Laurance J Splitter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurance J Splitter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurance J |
| FAMILY NAME | Splitter |
| SIGNATURE | SPLITTER L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3403-1564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identity, Reasonableness and Being One Among Others
This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance
Enriching the narratives we tell about ourselves and our identities
The normative ideals of democracy, trust and respect are under threat from the forces of populism and extremism. I argue for a recalibration of some basic ideas in the moral and social domains in which each person sees her/himself as one among others. I defend 0093The Principle of Personal Worth0094 which asserts that persons are more valuable than non-persons such as nations, religions, ethnicities, tribes, gangs, and cultures. The 0091collectiv…
Identity and Personhood
Agency, Thought, and Language
Identity, Citizenship and Moral Education
Questions of identity such as ‘Who am I?’ are often answered by appeals to one or more affiliations with a specific nation (citizenship), culture, ethnicity, religion, etc. Taking as given the idea that identity over time—including identification and re‐identification—for objects of a particular kind requires that there be criteria of identity appropriate to things of that kind, I argue that citizenship, as a ‘collectivist’ concept, does not gene…
Authenticity and Constructivism in Education
Critical Thinking
Species and Identity
The purpose of this paper is to test the contemporary concept of biological species against some of the problems caused by treating species as spatiotemporally extended entities governed by criteria of persistence, identity, etc. After outlining the general problem of symmetric division in natural objects, I set out some useful distinctions (section 1) and confirm that species are not natural kinds (section 2). Section 3 takes up the separate iss…
Enriching the narratives we tell about ourselves and our identities
The normative ideals of democracy, trust and respect are under threat from the forces of populism and extremism. I argue for a recalibration of some basic ideas in the moral and social domains in which each person sees her/himself as one among others. I defend 0093The Principle of Personal Worth0094 which asserts that persons are more valuable than non-persons such as nations, religions, ethnicities, tribes, gangs, and cultures. The 0091collectiv…
Identity, Citizenship and Moral Education
Questions of identity such as ‘Who am I?’ are often answered by appeals to one or more affiliations with a specific nation (citizenship), culture, ethnicity, religion, etc. Taking as given the idea that identity over time—including identification and re‐identification—for objects of a particular kind requires that there be criteria of identity appropriate to things of that kind, I argue that citizenship, as a ‘collectivist’ concept, does not gene…
Authenticity and Constructivism in Education
Species and Identity
The purpose of this paper is to test the contemporary concept of biological species against some of the problems caused by treating species as spatiotemporally extended entities governed by criteria of persistence, identity, etc. After outlining the general problem of symmetric division in natural objects, I set out some useful distinctions (section 1) and confirm that species are not natural kinds (section 2). Section 3 takes up the separate iss…
Identity and Personhood
Critical Thinking
Species and Identity
The purpose of this paper is to test the contemporary concept of biological species against some of the problems caused by treating species as spatiotemporally extended entities governed by criteria of persistence, identity, etc. After outlining the general problem of symmetric division in natural objects, I set out some useful distinctions (section 1) and confirm that species are not natural kinds (section 2). Section 3 takes up the separate iss…
Critical Thinking
Authenticity and Constructivism in Education
Identity, Citizenship and Moral Education
Questions of identity such as ‘Who am I?’ are often answered by appeals to one or more affiliations with a specific nation (citizenship), culture, ethnicity, religion, etc. Taking as given the idea that identity over time—including identification and re‐identification—for objects of a particular kind requires that there be criteria of identity appropriate to things of that kind, I argue that citizenship, as a ‘collectivist’ concept, does not gene…
Agency, Thought, and Language
Identity and Personhood
Enriching the narratives we tell about ourselves and our identities
The normative ideals of democracy, trust and respect are under threat from the forces of populism and extremism. I argue for a recalibration of some basic ideas in the moral and social domains in which each person sees her/himself as one among others. I defend 0093The Principle of Personal Worth0094 which asserts that persons are more valuable than non-persons such as nations, religions, ethnicities, tribes, gangs, and cultures. The 0091collectiv…
Identity, Reasonableness and Being One Among Others
This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance
Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works)