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Philosophy in Review, Apr 30, 2010
Philosophy in Review, 2011
Philosophy in Review, 2011
... Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, eds., Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard Ber... more ... Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, eds., Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard Bernstein Reviewed by. Aaron Landry. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
The American Historical Review, 2011
Philosophie Antique, Dec 3, 2008
Philosophy in Review, 2022
Philosophy in review, 2018
Philosophy in review, 2019
Philosophy in review, 2016
Philosophy in Review, Apr 30, 2015
This book is a timely one. As human life expectancy continues to grow, there are some difficult p... more This book is a timely one. As human life expectancy continues to grow, there are some difficult puzzles that emerge concerning age-related illness. John Portmann's focus is Alzheimer's, specifically the sexual and romantic relationship between spouses when one partner suffers from the disease. Relatively little attention has been paid to the healthy spouse; Portmann argues for their 'ongoing emotional needs' (iii). This can include sexual needs, even if this means seeking fulfillment outside of the marriage. The virtue grounding this analysis is one of sexual generosity. The book contains 8 chapters, not all of them as successful as others. I briefly summarize the chapters then offer some general thoughts. Chapter one focuses on sexual entitlement from the perspective of Judeo-Christian marriage. Although geriatric sex was not an overt problem for Ancient thinkers, there were issues of illness, physical disability, and military commitments. Such situations constitute obstacles to sexual and romantic engagement. Indeed, for both religions, sexual satisfaction is absolutely central to marriage. In Judaism, there is onah, which stipulates that sexual relations must occur, even if procreation is impossible. Christianity emphasized the role of conjugal debt. Even in cases where the female's health was at risk, she was nevertheless obliged to submit to her husband's sexual advances. In fact, 'marital rape made no sense to many Christians in previous ages' (22). Divorce, at least as outlined in the Gospel of Matthew, is only permitted in cases of adultery or desertion. Portmann acknowledges the gap between theology and concrete religious practice. Just because the Vatican outlaws artificial birth control does not mean that many practicing Catholics abide by it. Given the lack of available data about marital practices in the Ancient and Medieval world, Portmann's analysis is cautiously speculative. His aim in this chapter is to ground the interrelationship between sex and marriage.
Plato Journal, 2014
In Plato’s Ion, inspiration functions in contradistinction to technē. Yet, paradoxically, in both... more In Plato’s Ion, inspiration functions in contradistinction to technē. Yet, paradoxically, in both cases, there is an appeal to divination. I interrogate this in order to show how these two disparate accounts can be accommodated. Specifically, I argue that Socrates’ appeal to Theoclymenus at Ion 539a-b demonstrates that Plato recognizes the existence of intuitive seers who defy his own distinction between possession and technical divination. Such seers provide an epistemic model for Ion; that he does not notice this confirms he is not an exemplary rhapsode.
Dialogue, 2015
Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Derrida around ways of philosophical escape from Cartesian ration... more Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Derrida around ways of philosophical escape from Cartesian rationalism, thereby enabling Cutrofello to track the migration of negativity’s multiple representations across the expansive post-Cartesian landscape of contemporary critical theory. This is indeed an impressive, intelligently-conceived and executed study, and the balancing act Cutrofello performs between literary and philosophical criticism is maintained with excitement and complexity until the very end of his journey through Hamlet and the history of negativity.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2008
Copyright © 2008 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. I have two reservations ... more Copyright © 2008 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. I have two reservations regarding Foster’s book. First, it is one thing to argue that McDowell’s “naturalism of second nature” is incomplete but quite another to argue that it fails; Foster does not adequately distinguish between these options. Second, Foster neglects thinkers who should be compared with Adorno’s recovery of experience. What of the later Wittgenstein, Derrida, or Cavell—or for that matter, a richer comparison of Adorno with Dewey? This would require a different or longer book, but by not doing so, Foster does not show us what is distinctive about Adorno’s version of spiritual experience. This aside, Foster’s book is a rigorous and careful interpretation of an unfortunately neglected aspect of Adorno’s critique of epistemology, and it situates itself in, and compares favorably with, recent “analytic” Adorno criticism (Bernstein 2001; O’Connor 2004). It also contributes to the analytic–Continental conversation through the comparisons of Adorno with the early Wittgenstein, Dewey, and McDowell and will be of significant appeal to scholars working in Continental philosophy and pragmatism.
