Nancy E Snow
Biographic Data
| ID | 2365051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy E Snow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Snow |
| SIGNATURE | SNOW N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7931-3100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Virtue of Hope
This volume consists of eleven chapters on hope by practitioners of various disciplines, bringing together perspectives from literary theory, philosophy, black existentialist thought, psychology, theology, environmentalism, and education theory. There is broad agreement that hope is the desire for a future outcome and the belief that the outcome is attainable. Beyond these necessary conditions for hope, significant disagreement arises about suffi…
Introduction to the special issue on self, virtue, and public life
Nine articles appear in this special issue of The Journal of Moral Education. Each is the product of a team of multidisciplinary scholars who have researched topics related to the self, virtue, and public life. The essays bring fresh perspectives on civic virtues and the self in studies that are conceptually grounded and empirically informed. They bring to the fore novel ideas about what can count as a civic virtue or enhance civic participation,…
What is a science of virtue
My remarks will outline, from a philosopher’s perspective, challenges and opportunities that I see for a science of virtue. I will touch on three topics: (1) ensuring that the studies are philosophically useful; (2) grappling with issues of measurement; and (3) next steps in moving a science of virtue forward. I approach (1) and (2) through reflections on some recent uses of psychology by philosophers and of philosophy by psychologists; and will …
Against neutrality
We appreciate and respond to Cokelet’s thoughtful criticisms of our book. First, he points to deliberative forms of practical wisdom as objectionable to anti-rationalist’s. In response, we point to non-conscious (yet complex) forms of deliberation that occur as individuals automatically process and respond to virtue-relevant stimuli. Second, Cokelet states that reflecting upon one’s life as a whole may be unnecessary and ineffective for virtue de…
Clarifying the Content of Intellectual Humility
The Value of Open-Mindedness and Intellectual Humility for Interdisciplinary Research
Academic research is increasingly centering on interdisciplinary work. Strong interdisciplinary research (SIR), involving researchers from very different fields, such as scientists and humanists, is often encouraged, if not required, by funding agencies. I argue that two intellectual virtues, open-mindedness and intellectual humility, are crucial for overcoming obstacles to SIR and achieving success. In part I, I provide a primer on intellectual …
Defending Campus Culture Against the Threat of Perennial Online Instruction in a Post-Covid-19 World
PERSPECTIVE article Front. Educ., 23 November 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.607655
Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media
This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens' commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in …
How Good is Suffering
Self, Motivation, and Virtue
The Oxford Handbook of Virtue
This volume provides a representative overview of philosophical work on virtue. It is divided into seven parts: conceptualizations of virtue, historical and religious accounts, contemporary virtue ethics and theories of virtue, central concepts and issues, critical examinations, applied virtue ethics, and virtue epistemology. Forty-two chapters by distinguished contributors offer insights and directions for further research. The volume is unique …
Stoic Virtue
The Stoics notoriously held that virtue was the perfection of human-scale rational agency; that such perfection was rare but humanly possible; that it was both necessary and sufficient for happiness; that it was, in fact, the only unqualified good for human beings; and that it was an all-or-nothing achievement—there were no intermediate degrees of virtue. The mere recital of that list of Stoic doctrines has often been enough to disqualify Stoicis…
The Phronimos and the Sage
Aristotle’s phronimos and Mencius’s sage are the paragons of virtue. They exemplify practical wisdom, enabling them to perform virtuous actions called for in different situations, and are the concrete models of virtue for all human beings, without whom others would not be able to cultivate their virtues. Aristotle and Mencius are also alike in holding that the virtues of character are based on human nature, and cultivation is key to achieving the…
Feminist Approaches to Virtue Ethics
Feminist ethics addresses the subordination in society of women and women’s interests to men and men’s interests and the devaluation or exclusion in moral philosophy of women’s perspectives. Feminist approaches to virtue ethics draw on and also criticize assumptions, concepts, methods, values, and theories of traditional virtue ethics, thus expanding the resources of feminist ethics for addressing problems in society and philosophy and making vir…
Moral and Intellectual Virtues
