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Kinds of Philosophy Terms modified by Philosophy Selected AbstractsDERRIDA'S RIGHT TO PHILOSOPHY, THEN AND NOWEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2009John Willinsky In this essay, a tribute to Jacques Derrida's educational efforts at expanding access to current work in philosophy, John Willinsky examines his efforts as both a public right and an element of academic freedom that bear on the open access movement today. Willinsky covers Derrida's extension and outreach work with the Groupe de Recherches pour l'Enseignement de la Philosophie in the 1970s and a decade later with Collège International de Philosophie that provided public access to ongoing and leading-edge philosophical work, as well as supporting the teaching of philosophy in the schools. Willinsky also relates Derrida's dedicated, practical educational work, his historical analysis of Descartes's decision to write in French, and more recent initiatives that are using Internet technologies to increase public and educational access to published scholarly work in the humanities in a very similar spirit. [source] OPENING PHILOSOPHY TO THE WORLD: DERRIDA AND EDUCATION IN PHILOSOPHYEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2009Steven Burik In this essay, Steven Burik discusses Jacques Derrida's position with regard to the place of education in philosophy within the university system, and then relates these thoughts to comparative philosophy. Philosophers find themselves constantly having to defend philosophy and the importance of teaching philosophy against pressure from the powers that be. Burik contends that the argument Derrida set forth to "protect" philosophy entails a double bind: Derrida emphasized the value and importance of philosophical thinking while at the same time criticizing the limits of philosophy, both self-mandated and externally imposed. Derrida's defense of philosophy was anything but a protection of the status quo, according to Burik. Derrida ultimately argued that the teaching of philosophy and philosophy itself should be inherently open to new developments. Burik relates Derrida's defense of philosophy and attack on mainstream philosophy to comparative philosophy, demonstrating that both argue for an expansion of thinking beyond the narrow Western confines of philosophy as "pure" reason or rationality by showing how alterity always inserts itself, and that both seek to give this alterity a valid place in educational systems. [source] JOHN DEWEY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITYEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 1 2008Scot Danforth In this article Scot Danforth takes as his project addressing that division from the perspective of a Deweyan philosophy of the education of students with intellectual disabilities. In 1922, John Dewey authored two articles in New Republic that criticized the use of intelligence tests as both undemocratic and impractical in meeting the needs of teachers. Drawing from these two articles and a variety of Dewey's other works, Danforth puts forward a Deweyan educational theory of intellectual disability. This theory is perhaps encapsulated in Dewey's observation that "The democratic faith in human equality is belief that every human being, independent of the quantity or range of his personal endowment, has the right to equal opportunity with every other person for development of whatever gifts he has."1 [source] PHILOSOPHY AS TRANSLATION: DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION FROM DEWEY TO CAVELLEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2007Naoko Saito In this essay Naoko Saito aims to find an alternative idea and language for "mutual national understanding," one that is more attuned to the sensibility of our times. She argues for Stanley Cavell's idea of philosophy as translation as such an alternative. Based upon Cavell's rereading of Thoreau's Walden, Saito represents Thoreau as a cross-cultural figure who transcends cultural and national boundaries. On the strength of this, she proposes a Cavellian education for global citizenship, that is, a perfectionist education for imperfect understanding in acknowledgment of alterity. Our founding of democracy must depend upon a readiness to "deconfound" the culture we have come from, the better to find new foundations together. The "native" is always in transition, by and through language, in processes of translation. [source] WHAT FEMINIST INQUIRY CONTRIBUTES TO PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: A SYMPOSIUMEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2007Barbara J Thayer-Bacon First page of article [source] SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIVED EXPERIENCEEDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 2 2006James D. Marshall In this essay, James D. Marshall aims to present Beauvoir, not as a mere entry in the history of French philosophy, nor as an under-laborer to Jean-Paul Sartre, but as someone who has important philosophical insights to contribute to ongoing debates on the human condition, including those concerned with education. Central to these debates are issues such as what does it mean to be an individual human being and what characterizes the