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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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    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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    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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  4. 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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  5. The Physiology of Vision in Alexander’s Commentary on the De sensu.Alan Towey - 2019 - Ancient Philosophy 39 (1):211-223.
  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. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.Alan Turing - 1936 - Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 42 (1):230-265.
  8. Citizen science: a study of people, expertise, and sustainable development.Alan Irwin - 1995 - New York: Routledge.
    We are all concerned by the environmental threats facing us today. Environmental issues are a major area of concern for policy makers, industrialists and public groups of many different kinds. While science seems central to our understanding of such threats, the statements of scientists are increasingly open to challenge in this area. Meanwhile, citizens may find themselves labelled as "ignorant" in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the (...)
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  9. Mathematical Explanation in Science.Alan Baker - 2009 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (3):611-633.
    Does mathematics ever play an explanatory role in science? If so then this opens the way for scientific realists to argue for the existence of mathematical entities using inference to the best explanation. Elsewhere I have argued, using a case study involving the prime-numbered life cycles of periodical cicadas, that there are examples of indispensable mathematical explanations of purely physical phenomena. In this paper I respond to objections to this claim that have been made by various philosophers, and I discuss (...)
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    A Jewish Response to the Vatican's New Bioethical Guidelines.Ari Zivotofsky & Alan Jotkowitz - 2009 - American Journal of Bioethics 9 (11):26-30.
    The Vatican recently published directives regarding “beginning of life” issues that explain the Catholic Church's position regarding new technologies in this area. We think that it is important to develop a response that presents the traditional Orthodox Jewish position on these same issues in order to present an alternative, parallel system. There are many points of commonality between the Vatican document and traditional Jewish thought as well as several important issues where there is a divergence of opinion. The latter include (...)
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    Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions.Alan R. White - 1965 - Philosophical Quarterly 15 (60):268.
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    Consent to Sexual Relations.Alan Wertheimer - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.
    When does a woman give valid consent to sexual relations? When does her consent render it morally or legally permissible for a man to have sexual relations with her? Why is sexual consent generally regarded as an issue about female consent? And what is the moral significance of consent? These are some of the questions discussed in this important book, which will appeal to a wide readership in philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Alan Wertheimer develops a theory of (...)
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  13. On the metaphysical contingency of laws of nature.Alan Sidelle - 2002 - In Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 309--336.
    This paper defends the traditional view that the laws of nature are contingent, or, if some of them are necessary, this is due to analytic principles for the individuation of the law-governed properties. Fundamentally, I argue that the supposed explanatory purposes served by taking the laws to be necessary --showing how laws support counterfactuals, how properties are individuated, or how we have knowledge of properties--are in fact undermined by the continued possibility of the imagined scenarios--this time, described neutrally--which seemed to (...)
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    Empirical Knowledge.Alan H. Goldman - 1988 - University of California Press.
    This remarkably clear and comprehensive account of empirical knowledge will be valuable to all students of epistemology and philosophy. The author begins from an explanationist analysis of knowing—a belief counts as knowledge if, and only if, its truth enters into the best explanation for its being held. Defending common sense and scientific realism within the explanationist framework, Alan Goldman provides a new foundational approach to justification. The view that emerges is broadly empiricist, counteracting the recently dominant trend that rejects (...)
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  15. Scotching Dutch Books?Alan Hájek - 2005 - Philosophical Perspectives 19 (1):139-151.
    The Dutch Book argument, like Route 66, is about to turn 80. It is arguably the most celebrated argument for subjective Bayesianism. Start by rejecting the Cartesian idea that doxastic attitudes are ‘all-or-nothing’; rather, they are far more nuanced degrees of belief, for short credences, susceptible to fine-grained numerical measurement. Add a coherentist assumption that the rationality of a doxastic state consists in its internal consistency. The remaining problem is to determine what consistency of credences amounts to. The Dutch Book (...)
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  16. Conventionalism and the contingency of conventions.Alan Sidelle - 2009 - Noûs 43 (2):224-241.
    One common objection to Conventionalism about modality is that since it is contingent what our conventions are, the modal facts themselves will thereby be contingent. A standard reply is that Conventionalists can accept this, if they reject the S4 axiom, that what is possibly possible is possible. I first argue that this reply is inadequate, but then continue to argue that it is not needed, because the Conventionalist need not concede that the contingency of our conventions has any bearing on (...)
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    Jewish and Catholic Ethics of Reproduction: Converging or Standing Apart?Ari Zivotofsky & Alan Jotkowitz - 2009 - American Journal of Bioethics 9 (11):1-2.
    The Vatican recently published directives regarding “beginning of life” issues that explain the Catholic Church's position regarding new technologies in this area. We think that it is important to develop a response that presents the traditional Orthodox Jewish position on these same issues in order to present an alternative, parallel system. There are many points of commonality between the Vatican document and traditional Jewish thought as well as several important issues where there is a divergence of opinion. The latter include (...)
