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    Edward R. Murrow's This I believe: selections from the 1950s radio series.Dan Gediman, John Gregory, Mary Jo Gediman & Viki Merrick (eds.) - 2010 - Louisville, KY: This I Believe.
    This is a collection of fifty essays featured in Edward R. Murrow's 1950s This I Believe radio series. It includes such celebrities of the twentieth century as Pearl Buck, Norman Cousins, Margaret Mead, James Michener, Jackie Robinson, and Harry Truman. With an introduction by Edward R. Murrow and a foreword by Dan Gediman, executive producer of the contemporary This I Believe radio broadcasts, heard weekly on public radio.
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    (1 other version)This I believe: the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women.Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, John Gregory & Viki Merrick (eds.) - 2006 - New York: H. Holt.
    An inspiring collection of the personal philosophies of a fascinating group of individuals Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty essays penned by the famous and the unknown—completing the thought that the book’s title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others. Featuring a star-studded list of contributors—including Isabel Allende, John Updike, William (...)
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  3. Chapter Fifteen Naturalism: A Crude Instrument in the Search for a Beloved? By Teri Merrick.Teri Merrick - 2007 - In Thomas Jay Oord, The many facets of love: philosophical explorations. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 131.
    Generally speaking, naturalism is the view that the methods of empirical science are our best, perhaps only, methods for obtaining knowledge. Merrick reshapes this debate by introducing a new question: Is naturalism compatible with fostering appreciative love for the created order? She argues the naturalism's operating paradigm for evaluating explanations is well-tailored to achieve the goal of scientific inquiry championed by Francis Bacon in the 17th century. But it systematically weeds out explanations more likely to induce appreciative love for (...)
     
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  4. Objects and Persons.Trenton Merricks - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Objects and Persons presents an original theory about what kinds of things exist. Trenton Merricks argues that there are no non-living inanimate macrophysical objects -- no statues or rocks or chairs or stars -- because they would have no causal role over and above the causal role of their microphysical parts. Humans do exist: we have non-redundant causal powers. Along the way, Merricks has interesting things to say about mental causation, free will, and various philosophical puzzles. Anyone working in metaphysics (...)
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    Respectful Paternalism.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2021 - Law and Philosophy 40 (4):419-442.
    A common objection to paternalism concerns its expressive content. Many reject paternalistic policies and actions on the ground that they arguably involve insulting expressions of disrespect toward those subjected to them. The paper challenges this view. It argues that refraining from acting paternalistically can be disrespectful. Specifically, the paper argues that there is a relevant way in which A disregards the moral worth of B if A stands idly by when B is about to act very imprudently. If true, treating (...)
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  6. Truth and ontology.Trenton Merricks - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Truth and Ontology concludes that some truths do not depend on being in any substantive way at all.
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  7. (1 other version)Good-Bye Growing Block.Trenton Merricks - 2006 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 2:103-110.
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    Propositions.Trenton Merricks - 2015 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their nature. He draws a variety of controversial conclusions, for instance about supervaluationism, the nature of possible worlds, truths about non-existent entities, and whether and how logical consequence depends on modal facts.
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  9. The direct perception of universals: A theory of knowledge acquisition.Viki McCabe - 1982 - Synthese 52 (3):495 - 513.
    A theory is presented which proposes that knowledge acquisition involves direct perception of schematic information in the form of structural and transformational invariances. Individual components with salient verbal descriptions are considered conscious place-holders for non-conscious invariant schemes. It is speculated that theories positing mental construction have three related causes: The first is a lack of consciousness of the schema processing capacities of the right hemisphere; the second is the paucity of adequate words to express schematic relationships; and the last involves (...)
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  10. Gender Equality through “Daddy Quotas”? Paternalism and the Limits of Parental Autonomy.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - forthcoming - Social Theory and Practice.
    The policy of earmarked paternity leave aims to promote mothers’ position in the labor market and fathers’ relationship with their child. Critics argue that the policy prevents parents from pursuing their own ideas about what is best for them. This provides reason to consider whether the policy is paternalistic or, in other ways, disrespectful of parental autonomy. I argue that the state implicates itself in the gender inequalities that result from parents’ unequal parental leave agreements when the state financially facilitates (...)
