Truth, Objectivity, and Emotional Caring: Filling In the Gaps of Haugeland’s Existentialist Ontology

Giving a Damn ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett W. Helm
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Attitudes ◽  
Objective World ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Shared Objective

In a remarkable series of papers, Haugeland lays out what is both a striking interpretation of Heidegger and a compelling account of objectivity and truth. Central to his account is a notion of existential commitment, which insists on the independence of the phenomena from our understanding. This requires the potential for us to change or give up on our understanding of the world in the face of apparently impossible phenomena. Although Haugeland never gives a clear account of existential commitment, he claims that it is fundamentally an individual matter. This, I argue, is a mistake that fails to make sense of the public, shared nature of the objective world. Instead, I offer an initial account of existential commitment as one we undertake jointly, and I analyze it (and the corresponding responsibility) in terms of interpersonal rational patterns of reactive attitudes: emotions like resentment, gratitude, indignation, approbation, guilt, and trust. The upshot is that our existential commitment is not only to a shared, objective world but also to each other such that our ability individually to take responsibility for our understanding of the world is intelligible only in terms of others' being able to hold us responsible for it.

Outside the World of Tomorrow

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1011-1027
Author(s):  
Daniel Hart London
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Federation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Workplace Rights

This paper analyzes the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair as a conflicted site of public-sphere formation, and the repercussions of these conflicts on organized labor in New York. Conceived within the liberal administration of Mayor La Guardia and dedicated to the principles of social cooperation, this “closed-shop exposition” granted American Federation of Labor (AFL) trade unions an unprecedented degree of workplace benefits and rhetorical support by the Fair administration. This was undermined, however, by the trade unions’ limited public activities within the fair itself and their refusal of city offers to establish outreach and educational programs through events, rallies, and pavilions. As a result, the public space and discourse of a fair nominally devoted to social interdependence was appropriated by a variety of other interests, particularly those of corporate America. This marginalization would ultimately contribute to delegitimization, as allegations of graft and racketeering by visitors, exhibitors, and the national media framed labor as a direct threat to the “World of Tomorrow” and its visitors. Millions of Americans found their visits marred by exorbitantly inflated prices, delayed by strikes, and disappointed by cancelled exhibits. In the face of outside pressure, and with labor groups unable to address hostile critiques within the fair itself, the exposition administration withdrew its public support for unions while dramatically restricting their workplace rights. In this way, the “business-union” principles of the AFL not only undermined their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, despite the efforts of liberal municipal officials to promote them, but ultimately served to undo those very workplace gains such principles were meant to secure.

scholarly journals Improving Fabric Face Masks: Impact of Design Features on the Protection Offered by Fabric Face Masks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia O’Kelly ◽  
Anmol Arora ◽  
Sophia Pirog ◽  
James Ward ◽  
P John Clarkson
Keyword(s):  
Dead Space ◽  
Design Features ◽  
The Public ◽  
Protective Ability ◽  
Air Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Low Degrees ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity

AbstractObjectiveWith much of the public around the world depending on fabric face masks to protect themselves and others, it is essential to understand how the protective ability of fabric masks can be enhanced. This study evaluated the protection offered by eighteen fabric masks designs. In addition, it assessed the benefit of including three design features: insert filters, surgical mask underlayers, and nose wires.MethodsQuantitative fit tests were conducted on different masks and with some additional design features. An array of fabric masks were tested on a single participant to account for variability in face shapes. The effects of insert filters, surgical mask underlayers and nose wires were also assessed.ResultsAs expected, the fabric masks offered low degrees of protection; however, alterations in design showed significant increase in their protective ability. The most effective designs were multi-layered masks that fit tightly to the face and lacked dead space between the user and mask. Also, low air-resistance insert filters and surgical mask underlays provided the greatest increase in protection.ConclusionsOur findings indicate substantial heterogeneity in the protection offered by various fabric face masks. We also note some design features which may enhance the protection these masks offer.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Olivier Roy
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Public Sphere

