Results for 'John Anenechukwu Umeh'

980 found
Order:
  1. Transparency in Algorithmic and Human Decision-Making: Is There a Double Standard?John Zerilli, Alistair Knott, James Maclaurin & Colin Gavaghan - 2018 - Philosophy and Technology 32 (4):661-683.
    We are sceptical of concerns over the opacity of algorithmic decision tools. While transparency and explainability are certainly important desiderata in algorithmic governance, we worry that automated decision-making is being held to an unrealistically high standard, possibly owing to an unrealistically high estimate of the degree of transparency attainable from human decision-makers. In this paper, we review evidence demonstrating that much human decision-making is fraught with transparency problems, show in what respects AI fares little worse or better and argue that (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   73 citations  
  2. The genesis of Kant's « Critique of Judgment».John H. ZAMMITO - 1992 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 182 (4):639-639.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   70 citations  
  3.  38
    ‘This inscrutable principle of an original organization’: epigenesis and ‘looseness of fit’ in Kant’s philosophy of science.John H. Zammito - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1):73-109.
    Kant’s philosophy of science takes on sharp contour in terms of his interaction with the practicing life scientists of his day, particularly Johann Blumenbach and the latter’s student, Christoph Girtanner, who in 1796 attempted to synthesize the ideas of Kant and Blumenbach. Indeed, Kant’s engagement with the life sciences played a far more substantial role in his transcendental philosophy than has been recognized hitherto. The theory of epigenesis, especially in light of Kant’s famous analogy in the first Critique, posed crucial (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   39 citations  
  4.  36
    Algorithmic Decision-Making and the Control Problem.John Zerilli, Alistair Knott, James Maclaurin & Colin Gavaghan - 2019 - Minds and Machines 29 (4):555-578.
    The danger of human operators devolving responsibility to machines and failing to detect cases where they fail has been recognised for many years by industrial psychologists and engineers studying the human operators of complex machines. We call it “the control problem”, understood as the tendency of the human within a human–machine control loop to become complacent, over-reliant or unduly diffident when faced with the outputs of a reliable autonomous system. While the control problem has been investigated for some time, up (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  5.  9
    Philosophy after Christ.John O'Callaghan - 2024 - Nova et Vetera 22 (1):49-69.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy after ChristJohn O'CallaghanConsider the words of Justin Martyr written in the middle of the second century after the birth of Christ and after Justin's conversion to Christianity:Philosophy is indeed one's greatest possession, and is most precious in the sight of God, to whom it alone leads us and to whom it unites us, and in truth they who have applied themselves to philosophy are holy men.1In addition to (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6.  5
    Are There Failed Persons?John O'Callaghan - 2023 - Nova et Vetera 21 (4):1123-1147.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Are There Failed Persons?John O'CallaghanIntroductionAre there failed persons? Yes. However, before explaining what a failed person is, it will be good to consider closely a very significant part of our society to get a sense of what it thinks a failed person is, since my account of what a failed person is is markedly different. It is important to think about the question of failed persons because there (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7.  4
    Mind and motion and monism.George John Romanes - 1895 - and London,: Longmans, Green, and co..
    The earliest writer who deserves to be called a psychologist is Hobbes; and if we consider the time when he wrote, we cannot fail to be surprised at what I may term his prevision of the most important results which have now been established by science. He was the first clearly to sound the note which has ever since constituted the bass, or fundamental tone, of scientific thought. Let us listen to it through the clear instrumentality of his own language:-.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8.  58
    Neural Reuse and the Modularity of Mind: Where to Next for Modularity?John Zerilli - 2019 - Biological Theory 14 (1):1-20.
    The leading hypothesis concerning the “reuse” or “recycling” of neural circuits builds on the assumption that evolution might prefer the redeployment of established circuits over the development of new ones. What conception of cognitive architecture can survive the evidence for this hypothesis? In particular, what sorts of “modules” are compatible with this evidence? I argue that the only likely candidates will, in effect, be the columns which Vernon Mountcastle originally hypothesized some 60 years ago, and which form part of the (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  9.  45
    Multiple Realization and the Commensurability of Taxonomies.John Zerilli - 2017 - Synthese 196 (8):1-17.
    The past two decades have witnessed a revival of interest in multiple realization and multiply realized kinds. Bechtel and Mundale’s (1999) illuminating discussion of the subject must no doubt be credited with having generated much of this renewed interest. Among other virtues, their paper expresses what seems to be an important insight about multiple realization: that unless we keep a consistent grain across realized and realizing kinds, claims alleging the multiple realization of psychological kinds are vulnerable to refutation. In this (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  10.  48
    Against the “System” Module.John Zerilli - 2017 - Philosophical Psychology 30 (3):231-246.
