Paul W Franks
Biographic Data
| ID | 375943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul W Franks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul W |
| FAMILY NAME | Franks |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKS P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0520-7604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reform and/or Revolution? Comments on Karin de Boer, Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
Karin de Boer has given the best account so far of the reform of Wolffian metaphysics that Kant promised. But does such a reform cohere with the revolutionary goal that Kant also affirmed? Standpoint is singled out as the central meta-concept of Kant’s revolutionary goal, and it is argued that, in the second and third critiques, Kant himself developed his revolutionary insight into the perspectival character of both concept and judgement in ways …
Attributes and predictors of long Covid
Redeeming God, Redeeming Redemption
On the Rosenzweigian view that I advocate here, redemption is neither a humanly attainable ideal, nor a regulative ideal, nor a solely critical ideal. Redemption is rather a human actualization whose full realization depends on God. In the course of explicating this claim I explore the rabbinic and kabbalistic background to Rosenzweig’s position
Risk of Covid-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community
BACKGROUND: Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on risk. METHODS: We did a prospective, observational cohort study in the UK and the USA of the general community, including front-line health-care workers, using self-reported data from the COVID Sym…
Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden
The association between neighborhood deprivation and mortality is well established, but knowledge about whether deprivation is best assessed regionally or nationally is scarce
Replication of the Association of BDNF and MC4R Variants With Dietary Intake in the Diabetes Prevention Program
OBJECTIVE: Genomewide association studies (GWAS) have identified consistent associations with obesity, with a number of studies implicating eating behavior as a primary mechanism. Few studies have replicated genetic associations with dietary intake. This study evaluates the association between obesity susceptibility loci and dietary intake. METHODS: Data were obtained as part of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a clinical trial of diabetes …
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Fichte’s Position
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Dietary intake assessment in women with different weight and pregnancy status using a short questionnaire
Objective First, to evaluate the ability of a short dietary questionnaire (SDQ) to estimate energy intake (EI) on group and individual levels compared with total energy expenditure (TEE) measured by the doubly labelled water method. Second, to compare the SDQ's performance in estimating energy, nutrient and food intakes with a sixty-six-item FFQ used in large-scale Swedish epidemiological research. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Umeå, Sweden. Su…
Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity
INTRODUCTION: Human body acceleration is often used as an indicator of daily physical activity in epidemiological research. Raw acceleration signals contain three basic components: movement, gravity, and noise. Separation of these becomes increasingly difficult during rotational movements. We aimed to evaluate five different methods (metrics) of processing acceleration signals on their ability to remove the gravitational component of acceleration…
Rabbinic Idealism and Kabbalistic realism
For over two centuries, Jewish philosophy and post-Kantian Idealism have been intertwined. Habermas has rightly noted ‘the German Idealism of the Jewish philosophers’, asking how, given the Christian or post-Christian character of Idealism, this intimacy is possible. In what follows, I offer an answer. First, however, I will deepen the puzzle. For what is internal to Idealism is not only Christianity or post-Christianity, but specifically the cla…
Desdemona's Lie
Does the eighteenth-century Spinozism debate, in which Jacobi popularized the term “nihilism,” illuminate Nietzsche's conceptions of nihilism and genealogy? Frederick Beiser interprets Jacobian nihilism as radicalized Cartesian skepticism, according to which even the subject of ideas is unknowable. Bernard Reginster distinguishes two senses of Nietzschean nihilism: a metaethical antirealism about our highest values and an ethical despair arising …
Childhood Obesity, Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Premature Death
BACKGROUND: The effect of childhood risk factors for cardiovascular disease on adult mortality is poorly understood. METHODS: In a cohort of 4857 American Indian children without diabetes (mean age, 11.3 years; 12,659 examinations) who were born between 1945 and 1984, we assessed whether body-mass index (BMI), glucose tolerance, and blood pressure and cholesterol levels predicted premature death. Risk factors were standardized according to sex an…
Jewish Philosophy after Kant The Legacy of Salomon Maimon
Since the end of the eighteenth century, no non-Jewish philosopher has been more central to Jewish philosophy than Kant. The major Jewish philosophers of late modernity have worked out their positions in relation to Kant, sometimes through the mediation of post-Kantians such as Hegel, Schelling, and Schopenhauer - just as the major ancient and medieval Jewish philosophers worked out their positions in relation to Plato, sometimes through the medi…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonom…
What Is the Context
What Is the Context? Paul Franks (bio) What is the context in which someone should be understood? It makes a difference whom one wants to understand, as Franz Rosenzweig himself noted. In the conclusion of his doctoral dissertation, he wrote, "Just as [it is] with the life of Luther, so it is also with the life of Goethe: one only does it justice if one sees it in the context of a total intellectual history of the nation. Hegel should be grasped …
All or Nothing
What Should Kantians Learn from Maimon’s Skepticism?
A Primer on German Enlightenment, with a Translation of Karl Leonhard Reinhold's the Fundamental Concepts and Principles of Ethics
This is the first translation into English of a work of late German enlightenment by Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823). Reinhold was an acute thinker, who is best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical philosophy were decisive for the development of philosophy after Kant. This work is not a one in the strict sense but was written for a general audience by a philosopher concerned with public enlightenment. The boo…
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden
The association between neighborhood deprivation and mortality is well established, but knowledge about whether deprivation is best assessed regionally or nationally is scarce
A Primer on German Enlightenment, with a Translation of Karl Leonhard Reinhold's the Fundamental Concepts and Principles of Ethics
This is the first translation into English of a work of late German enlightenment by Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823). Reinhold was an acute thinker, who is best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical philosophy were decisive for the development of philosophy after Kant. This work is not a one in the strict sense but was written for a general audience by a philosopher concerned with public enlightenment. The boo…
What Should Kantians Learn from Maimon’s Skepticism?
