The genesis of Schelling's Naturphilosophie, 1775 – 1799. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61779
University of Exeter
13.
Fear, Christopher.
Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas.
Degree: PhD, 2013, University of Exeter
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13806
► Each autumn, in universities from Cardiff to Sydney, young men and women in their late teens or early twenties find themselves in seminar rooms invited…
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▼ Each autumn, in universities from Cardiff to Sydney, young men and women in their late teens or early twenties find themselves in seminar rooms invited to discuss the writings of long-dead European males (mostly males) concerning events and situations that are no longer happening. But these young people are not history students. They are not literature students either, necessarily. They are politics undergraduates. Many of them are already political activists of some shade and some of them, when all this is over, will want to ‘go out’ into the world and make changes to it. They have come to get equipped for the dangers of real-life political action ; to get a politics degree which might make them attractive candidates for civil service positions or for an assistantship at party HQ. They are equipping for the future, they want to know about the future, and they want to be prepared for the currents in which they will soon have to swim: the networks, hierarchies and channels of influence in conjunction with which they will have to operate – present networks, today’s hierarchies and perhaps even tomorrow’s. Yet here they are, engaging not only with today’s political problems, but with yesterday’s, or with those of several centuries past; with Plato’s Republic, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and with a whole cast of authors whose works and words belong, as they soon realise, to the problems of their own time, and seem to offer very little for the solution of today’s. Even on the level of ideology, the challenges of Hobbes, of Rousseau, or of Burke to current thinking are weakened by attendant contexts that are no longer happening, by their ill-suitedness to popular revival, and by their undemocratic obsolescence…
Subjects/Keywords: 320; Philosophy of history; History of philosophy; Collingwood; R. G.
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Fear, C. (2013). Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Exeter. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13806
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Fear, Christopher. “Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Exeter. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13806.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Fear, Christopher. “Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas.” 2013. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Fear C. Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2013. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13806.
Council of Science Editors:
Fear C. Old problems re-opened : R.G. Collingwood and the history of ideas. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13806
McMaster University
14.
Elsby, Charlene.
Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle.
Degree: PhD, 2014, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14114
► This work critically examines Aristotle’s statements regarding truth in relation to what does not exist, and defends a cohesive interpretation of Aristotle on truth…
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▼ This work critically examines Aristotle’s statements regarding truth in relation to what does not exist, and defends a cohesive interpretation of Aristotle on truth and non-existence against contemporary commentators. Aristotle speaks of what does not exist in various contexts within his works, and questions about things that don’t exist arise at every level of the structure of reality Aristotle lays down in Chapter One of De Interpretatione. Aristotle refers to things, affections of the soul, and statements as truth-bearing. However, the ways in which each is said to be true or false suggests that Aristotle applied the notion of “truth” more strictly at some times than at others. In the following chapters I examine what Aristotle conceives of as non-existent; how it is possible to speak about these things; the apparent contradiction between the Categories and De Interpretatione regarding what is true to say of what does not exist; how fictional entities are conceived and to what exactly it is that words that signify the fictional refer; Aristotle’s correspondence theory of truth with regard to what does not exist; the definition of truth as applied to non-standard truth-bearers (objects, perceptions and phantasia); and how Aristotle avoids the contemporary problem of “empty” terms. This work, as a whole, finds a great amount of complexity in Aristotle’s concept of truth, evidenced by his accounting for what does not exist. What does not exist does not in fact cause much trouble for Aristotle, either with respect to how they are objects of thought, or with respect to the utterances that can be made about them, or with respect to the truth of those utterances.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Advisors/Committee Members: Johnstone, Mark, Hitchcock, David, W., Richard T., Philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: Aristotle; Metaphysics; Language; Logic; Mind; History of Philosophy; History of Philosophy
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Elsby, C. (2014). Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14114
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Elsby, Charlene. “Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14114.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Elsby, Charlene. “Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle.” 2014. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Elsby C. Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2014. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14114.
Council of Science Editors:
Elsby C. Truth and Non-Existence in Aristotle. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14114
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
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O'Connell, Derek Robert.
Heidegger's authenticity.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2015, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78404
► This dissertation is a study of Martin Heidegger’s understanding of the concept of authenticity, and how that understanding may have changed over time, via a…
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▼ This dissertation is a study of Martin Heidegger’s understanding of the concept of authenticity, and how that understanding may have changed over time, via a careful investigation of Heidegger’s written works, from Being and Time in the 1920s to works of the mid-1960s. This study has two goals. Narrowly, it argues that the key elements of Heidegger’s account of authenticity do not change over the period under consideration—while the nature of his elaboration shifts dramatically, the key content stays the same. Broadly, since a fundamental change in the understanding of authenticity, especially how it relates to
history and to human volition (referred to below as the active/passive dimension), is central in most interpretations that argue for a strong turn, or Kehre, in Heidegger’s later works, this study provides substantial evidence that there was not nearly as dramatic a shift in Heidegger’s views as many argue.
