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1. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Patricia Shipley, Fernando Leal Is Practical Philosophy for Private Profit or Public Good?: A Critical View of the Practical Turn in Contemporary Philosophy
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This paper takes a critical look at the rise of the practice of philosophy in the market place in late modernity. Two main forms of such practice are identified: the practice of Socratic Dialogue in small groups in organisations and one-to-one philosophical counselling of individual 'clients'. The relevance of professionalism for commercialised applied practical philosophy is discussed. Philosophical counsellors in particular may be at risk of engaging with vulnerable individuals who are in need of protection from practitioners who are not trained to deal with their problems. Psychology is the discipline which is most related to practical philosophy and it is growing in ethical awareness. This paper emphasises the importance of ethics for philosophy in practice. There is a pressing need for eternal vigilance by practitioners from such disciplines, whether professionalised or not, in the complex modern'runaway world'.
2. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
David Beisecker Dennett and the Quest for Real Meaning: In Defense of a “Myth”
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In several recent pieces, Daniel Dennett has advanced a line of reasoning purporting to show that we should reject the idea that there is a tenable distinction to be drawn between the manner in which we represent the way things are and the manner in which "blessedly simple" intentional systems like thermostats and frogs represent the way things are. Through a series of thought experiments, Dennett aims to show that philosophers of mind should abandon their preoccupation with "real meaning as opposed to ersatz meaning, 'intrinsic' or 'original ' intentionality as opposed to derived intentionality. " In this paper, I lay out the case that Dennett builds against original intentionality, with the aim of showing that, once it has been properly clarified, the notion of original intentionality isn't nearly the myth that Dennett makes it out to be.
3. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Suzanne Laba Cataldi Making a Game of Killing: Fantasy, Reality and the Violence at Columbine High School
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This paper focuses on the disturbing mixture of fantasy with reality in the massacre at Columbine, where the perpetrators appear to have made a game or 'fun' of their killing Because of the deception involved and despite their immersion in violent media, I argue that they could not have been totally confused about the difference between play and actual violence. Huizinga's notion of play and Merleau-Ponty's reversibility thesis are applied to the situation.
4. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Jean Chambers Ethicists as Architects: Revising Moral Theory Using All the Tools
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As James Coleman and Allan Gibbard have suggested, human morality may be viewed as a feedback control system. Each of the standard normative ethical theories emphasizes only part of this complex system. Social reform requires both new theoretical syntheses and a practical effort to better uphold ideal norms.
5. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Luciano Floridi Information Ethics: An Environmental Approach to the Digital Divide
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As a full expression of techne, the information society has already posed fundamental ethical problems, whose complexity and global dimensions are rapidlyevolving. What is the best strategy to construct an information society that is ethically sound? This is the question I discuss in this paper. The task is to formulate aninformation ethics that can treat the world of data, information, knowledge and communication as a new environment, the infosphere. This information ethics must be able to address and solve the ethical challenges arising in the new environment on the basis of the fundamental principles of respect for information, its conservation and valorisation. It must be an ecological ethics for the information environment.
6. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
J. M. Fritzman "Why I Hardly Read Althusser": Reading Habermas Hardly Reading Althusser
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This article discusses Habermas' rejections of the orthodoxy of the philosophy of history, ethical socialism, and scientism. It urges that his attempt to derive rationality and morality from consensus fails, and so he does lapse into ethical socialism. However, ethical socialism only appears to be something to avoidbecause of his belief that consensus could generate rationality and morality. Once the impossibility of that is recognized, ethical socialism can be rehabilitated. Hence, Althusser's version of ethical socialism escapes Habermas' censure.
7. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Edward J. Grippe Socrates, Plato and the Tao
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This paper is a reconsideration of Platonic dialogues in the light of Taoist insights. The application of Socratic Ignorance to the entire corpus of Plato reveals the yin and yang not only in the internal dialogue between Socrates and Plato, but also between Plato and his reader. Furthermore, this approach brings to the surface the necessity of the dialectic relation between the yang of Western analysis and the yin of Asian intuition to the revelation of the Tao.
8. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Vladimir Marchenkov Art and Religion in the Age of Denounced Master-Narratives
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Religious art within postmodernism is discussed. Postmodern art, I argue, projects the myth of a miraculously generating chaos which cannot be maintained as absolute and therefore postmodern art cannot be genuinely religious. The myth is adopted for ideological, not philosophical reasons and calls for alternatives to make religious art possible.
9. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Robert Boyd Skipper Objects in Space As Metaphor for the Internet
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Despite the apparent aptness of the spatial model for Internet concepts, I will try to show that the paradigm is in fact very misleading and unnatural First, I argue that Cyberspace lacks the central features that constitute a space. Then I show that the metaphor creates a poor conceptual model that yields false or misleading conclusions about how Cyberspace functions.
10. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Patricia Trentacoste Why Aren't Moral People Always Moral?: An Argument for Considering Personality as the Foundational Link Between Biology and Context
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In order to reduce internal dissonance and emotional pain, the personality plays a causal role in confabulating consistency among our beliefs, values and actions. To the extent that we are unaware of our own moral ''blind spots," a prima facie duty to engage in self-knowledge exists. Only then can we reduce injustices incurring from moral arrogance.
11. Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Volume > 9 > Issue: 1
Grace-Ellen Meixner PCW Cumulative Index Volume 8 (2001)
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