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  18. Is there a problem of induction for mathematics?Alan Baker - 2007 - In Mary Leng, Alexander Paseau & Michael D. Potter, Mathematical Knowledge. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 57-71.
  19. Jobs, qualifications, and preferences.Alan Wertheimer - 1983 - Ethics 94 (1):99-112.
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    Review Essay: Jewish Identity in FranceYale French Studies, No 85: Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century FranceAuschwitz and After: Race, Culture and "The Jewish Question" in France.Simon P. Sibelman, Alan Astro & Lawrence D. Kritzman - 1996 - Substance 25 (1):111.
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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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  22. Mathematical Induction and Explanation.Alan Baker - 2010 - Analysis 70 (4):681-689.
  23. The golden rule rationalized.Alan Gewirth - 1978 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3 (1):133-147.
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    Richard Rorty.Alan R. Malachowski (ed.) - 2002 - London ;: Routledge.
    Richard Rorty is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy should be set aside in favour of a more pragmatic, conversational, hermeneutically guided project. This challenge has not only struck at the heart of philosophy but has ricocheted across other disciplines, both contesting their received self-images and opening up new avenues of inquiry in the process. Alan Malachowski provides an authoritative overview of Rorty's considerable body of work and a general assessment of his (...)
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  25. Filling in the scotoma: A study of residual vision after striate cortex lesions in monkeys.Lawrence Weiskrantz & Alan Cowey - 1970 - Progress in Physiological Psychology 3.
     
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    D’Aden à Zafar: Villes d’Arabie du sud préislamique. By Jérémie Schiettecatte.Paul Alan Yule - 2021 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 133 (2).
    D’Aden à Zafar: Villes d’Arabie du sud préislamique. By Jérémie Schiettecatte. Orient & Méditeranée, Archéologie, vol. 6. Paris: De Boccard, 2011. Pp. 372, illus. €64.
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  27. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond.Alan Bass (ed.) - 1987 - University of Chicago Press.
    17 November 1979 You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably. What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you are. At the very instant when from (...)
     
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  28. Personal expressiveness: Philosophical and psychological foundations.Alan S. Waterman - 1990 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 11 (1):47-73.
    Psychological and philosophical perspectives are employed in an exploration of the reasons particular individuals experience an activity as personally expressive while others may find the same activity neutral or even aversive. The relationships between personal expressiveness and intrinsic motivation, flow, and self-actualization are considered. The construct of personal expressiveness is shown to have its roots in eudaimonistic philosophy. Living in a manner consistent with one's daimon or "true self" gives rise to a cognitive-affective state labeled "eudaimonia" that is distinguishable from (...)
     
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    Dummett on Impredicativity.Alan Weir - 1998 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 55 (1):65-101.
    Gödel and others held that impredicative specification is illegitimate in a constructivist framework but legitimate elsewhere. Michael Dummett argues to the contrary that impredicativity, though not necessarily illicit, needs justification regardless of whether one assumes the context is realist or constructivist. In this paper I defend the Gödelian position arguing that Dummett seeks a reduction of impredicativity to predicativity which is neither possible nor necessary. The argument is illustrated by considering first highly predicative versions of the equinumerosity axiom for cardinal (...)
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    Liberty, coercion, and the limits of the state.Alan Wertheimer - 2002 - In Robert L. Simon, The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 38–59.
    The prelims comprise: Liberty and Coercion Liberty‐Limiting Principles The Harm Principle The Offense Principle Legal Paternalism Legal Moralism Justice Need Conclusion Bibliography.
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    Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t.Alan H. Goldman (ed.) - 2001 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? The two dominant models in the literature on rules are the particularist account and that which sees the application of rules as normative. Taking a position that falls between these two extremes, Alan Goldman provides (...)
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    Interpretation and difference: the strangeness of care.Alan Bass - 2006 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
    This book is the companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The key to this resistance is the unconscious registration and repudiation (disavowal) of the reality of difference. The surprising generality of this resistance intersects with Nietzsche's, Heidegger's, and Derrida's understanding of how and why difference is in general the “unthought of metaphysics.” All three see metaphysics engaged with a “registration and repudiation of (...)
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    Cultural Literacy and the Idea of General Education.Ian Westbury & Alan C. Purves (eds.) - 1988 - The National Society for the Study of Ed.
    The Eighty-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II.
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    Mind and the new physics.Fred Alan Wolf - 1984 - London: Heinemann.
  35. The timing of conscious experience: A causality-violating interpretation.Fred Alan Wolf - 1998 - Journal of Scientific Exploration 12 (4).
  36. There Are No True Contradictions.Alan Weir - 2004 - In Graham Priest, Jc Beall & Bradley P. Armour-Garb, The law of non-contradiction : new philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  37. There Are No True Contradictions.Alan Weir - 2004 - In Graham Priest, Jc Beall & Bradley P. Armour-Garb, The law of non-contradiction : new philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation.Alan Paskow - 2004 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to (...)
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    Enabling Resistance: rethinking bhabha's fanon.Alan Ramón Ward - 2015 - Angelaki 20 (4):225-242.