Chapter 1 introduces the issue by discussing Heidegger’s understanding of authenticity in
general, ways
history and the active/passive dimension could relate to authenticity, the general outlines of strong interpretations in relation to these two issues, and what various interpreters who hold such interpretations argue. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 examine Heidegger’s views on authenticity,
history, and the active/passive dimension, in roughly the 1920s, mid to late-1930s, and 1940s-1960s, respectively. Chapter 5 concludes, discussing in broad terms why strong interpretations of the Kehre are tempting even if misguided, and sketching a reading of the Kehre better suggested by the views argued for in this study.
Advisors/Committee Members: Melnick, Arthur (advisor), Melnick, Arthur (Committee Chair), Schacht, Richard (committee member), Wengert, Robert G. (committee member), Orlie, Melissa (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Heidegger; Continental Philosophy; History of Philosophy; 20th Century Philosophy
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O'Connell, D. R. (2015). Heidegger's authenticity. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78404
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
O'Connell, Derek Robert. “Heidegger's authenticity.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78404.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
O'Connell, Derek Robert. “Heidegger's authenticity.” 2015. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
O'Connell DR. Heidegger's authenticity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78404.
Council of Science Editors:
O'Connell DR. Heidegger's authenticity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78404
University of Western Ontario
16.
Fawcett, W.W. Nicholas.
Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions.
Degree: 2011, University of Western Ontario
URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/311
► The concept of nature (phusis) is ubiquitous in Aristotleʼs work, informing his thinking in physics, metaphysics, biology, ethics, politics, and rhetoric. Much of scholarly attention…
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▼ The concept of nature (phusis) is ubiquitous in Aristotleʼs work, informing his thinking in physics, metaphysics, biology, ethics, politics, and rhetoric. Much of scholarly attention has focussed on his philosophical analysis of the concept wherein he defines phusis as “a principle or cause of being changed and of remaining the same in that to which it belongs primarily, in virtue of itself and not accidentally” (Phys. 192b21-23) and the implications this has in various parts of his philosophy. It has largely gone unnoticed, or unremarked, that this is not the only understanding of phusis present in his thinking. This thesis argues that in addition to his philosophical understanding of phusis, there is another, pre- theoretic understanding at work. " After unpacking this pre-theoretic understanding, which is best described as ʻthe natural world,ʼ I argue that there are three tensions stemming from this. First, the natural world is, at times, placed in opposition to the human realm, while at other times, the humans are included as part of nature. Second, nature is considered to be both a static state and a dynamic process of change depending on the context, which prompts Aristotle to claim, in different places, that ageing and dying are both natural and unnatural. Third, nature is treated both as an ideal and as something to be overcome. This thesis attempts to bring to light Aristotleʼs pre-theoretic understanding of phusis and to draw out these three tensions. In the end, I suggest that modern confusions about nature may be informed by considering how they are reflected in the work of the first great thinker about nature, Aristotle.
Subjects/Keywords: Aristotle; philosophy; ancient Greek philosophy; nature; phusis; History of Philosophy
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Fawcett, W. W. N. (2011). Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions. (Thesis). University of Western Ontario. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/311
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Fawcett, W W Nicholas. “Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions.” 2011. Thesis, University of Western Ontario. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/311.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Fawcett, W W Nicholas. “Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions.” 2011. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Fawcett WWN. Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2011. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/311.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Fawcett WWN. Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions. [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2011. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/311
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
17.
Clogston, Christi L.
Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story.
Degree: 2011, Pacifica Graduate Institute
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3486442
► One of the most heroic science projects undertaken in the last century is the massive and institutionally coordinated DNA sequencing of the entire human…
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▼ One of the most heroic science projects undertaken in the last century is the massive and institutionally coordinated DNA sequencing of the entire human genome. Evangelically promoted by scientists to the general public, the Human Genome Project (HGP) developed a messianic veneer, promising molecular salvation for incurable diseases and nearly-divine control of our biological destiny. While the Herculean task of sequencing the entire human genome seems to literalize human condition to a set of DNA base-pairs, the meaning of the human genome has a mythic dimension: to definitively know the human genome is to ultimately know ourselves. This dissertation examines the many metaphors used to promote and explain the HGP to various audiences. Scientists coined some of the most popular genome metaphors used to communicate the HGP's value to governments, scientific organizations, and to the public. Many genome metaphors used in public discourse reveals an unconscious religious or mythological impulse: the <i>Holy Grail of Molecular Biology</i>, the <i>Book of Life</i>, a <i> Form of Secular Soul</i>, the <i>Blueprint of Humanity,</i> and a <i>Human Map</i>. However, not all human genome metaphors are equal; some are created with a particular social or policy agenda in mind. This work considers the different ways the human genome is changing the way we are thinking about ourselves, as a species, as groups, and as individuals. Comparing our genomes to each other's, to that of the chimpanzee and to Neanderthals, the human genome is reorienting humanity as a biological species. The HGP occurs during a time in the United States when the role of religion in society is once again, being hotly debated. Looking at how the HGP has inspired a number of artists who use portions of human genome DNA sequences as the basic for creative works, it is clear that the human genome is more than just a DNA sequence. Considering the artistic forms that have emerged from the HGP, and how the Project is affecting our psychological and mythological processes, both personally and culturally, the human genome is a touchstone for an emerging creation myth, a new <i> genomythology</i>.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy of Science; History of Science
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Clogston, C. L. (2011). Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story. (Thesis). Pacifica Graduate Institute. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3486442
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Clogston, Christi L. “Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story.” 2011. Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3486442.
