Lisa A Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 286427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa A Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa A |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2280-7695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When New Experience Leads to New Knowledge
The discovery of a new kind of experience can teach an agent what that kind of experience is like. Such a discovery can be epistemically transformative, teaching an agent something they could not have learned without having that kind of experience. However, learning something new does not always require new experience. In some cases, an agent can merely expand their existing knowledge using, e.g., inference or imagination that draws on prior know…
How the evaluability bias shapes transformative decisions
Self-orienting in human and machine learning
Choosing for Changing Selves
Choosing brings change. A major life choice, a “big decision,” as Edna Ullmann-Margalit termed it, brings the possibility of changing who you are. Richard Pettigrew’s important new book, Choosing for Changing Selves, explores theories of decision-making for choices that change us, with a particular focus on life-changing decisions.Life-changing decisions are decision cases where a persisting agent, through their choice, creates a new self, throug…
Aspiring to be rational
Transformative Education
Universities aspire to offer students a transformative experience, but rarely spell out the nature of this transformation. In this essay, L. A. Paul and John Quiggin frame the successful university education as transformative in the philosophical sense. They explain the way that a successful college education can be understood as generating an individual conceptual revolution, and thus, as a transformative experience. Education can create epistem…
De Se Preferences and Empathy for Future Selves1
Transformative Choice
Transformative Experience
Précis of Transformative Experience
Characteristics and Life Experiences Associated With Receiving a Rape Disclosure Within a National Telephone Household Probability Sample of Women
Disclosure of rape to informal support sources is relatively common, but not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of disclosure recipients’ experience by examining associations between their sociodemographic and life experiences with receipt of a rape disclosure and encouragement of the victim to formally report her assault. Over 35% of the 3,001 community‐residing women in this national sample reported receiving a rape discl…
Transformative Experience
Labeling Acts of Sexual Violence
Causation
"Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seems to have a firm grip on causation, and much work in the natural and social sciences relies on the idea. Yet neither common sense nor extensive philosophical debate has led us to anything like agreement on the correct analysis of the concept of caus…
College Women’s Experiences With Rape Disclosure
Disclosure of a rape to informal support sources (e.g., friends) is a relatively common experience, but it is not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of the characteristics and life experiences of disclosure recipients among a national sample of 2,000 female college students. Over 40% of respondents reported having received a rape disclosure, and more than two thirds of these recipients encouraged victims to formally report …
Does Encouragement by Others Increase Rape Reporting? Findings From a National Sample of Women
Our study explores the role of victims' consultation with others about whether or not to report their rape to police. Three groups were observed within this sample of 435 rape victims from a national telephone household probability sample of women: those who did not consult with anyone about reporting ( n = 364), those who consulted with someone and were encouraged to report to police ( n = 40), and those who consulted with someone and were not e…
Metaphysics as modeling
Relations between Loss of Services and Psychiatric Symptoms in Urban and Non-Urban Settings following a Natural Disaster
Disasters have been associated with both acute and prolonged distress and significant post-disaster psychiatric symptoms. These outcomes may be further complicated by extended periods without vital services and supplies, such as electricity and drinking water. The present study investigated the relations between post-disaster loss of services and psychiatric symptoms in urban/non-urban disaster victims. Random-digit-dial methodology was used to i…
Sexual Assault Programming on College Campuses
Sexual assault programming is often delivered without a theoretical framework and does not typically utilize applicable research that could help to induce change among participants. Such interventions may target male and/or female students, although the focus of this review is on men. It is important to examine these programs in light of current theoretical knowledge and empirical findings from the social psychological attitudinal and behavioral …
The Puzzles of Material Constitution
Monists about material constitution typically argue that when Statue is materially constituted by Clay, Statue is just Clay. Pluralists about material constitution deny that constitution is identity: Statue is not just Clay. When Clay materially constitutes Statue, Clay is not identical to Statue. I discuss three familiar puzzles involving grounding, overdetermination and conceptual issues, and develop three new puzzles stemming from the connecti…
