Department of Philosophy
These digital collections include theses, dissertations, and faculty publications from the Department of Philosophy. Also included is a collection of works by Rolston Holmes III, a philosopher who is a University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, known for his contributions to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion.
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Temporal elements of emotional identification with film characters, The
I argue that the subjective experience of time passing, felt duration, is a crucial element in the emotional and immersive experience of narrative films. First, I review multiple theories of emotional identification to ... -
Rationally-rooted responsibility toward nonhuman animals, A
How should humans treat nonhuman animals? One answer to this question arises from the belief that humans are superior to nonhuman animals, thereby giving humans a right to treat nonhuman animals however humans desire. In ... -
Surprisingly neuroplastic human brains: reading, science, philosophy, theology
Human brains, dramatically more complex than anything else in the known universe, are marvelously mutable. Recent neuroscience focuses on how humans create cumulative transmissible cultures which in turn shape mental ... -
Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch (Yale University)
"Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch," Rolston Zoom lecture and discussion sponsored by Yale University Center for Environmental Communication, October 23, 2020. Moderated by Tom Murray, Speaker Coordinator. Rolston ... -
Templeton Prize virtual ceremony
Templeton Prize Virtual Ceremony held on September 24, 2020, Francis S. Collins laureate (left) and Holmes Rolston 2003 Templeton laureate (right) at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C. -
Critical notice of Three big bangs: matter-energy, life, mind
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind. -
Critical notice in science and religion
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published materials in science and religion. -
Critical notice of A new environmental ethics: life on Earth in the next millennium, 2nd edition
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book A New Environmental Ethics: Life on Earth in the Next Millennium. Covers both first and second editions. -
Critical notice of Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History. -
Critical notice of Philosophy gone wild
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Philosophy Gone Wild. -
Critical notice of published articles in environmental ethics
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published articles in environmental ethics. -
Critical notice of Environmental ethics: values in and duties to the natural world
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World. -
Critical notice of Conserving natural value
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Conserving Natural Value. -
Critical notice - Holmes Rolston III
Critical notice of citations of Rolston's published materials in environmental ethics and in science and religion. -
Seeing beyond design: exploring non-engineering functions of technology in engineering ethics
The purpose of this paper is to draw a distinction between the function of technology in engineering contexts and non-engineering contexts. The first two sections identify and elaborate this distinction; the final portion ... -
Value theory in environmental ethics and economics
The need for an environmental ethic is clear. Many in environmental ethics claim that an environmental ethic ought to be based on the intrinsic and/or non-anthropocentric value of nature, without consensus on a clear ... -
Review of Richard H. Jones' Reductionism: analysis and the fullness of reality
The sweep of the book is to argue that reduction (if distinguished from inter-level connections) is not working well anywhere, and if not lower down, there is even less reason to suppose that it will work higher up. Is ... -
Review of Mary Anglemyer and Eleanor S. Seagraves' The natural environment: an annotated bibliography on attitudes and values
The compilers make serious effort to include different perspectives, and this edition is more adequate to environmental ethics and values than an earlier edition. For both the editors, now retired librarians, this is largely ... -
Review of Paul Davies' Cosmic jackpot: why our universe is just right for life
Paul Davies is a physicist, a cosmologist with philosophical interest. He is unsurpassed in summarizing the results of recent discoveries in physical astronomy and microphysics about the ways in which the characteristics ... -
Review of A. N. Wilson's How can we know? An essay on the Christian religion
A British novelist, critic, and controversial former editor of the Spectator is here an intense disciple of Christ. How Can We Know? is A. N. Wilson's searching Apologia Pro Vita Sua, urbane, gracefully written, and a ...
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