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Clogston, Christi L. “Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story.” 2011. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Clogston CL. Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story. [Internet] [Thesis]. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2011. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3486442.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Clogston CL. Romancing the gene| The human genome as our 5 million-year-old story. [Thesis]. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3486442
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18.
McNulty, Christopher.
Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history.
Degree: 2014, California Institute of Integral Studies
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254
► Philosopher of science Wilfrid Sellars argues that there are two mutually exclusive images of human-in-the-world that philosophy ought to unify: the "manifest image" of…
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▼ Philosopher of science Wilfrid Sellars argues that there are two mutually exclusive images of human-in-the-world that philosophy ought to unify: the "manifest image" of common, shared experience and the "scientific image" of imperceptible objects. Process philosophy, as a metaphysical framework, is in a unique position to allow both images to sit together in dynamic tension, rather than allowing one image to collapse into the other. Not only do I maintain that process philosophy is logically robust, but I also argue that there are several instances of empirical verification of process as an ontology. Taking a process ontology seriously, however, requires that we re-articulate an understanding of the two grand narratives that are utilized to explain our origins: the socio-cultural evolution of consciousness and the objective evolution of the universe. I call these the <i>history of science</i> and the <i>science of history,</i> respectively. In Western academia, the <i>science of history</i> is usually given ontological priority; but within a process metaphysic, neither can be said to be explanatorily primary. That which holds these two narratives together, and that which produces spacetime itself, I refer to as "pretemporal origination." The mode through which this process elicits evolution is through creative-discovery, wherein creation and discovery are not two separate modes of mind-universe interaction, but unified on a continuum of constraints.
Subjects/Keywords: Metaphysics; Philosophy of Science; History of Science
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McNulty, C. (2014). Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history. (Thesis). California Institute of Integral Studies. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254
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McNulty, Christopher. “Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history.” 2014. Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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McNulty, Christopher. “Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history.” 2014. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
McNulty C. Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history. [Internet] [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2014. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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McNulty C. Pretemporal origination| A process approach to understanding the unification of the history of science and the science of history. [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2014. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550254
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19.
Koerpel, Robert.
Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism.
Degree: PhD, Systematic Theology, 2010, The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9204
► Degree awarded: Ph.D. Systematic Theology. The Catholic University of America
This dissertation examines the development of the notion of tradition in modern Catholicism, its relationship…
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▼ Degree awarded: Ph.D. Systematic Theology. The Catholic University of America
This dissertation examines the development of the notion of tradition in modern Catholicism, its relationship to the modern problem of representation, and Maurice Blondel's role and contribution to the development of tradition's history. It contends that Blondel's notion of tradition provides modern Catholicism with a new framework within which it is able to attend to the competing claims of reason, as it has been transformed by modernity, and revelation, in the unwavering and particular claims it makes upon humanity. After tracing the late-medieval shifts in the notion of God's power, ecclesial power, and political power and how these shifts created the conceptual climate for the idea of tradition in modern Catholicism to become less an expression of God's presence embodied in the liturgical practice of the church and more a procedural and institutional reality, the dissertation introduces Blondel's thought to the development of the notion of tradition, by examining the speculative and conceptual context of his idea of tradition in his philosophy of action. Drawing on the philosophical resources of Blondel's account of action and the key role it allots to "liturgical action," the dissertation also describes and analyzes his notion of tradition in the text History and Dogma.The final and constructive part of the dissertation examines the import of Blondel's idea of tradition for contemporary philosophical and theological debates about the modern understanding of history in the development of Christian doctrine, as well as the philosophical debates surrounding the practice of modern hermeneutics outside of Catholicism. This part of the dissertation argues that Blondel's theory of tradition envisions tradition as a "sacramental" representation of God's presence, which shows human understanding how God's revelation is represented in history through the liturgical action of the church. Tradition calls the church to discover God's presence in human history not merely as facts and linear phenomena or as a social and cultural reality, but as the event of salvation. It is in its ability to discern the spiritual dimension of history that Blondel's notion of tradition makes its most important contribution to modern Catholicism.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Johnstone, Brian V (Advisor), Pecknold, Chad C (Other), Galvin, John P (Other).
Subjects/Keywords: Theology; Religion, Philosophy of; Religion, History of
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Koerpel, R. (2010). Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9204
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Koerpel, Robert. “Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, The Catholic University of America. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9204.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Koerpel, Robert. “Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism.” 2010. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Koerpel R. Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2010. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9204.
Council of Science Editors:
Koerpel R. Before and After Blondel: Scripture, Tradition and The Problem of Representation in Modern Catholicism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9204
University of Cambridge
20.
Zarepour, Mohammad Saleh.
Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
.
