Samantha L Winter
Biographic Data
| ID | 233826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha L Winter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha L |
| FAMILY NAME | Winter |
| SIGNATURE | WINTER S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0268-5667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Artificial in “Artificial Intelligence”
Democracy and the Humanities
Those who seek to rule over others recognize the humanities’ subversive quality. Democracy, Dewey notes, has always been allied with humanism. The conventional argument for the humanities is that they teach critical thinking and empathy. But this casts the humanities as merely instrumental when their role is foundational. Self-governance presupposes that the decisions we make matter. If events were the product of fate, divine plan, or the natural…
Democracy’s ruling hand
The claim of liberal constitutionalism is that a text-like object or a ‘diplomatically abstract’ set of principles can work a deflection of disagreements within a pluralist polity. But this project assumes both that pluralism remains amenable to reason and that reason is a capacity independent of the profound differences of meaning, value, and forms of life that shape those disagreements. Neither assumption is correct. Differences in norms, value…
Mutual recognition across generations
‘Sovereignty’, Arendt says, ‘is contradictory to’ the human condition. It is not, in any event, the kind of thing that can be shared across generations. Subsequent generations lack sovereignty to the precise degree that they are bound by the decisions of their predecessors. It is no answer to say that contemporary citizens participate in the sovereignty of a whole, transgenerational people. To paraphrase de Tocqueville, later generations are not …
The made and the made-up
Truth is an ethical relation. Facts, whether descriptions of the physical world or of historical events, are necessarily mediated by our frames of reference. This contingency opens a space for disagreement that cannot be adjudicated by an absolute standard of truth. For those seeking power or profit, the temptation to exploit this state of undecidability is strong. When many question the institutions that broker meaning – science, the professions…
Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law
The standard account of the relation between democracy and the rule of law focuses on law’s liberty-enhancing role in constraining official action. This is a faint echo of the complex, constitutive relation between the two. The Greeks used one word – isonomia – to describe both. If democracy is the system in which people have an equal say in determining the rules that govern social life, then the rule of law is simultaneously before, after, concu…
Why invent the handle? Electromyography (EMG) and efficiency of use data investigating the prehistoric origin and selection of hafted stone knives
For over 3 million years hominins held stone-cutting tools in the hand, gripping the portion of tool displaying a sharp cutting edge directly. During the late Middle Pleistocene human populations started to produce hafted composite knives, where the stone element displaying a sharp cutting edge was secured in a handle. Prevailing archaeological literature suggests that handles convey benefits to tool users by increasing cutting performance and re…
Muscle recruitment and stone tool use ergonomics across three million years of Palaeolithic technological transitions
The Liturgy of Dissent
Dissent is a social act that comes freighted with a cultural and historical logic. It has its own iconography, mythology, and liturgy. The icons of dissent serve as paradigms for those whom they inspire. The myths of dissent offer the faithful reassuring stories of struggle and eventual triumph. The liturgy of dissent, in contrast, provides ritualized texts of remembrance, solace, and defiance. Commitment and community, empathy and identity, soli…
A recurrent Prague spring
What Makes Modernity Late
There is a deep, if invisible conflict between our consumer culture and our democratic ideals. It is the result of social processes that, in the last half century, have profoundly transformed how we live and who we are. This paper explores the underpinnings of the condition that many identify as ‘late’ or ‘post’ modernity. Rather than focusing on the intellectual transformations wrought by the Enlightenment, it takes up Charles Taylor’s dialectic…
The "Power" Thing
A Clearing in the Forest
Most lawyers understand metaphor as merely a matter of expression--perhaps useful for rhetorical purposes, but perilous to the analytic logic that should direct the movement from an authoritative rule to the decision of a concrete case. Many philosophers understand metaphor as entirely devoid of semantic content. For them, linguistic meaning is socially contingent and essentially arbitrary; metaphors are powerful devices capable of affecting the …
For What It's Worth