Philosophy in Review, 2010
Nicholas Rescher, Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy Reviewed by.
Philosophy in Review, 2010
... Michael Losonsky, Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy Reviewed by. Aaron JamesLandry. Bookm... more ... Michael Losonsky, Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy Reviewed by. Aaron JamesLandry. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
In this dissertation we describe a coordinate scaling technique for the numerical approximation o... more In this dissertation we describe a coordinate scaling technique for the numerical approximation of solutions to certain problems posed on unbounded domains in two and three dimensions. This technique amounts to introducing variable coefficients into the problem, which results in defining a solution coinciding with the solution to the original problem inside a bounded domain of interest and rapidly decaying outside of it. The decay of the solution to the modified problem allows us to truncate the problem to a bounded domain and subsequently solve the finite element approximation problem on a finite domain. The particular problems that we consider are exterior problems for the Laplace equation and the time-harmonic acoustic and elastic wave scattering problems. We introduce a real scaling change of variables for the Laplace equation and experimentally compare its performance to the performance of the existing alternative approaches for the numerical approximation of this problem. Proceeding from the real scaling transformation, we introduce a version of the perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary as a complex coordinate shift and apply it to the exterior Helmholtz (acoustic scattering) equation. We outline the analysis of the continuous PML problem, discuss the implementation of a numerical method for its approximation and present computational results illustrating its efficiency. We then discuss in detail the analysis of the elastic wave PML problem and viii CHAPTER Page 3.4.2. Negative-norm least squares approach .
Philosophy in Review, Apr 30, 2010
Philosophy in Review, 2011
Philosophy in Review, 2011
... Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, eds., Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard Ber... more ... Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser, eds., Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard Bernstein Reviewed by. Aaron Landry. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
The American Historical Review, 2011
Philosophie Antique, Dec 3, 2008
Philosophy in Review, 2022
Philosophy in review, 2018
Philosophy in review, 2019
Philosophy in review, 2016
Philosophy in Review, Apr 30, 2015
This book is a timely one. As human life expectancy continues to grow, there are some difficult p... more This book is a timely one. As human life expectancy continues to grow, there are some difficult puzzles that emerge concerning age-related illness. John Portmann's focus is Alzheimer's, specifically the sexual and romantic relationship between spouses when one partner suffers from the disease. Relatively little attention has been paid to the healthy spouse; Portmann argues for their 'ongoing emotional needs' (iii). This can include sexual needs, even if this means seeking fulfillment outside of the marriage. The virtue grounding this analysis is one of sexual generosity. The book contains 8 chapters, not all of them as successful as others. I briefly summarize the chapters then offer some general thoughts. Chapter one focuses on sexual entitlement from the perspective of Judeo-Christian marriage. Although geriatric sex was not an overt problem for Ancient thinkers, there were issues of illness, physical disability, and military commitments. Such situations constitute obstacles to sexual and romantic engagement. Indeed, for both religions, sexual satisfaction is absolutely central to marriage. In Judaism, there is onah, which stipulates that sexual relations must occur, even if procreation is impossible. Christianity emphasized the role of conjugal debt. Even in cases where the female's health was at risk, she was nevertheless obliged to submit to her husband's sexual advances. In fact, 'marital rape made no sense to many Christians in previous ages' (22). Divorce, at least as outlined in the Gospel of Matthew, is only permitted in cases of adultery or desertion. Portmann acknowledges the gap between theology and concrete religious practice. Just because the Vatican outlaws artificial birth control does not mean that many practicing Catholics abide by it. Given the lack of available data about marital practices in the Ancient and Medieval world, Portmann's analysis is cautiously speculative. His aim in this chapter is to ground the interrelationship between sex and marriage.