Degree: 2019, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293979
► I discuss four different aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical views on mathematics, as scattered across his various works. I first explore the negative aspect of his…
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▼ I discuss four different aspects of Avicenna’s philosophical views on mathematics, as scattered across his various works. I first explore the negative aspect of his ontology of mathematics, which concerns the question of what mathematical objects (i.e., numbers and geometrical shapes) are not. Avicenna argues that mathematical objects are not independent immaterial substances. They cannot be fully separated from matter. He rejects what is now called mathematical Platonism. However, his understanding of Plato’s view about the nature of mathematical objects differs from both Plato’s actual view and the view that Aristotle attributes to Plato. Second, I explore the positive aspect of Avicenna’s ontology of mathematics, which is developed in response to the question of what mathematical objects are. He considers mathematical objects to be specific properties of material objects actually existing in the extramental world. Mathematical objects can be separated, in mind, from all the specific kinds of matter to which they are actually attached in the extramental word. Nonetheless, inasmuch as they are subject to mathematical study, they cannot be separated from materiality itself. Even in mind they should be considered as properties of material entities. Third, I scrutinize Avicenna’s understanding of mathematical infinity. Like Aristotle, he rejects the infinity of numbers and magnitudes. But he does so by providing arguments that are much more sophisticated than their Aristotelian ancestors. By analyzing the structure of his Mapping Argument against the actuality of infinity, I show that his understanding of the notion of infinity is much more modern than we might expect. Finally, I engage with Avicenna’s views on the epistemology of mathematics. He endorses concept empiricism and judgment rationalism regarding mathematics. He believes that we cannot grasp any mathematical concepts unless we first have had some specific perceptual experiences. It is only through the ineliminable and irreplaceable operation of the faculties of estimation and imagination upon some sensible data that we can grasp mathematical concepts. By contrast, after grasping the required mathematical concepts, independently from all other faculties, the intellect alone can prove mathematical theorems. Other faculties, and in particular the cogitative faculty, can assist the intellect in this regard; but the participation of such faculties is merely facilitative and by no means necessary.
Subjects/Keywords: Avicennna;
Philosophy of Mathematics;
Islamic Philosophy;
History of Philosophy;
Mathematical Objects;
Infinity;
Epistemology of Mathematics
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Zarepour, M. S. (2019). Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
. (Thesis). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293979
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zarepour, Mohammad Saleh. “Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
.” 2019. Thesis, University of Cambridge. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293979.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zarepour, Mohammad Saleh. “Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
.” 2019. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Zarepour MS. Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Cambridge; 2019. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293979.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Zarepour MS. Avicenna's Philosophy of Mathematics
. [Thesis]. University of Cambridge; 2019. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293979
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University of California – San Diego
21.
Greene, Blythe Anastasia.
The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time.
Degree: Philosophy, 2018, University of California – San Diego
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz5n2pk
► This dissertation addresses a set of problems in understanding the Stoic physics of time. It begins by investigating the ontology of time as an incorporeal…
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▼ This dissertation addresses a set of problems in understanding the Stoic physics of time. It begins by investigating the ontology of time as an incorporeal in Stoic physics. I show that time is constructed as a deliberate parallel to two of the other incorporeals – place and void. Time is defined as the “diastēma” of motion, and much of the debate over the Stoic theory of time has centered on the definition of this term “diastēma,” which may mean interval, extension, or dimension. I argue that only the reading of “dimension” makes sense in the context of Stoic physics. Place turns out to have three dimensions, measuring the height, depth, and breadth of bodies, while time adds a fourth dimension of motion that measures fast and slow of bodies in motion.The second half of the dissertation addresses the vexed problem of the present in Stoicism. Multiple sources tell us that the present has a different status from the past and future – the past and future merely “subsist” while the present “is real.” However, this account is complicated by strong evidence that the Stoic present is composed of past and future. Furthermore, Stoic accounts of divisibility leave the length of the present apparently indefinite. If the present is ontologically privileged, it seems that it cannot be of indefinite length. If the present is real but the past and future are not, it seems that the present cannot be composed of past and future.I resolve these problems by arguing that the Stoics had two interrelated definitions of the present, and that the apparently conflicting pieces of evidence refer to different kinds of present. The first present is called “precise” or “narrow” and corresponds to a point of zero duration. As it has no duration, it is not a continuum, and as it is not a continuum it is not, technically, a time. A secondary “broad” present, composed of past and future times, is present in virtue of containing this present. It derives a special ontology from its relationship to the strict present, despite being composed of past and future.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Stoicism; Time
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Greene, B. A. (2018). The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz5n2pk
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Greene, Blythe Anastasia. “The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time.” 2018. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz5n2pk.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Greene, Blythe Anastasia. “The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time.” 2018. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Greene BA. The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2018. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz5n2pk.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Greene BA. The Imperfect Present: Stoic Physics of Time. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3jz5n2pk
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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McMaster University
22.
El Nabolsy, Zeyad.
Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy.