    Modularity is a fundamental doctrine in the cognitive sciences. It holds a preeminent position in cognitive psychology and generative linguistics, as well as a long history in neurophysiology, with roots going all the way back to the early nineteenth century. But a mature field of neuroscience is a comparatively recent phenomenon and has challenged orthodox conceptions of the modular mind. One way of accommodating modularity within the new framework suggested by these developments is to go for increasingly soft versions of (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  11.  2
    Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy.Jensen Sass & John S. Dryzek - forthcoming - Theory and Society:1-22.
    We develop an account of societal democratization that synthesizes cultural sociology and deliberative democracy. Cultural sociologists emphasize the symbolic inclusion of marginalized groups into the civil sphere. Deliberative democrats stress growth in the deliberative capacity of society. We argue that democratization entails the co-evolution of culture and reason. The basis of co-evolution is the performative construction of an inclusive demos, which requires a deliberative background but is also a source of the moral emotions that motivate deliberation. Since moral emotions can (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  12. Reasons and motivation: John Broome.John Broome - 1997 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 71 (1):131–146.
    Derek Parfit takes an externalist and cognitivist view about normative reasons. I shall explore this view and add some arguments that support it. But I shall also raise a doubt about it at the end.
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   141 citations  
  13.  30
    Epigenesis in Kant: Recent reconsiderations.John H. Zammito - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 58:85-97.
  14.  89
    Neural Redundancy and Its Relation to Neural Reuse.John Zerilli - 2019 - Philosophy of Science 86 (5):1191-1201.
    Evidence of the pervasiveness of neural reuse in the human brain has forced a revision of the standard conception of modularity in the cognitive sciences. One persistent line of argument against such revision, however, cites the evidence of cognitive dissociations. While this article takes the dissociations seriously, it contends that the traditional modular account is not the best explanation. The key to the puzzle is neural redundancy. The article offers both a philosophical analysis of the relation between reuse and redundancy (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  15.  25
    Kant and the Medical Faculty.John H. Zammito - 2018 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2):429-451.
    The conflict between Kant and the medical faculty was far more complex and substantial than is indicated in the section of his famous Conflict of the Faculties addressing this matter. In this essay I will consider not only what Kant, as a philoso­pher, thought of medicine as a faculty, but what medicine as a faculty thought of Kant as a philosopher.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  16.  65
    Kant and the Medical Faculty.John H. Zammito - 2018 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2):429-451.
    The conflict between Kant and the medical faculty was far more complex and substantial than is indicated in the section of his famous Conflict of the Faculties addressing this matter. In this essay I will consider not only what Kant, as a philoso­pher, thought of medicine as a faculty, but what medicine as a faculty thought of Kant as a philosopher.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  17. Normative practical reasoning: John Broome.John Broome - 2001 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 75 (1):175–193.
    Practical reasoning is a process of reasoning that concludes in an intention. One example is reasoning from intending an end to intending what you believe is a necessary means: 'I will leave the next buoy to port; in order to do that I must tack; so I'll tack', where the first and third sentences express intentions and the second sentence a belief. This sort of practical reasoning is supported by a valid logical derivation, and therefore seems uncontrovertible. A more contentious (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   60 citations  
  18. The Philosophy of John Dewey.John Dewey, Paul Arthur Schilpp & Lewis Edwin Hahn (eds.) - 1939 - La Salle, Ill.: Open Court.
    This is a classic volume in the "library of Living Philosophers" and includes a collection of essays on Dewey's work by his contemporaries at the time of the volume's publication. It also includes a biographical essay on Dewey and his replies to the assembled essays.
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   41 citations  
  19.  7
    The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill.John Robson - 1968 - University of Toronto Press.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   20 citations  
  20.  37
    Anscombe and the Metaphysics of Human Action.John Zeis - 2016 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2):249-262.
    In “Causality and Determination,” Anscombe rejects the two received opinions on the nature of causality in the modern philosophical tradition. She rejects the Humean conception of universal generalization based on the constant conjunction in experience of cause and effect, and she also rejects the notion that causality entails a necessary connection between cause and effect. As an alternative, she suggests that the core notion of causality is one of the derivativeness of the effect from the cause. Her consideration of causality (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  21.  31
    Anscombe and the Metaphysics of Human Action.John Zeis - 2016 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2):249-262.
