Frank Palmeri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Palmeri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmeri |
| SIGNATURE | PALMERI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Condorcet, Nicolas de (1743–1794)
Nicolas de Condorcet (1743–1794) was an influential mathematician whose contributions to the theory of voting and of probabilities underlie modern social choice theory. He advocated for the human rights of women and Africans, wrote a proposal for reorganizing the French educational system which was eventually adopted, and played a prominent role in the French Revolution. His last work, written while in hiding from the radical Jacobins during the …
"State of Nature, Stages of Society"
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society’s commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political econo…
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political econo…
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology Frank Palmeri (bio) Among the individuals or groups of thinkers who influenced sociology as the new discipline took shape in the middle and late nineteenth century, those most frequently named as precursors have included Montesquieu and the Scottish social thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, John Millar, and Henry Home, Lord Kames.1 Ferguson in particular has figured prominently, beginning …
Ethical Animals in La Mettrie, Darwin, and de Waal
Ethical Animals in La Mettrie, Darwin, and de Waal Frank Palmeri (bio) Moral Animals—Three Traditions Much has been written during the last generation concerning the relation between evolution and ethics. Philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists have repeatedly considered whether human morality counters the workings of natural selection, or is an adaptive result of that process; how altruistic behavior that harms one’s chances of reproductio…
Other than Postmodern?--Foucault, Pynchon, Hybridity, Ethics
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, September 2001
History of Narrative Genres after Foucault
Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault have explored the role played by epistemological paradigms in shaping and limiting how the world is understood and what can count as true at different times. Kuhn took the natural sciences as his subject, while Foucault focused on the social sciences. In this essay I propose to explore the existence and nature of cultural paradigms whose truth claims are less stringent than those made in the sciences, and to examin…
Satire
Satire in Narrative
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and t…
Neither Literally nor as Metaphor
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published a year or two before Pynchon started writing The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Kuhn argued that the production of meaning can take place only on the basis of models. In Kuhn's view, normal science operates within the framework of a paradigm-a set of partially grounded assumptions, definitions, conventions, questions, and procedures. The experimentation that the paradigm makes possible paradoxically…
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology Frank Palmeri (bio) Among the individuals or groups of thinkers who influenced sociology as the new discipline took shape in the middle and late nineteenth century, those most frequently named as precursors have included Montesquieu and the Scottish social thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, John Millar, and Henry Home, Lord Kames.1 Ferguson in particular has figured prominently, beginning …
Satire in Narrative
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and t…
Neither Literally nor as Metaphor
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published a year or two before Pynchon started writing The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Kuhn argued that the production of meaning can take place only on the basis of models. In Kuhn's view, normal science operates within the framework of a paradigm-a set of partially grounded assumptions, definitions, conventions, questions, and procedures. The experimentation that the paradigm makes possible paradoxically…
Satire in Narrative
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and t…
Satire
History of Narrative Genres after Foucault
Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault have explored the role played by epistemological paradigms in shaping and limiting how the world is understood and what can count as true at different times. Kuhn took the natural sciences as his subject, while Foucault focused on the social sciences. In this essay I propose to explore the existence and nature of cultural paradigms whose truth claims are less stringent than those made in the sciences, and to examin…
Other than Postmodern?--Foucault, Pynchon, Hybridity, Ethics
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, September 2001
Ethical Animals in La Mettrie, Darwin, and de Waal
Ethical Animals in La Mettrie, Darwin, and de Waal Frank Palmeri (bio) Moral Animals—Three Traditions Much has been written during the last generation concerning the relation between evolution and ethics. Philosophers, biologists, and anthropologists have repeatedly considered whether human morality counters the workings of natural selection, or is an adaptive result of that process; how altruistic behavior that harms one’s chances of reproductio…
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology
Conjectural History and the Origins of Sociology Frank Palmeri (bio) Among the individuals or groups of thinkers who influenced sociology as the new discipline took shape in the middle and late nineteenth century, those most frequently named as precursors have included Montesquieu and the Scottish social thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, John Millar, and Henry Home, Lord Kames.1 Ferguson in particular has figured prominently, beginning …
"State of Nature, Stages of Society"
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society’s commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political econo…
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political econo…
Condorcet, Nicolas de (1743–1794)
Nicolas de Condorcet (1743–1794) was an influential mathematician whose contributions to the theory of voting and of probabilities underlie modern social choice theory. He advocated for the human rights of women and Africans, wrote a proposal for reorganizing the French educational system which was eventually adopted, and played a prominent role in the French Revolution. His last work, written while in hiding from the radical Jacobins during the …
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