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  1. A Riveting Argument in Favor of Asceticism in the Phaedo.Travis Butler - 2012 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2).
  2. Aristotle on Meaning and Essence.Travis Butler - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (2):302.
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    Empeiria in Aristotle.Travis Butler - 2003 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (3):329-350.
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    Identity and Infallibility in Plato's Epistemology.Travis Butler - 2006 - Apeiron 39 (1):1 - 25.
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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato.Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
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    On David Charles's Account of Aristotle's Semantics for Simple Names.Travis Butler - 1997 - Phronesis 42 (1):21-31.
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    Aristotle on Nous of Simples.Travis Butler & Eric Rubenstein - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (3):327 - 353.
    In so many of his epistemological writings, Aristotle defends a sensible flavor of gradualism about our cognitive capacities: we start with the partial grasps afforded by what is better known to us, and if things go well, we end up with understandings of those objects better known by nature. The picture is of a step-wise process, rather than a transforming moment of illumination.
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    Socrates and Philosophical Practice.Travis Butler - 2015 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (5):821-842.
    Interpreters of the Phaedo often cite the Pythagorean context of the dialogue as a source of influence on the demanding conception of philosophy defended therein. Sandra Peterson offers a striking account of that influence: the Pythagorean sympathies of Socrates's interlocutors lead him to defend a conception of philosophy that captures their commitments, but that he himself rejects. Call this the Strong Influence Thesis. Peterson defends SIT by attempting to demonstrate a mismatch between the conception of philosophy espoused by Socrates in (...)
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    Bodily Desire and Imprisonment in the Phaedo.Travis Butler - 2017 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 20 (1):82-102.
    The ethics and moral psychology of the Phaedo crucially depend on claims made uniquely about bodily desire. This paper offers an analysis and defense of the account of bodily desire in the dialogue, arguing that bodily desires – desires with their source in processes or conditions of the body – are characterized by three features: motivational pull, assertoric force, and intensity. Desires with these features target the soul’s rational functions with distinctive forms of imprisonment. They target the soul’s capacity to (...)
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    David P. hunt.Travis Butler - 1997 - Phronesis 42 (1).
  11. Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras Reviewed by.Travis Butler - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26 (1):44-46.
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    Intellectualism in the phaedo: Comments on socratic moral psychology.Travis Butler - 2012 - Analytic Philosophy 53 (2):208-215.
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  13. On Today's Two‐Worlds Interpretation: Knowledge and True Belief in Plato.Travis Butler - 2007 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (1):31-56.
    This paper presents arguments against two crucial elements of recent versions of the Two‐Worlds interpretation of Plato. I argue first that in addition to knowledge of the forms, Plato allows beliefs about them as well. Then I argue that Plato sees knowledge as a state in which the subject is conscious of information about the forms. Thus, the infallibility of knowledge must be understood in a way that is consistent with its being informational. Finally, I argue that my conclusions about (...)
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    The Place of Pleasure in Neo-Aristotelian Ethics.Travis Butler - 2023 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 97 (1):101-119.
    Richard Kraut argues that Neo-Aristotelian ethics should include a com­mitment to “diluted hedonism,” according to which the exercise of a developed life-capacity is good for S only if and partly because S enjoys it. I argue that the Neo-Aristotelian should reject diluted hedonism for two reasons: first, it compro­mises the generality and elegance of the initial developmentalist account; second, it leads to mistaken evaluations of some of the most important and ennobling capacities and activities in human life. Finally, I argue (...)