Usually, one thinks of nostalgia as the characteristic vice of the conservative. When Republicans bandy slogans like "family values," progressives are quick to recognize the dangerous sentimentality that yearns for a status quo ante in which men were men and women were women and minorities were seldom seen and never heard-the age, as Ronald Reagan so callously put it, "back before we knew we had a race problem." In contrast, one thinks of Utopian…
Bull Durham and the Uses of Theory
The Cognitive Dimension of the Agon between Legal Power and Narrative Meaning
A judge decides for ten reasons/ nine of which nobody knows 1The appearance of the wheels and their construction was as crystal, a ~ single likeness to the four of them, their appearance and construction as if there were a wheel [thrust] inside a wheel.When they moved, they could move to all four sides; they would not tum when they moved. 2I
Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for Law
disciplines.In addition to my own work in law
The Metaphor of Standing and the Problem of Self-Governance
Why invent the handle? Electromyography (EMG) and efficiency of use data investigating the prehistoric origin and selection of hafted stone knives
For over 3 million years hominins held stone-cutting tools in the hand, gripping the portion of tool displaying a sharp cutting edge directly. During the late Middle Pleistocene human populations started to produce hafted composite knives, where the stone element displaying a sharp cutting edge was secured in a handle. Prevailing archaeological literature suggests that handles convey benefits to tool users by increasing cutting performance and re…
Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for Law
disciplines.In addition to my own work in law
The Metaphor of Standing and the Problem of Self-Governance
Muscle recruitment and stone tool use ergonomics across three million years of Palaeolithic technological transitions
The Cognitive Dimension of the Agon between Legal Power and Narrative Meaning
A judge decides for ten reasons/ nine of which nobody knows 1The appearance of the wheels and their construction was as crystal, a ~ single likeness to the four of them, their appearance and construction as if there were a wheel [thrust] inside a wheel.When they moved, they could move to all four sides; they would not tum when they moved. 2I
For What It's Worth
Usually, one thinks of nostalgia as the characteristic vice of the conservative. When Republicans bandy slogans like "family values," progressives are quick to recognize the dangerous sentimentality that yearns for a status quo ante in which men were men and women were women and minorities were seldom seen and never heard-the age, as Ronald Reagan so callously put it, "back before we knew we had a race problem." In contrast, one thinks of Utopian…
Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law
The standard account of the relation between democracy and the rule of law focuses on law’s liberty-enhancing role in constraining official action. This is a faint echo of the complex, constitutive relation between the two. The Greeks used one word – isonomia – to describe both. If democracy is the system in which people have an equal say in determining the rules that govern social life, then the rule of law is simultaneously before, after, concu…
Bull Durham and the Uses of Theory
Democracy’s ruling hand
The claim of liberal constitutionalism is that a text-like object or a ‘diplomatically abstract’ set of principles can work a deflection of disagreements within a pluralist polity. But this project assumes both that pluralism remains amenable to reason and that reason is a capacity independent of the profound differences of meaning, value, and forms of life that shape those disagreements. Neither assumption is correct. Differences in norms, value…
The made and the made-up
Truth is an ethical relation. Facts, whether descriptions of the physical world or of historical events, are necessarily mediated by our frames of reference. This contingency opens a space for disagreement that cannot be adjudicated by an absolute standard of truth. For those seeking power or profit, the temptation to exploit this state of undecidability is strong. When many question the institutions that broker meaning – science, the professions…
The Metaphor of Standing and the Problem of Self-Governance
The Cognitive Dimension of the Agon between Legal Power and Narrative Meaning
A judge decides for ten reasons/ nine of which nobody knows 1The appearance of the wheels and their construction was as crystal, a ~ single likeness to the four of them, their appearance and construction as if there were a wheel [thrust] inside a wheel.When they moved, they could move to all four sides; they would not tum when they moved. 2I
Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for Law
disciplines.In addition to my own work in law
Bull Durham and the Uses of Theory
For What It's Worth