relations between individuals and others and between individuals and society. Marshall argues that Beauvoir can participate in such philosophical and educational debates, for philosophy of education has major interests in such questions as who or what is this "person" whom we profess to be educating, what kind of person or outcome of education is desirable, and in what kind of society should these individuals take part? [source] MOVING BEYOND BIOPOWER: HARDT AND NEGRI'S POST-FOUCAULDIAN SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORYHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 4 2005RÉAL FILLION ABSTRACT I argue in this paper that the attempt by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire and Multitude to "theorize empire" should be read both against the backdrop of speculative philosophy of history and as a development of the conception of a "principle of intelligibility" as this is discussed in Michel Foucault's recently published courses at the Collège de France. I also argue that Foucault's work in these courses (and elsewhere) can be read as implicitly providing what I call "prolegomena to any future speculative philosophy of history." I define the latter as concerned with the intelligibility of the historical process considered as a whole. I further suggest, through a brief discussion of the classical figures of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, that the basic features of speculative philosophy of history concern the articulation of both the telos and dynamics of history. My claim is that Hardt and Negri provide an account of the telos and dynamics of history that respects the strictures imposed on speculative philosophy of history by Foucault's work, and thus can be considered as providing a post-Foucauldian speculative philosophy of history. In doing so, they provide a challenge to other "theoretical" attempts to account for our changing world. [source] INTERPRETATION OF YOGÄ€CÄ€RA PHILOSOPHY IN HUAYAN BUDDHISMJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2010IMRE HAMAR First page of article [source] PARADIGM OF CHANGE (YI ?) IN CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: PART IJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 4 2009CHUNG-YING CHENG [source] THE YIJING (????) AS CREATIVE INCEPTION OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHYJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2008CHUNG-YING CHENG [source] INTRODUCTION: NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHYJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2007KARYN L. LAI [source] ON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: DEVELOPING ONTO-HERMENEUTICS OF THE HUMAN PERSONJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2007CHUNG-YING CHENGArticle first published online: 18 DEC 200 [source] INTRODUCTION: DOING CHINESE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT "MAT VENDOR'S FALLACY"JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2007CHENYANG LI [source] AXIOLOGICAL RULES AND CHINESE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2007DUNHUA ZHAO [source] TOWARD CONSTRUCTING A DIALECTICS OF HARMONIZATION: HARMONY AND CONFLICT IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHYJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2006CHUNG-YING CHENG [source] CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND PROCESS THOUGHTJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2005JOHN B. COBB JR. [source] ELUCIDATION OF IMAGES IN THE BOOK OF CHANGES: ANCIENT INSIGHTS INTO MODERN LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY AND HERMENEUTICSJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 4 2004MING DONG GUArticle first published online: 15 NOV 200 [source] LEVIATHANS, CRITICAL THINKING, AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: A PROPOSAL FOR A GENERAL EDUCATION LEGAL STUDIES COURSEJOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION, Issue 1 2003Nim Razook [source] PHILOSOPHY IN FRAGMENTS: CULTIVATING PHILOSOPHIC THINKING WITH THE PRESOCRATICSMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 5 2009DANIEL SILVERMINTZ Abstract: This article presents a strategy for introducing Presocratic thought to students in a manner that is both engaging and relevant. The first section addresses students' reactions to the claim that the Presocratics were the first philosophers. The second section considers how the fragmentary state of Presocratic thought does not hinder its comprehension. The third section proposes a classroom exercise for testing the scientific merits of each of the Presocratic theories. The final section proposes the use of a mock trial as a means of applying the materialist approach introduced by the Presocratics to contemporary debates about free will and determinism. [source] PHILOSOPHY AND OTHER DISCIPLINESMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 4-5 2008SVEN OVE HANSSON Abstract: This article offers a perspective on the role of philosophy in relation to other academic disciplines and to society in general. Among the issues treated are the delimitation of philosophy, whether it is a science, its role in the community of knowledge disciplines, its losses of subject matter to other disciplines, how it is influenced by social