Trudy Govier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trudy Govier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trudy |
| FAMILY NAME | Govier |
| SIGNATURE | GOVIER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1420-9676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dilemmas regarding returning Isis fighters
The forces of ISIS (the so-called Islamic State) have lost most of the territory they held in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-ISIS forces are inclined to declare victory. On the presumption that we are in a context of aftermath to this struggle, that aftermath will itself be characterized by serious difficulties. A crucial problem in this context is that of returning foreign fighters. It is estimated that some 5600 persons left western countries to …
Logic and Parables
We explore the relationship between argument and narrative with reference to parables. Parables are typically thought to convey a message. In examining a parable, we can ask what that message is, whether the story told provides reasons for the message, and whether those reasons are good reasons. In exploring these questions, we employ as an inves-tigative technique the strategy of reconstructing parables as argu-ments. We then proceed to con-side…
Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness
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A practical study of argument
Canada and the New American Empire
Noted academics, politicians, and activists examine Canada's decision not to support the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Each contributor opposes the U.S. action and discusses how Canadaís non-involvement might affect the future of Canadian-American relations. Included in this collection are never before published essays from high-profile contributors such as: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector; Douglas Roche, Liberal senator; and Re…
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
Dilemmas of Reconciliation
Edited by Carol A. L. Prager and Trudy GovierWaterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003, vi, 360pp, $34.95 paper (ISBN 0-88920-415-2)Mass human rights abuses claimed more lives in the 20th century than warfare. Between 1900 and 1987, 170 million people perished at the hands of their own governments. In comparison, 34.4 million people died in battle over the same period. In the post-Cold War era, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the f…
The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology
Forgiveness
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Social Trust and Human Communities
Many sociologists have maintained that trust is the glue of social life. Trudy Govier confirms this view in a sustained discussion of the concept and contexts of trust, showing that trust is more significant and more prevalent than is usually assumed. She argues that social bonding is built on trust and maintains that trust is essential if we are to live ethically, responsibly, and well
Trust and Totalitarianism
Is It a Jungle Out There? Trust, Distrust and the Construction of Social Reality
An acquaintance who works with street teens once said to me, "They live in a completely different world." She did not mean only that they lived downtown and not in the suburbs, slept under bridges and not in beds, ate in soup kitchens instead of restaurants. She meant that street teens experienced a social reality radically different from the reality of those who have lived most of life in a relatively sheltered and stable middle-class environmen…
Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem
Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory
I explore Baier, Held, Okin, Code, Noddings, and Eisler on trust and distrust. This reveals a need for reflection on the analysis, ethics, and dynamics of trust and distrust—especially the distinction between trusting and taking for granted, the feasibility of choosing greater trust, and the possibility of moving from situations of warranted distrust to trust. It is impossible to overcome the need for trust through surveillance, recourse to contr…
Analogies and Missing Premises
I have in several different treatments of analogy claimed that analogies are a distinct type of argument and should not be regarded as a species of either induction or deduction. I've distinguished between inductive analogies and a priori analogies, but have resisted interpretations of analogy arguments which would render them either as requiring generalizing inductions or as presuming an implicit premise which, when added, would render them dedu…
Worries About Tu Quoque as a Fallacy
Uncharitable Thoughts About Charity
Many useful points are made in Ralph Johnson's "Charity Begins at Home" (lLN, June 1981). However, Johnson seems to miss significant ambiguities in Scriven's principle. To see this, consider what Johnson, following Scriven, adopts as the Principle of Charity.
