William Casement
Biographic Data
| ID | 700942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Casement |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Casement |
| SIGNATURE | CASEMENT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of Fine Arts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is It a Forgery? Ask a Semanticist
Forgery is a commonly, if uncomfortably, recognized force in the art world. It might be assumed, then, that the meaning of the term forgery is uniformly established. That assumption would be a mistake. Although forgery in general parlance has a basic, easily understood meaning, specialists of various stripes employ the term in restricted ways that bear the potential for confusion not only among the cognoscenti but for the broader public. In parti…
Remembering the Vietnam Draft
Art and Race
College Sports
Declining credibility for the AP program
Whither the great books
Percentage plans and college admissions
Noble Abstractions
Do college students need a major
Educational Philosophy
The first step in education's long road to respectability lay in the ability of its proponents to demonstrate that it was worthy of collaborating with traditional disciplines in the syllabus of higher learning. The universities where the infant discipline of education was promoted benefited from scholars who engaged in teaching and research with enthusiasm and preached the gospel of scientific education. These schools-Teachers College/Columbia Un…
The Great Canon Controversy
Josiah Royce
Religion, satire, and Gulliver's fourth voyage
Critics have had much to say about Gulliver’s Travels, and perhaps receiving the most attention has been Gulliver’s fourth voyage, the ‘Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms’. Two schools of interpretation have vied for dominance. One school sees Swift as a misanthrope who is satirising the notion that humans are rational creatures; he is telling us, it is said, that humans are governed by their passions and are brutish and lacking morality. Th…
The Great Books and Politics
Husserl and the Philosophy of History
In several of his works Husserl pays considerable attention to such topics as historicism, the role of the historian, and the history of philosophy. Commentators interested in this aspect of his thought have spoken of his of history, although there is disagreement about just how it should be characterized and about its importance in his philosophy as a whole. In this paper I shall examine those of Husserl's views which may be said to constitute a…
William Morris on Labor and Pleasure
Husserl and the Philosophy of History
In several of his works Husserl pays considerable attention to such topics as historicism, the role of the historian, and the history of philosophy. Commentators interested in this aspect of his thought have spoken of his of history, although there is disagreement about just how it should be characterized and about its importance in his philosophy as a whole. In this paper I shall examine those of Husserl's views which may be said to constitute a…
William Morris on Labor and Pleasure
Husserl and the Philosophy of History
In several of his works Husserl pays considerable attention to such topics as historicism, the role of the historian, and the history of philosophy. Commentators interested in this aspect of his thought have spoken of his of history, although there is disagreement about just how it should be characterized and about its importance in his philosophy as a whole. In this paper I shall examine those of Husserl's views which may be said to constitute a…
The Great Books and Politics
Religion, satire, and Gulliver's fourth voyage
Critics have had much to say about Gulliver’s Travels, and perhaps receiving the most attention has been Gulliver’s fourth voyage, the ‘Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms’. Two schools of interpretation have vied for dominance. One school sees Swift as a misanthrope who is satirising the notion that humans are rational creatures; he is telling us, it is said, that humans are governed by their passions and are brutish and lacking morality. Th…
Josiah Royce
The Great Canon Controversy
Do college students need a major
Educational Philosophy
The first step in education's long road to respectability lay in the ability of its proponents to demonstrate that it was worthy of collaborating with traditional disciplines in the syllabus of higher learning. The universities where the infant discipline of education was promoted benefited from scholars who engaged in teaching and research with enthusiasm and preached the gospel of scientific education. These schools-Teachers College/Columbia Un…
Noble Abstractions
Percentage plans and college admissions
Whither the great books
Declining credibility for the AP program
College Sports
Art and Race
Is It a Forgery? Ask a Semanticist
Forgery is a commonly, if uncomfortably, recognized force in the art world. It might be assumed, then, that the meaning of the term forgery is uniformly established. That assumption would be a mistake. Although forgery in general parlance has a basic, easily understood meaning, specialists of various stripes employ the term in restricted ways that bear the potential for confusion not only among the cognoscenti but for the broader public. In parti…
Remembering the Vietnam Draft
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Higher education (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy of education (6 works) · History (5 works)