Perceptions of peer rape myth acceptance and disclosure in a sample of college sexual assault survivors
University of TulsaThere are many empirically supported treatments available to help sexual assaultsurvivors improve their postassault outcomes. Unfortunately, many survivors do notdisclose their assault to others or seek formal treatment services and thus are not ableto beneÞt from these treatments. This study examines the relations between survivorsOperceptions of peer rape myth acceptance (RMA), disclosure behaviors, and psycho-logical well-be…
Promotion of Evidence-Based Practices for Child Traumatic Stress in Rural Populations
Child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and other forms of traumatic stress in childhood are unfortunately quite prevalent. Although most children exhibit striking resiliency in the face of such harrowing experiences, the ubiquity of childhood trauma translates into a significant number of children in need of clinical services to address resultant unremitting distress. Encouragingly, a number of effective interventions for child traumatic stres…
In Defense of Essentialism 1
The Worm at the Root of the Passions
I claim that Mill has a theory of poetry which he uses to reconcile nineteenth century associationist psychology, the tendency of the intellect to dissolve associations, and the need for educated members of society to desire utilitarian ends. The heart of the argument is that Mill thinks reading poetry encourages us to feel the feelings of others, and thus to develop pleasurable associations with the pleasurable feelings of others and painful ass…
Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentence Types
Does Encouragement by Others Increase Rape Reporting? Findings From a National Sample of Women
Our study explores the role of victims' consultation with others about whether or not to report their rape to police. Three groups were observed within this sample of 435 rape victims from a national telephone household probability sample of women: those who did not consult with anyone about reporting ( n = 364), those who consulted with someone and were encouraged to report to police ( n = 40), and those who consulted with someone and were not e…
College Women’s Experiences With Rape Disclosure
Disclosure of a rape to informal support sources (e.g., friends) is a relatively common experience, but it is not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of the characteristics and life experiences of disclosure recipients among a national sample of 2,000 female college students. Over 40% of respondents reported having received a rape disclosure, and more than two thirds of these recipients encouraged victims to formally report …
Transformative Experience
Précis of Transformative Experience
Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentence Types
The Puzzles of Material Constitution
Monists about material constitution typically argue that when Statue is materially constituted by Clay, Statue is just Clay. Pluralists about material constitution deny that constitution is identity: Statue is not just Clay. When Clay materially constitutes Statue, Clay is not identical to Statue. I discuss three familiar puzzles involving grounding, overdetermination and conceptual issues, and develop three new puzzles stemming from the connecti…
De Se Preferences and Empathy for Future Selves1
Characteristics and Life Experiences Associated With Receiving a Rape Disclosure Within a National Telephone Household Probability Sample of Women
Disclosure of rape to informal support sources is relatively common, but not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of disclosure recipients’ experience by examining associations between their sociodemographic and life experiences with receipt of a rape disclosure and encouragement of the victim to formally report her assault. Over 35% of the 3,001 community‐residing women in this national sample reported receiving a rape discl…
Labeling Acts of Sexual Violence
In Defense of Essentialism 1
Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentence Types
The Worm at the Root of the Passions
I claim that Mill has a theory of poetry which he uses to reconcile nineteenth century associationist psychology, the tendency of the intellect to dissolve associations, and the need for educated members of society to desire utilitarian ends. The heart of the argument is that Mill thinks reading poetry encourages us to feel the feelings of others, and thus to develop pleasurable associations with the pleasurable feelings of others and painful ass…
Promotion of Evidence-Based Practices for Child Traumatic Stress in Rural Populations
Child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and other forms of traumatic stress in childhood are unfortunately quite prevalent. Although most children exhibit striking resiliency in the face of such harrowing experiences, the ubiquity of childhood trauma translates into a significant number of children in need of clinical services to address resultant unremitting distress. Encouragingly, a number of effective interventions for child traumatic stres…
In Defense of Essentialism 1
Perceptions of peer rape myth acceptance and disclosure in a sample of college sexual assault survivors
University of TulsaThere are many empirically supported treatments available to help sexual assaultsurvivors improve their postassault outcomes. Unfortunately, many survivors do notdisclose their assault to others or seek formal treatment services and thus are not ableto beneÞt from these treatments. This study examines the relations between survivorsOperceptions of peer rape myth acceptance (RMA), disclosure behaviors, and psycho-logical well-be…