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    Is Anti-Paternalism Enough?Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen & Soren Flinch Midtgaard - 2018 - Political Studies 66 (3).
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  12. For the Greater Individual and Social Good: Justifying Age-Differentiated Paternalism.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2024 - Utilitas 36 (1):1-15.
    What justifies differences in the acceptance of paternalism towards competent minors and older people? I propose two arguments. The first argument draws on the widely accepted view that paternalism is easier to justify the more good it promotes for the paternalizee. It argues that paternalism targeting young people generally promotes more good for the people interfered with than similar paternalism targeting older people. While promoting people's interests or well-being is essential to the justification of paternalism, the first argument has certain (...)
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  13. A Comparision Of Three Ways Of Knowing: Categorical, Structural, and Affirmative.Viki Mccabe - 1984 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 5 (4).
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    Coming to our senses: perceiving complexity to avoid catastrophes.Viki McCabe - 2014 - New York: University Press.
    This book challenges the theory that our perceptions are unreliable, shows that information reflects the structural organization of the complex systems that constitute our world, and documents that the theories we construct detach us from reality and lead us astray.
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  15. Nietzsche on the methods and aims of philosophy: the seal of liberation.Allison Merrick - 2025 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    This book focuses on Nietzsche's method of genealogy and shows how Nietzsche uses genealogical methods to render us less obscure to ourselves, to liberate us from value systems that no longer serve our interests, and to demonstrate how we might become less prone to guilt and shame.
     
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    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting.Merrick Daniel Pilling - 2016 - Studies in Social Justice 10 (1):177-179.
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    A stochastic model for free association response hierarchies?Vaira Vikis-Freibergs - 1972 - Psychological Review 79 (3):268-274.
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  18. In defence of age-differentiated paternalism.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2023 - In Greg Bognar & Axel Gosseries, Ageing Without Ageism: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. Oxford University Press.
    This chapter examines age discrimination from the perspective of age-differentiated paternalism. Many people share the intuition that paternalism is less problematic when applied to children than to the elderly. The chapter examines this intuition by considering not only the dimensions of competence and voluntariness but also the magnitude of the good promoted by paternalistic interventions. While this dual account does not generally challenge common-sense intuitions about paternalism, it introduces additional complexity when evaluating paternalistic interventions in a wide range of cases (...)
     
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  19. Truth and freedom.Trenton Merricks - 2009 - Philosophical Review 118 (1):29-57.
    Suppose that time t is just a few moments from now. And suppose that the proposition that Jones sits at t was true a thousand years ago. Does the thousand-years-ago truth of that proposition imply that Jones's upcoming sitting at t will not be free? This article argues that it does not. It also argues that Jones even now has a choice about the thousand-years-ago truth of that Jones sits at t . Those arguments do not require the complex machinery (...)
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    In Defense of Intentionally Shaping People's Choices.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2022 - Political Research Quarterly 75 (4).
    In defense of nudging policies, proponents have pointed out that choice architecture is inevitable. However, critics have objected that shaping people’s choices in an intentional way is not inevitable and involves an objectionable substitution of judgment, with the choice architect imposing his will on others. Accordingly, the inevitability of choice architecture in general does not provide reason to accept intentional nudges. In contrast to this view, the paper argues that precisely because the choice architects will unavoidably contribute to people’s choices, (...)
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  21. The Only Way To Be.Trenton Merricks - 2017 - Noûs 53 (3):593-612.
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    Freeze the Biological Clock: Discrimination, Disrespect, and Fertility Preservation via Social Freezing.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2022 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 39 (3):456-470.
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    Reaction qualifications in the eyes of the people: An experimental‐philosophical study based on US survey data.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen, Didde Boisen Andersen, Søren Flinch Midtgaard & Kim Mannemar Sønderskov - 2024 - Theoria 90 (6):624-642.
    Is it fair for employers to select candidates partly based on how the employers think customers react to the candidates' appearances, that is, based on candidates' reaction qualifications? Both philosophically (in the literature on wrongful discrimination) and empirically, this question has recently been getting attention. Here, we focus on a theory of unfair disadvantages emphasizing (i) whether the possession of the appearance feature in question reflects choices on the part of the candidate and (ii) whether the appearance feature in question (...)