Degree: MA, 2017, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22232
► The main aim of this thesis is to present an account of Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy and to demonstrate its relevance to…
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▼ The main aim of this thesis is to present an account of Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy and to demonstrate its relevance to contemporary issues in the methodology of the history of philosophy both insofar as Hegel still has interesting things to say to contemporary historians, and insofar as an understanding of Hegel's views helps us understand later developments in the historiography of philosophy. In the first chapter, I present the conceptual scaffolding which enables us to compare Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy with contemporary approaches to the history of philosophy. I also criticize some of the myths that have developed around Hegel's conception of the history of philosophy. In the second chapter, I present the principles that constitute Hegel's evaluative framework: coherence or non-contradiction (in relation to the concept of Aufhebung), concreteness, systematicity, autonomy, and the use of clear conceptual language in philosophical discourse. Aside from these formal principles, I also identify a substantive philosophical thesis which Hegel seems to use in order to evaluate development in the history of philosophy, namely, the identity of thought and being. In the third chapter I attempt to attenuate the tension that exists between Hegel's methodological prescriptions, especially the claim that we should be on guard against anachronistic readings and that critique should be internal, with the manner in which he seems to consistently read past philosophers through his own system. I suggest two perspectives which can help attenuate this tension. First, I emphasize that Hegel is trying to write an anti-individualistic history of philosophy, where philosophical systems are presented as public culture achievements and the individual idiosyncrasies of philosophers are suppressed. Second, I show how Hegel's semantic and epistemic holism helps us make sense of the way that he approaches the history of philosophy. In the fourth and final chapter I discuss Hegel's conception of the relationship between philosophy and its socio-cultural milieu, and based on this discussion, I show that Hegel did not think that there is continuity in the kinds of problems that philosophers have been interested in, and that he thought that the main purpose of the history of philosophy is to provide metaphilosophical reconstructions and justifications of shifts in the kinds of problems that philosophers have been interested in.
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Master of Arts (MA)
In this thesis I attempt to fill in a gap in Anglophone scholarship on Hegel by presenting an account of a much neglected aspect of Hegel's system, namely, Hegel's account and conception of the history of philosophy. I begin by attempting to dispel some misunderstandings that have distorted the Anglophone reception of this aspect of Hegel's thought, and by emphasizing the importance of understanding Hegel's views on the history of philosophy if one wishes to understand later developments in the historiography of philosophy. I then present the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lapointe, Sandra, Philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: Hegel; History of Philosophy; Historiography; Philosophy of History; German Idealism; Concept of Progress
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El Nabolsy, Z. (2017). Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22232
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
El Nabolsy, Zeyad. “Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy.” 2017. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22232.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
El Nabolsy, Zeyad. “Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy.” 2017. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
El Nabolsy Z. Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2017. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22232.
Council of Science Editors:
El Nabolsy Z. Hegel's Conception of the History of Philosophy. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22232
University of Western Ontario
23.
Woodard, Ben.
Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought.
Degree: 2015, University of Western Ontario
URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3314
► This dissertation examines F.W.J. von Schelling's Philosophy of Nature (or Naturphilosophie) as a form of early, and transcendentally expansive, naturalism that is, simultaneously, a naturalized…
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▼ This dissertation examines F.W.J. von Schelling's Philosophy of Nature (or Naturphilosophie) as a form of early, and transcendentally expansive, naturalism that is, simultaneously, a naturalized transcendentalism. By focusing on space and motion, this dissertation argues that thought should be viewed as a natural activity through and through. This view is made possible by German Idealism historically, and yet, is complicated and obscured by contemporary philosophy's treatment of German Idealism in both analytic and continental circles. The text engages with the foundations of Schelling's theory of nature as well as geometry, field theory, inter-theory relations, epistemology, and pragmatism.
Subjects/Keywords: Schelling; German Idealism; Transcendental Naturalism; Philosophy of Nature; History of Philosophy
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Woodard, B. (2015). Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought. (Thesis). University of Western Ontario. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3314
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Woodard, Ben. “Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought.” 2015. Thesis, University of Western Ontario. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3314.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Woodard, Ben. “Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought.” 2015. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Woodard B. Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2015. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3314.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Woodard B. Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought. [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2015. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3314
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of New Mexico
24.
Barnes, William H.
Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure.
Degree: Philosophy, 2018, University of New Mexico
URL: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/31
► Extreme Liberal Cynicism is a product of mourning, guilt, and the experience of powerlessness stemming from the trauma of holding liberal investments in a…
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▼ Extreme Liberal Cynicism is a product of mourning, guilt, and the experience of powerlessness stemming from the trauma of holding liberal investments in a world in which they rarely flourish, in which they are perceived to have failed, and in which they are vulnerable to ideology critique. Consequently, the cynic is torn between liberal ideals and the obstacles to their success. This can compel the Liberal Cynic to extremes, fantasizing invulnerability through disavowing the efficacy of its constitutive ideals. This is achieved via a reified hopelessness which eclipses trauma, guilt, and disempowerment. Despite serving an immediately ameliorative purpose this leaves the cynic unhappy, alienated, hostile, obstinate, delusional, and desperate. Thus, this is a failing self-defense mechanism. At these extremes, Liberal Cynicism can be rationally unjustifiable as well as intrinsically and instrumentally harmful. It is rationally unjustifiable if it reifies the inefficacy of its constitutive idealism, if it assumes itself post-idealistic, the logical conclusion of enlightenment, or of intellectual activity, and if it refuses to engage in self-critique. It is intrinsically harmful because it is self-destructive and painful. It is instrumentally harmful in virtue of enabling the problems that compel it. Nevertheless, cynical painfulness also provides the impetus and evinces the resources for Extreme Liberal Cynicism to avoid or overcome these extremes. A Critique of Extreme Cynicism coupled with the libidinal release of Neokynical cheekiness, a Butlerian reckoning with grief, and the skillful reappropriations of its complex desires and losses could compel the extreme cynic to maintain a moderate critical liberal cynicism committed to critiquing and reinvigorating its constitutive ideals.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ann Murphy, Iain Thomson, Adrian Johston, Kathleen Higgins.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy Cynicism Continental Social Political Butler; Continental Philosophy; Ethics and Political Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Other Philosophy; Philosophy
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Barnes, W. H. (2018). Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/31
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Barnes, William H. “Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/31.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Barnes, William H. “Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure.” 2018. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Barnes WH. Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2018. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/31.