Usually, one thinks of nostalgia as the characteristic vice of the conservative. When Republicans bandy slogans like "family values," progressives are quick to recognize the dangerous sentimentality that yearns for a status quo ante in which men were men and women were women and minorities were seldom seen and never heard-the age, as Ronald Reagan so callously put it, "back before we knew we had a race problem." In contrast, one thinks of Utopian…
A Clearing in the Forest
Most lawyers understand metaphor as merely a matter of expression--perhaps useful for rhetorical purposes, but perilous to the analytic logic that should direct the movement from an authoritative rule to the decision of a concrete case. Many philosophers understand metaphor as entirely devoid of semantic content. For them, linguistic meaning is socially contingent and essentially arbitrary; metaphors are powerful devices capable of affecting the …
The "Power" Thing
What Makes Modernity Late
There is a deep, if invisible conflict between our consumer culture and our democratic ideals. It is the result of social processes that, in the last half century, have profoundly transformed how we live and who we are. This paper explores the underpinnings of the condition that many identify as ‘late’ or ‘post’ modernity. Rather than focusing on the intellectual transformations wrought by the Enlightenment, it takes up Charles Taylor’s dialectic…
The Liturgy of Dissent
Dissent is a social act that comes freighted with a cultural and historical logic. It has its own iconography, mythology, and liturgy. The icons of dissent serve as paradigms for those whom they inspire. The myths of dissent offer the faithful reassuring stories of struggle and eventual triumph. The liturgy of dissent, in contrast, provides ritualized texts of remembrance, solace, and defiance. Commitment and community, empathy and identity, soli…
A recurrent Prague spring
Muscle recruitment and stone tool use ergonomics across three million years of Palaeolithic technological transitions
Why invent the handle? Electromyography (EMG) and efficiency of use data investigating the prehistoric origin and selection of hafted stone knives
For over 3 million years hominins held stone-cutting tools in the hand, gripping the portion of tool displaying a sharp cutting edge directly. During the late Middle Pleistocene human populations started to produce hafted composite knives, where the stone element displaying a sharp cutting edge was secured in a handle. Prevailing archaeological literature suggests that handles convey benefits to tool users by increasing cutting performance and re…
Who’ or ‘what’ is the rule of law
The standard account of the relation between democracy and the rule of law focuses on law’s liberty-enhancing role in constraining official action. This is a faint echo of the complex, constitutive relation between the two. The Greeks used one word – isonomia – to describe both. If democracy is the system in which people have an equal say in determining the rules that govern social life, then the rule of law is simultaneously before, after, concu…
The made and the made-up
Truth is an ethical relation. Facts, whether descriptions of the physical world or of historical events, are necessarily mediated by our frames of reference. This contingency opens a space for disagreement that cannot be adjudicated by an absolute standard of truth. For those seeking power or profit, the temptation to exploit this state of undecidability is strong. When many question the institutions that broker meaning – science, the professions…
Democracy’s ruling hand
The claim of liberal constitutionalism is that a text-like object or a ‘diplomatically abstract’ set of principles can work a deflection of disagreements within a pluralist polity. But this project assumes both that pluralism remains amenable to reason and that reason is a capacity independent of the profound differences of meaning, value, and forms of life that shape those disagreements. Neither assumption is correct. Differences in norms, value…
Mutual recognition across generations
‘Sovereignty’, Arendt says, ‘is contradictory to’ the human condition. It is not, in any event, the kind of thing that can be shared across generations. Subsequent generations lack sovereignty to the precise degree that they are bound by the decisions of their predecessors. It is no answer to say that contemporary citizens participate in the sovereignty of a whole, transgenerational people. To paraphrase de Tocqueville, later generations are not …
The Artificial in “Artificial Intelligence”
Democracy and the Humanities
Those who seek to rule over others recognize the humanities’ subversive quality. Democracy, Dewey notes, has always been allied with humanism. The conventional argument for the humanities is that they teach critical thinking and empathy. But this casts the humanities as merely instrumental when their role is foundational. Self-governance presupposes that the decisions we make matter. If events were the product of fate, divine plan, or the natural…
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