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  1. Aristotle on Meaning and Essence.Travis Butler - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (2):302.
  2. A Riveting Argument in Favor of Asceticism in the Phaedo.Travis Butler - 2012 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2).
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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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    Empeiria in Aristotle.Travis Butler - 2003 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (3):329-350.
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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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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
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    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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    Identity and Infallibility in Plato's Epistemology.Travis Butler - 2006 - Apeiron 39 (1):1 - 25.
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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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    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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    David P. hunt.Travis Butler - 1997 - Phronesis 42 (1).
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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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    Intellectualism in the phaedo: Comments on socratic moral psychology.Travis Butler - 2012 - Analytic Philosophy 53 (2):208-215.
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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato.Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
  20. Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras Reviewed by.Travis Butler - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26 (1):44-46.
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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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    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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  24. Mi-Kyoung Lee, Epistemology After Protagoras. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26:44-46.
     
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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.
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    Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. [REVIEW]Travis Butler - 2005 - Philosophical Review 114 (1):115-117.
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  27. Subjection, resistance, resignification: between Freud and Foucault.Judith Butler - 1995 - In John Rajchman (ed.), The identity in question. New York: Routledge. pp. 229--50.
     
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    An entirely non-self-referential Yabloesque paradox.Jesse M. Butler - 2018 - Synthese 195 (11):5007-5019.
    Graham Priest has argued that Yablo’s paradox involves a kind of ‘hidden’ circularity, since it involves a predicate whose satisfaction conditions can only be given in terms of that very predicate. Even if we accept Priest’s claim that Yablo’s paradox is self-referential in this sense—that the satisfaction conditions for the sentences making up the paradox involve a circular predicate—it turns out that there are paradoxical variations of Yablo’s paradox that are not circular in this sense, since they involve satisfaction conditions (...)
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    An entirely non-self-referential Yabloesque paradox.Jesse M. Butler - 2018 - Synthese 195 (11):5007-5019.
    Graham Priest has argued that Yablo’s paradox involves a kind of ‘hidden’ circularity, since it involves a predicate whose satisfaction conditions can only be given in terms of that very predicate. Even if we accept Priest’s claim that Yablo’s paradox is self-referential in this sense—that the satisfaction conditions for the sentences making up the paradox involve a circular predicate—it turns out that there are paradoxical variations of Yablo’s paradox that are not circular in this sense, since they involve satisfaction conditions (...)
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    State Power, the Politics of Debt and Confronting Neoliberal Authoritarianism.Chris Butler - 2018 - Law and Critique 29 (3):311-331.
    As an intellectual, economic, political and legal project, neoliberalism is not directed towards the rolling back of the state as an aim in itself. While its deregulatory tendencies, its commodification of public services and the undermining of systems of social welfare superficially suggest a generalised reduction in state power, it has been clear from the early 1980s that one of neoliberalism’s primary concerns has been the authoritarian reshaping of state power to engineer particular social outcomes, whether in criminal justice, the (...)
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    An Inquiry Concerning the Acceptance of Intrinsic Value Theories of Nature.W. F. Butler & T. G. Acott - 2007 - Environmental Values 16 (2):149-168.
    This study empirically assesses the extent to which intrinsic value theories of nature are accepted and acknowledged outside the realm of academic environmental ethics. It focuses on twenty of the largest landowning organisations in England, including both conservation and non-conservation organisations and investigates the environmental philosophical beliefs and values held by representative individuals of these groups. An in-depth interview was held with a representative from each organisation. The interviews were analysed using qualitative data analysis software and the results compared against (...)
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    An event-related potential examination of contour integration deficits in schizophrenia.Pamela D. Butler, Ilana Y. Abeles, Steven M. Silverstein, Elisa C. Dias, Nicole G. Weiskopf, Daniel J. Calderone & Pejman Sehatpour - 2013 - Frontiers in Psychology 4.
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    A Holistic Defense of Justice in the Republic.James Butler - 2008 - Apeiron 41 (4):229-246.
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    A Fourth Subject Position of Care.Samuel Butler - 2012 - Hypatia 27 (2):390-406.
    Analyses of care work typically speak of three necessary roles of care: the care worker, the care recipient, and an economic provider who makes care materially possible. This model provides no place for addressing the difficult political questions care poses for liberal representative democracy. I propose to fill this space with a new caring role to connect the care unit to the political sphere, as the economic provider connects the care unit to the economic sphere. I call this role that (...)
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  35. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People.John Butler - 1990
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    Sen’s The Idea of Justice: Back to the (Pragmatic) Future.Brian E. Butler - 2010 - Contemporary Pragmatism 7 (2):219-229.
    Sen argues that Rawls’ political theory suffers from the flaw of “institutional fundamentalism.” In response, he develops an alternate theory of justice that does not rely upon contractarian premises. I argue that Sen’s theory largely maps on to the insights of classic pragmatist thought. Further, the pragmatic tradition can help critique and supplement Sen’s project.
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    Enhancing resilience through seed system plurality and diversity: challenges and barriers to seed sourcing during (and in spite of) a global pandemic.Carina Isbell, Daniel Tobin, Kristal Jones & Travis W. Reynolds - 2023 - Agriculture and Human Values 40 (4):1399-1418.
    The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have rippled across the United States’ (US) agri-food system, illuminating considerable issues. US seed systems, which form the foundation of food production, were particularly marked by panic-buying and heightened safety precautions in seed fulfillment facilities which precipitated a commercial seed sector overwhelmed and unprepared to meet consumer demand for seed, especially for non-commercial growers. In response, prominent scholars have emphasized the need to support both formal (commercial) and informal (farmer- and gardener-managed) seed systems to (...)
