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  1. A challenge to the new metaphysics: deRosset, Priority, and explanation.David Fisher, Hao Hong & Timothy Perrine - 2021 - Synthese 198 (7):6403-6433.
    Priority Theory is an increasingly popular view in metaphysics. By seeing metaphysical questions as primarily concerned with what explains what, instead of merely what exists, it promises not only an interesting approach to traditional metaphysical issues but also the resolution of some outstanding disputes. In a recent paper, Louis deRosset argues that Priority Theory isn’t up to the task: Priority Theory is committed to there being explanations that violate a formal constraint on any adequate explanation. This paper critically examines deRosset’s (...)
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    Morality and War: Can War Be Just in the Twenty-First Century?David Fisher - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    A fresh analysis of the just war tradition that addresses key contemporary security challenges, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention.
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    Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida.David H. Fisher - 1990 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3):256-258.
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    Reimagining Moral Leadership in Business.David H. Fisher & Sarah B. Fowler - 1995 - Business Ethics Quarterly 5 (1):29-42.
    In this paper we explore challenges facing leadership in a culture of “all consuming images” from a perspective which claims that images have a moral or normative dimension. The cumulative effect of contemporary image saturation is increased resistance to the normative power of an image. We also suggest that in a culturally diverse global economy, it is necessary to expand the moral aspects of good business leadership beyond providing a basis for productive, coherent group identity within a firm at the (...)
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    Morality and the Bomb.Leslie Stevenson & David Fisher - 1985 - Philosophical Quarterly 35 (141):437.
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    A conflict between van Inwagen’s metaontology and his ontology.David Fisher - 2019 - Synthese 198 (1):707-722.
    Peter van Inwagen has in recent decades made significant and influential contributions to metaphysics. In his Material Beings he advanced a novel ontology according to which chairs and other medium-sized dry goods don’t really exist. He went on to make important contributions to metaontology. Parts of his Ontology, Identity, and Modality and Existence: Essays in Ontology defend a broadly Quinean conception of existence questions and how to address them. I argue that the metaontology articulated in those later works is in (...)
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    Dealing with Derrida: A response to Novitz.David H. Fisher - 1987 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (3):297-299.
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    How does pheomelanin synthesis contribute to melanomagenesis?Ann M. Morgan, Jennifer Lo & David E. Fisher - 2013 - Bioessays 35 (8):672-676.
    Recently, we reported that melanoma risk in redheads is linked not only to pale skin, but also to the synthesis of the pigment – called pheomelanin – that gives red hair its color. We demonstrated that pheomelanin synthesis is associated with increased oxidative stress in the skin, yet we have not uncovered the chemical pathway between the molecule pheomelanin and the DNA damage that drives melanoma formation. Here, we hypothesize two possible pathways. On one hand, pheomelanin might generate reactive oxygen (...)
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    An Introduction to Constructivism for Social Workers.David D. Fisher - 1991 - Praeger.
    Constructivism is based on the principle that our personalities, behavior, and society are organized by the ways in which we attribute meanings to events, and act upon those meanings. It provides a philosophy, an epistemology, and methods that are especially congruent with the central values of social work, particularly client self-determination. In this volume, Dr. David D.V. Fisher introduces social workers to constructivism, a perspective which is becoming increasingly popular in the social sciences, and which has already been embraced by (...)
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    A Proletariat of One: Libertarianism and the Psychosis of Authority.David L. Fisher - 2020 - Studia Humana 9 (2):142-150.
    Libertarianism has a problem, perhaps an insurmountable one, and its problem lies squarely in the domain from which it is sourced: the intellectual and political elite of the West. As such, it rests on an ontological viewpoint far outside the purview and experience of quotidian man. Furthermore, it rests on an epistemology of the person as sovereign, Natural Law, which requires a concomitant education or understanding of the Classics, or at least self-awareness and the ability to think logically. Many non-intellectuals (...)
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    Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative IdealsPainterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism.David H. Fisher & Charles Altieri - 1992 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (2):165.
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    Crisis moral communities: An essay in moral philosophy.David Fisher - 1990 - Journal of Value Inquiry 24 (1):17-30.
    Moral reflection is the process through which persons come to perceive, analyze, judge, and decide moral problems, issues, and dilemmas. Because of its complex character, the process can be studied from a variety of perspectives. Psycho-genetic approaches, such as those of Lawrence Kohlberg, study the sequential stages through which individuals develop capacities for moral reasoning. Victor Turner, an anthropologist interested in the relationship between elements of structure and antistructure in society, considered the role of structured beliefs during periods of social (...)
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    Cultural theory and psychoanalytic tradition.David James Fisher - 2009 - New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
    Introduction In September of 1973, I defended my doctoral thesis in the field of European cultural history. I was two months shy of my twenty-seventh ...
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    19 Doing Justice to Justice: Paul Ricoeur.David H. Fisher - 2009 - In Francis J. Mootz (ed.), On Philosophy in American Law. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 159.
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    Experiential being and the inherent self: Towards a constructivist theory of the self.David D. V. Fisher - 1988 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 18 (2):149–167.
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    Exposing Electronics. Bernard Finn, Robert Bud, Helmuth Trischler.David Fisher - 2001 - Isis 92 (4):754-755.
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    Morality and the Bomb: An Ethical Assessment of Nuclear Deterrence.David Fisher - 1985 - Routledge.
    Originally published in 1985, this book surveys how NATO policy sought to come to terms with the revolution in thinking about war which was brought about by the advent of nuclear weapons. It also examines the logic of deterrence. The book assesses the ethical issues involved, using as a framework the tradition of the idea of the Just War. A detailed modern version of the theory is elaborated and defended from an ethical viewpoint that gives due weight both to the (...)
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  18. Our fictional minds: moving beyond consciousness, self, and other illusions.David Fisher - 2024 - Lanham, MD: Prometheus Books.
    Our Fictional Minds examines and challenges our most common-and seemingly common-sense-ideas about human consciousness. Drawing on developments in neuroscience, psychology, and monitoring technology, psychologist David Fisher shows how and why our usual takes on the human mind both serve us and limit us.
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    Philosophical Prejudice.David Fisher - 1987 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (5):867 - 872.
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  20. Questioning faith, hope and charity.David Fisher - 2012 - The Australian Humanist (106):12.
    Fisher, David We are given many 'eternal truths' and verities we are expected to accept. We can and should question all of them. Whether or not a person is a religious believer, she or he tends to equate having a religious back-ground with being a good person. One of the phrases we generally accept is the trio of virtues - faith, hope and charity.
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    Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement.David Fisher - 2004 - Routledge.
    This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland --French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in 1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel, Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great War, and who consciously worked to discredit and reshape that society in the interwar period. Analyzing Rolland's itinerary (...)
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    The Holy Innocents.David A. Fisher - 2015 - Ethics and Medics 40 (11):3-4.
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  23. The last time.David Fisher - 2012 - The Australian Humanist 108 (108):20.
     
