Browsing Department of Philosophy by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 35
-
Diviners and Divination in Aristophanic Comedy
(University of California Press, 1989-04) -
Recent Work on Aristotelian Biology
(MIT Press, 2000-12) -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2001
(Virginia Tech, 2001)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
(MIT Press, 2001-12)Philosophers of science turned to historical case studies in part in response to Thomas Kuhn's insistence that such studies can transform the philosophy of science. In this issue Joseph Pitt argues that the power of case ... -
The Dilemma of Case Studies: Toward a Heraclitian Philosophy of Science
(MIT Press, 2001-12)What do appeals to case studies accomplish? Consider the dilemma: On the one hand, if the case is selected because it exemplifies the philosophical point, then it is not clear that the historical data hasn't been manipulated ... -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2003
(Virginia Tech, 2003)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
The beautiful soul and the autocratic agent: Schiller's and Kant's 'children of the house'
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2003-10)In his extended essay "On Grace and Dignity," Friedrich Schiller sets out an important challenge to Kant when he argues that sensibility must play a constitutive role in the ethical life. This paper argues that there is ... -
Ethical pluralism without complementarity
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004)Grinnell, Bishop, and McCullough (2002) have proposed extending Bohr's notion of complementarity from the realm of quantum physics to that of bioethics, arguing that many ethical disputes cannot in principle be resolved. ... -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2004
(Virginia Tech, 2004)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2005
(Virginia Tech, 2005)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
Restoring the Fallen Blue Sky: Management Issues and Environmental Legislation for Lake Sevan, Armenia
(UC Davis School of Law, 2005)Armenia is a small, landlocked country in the Southern Caucasus Mountains. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations,¹ yet a very young country. It was formed as one of the Newly Independent States (NIS) following the ... -
Intrinsicality without Naturalness
(2005-03) -
The practical turn in ethical theory: Korsgaard's constructivism, realism, and the nature of normativity
(University of Chicago Press, 2005-07)My aim is to assess the merits of Korsgaard's rejection of realism as well as the prospects for her practical approach to normativity, and I shall both raise problems for her constructivism and develop a realist response ... -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2006
(Virginia Tech, 2006)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Fall 2007
(Virginia Tech, 2007)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
Cartesianism Revisited
(MIT Press, 2007-12) -
Moral Responsibility and Normative Ignorance: Answering a New Skeptical Challenge
(University of Chicago Press, 2008-07)Philosophical doubts about moral responsibility have typically been rooted in worries about free agency in the face of causal determinism, culminating in familiar metaphysical arguments against the very possibility of moral ... -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2009
(Virginia Tech, 2009)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech. -
Plan-Based Expressivism and Innocent Mistakes
(University of Chicago Press, 2009-01)Over the past hundred years, there has been a series of metaethical views according to which we ought to deepen our understanding of normative terms by inquiring after the states of mind they express. This is the class of ... -
Department of Philosophy Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2010
(Virginia Tech, 2010)As a way to keep in touch with alumni, the Department published a regular newsletter with the latest news about the philosophy community at Virginia Tech.