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    Plato's Essentialism: Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms by Vasilis Politis.Travis Butler - 2022 - Review of Metaphysics 76 (1):154-156.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Plato's Essentialism: Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms by Vasilis PolitisTravis ButlerPOLITIS, Vasilis. Plato's Essentialism: Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 251 pp. Cloth, $99.99The reinterpretation of the theory of forms to which Politis refers in this book's subtitle is accomplished by foregrounding the conception of forms as essences—the kinds of beings we must countenance if we pose, pursue, and believe we (...)
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    Comprehensive moral thinking and the demandingness objection.Travis Butler - 2020 - Business and Society Review 125 (1):143-158.
    In his tripartite theory of corporate responsibility, Kenneth Goodpaster argues for the inclusion of “Comprehensive Moral Thinking (CMT)” as the third part alongside shareholder and stakeholder thinking. CMT requires managers sometimes to act for reasons of dignity or a just community, against what shareholder and stakeholder thinking recommend. To address concerns about the demandingness of CMT, Goodpaster argues that the responsibilities it imposes are significant but qualified or conditional: they require only that managers make efforts to address problems of dignity (...)
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    Explaining an Eclipse: Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics 2.1-10.Travis Butler & Owen Goldin - 1998 - Philosophical Review 107 (1):149.
    In Explaining an Eclipse, Owen Goldin provides a book-length treatment of the first ten chapters of book 2 of the Posterior Analytics. Goldin’s aim is to answer one question: how can an Aristotelian demonstration show anything of scientific interest if all the premises are definitions? To this question Goldin gives his undivided attention.
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    Eschatology and the Limits of Philosophy in the Phaedo.Travis Butler - 2022 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 9.
    An abiding puzzle in the Phaedo is the transition in the text from initial pessimism about the possibility of wisdom during human life to a more optimistic view. Prominent interpretations posit different kinds or degrees of wisdom at issue in the two sets of passages. By contrast, I argue that the pessimistic view rests on the implicit premise that the soul cannot be completely purified during human life—a premise which arises from an initial conception of impurity and its cause. In (...)
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    Function and Structure in Aristotle.Travis Butler - 2007 - Dialogue 46 (1):69-90.
    Aristotle is sometimes committed to a pattern of inference that moves from complexity offunctioning to complexity in the entity's metaphysical structure. This article argues that Aristotle rejects this inference in the case of the basic essence, the ultimate differentia that determines the kind to which the entity belongs. Specifically, the functional difference between active and passive reasoning in humans is not matched in the structure of the basic human essence. The basic essence is an immediate unity in the strong sense (...)
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    How Simple Are Plato’s Forms?Travis Butler & Eric M. Rubenstein - 2002 - Ancient Philosophy 22 (2):277-288.
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    Refining Motivational Intellectualism: Plato’s Protagoras and Phaedo.Travis Butler - 2019 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101 (2):153-176.
    Refined intellectualism holds that although an agent’s actions always follow his rationally-produced choices of what is best, those choices can be influenced by non-rational motivational states. Through a contrast with the Protagoras, I argue that RI is not only clearly endorsed in the Phaedo but also central to the philosophical ethic defended in that dialogue. This result raises problems for prevailing developmentalist interpretations of Plato’s moral psychology.
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    Virtue intellectualism and Socratic forms.Travis Butler & Nolan Pithan - 2021 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (6):971-990.
    Aristotle famously claims that Plato, unlike Socrates, separated the forms. Some argue that Plato's dialogues provide a record of this disagreement, with the Socratic and Platonic theories presente...
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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
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  24. Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26:44-46.
     
