W E Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W E Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | W E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER W E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aesthetics in Canada
Opuscula Aesthetica Nostra is a pioneering publishing effort, blazing a trail which specialists in other philosophical fields should consider following. It purports to represent what is happening in aesthetics throughout English-speaking and French-speaking Canada today, and in consequence it is an intriguing exercise in Canadian bilingualism. It purports also to show, as co-editor Calvin Seerveld says in the Preface, that “aesthetics deserves it…
I Don't Get No Respect
The author struggles to come to grips here with the philosophical complexities and personal tragedies that disorient us when we reflect on the great and pervasive inequalities in human societies. His egalitarianism is radical in denying the justice of the inequalities that liberals like Rawls would countenance, and in denying that justice and capitalism are compatible. Nielsen displays a masterly knowledge of the literature of social justice, esp…
Is Art a Form of Life
Basic to Richard Wollheim's theory of art in Art and Its Objects is the proposition that “art is, in Wittgenstein's sense, a form of life”. This sense of the expression “a form of life” (“ ein Lebensform ”) is elusive; Wittgenstein uses it only a few times in his Investigations , leaving such mysteries as how to interpret the famous gnomicism, “What has to be accepted, the given, is—so one could say— forms of life .” Wollheim's way of dispelling …
Taking Reflective Equilibrium Seriously
In the essay “Justice and Rights” of his book Taking Rights Seriously Ronald Dworkin puts forward an account of reflective equilibrium which has become an orthodoxy in interpreting John Rawls' theory of justice. My purpose here is to challenge this account, on the grounds that it presupposes an untenable view of the relation between belief and choice
The Perfectly Just Society
Beyond Materialism and Back Again
One result of the protracted and inconclusive contemporarydebate over the merits of a materialist theory of mind is that philosophers have been prompted to explore new and credible alternative theories. Campbell's "new epiphenomenalism" is one of these, and Goldman's conception of mental and physical events as "simultaneous nomic equivalents" is another. After a brief introductory discussion of materialism, I shall examine and assess these views.…
The Perfectly Just Society
Beyond Materialism and Back Again
One result of the protracted and inconclusive contemporarydebate over the merits of a materialist theory of mind is that philosophers have been prompted to explore new and credible alternative theories. Campbell's "new epiphenomenalism" is one of these, and Goldman's conception of mental and physical events as "simultaneous nomic equivalents" is another. After a brief introductory discussion of materialism, I shall examine and assess these views.…
The Perfectly Just Society
Beyond Materialism and Back Again
One result of the protracted and inconclusive contemporarydebate over the merits of a materialist theory of mind is that philosophers have been prompted to explore new and credible alternative theories. Campbell's "new epiphenomenalism" is one of these, and Goldman's conception of mental and physical events as "simultaneous nomic equivalents" is another. After a brief introductory discussion of materialism, I shall examine and assess these views.…
Taking Reflective Equilibrium Seriously
In the essay “Justice and Rights” of his book Taking Rights Seriously Ronald Dworkin puts forward an account of reflective equilibrium which has become an orthodoxy in interpreting John Rawls' theory of justice. My purpose here is to challenge this account, on the grounds that it presupposes an untenable view of the relation between belief and choice
Is Art a Form of Life
Basic to Richard Wollheim's theory of art in Art and Its Objects is the proposition that “art is, in Wittgenstein's sense, a form of life”. This sense of the expression “a form of life” (“ ein Lebensform ”) is elusive; Wittgenstein uses it only a few times in his Investigations , leaving such mysteries as how to interpret the famous gnomicism, “What has to be accepted, the given, is—so one could say— forms of life .” Wollheim's way of dispelling …
I Don't Get No Respect
The author struggles to come to grips here with the philosophical complexities and personal tragedies that disorient us when we reflect on the great and pervasive inequalities in human societies. His egalitarianism is radical in denying the justice of the inequalities that liberals like Rawls would countenance, and in denying that justice and capitalism are compatible. Nielsen displays a masterly knowledge of the literature of social justice, esp…
Aesthetics in Canada
Opuscula Aesthetica Nostra is a pioneering publishing effort, blazing a trail which specialists in other philosophical fields should consider following. It purports to represent what is happening in aesthetics throughout English-speaking and French-speaking Canada today, and in consequence it is an intriguing exercise in Canadian bilingualism. It purports also to show, as co-editor Calvin Seerveld says in the Preface, that “aesthetics deserves it…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)