    In “Causality and Determination,” Anscombe rejects the two received opinions on the nature of causality in the modern philosophical tradition. She rejects the Humean conception of universal generalization based on the constant conjunction in experience of cause and effect, and she also rejects the notion that causality entails a necessary connection between cause and effect. As an alternative, she suggests that the core notion of causality is one of the derivativeness of the effect from the cause. Her consideration of causality (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  22.  19
    II—John Collins: Methodology, Not Metaphysics: Against Semantic Externalism.John Collins - 2009 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 83 (1):53-69.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  23.  11
    Killing Innocents and the Doctrine of Double Effect.John Zeis - 2004 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78:133-144.
    Catholic moral philosophy requires an absolute prohibition against the direct killing of innocents. In this paper I consider some examples of justified actionswhich involve the killing of innocent persons and will present them as cases about which I am confident many others will share the same intuitions. I willthen try to show what conditions apply in such cases that justify those intuitions. I will argue that their justification is in accordance with a modified version of theFinnis, Grisez, Boyle interpretation of (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  24. La Beauté.John Zeimbekis - 2018 - In Julien A. Deonna & Emma Tieffenbach (eds.), Petit Traité des Valeurs. [Genève, Switzerland]: Edition d’Ithaque. pp. 50-60.
  25.  29
    A Philosophical Reconstruction of the Sublime.John H. Zammito - 2019 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 13 (1):129-137.
    _ Source: _Page Count 9 Robert Doran claims that the sublime is all about transcendence transferred from the religious to the aesthetic domain of experience. Taken in this philosophical rather than stylistic sense, it proved crucial for the development of modern subjectivity. Doran traces the issue from Longinus through the decisive reception of Nicolas Boileau, who first distinguished le sublime from le style sublime, on to an extended engagement with Immanuel Kant. In all this he seeks its place in the (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  26.  38
    Bringing Biology Back In: The Unresolved Issue of “Epigenesis” in Kant.John H. Zammito - 2015 - Con-Textos Kantianos 1:197-216.
    Epigenesis has become a far more exciting issue in Kant studies recently, especially with the publication of Jennifer Mensch’s Kant’ Organicism. In my commentary, I propose to clarify my own position on epigenesis relative to that of Mensch by once again considering the discourse of epigenesis in the wider eighteenth century. In order to situate more precisely what Kant made of it in his own thought, I distinguish the metaphysical use Kant made of epigenesis from his rejection of its aptness (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  27.  9
    Bringing Biology Back In: The Unresolved Issue of “Epigenesis” in Kant.John H. Zammito - 2015 - Con-Textos Kantianos 1:197-216.
    Epigenesis has become a far more exciting issue in Kant studies recently, especially with the publication of Jennifer Mensch’s Kant’ Organicism. In my commentary, I propose to clarify my own position on epigenesis relative to that of Mensch by once again considering the discourse of epigenesis in the wider eighteenth century. In order to situate more precisely what Kant made of it in his own thought, I distinguish the metaphysical use Kant made of epigenesis from his rejection of its aptness (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  28.  7
    Chapter 13. Philosophy for Everyman: Kant’s Encyclopedia Course.John Zammito - 2015 - In Robert R. Clewis (ed.), Reading Kant's Lectures. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 301-320.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  29.  15
    Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics, by Rachel Zuckert.John Zammito - forthcoming - Mind:fzz079.
    Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics, by ZuckertRachel. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 276.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  30.  23
    Herder, Sturm und Drang, and “Expressivism”.John H. Zammito - 2006 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 27 (2):51-74.
  31.  21
    Kant and the Schönen Wissenschaften: Contextualizing The Dreams of a Spirit-Seer.John H. Zammito - 2001 - In Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii. New York: De Gruyter. pp. 78-85.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  32.  12
    Organisme et corps organique de Leibniz à Kant by François Duchesneau.John H. Zammito - 2019 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (4):762-763.
    The principle of "organism"—of intrinsic and dynamic unity—and the existence of "organized bodies"—of living things—in the physical world represented crucial preoccupations for philosophers of nature and experimental naturalists across the eighteenth century. How to make sense of these in a manner consistent with a unified scientific understanding of the physical world became the inevitable challenge that accompanied these recognitions. In just this theoretical enterprise, Leibniz emerges to historical scrutiny as an indispensable and pervasive influence. Thus, we are very fortunate to (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33.  24
    Raphaël Lagier. Les races humaines selon Kant. 199 pp., bibl. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. €18.John H. Zammito - 2006 - Isis 97 (1):154-155.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  34.  36
    Believing in order to know: The cue from Augustine.John Zeis - 2016 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 80 (3):207-223.