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    Summary.Trenton Merricks - 2017 - Analysis 77 (2):357-359.
    © The Authors 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.comLet an argument be modally valid just in case, necessarily, if its premises are true, then its conclusion is true. Propositions begins with the assumption that some arguments are modally valid. Chapter 1 – ‘Propositions and Modal Validity’ – argues that the premises and conclusions of modally valid arguments exist necessarily, have their truth conditions essentially, and are the (...)
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    Feminist Emancipatory Discourse from Astell's `Hog-Tending' through de Beauvoir's `Complicity' to Nussbaum's `Human Capabilities'.Viki Soady & Helen Wishart - 1999 - European Journal of Women's Studies 6 (3):281-290.
    Even after two millennia, through her adherence to the Hegelian/sartrean model of transcendence versus immanence, Simone de Beauvoir perpetuated the valorization of male risk-taking over the creation and nurture of life, obligations she assigned solely to the female. Nonetheless, her dispassionate, meticulous, phenomenological description of women's lived experience in The Second Sex, combined with her insistence that women, in spite of their oppression, must choose to become subjects, to `engage in freely chosen projects', has spurred contemporary feminist theorists to expand (...)
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  26. Truth and molinism.Trenton Merricks - 2011 - In Ken Perszyk, Molinism: The Contemporary Debate. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 50--72.
     
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    Concerning the psychological type of the redeemer: Nietzsche on the methods of philosophy.Allison Merrick - 2022 - European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):151-162.
    In section 24 of The Antichrist, Nietzsche notes a problem namely “the origin of Christianity.” He offers two propositions toward its solution: the first is that “Christianity can only be understood on the soil where it grew:” and the second is that “the psychological type of the Galilean is still recognizable, but it had to assume a completely degenerate form (simultaneously mutilated and full of alien features) before it came to be used as a redeemer of humanity” (A 24). Significantly (...)
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  28. The End of Counterpart Theory.Trenton Merricks - 2003 - Journal of Philosophy 100 (10):521-549.
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    On the Anti-paternalist Project of Reconciliation.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2019 - Utilitas 31 (1):20-37.
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  30. Propositional Attitudes?Trenton Merricks - 2009 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (1pt3):207 - 232.
  31. Endurance and indiscernibility.Trenton Merricks - 1994 - Journal of Philosophy 91 (4):165-184.
  32. Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice.Merrick Anderson - 2024 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Just Prospering? explores an important debate about the value of justice in Ancient Greece. Anderson begins with an analysis of the 5th Century BCE sophists and their novel philosophical debates about justice, before turning to Plato's Republic which, he argues, cannot be understood without attending to the sophistic dialogue.
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    The Curricular Ethics Bowl.Allison Merrick, Rochelle Green, Thomas Cunningham, Leah Eisenberg & D. Micah Hester - 2017 - Teaching Ethics 17 (2):151-165.
    Responding to research indicating unsettling results with regard to the ability of University students to recognize and reflect on questions of morality, this paper aims to discuss these issues and to introduce a promising mode of ethics instruction for overcoming such challenges. The Curricular Ethics Bowl (CEB) is a method of ethics education and assessment for a wide range of students and is a descendent of the Medical Ethics Bowl (MEB) (Merrick et al., “Introducing the Medical Ethics Bowl”). We (...)
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    Substance Among Other Categories. [REVIEW]Trenton Merricks - 1997 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2):480-482.
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  35. Persistence, parts, and presentism.Trenton Merricks - 1999 - Noûs 33 (3):421-438.
  36. Three Comments on Writing the Book of the World.Trenton Merricks - 2013 - Analysis 73 (4):722-736.
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  37. There are no criteria of identity over time.Trenton Merricks - 1998 - Noûs 32 (1):106-124.
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    Harm to Self or Others.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2019 - Social Theory and Practice 45 (2):287-305.
    Opponents of paternalism have sought to formulate non-paternalistic arguments for some seemingly reasonable but apparently paternalistic policies. This article addresses two such non-paternalistic arguments—the public charge argument and the psychic harm argument. The gist of both arguments is that a person’s imprudent or risky behavior often affects the interests of others adversely, and that this justifies restricting his or her behavior in various ways. The article shows that both arguments face important problems. It thus throws serious doubt on the prospect (...)
