Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3974553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Margrethe Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Margrethe |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring Associations Between the Social and Built Environment and Physical Activity Through Communication Infrastructure Theory
The built environment (e.g. presence/quality of sidewalks and green spaces versus large factories and freeways) contributes to health and social outcomes. Communication infrastructure theory offers a framework to explore the role of the built environment as part of the communication action context, which may be associated with individuals' ability to connect to the neighborhood storytelling network and physical activity. This study examines the r…
Physical Limitations, Health Rumination/Worry, and Depressive Symptoms
The Tyrant's Vice
Plato's portrait of the tyrant in book IX of the Republic marks the culmination of Socrates’ defense of the just life. He has been challenged to explain how justice, because of its very self, benefits its possessor and how injustice harms them (367d), and why ‘injustice is the worst thing a soul can have in it’ and ‘justice is the greatest good’ (366e).1 To explain the effects of justice ‘because of its very self’, Socrates must determine what ju…
Aristotle on Practical Truth
In this bold and engaging book, Christiana Olfert defends a novel account of the notion of “practical truth” and explains its significance for Aristotle's ethics and philosophy of action. That practical truth should play a central role in Aristotle's argument in the Nicomachean Ethics may seem surprising: “alêtheia praktikê” appears exactly once in Aristotle's corpus, at Nic. Eth. VI 2, 1139a26–27,1 and is not usually counted among Aristotle's si…
Vice in the Nicomachean Ethics
This paper aims to articulate Aristotle’s general account of vice, an account that applies to all special vices, regardless of their spheres of action and emotion, and whether they are states of excess or deficiency. Vice is ignorance in the decision (ἡ ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει ἄγνοια): the paper explains what this means
Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics
This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explanation are used to investigate moral phenomena. Each chapter shows, in a different way, that Aristotle's ethics is much more like a science than it is typically represented. The upshot of this is twofold. First, uncovering the links between Aristotle's …
The Constitution of the Soul
My aim in this paper is to examine Aristotle's puzzling and contentious claim in Politics 1.13 that the deliberative faculty in women is ‘without authority’ (ἄκυρον): The freeman rules over the slave after another manner from that in which the male rules over the female, or the man over the child; although the parts of the soul are present in all of them, they are present in different ways. For the slave lacks the deliberative faculty (τὸ βουλευτ…
The Nicomachean Ethics in Hellenistic philosophy
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Ea…
Deliberation as Inquiry
This article examines Aristotle's model of deliberation as inquiry (zêtêsis), arguing that Aristotle does not treat the presumption of open alternatives as a precondition for rational deliberation. Deliberation aims to uncover acts that are up to us and conducive to our ends; it essentially consists in causal mapping. Unlike the comparative model presupposed in the literature on deliberation, Aristotle's model can account for the virtuous agent's…
The Private Parts of Animals
In this paper I examine Aristotle's account of sexual difference in Generation of Animals, arguing that Aristotle conceives of the production of males as the result of a successful teleological process, while he sees the production of females as due to material forces that defeat the norms of nature. My suggestion is that Aristotle endorses what I call the "degrees of perfection" model. I challenge Devin Henry's attempt to argue that Aristotle ex…
Dirtying Aristotle's Hands? Aristotle's Analysis of 'Mixed Acts' in the Nicomachean Ethics III, 1
The analysis of 'mixed acts' in Nicomachean Ethics III, 1 has led scholars to attribute a theory of 'dirty hands' and 'impossible oughts' to Aristotle. Michael Stocker argues that Aristotle recognizes particular acts that are simultaneously 'right, even obligatory', but nevertheless 'wrong, shameful and the like'. And Martha Nussbaum commends Aristotle for not sympathizing 'with those who, in politics or in private affairs, would so shrink from b…
Career Education for Elementary School Teachers
Vice in the Nicomachean Ethics
This paper aims to articulate Aristotle’s general account of vice, an account that applies to all special vices, regardless of their spheres of action and emotion, and whether they are states of excess or deficiency. Vice is ignorance in the decision (ἡ ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει ἄγνοια): the paper explains what this means
The Private Parts of Animals
In this paper I examine Aristotle's account of sexual difference in Generation of Animals, arguing that Aristotle conceives of the production of males as the result of a successful teleological process, while he sees the production of females as due to material forces that defeat the norms of nature. My suggestion is that Aristotle endorses what I call the "degrees of perfection" model. I challenge Devin Henry's attempt to argue that Aristotle ex…