    Homi Bhabha's attempts to recuperate Frantz Fanon's “black man” as a figure of resistance and subversion have relied on the simple fact of this figure's existence: because the black man's identity is irrevocably divided, Bhabha claims that its mere existence calls the unity of a normative identity into question. This essay broadly questions Bhabha's reading of Fanon by asking exactly how it is that the subject's potential for subversion can be realized in action, and suggests – drawing from Jacques Lacan's (...)
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  40. Sexual use and what to do about it : internalist and externalist sexual ethics.Alan Soble - 2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy, Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi. pp. 2.
    I begin by describing the hideous nature of sexuality, that which makes sexual desire and activity morally suspicious, or at least what we have been told about the moral foulness of sex by, in particular, Immanuel Kant, but also by some of his predecessors and by some contemporary philosophers.2 A problem arises because acting on sexual desire, given this Kantian account of sex, apparently conflicts with the Categorical Imperative. I then propose a typology of possible solutions to this sex problem (...)
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    A Note From the Editors.Mark Vopat & Alan Tomhave - 2015 - Teaching Ethics 15 (2):225-225.
  42. Admiration and the Development of Moral Virtue.Alan T. Wilson - 2019 - In Alfred Archer & André Grahle, The Moral Psychology of Admiration. Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 201-215.
    Philosophers and psychologists have recently been focusing on the important question of how positive character traits are developed. Within philosophy, these positive character traits are referred to as virtues. In this chapter, I examine one intuitively appealing proposal concerning virtue development - the idea that the path to moral virtue can begin with the experience of admiration for a moral exemplar. My aim is to provide a model of how this process might work by identifying the different stages it would (...)
     
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    Unconscionability and Contracts.Alan Wertheimer - 1992 - Business Ethics Quarterly 2 (4):479-496.
    This article considers the principles that underlie the claim that some contracts are unconscionable and that such contracts should not be enforceable. It argues that it is much more difficult to explain unconscionability than is often supposed, particularly in cases where the contract is mutually advantageous or Pareto superior. Among other things, the article considers whether unconscionability is a defect in process or result, whether the gains in an unconscionable contract are disproportionate, whether there is a strong link between the (...)
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    (1 other version)Die amerikanische Nietzsche-Rezeption von 1896-1950.Hays Alan Steilberg - 1996 - De Gruyter.
    Die Reihe Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) setzt seit mehreren Jahrzehnten die Agenda in der sich stetig verändernden Nietzsche-Forschung. Die Bände sind interdisziplinär und international ausgerichtet und spiegeln das gesamte Spektrum der Nietzsche-Forschung wider, von der Philosophie über die Literaturwissenschaft bis zur politischen Theorie. Die Reihe veröffentlicht Monographien und Sammelbände, die einem strengen Peer-Review-Verfahren unterliegen. Die Buchreihe wird von einem internationalen Redaktionsteam geleitet.
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    Environmental and Economic Impacts of Integrating Photovoltaic and Wind-Turbine Energy Systems in the Canadian Residential Sector.V. Ismet Ugursal, Alan S. Fung & Ali M. Syed - 2008 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 28 (3):210-218.
    The Canadian residential sector contributes approximately 80 megatons of GHGs to the environment yearly. With the ratification of Kyoto Protocol, Canada has committed to reduce its 1990 GHG emission levels by at least 5% between 2008 and 2012. To meet this target, Canada must evaluate and exploit all feasible means to reduce fossil fuel energy consumption and GHG emissions. Test-case Canadian houses were modeled in the building-energy simulation software ESP-r. Requisite housing stock data were extracted from Canada's residential end-use energy (...)
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    Eudaimonic identity theory: Identity as self-discovery.Alan S. Waterman - 2011 - In Seth J. Schwartz, Koen Luyckx & Vivian L. Vignoles, Handbook of identity theory and research. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 357--379.
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  47. Norm entrepreneurs and antipreneurs : chalk and cheese, or two faces of the same coin?Shirley V. Scott & Alan Bloomfield - 2017 - In Alan Bloomfield & Shirley V. Scott, Norm antipreneurs and the politics of resistance to global normative change. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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  48. Appendice 31. Quatre lettres relevant des volumes précédents et découvertes depuis leur parution.David Smith, Alan Dainard, Marie-Therese Inguenaud, Jonas Steffen, Jean Orsoni & Peter Allan - 2004 - In David Smith, Alan Dainard, Marie-Therese Inguenaud, Jonas Steffen, Jean Orsoni & Peter Allan, Correspondance Générale D'Helvétius: Index. University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-13.
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  49. Brill Online Books and Journals.Louis Taussig & Alan Day - 1997 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 8 (1).
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    Are serum anticonvulsant levels in people with epilepsy appropriately monitored?Ajay Thapar, Alan Richens, Martin Roland, Ann Jacoby, Ian Russell, Chris Roberts, Elaine Porter & Sonya Wall - 2001 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 7 (3):335-338.
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