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Barnes WH. Liberal Cynicism, Its Dangers, and a Cure. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2018. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/phil_etds/31
University of Western Ontario
25.
Paxman, Katharina A.
Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions.
Degree: 2010, University of Western Ontario
URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/14
► Hume’s “impressions of reflection” is a category made up of all our non-sensory feelings, including “the passions and other emotions.” These two terms for affective…
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▼ Hume’s “impressions of reflection” is a category made up of all our non-sensory feelings, including “the passions and other emotions.” These two terms for affective mental states, ‘passion’ and ‘emotion’, are both used frequently in Hume’s work, and often treated by scholars as synonymous. I argue that Hume’s use of both ‘passion’ and ‘emotion’ in his discussions of affectivity reflects a conceptual distinction implicit in his work between what I label ‘attending emotions’ and ‘fully established passions.’ The former are the transient, changeable, valenced feelings that flow between perceptions and constitute their felt nature and impulse. The latter are the particular passions fully realized, with characteristic valence, and analyzed by Hume in terms of their particular belief structures and relations between ideas and impressions understood to be constituent of particular passions. The term ‘emotion’ for Hume generally denotes either the attending feeling, sometimes distinct from the passion (particularly as ‘passion’ is being used to include the associated beliefs, causes and objects), or as a synonym for a particular passion, typically when Hume is primarily referring to the felt nature of the passion. Generally speaking, ‘passion’ is a more cognitive category of affective mental state, while ‘emotion’ is more sensationalist. I will further argue that when we grant Hume the emotion/passion distinction, he can accommodate both highly sensationalist and highly cognitivist understandings of affective mental states. I finish with the application of my distinction to two key topics in Hume studies: his sympathy mechanism, and his theory of belief and motivation.
Subjects/Keywords: David Hume; passion; emotion; history of theories of emotion; feeling; History of Philosophy; Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind
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Paxman, K. A. (2010). Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions. (Thesis). University of Western Ontario. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/14
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Paxman, Katharina A. “Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions.” 2010. Thesis, University of Western Ontario. Accessed August 22, 2019.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/14.
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Paxman, Katharina A. “Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions.” 2010. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Paxman KA. Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2010. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/14.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Paxman KA. Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions. [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2010. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/14
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Boston University
26.
Kelly, Johnathan Irving.
Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy.
Degree: 2014, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15383
► Despite Hannah Arendt's prediction in the wake of World War II that "the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life,"…
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▼ Despite Hannah Arendt's prediction in the wake of World War II that "the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life," the majority of postwar philosophers have preferred to stay away from the idea of evil. But at the same time that philosophical reflection on the notion of evil has dissipated, there is no denying the fact that referring to "evil" has remained very common among the public at large, among political leaders, and in popular culture. To better understand what meaning the concept of evil might have for us today, in this paper I will address two main questions. First, recognizing the problems recent philosophers have raised against the idea of "evil," we should ask if we should simply take our leave of the concept of evil, admitting that it has been exhausted by overuse, shifting intellectual paradigms, and a triumphant secular age. In other words, does it make any sense for us today to go beyond calling something wrong or unjust or harmful or unspeakable and to speak in terms of "evil?" Is talk about evil simply a relic of a way of speaking and thinking about the world that we have long left behind? Is "evil" in fact one of those terms that have always drawn people into error and sometimes even into committing horrific acts?
Second, if we believe we can begin to address this first set of questions about the notion of evil, it remains to be seen what exactly we might mean by evil. What are we pointing to when we call something "evil?" What makes something evil rather than merely wrong or unjust? What kinds of things do we reserve the judgment of evil for? This set of questions leads us to come up with a substantive account of evil, an account of what evil is and what distinguishes evil from other wrongdoing.
To address these questions, our argument will proceed as follows. We will begin with an overview of the recent return to discussing evil after a turn away from evil by the majority working in philosophy. After giving a brief historical overview of these shifts we will then begin to argue for the need for philosophers to think about evil and the concept of evil. In short, as I will argue, because we continue to turn to the notion of evil in response to extreme forms of wrongdoing, philosophical reflection is warranted in trying to clarify what we might reasonably mean when we call an agent or action evil.