Plato Journal, 2014
In Plato’s Ion, inspiration functions in contradistinction to technē. Yet, paradoxically, in both... more In Plato’s Ion, inspiration functions in contradistinction to technē. Yet, paradoxically, in both cases, there is an appeal to divination. I interrogate this in order to show how these two disparate accounts can be accommodated. Specifically, I argue that Socrates’ appeal to Theoclymenus at Ion 539a-b demonstrates that Plato recognizes the existence of intuitive seers who defy his own distinction between possession and technical divination. Such seers provide an epistemic model for Ion; that he does not notice this confirms he is not an exemplary rhapsode.
Dialogue, 2015
Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Derrida around ways of philosophical escape from Cartesian ration... more Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Derrida around ways of philosophical escape from Cartesian rationalism, thereby enabling Cutrofello to track the migration of negativity’s multiple representations across the expansive post-Cartesian landscape of contemporary critical theory. This is indeed an impressive, intelligently-conceived and executed study, and the balancing act Cutrofello performs between literary and philosophical criticism is maintained with excitement and complexity until the very end of his journey through Hamlet and the history of negativity.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2008
Copyright © 2008 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. I have two reservations ... more Copyright © 2008 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. I have two reservations regarding Foster’s book. First, it is one thing to argue that McDowell’s “naturalism of second nature” is incomplete but quite another to argue that it fails; Foster does not adequately distinguish between these options. Second, Foster neglects thinkers who should be compared with Adorno’s recovery of experience. What of the later Wittgenstein, Derrida, or Cavell—or for that matter, a richer comparison of Adorno with Dewey? This would require a different or longer book, but by not doing so, Foster does not show us what is distinctive about Adorno’s version of spiritual experience. This aside, Foster’s book is a rigorous and careful interpretation of an unfortunately neglected aspect of Adorno’s critique of epistemology, and it situates itself in, and compares favorably with, recent “analytic” Adorno criticism (Bernstein 2001; O’Connor 2004). It also contributes to the analytic–Continental conversation through the comparisons of Adorno with the early Wittgenstein, Dewey, and McDowell and will be of significant appeal to scholars working in Continental philosophy and pragmatism.
Philosophy in Review, 2010
Nicholas Rescher, Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy Reviewed by.
Philosophy in Review, 2010
... Michael Losonsky, Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy Reviewed by. Aaron JamesLandry. Bookm... more ... Michael Losonsky, Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy Reviewed by. Aaron JamesLandry. Bookmark and Share. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 3.0 Unported license. ...
In this dissertation we describe a coordinate scaling technique for the numerical approximation o... more In this dissertation we describe a coordinate scaling technique for the numerical approximation of solutions to certain problems posed on unbounded domains in two and three dimensions. This technique amounts to introducing variable coefficients into the problem, which results in defining a solution coinciding with the solution to the original problem inside a bounded domain of interest and rapidly decaying outside of it. The decay of the solution to the modified problem allows us to truncate the problem to a bounded domain and subsequently solve the finite element approximation problem on a finite domain. The particular problems that we consider are exterior problems for the Laplace equation and the time-harmonic acoustic and elastic wave scattering problems. We introduce a real scaling change of variables for the Laplace equation and experimentally compare its performance to the performance of the existing alternative approaches for the numerical approximation of this problem. Proceeding from the real scaling transformation, we introduce a version of the perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary as a complex coordinate shift and apply it to the exterior Helmholtz (acoustic scattering) equation. We outline the analysis of the continuous PML problem, discuss the implementation of a numerical method for its approximation and present computational results illustrating its efficiency. We then discuss in detail the analysis of the elastic wave PML problem and viii CHAPTER Page 3.4.2. Negative-norm least squares approach .