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Not In Kansas Anymore
Authors: Jordan Jeff 
Published: November 2023

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Though I do not know how a family in Kansas becomes Southern Baptist, mine did. I was raised a Southern Baptist, and many of my earliest memories are of worship services at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Wichita. Being raised a Southern Baptist is perhaps not all that uncommon, since the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States-currently some 1 5 million strong. (It is hard to say exactly how many Southern Baptists there are because, like McDonald’s, the number served increases rapidly.) In many ways, my story of faith and reason is also not all that uncommon. There are no great dramatic conversion experiences in my story, no episodes of apostasy, no period of finding my way back. My story of life and faith is much more a story of a
Love Of Learning Learning, Reality Of God
Authors: Adams Marilyn McCord 
Published: November 2023

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Two things have dominated my life from the beginning: a love of learning and a desire for God. In my earliest years, a vivid sense of the reality of God came with mother’s milk, with green grass and blue sky. The first home I can remember was my grandfather’s parsonage (my father was away in the army air force). In 1943, Grandpa had emerged from early retirement to take a small country parish in western Illinois. He was a preacher in the Disciples of Christ church, a branch of the Campbellite movement. In his generation and in those circles, fundamentalism would have been taken for granted, but his personal flair and pastoral effectiveness won him ecumenical respect even in those pre-Vatican II days, as he became fast friends with the Roman Catholic priest and all the other minis-
From Jerusalem To Athens
Authors: Leftow Brian 
Published: November 2023

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I am a philosopher because I am a Christian. To many intellectuals, this probably sounds like saying that I am a dog because I am a cat. Dogs hate cats, and otherwise polite philosophers have said to my face, with vigor, that “Christian philosopher” is a contradiction in terms. Cats are not fond of dogs, either. Christian friends have often reminded me that Luther called reason a whore. Well, reason is a whore. It will serve any master who can pay its price. But a whore was first to the empty tomb on the day of the Resurrection. Reason will serve God if given the chance; philosophy can be a work of Christian service. And Christian belief (I want to suggest) is far more a help than a hinderance to serious intellectual work.
Trios and Trilogies
Authors: Brater Enoch 
Published: November 2023

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In Company1 Beckett creates an impassioned biography in place of an imagined story, “by mere sound to plague one in need of silence.” A self-conscious and highly self-reflective literary biography such as this, however, no matter how circumspect and molested by time, is fated to be a camouflaged fiction, as the conscientious reader of Proust might be “quick” to acknowledge. As early as 1932 Beckett asserted that the past always appears “in monochrome,” poignant in the idealized way of a lost innocence remembered. The construct of memory is its own stylized figment, a fable as deceptive as any other, this one masquerading in lines that sound like truth: ‘‘The images it chooses are as arbitrary as those chosen by imagination, and are equally remote from reality.”2 And yet those bold and transgressive testimonies we read in Molloy and Enough, and Krapp’s “memorable equinox” that cannot be remembered, and that subversive act of confession captured forever on tape in Embers, and those haunting black-and-white frames crafted with televisual precision in Ghost Trio and ... but the clouds ... , and even those voices that, with such disarming poignancy, demand to be staged in That Time or Rockaby all like to say they rely on something more substantial than fiction, or worse still, ‘‘fancy.
Posthumous Voices and More Stirrings Still
Authors: Brater Enoch 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
“The writing is over,” Beckett said after completing Worstward Ho in 1983. He had simply and quite deliberately reconciled himself to not writing anything again. “Finally,” he told Charles Juliet, “one no longer knows who is speaking. The subject disappears completely. That’s where the crisis of identity ends.’’1 But three years later he responded to the predicament of Barney Rosset, whose latest business difficulties in New York had forced him to sell the Grove imprint and all of its stock to Ann Getty and Lord Weidenfeld in 1985.2 Thirteen months after the deal was struck, Rosset was fired, severing his last link to the celebrated avant-garde publishing house with which his name had long been associated. (When he bought the company in 1953, it had a short list of only three books: Melville’s The Confidence-Man, Selected Writings of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, and The Poetry of Richard Crashaw.) Recognizing Rosset’s situation, Beckett sent him in early 1987 a two-page typescript, consisting of seven paragraphs, called merely “Fragment.” Dated “July 1986,” it was dedicated to Rosset, his American publisher; he promised to send another “third” if he could find a way to publish the initial installment separately. By the end of the year Beckett had sent two more modest pieces, the paragraphs that correspond to the second and third parts of what became known as Stirrings Still, a title suggested at the same time by the author himself.
Dire Comments on comment dire
Authors: Brater Enoch 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
“Call it Dichtungen,” Beckett told his German publisher, Siegfried Unseld, who was planning a new edition of his collected works. ‘‘No other language has such a word. “1 Firm, reliable, intricate, and watertight, the suprageneric title condenses into one German word the complete range of “poeticizations” that might be crafted into any manner of artistic writing. ‘‘The forms are many,’’ Malone noted long ago, ‘‘in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.” In the actual Dichtungen, however, Beckett was rarely so lucky as to have “Got it in one!”2 Though there is no use “indicting” words per se (they are, as Malone says, “no shoddier than what they peddle”), some of the adjectives used to describe them in Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable might be cause for considerable alarm, if not downright contempt: “wheedling,” “little,” “furious,” “monotonous,” “mad,” “hasty,” “indifferent,” or-worse still “in a word”-”blank.”3 Even the stirring words in a late trilogy like Stirrings Still might, in retrospect, stand in need of a complete overhaul when the purely imagined is revisited by the real.
Other Minds
Authors: Nagel Thomas 
Published: November 2023