Belief, Values, and the Will
In this paper I shall presuppose that:(1) logic and epistemology are disciplines which supply us with normative statements pertaining to states of belief.(2) as such, logic and epistemology have implications concerning what we ought and ought not to believe.(3) as such, logic and epistemology presuppose that there is some sense in which a person controls what he believes - some sense in which 'can' has a place in contexts where one comes to belie…
The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work
Variations on Force and Vivacity in Hume
Variations on Force and Vivacity in Hume Get access Trudy Govier Trudy Govier Trent University, Ontario. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 86, January 1972, Pages 44–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218590 Published: 01 January 1972
Is Conscientiousness Always—or Ever—a Virtue
On most views of the nature of moral judgments, it is possible for a person to be mistaken in the belief that it is right to act in a certain way. When someone believes that it is right to do something, does that thing on the basis of such a belief, and yet in so doing commits deeds which are wrong by moral standards other than his own, we do not quite know whether to praise him for his conscientiousness while condemning his actions. He acts acco…
Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem
Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory
I explore Baier, Held, Okin, Code, Noddings, and Eisler on trust and distrust. This reveals a need for reflection on the analysis, ethics, and dynamics of trust and distrust—especially the distinction between trusting and taking for granted, the feasibility of choosing greater trust, and the possibility of moving from situations of warranted distrust to trust. It is impossible to overcome the need for trust through surveillance, recourse to contr…
Dilemmas of Reconciliation
Edited by Carol A. L. Prager and Trudy GovierWaterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003, vi, 360pp, $34.95 paper (ISBN 0-88920-415-2)Mass human rights abuses claimed more lives in the 20th century than warfare. Between 1900 and 1987, 170 million people perished at the hands of their own governments. In comparison, 34.4 million people died in battle over the same period. In the post-Cold War era, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the f…
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Is It a Jungle Out There? Trust, Distrust and the Construction of Social Reality
An acquaintance who works with street teens once said to me, "They live in a completely different world." She did not mean only that they lived downtown and not in the suburbs, slept under bridges and not in beds, ate in soup kitchens instead of restaurants. She meant that street teens experienced a social reality radically different from the reality of those who have lived most of life in a relatively sheltered and stable middle-class environmen…
Forgiveness
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Dilemmas regarding returning Isis fighters
The forces of ISIS (the so-called Islamic State) have lost most of the territory they held in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-ISIS forces are inclined to declare victory. On the presumption that we are in a context of aftermath to this struggle, that aftermath will itself be characterized by serious difficulties. A crucial problem in this context is that of returning foreign fighters. It is estimated that some 5600 persons left western countries to …
Belief, Values, and the Will
In this paper I shall presuppose that:(1) logic and epistemology are disciplines which supply us with normative statements pertaining to states of belief.(2) as such, logic and epistemology have implications concerning what we ought and ought not to believe.(3) as such, logic and epistemology presuppose that there is some sense in which a person controls what he believes - some sense in which 'can' has a place in contexts where one comes to belie…
Variations on Force and Vivacity in Hume
Variations on Force and Vivacity in Hume Get access Trudy Govier Trudy Govier Trent University, Ontario. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 86, January 1972, Pages 44–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218590 Published: 01 January 1972
Is Conscientiousness Always—or Ever—a Virtue
On most views of the nature of moral judgments, it is possible for a person to be mistaken in the belief that it is right to act in a certain way. When someone believes that it is right to do something, does that thing on the basis of such a belief, and yet in so doing commits deeds which are wrong by moral standards other than his own, we do not quite know whether to praise him for his conscientiousness while condemning his actions. He acts acco…
The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work
Belief, Values, and the Will
In this paper I shall presuppose that:(1) logic and epistemology are disciplines which supply us with normative statements pertaining to states of belief.(2) as such, logic and epistemology have implications concerning what we ought and ought not to believe.(3) as such, logic and epistemology presuppose that there is some sense in which a person controls what he believes - some sense in which 'can' has a place in contexts where one comes to belie…
Uncharitable Thoughts About Charity
Many useful points are made in Ralph Johnson's "Charity Begins at Home" (lLN, June 1981). However, Johnson seems to miss significant ambiguities in Scriven's principle. To see this, consider what Johnson, following Scriven, adopts as the Principle of Charity.