The distinction between moral and intellectual virtues was widely accepted by ancient and medieval philosophers. And until relatively recently, most agreed that there is a genuine distinction to be marked here, even if they disagreed as to how this distinction should be drawn. But some now think that there is no real difference between these putative kinds at all, and that all attempts to explain the difference fail. This is the line taken by Lin…
Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
In this chapter the author defends the view that the major variants of Confucian ethics qualify as virtue ethics in the respects that matter most, which concern the focus, investigative priority, and explanatory priority of virtue over right action. The chapter also provides short summaries of the central Confucian virtues and then explains how different Confucians have understood the relationship between these and what some regard as the chief o…
Interactive Logic Models
Logic models are commonly used by evaluators to illustrate relationships among a program's inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes. They are useful in helping intended users develop programs, communicate a program's theory of change, and design evaluations. However, as static documents, logic models can be challenging to build, work with, and present to stakeholders, especially for large and complex programs. Challenged by this inadequacy of st…
Kant on Virtue
Immanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. Human agents, according to Kant, owe it to themselves to strive for perfect virtue by fully committing to morality and by developing the fortitude to maintain and execute this life-governing policy, despite obstacles. This chapter reviews basic features of Kant’s conception of virtue and then di…
Developing the Virtues
Cultivating Virtue
Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness
Iris Murdoch’s Notion of a Loving Gaze
Virtue and the Oppression of Women
Men do not want solely the obedience of women; they want their sentiments. All men, except the most brutish, desire to have, in the woman most nearly connected with them, not a forced slave but a willing one, not a slave merely, but a favourite. They have therefore put everything in practice to enslave their minds. The masters of all other slaves rely, for maintaining obedience, on fear; either fear of themselves, or religious fears. The masters …
Nancy Sherman
Recommended books
Trench Town Rock. Kamau Brathwaite. (Providence, RI: Lost Roads Publishers, 1995). The More You Watch, The Less You Know. Danny Schechter. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997). Grounds for Peace: An Anthology of Writings by the Members of Women Against Military Madness and Women Poets of the Twin Cities. (Minneapolis: Women Against Military Madness, 1994. Available from Women Against Military Madness, 310 East 38th Street, Suite 225, Minneapolis…
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Some Comments on Luckhardt's Interpretation of Empirical Propositions as Paradigms
In his article, Beyond Knowledge: Paradigms in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy,' C. G. Luckhardt argues that mathematical proofs, standards, and a certain class of empirical propositions, those which G. E. Moore claimed to know in A Defence of Common Sense,' are all kinds of paradigms, that is, groundings for frameworks or systems of representation/justification which are themselves beyond knowledge and justification. They provide the frames of r…
Self-forgiveness
Humility
Recommended books
Father Joseph Wresinski: Voice of the Poorest. Alwine de Vos van Steenwijk. (Santa Barbara, CA: Queenship Publishing, 1996). Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy. Robert W. McChesney. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997). Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America, Stephanie M. Wildman, with contributions by Margalynne Armstrong, Adrienne D. Davis, and Tina Grillo. (New York: New York University Press, 1996)
Recommended books
Trench Town Rock. Kamau Brathwaite. (Providence, RI: Lost Roads Publishers, 1995). The More You Watch, The Less You Know. Danny Schechter. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997). Grounds for Peace: An Anthology of Writings by the Members of Women Against Military Madness and Women Poets of the Twin Cities. (Minneapolis: Women Against Military Madness, 1994. Available from Women Against Military Madness, 310 East 38th Street, Suite 225, Minneapolis…
Nancy Sherman
Virtue and the Oppression of Women
Men do not want solely the obedience of women; they want their sentiments. All men, except the most brutish, desire to have, in the woman most nearly connected with them, not a forced slave but a willing one, not a slave merely, but a favourite. They have therefore put everything in practice to enslave their minds. The masters of all other slaves rely, for maintaining obedience, on fear; either fear of themselves, or religious fears. The masters …
Iris Murdoch’s Notion of a Loving Gaze
Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness
Cultivating Virtue
Developing the Virtues
The Oxford Handbook of Virtue