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    The Imprudence Trilemma: Sufficiency, Non-Paternalism, and Cost-Sensitivity.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2019 - Dissertation, Aarhus University
    This dissertation examines how we should respond to situations in which a person acts profoundly imprudently. We can, e.g., imagine the motorcyclist who prefers to drive without insurance and without a helmet. How should we, or the policy-makers, counter such imprudent activities performed by others? One option is that we do nothing, meaning that we do not interfere with other people’s imprudent behaviour, at the same time refraining from providing assistance in cases where the risk of the activities materialises. A (...)
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    William Glod: Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices.Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen - 2021 - Journal of Value Inquiry 57 (3):577-579.
  41. On the incompatibility of enduring and perduring entities.Trenton Merricks - 1995 - Mind 104 (415):521-531.
  42. Composition and vagueness.Trenton Merricks - 2005 - Mind 114 (455):615-637.
    ‘Restricted composition’ says that there are some composite objects. And it says that some objects jointly compose nothing at all. The main threat to restricted composition is the influential and widely defended Vagueness Argument. We shall see that the Vagueness Argument fails. In seeing how this argument fails, we shall discover a new focus for the debate over composition's extent.
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    Notes towards a New Interpretation of the Virtues in the Republic.Merrick Anderson - 2025 - In Carolina de Melo Bomfim Araújo, Plato's Power. Leiden | Boston: Brill. pp. 275=294.
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  44. Foreknowledge and Freedom.Trenton Merricks - 2011 - Philosophical Review 120 (4):567-586.
    The bulk of the essay “Truth and Freedom” (Philosophical Review 118 [2009]: 29–57) opposes fatalism, which is the claim that if there is a true proposition to the effect that an action A will occur, then A will not be free. But that essay also offers a new way to reconcile divine foreknowledge and human freedom. In “The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks” (Philosophical Review 120 [2011]: 97–115), John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd raise a number of objections (...)
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    On Seeing What There Is to See: Nietzsche on Forgetting and Aspectival Captivity.Allison Merrick - 2022 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 43 (2):373-391.
    How are we to understand Nietzsche’s championing of forgetting? Does Nietzsche consider unreconstructed forgetting an ethical and political ideal? If so, does Nietzsche’s counsel on forgetting thereby support and work at the behest of the dominant system of evaluation? Is, to frame it another way, Nietzschean forgetting but a mechanism by which the dominant evaluative framework repeats, reinscribes, retrenches, or otherwise reaffirms itself? By offering a close reading his remarks, most notably those that appear in On the Genealogy of Morality, (...)
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  46. André Morellet in the Republic of Letters of the French Revolution.Jeffrey Merrick & Dorothy Medlin - 1998 - Diderot Studies 27:230-232.
     
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    Explaining Eliminativism.Trenton Merricks - 2001 - In Objects and Persons. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Folk ontology includes statues. Eliminativism denies that statues exist but says that there are atoms arranged statuewise. In this chapter, I explain eliminativism and define ‘arranged statuewise’. I also argue that eliminativism is neither obviously false nor contradictory. In presenting this argument, I consider, among other things, ‘reductionism’ and composition as identity.
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    Replies to Hasker and Zimmerman on Molinism.Trenton Merricks - 2011 - In Ken Perszyk, Molinism: The Contemporary Debate. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 90-95.
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    Progress and Pluralism in Philosophy.Trenton Merricks - 2022 - Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 73:362-375.
    The methods of Philosophy deliver a certain sort of philosophical understanding. But those methods are not able - not all on their own - to reveal the truth-value of substantive philosophical claims. This inability plays a key role in this paper's argument for the conclusion that Philosophy has made a lot of progress despite persisting disagreement among philosophers about substantive philosophical claims. Moreover - so this paper maintains - this disagreement constitutes a welcome intellectual pluralism, allowing those with a wide (...)
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    French philosophers of the eighteenth century.Merrick Whitcomb - 1899 - [n. p.]: Franklin Classics Trade Press.
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be (...)
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