Ben Wolfson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6590987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Wolfson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfson |
| SIGNATURE | BEN WOLFSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nietzsche and Schlegel on Teaching Oneself to Find
Nietzsche and Schlegel both write about practical topics with more than merely descriptive intent. Their intent is also practical insofar as it aims to alter the life of the (right) reader, setting her a task: be thus! Each, however, also evinces skepticism about the propriety of such task setting. This skepticism is more general than the explicitly signaled audience partitioning in which each also engages: it is not that some readers will not be…
Agential Knowledge, Action and Process
Claims concerning processes, claims of the form “ x is φ ing”, have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years in the philosophy of action. However, this interest has frequently limited itself to noting certain formal features such claims have, and has not extended to a discussion of when they are true. This article argues that a claim of the form “ x is φ ing” is true when what is happening with x is such that, if it is not interrupted…
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Agential Knowledge, Action and Process
Claims concerning processes, claims of the form “ x is φ ing”, have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years in the philosophy of action. However, this interest has frequently limited itself to noting certain formal features such claims have, and has not extended to a discussion of when they are true. This article argues that a claim of the form “ x is φ ing” is true when what is happening with x is such that, if it is not interrupted…
Nietzsche and Schlegel on Teaching Oneself to Find
Nietzsche and Schlegel both write about practical topics with more than merely descriptive intent. Their intent is also practical insofar as it aims to alter the life of the (right) reader, setting her a task: be thus! Each, however, also evinces skepticism about the propriety of such task setting. This skepticism is more general than the explicitly signaled audience partitioning in which each also engages: it is not that some readers will not be…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Character (mathematics (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · Free Will and Agency (1 works) · Happening (1 works)