Worries About Tu Quoque as a Fallacy
Analogies and Missing Premises
I have in several different treatments of analogy claimed that analogies are a distinct type of argument and should not be regarded as a species of either induction or deduction. I've distinguished between inductive analogies and a priori analogies, but have resisted interpretations of analogy arguments which would render them either as requiring generalizing inductions or as presuming an implicit premise which, when added, would render them dedu…
Trust, Distrust, and Feminist Theory
I explore Baier, Held, Okin, Code, Noddings, and Eisler on trust and distrust. This reveals a need for reflection on the analysis, ethics, and dynamics of trust and distrust—especially the distinction between trusting and taking for granted, the feasibility of choosing greater trust, and the possibility of moving from situations of warranted distrust to trust. It is impossible to overcome the need for trust through surveillance, recourse to contr…
Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem
Is It a Jungle Out There? Trust, Distrust and the Construction of Social Reality
An acquaintance who works with street teens once said to me, "They live in a completely different world." She did not mean only that they lived downtown and not in the suburbs, slept under bridges and not in beds, ate in soup kitchens instead of restaurants. She meant that street teens experienced a social reality radically different from the reality of those who have lived most of life in a relatively sheltered and stable middle-class environmen…
Trust and Totalitarianism
Social Trust and Human Communities
Many sociologists have maintained that trust is the glue of social life. Trudy Govier confirms this view in a sustained discussion of the concept and contexts of trust, showing that trust is more significant and more prevalent than is usually assumed. She argues that social bonding is built on trust and maintains that trust is essential if we are to live ethically, responsibly, and well
The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology
Forgiveness
This article explores and offers a qualified defence of the claim that the entitlement to forgive a wrongdoer belongs to the victim of the wrong. A summary account of forgiveness is given, followed by arguments in favor of the victim’s prerogative to forgive. Primary, or direct victims are then distinguished from secondary and tertiary ones, which point to a plurality of prerogatives to forgive. In cases of conflicts between these prerogatives it…
Trust and the Problem of National Reconciliation
The authors propose a conception of national reconciliation based on the building or rebuilding of trust between parties alienated by conflict. It is by no means obvious what reconciliation between large groups of people amounts to in practice or how it should be understood in theory. Lack of conceptual clarity can be illustrated with particular reference to postapartheid South Africa, where reconciliation between whites and blacks was a major go…
Dilemmas of Reconciliation
Edited by Carol A. L. Prager and Trudy GovierWaterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003, vi, 360pp, $34.95 paper (ISBN 0-88920-415-2)Mass human rights abuses claimed more lives in the 20th century than warfare. Between 1900 and 1987, 170 million people perished at the hands of their own governments. In comparison, 34.4 million people died in battle over the same period. In the post-Cold War era, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the f…
Canada and the New American Empire
Noted academics, politicians, and activists examine Canada's decision not to support the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Each contributor opposes the U.S. action and discusses how Canadaís non-involvement might affect the future of Canadian-American relations. Included in this collection are never before published essays from high-profile contributors such as: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector; Douglas Roche, Liberal senator; and Re…
How not to polarize “victims” and “perpetrators”
A practical study of argument
Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Logic and Parables
We explore the relationship between argument and narrative with reference to parables. Parables are typically thought to convey a message. In examining a parable, we can ask what that message is, whether the story told provides reasons for the message, and whether those reasons are good reasons. In exploring these questions, we employ as an inves-tigative technique the strategy of reconstructing parables as argu-ments. We then proceed to con-side…
Dilemmas regarding returning Isis fighters
The forces of ISIS (the so-called Islamic State) have lost most of the territory they held in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-ISIS forces are inclined to declare victory. On the presumption that we are in a context of aftermath to this struggle, that aftermath will itself be characterized by serious difficulties. A crucial problem in this context is that of returning foreign fighters. It is estimated that some 5600 persons left western countries to …
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