All or Nothing
What Is the Context
What Is the Context? Paul Franks (bio) What is the context in which someone should be understood? It makes a difference whom one wants to understand, as Franz Rosenzweig himself noted. In the conclusion of his doctoral dissertation, he wrote, "Just as [it is] with the life of Luther, so it is also with the life of Goethe: one only does it justice if one sees it in the context of a total intellectual history of the nation. Hegel should be grasped …
Jewish Philosophy after Kant The Legacy of Salomon Maimon
Since the end of the eighteenth century, no non-Jewish philosopher has been more central to Jewish philosophy than Kant. The major Jewish philosophers of late modernity have worked out their positions in relation to Kant, sometimes through the mediation of post-Kantians such as Hegel, Schelling, and Schopenhauer - just as the major ancient and medieval Jewish philosophers worked out their positions in relation to Plato, sometimes through the medi…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonom…
Childhood Obesity, Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Premature Death
BACKGROUND: The effect of childhood risk factors for cardiovascular disease on adult mortality is poorly understood. METHODS: In a cohort of 4857 American Indian children without diabetes (mean age, 11.3 years; 12,659 examinations) who were born between 1945 and 1984, we assessed whether body-mass index (BMI), glucose tolerance, and blood pressure and cholesterol levels predicted premature death. Risk factors were standardized according to sex an…
Separating Movement and Gravity Components in an Acceleration Signal and Implications for the Assessment of Human Daily Physical Activity
INTRODUCTION: Human body acceleration is often used as an indicator of daily physical activity in epidemiological research. Raw acceleration signals contain three basic components: movement, gravity, and noise. Separation of these becomes increasingly difficult during rotational movements. We aimed to evaluate five different methods (metrics) of processing acceleration signals on their ability to remove the gravitational component of acceleration…
Rabbinic Idealism and Kabbalistic realism
For over two centuries, Jewish philosophy and post-Kantian Idealism have been intertwined. Habermas has rightly noted ‘the German Idealism of the Jewish philosophers’, asking how, given the Christian or post-Christian character of Idealism, this intimacy is possible. In what follows, I offer an answer. First, however, I will deepen the puzzle. For what is internal to Idealism is not only Christianity or post-Christianity, but specifically the cla…
Desdemona's Lie
Does the eighteenth-century Spinozism debate, in which Jacobi popularized the term “nihilism,” illuminate Nietzsche's conceptions of nihilism and genealogy? Frederick Beiser interprets Jacobian nihilism as radicalized Cartesian skepticism, according to which even the subject of ideas is unknowable. Bernard Reginster distinguishes two senses of Nietzschean nihilism: a metaethical antirealism about our highest values and an ethical despair arising …
Dietary intake assessment in women with different weight and pregnancy status using a short questionnaire
Objective First, to evaluate the ability of a short dietary questionnaire (SDQ) to estimate energy intake (EI) on group and individual levels compared with total energy expenditure (TEE) measured by the doubly labelled water method. Second, to compare the SDQ's performance in estimating energy, nutrient and food intakes with a sixty-six-item FFQ used in large-scale Swedish epidemiological research. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Umeå, Sweden. Su…
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Fichte’s Position
Replication of the Association of BDNF and MC4R Variants With Dietary Intake in the Diabetes Prevention Program
OBJECTIVE: Genomewide association studies (GWAS) have identified consistent associations with obesity, with a number of studies implicating eating behavior as a primary mechanism. Few studies have replicated genetic associations with dietary intake. This study evaluates the association between obesity susceptibility loci and dietary intake. METHODS: Data were obtained as part of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a clinical trial of diabetes …
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans
Neighborhoods and mortality in Sweden
The association between neighborhood deprivation and mortality is well established, but knowledge about whether deprivation is best assessed regionally or nationally is scarce
Risk of Covid-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community
BACKGROUND: Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the general community and the effect of personal protective equipment (PPE) on risk. METHODS: We did a prospective, observational cohort study in the UK and the USA of the general community, including front-line health-care workers, using self-reported data from the COVID Sym…
Attributes and predictors of long Covid
Redeeming God, Redeeming Redemption
On the Rosenzweigian view that I advocate here, redemption is neither a humanly attainable ideal, nor a regulative ideal, nor a solely critical ideal. Redemption is rather a human actualization whose full realization depends on God. In the course of explicating this claim I explore the rabbinic and kabbalistic background to Rosenzweig’s position
Reform and/or Revolution? Comments on Karin de Boer, Kant’s Reform of Metaphysics
Karin de Boer has given the best account so far of the reform of Wolffian metaphysics that Kant promised. But does such a reform cohere with the revolutionary goal that Kant also affirmed? Standpoint is singled out as the central meta-concept of Kant’s revolutionary goal, and it is argued that, in the second and third critiques, Kant himself developed his revolutionary insight into the perspectival character of both concept and judgement in ways …
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Obesity (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (3 works) · Hegelianism (3 works)