This concluding chapter discusses how values are returning today in the guise of dominant norms, both in the secular world and in religion. Today's crisis is not simply a crisis of values, but of referring to values at all. For what should values be founded on? On one hand, religions, which are no longer in sync with Europe's dominant cultures, are returning to the public sphere on behalf of a normative demand. On the other hand, the secular culture that professes freedom and rights is coming to a head in a burst of normative production. This is a normativity toward all forms of religion and religiosity, of course, but also normativity with respect to its own foundation, the social contract, and human nature, that of the desiring subject. Ultimately, the chapter argues that it is time to re-examine the question of values, to restore the particular cultural and social aspects of norms and to reinject them into society. In the face of globalization, the issue is at once to be more in touch with society and to act as a counterweight to other influences in the world: only Europe can meet these two objectives.

Architectural heritage: the paradox of its current state of risk

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Burnham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Watch List

The treatment of movable and immovable heritage is markedly different. While movable objects are highly valued and carefully protected, their immovable equivalents are often under a serious cloud of threat. This peril is the result of global mismanagement, failure of governments to provide adequate funds for their maintenance, and lack of recognition by the public that these disappearing resources are assets of major value. Conservators of immovables face special ethical and practical concerns in their efforts to preserve cultural heritage within its context - depicted in this article as case histories from the World Monuments Watch list of endangered sites. The legal and procedural mechanisms that support this task are ineffectual in the face of rapid change. The field needs new methodologies that harness public appreciation of a site's 'sense of place' to guarantee its future.

Public Administration, a Political/Administrative Dichotomy: A New Canadian Direction from American History

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321
Author(s):  
Robert Gatto
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Role ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Decentralized Government

The subject, a source of long standing debate among theoreticians and practitioners in public administration, is revisited in an interesting and challenging way. In the face of a changing decentralized government role in many parts of the world, the author presents a modified classical position that proposes to deal with the impact of this on the public service. Canada and the Canadian public service are attempting to re-establish their roles in this new milieu. The author argues for a new role for public administration by drawing from an historical development of the field and introducing new arguments to support changing needs.

scholarly journals Changing the face of medicine in Canada with Dr. John Murray Last, Public Health Scholar and Emeritus Professor at the University of Ottawa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaeun Rhee ◽  
Tharshika Thangarasa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Successful Author ◽  
The University ◽  
Epidemiology And Public Health

AbstractDr. John Murray Last, MB BS, is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Ottawa. Having been born in Australia in 1926, and having studied and worked in Australia, England, the United States, and Canada, Dr. Last has developed tremendous knowledge surrounding healthcare around the world. Dr. Last is a scientist, teacher, successful author, and public health scholar. His books are now used in schools of public health worldwide. In addition to having developed the “iceberg concept”, he has also served as a leader in the development of ethical standards for epidemiology and public health. In 2012, Dr. Last was admitted as an Officer of the Order of Canada to honour his contribution to the public health sciences. RésuméDr. John Murray Last, MBBS, est un professeur émérite à l’Université d’Ottawa. Étant né en Australie en 1926, et ayant étudié et travaillé en Australie, en Angleterre, aux États-Unis, et au Canada. Dr. Last a acquis de prodigieuses connaissances quant aux soins de santé à travers le monde. Dr. Last est un scientifique, enseignant, auteur à succès, et un spécialiste de la santé publique. Ses livres sont actuellement utilisés dans des écoles de santé publique à l’échelle mondiale. En plus d’avoir mis au point le concept « d’iceberg », il a aussi été un leader pour l’élaboration de normes d’éthiques en épidémiologie et santé publique. En 2012, Dr. Last a été nommé Officier de l’Ordre du Canada pour honorer sa contribution aux sciences de la santé publique. 

