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  1. Aristotle and Alexander on Hearing and Instantaneous Change: A Dilemma in Aristotle's Account of Hearing.Jeffrey Alan Towey - 1991 - In Charles Burnett, Michael Fend & Penelope Gouk, The Second Sense: Studies in Hearing and Musical Judgement from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. Warburg Institute. pp. 7-18.
    The differences between the theories of hearing held by Aristotle and by Alexander of Aphrodisias are explored. Alexander appears to have a more systematic approach which avoids the dilemma faced by Aristotle in deciding whether the hearing process constitutes a time-taking kinesis or an instantaneous energeia.
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  2. Plato and Classical Civilisation.Jeffrey Alan Towey - 2023 - Journal of Classics Teaching 24 (48):115-116.
    The incorporation of Plato into the current OCR Classical Civilisation A Level syllabus, as part of the Love and Relationships topic (LR) presents a challenge for the classroom teacher. While the specification makes study of Plato mandatory the content description in practice effectively relegates the topic to the side-lines. Having described this problem the article goes on to suggest how Plato’s ideas can be taught within the framework of the existing specification in a pupil-friendly manner which is true to the (...)
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    The Physiology of Vision in Alexander’s Commentary on the De sensu.Jeffrey Alan Towey - 2019 - Ancient Philosophy 39 (2):211-223.
    There is no systematic physiology of the eye within Alexander of Aphrodisias' commentary on Aristotle's De Sensu that would match the work of Galen in this area because Alexander is interested in the principles that (as he sees it) guide the work of medical researchers rather than the messy detail of the work itself. If he was aware of Galen’s work in this area, his criticisms of the coalescence theory of vision as set out in the Timaeus is a sufficient (...)
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  4. The Physiology of Vision in Alexander’s Commentary on the De sensu.Alan Towey - 2019 - Ancient Philosophy 39 (1):211-223.
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    Aristotle and Alexander on Hearing and Instantaneous Change.Jeffrey Alan Towey - 1991 - In Charles Burnett, Michael Fend & Penelope Gouk, The Second Sense: Studies in Hearing and Musical Judgement from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. Warburg Institute. pp. 7-18.
    The differences between the theories of hearing held by Aristotle and by Alexander of Aphrodisias are explored. Alexander appears to have a more systematic approach which avoids the dilemma faced by Aristotle in deciding whether the hearing process constitutes a time-taking kinesis or an instantaneous energeia.
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  6. Johansen, T. K. Aristotle on the Sense-organs. Cambridge UP, 1998. Pp. xvi + 304 (review). [REVIEW]Jeffrey Alan Towey - 1999 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 119:192-193.
    Review of T. K. Johansen's book Aristotle on the sense organs. Aristotle seeks to explain the characteristics of the different sense organs by reference to the goal that they serve, that of enabling animals to perceive. A material basis is necessary for sense perception but it is an open question whether the material in question undergoes a physiological change.
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  7. Indexing and Mathematical Explanation.Alan Baker & Mark Colyvan - 2011 - Philosophia Mathematica 19 (3):323-334.
    We discuss a recent attempt by Chris Daly and Simon Langford to do away with mathematical explanations of physical phenomena. Daly and Langford suggest that mathematics merely indexes parts of the physical world, and on this understanding of the role of mathematics in science, there is no need to countenance mathematical explanation of physical facts. We argue that their strategy is at best a sketch and only looks plausible in simple cases. We also draw attention to how frequently Daly and (...)
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    The Formal Analysis of Normative Systems.Alan Ross Anderson - 1956 - New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University, International Laboratory, Sociology Dept.
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    Reasons from within: desires and values.Alan H. Goldman - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Alan H. Goldman argues for the internalist or subjectivist view of practical reasons on the grounds that it is simpler, more unified, and more comprehensible ...
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  10. Avoiding the Conflation of Moral and Intellectual Virtues.Alan T. Wilson - 2017 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (5):1037-1050.
    One of the most pressing challenges facing virtue theorists is the conflation problem. This problem concerns the difficulty of explaining the distinction between different types of virtue, such as the distinction between moral virtues and intellectual virtues. Julia Driver has argued that only an outcomes-based understanding of virtue can provide an adequate solution to the conflation problem. In this paper, I argue against Driver’s outcomes-based account, and propose an alternative motivations-based solution. According to this proposal, intellectual virtues can be identified (...)
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    Sartre's Theory of Literature, by Christina Howells.Alan Young - 1981 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 12 (1):95-97.
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    Intentionalism and physical reductionism in computational psychology.Alan Zaitchik - 1981 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42 (September):23-41.
