Risk, Consent, and Externalities: How the Lack of a Global Basic Structure Implies a Right to Migrate

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Excluding the Problem: Bennett on Counterfactual Tests and Backtracking

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Pain Demands to Be Felt: Why We Choose to Engage With Tragic Works of Fiction

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Is this a Truth-Maker which I See Before Me? Comments on Eli Chudnoff’s Intuition

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

An Ecological Account of Visual “Illusions”

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Intuition, Presentational Phenomenology, and Awareness of Abstract Objects: Replies to Manning and Witmer

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Chudnoff on the Awareness of Abstract Objects

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Review of David Ray Griffin’s Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory”

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]

Kitsch and the Absurd in Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros

January 7, 2020 by
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 […]