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Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
The Sellars problem threatens the viability of epistemic foundationalism. Foundationalism claims that there are some beliefs whose justification does not depend upon other beliefs. Foundationalism is a popular, non-skeptical response to the epistemic regress problem. In this dissertation I …
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The Six Piano Sonatas of James Sellars: Aspects of Form, Rhythm, Texture, and Style
James Sellars has established himself as one of America's foremost composers whose eclectic style reveals a wealth of influences. His artistic combination of various traditional and avant-garde techniques, along with his sensitive and expert craftsmanship has earned him an important position in …
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Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars
Opera is widely stigmatized by academics and non-academics alike as inaccessible high art, even by humanities scholars who commonly appreciate the classics in their own field. In order to overcome that stigmatization, I have chosen two seminal American operas by composer John Adams—1987's <i>Nixon …
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FROM ‘WE REASONERS’ TO ‘WE SUFFERERS’: COMMUNITY AND LOYALTY FROM ROYCE, THROUGH SELLARS, TO RORTY
Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty form a loose intellectual tradition in their various presentations of moral community. Their influence on one another has been noted but not yet fully explored. This dissertation remedies that lack. It shows the dependence in addressing this topic of …
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"An essay concerning subjectivity and scientific realism: Some fancies on Sellarsian themes and onto-politics"
… this framework, I critique the work of Wilfrid Sellars. Sellars is one of the few analytic philosophers of science who directly addresses the connections between science and subjectivity. What makes Sellars particularly interesting is the way he sought to preserve a strong conception of …
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A biomechanical study of the movements of the arytenoid cartilage
… In 1978 these findings were published in detail (Sellars and Keen). An attempt to understand the accepted muscular control of the cricoarytenoid joint led to further research. This was carried out by the dissection of a further 23 larynges, with special care to examine the exact origin, direction …
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Pragmatic Epistemology, Community, and the Problem of Solipsism
… as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and Wilfrid Sellars and contemporary descendents of pragmatism like Wilfrid Sellars embraced the notion of community and developed the crucial role it plays in evaluating knowledge claims. The aim of this thesis is two-fold. I examine critically the role the …
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… in the writings of Moore, Russell, Strawson, Sellars, McDowell and Brandom. One objective of this text is to explicate the manner in which these Analytic Philosophers either reject or borrow from German Idealism. </p><p> A second objective of this text is to answer the following question: …
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Stress Relaxation of AA 5182 During Hot Deformation
… tests. A modified form of the model posed by Sellars is used to account for the recovery process. Since the Sellars model is phenomenological, comparisons are also made to a recovery model derived completely from the Mechanical Threshold Strength model accounting for reverse jumps of …
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Μετάφραση του λιμπρέτου της Alice Goodman για την όπερα The Death of Klinghoffer σε μουσική John Adams
… Adams, ενώ την ιδέα για το έργο είχε ο Peter Sellars, ο οποίος και το σκηνοθέτησε στην παγκόσμια πρεμιέρα του. Η εργασία μένει στον στόχο της άρτιας μετάφρασης –της λειτουργικής, κατά το δυνατόν, γλωσσικής μεταφοράς από τα αγγλικά στα ελληνικά– θεωρώντας ότι με αυτό τον τρόπο προβάλλεται …
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"Let Us Not Be Misled": A Critical Appraisal of Characterization in John Adams's Nixon in China
… motivations and intentions of Adams, Goodman, Sellars and other key collaborators. The heart of the thesis is the second chapter, which details and compares the representation of the six major historical personages to the historical record. Each character’s subsection will begin with a brief …
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Reconstructing Science and Re-Imagining Our Conscious Mind: Putting Neuropragmatism to Work
… neopragmatic project of reconciling what Wilfrid Sellars called the scientific and manifest images of humanity. In promoting reconstruction as opposed to reconciliation, the tension in both Dennett and much contemporary neurophilosophy is simply evaded. Moreover, the conflict between the sciences …
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Theology and Reality: Critical Realism in the Thought of Alister E. McGrath
… realism, beginning with the work of Roy Wood Sellars in the early twentieth century and concluding with a description of critical realism as developed by Roy Bhaskar. Chapter 2 argues that historically, critical realism has been a versatile method that can be applied to a variety of projects …
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Empirical Meaning and Incomplete Personhood
… satisfactory explanations themselves. Following Sellars, I make a move away from semantic explanation of the designation relation and of linguistic roles toward an explanation which relates to the use of linguistic and perceptual signs (i.e., pragmatics). In doing so, concerns are raised that …
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How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency
… who preserve objectivity, like Wilfrid Sellars, opt for the latter. Second, neither camp effectively deploys its conception to provide an adequate account of the epistemic objectivity of our beliefs and assertions: the former camp falls prey to phenomenalism (and so, among other …
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The Interaction of Linear and Vertical Time in Minimalist and Postminimalist Piano Music
… Duckworth, Peter Garland, Beth Anderson, James Sellars, and Paul Epstein. A full analysis of David Borden's Double Portrait then shows the full potential of this approach as the piece begins in nearvertical time and ends in linear time.
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Minimal Labels, Maximum Gain. Image Classification with Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning
In the last decade, the use and deployment of machine learning systems for computer vision has risen dramatically. To train a machine learning model it is often assumed that the practitioner has access to a large and representative labelled dataset from which they can optimise their model in a …
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Electric field mill for the simultaneous measurement of electric field strength and ion current diensity
In the last 20 years, the use of high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission has grown considerably. With the increase in the number of HVDC transmission lines and in the transmission voltages, concern has increased as to possible health effects. For research on these health effects to be …
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Redefining America through opera: Representations of Latin/o Americans and a new tradition
… La Llorona / The Weeping Woman (2008); and Peter Sellars and John Adams’ The Girls of the Golden West (2018).
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