  13. Towards a strong virtue ethics for nursing practice.Alan E. Armstrong - 2006 - Nursing Philosophy 7 (3):110-124.
    Illness creates a range of negative emotions in patients including anxiety, fear, powerlessness, and vulnerability. There is much debate on the ‘therapeutic’ or ‘helping’ nurse–patient relationship. However, despite the current agenda regarding patient-centred care, the literature concerning the development of good interpersonal responses and the view that a satisfactory nursing ethics should focus on persons and character traits rather than actions, nursing ethics is dominated by the traditional obligation, act-centred theories such as consequentialism and deontology. I critically examine these theories (...)
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    The nature of knowledge.Alan R. White - 1982 - Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield.
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    The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are.Alan Watts - 1966 - New York,: Vintage Books.
    Drawing upon ancient Hindu philosophy, the author explores the human psyche and the importance of personal identity.
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    Musical Meaning and Expression.Alan H. Goldman - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (185):533-535.
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  17. Informal proof, formal proof, formalism.Alan Weir - 2016 - Review of Symbolic Logic 9 (1):23-43.
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    Psychotherapy, East and West.Alan Watts - 1961 - [New York]: Pantheon Books.
    Explicates the mutually fundamental commonalities between the methods and practices of Western psychotherapies, especially those whose bases are social, interpersonal, and communicational, and the disciplines of Buddhism, Vedanta, Yoga, and Taoism.
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    (2 other versions)Quine's naturalism.Alan Weir - 2013 - In Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman, A Companion to W. V. O. Quine. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 114-147.
    Starting with the distinction between epistemological and ontological naturalism, this chapter focuses most on Quine’s epistemological naturalism, not the ontological anti-naturalism he thought it leads to. It is argued that naturalised epistemology is not central to Quine’s epistemology. Quine’s key epistemological principle is:- follow the methods of science, and only those. Can Quine demarcate scientific methods from non-scientific ones? The problems which have been raised here, e.g. in the case of mathematics, are considered. A main theme is the relationship between (...)
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    Non-completion and informed consent.Alan Wertheimer - 2014 - Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (2):127-130.
    There is a good deal of biomedical research that does not produce scientifically useful data because it fails to recruit a sufficient number of subjects. This fact is typically not disclosed to prospective subjects. In general, the guidance about consent concerns the information required to make intelligent self-interested decisions and ignores some of the information required for intelligent altruistic decisions. Bioethics has worried about the ‘therapeutic misconception’, but has ignored the ‘completion misconception’. This article argues that, other things being equal, (...)
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  21. ‘We Know in Part’: How the Positive Apophaticism of Aquinas Transforms the Negative Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius.Alan Philip Darley - 2022 - Heythrop Journal 63 (4):583-612.
    The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 583-612, July 2022.
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  22. Scales and comparison classes.Alan Clinton Bale - 2011 - Natural Language Semantics 19 (2):169-190.
    This paper discusses comparison classes—sets that relativize the interpretation of gradable adjectives, often specified with for-clauses as in John is smart for a linguist. Such a discussion ultimately lends support to the thesis that scales, degrees, measure functions, and linear orders are grammatically derived from more basic relations between individuals. Three accounts of comparison classes are compared and evaluated. The first proposes that such classes serve as an argument to a function that determines a standard of comparison. The second maintains (...)
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  23. Schelling: An Introduction to the System of Freedom.Alan White - 1983 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 47 (3):538-538.
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    The Improvement of Mankind. The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill.Alan Ryan & John M. Robson - 1969 - Philosophical Quarterly 19 (77):360.
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    The substitutional framework for sorted deduction: Fundamental results on hybrid reasoning.Alan M. Frisch - 1991 - Artificial Intelligence 49 (1-3):161-198.
  26. The fivefold openness of the future.Alan R. Rhoda - 2011 - In William Hasker Thomas Jay Oord & Dean Zimmerman, God in an Open Universe. Pickwick Publications. pp. 69--93.
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    Essays on Actions and Events.Alan R. White - 1981 - Philosophical Books 22 (3):158-160.
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  28. Logic for mathematicians.Alan G. Hamilton - 1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Intended for logicians and mathematicians, this text is based on Dr. Hamilton's lectures to third and fourth year undergraduates in mathematics at the ...
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    Predication or Participation? What is the Nature of Aquinas’ Doctrine of Analogy?Alan Philip Darley - 2016 - Heythrop Journal 57 (2):312-324.
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    ‘What’s the Problem?’: Political Theory, Rhetoric and Problem‐Setting.Alan Finlayson - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (4):541-557.
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    Neuropsychological evidence and the semantic/episodic distinction.Alan D. Baddeley - 1984 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (2):238.
  32. The Many Unities of Science: Politics, Semantics, and Ontology.Alan W. Richardson - 2006 - In ¸ Itekellersetal:Sp. pp. 1--25.
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    Social quality and welfare system sustainability.Alan Walker - 2011 - International Journal of Social Quality 1 (1):5-18.
    This article examines the extent to which the concept of social quality could contribute to a transformation in the debates about the welfare sustainability in Asia and Europe. The article starts by outlining the concept of social quality: its constitutional, conditional and normative components and the origins of its development as a European conceptual framework. Then a bridge is created between Europe and Asia by looking briefly at the similarities and differences between social quality and human security, a concept that (...)
