Simples, Representational Activity, and the Communication among Substances: Leibniz and Wolff on pre-established Harmony

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-128
Author(s):  
Gastón Robert
Keyword(s):  
Standard Account ◽  
Representational Power

This article aims to make further progress in revising the standard account of Wolff’s philosophy as a popularisation and systematisation of Leibniz’s doctrines. It focuses on the topic of the communication among substances and the metaphysics of simples and activity underlying it. It is argued that Wolff does not accept the pre-established harmony (PEH) in its orthodox Leibnizian version. The article explains Wolff’s departure from Leibniz’s PEH as stemming from his rejection of Leibniz’s construal of the activity of every simple as representational power and of the metaphysics of unity and activity in which that construal is rooted.

Higgins' Argument for Section 116 of the Constitution

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-415
Author(s):  
Luke Beck
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Standard Account

The argument that led to the inclusion of s 116 of the Constitution, a provision that provides a limited guarantee of religious freedom in Australia, has not been properly understood. The standard account of the argument presented by the proponent of the clause, Henry Bournes Higgins, holds that it was included to ensure that no inferential power to legislate with respect to religion could be drawn from the religious words of the constitutional preamble. This article argues that the standard account of Higgins' argument is wrong and that the substance of Higgins' concern was a realisation that the Commonwealth's enumerated powers were wide enough to authorise legislation dealing with religion.

Denying the Antecedent as a Legitimate Argumentative Strategy: A Dialectical Model

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Godden
Keyword(s):  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Argumentative Strategy

The standard account of denying the antecedent (DA) is that it is a deductively invalid form of argument, and that, in a conditional argument, to argue from the falsity of the antecedent to the falsity of the consequent is always fallacious. In this paper, we argue that DA is not always a fallacious argumentative strategy. Instead, there is a legitimate usage ofDA according to which it is a defeasible argument against the acceptability of a claim. The dialectical effect of denying the antecedent is to shift the burden of proof back to the original proponent of a claim. We provide a model of this non-fallacious usage which is built upon pragmatic models of argumentation.

Human Nature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Biological Theory ◽  
Developmental Plasticity ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
Unpredictable Environment

This sketch of an account of human nature begins with the claim that we should see humans as a kind of process, a life cycle, rather than as a kind of substance or thing. A particular advantage of such a process perspective is that it readily accommodates the developmental plasticity that has been an increasingly important concept in recent biological theory. Human behaviour, on this account, should be understood as providing adaptive and flexible responses to an unpredictable environment. It is, therefore, generally misguided to provide a standard account of human nature in terms of behaviour or behavioural dispositions. If there is such a thing as human nature, it is a uniquely refined propensity for novel and unpredictable behaviour.

scholarly journals Did the NSA and GCHQ Diminish Our Privacy? What the Control Account Should Say

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Menges
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Do So

AbstractA standard account of privacy says that it is essentially a kind of control over personal information. Many privacy scholars have argued against this claim by relying on so-called threatened loss cases. In these cases, personal information about an agent is easily available to another person, but not accessed. Critics contend that control accounts have the implausible implication that the privacy of the relevant agent is diminished in threatened loss cases. Recently, threatened loss cases have become important because Edward Snowden’s revelation of how the NSA and GCHQ collected Internet and mobile phone data presents us with a gigantic, real-life threatened loss case. In this paper, I will defend the control account of privacy against the argument that is based on threatened loss cases. I will do so by developing a new version of the control account that implies that the agents’ privacy is not diminished in threatened loss cases.

scholarly journals Against the So-called ‘Standard Account of Method’

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
Rod Thomas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Account

Mimesis or Phantasia? Two Representational\\ Modes in Roman Commemorative Art

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Koortbojian
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Representational Power ◽  
Characteristic Manner

Abstract The commemorative forms of the Romans are marked by the ubiquity of two contrasting presentational modes: one essentially mimetic, rooted in the representational power of artistic forms, the other abstract and figurative, dependent on the presentation of cues for the summoning of absent yet necessary images. The mimetic mode was thoroughly conventional, and thus posed few problems of interpretation; the figurative knew no such orthodoxy and required a different and distinctive form of attention. At the tomb, epigraphic and sculptural forms, each in its characteristic manner, addressed an audience habituated by tradition to respond to both of these modes, to grasp their differences, and to rise to the challenge implicit in the very fact of their contrast.

Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Grodach ◽  
Nicole Foster ◽  
James Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Neighbourhood Level ◽  
The Relationship

The arts have long played a role in debates around gentrification and displacement, yet their roles and impacts as change agents are not clear-cut. According to the standard account, artists facilitate gentrification and ultimately engender the displacement of lower income households, but more recent research complicates the accepted narrative. This article seeks to untangle the relationship between the arts, gentrification and displacement through a statistical study of neighbourhood-level arts industry activity within large US regions. The findings indicate that the standard arts-led gentrification narrative is too generalised or simply no longer applicable to contemporary arts-gentrification processes. Rather, the arts have multiple, even conflicting relationships with gentrification and displacement that depend on context and type of art. These results have important implications for how we study the role of the arts in neighbourhood change and for how governments approach the arts and creative industries in urban policy.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jonathan Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship

The introduction outlines the motivation for investigating the relationship between autonomy and rationality in contemporary bioethics, and maps the contours of a pre-theoretical understanding of autonomy, in preparation for the theoretical analysis to come. Having noted some apparent ambiguities and tensions within the widely accepted assumption that there is a close relationship between autonomy and rationality, the author briefly distinguishes procedural and substantive accounts of autonomy, and identifies Beauchamp and Childress’ pioneering work in the principles of biomedical ethics as providing the standard account of autonomy in bioethics. He outlines some objections to the standard account, and goes on to outline a framework that is used in the rest of the book for developing a rationalist account of autonomy that aims to avoid these objections.

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