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1. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 3
H. Eugene Cline John Rawls’ Law of Peoples: Some of the Important Themes and Issues Raised
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Andrew Fiala Terrorism and the Philosophy of History: Liberalism, Realism, and the Supreme Emergency Exemption
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editor’s introduction
3. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
David Boersema Introduction: Pragmatism and Neopragmatism
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4. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Heidi Salaverria Who is Exaggerating? The Mystery of Common Sense
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5. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Charbel Niño El-Hani, Sami Pihlström Emergence Theories and Pragmatic Realism
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The tradition of pragmatism has, especially since Dewey, been characterized by a commitment to nonreductive naturalism. The notion of emergence, popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and currently re-emerging as a central concept in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, may be useful in explicating that commitment. The present paper discusses the issue of the reality of emergent properties, drawing particular attention to a pragmatic way of approaching this issue. The reality of emergents can be defended as a pragmatically-useful ontological commitment; hence, pragmatism can be employed as a tool in the debate over the structure and reality of emergence. This strategy of justifying ontological commitments is examined through historical and systematic discussions of the pragmatist tradition. It turns out, among other things, that while classical pragmatists did not specify any technical notion of emergence in the contemporary sense, their non-reductively naturalist views are relevant to the more recent emergence discussions -- especially because they rejected the metaphysical realism typical of today’s ontologically-oriented emergence theories.
6. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 2
Hendrik R. Pieterse Neopragmatism and the Christian Desire for a Transcendent God: Is a Meaningful Dialogue Possible?
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Mark McEvoy Naturalized Epistemology, Normativity and the Argument Against the A Priori
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Gregory M. Fahey The Idea of the Good in John Dewey and Aristotle
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Kevin Decker Habermas on Human Rights and Cloning: A Pragmatist Response
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D. S. Clark Pragmatism’s Instrumental View of Moral Reasoning
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Brian E. Butler Legal Pragmatism: Banal or Beneficial as a Jurisprudential Position?
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Steven Schroeder Review of Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue, ed. John J. Davenport and Anthony Rudd
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Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert Review of Kant Trouble: The Obscurities of the Enlightened, by Diane Morgan
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Clancy W. Martin Review of Philosophy and Tragedy, ed. Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks
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Leo Zaibert Review of Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, ed. Steven E. Aschheim
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Lawrence Udell Fike Jr. Review of The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender, ed. Chenyang Li
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Zsolt Bátori Review of Having Thought, by John Haugeland
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Susan Armstrong Review of Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical Plumbing, by Mary Midgley
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19. Essays in Philosophy: Volume > 3 > Issue: 1
Yuriko Saito Scenic National Landscapes: Common Themes in Japan and the United States
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Steve Matthews A Hybrid Theory of Environmentalism
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The destruction and pollution of the natural environment poses two problems for philosophers. The first is political and pragmatic: which theory of the environment is best equipped to impact policymakers heading as we are toward a series of potential ecocatastrophes? The second is more central: On the environment philosophers tend to fall either side of an irreconcilable divide. Either our moral concerns are grounded directly in nature, or the appeal is made via an anthropocentric set of interests. The lack of a common ground is disturbing. In this paper I attempt to diagnose the reason for this lack. I shall agree that wild nature lacks features of intrinsic moral worth, and that leaves a puzzle: Why is it once we subtract the fact that there is such a lack, we are left with strong intuitions against the destruction and/or pollution of wild nature? Such intuitions can be grounded only in a strong sense of aesthetic concern combined with a common-sense regard for the interests of sentient life as it is indirectly affected by the quality of the environment. I suggest also that of the positions on offer, a hybrid theory of the environment is best suited to address our first problem, that of having an effective influence in the polity.