changes and by progress in other disciplines, and its role in interdisciplinary work. It is concluded that philosophy has an important mission in promoting clarity, precision, and open-mindedness in academic research and in society at large. [source] PHILOSOPHY AND THE STUDY OF ITS HISTORYMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2008ANDREW MELNYK Abstract: This article's goal is to outline one approach to providing a principled answer to the question of what is the proper relationship between philosophy and the study of philosophy's history, a question arising, for example, in the design of a curriculum for graduate students. This approach requires empirical investigation of philosophizing past and present, and thus takes philosophy as an object of study in something like the way that contemporary (naturalistic) philosophy of science takes science as an object of study. This approach also requires articulating a sense in which philosophy might make, or might have made, progress. [source] THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOSEPH MARGOLISMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 5 2005Göran Hermerén Abstract: In this article I focus on some of Joseph Margolis's contributions to medical ethics. I first discuss some of Margolis's normative and metaphysical views on death and abortion, particularly in his early work Negativities, as well as some of his metaphysical assumptions. Then these views and assumptions are related to his theory of persons and, by implication, his theory of culture, set forth in a number of later works. In the course of the discussion, I call attention to some controversial issues of today, such as embryonic stem cell research and the creation of embryos for the sole purpose of research, and ask for Margolis's views on them, given his earlier contributions and assumptions. Finally, I comment on his relativism and his program for research in aesthetics and ethics. [source] HOW I SEE PHILOSOPHY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND BEYONDMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2005Haig Khatchadourian Abstract: This article raises some questions about the relevance and value of philosophy at present and suggests some ways in which philosophy can become relevant again. It challenges philosophers to become more actively engaged in the world and to restore Western philosophy's original vision of "love of wisdom," a value sorely lacking in the present-day world and abandoned by much of contemporary Western philosophy. The pursuit of wisdom would involve the quest for sound judgment and synoptic insights regarding the ends humankind should strive to realize, including moral visions to help Homo sapiens emerge from the atavistic jungle. It would also involve sound judgment regarding the proper means for the attainment of these desirable ends. For these things to be possible, philosophy would need to draw upon humankind's collective wisdom in philosophy, religion, and myth, and on advances in scientific knowledge, thereby gaining an ever-deeper understanding of ourselves and of our place in the cosmos. [source] FAITH IN A HARD GROUND: ESSAYS ON RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS BY G.E.M. ANSCOMBENEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1034 2010MICHAEL PAKALUK First page of article [source] METHOD IN METAPHYSICS: LONERGAN AND THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY by Andrew BeardsNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1025 2009JOSEPH FITZPATRICK No abstract is available for this article. [source] EIFFEL TOWER KEY CHAINS AND OTHER PIECES OF REALITY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOUVENIRS1PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM, Issue 3 2007DANIELLE M. LASUSA First page of article [source] PHILOSOPHY, THE RESTLESS HEART AND THE MEANING OF THEISMRATIO, Issue 4 2006John Haldane There is a common philosophical challenge that asks how things would be different if some supposed reality did not exist. Conceived in one way this can amount to trial by sensory verification. Even if that challenge is dismissible, however, the question of the relation of the purported reality to experience remains. Writing here in connection with the central claims, and human significance, of theism; and drawing on ideas suggested by C. S. Pierce, C. S. Lewis, Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, I aim to turn the tables and argue that the broad structure and basic features of human cognitive and affective experience indicate their fulfilment in God. [source] NO FEAR OF FOUNDATIONS: REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEMPORARY JEWISH PHILOSOPHYTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2009ALAN MITTLEMAN First page of article [source] A NEW ,APOLOGIA': THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORK OF JEAN-LUC MARIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2005Christina M. GschwandtnerArticle first published online: 15 JUN 200 First page of article [source] A REVIEW OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHILOSOPHYANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY, Issue 1 2010GILLIAN RUSSELL First page of article [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||