Hans-Herbert Kögler, University of North Florida Michael Morris’ Knowledge and Ideology. The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique presents us with the ambitious and well-argued project of renewing the critique of ideology on the grounds of a radically contextualized conception of thought and interests. (Morris 2016) In my discussion, I will first briefly sketch the […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Valerie Joly Chock, University of North Florida Advances in cognitive and behavioral science reveal that the way options are presented, what is referred to as ‘choice architecture’, strongly influences our decisions. We […]

My book, Knowledge and Ideology, left the press in November of 2016. Reflecting on the time and events that have since intervened, I think it plain that the problem of ideology and the task of ideology critique press upon us with great urgency. Here I should be clear: the problem, as I see it, is […]

1. Introduction In 1951, my parents bought and moved to a house in Levittown, New York. They were able to move from their working class, Jewish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn to the suburbs because banks were offering returning WWII veterans federally guaranteed, zero-down-payment, low-interest mortgages on inexpensive single-family homes, and most importantly, Jews (of European […]

Miles Hentrup, Florida Gulf Coast University Michael Morris’ Knowledge and Ideology is an original and valuable contribution to the philosophical debate concerning the meaning and validity of the concept of ideology critique. While the concept of ideology has occupied a pivotal role within the tradition of critical social theory, as Terry Eagleton had already pointed […]

Marcus William Hunt, Tulane University Introduction The nature and epistemological significance of intuitions is a question of importance given the frequency with which intuitions are invoked to support philosophical theories in areas such as ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. In contemporary accounts of intuitions, two types of view predominate. One type of view attempts to […]

Graduate Essay Prize Winning Paper of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Jeremy Kirby, Florida State University, Tallahassee The most promising approach toward explaining skeptical puzzles seems to be that employed by the contextualist. Contextualists enjoy both a resolution and an etiology of skeptical puzzles. However, Stephen Schiffer, in his “Contextualist Solutions […]

Ronnie Z. Hawkins, University of Central Florida, Orlando Research with human embryonic stem cells is so promising for biomedicine that the journal Science hailed recent work as the “Breakthrough of the Year” for 1999.  Embryonic stem (ES) cells are undifferentiated cells that can give rise to all three germ layers–ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm–which subsequently differentiate […]

Robert C. L. Moffat, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law University of Florida, Gainesville “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” Goethe If we may judge by the number of current books on the topic by major authors, the decline of civility has come to be viewed as a major issue in […]

Graduate Essay Prize Winning Paper of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Jeremy Kirby, Florida State University  Introduction  In an article entitled “Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? A Draft,” Myles Burnyeat suggested that we might do “what the seventeenth century did . . . [with the Aristotelian concept of […]