The Puzzles of Material Constitution
Monists about material constitution typically argue that when Statue is materially constituted by Clay, Statue is just Clay. Pluralists about material constitution deny that constitution is identity: Statue is not just Clay. When Clay materially constitutes Statue, Clay is not identical to Statue. I discuss three familiar puzzles involving grounding, overdetermination and conceptual issues, and develop three new puzzles stemming from the connecti…
Sexual Assault Programming on College Campuses
Sexual assault programming is often delivered without a theoretical framework and does not typically utilize applicable research that could help to induce change among participants. Such interventions may target male and/or female students, although the focus of this review is on men. It is important to examine these programs in light of current theoretical knowledge and empirical findings from the social psychological attitudinal and behavioral …
Metaphysics as modeling
Relations between Loss of Services and Psychiatric Symptoms in Urban and Non-Urban Settings following a Natural Disaster
Disasters have been associated with both acute and prolonged distress and significant post-disaster psychiatric symptoms. These outcomes may be further complicated by extended periods without vital services and supplies, such as electricity and drinking water. The present study investigated the relations between post-disaster loss of services and psychiatric symptoms in urban/non-urban disaster victims. Random-digit-dial methodology was used to i…
Causation
"Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seems to have a firm grip on causation, and much work in the natural and social sciences relies on the idea. Yet neither common sense nor extensive philosophical debate has led us to anything like agreement on the correct analysis of the concept of caus…
College Women’s Experiences With Rape Disclosure
Disclosure of a rape to informal support sources (e.g., friends) is a relatively common experience, but it is not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of the characteristics and life experiences of disclosure recipients among a national sample of 2,000 female college students. Over 40% of respondents reported having received a rape disclosure, and more than two thirds of these recipients encouraged victims to formally report …
Does Encouragement by Others Increase Rape Reporting? Findings From a National Sample of Women
Our study explores the role of victims' consultation with others about whether or not to report their rape to police. Three groups were observed within this sample of 435 rape victims from a national telephone household probability sample of women: those who did not consult with anyone about reporting ( n = 364), those who consulted with someone and were encouraged to report to police ( n = 40), and those who consulted with someone and were not e…
Characteristics and Life Experiences Associated With Receiving a Rape Disclosure Within a National Telephone Household Probability Sample of Women
Disclosure of rape to informal support sources is relatively common, but not well understood. This study expands our limited knowledge of disclosure recipients’ experience by examining associations between their sociodemographic and life experiences with receipt of a rape disclosure and encouragement of the victim to formally report her assault. Over 35% of the 3,001 community‐residing women in this national sample reported receiving a rape discl…
Transformative Experience
Labeling Acts of Sexual Violence
Transformative Choice
Transformative Experience
Précis of Transformative Experience
De Se Preferences and Empathy for Future Selves1
Transformative Education
Universities aspire to offer students a transformative experience, but rarely spell out the nature of this transformation. In this essay, L. A. Paul and John Quiggin frame the successful university education as transformative in the philosophical sense. They explain the way that a successful college education can be understood as generating an individual conceptual revolution, and thus, as a transformative experience. Education can create epistem…
Aspiring to be rational
Choosing for Changing Selves
Choosing brings change. A major life choice, a “big decision,” as Edna Ullmann-Margalit termed it, brings the possibility of changing who you are. Richard Pettigrew’s important new book, Choosing for Changing Selves, explores theories of decision-making for choices that change us, with a particular focus on life-changing decisions.Life-changing decisions are decision cases where a persisting agent, through their choice, creates a new self, throug…
Self-orienting in human and machine learning
When New Experience Leads to New Knowledge
The discovery of a new kind of experience can teach an agent what that kind of experience is like. Such a discovery can be epistemically transformative, teaching an agent something they could not have learned without having that kind of experience. However, learning something new does not always require new experience. In some cases, an agent can merely expand their existing knowledge using, e.g., inference or imagination that draws on prior know…
How the evaluability bias shapes transformative decisions
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