Dirtying Aristotle's Hands? Aristotle's Analysis of 'Mixed Acts' in the Nicomachean Ethics III, 1
The analysis of 'mixed acts' in Nicomachean Ethics III, 1 has led scholars to attribute a theory of 'dirty hands' and 'impossible oughts' to Aristotle. Michael Stocker argues that Aristotle recognizes particular acts that are simultaneously 'right, even obligatory', but nevertheless 'wrong, shameful and the like'. And Martha Nussbaum commends Aristotle for not sympathizing 'with those who, in politics or in private affairs, would so shrink from b…
The Constitution of the Soul
My aim in this paper is to examine Aristotle's puzzling and contentious claim in Politics 1.13 that the deliberative faculty in women is ‘without authority’ (ἄκυρον): The freeman rules over the slave after another manner from that in which the male rules over the female, or the man over the child; although the parts of the soul are present in all of them, they are present in different ways. For the slave lacks the deliberative faculty (τὸ βουλευτ…
Career Education for Elementary School Teachers
Dirtying Aristotle's Hands? Aristotle's Analysis of 'Mixed Acts' in the Nicomachean Ethics III, 1
The analysis of 'mixed acts' in Nicomachean Ethics III, 1 has led scholars to attribute a theory of 'dirty hands' and 'impossible oughts' to Aristotle. Michael Stocker argues that Aristotle recognizes particular acts that are simultaneously 'right, even obligatory', but nevertheless 'wrong, shameful and the like'. And Martha Nussbaum commends Aristotle for not sympathizing 'with those who, in politics or in private affairs, would so shrink from b…
The Private Parts of Animals
In this paper I examine Aristotle's account of sexual difference in Generation of Animals, arguing that Aristotle conceives of the production of males as the result of a successful teleological process, while he sees the production of females as due to material forces that defeat the norms of nature. My suggestion is that Aristotle endorses what I call the "degrees of perfection" model. I challenge Devin Henry's attempt to argue that Aristotle ex…
Deliberation as Inquiry
This article examines Aristotle's model of deliberation as inquiry (zêtêsis), arguing that Aristotle does not treat the presumption of open alternatives as a precondition for rational deliberation. Deliberation aims to uncover acts that are up to us and conducive to our ends; it essentially consists in causal mapping. Unlike the comparative model presupposed in the literature on deliberation, Aristotle's model can account for the virtuous agent's…
The Nicomachean Ethics in Hellenistic philosophy
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Ea…
Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics
This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explanation are used to investigate moral phenomena. Each chapter shows, in a different way, that Aristotle's ethics is much more like a science than it is typically represented. The upshot of this is twofold. First, uncovering the links between Aristotle's …
The Constitution of the Soul
My aim in this paper is to examine Aristotle's puzzling and contentious claim in Politics 1.13 that the deliberative faculty in women is ‘without authority’ (ἄκυρον): The freeman rules over the slave after another manner from that in which the male rules over the female, or the man over the child; although the parts of the soul are present in all of them, they are present in different ways. For the slave lacks the deliberative faculty (τὸ βουλευτ…
Vice in the Nicomachean Ethics
This paper aims to articulate Aristotle’s general account of vice, an account that applies to all special vices, regardless of their spheres of action and emotion, and whether they are states of excess or deficiency. Vice is ignorance in the decision (ἡ ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει ἄγνοια): the paper explains what this means
The Tyrant's Vice
Plato's portrait of the tyrant in book IX of the Republic marks the culmination of Socrates’ defense of the just life. He has been challenged to explain how justice, because of its very self, benefits its possessor and how injustice harms them (367d), and why ‘injustice is the worst thing a soul can have in it’ and ‘justice is the greatest good’ (366e).1 To explain the effects of justice ‘because of its very self’, Socrates must determine what ju…
Aristotle on Practical Truth
In this bold and engaging book, Christiana Olfert defends a novel account of the notion of “practical truth” and explains its significance for Aristotle's ethics and philosophy of action. That practical truth should play a central role in Aristotle's argument in the Nicomachean Ethics may seem surprising: “alêtheia praktikê” appears exactly once in Aristotle's corpus, at Nic. Eth. VI 2, 1139a26–27,1 and is not usually counted among Aristotle's si…
Physical Limitations, Health Rumination/Worry, and Depressive Symptoms
Exploring Associations Between the Social and Built Environment and Physical Activity Through Communication Infrastructure Theory
The built environment (e.g. presence/quality of sidewalks and green spaces versus large factories and freeways) contributes to health and social outcomes. Communication infrastructure theory offers a framework to explore the role of the built environment as part of the communication action context, which may be associated with individuals' ability to connect to the neighborhood storytelling network and physical activity. This study examines the r…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)