Moving to a discussion of the idea of radical evil, we will begin with a close reading and interpretation of Kant's account of radical evil, pausing to discuss what he gets right and where he may err. We will then move to recent discussions of evil in contemporary philosophy, much of which can be understood as revolving around Kant's account of radical evil. In these contemporary accounts, evil is no longer used in an inclusive, wide sense, but almost exclusively to refer to the kinds of extreme, unforgivable wrongdoing we might classify under the notion of radical evil. In these recent accounts, there is an attempt to distinguish degrees of…
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Ethics; History of philosophy; Philosophy of religion; The Holocaust; Good and evil; Kant, Immanuel
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Kelly, J. I. (2014). Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy. (Thesis). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15383
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kelly, Johnathan Irving. “Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy.” 2014. Thesis, Boston University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15383.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kelly, Johnathan Irving. “Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy.” 2014. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Kelly JI. Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy. [Internet] [Thesis]. Boston University; 2014. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15383.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kelly JI. Giving evil its due: radical evil and the limits of philosophy. [Thesis]. Boston University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15383
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Waterloo
27.
Nelson, Benjamin.
The Depiction of Unwritten Law.
Degree: 2016, University of Waterloo
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11106
► Even though tacit legal norms are deeply important to our past, present, and future, the very idea of unwritten law has been difficult to pin…
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▼ Even though tacit legal norms are deeply important to our past, present, and future, the very idea of unwritten law has been difficult to pin down, and problematic in a range of ways. Existing discussions of the phenomenon fall short of adequacy on one of several fronts: either they have focused on describing the normative features of one kind of unwritten law, or completely conflated the study of unwritten law with natural law, or else offered examinations of unwritten social rules, focussing on (mere) custom, ethics, and/or etiquette. A particular defect is the fact that unwritten law has not been given a treatment by those working in the tradition of analytical jurisprudence.
My thesis introduces a novel means of analyzing and explicating the elusive concept of unwritten legal rules, striving thereby to advance the state-of-the-art. In what follows I argue that unwritten laws are informally publicized rules held on the threat of formal sanction by an appropriate political authority. I argue that a law is informally disseminated just in case the appropriate governing theory of law, known to subjects, provides those subjects with a set of instructions about who to defer to concerning the contents of the law, absent dissemination in official venues.
I propose that there are at least five potential kinds of unwritten law routinely recognized in legal studies: operations, implicit constitutions, justice norms, fiat rules, and secret laws. Through careful examination of extant theories of law (Aquinas, Hobbes, Foucault, Marx, Austin, Fuller, Hart, and Dworkin), I argue that there are identifiable structural features of the contents of these theories that make them more or less likely to endorse the legal validity of each kind of unwritten law. Throughout the course of the dissertation, I show how we are able to diagnose the ways in which these structural features of our theories of law differentially support the validity of—and shed important, additional light upon—each potential variety of unwritten law.
Subjects/Keywords: law; philosophy of law; analytical jurisprudence; philosophy; history of philosophy; unwritten law
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Nelson, B. (2016). The Depiction of Unwritten Law. (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11106
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Nelson, Benjamin. “The Depiction of Unwritten Law.” 2016. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11106.
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Nelson, Benjamin. “The Depiction of Unwritten Law.” 2016. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Nelson B. The Depiction of Unwritten Law. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2016. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11106.
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Nelson B. The Depiction of Unwritten Law. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11106
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San Jose State University
28.
Spencer, Joseph M.
The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive.
Degree: 2010, San Jose State University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1478575
► This thesis analyzes the historiographical methodologies of four historians of Mormonism associated with three distinct historiographical movements: Fawn McKay Brodie, Leonard J. Arrington, Jan…
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▼ This thesis analyzes the historiographical methodologies of four historians of Mormonism associated with three distinct historiographical movements: Fawn McKay Brodie, Leonard J. Arrington, Jan Shipps, and Richard Bushman. The first major work of each of these historians of Mormonism is mined analytically and then subjected to a theoretical reflection in order to establish the historian's relationship to the archive. In the concluding chapter, the various archivologies unearthed are compared and analyzed through an engagement of four contemporary French philosophers who have written on the archive: Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, Alain Badiou, and Jacques Rancière. A theory of the "immanent archive" is set forth. Conclusions are drawn, primarily at the theoretical level, about the complex relationship between archival policy and historiographical method.
Subjects/Keywords: Religion, History of; Library Science; Philosophy
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Spencer, Joseph M. “The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive.” 2010. Thesis, San Jose State University. Accessed August 22, 2019.
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Spencer, Joseph M. “The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive.” 2010. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Spencer JM. The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive. [Internet] [Thesis]. San Jose State University; 2010. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1478575.
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Spencer JM. The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive. [Thesis]. San Jose State University; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1478575
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29.
Schuberth, Jennifer M.
Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self.