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  34. From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap’s Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s.Alan W. Richardson - 1996 - In Ronald N. Giere & Alan W. Richardson, Origins of Logical Empiricism. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. XVI. Univ of Minnesota Press. pp. 309--332.
     
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    On the disenchantment of medicine: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1964 address to the American Medical Association.Alan B. Astrow - 2018 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (6):483-497.
    In 1964, the American Medical Association invited liberal theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel to address its annual meeting in a program entitled “The Patient as a Person” [1]. Unsurprisingly, in light of Heschel’s reputation for outspokenness, he launched a jeremiad against physicians, claiming: “The admiration for medical science is increasing, the respect for its practitioners is decreasing. The depreciation of the image of the doctor is bound to disseminate disenchantment and to affect the state of medicine itself” [1, p. 35]. Heschel’s (...)
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  36. Book Review : The Idea of Christian Charity: A critique of some contemporary conceptions, by Gordon Graham. Collins,1990. xiv + 190. 14.95. [REVIEW]Alan Billings - 1993 - Studies in Christian Ethics 6 (1):39-43.
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    Counterfactual Consent and the Use of Deception in Research.Alan T. Wilson - 2014 - Bioethics 29 (7):470-477.
    The use of deception for the purposes of research is a widespread practice within many areas of study. If we want to avoid either absolute acceptance or absolute rejection of this practice then we require some method of distinguishing between those uses of deception which are morally acceptable and those which are not. In this article I discuss the concept of counterfactual consent, and propose a related distinction between counterfactual-defeating deception and counterfactual-compatible deception. The aim is to show that this (...)
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    Posthumous Satisfactions and the Concept of Individual Welfare.Alan E. Fuchs - 1991 - Journal of Philosophical Research 16:345-351.
    Can events that take place after an individual’s death affect that person’s weIl-being? Aristotle apparently thought that they could, but Mark Overvold disagrees. Like other contemporary moral theorists, Overvold analyzes the notion of a person’s utility or welfare in terms of the fulfillment of the individual’s desires, but he adds the important qualification that the desites must be for states-of-affairs in which the agent is an essential constituent. The clear implication of such a view is that our welfare cannot be (...)
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    Republican Liberty and Resilience.Alan Hamlin - 2001 - The Monist 84 (1):45-59.
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    Brief response: QALYfying the value of life.Alan Williams - 1987 - Journal of Medical Ethics 13 (3):123-123.
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    Hyperousios: God ‘Without Being,’ ‘Super‐ Being,' or ‘Unlimited Being’?Alan Philip Darley - 2017 - Heythrop Journal 58 (6):865-888.
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    Chris Pincock. Mathematics and Explanation.Alan Baker - 2024 - Philosophia Mathematica 32 (2):228-241.
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    A Realistic Theory of Quantum Measurement.Alan K. Harrison - 2022 - Foundations of Physics 52 (1):1-32.
    We propose that the ontic understanding of quantum mechanics can be extended to a fully realistic theory that describes the evolution of the wavefunction at all times, including during a measurement. In such an approach the wave equation should reduce to the standard wave equation when there is no measurement, and describe state reduction when the system is measured. The general wave equation must be nonlinear and nonlocal, and we require it to be time-symmetric; consequently, this approach is not a (...)
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    In defence of a simple solution.Alan Reeves - 1973 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 51 (1):17-38.
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    Portrayals of Suffering: on Looking Away, Looking at, and the Comprehension of Illness Experience.Alan Radley - 2002 - Body and Society 8 (3):1-23.
    This article addresses the question of what it is that visual depictions of illness portray, particularly images executed by or on behalf of people who have suffered serious illness. It takes up two lines of inquiry, both to do with the work that such pictures might perform. On the one hand, as works of art, there are questions about the form of signification in visual representations of this kind. On the other, as works of illness, there are issues concerning the (...)
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    Beckett's Fiction: In Different Words.Alan Astro & Leslie Hill - 1992 - Substance 21 (1):142.
  47. The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin.Alan Ryan - 1988 - Noûs 22 (2):330-332.
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    The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.Alan Wald - 1999 - Historical Materialism 4 (1):295-299.
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    Doubting One's Methods.Alan R. White - 1983 - Analysis 43 (3):133 - 134.
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    Rearticulating Being.Alan White - 2015 - Review of Metaphysics 69 (1):3-24.
    It is often noted, by philosophers concerned with being, that problems arise for the articulation of being in English from the fact that the infinitive “to be” often cannot—without enormous awkwardness—be used to translate such counterpart infinitives as the Greek einai, the Latin esse, and the German Sein. Hence, to translate two distinct terms from those other languages—einai and to on, esse and ens, Sein and Seiende—English must often make do with the single term “being.” The term “being” is indeed (...)
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