Joshua Rust
Biographic Data
| ID | 218309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Rust |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Rust |
| SIGNATURE | RUST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1631-3514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enactivist social ontology
Beginning at the beginning: Predictive processing and coupled representations
A typical expository strategy for the predictive processing account begins with perception and then extends to other cognitive domains, such as action or non-human animal cognition. Because this standard, perception-first expository strategy begins at the end of an evolutionary process, it may introduce both diachronic and synchronic distortions into the overall account. As far as the diachronic distortion is concerned, because the perception-fir…
Institutional Genidentity
An abbreviated history of marriage helps motivate the question of whether ancient Roman marriage and contemporary love marriage could qualify as stages of the same (token) institution despite carrying significantly different functions, deontological powers, and constitutive rules. Having raised the question of institutional identity over time, I proceed to answer the question by appealing to Kurt Lewin's notion of genidentity. Lewin intends the n…
Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response
Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints
Eli Wiggill's story of migration from Gloucester, England, to South Africa and then to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, epitomizes an inspiring and informative example of the gathering of the Saints to Zion in the mid-nineteenth century. Eli and his wife, Susannah Bentley Wiggill, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa while Eli served as a Methodist missionary. Both became stalwart members following their conversio…
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation
Max Weber and Social Ontology
Key elements of John Searle’s articulation of the Standard Model of Social Ontology can be found within Max Weber’s ideal type of legal-rational authority. However, the fact that, for Weber, legal-rational authority is just one of three types of legitimate authority, along with traditional and charismatic authority, suggests limitations to the Standard Model’s scope of applicability. Where Searle takes himself to have provided an account of “the …
Institutional Identity
For some sufficiently long-standing institutions, such as the English Crown, there is no single thread, whether specified in terms of constitutive rules or assigned functions, that would connect the stages of that institution. Elizabeth II and Egbert are not connected by an unbroken chain of primogeniture and they have importantly different powers and functions. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by compar…
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority11I am grateful to M. Michael Rosenberg, Sam Whimster, and the anonymous referees for their comments on earlier versions of this paper
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority
Two standard interpretations of traditional action are rejected. Traditional action is not subjectively meaningful in the sense of having what Talcott Parsons calls a ‘normative orientation’. But nor is traditional action a matter of blind habit. I contend, instead, that traditional action is subjectively meaningful insofar as the actor's seemingly aberrant behavior can be rendered intelligible by appeal to shared exemplars. I provide further evi…
William Ophuls: Plato’s Revenge
John Searle
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation
Institutional Identity
For some sufficiently long-standing institutions, such as the English Crown, there is no single thread, whether specified in terms of constitutive rules or assigned functions, that would connect the stages of that institution. Elizabeth II and Egbert are not connected by an unbroken chain of primogeniture and they have importantly different powers and functions. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by compar…
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority
Two standard interpretations of traditional action are rejected. Traditional action is not subjectively meaningful in the sense of having what Talcott Parsons calls a ‘normative orientation’. But nor is traditional action a matter of blind habit. I contend, instead, that traditional action is subjectively meaningful insofar as the actor's seemingly aberrant behavior can be rendered intelligible by appeal to shared exemplars. I provide further evi…
John Searle
William Ophuls: Plato’s Revenge
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority11I am grateful to M. Michael Rosenberg, Sam Whimster, and the anonymous referees for their comments on earlier versions of this paper
Traditional Action and Traditional Authority
Two standard interpretations of traditional action are rejected. Traditional action is not subjectively meaningful in the sense of having what Talcott Parsons calls a ‘normative orientation’. But nor is traditional action a matter of blind habit. I contend, instead, that traditional action is subjectively meaningful insofar as the actor's seemingly aberrant behavior can be rendered intelligible by appeal to shared exemplars. I provide further evi…
Institutional Identity
For some sufficiently long-standing institutions, such as the English Crown, there is no single thread, whether specified in terms of constitutive rules or assigned functions, that would connect the stages of that institution. Elizabeth II and Egbert are not connected by an unbroken chain of primogeniture and they have importantly different powers and functions. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by compar…
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation
Max Weber and Social Ontology
Key elements of John Searle’s articulation of the Standard Model of Social Ontology can be found within Max Weber’s ideal type of legal-rational authority. However, the fact that, for Weber, legal-rational authority is just one of three types of legitimate authority, along with traditional and charismatic authority, suggests limitations to the Standard Model’s scope of applicability. Where Searle takes himself to have provided an account of “the …
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution
Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints
Eli Wiggill's story of migration from Gloucester, England, to South Africa and then to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, epitomizes an inspiring and informative example of the gathering of the Saints to Zion in the mid-nineteenth century. Eli and his wife, Susannah Bentley Wiggill, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa while Eli served as a Methodist missionary. Both became stalwart members following their conversio…
Institutional Genidentity
An abbreviated history of marriage helps motivate the question of whether ancient Roman marriage and contemporary love marriage could qualify as stages of the same (token) institution despite carrying significantly different functions, deontological powers, and constitutive rules. Having raised the question of institutional identity over time, I proceed to answer the question by appealing to Kurt Lewin's notion of genidentity. Lewin intends the n…
Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response
Enactivist social ontology
Beginning at the beginning: Predictive processing and coupled representations
A typical expository strategy for the predictive processing account begins with perception and then extends to other cognitive domains, such as action or non-human animal cognition. Because this standard, perception-first expository strategy begins at the end of an evolutionary process, it may introduce both diachronic and synchronic distortions into the overall account. As far as the diachronic distortion is concerned, because the perception-fir…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)