This volume provides a representative overview of philosophical work on virtue. It is divided into seven parts: conceptualizations of virtue, historical and religious accounts, contemporary virtue ethics and theories of virtue, central concepts and issues, critical examinations, applied virtue ethics, and virtue epistemology. Forty-two chapters by distinguished contributors offer insights and directions for further research. The volume is unique …
Stoic Virtue
The Stoics notoriously held that virtue was the perfection of human-scale rational agency; that such perfection was rare but humanly possible; that it was both necessary and sufficient for happiness; that it was, in fact, the only unqualified good for human beings; and that it was an all-or-nothing achievement—there were no intermediate degrees of virtue. The mere recital of that list of Stoic doctrines has often been enough to disqualify Stoicis…
The Phronimos and the Sage
Aristotle’s phronimos and Mencius’s sage are the paragons of virtue. They exemplify practical wisdom, enabling them to perform virtuous actions called for in different situations, and are the concrete models of virtue for all human beings, without whom others would not be able to cultivate their virtues. Aristotle and Mencius are also alike in holding that the virtues of character are based on human nature, and cultivation is key to achieving the…
Feminist Approaches to Virtue Ethics
Feminist ethics addresses the subordination in society of women and women’s interests to men and men’s interests and the devaluation or exclusion in moral philosophy of women’s perspectives. Feminist approaches to virtue ethics draw on and also criticize assumptions, concepts, methods, values, and theories of traditional virtue ethics, thus expanding the resources of feminist ethics for addressing problems in society and philosophy and making vir…
Moral and Intellectual Virtues
The distinction between moral and intellectual virtues was widely accepted by ancient and medieval philosophers. And until relatively recently, most agreed that there is a genuine distinction to be marked here, even if they disagreed as to how this distinction should be drawn. But some now think that there is no real difference between these putative kinds at all, and that all attempts to explain the difference fail. This is the line taken by Lin…
Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
In this chapter the author defends the view that the major variants of Confucian ethics qualify as virtue ethics in the respects that matter most, which concern the focus, investigative priority, and explanatory priority of virtue over right action. The chapter also provides short summaries of the central Confucian virtues and then explains how different Confucians have understood the relationship between these and what some regard as the chief o…
Interactive Logic Models
Logic models are commonly used by evaluators to illustrate relationships among a program's inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes. They are useful in helping intended users develop programs, communicate a program's theory of change, and design evaluations. However, as static documents, logic models can be challenging to build, work with, and present to stakeholders, especially for large and complex programs. Challenged by this inadequacy of st…
Kant on Virtue
Immanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. Human agents, according to Kant, owe it to themselves to strive for perfect virtue by fully committing to morality and by developing the fortitude to maintain and execute this life-governing policy, despite obstacles. This chapter reviews basic features of Kant’s conception of virtue and then di…
Self, Motivation, and Virtue
Defending Campus Culture Against the Threat of Perennial Online Instruction in a Post-Covid-19 World
PERSPECTIVE article Front. Educ., 23 November 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.607655
Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media
This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens' commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in …
How Good is Suffering
What is a science of virtue
My remarks will outline, from a philosopher’s perspective, challenges and opportunities that I see for a science of virtue. I will touch on three topics: (1) ensuring that the studies are philosophically useful; (2) grappling with issues of measurement; and (3) next steps in moving a science of virtue forward. I approach (1) and (2) through reflections on some recent uses of psychology by philosophers and of philosophy by psychologists; and will …
Against neutrality
We appreciate and respond to Cokelet’s thoughtful criticisms of our book. First, he points to deliberative forms of practical wisdom as objectionable to anti-rationalist’s. In response, we point to non-conscious (yet complex) forms of deliberation that occur as individuals automatically process and respond to virtue-relevant stimuli. Second, Cokelet states that reflecting upon one’s life as a whole may be unnecessary and ineffective for virtue de…
Philosophy (20 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Virtue (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Environmental ethics (9 works) · Ethics in medical practice (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)