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  24. The virgin birth.David Fisher - 2014 - Australian Humanist, The 113:10.
    Fisher, David Religious belief will maintain doctrines even when there is evidence that those doctrines can be shown to be untenable. That's one trouble with religions that contain dogmas. A dogma may require belief in a deity. Since the existence of deity can neither be proven nor disproven, such a dogma is irrefutable and therefore one can maintain such a dogma.
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    The Virtue of Justice and War.David Fisher - 2013 - Philosophia 41 (2):361-371.
    There has been a recent revival of interest in the medieval just war theory. But what is the virtue of justice needed to make war just? War is a complex and protracted activity. It is argued that a variety of virtues of justice, as well as a variety of virtues are required to guide the application of the use of force. Although it is mistaken to regard war as punishment, punitive justice—bringing to account those guilty of initiating an unjust war (...)
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  26. Why morality matters to the military.David Fisher - 2018 - In Don Carrick, James Connelly & David Whetham (eds.), Making the Military Moral: Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
     
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    Reconstructing a Logic from Tractatus: Wittgenstein’s Variables and Formulae.Charles McCarty & David Fisher - 2016 - In Sorin Costreie (ed.), Early Analytic Philosophy – New Perspectives on the Tradition. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag.
    It is and has been widely assumed, e.g., in Hintikka and Hintikka, that the logical theory available from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus affords a foundation for the conventional logic represented in standard formulations of classical propositional, first-order predicate, and perhaps higher-order formal systems. The present article is a detailed attempt at a mathematical demonstration, or as much demonstration as the sources will allow, that this assumption is false by contemporary lights and according to a preferred account of argument validity. When Wittgenstein’s (...)
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  28. Excerpt.Peter Read & David Fisher - 1990 - The Chesterton Review 16 (3/4):349-350.
     
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    Excerpt from.Anthony Read & David Fisher - 1990 - The Chesterton Review 16 (3/4):349-350.
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    (1 other version)Hugh R. Slotten. Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920–1960. xviii + 308 pp., illus., bibl., index.Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $45. [REVIEW]David E. Fisher - 2002 - Isis 93 (1):152-153.
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  31. John Sturrock, ed., "Structuralism and Since: From Levi-Strauss to Derrida". [REVIEW]David Fisher - 1981 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 48.