The Public and the Religious in Hooker's Polity

1968 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. McGrade
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Intimate Relation ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
The Church

Richard Hooker's work seems relevant to two of the major human projects of our time, the search for unity within the Church and the attempt by modern states to establish their rival ideologies in the world. Hooker's fraternal patience with his Puritan opponents has frequently been noted, as well as his courage in daring to suggest publicly in Elizabethan England that even Roman Catholics might be saved. It would seem likely on the face of it that so irenic a figure could contribute much to ecumenical discussion. With regard to the war for the minds and souls of men in which some statesmen regard their countries as now engaged, one would also expect to find material for reflection in Of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a work in which ultimate convictions and values are treated in intimate relation to their possible social embodiment and political enforcement.

The Use of Social Media and Online Petitions to Achieve Collective Change for a Sustainable Future

2017 ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Vannie Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Unethical Behaviour ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Company

Scandals of corruption in government and mismanagement in business and government departments has made us rethink of what the world is becoming and what should be done to steer it on the right track. Brilliant policy and law makers have tried to put in place laws and governing statutes that can assist in ethically governing businesses and governments so that they can sustain themselves and maintain a healthy respectful and transparent relationship with all their stakeholders and communities. The failure by certain governments and businesses to adhere to policy, statutes and laws has frustrated good people and their only podium left standing is social media and online petitions. On websites worldwide communities are getting together to discuss and defame businesses and governments that are perpetuating unethical behaviour. This has changed the face of marketing as marketers and the public relations departments are in change of maintain and promoting a company or governments image. The face of marketing has changed as social media has introduced itself into the mix.

scholarly journals Bioethics and the Culture Wars

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Ana S. Iltis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
As If

The term “culture wars” has been used to describe deep, apparently intractable, disagreements between groups for many years. In contemporary discourse, it refers to disputes regarding significant moral matters carried out in the public square and for which there appears to be no way to achieve consensus or compromise. One set of battle lines is drawn between those who hold traditional Christian commitments and those who do not. Christian bioethics is nested in a set of moral and metaphysical understandings that collide with those of the dominant secular culture. The result is a gulf between a moral life and an approach to bioethics framed in the face of a transcendent God and a final judgment versus a moral life and an approach to bioethics framed as if the world were without ultimate meaning and as if death were the end of personal existence. These approaches are separated by a moral and metaphysical gulf that sustains incompatible life worlds and incompatible understandings of bioethics. Attempts to bridge the gulf with secular reason are ineffective because there is no shared conception of reason or standard of evidence. Efforts to use the state to enforce a particular set of metaphysical and moral commitments, whether secular or religious, lead to public disputes with a war-like character.

scholarly journals El cambio organizacional y la universidad pública

2012 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Dr. Wietse De Vries Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
National Universities

En este texto se analiza lo que ha pasado –y lo que no ha pasado– en los últimos diez años en la educación superior mexicana, particularmente en las universidades públicas (recurriendo al caso ilustrativo de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). Para ello, se propone una forma distinta para analizar el cambio organizacional, enfocando los cambios en la perspectiva del entorno cambiante y la respuesta de la organización frente a este ambiente. Ese enfoque analítico brinda pautas no sólo para describir los cambios, sino para poder hacer comparaciones con otras instituciones y países, o para poder juzgar la calidad o la dirección del cambio, así como para poder saber si un cambio fue una innovación o un paso hacia atrás. Así, se vislumbra que frente a los cambios en el mundo, y dentro de México, las universidades públicas nacionales han sido muy reacias al cambio; y cuando éste se ha dado, ha sido de una forma extemporánea, incongruente con los cambios en otras regiones.AbstractThis text analyzes what has and what has not happened in Mexican higher education during the last 10 years, particularly what has happened in the public universities (the illustrative case of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla). For that purpose, we propose a different way of analyzing organizational change, by focusing on the changes in the perspective of a changing environment and the response of the organization to said environment. That analytical focus offers guidelines not only to describe the changes but also to be able to make comparisons with other institutions and countries, or to be able to judge the quality or the direction of the change, as well as to be able to know whether a change was an innovation or a step backward. Thus, we see vaguely that in the face of the changes in the world, and in Mexico , the public national universities have been reluctant to change; and when change has occurred, it has done so inopportunely and incongruently with the changes in other regions.

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