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    Point estimate observers: A new class of models for perceptual decision making.Heiko H. Schütt, Aspen H. Yoo, Joshua Calder-Travis & Wei Ji Ma - 2023 - Psychological Review 130 (2):334-367.
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    Neuropsychological Findings in Gulf War Illness: A Review.Mary G. Jeffrey, Maxine Krengel, Jeffrey L. Kibler, Clara Zundel, Nancy G. Klimas, Kimberly Sullivan & Travis J. A. Craddock - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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    Semantically Restricted Argument Dependencies.Alastair Butler - 2011 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 20 (1):69-114.
    This paper presents a new take on how argument dependencies in natural language are established and constrained. The paper starts with a rather standard view that (quantificational) argument dependencies are operator-variable dependencies. The interesting twist the paper offers is to eliminate the need for syntax that serves to enforce what the operator-variable dependencies are. Instead the role of ensuring grammatical and generally unambiguous forms is taken up by semantics imposing what are dependency requirements for any interpretation to go through at (...)
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    Studying (the Theoretical Analysis of) Contemporary American Film, on Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland's Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis.Brian E. Butler - 2004 - Film-Philosophy 8 (3).
    Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland _Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis_ Arnold: London 2002 ISBN 0 340 76206 3 (PB) x + 309 pp.
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    Distal and non‐distal behavior in pairs.Travis Nell - 2019 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 65 (1):23-36.
    The aim of this work is an analysis of distal and non‐distal behavior in dense pairs of o‐minimal structures. A characterization of distal types is given through orthogonality to a generic type in, non‐distality is geometrically analyzed through Keisler measures, and a distal expansion for the case of pairs of ordered vector spaces is computed.
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    Generic Contextuality.Travis Norsen - 2024 - In Angelo Bassi, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka & Nino Zanghi (eds.), Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Memory of Detlef Dürr. Springer. pp. 71-85.
    This paper reviews and develops the concept of “contextuality” whose profound significance—or lack thereof—was clarified especially by Detlef Dürr and his collaborators. In particular, we explore, in the context of a simple toy model of a measurement procedure described using Bohmian mechanics, the dependence of measurement outcomes on the (continuously variable) strength of the coupling between the system and measuring apparatus. This provides a revealing illustration of the fact that the outcomes of experiments may, and in general do, depend on (...)
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    The Phenomenon of Burdened Agency in advance.Travis Pickell - forthcoming - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
    This essay introduces a concept I call “burdened agency.” Burdened agency names a two-fold phenomenon in end-of-life ethics (with relevance beyond). First, the availability of control over the dying process may become an imperative to make choices about when and how death will occur. This is the burden of agency. Second, moral agency is increasingly burdened by “reflexivity.” No longer guided by norms that are taken-for-granted, individuals are, more or less, left to self-consciously negotiate the experience of dying on their (...)
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    Quranic Studies and the Literary Turn.Travis Zadesh - 2021 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 135 (2):329.
    This review essay examines current trends in the field of Quranic studies, as expressed in recent introductory works on the Quran, which in turn reflect developments in more specialized publications. A prominent characteristic in this body of scholarship is an increased emphasis on approaching the Quran as a literary text, as conceived within the structures of textual criticism. Much of this work strives to bypass the autochthonous exegetical corpus developed by Muslim authorities and read the Quran on its own terms, (...)
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    Touching and Ingesting: Early Debates over the Material Qur'an.Travis Zadeh - 2009 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 129 (3):443-466.
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    Problem‐Solving Phase Transitions During Team Collaboration.Travis J. Wiltshire, Jonathan E. Butner & Stephen M. Fiore - 2018 - Cognitive Science 42 (1):129-167.
    Multiple theories of problem-solving hypothesize that there are distinct qualitative phases exhibited during effective problem-solving. However, limited research has attempted to identify when transitions between phases occur. We integrate theory on collaborative problem-solving with dynamical systems theory suggesting that when a system is undergoing a phase transition it should exhibit a peak in entropy and that entropy levels should also relate to team performance. Communications from 40 teams that collaborated on a complex problem were coded for occurrence of problem-solving processes. (...)
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  48. A Case for Removing Confederate Monuments.Travis Timmerman - 2019 - In Bob Fischer (ed.), Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues that Divide Us. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 513-522.
    A particularly important, pressing, philosophical question concerns whether Confederate monuments ought to be removed. More precisely, one may wonder whether a certain group, viz. the relevant government officials and members of the public who together can remove the Confederate monuments, are morally obligated to (of their own volition) remove them. Unfortunately, academic philosophers have largely ignored this question. This paper aims to help rectify this oversight by moral philosophers. In it, I argue that people have a moral obligation to remove (...)
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    The Myth of Interiority (Le Psychologue Malgré Lui).Charles Travis - 2024 - Topoi 43 (1):233-242.
    Non-factive representing is what makes room for truth and falsehood. In the ontologically central aspect of the verb it comes in two forms: allorepresenting (saying-that), and autorepresenting (taking-that). Each form relates thinkers to thinkables in its proprietary way. Autorepresenting invites a certain sort of misunderstanding. It may seem to call for enabling in a particular determinate way. Just here psychologism despite oneself may strike. Allorepresenting rests on capacities of a different sort. It relates itself, and thereby its author, to a (...)
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  50. On the Difficulty of Beautiful Things.Travis Mulroy - 2019 - Ancient Philosophy 39 (1):43-67.
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