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Janice Tzuling Chik
University of Pennsylvania
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    Thomistic Animalism.Janice Tzuling Chik - 2019 - New Blackfriars 100 (1090):645-662.
    Animalism, according to its strongest proponents, is the view that human beings are ‘essentially or most fundamentally animals’. Specifically, ‘we are essentially animals if we couldn’t possibly exist without being animals’ (Olson 2008). Although contemporary animalism offers an account superior to its Lockean competitors, Olson’s ‘biological approach’ has certain limitations, particularly in its denial of any psychological continuity whatsoever as either necessary or sufficient for individual persistence through time. I propose a number of amendments towards a Thomistic variety of animalism (...)
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  2. The Philosophical Meaning of Religious Exercise.Janice Tzuling Chik - 2020 - In Michael D. Breidenbach & Owen Anderson (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the First Amendment and Religious Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
    This essay argues that religion is a distinctive form of human activity, and offers a philosophical account of what religion fundamentally is (and what it is not), within the context of the Free Exercise Clause. §I promotes religion as an action-theoretic concept. §II presents the claim that atheism can be regarded as a religion: this claim is rejected on the basis that religion cannot be defined as a set of propositional beliefs concerning metaphysics and morality. §III defends a paradigmatic account (...)
     
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    The unity of action.Janice Tzuling Chik - unknown
    This thesis develops a disjunctivist approach to action as an alternative to the standard causal theory, or 'causalism'. The standard theory promotes a concept of action as constituted by a bodily event joined to certain mental conditions by a bond of causation. A disjunctivist approach, in contrast, claims that action must be distinguished by more than merely its etiology: action and mere movement are fundamentally different kinds. Recent objections to the causal theory of action are first surveyed, and the common (...)
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    The Unity of Action.Janice Tzuling Chik - 2015 - Dissertation, St. Andrews
    This thesis develops a disjunctivist approach to action as an alternative to the standard causal theory, or 'causalism'. The standard theory promotes a concept of action as constituted by a bodily event joined to certain mental conditions by a bond of causation. A disjunctivist approach, in contrast, claims that action must be distinguished by more than merely its etiology: action and mere movement are fundamentally different kinds. Recent objections to the causal theory of action are first surveyed, and the common (...)
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  5. The Bad Conscience, by Vladimir Jankélévitch, translated by Andrew Kelley. [REVIEW]Janice Tzuling Chik - 2017 - Review of Metaphysics 70:781-783.