Ward E Jones
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3788348 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ward E Jones |
| PRENOMES | Ward E |
| SOBRENOME | Jones |
| ASSINATURA | JONES W E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6062-6388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Post-Trust, Not Post-Truth
The neologism post-truth is commonly used to characterize a polity in which false and biased beliefs have corrupted public opinion and policymaking. Simplifying and broadening our use of the adjective beyond its current narrow meaning could make post-truth a useful addition to the lexicons of history, politics, and philosophy. Its current use, however, is unhelpful and distracting (at best), and experienced as demeaning and humiliating (at worst)…
Men in Women’s Clothes
The descriptive phrase that comprises my title can refer both to a pervasive comic trope and a mode of self‐expression. There is a tension here, insofar as the comic trope leads us not to take cross‐dressing, or drag, seriously. The first half of the comic film Some Like It Hot (1959), with its cross‐gender plot and its (sophisticated but) straightforward use of the comic trope of men‐in‐women’s clothes, appears to fall foul of this tension and t…
The politics of philosophy in Africa
The background to the present discussion is the prevalence of political and personal criticisms in philosophical discussions about Africa. As philosophers in South Africa—both white and black—continue to philosophise seriously about Africa, responses to their work sometimes take the form of political and personal criticisms of, if not attacks on, the philosopher exploring and defending considerations about the African continent. One of us (TM) ha…
Wisdom as an Aim of Higher Education
Being moved by a way the world is not
Philosophers and the Poor
This is a programmatic paper, calling for the renewal and modernisation of the therapeutic approach to philosophy found in Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics; and, in particular, for an application of the therapeutic approach to the life of poverty. The general assumption behind a therapeutic approach to philosophy is that it is possible for someone to be exposed to philosophical work which leads her to an improved understanding of herself and her …
The Function and Content of Amusement
Once we establish that the fundamental subject matter of the study of humour is a mental state - which I will call finding funny - then it immediately follows that we need to fmd the content and function of this mental state. The main contender for the content of finding funny is the incongruous (the incongruity thesis); the main contenders for the function of finding funny are grounded either in its generally being an enjoyable state (the gratfi…
Pragmatic Believing and its Explanation
Most explanations of beliefs are epistemically or pragmatically rationalizing. The distinction between these two types involves the explainer's differing expectations of how the believer will behave in the face of counterevidence. This feature suggests that rationalizing explanations portray beliefs as either (i) a consequence of the believer's following a norm, or (ii) part of a sub-intentional goal-oriented system. Which properly characterizes …
Is Scientific Theory-Commitment Doxastic or Practical
Dissident versus Loyalist
Can We Infer Naturalism from Scepticism
Hume, like a number of more recent writers, claims that epistemological scepticism gives us reason to think that our beliefs are non‐epistemically determined. Because some body of propositions that we believe are all unjustifiable, the argument goes, our beliefs in those propositions must be determined by non‐truth‐conducive considerations. I argue initially that scepticism does not by itself entail Humean naturalism. I then then develop an argum…
Religious Conversion, Self-Deception, and Pascal's Wager
Examinant la theorie pascalienne de la conversion religieuse developpee dans les «Pensees», l'A. souleve la question de l'auto-illusion du non-croyant dans son devenir croyant, d'une part, et montre que le pari pascalien de la croyance dans les articles de la foi repose sur l'hypothese du lecteur ideal, d'autre part. Rejetant l'interpretation a-rationnelle de la theorie pascalienne de la conversion, fondee sur le role de l'habitude, ainsi que l'i…
Post-Trust, Not Post-Truth
The neologism post-truth is commonly used to characterize a polity in which false and biased beliefs have corrupted public opinion and policymaking. Simplifying and broadening our use of the adjective beyond its current narrow meaning could make post-truth a useful addition to the lexicons of history, politics, and philosophy. Its current use, however, is unhelpful and distracting (at best), and experienced as demeaning and humiliating (at worst)…
The politics of philosophy in Africa
The background to the present discussion is the prevalence of political and personal criticisms in philosophical discussions about Africa. As philosophers in South Africa—both white and black—continue to philosophise seriously about Africa, responses to their work sometimes take the form of political and personal criticisms of, if not attacks on, the philosopher exploring and defending considerations about the African continent. One of us (TM) ha…
Is Scientific Theory-Commitment Doxastic or Practical
Religious Conversion, Self-Deception, and Pascal's Wager
Examinant la theorie pascalienne de la conversion religieuse developpee dans les «Pensees», l'A. souleve la question de l'auto-illusion du non-croyant dans son devenir croyant, d'une part, et montre que le pari pascalien de la croyance dans les articles de la foi repose sur l'hypothese du lecteur ideal, d'autre part. Rejetant l'interpretation a-rationnelle de la theorie pascalienne de la conversion, fondee sur le role de l'habitude, ainsi que l'i…
Can We Infer Naturalism from Scepticism
Hume, like a number of more recent writers, claims that epistemological scepticism gives us reason to think that our beliefs are non‐epistemically determined. Because some body of propositions that we believe are all unjustifiable, the argument goes, our beliefs in those propositions must be determined by non‐truth‐conducive considerations. I argue initially that scepticism does not by itself entail Humean naturalism. I then then develop an argum…
Dissident versus Loyalist
Is Scientific Theory-Commitment Doxastic or Practical
Pragmatic Believing and its Explanation
Most explanations of beliefs are epistemically or pragmatically rationalizing. The distinction between these two types involves the explainer's differing expectations of how the believer will behave in the face of counterevidence. This feature suggests that rationalizing explanations portray beliefs as either (i) a consequence of the believer's following a norm, or (ii) part of a sub-intentional goal-oriented system. Which properly characterizes …
The Function and Content of Amusement
Once we establish that the fundamental subject matter of the study of humour is a mental state - which I will call finding funny - then it immediately follows that we need to fmd the content and function of this mental state. The main contender for the content of finding funny is the incongruous (the incongruity thesis); the main contenders for the function of finding funny are grounded either in its generally being an enjoyable state (the gratfi…
Philosophers and the Poor
This is a programmatic paper, calling for the renewal and modernisation of the therapeutic approach to philosophy found in Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics; and, in particular, for an application of the therapeutic approach to the life of poverty. The general assumption behind a therapeutic approach to philosophy is that it is possible for someone to be exposed to philosophical work which leads her to an improved understanding of herself and her …
Being moved by a way the world is not
Wisdom as an Aim of Higher Education
The politics of philosophy in Africa
The background to the present discussion is the prevalence of political and personal criticisms in philosophical discussions about Africa. As philosophers in South Africa—both white and black—continue to philosophise seriously about Africa, responses to their work sometimes take the form of political and personal criticisms of, if not attacks on, the philosopher exploring and defending considerations about the African continent. One of us (TM) ha…
Men in Women’s Clothes
The descriptive phrase that comprises my title can refer both to a pervasive comic trope and a mode of self‐expression. There is a tension here, insofar as the comic trope leads us not to take cross‐dressing, or drag, seriously. The first half of the comic film Some Like It Hot (1959), with its cross‐gender plot and its (sophisticated but) straightforward use of the comic trope of men‐in‐women’s clothes, appears to fall foul of this tension and t…
Post-Trust, Not Post-Truth
The neologism post-truth is commonly used to characterize a polity in which false and biased beliefs have corrupted public opinion and policymaking. Simplifying and broadening our use of the adjective beyond its current narrow meaning could make post-truth a useful addition to the lexicons of history, politics, and philosophy. Its current use, however, is unhelpful and distracting (at best), and experienced as demeaning and humiliating (at worst)…
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