scholarly journals Thickness and Evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Eklund
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Thick Concepts ◽  
Thick Terms

This is a review essay devoted to Pekka Väyrynen’s The Rude, the Lewd and the Nasty. Väyrynen’s book, concerned with thick terms and thick concepts, argues for a pragmatic view on the evaluativeness associated with these terms and concepts. The essay raises a number of critical questions regarding what Väyrynen’s arguments for his view actually show. It deals with, for example, thick properties, the fact-value distinction, what it is for terms and concepts to be (semantically) evaluative, and whether Väyrynen’s arguments generalize to thin evaluative concepts.

In Defence of Thick Concepts

2021 ◽  
pp. 160-177
Author(s):  
Jonathan Dancy
Keyword(s):  
Thick Concepts ◽  
Thick Terms ◽  
The Way

This paper focuses on the way in which thick concepts manage to combine the descriptive and the evaluative. It accepts Blackburn’s suggestion that thick terms have variable relevance, but disputes his conclusion that there are no thick concepts. The views of Wiggins and McDowell on these topics play an important role in the discussion. In the process a richer picture of the thick begins to emerge. The paper ends by considering the question whether the doctrine of the supervenience of the evaluative on the natural can still be sustained as a result.

Reconfiguring Early Christian ‘Faith’

Ecclesiology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Horrell
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Important Study ◽  
The New Testament

Teresa Morgan’s Roman Faith and Christian Faith provides a major new study of the lexicon of ‘faith’ (pistis/fides) in the early Roman Empire. This review essay provides a summary of the book’s contents as well as a critical assessment. The book begins with study of uses of pistis and fides in Greek and Roman sources, in domestic and personal relations, in military and religious contexts. It then moves to the Septuagint, before turning to the New Testament, which is considered in detail. The early Christian sources are unusual in the prominence and weight they give to pistis, but their usage nonetheless fits within the wider social and cultural matrix, in which pistis and fides primarily express the notion of trust and express the importance of trust and fidelity in a wide range of social and religious relationships. In these early Christian sources there is a heavy focus on divine-human pistis, but this creates networks of trusting and trustworthiness that are crucial to the formation and cohesion of early Christian communities. Some critical questions may be raised – for example, concerning Morgan’s heavy focus on divine-human pistis, and her arguments against the early emergence of a titular usage of pistis to denote the early Christian movement – but overall this is an important study which should reconfigure our sense of early Christian (and especially Pauline) pistis, which is less about ‘belief’, whether salvific or propositional, and more about relationships of trust, which are the foundation of community.

Review Essay: History and Postmodernism

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Lord ◽  
James Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Roshdi Rashed

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 279-295
Author(s):  
Mohammed Aref
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Elementary Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

This review essay introduces the work of the Egyptian scientific historian and philosopher Roshdi Rashed, a pioneer in the field of the history of Arab sciences. The article is based on the five volumes he originally wrote in French and later translated into Arabic, which were published by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies and which are now widely acclaimed as a unique effort to unveil the achievements of Arab scientists. The essay reviews this major work, which seems, like Plato’s Republic to have “No Entry for Those Who Have No Knowledge of Mathematics” written on its gate. If you force your way in, even with elementary knowledge of computation, a philosophy will unfold before your eyes, described by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei as “written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” The essay is a journey through this labyrinth where the history of world mathematics got lost and was chronicled by Rashed in five volumes translated from the French into Arabic. It took him fifteen years to complete.

Review Essay: “Straight Histories of Queer Music”

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay

Review Essay

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
David Brion Davis
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document