Winner of the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Jeff Haines, The Florida State University The argument presented here builds on the fact that there are significant international and global externalities. The transportation system of one country causes greenhouse gas emissions that affect other countries. One country’s […]

Winner of the Outstanding Graduate Paper at the 60thAnnual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Wilson Underkuffler, University of South Florida Hume’s Treatise has been considered by some to be an immature and obscure text, and there is no doubt that T 1.2, Of the Ideas of Space and Time, has contributed to such views. […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Katelyn Hallman, University of North Florida 1. Introduction The exclusion problem is a problem for any theory which holds that the mental is distinct from or irreducible to the physical. In brief, the […]

Winner of the Gerritt and Edith Schipper Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association Cheryl Frazier, Barry University I woke up to my phone singing a song by The Hectic Glow. Gus’s favorite. That meant he was calling—or someone was calling from his phone. I glanced […]

Luis H. Favela, University of Central Florida and Anthony Chemero, University of Cincinnati Introduction At its most basic, direct realism is the claim that perception results from direct or immediate awareness of events or objects that exist in the world independent of any mind. With the hope of bolstering such claims, we offer a framework […]

Richard N. Manning, University of South Florida Intuition is a rare book of philosophy in being both as careful as it is bold, and in being breathtakingly bold. Put with less than perfect care on my part, the central claim Chudnoff defends is the Platonic thesis that intuition, when it gives us knowledge, involves the phenomenological presentation […]

Chudnoff on the Awareness of Abstract Objects   Gene Witmer, University of Florida   Elijah Chudnoff’s Intuition is a rich and systematic work. There is much in it I admire that I will not comment on here, but I would like to stress at the outset that there is a great deal of insightful argumentation […]

Elijah Chudnoff, University of Miami Intuition defends a traditional Platonic view of intuition according to which it is a form of intellectual perception. Thinking through Richard Manning’s comments has helped me get clearer on some crucial dialectical issues. Thinking through Gene Witmer’s comments has helped me get clearer on some crucial metaphysical issues. I am most […]

John M. Valentine, Savannah College of Art and Design For the purpose of this paper, I shall understand kitsch to be not merely the attempt to pass off “unworthy goods” as art, but also, in Milan Kundera’s words, “the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word; kitsch […]

Kurtis Hagen, SUNY Plattsburgh After a distinguished career as a process philosopher, David Ray Griffin has now, rather courageously, published a number of books on or related to so-called “conspiracy theories” regarding the catastrophe of September 11, 2001. Cognitive Infiltration is his latest. I am familiar with Griffin’s other works on this subject. And I […]