Michael Ayers

Biographic Data

ID3716011
NAMEMichael Ayers
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEAyers
SIGNATUREAYERS M
AFFILIATIONSForsyth Technical Community College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • Knowing and Seeing

    Marla Ayers, Michael AyersBOOKKnowing and Seeing2019

    "What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers recovers the insight in the traditional distinction between knowledge and belief, according to which 'knowledge' stems from direct and perspicuous cognitive contact with ('seeing') its object, whereas 'belief' relies on 'extraneous' justification. He conducts a careful phenomenological analysis of what it is to perceive one's environment as one's environment,…

  • Knowledge and Belief from Plato to Locke

    Marla Ayers, Michael Ayers et al.CHAPTERKnowing and Seeing2019

    This essential historical introduction to the main themes of the book starts with a close, sympathetic, and significantly novel analysis (with reference to associated arguments) of a famous argument in Plato’s Republic in which Plato draws a distinction of kind between knowledge and belief, and between their objects. It is then demonstrated that the distinction, broadly so understood, remained a dominant force, in one form or another, in all non-…

  • Identification of the Most Commonly Used Laboratory Techniques in Regenerative Medicine

    Open AccessStephen L Rego, Cheryl Burrell et al.ARTICLEEducation Research International2016

    Here, we are proposing and testing the use of literature reviews as a method to identify essential competencies for specific fields. This has implications in how educators develop and structure both traditional and competency based curricula. Our focus will be on utilizing this method to identify the most relevant and commonly used techniques in the field of regenerative medicine. This publication review method may be used to develop competency b…

  • Cyberactivism

    Martha Mccaughey, Michael AyersEDITORBOOKCyberactivism2013

  • Rationalism, Platonism and God

    Michael AyersBOOKRationalism, Platonism and God2008

  • Spinoza, Platonism and Naturalism

    Marla Ayers, Michael AyersCHAPTERRationalism, Platonism and God2007

    This chapter examines the strands of Platonism and naturalism in philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s metaphysics. It argues that Spinoza’s hierarchical system of substance, attribute, immediate and mediate infinite modes, and finite modes matches in some surprising respects Neoplatonist accounts of the emanation of the universe from God. It suggests that Spinoza’s perception of universal and necessary principles are more related to that of Thomas Hobbes…

  • Rationalism, Platonism and God

    Michael AyersEDITORBOOKRationalism, Platonism and God2007

    This book comprises three main chapters on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It explores the common ground of the great early-modern rationalist theories, and provides an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. One chapter identifies characteristically Platonic themes in Descartes’s cosmology and metaphysics, finding them associated with two distinct, even opposed attitu…

  • Mehmet on Substances

    Marla Ayers, Michael Ayers et al.ARTICLEFacta Philosophica2002

  • The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

    Open AccessDaniel Garber, Michael AyersEDITORBOOKThe Cambridge History of…2000

    The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval a…

  • Minds, Ideas and Objects

    Marla Ayers, Michael Ayers et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1997

  • Locke

    Roger D Gallie, Roger Gallie et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1994

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Locke. Volume I: Epistemology. Volume II: Ontology. By Michael Ayers. (London and New York: Routledge, 1991. The Arguments of the Philosophers Series. Volume I pp. x + 341. Volume II pp. vi + 341. Prices not given.) Roger Gallie Roger Gallie University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 38…

  • Locke

    Margaret D Wilson, Marla Ayers et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1993

  • Locke

    Michael AyersBOOKLocke1993

  • Substance

    Marla Ayers, Michael AyersARTICLEThe Journal of Philosophy1991

  • Philosophy and Its Past

    Maurice Mandelbaum, Jonathan Ree et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1979