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Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Dennet, Chomsky, Searle, Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre.
Freud’s Permanent Revolution
Authors: Nagel Thomas 
Published: November 2023

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Great intellectual revolutionaries change the way we think. They pose new questions and devise new methods of answering them—and we cannot unlearn those forms of thought simply by discovering errors of reasoning on the part of their creators, unless we persuade ourselves that the thoughts are identical with the errors. There is something strange about recent debates over the evidence on which Freud based his theories. His influence is not like that of a physicist who claims to have discovered a previously unobserved particle by an experiment that others now think to be flawed. Whatever may be the future of psychoanalysis as a distinctive form of therapy, Freud’s influence seems to me no more likely to be expunged from modern consciousness than that of Hobbes, for example, or Descartes. Such thinkers have an effect much deeper than can be captured by a set of particular hypotheses, an effect that would not go away even if, in a wave of Europhobia, their writings should cease to be read.
Chomsky: Linguistics and Epistemology
Authors: Nagel Thomas 
Published: November 2023

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There is some reason to believe that Chomsky’s views about the innate contribution to language acquisition have a bearing on epistemological issues: on disputes over the existence of a priori knowledge, for example. Certainly if he is right, grammar provides a striking example of strong innate constraints on the form of human thought, and a natural object of philosophical fascination.
Hydrogen Bonding
Authors: Scheiner Steve 
Published: November 2023

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Because of the importance of the hydrogen bond, there have been scores of insights gained about its fundamental nature by quantum chemical computations over the years. Such methods can probe subtle characteristics of the electronic structure and examine regions of the potential energy surface that are simply not accessible by experimental means. The maturation of the techniques, codes, and computer hardware have permitted calculations of unprecedented reliability and rivaling the accuracy of experimental data. This book strives first toward an appreciation of the power of quantum chemistry to analyse the deepest roots of the hydrogen bond phenomenon. It offers a systematic and understandable account of decades of such calculations, focusing on the most important findings. This book provides readers with the tools to understand the original literature, and to perhaps carry out some calculations of their very own on systems of interest.
Groovin’ High
Authors: Shipton Alyn 
Published: November 2023

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Declared a “national treasure” by the White House in 1990, John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was a not only a great musician but also a major innovator in the jazz world. While his first and foremost claim to fame is helping to create the style known as bebop, Gillespie also did much to establish the inclusion of Latin American elements in jazz and was partially responsible for the inception of both Afro-Cuban jazz and bossa nova. Covering Dizzy’s days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through a State Department-backed tour of his big band in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that ran clear up to the early 1990s, this book fully traces the path and progress of an extraordinary--and most exploratory--American musician.
Monte Carlo Methods for the Self-Avoiding Walk
Authors: Sokal Alan D 
Published: November 2023

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The self-avoiding walk (SAW) was first proposed nearly half a century ago as a model of a linear polymer molecule in a good solvent. At first glance it seems to be a ridiculously crude model, almost a caricature: real polymer molecules live in continuous space and have tetrahedral (109.47°) bond angles, a non-trivial energy surface for the bond rotation angles, and a rather complicated monomer-monomer interaction potential. By contrast, the self-avoiding walk lives on a discrete lattice and has non-tetrahedral bond angles (e.g., 90° and 180° on the simple cubic lattice), an energy independent of the bond rotation angles, and a repulsive hard-core monomer-monomer potential.
Monte Carlo Simulations of the Glass Transition of Polymers
Authors: Paul Wolfgang , Baschnagel Jörg 
Published: November 2023

