Table of Contents
Preface
Student Preface
Acknowledgements
Classic Philosophical Issues
Temporal Incongruity in Zeno of Elea and its Philosophical Consequences
Jeffrey M.J. Murphy
Does the Ontological Argument Need Salvaging? An Analysis of St. Anselm's and Plantinga's Theistic Proofs
Erin Kathleen Carter
Putnam, Realism and Perception
Clinton Tolley
Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Great Perfection:
The Practical Phenomenology of Tibetan Buddhism
Daniel J. Bristol
Counter-Intuitive Ethics
Meghan Tadel
Poetry and Metaphor
The thinker as poet
Robb E. Eason
Nietzsche's Use of Metaphor
John Hartmann
Textual Analysis
Wittgensteinian Hermeneutics?
Preliminary Sketch of a reading of Wittgenstein's On Certainty in comparison to Ricoeur's From Text to Action
Kevin Goetz
"Hear Say Yes in Joyce":
Otherness, Gender, and Derridian Repetition
Litia Perta
A Critical Re-Evaluation of the Esoteric Character of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Michael Frazer
Human Nature
Apollonian, Dionysian and Socratic Views: A Nietzschian Exegesis
G.J. Schwenk
Anti-Essentialism and Re-Identification
Michael D. Day
Keynote Addresses
Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python
Gary Hardcastle
When Artists Read Philosophers: From Modernism to Postmodernism
Jere Paul Surber
Conference program
Oneanta Philosophy Studies
About the Author
Kenneth A. Telford is Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Division of Humanities, Chicago City College. He is a native of West Springfield, Mass., and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art before serving for over four years in the Air Corps in World War Two. After the war he did his undergraduate work at Denison University, and his graduate work at the University of Chicago. Besides teaching at the Chicago City Colleges, he also taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His first book, in 1958, in which he first introduced the study of scientific and philosophic procedure, was his translation and commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.
Excerpted from Children of Athena by Douglas W. Shrader. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
As finite and temporal creatures, there exists to human beings perhaps no more obvious and absolute notion than the passing of time. We are beings who live in time and, as such, have matured personally and culturally with a strong acclimation to the presence, past, and futurity of time, both real and potential. This recognition is in and of itself no more philosophical than the recognition of length, width, ot breadth in the world about us............
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