    Evidentialism is generally taken to be a position which is not friendly to a religious epistemology. However, in this paper, I will argue for a religious epistemology which is compatible with fundamental tenets of an evidentialist position on epistemic justification. It is a position which entails both a “will to believe” which goes beyond the standard evidentialist principles governing the appropriate doxastic attitude towards a proposition, but nonetheless satisfies epistemic principles at the basis of an evidentialist position on justification. If (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35.  12
    Completing Kornblith’s Project.John Zeis - 2003 - International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1):67-90.
    In his Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground: An Essay in Naturalistic Epistemology, Hilary Kornblith presents an argument for the justification of induction that is bold, brilliant, and plausible, but radically incomplete. In the development of this position, Kornblith relies heavily on the philosophical work of Richard Boyd as well as on some empirical psychological studies. As Kornblith sees it, the philosophical position entailed by his proposed solution to the problem is a thoroughgoing, realistic, scientific materialism. I will argue that (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36.  16
    Introduction.John Zeis - 2015 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 89 (3):363-368.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  37.  10
    Plantinga’s Theory of Warrant.John Zeis - 1998 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (1):23-38.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38.  23
    Philosophical Turnings: Essays in Conceptual Appreciation.John Woods - 1967 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 28 (3):460-460.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39.  2
    Open Christianity.John Zucchi - 2007 - Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 10 (4):151-166.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  3
    Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse: Comedy, Tragedy and the Polis in 5th Century Athens, written by Stephanie Nelson.John Zumbrunnen - 2019 - Polis 36 (2):347-349.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  41. The life of John Stuart Mill.Michael St John Packe - 1954 - London,: Secker & Warburg.
  42.  60
    John Dewey, 1859-1952.John Herman Randall - 1953 - Journal of Philosophy 50 (1):5-13.
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  43.  35
    John Locke.John Locke & Maurice Cranston - 1949 - Philosophy 24 (90):287-.
  44. The Philosophy of John Dewey.John J. Mcdermott - 1975 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 11 (3):212-223.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  45.  69
    The Unity of Virtue*: JOHN M. COOPER.John M. Cooper - 1998 - Social Philosophy and Policy 15 (1):233-274.
    Philosophers have recently revived the study of the ancient Greek topics of virtue and the virtues—justice, honesty, temperance, friendship, courage, and so on as qualities of mind and character belonging to individual people. But one issue at the center of Greek moral theory seems to have dropped out of consideration. This is the question of the unity of virtue, the unity of the virtues. Must anyone who has one of these qualities have others of them as well, indeed all of (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  46.  41
    Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus: The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John Cleary.John Joseph Cleary - 2013 - Boston: Brill. Edited by John M. Dillon, Brendan O'Byrne, Fran O'Rourke & John J. Cleary.
    John J. Cleary was an internationally recognised authority in ancient Greek philosophy. This volume of penetrating studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education, display Cleary’s range of expertise and originality of approach.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  47. A BIBLIOGRAPHY: JOHN CORCORAN's PUBLICATIONS ON ARISTOTLE 1972–2015.John Corcoran - manuscript
    This presentation includes a complete bibliography of John Corcoran’s publications devoted at least in part to Aristotle’s logic. Sections I–IV list 20 articles, 43 abstracts, 3 books, and 10 reviews. It starts with two watershed articles published in 1972: the Philosophy & Phenomenological Research article that antedates Corcoran’s Aristotle’s studies and the Journal of Symbolic Logic article first reporting his original results; it ends with works published in 2015. A few of the items are annotated with endnotes connecting them (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  48.  20
    John Cottingham, Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics:Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics.John Marshall - 2000 - Ethics 110 (2):410-414.
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  49.  23
    Recalling John Dewey.M. Novak John - 2002 - Free Inquiry 23 (1):49.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  50.  23
    II—John Cottingham: Descartes and Darwin: Reflections on the Sixth Meditation.John Cottingham - 2013 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 87 (1):259-277.
    The best way to understand the Meditations is through the lens of Descartes's theistic metaphysics rather than via his programme for physical science. This applies to his use of the concept of ‘nature’ in the Sixth Meditation, which serves Descartes's goal of theodicy. In working this out, Descartes reaches a conclusion about the functional role of sensory perception that is, paradoxically, not far from that offered by Darwinian naturalism. So far from being inherently geared to tracking the truth, the role (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
1 — 50 / 980