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This introduction will present a very sketchy outline of physical properties of glass forming liquids pertinent to the simulations we want to present and will then focus on two main questions. Why would one want to study the glass transition in polymer melts by means of computer simulations? And if so, what can be the motivation for resorting to the dynamic Monte Carlo simulation of a lattice model as the model of choice?
The essence of the glass transition in undercooled liquids is “solidification without crystallization”. The former manifests itself in a steep increase in the shear viscosity over more than 10 decades (Fig. 6.1) whereas the latter is clearly displayed by a look at the structure factor of the undercooled system (Fig. 6.2).
Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza
Authors: Rocca Michael Della 
Published: November 2023

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This first extensive study of Spinoza’s philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher’s thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind’s relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza’s positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca’s exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective on Spinoza’s philosophy as a system.
Introduction
Authors: Rocca Michael Della 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In this chapter I present those of Spinoza’s metaphysical and other views upon which my claims in later chapters depend.
I. Substance, Attribute, and Mode
For Spinoza, a substance is causally and explanatorily independent of any other thing. This emerges from an examination of the definition of “substance”:
By substance I understand what is in itself and is conceived through itself, i.e., that whose concept does not require the concept of another thing, from which it must be formed. (ldef3)
The two crucial notions here are “being in itself’ and “being conceived through it-self.” Because the latter notion will be more relevant to my purposes, I will focus on it. For Spinoza, to be conceived through something is to be explained by or in terms of that thing. This is evident from the second half of 2p7s in which Spinoza says that when we perceive effects through their causes, we are explaining the order of nature. Spinoza sometimes uses “perceives” and “conceives” interchangeably in these contexts (see, e.g., 2p38d), so we can say that for him when we conceive effects through their causes we are explaining the order of nature.
“One and the Same Thing”
Authors: Rocca Michael Della 
Published: November 2023

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One of the most famous and puzzling claims in the Ethics appears in 2p7s: “A mode of extension and the idea of that mode are one and the same thing, but expressed in two ways.” Since Spinoza regards my body as a mode of extension and my mind as the idea of that mode, he holds that body and mind are one and the same thing. Thus in 3p2s Spinoza says:
The mind and the body are one and the same thing, which is conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension.
Cipriano de Rore
Authors: Owens Jessie Ann 
Published: November 2023

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Cipriano de Rore was one of the most important and celebrated composers of the sixteenth century, a pivotal figure whose innovations in musical style and technique would have ramifications for several decades after his death. No less a composer than Monteverdi would credit him with discovering a new relationship between music and text, the “seconda pratica. “
Runoff, Erosion, and Soil Formation
Authors: Leigh Egbert Giles 
Published: November 2023

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How much of the rain falling into a catchment or basin leaves it as runoff? How is the amount and the seasonal variation of the runoff affected by the catchment’s vegetation? Runoff removes soil from a catchment as matter suspended in the moving water (suspended solid load) or pushed along the bottom of the stream (bed load), and as ions dissolved from the soil or bedrock (solute load). How does topography, vegetation, and land use affect erosion rate? These questions have acquired an urgent practical importance. Exploitation of tropical forest settings by inappropriate techniques can lead to landslides and loss of soil from the catchment, ruining the land and causing flooding and siltation of reservoirs downstream.
Camouflage: The Fine Line of Self-Deception
Authors: Schwartzberg Steven 
Published: November 2023

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Some HIV-positive gay men talk about AIDS and HIV in uncompromisingly positive terms. One man, Francis, began our interview by declaring “HIV is my blessing—I thank God he gave me this blessing to help me grow:” As he continued to talk, he admit­ ted no doubt to his gratitude, no blemish to the belief that HIV was, for him, something blessed. To hear him rhapsodize on, the bitter seeds of AIDS had blossomed into a desirable bouquet of flowers. These were roses with all their thorns removed.
Listening to Francis, I had to suspect that his words masked as much as they revealed. Could he mean what he said? It sure sounded heartfelt and earnest, but could it be true?
Camouflage is a style of adaptation where hiding—from yourself, from others—is the main feature of facing HIV and AIDS. This needn’t be such a bad thing, and, on first blush, this style bears great similarity to Trans­ formation. HIV infection appears to be a growth-oriented life experience. A person can readily identify positive aspects of living with the virus. He may emphasize these benefits as central to his coping, and may have significant evidence to reflect these gains.
Introduction
Authors: Dickie George 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It is an undoubted fact that we take pleasure in mountain vistas, the sight of a rose, the viewing or hearing of works of art, and the experience of many other things. We also make distinctions among the objects of such experiences, saying of the experienced objects (or their properties) that they are beautiful, sublime, delicate, and so on. Certain sights and sounds displease us, and these also involve various distinctions. Almost from the beginning, philosophers have been concerned to have a theoretical understanding of these experiences and their objects. And we continue to the present to try to give an account of these experiences and their objects. The notion of the aesthetic attitude, the idea of aesthetic experience, and Frank Sibley’s conception of aesthetic qualities are recent examples of attempts to theorize about these matters. The theory of taste was eighteenth-century philosophy’s attempt to give an account of such objects and of the pleasure and displeasure taken in them, and it is with this particular philosophical theorizing that this book is concerned.
Taste and Purpose: Immanuel Kant
Authors: Dickie George 
Published: November 2023

