Jerry L Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4816322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry L Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry L |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stephen F. Austin State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding Opinions
The Philosophical Anthropology of Heinrich Popitz
On Humans and Environment
Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism
In this analysis, a pragmatic model of the human relationship to nature is presented. Parallels are drawn between the epistemological pragmatism used by humans to experience large‐scale environmental problems and the natural pragmatism by which all species evolve to meet the challenges of their environment. It is argued that powerful stakeholders have the ability to shift the short‐term consequences of environmental problems to less powerful poli…
Books in Louisiana Bookstores
Louisiana College is located in Pineville, a medium-sized town in Central Louisiana. The local bookstores tend to equate sociology with True Crime and Self-Help books. It is difficult enough explaining the nature of sociology to local persons. The bookstores seem to be working against us. We believe that this project will provide sociologists around the country with an opportunity to say This is sociology. We used three major criteria in selectin…
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
A New Guinea Landscape
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
A New Guinea Landscape
Knowledge, Consequences, and Experience
Perhaps one of the most obvious yet difficult questions confronting sociologists concerned with large-scale environmental problems is an epistemological one: How do we know what we know about the state of the environment? This paper explores the realist and constructionist approaches to environmental-social problems and finds both inadequate as currently formulated. A case is made for a phenomenological constructionism that moves beyond relativis…
Books in Louisiana Bookstores
Louisiana College is located in Pineville, a medium-sized town in Central Louisiana. The local bookstores tend to equate sociology with True Crime and Self-Help books. It is difficult enough explaining the nature of sociology to local persons. The bookstores seem to be working against us. We believe that this project will provide sociologists around the country with an opportunity to say This is sociology. We used three major criteria in selectin…
On Humans and Environment
Natural and Epistemological Pragmatism
In this analysis, a pragmatic model of the human relationship to nature is presented. Parallels are drawn between the epistemological pragmatism used by humans to experience large‐scale environmental problems and the natural pragmatism by which all species evolve to meet the challenges of their environment. It is argued that powerful stakeholders have the ability to shift the short‐term consequences of environmental problems to less powerful poli…
The Philosophical Anthropology of Heinrich Popitz
Understanding Opinions
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works)