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Socratic dunameis: A tapestry of many threads.
(2003)
In the early Platonic dialogues Socrates uses the concept of dunamis, which is commonly translated as 'capacity', 'power', 'ability', or 'potentiality', in connection with his search for true knowledge of morality. He ...
The Value of Aesthetic Experience
(2014-08-15)
In this dissertation, I argue that aesthetic experience is a kind of valuing experience that has certain, objective features not dependent on the psychological state of the subject. Accounts of aesthetic experience can ...
Political principles and Indian sovereignty.
(1999)
Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty starts by examining the connection between the well being of Indian people and the sovereignty of Indian Nations. External "locus of control" turns up consistently as a potential ...
The unity of virtue revisited: A resolution to a Socratic enigma.
(1999)
Socrates' assertions about the relationship between the cardinal virtues of justice, temperance, piety, courage, and wisdom have long been a source of controversy among scholars. While it is generally held that his position ...
Ten Myths About Character, Virtue and Virtue Education - Plus Three Well-Founded Misgivings
(2013-04-30)
Initiatives to cultivate character and virtue in moral education at school continue to provoke sceptical responses. Most of those echo familiar misgivings about the notions of character, virtue and education in virtue – ...
Rethinking introspection: How we know (and fail to know) our own minds.
(2006)
In this dissertation I offer a new framework for understanding introspection, characterizing it as a multi-faceted phenomenon that has a broad range of epistemic qualities. I begin by arguing that the standard understanding ...
A Whiteheadian critique of Jaegwon Kim's analysis of the mind-body problem.
(2001)
The first section of the dissertation examines Kim's views on the nature of physical reality, causation, physical causal closure, and experience. For example, I find that Kim's views of experience are limited by his ...
A critical study of Sartre's ontology of consciousness /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1971)
The Bible and Science: Calvin, Newton & Other Writers
(2015)
Quotations from various important Christian interpreters about the relationship between the Bible and Science. Aimed at helping learners differentiate between four key frameworks of relating the Bible and Science.