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The theory of taste Kant presents in his Critique of Judgment (1790)-known as the third Critique—is notoriously difficult to understand. The exposition of his theory is usually encountered as the so-called four moments from the beginning of the “Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” in the Critique of Judgment, and in this form it is, I believe, virtually impossible to understand. It is not just that his writing is so bad; he frequently just does not provide the information required for explaining why he draws the conclusions he does. For example, his conclusion that “beauty is an object’s form of purposiveness,” in the third-moment context in which he draws it, is baffling. This conclusion, by introducing the notion of purpose as an integral aspect of beauty, deviates sharply from the kind of conclusions that the other theorists of taste drew about the nature of beauty. (Hume does say that a critic ought to take account of an artist’s purposes, but he does not claim that such purpose is an integral aspect of beauty.) The notion of purpose (as perfection) plays a large role in the theories of Kant’s rationalist German predecessors such as Wolff and Baumgarten, but these theorists were not theorists of taste. The German rationalists were, no doubt, the historical source of Kant’s conception.
Morality, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Requirements
Authors: Dahl Norman O 
Published: November 2023

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There are at least two issues that are central to determining whether genuine moral dilemmas exist. The first is whether moral considerations are bound to “run out” in certain situations, leaving an agent with conflicting moral requirements. The second is what notion of requirement it is that, if a person were faced with conflicting requirements, would be enough all by itself to place the person in a genuine moral dilemma. I shall not try to settle the first of these issues. Rather, I shall call attention to a question that needs to be answered to settle it, a question whose importance has not always been recognized. I shall, however, offer a suggestion as to how the second issue should be settled.
As anyone who is familiar with the literature on moral dilemmas is aware, there are some who approach this topic with the intuition that there clearly are genuine moral dilemmas, and there are others who approach it with the intuition that there are no genuine moral dilemmas. In his contribution to this volume, Alan Donagan asks which traditional moral theories countenance genuine moral dilemmas.
The Diversity of Moral Dilemma
Authors: Railton Peter 
Published: November 2023

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We find ourselves confronted with situations we are inclined to call dilemmas. Some are theoretical: What truth value can we assign to the sentence “This sentence is false”? Others are practical: Buridan’s notorious ass faced starvation because it sat poised between two equally attractive piles of hay, with no reason to favor heading toward one rather than the other. Famously, moral choices seem to present us with dilemmas, as, for example, when Churchill had to decide between evacuating Coventry (thereby giving the Germans evidence that the Allies had broken their code) and allowing a murderous air bombing of the city to proceed without warning the populace.
Game Theory, Sibling Rivalry, and Parent—Offspring Conflict
Authors: Mock Douglas W , Parker Geoffrey A , Schwagmeyer P L 
Published: November 2023

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Because family members are quintessentially “kin,” most theoretical models exploring the evolutionary significance of intrafamily social dynamics are rooted firmly in Hamilton’s Rule. Depending on the biological foci of interest, one can then splice into the model any number of other embellishments that may or may not require genetic relatedness, including such aspects as cooperation versus selfishness (e.g., sexual conflict over biparental care), effects of group size (the family as a Selfish Herd), life-history traits (e.g., parental effort as a function of future reproductive prospects), logic of asymmetric contests (e.g., asynchronous hatching in siblicidal birds), and so on. For example, though we cannot take the space to address how sexual conflict between two supposedly cooperating parents might lower the total food budget for offspring, such outcomes obviously can reshape the economic bases of sibling rivalry and parent-offspring conflict (Parker 1985). In short, there may be numerous connections between the themes featured in this chapter and those show cased elsewhere in this volume and beyond. We shall focus on genetic relatedness per se because it is an essential and rather special component of families.
Multiple Identity, Character Transformation, and Self-Reclamation
Authors: Flanagan Owen 
Published: November 2023

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Proposition 1. We abide by a “one self to a customer” rule. Normally, each body houses one person, one self. Having one and only one self is normative for us. Proposition 2. But identity is scalar. It admits of degrees. Our conception of personal sameness allows for change and transformation. Indeed, our norms of personal and moral development require that the self changes.