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    A New Telluric Force
    with Patricia King Dávalos
    Glimpse 19 65-77. 2018.
    The Age of the Anthropocene must address the claim that human activity is one of the main factors in determining not just the course of biological life on planet Earth, but a force powerful enough to affect the Earth’s climate as well as the conditions of its oceans and its atmosphere, and in fact, all known life forms. We cannot go backward in time, and it is likely too late to reverse the changes we have already put in motion. We must therefore consider our alternatives for moving forward into…Read more
  •  13
    Galit Wellner’s exploration of new kinds of digital technologies employing AI algorithms that simulate features and functions of the human imagination leads her to propose a conceptual analysis of the imagination as a composite of perception and memory. Wellner poses the question of whether the output of such technological applications might be regarded as not merely simulating creative activity but as truly imaginative in their own right. Wellner concludes with a qualified “no.” The use of AI a…Read more
  •  11
    Introduction
    Glimpse 19 9-16. 2018.
    The Age of the Anthropocene must address the claim that human activity is one of the main factors in determining not just the course of biological life on planet Earth, but a force powerful enough to affect the Earth’s climate as well as the conditions of its oceans and its atmosphere, and in fact, all known life forms. We cannot go backward in time, and it is likely too late to reverse the changes we have already put in motion. We must therefore consider our alternatives for moving forward into…Read more
  •  9
    Introduction
    Glimpse 18 9-16. 2017.
  •  11
    Seeing Color Appearances
    Glimpse 15 13-18. 2014.
  •  9
    Epistemic Error and Experiential Evidence
    Glimpse 14 19-29. 2012.
  • The Reality of Color: The Case for Subjective Realism
    Dissertation, University of California, Davis. 1993.
    Modern philosophy's embrace of the dictates of natural science gave root to a metaphysical view which has strongly influenced contemporary philosophical thought. We confront a tradition which, in positing ontological antinomies between mental and physical, subjective and objective, appearance and reality, brings with it a conception of reality that falls far short of providing an adequate analysis of properties and events whose instantiation depends on subjective experience or states of consciou…Read more
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    In response to recent debates in color ontology, I present an account of color that resolves the issue in a new way by conceiving of colors as properties of appearances. Appearances are both objective and subjective: they are real-world events reducible to psychophysical interactions involving environmental stimuli and experiential states. The case is made for accepting experience as an actual component of colors themselves as well as being the fundamental epistemic evidence for their instantiat…Read more
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    Three important 20th-century American films prominently feature a hotel as the site for morally ambiguous and sexually charged events depicted in the plot: Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), and Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink (1991). While all three films have a multiplicity of elements that present how hotel spaces open horizons displaying human behaviors both normal and abnormal, moral and immoral, secret and public, sane and insane, the paper presents an…Read more