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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
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    Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus. By John M. Cooper. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2014 - Ancient Philosophy 34 (1):224-228.
  27. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex".Judith Butler - 1993 - New York: Routledge.
    In ____Bodies That Matter,__ Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in _Gender_ _Trouble,_ Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable (...)
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    Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler - 1990 - Routledge.
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s _Gender Trouble_ is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender (...)
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    Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler - 1989 - Routledge.
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s _Gender Trouble_ is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender (...)
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  30. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Judith Butler - 1989 - Routledge.
    Ever since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In ____Gender__ ____Trouble ____ Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender.
     
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  31. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex.Judith Butler - 1993 - New York: Routledge.
    In ____Bodies That Matter,__ Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in _Gender_ _Trouble,_ Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable (...)
     
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  32. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex.Judith Butler - 1993 - New York: Routledge.
    In ____Bodies That Matter,__ Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in _Gender_ _Trouble,_ Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable (...)
     
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  33. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.Judith Butler - 1997 - Routledge.
    With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.
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    Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.Judith Butler - 1997 - Routledge.
    With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites.
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    Antigone’s Claim, Kinship Between Life and Death.Judith Butler - 2000 - Cambridge University Press.
    The celebrated author of _Gender Trouble_ here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship -- and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's _Oedipus,_ has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that (...)
  36. Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange.Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell & Nancy Fraser (eds.) - 1994 - New York: Routledge.
    First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
     
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    Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence.Judith Butler - 2004 - New York: Verso.
    In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence might be minimized and in which interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for a (...)
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    Vulnerability in Resistance.Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti & Leticia Sabsay (eds.) - 2016 - Durham: Duke University Press.
    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in Resistance articulate an understanding of the role of vulnerability in practices of resistance. They consider how vulnerability is constructed, invoked, and mobilized within neoliberal discourse, the politics of war, (...)
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    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere.Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West & Craig Calhoun (eds.) - 2011 - Columbia University Press.
    _The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere_ represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jürgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of (...)
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    Internal Affairs: Making Room for Psychosemantic Internalism.Keith Butler - 1998 - Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    What is it about you in virtue of which you are having the thoughts you are now having? The answer will no doubt make some appeal to the state your brain is now in. Most philosophers, however, claim that this is only part of the answer; many of the facts that determine your thoughts lie outside your skin. This view is called externalism, and in this book Keith L. Butler argues that, contrary to widespread philosophical opinion, externalism is very (...)
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  41. Buying Green: A Trap for Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical Consumerism.Michael Butler - 2023 - In Matthew Ally & Damon Boria (eds.), Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene. Rowman and Littlefield.
    This paper appears in Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene, edited by Matthew Ally and Damon Boria. From the introduction: "In Chapter 6, Michael Butler critically examines the misguided effort to shop our way out of climate change problems. After expositions of some key concepts from Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, he criticizes ethical consumerism in a way reminiscent of Sartre's criticism of voting as a trap for fools. His concluding section juxtaposes two competing responses to climate change (...)
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    Keep or trade? Effects of pay-off range on decisions with the two-envelopes problem.Raymond S. Nickerson, Susan F. Butler, Nathaniel Delaney-Busch & Michael Carlin - 2014 - Thinking and Reasoning 20 (4):472-499.
    The "two-envelopes" problem has stimulated much discussion on probabilistic reasoning, but relatively little experimentation. The problem specifies two identical envelopes, one of which contains twice as much money as the other. You are given one of the envelopes and the option of keeping it or trading for the other envelope. Variables of interest include the possible amounts of money involved, what is known about the process by which the amounts of money were assigned to the envelopes, and whether you are (...)
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    End-user feature labeling: Supervised and semi-supervised approaches based on locally-weighted logistic regression.Shubhomoy Das, Travis Moore, Weng-Keen Wong, Simone Stumpf, Ian Oberst, Kevin McIntosh & Margaret Burnett - 2013 - Artificial Intelligence 204:56-74.
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  44. Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach.Clark Butler - unknown
    Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics and human rights studies in as much as it seeks to vindicate a universalistic, rational approach to human rights ethics. Butler's innovative approach is not based on murky claims to "natural rights" that supposedly hold wherever human beings exist; nor does it succumb to (...)
     
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    In Search of the American Spirit: The Political Thought of Orestes Brownson.Gregory S. Butler - 1992 - Southern Illinois University Press.
    Extensively utilizing Brownson's lesser-known writings, Butler examines, in chronological order, the phases of Brownson's personal and spiritual development, thereby assessing the importance and contemporary relevance of his thought.
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    Modernism: A Very Short Introduction.Christopher Butler - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
    Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life.
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    The ancient phonograph.Shane Butler - 2015 - New York: Zone Books.
    A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph, Shane Butler searches for traces of voices before Edison, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Here the real voices of tragic actors, ambitious orators, and singing (...)
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  48. The concept of legal consciousness : origin and transformations.P. T. Grier & W. E. Butler - 2023 - In Ivan Aleksandrovich Il'in (ed.), On the essence of legal consciousness. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing.
     
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    The Ethical and Methodological Complexities of Doing Research with 'Vulnerable' Young People.Gill Valentine, Ruth Butler & Tracey Skelton - 2001 - Ethics, Place and Environment 4 (2):119-125.
    In discussing methodological and ethical codes for working with children there is a danger that young people can become homogenised as a social category. In this paper we examine the way in which c...
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    Selected writings.Slavoj éziézek, Rex Butler & Scott Stephens - 2005 - New York: Continuum. Edited by Rex Butler & Scott Stephens.
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