Naomi Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 341365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington and Lee University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5184-1246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Stan Lee made history
Lee revised earlier stories with later ones to produce the single fictional history of Marvel Comics. We draw three substantive philosophical lessons, which generalise beyond Lee. First, there are four kinds of ways that comics (and texts generally) can be revised. They can be continued. They can be restarted. They can be corrected. And such continuations, restarts, and corrections can be rejected. Second, each of those four kinds can be explaine…
Semantic dualism
Philosophers have paid more attention to proper names (hereafter “names”) than to any other semantic kind. They have also more often focused on names in works of fact than in fiction, and almost always considered individual works, fact or fiction, in isolation from one another. Though serial fiction, which requires considering them not in isolation but in combination, is an extremely common use of language, it is understudied, presenting new chal…
Ordering Comics
Comics can be ordered in a range of ways, most overtly by issue number for works within a series, and by page number for pages within works. The internal elements of a comic can also be ordered by formal details found within pages. We identify four kinds of formal details specific to comics pages or two-page spreads: how their elements are arranged, how they are viewed, what events they represent, and when information about those events is presen…
How Should Philosophers Approach the History of Philosophy
Philosophers’ attitudes toward the history of philosophy are mixed. Regardless, likely all philosophers interact with the history of philosophy through research, teaching, or professional life. How should they approach it? I answer by analyzing the notion of ‘history of philosophy’. I then consider prominent recent answers given by others converging with mine. I conclude that (as long as they are clear on their approach) philosophers should be gu…
Alan Moore, Donald Davidson, and the Mind of Swampmen
Kantian Conceptual Geography
This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by appealing to theses drawn from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Those issues include the nature of the subjective, objective, and empirical; potential scopes of the subjectie; what can (and cannot) be said about a subject-independent reality; analyticity, syntheticity, apriority, and aposter…
Adolescents of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
This article focuses on the influence of male role models on the lives of adolescents (N = 78) in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study. Half of the adolescents had male role models; those with and those without male role models had similar scores on the feminine and masculine scales of the Bem Sex Role Inventory, as well as on the trait subscales of the State-Trait Personality Inventory (anxiety, anger, depression, and curiosity) a…
The Principle of Charity
The recent publication of a third anthology of Donald Davidson's articles, and anticipated publication of two more, encourages a consideration of themes binding together Davidson's lifetime of research. One such theme is the principle of charity (PC). In light of the mileage Davidson gets out of PC, I propose a careful examination of PC itself. In Part 1, 1 consider some ways in which Davidson articulates PC. In Part 2, 1 show that the articulati…
Adolescents of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
This article focuses on the influence of male role models on the lives of adolescents (N = 78) in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study. Half of the adolescents had male role models; those with and those without male role models had similar scores on the feminine and masculine scales of the Bem Sex Role Inventory, as well as on the trait subscales of the State-Trait Personality Inventory (anxiety, anger, depression, and curiosity) a…
The Principle of Charity
The recent publication of a third anthology of Donald Davidson's articles, and anticipated publication of two more, encourages a consideration of themes binding together Davidson's lifetime of research. One such theme is the principle of charity (PC). In light of the mileage Davidson gets out of PC, I propose a careful examination of PC itself. In Part 1, 1 consider some ways in which Davidson articulates PC. In Part 2, 1 show that the articulati…
Adolescents of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
This article focuses on the influence of male role models on the lives of adolescents (N = 78) in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study. Half of the adolescents had male role models; those with and those without male role models had similar scores on the feminine and masculine scales of the Bem Sex Role Inventory, as well as on the trait subscales of the State-Trait Personality Inventory (anxiety, anger, depression, and curiosity) a…
Kantian Conceptual Geography
This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by appealing to theses drawn from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Those issues include the nature of the subjective, objective, and empirical; potential scopes of the subjectie; what can (and cannot) be said about a subject-independent reality; analyticity, syntheticity, apriority, and aposter…
Alan Moore, Donald Davidson, and the Mind of Swampmen
How Should Philosophers Approach the History of Philosophy
Philosophers’ attitudes toward the history of philosophy are mixed. Regardless, likely all philosophers interact with the history of philosophy through research, teaching, or professional life. How should they approach it? I answer by analyzing the notion of ‘history of philosophy’. I then consider prominent recent answers given by others converging with mine. I conclude that (as long as they are clear on their approach) philosophers should be gu…
Ordering Comics
Comics can be ordered in a range of ways, most overtly by issue number for works within a series, and by page number for pages within works. The internal elements of a comic can also be ordered by formal details found within pages. We identify four kinds of formal details specific to comics pages or two-page spreads: how their elements are arranged, how they are viewed, what events they represent, and when information about those events is presen…
How Stan Lee made history
Lee revised earlier stories with later ones to produce the single fictional history of Marvel Comics. We draw three substantive philosophical lessons, which generalise beyond Lee. First, there are four kinds of ways that comics (and texts generally) can be revised. They can be continued. They can be restarted. They can be corrected. And such continuations, restarts, and corrections can be rejected. Second, each of those four kinds can be explaine…
Semantic dualism
Philosophers have paid more attention to proper names (hereafter “names”) than to any other semantic kind. They have also more often focused on names in works of fact than in fiction, and almost always considered individual works, fact or fiction, in isolation from one another. Though serial fiction, which requires considering them not in isolation but in combination, is an extremely common use of language, it is understudied, presenting new chal…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Dualism (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · History (2 works)