Degree: 2008, The University of Chicago
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322669
► This dissertation argues that Margaret Porete's fourteenth century <i> Mirror of Simple and Annihilated Souls</i> challenges both our understanding of medieval forms of subjectivity…
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▼ This dissertation argues that Margaret Porete's fourteenth century <i> Mirror of Simple and Annihilated Souls</i> challenges both our understanding of medieval forms of subjectivity and inwardness and marks the horizons of contemporary means available for conceptualizing subjectivity and agency. Chapter one shows how the <i>Mirror</i> disrupts the paradigms contemporary scholars use to study medieval women's texts. Whereas much of the scholarship on female mysticism privileges the corporeal, the <i> Mirror</i> explicitly rejects the body as the locus of religious experience. By examining its assumptions about the relationship between the reader and text, I show that the <i>Mirror</i> should be understood not as a marginal text without general significance, but rather as an intervention into our understanding of contemporary accounts of fundamental medieval discourses on religious practices. In particular, I focus on a set of issues related to the categorization of evidence and its relation to our assumptions about how language functions. I introduce the term <i>reading practices</i> as a theoretical means of shifting emphasis from the author's intentions to the reader's experience of reading. In chapter two, I place the <i>Mirror </i> within the context of orthodox Christian culture and show the centrality of allegory to medieval reading practices. I concentrate on the <i>Mirror </i>'s manipulation of allegory, comparing its use of the genre to other medieval works by Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux, and argue that it creates a set of reading practices that corresponds to a new form of subjectivity. In chapter three, I turn to the problem of how we, as contemporary readers with very different conceptions of reading and subjectivity, might understand a reader's desire to annihilate his or her will. In order to analyze the annihilated Soul as a form of subjectivity, I compare the <i>Mirror </i>'s reading practices with a set of theoretical discourses grouped together under the rubric of psychoanalysis. While psychoanalytic discourse provides a language with which to talk about the dissolution of the will, in chapter four I address the limitations of using psychoanalysis to interpret the form of subjectivity and agency represented by the annihilated Soul by historicizing both psychoanalysis and its conception of agency.
Subjects/Keywords: Religion, Philosophy of; Theology; History, Medieval
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Schuberth, J. M. (2008). Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self. (Thesis). The University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322669
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Schuberth, Jennifer M. “Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self.” 2008. Thesis, The University of Chicago. Accessed August 22, 2019.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322669.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schuberth, Jennifer M. “Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self.” 2008. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
Vancouver:
Schuberth JM. Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2008. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322669.
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Council of Science Editors:
Schuberth JM. Allegories of annihilation| Porete's "Mirror" and the medieval self. [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2008. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3322669
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30.
Roe, Sharon J.
Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives| A lens for the full range of Buddha's teachings.
Degree: 2014, California Institute of Integral Studies
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621055
► This research investigates <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti</i> (Sanskrit), <i>rjes su dran pa</i> (Tibetan), anussati (Pāli), and considers how this term might serve as a link for finding…
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▼ This research investigates <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti</i> (Sanskrit), <i>rjes su dran pa</i> (Tibetan), anussati (Pāli), and considers how this term might serve as a link for finding a commonality in practices in Hīnayāna, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions. The research was inspired by the work of Buddhist scholars Janet Gyatso, Paul Harrison, and Matthew Kapstein. Each of them has noted the importance of the term anusmr&dotbelow;ti in Buddhist texts and Buddhist practice. Harrison sees a connection between Hīnayāna practices of <i>buddhānusmr&dotbelow;ti </i> and a host of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna practices. He notes that <i>buddhānusmr&dotbelow;ti</i> can be seen as a source of later, more elaborate Vajrayāna visualization practices ("Commemoration" 215). Gyatso investigates contextual meanings of the term <i> anusmr&dotbelow;ti</i> and cites meanings that include an element of commemoration and devotion. She notes that varieties of <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti </i> are considered beneficial for soteriological development and are deliberately cultivated for that purpose (<i>Mirror of Memory</i> 2-3). Matthew Kapstein refers to a type of anusmr&dotbelow;ti that is the palpable recovery of a state of being or affect. This, he says, is not simply the memory of the experience but the recovery of the sense of <i>being </i> in that state ("Amnesic Monarch" 234). Essential to the research were the teachings of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Anam Thubten Rinpoche on Buddha-nature and Pure Vision. In this study I have coined the terms "Buddha-nature anusmr&dotbelow;ti" and "Pure vision <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti.</i>" Though these terms do not appear in the literature, they may be seen as useful in investigating core remembrances (<i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti</i>) in the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions respectively. "Buddha-nature <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti </i>" refers to a key remembrance or commemoration in Mahāyāna Tibetan literature and practice. "Pure Vision <i>anusmr&dotbelow;ti </i>" refers to a key remembrance or commemoration in Vajrayāna Tibetan literature and practice. This dissertation cites passages from key texts and commentaries to make the point that these coined terms meaningfully reflect a major aspect of their respective traditions. They describe that which is worthy and important, that which should be remembered and commemorated.
Subjects/Keywords: Religion, Philosophy of; Asian Studies; Art History
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Roe, Sharon J. “Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives| A lens for the full range of Buddha's teachings.” 2014. Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies. Accessed August 22, 2019.
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Roe, Sharon J. “Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives| A lens for the full range of Buddha's teachings.” 2014. Web. 22 Aug 2019.
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Roe SJ. Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives| A lens for the full range of Buddha's teachings. [Internet] [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2014. [cited 2019 Aug 22].
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Roe SJ. Anusmrti in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana perspectives| A lens for the full range of Buddha's teachings. [Thesis]. California Institute of Integral Studies; 2014. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621055
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