Sean M Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4469351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean M Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean M |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8091-689X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Existential Attention Norm for Affectively Biased Sentient Beings
This article argues that our attention is pervasively biased by embodied affects and that we are normatively assessable in light of this. From a contemporary perspective, normative theorizing about attention is a relatively new trend (Siegel 2017: Ch. 9, Irving 2019, Bommarito 2018: Ch. 5). However, Buddhist philosophy has provided us with a well-spring of normatively rich theorizing about attention from its inception. This article will address h…
Pain, suffering, and the time of life
The affectively embodied perspective of the subject
This paper treats of phenomenal consciousness and its relation to an organism’s capacity to be hedonically perturbed by its environment. This paper offers an empirically informed, phenomenologically descriptive conceptual analysis of subjective character in terms of an organism’s ability to feel with its body. The subjective character of phenomenal consciousness is at least partially constituted by embodied affect, that is, by our ability to feel…
Missional Rest
In current missiological discussions, economy is the operant lens with its focus on action, often to the neglect of being. Part of the reason for a neglect of ontology appears to be the inattention of Creation theology for theological conceptions of Christian mission. In this article, we argue that the practice of rest is a key element in the missional connection between being and doing. We ground our discussion in biblical texts marked by Creati…
Buddhist Modernism, Scientific Explanation, and the Self
Allow me to begin by expressing my gratitude to
A Pāli Buddhist Philosophy of Sentience
A Buddhist Analysis of Affective Bias
Freedom’s Frontier
Reviewed by: Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith Sean Smith Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By Stacey L. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 344. Illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.) When considering slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction h…
Freedom’s Frontier
Reviewed by: Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith Sean Smith Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By Stacey L. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 344. Illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.) When considering slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction h…
Freedom’s Frontier
Reviewed by: Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith Sean Smith Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By Stacey L. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 344. Illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index.) When considering slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction h…
A Buddhist Analysis of Affective Bias
A Pāli Buddhist Philosophy of Sentience
Buddhist Modernism, Scientific Explanation, and the Self
Allow me to begin by expressing my gratitude to
Pain, suffering, and the time of life
The affectively embodied perspective of the subject
This paper treats of phenomenal consciousness and its relation to an organism’s capacity to be hedonically perturbed by its environment. This paper offers an empirically informed, phenomenologically descriptive conceptual analysis of subjective character in terms of an organism’s ability to feel with its body. The subjective character of phenomenal consciousness is at least partially constituted by embodied affect, that is, by our ability to feel…
Missional Rest
In current missiological discussions, economy is the operant lens with its focus on action, often to the neglect of being. Part of the reason for a neglect of ontology appears to be the inattention of Creation theology for theological conceptions of Christian mission. In this article, we argue that the practice of rest is a key element in the missional connection between being and doing. We ground our discussion in biblical texts marked by Creati…
An Existential Attention Norm for Affectively Biased Sentient Beings
This article argues that our attention is pervasively biased by embodied affects and that we are normatively assessable in light of this. From a contemporary perspective, normative theorizing about attention is a relatively new trend (Siegel 2017: Ch. 9, Irving 2019, Bommarito 2018: Ch. 5). However, Buddhist philosophy has provided us with a well-spring of normatively rich theorizing about attention from its inception. This article will address h…
Philosophy (7 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)