
William H KriegerUniversity of Rhode Island | URI · Department of Philosophy
William H Krieger
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Education
September 1996 - June 2003
September 1993 - June 1996
September 1987 - May 1991
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People have a love/hate relationship with rapidly changing healthcare technology. While consumer demand for medical apps continues to grow as rapidly as does supply (there are over 100,000 health, wellness and medical applications, or ‘apps’ on the market), healthcare professionals and safety experts worry about the impact of these apps on the heal...
Medical apps have featured in popular websites and mainstream news media in recent months. However, there has been almost no mention of these tools in journals focusing on relevant ethical or social issues, including conflict of interest, the role of politics in science, and technological oversight. This essay examines the role that these philosoph...
Those of us living in modern democratic states like to think that we are more evolved (or at least more rational) than our forbears. However, although we have made huge theoretical and methodological strides in understanding the past, we are apparently no better than the rest of the international community when it comes to matters of archaeological...
Continuing the work of the ‘Vienna Circle’, philosopher Carl Hempel created explanatory models to ground scientific inquiry in logic and empirical truth. Beginning with the physical sciences, he explored the application of these models to the social sciences as well. Terrestrial archaeologists incorporated Hempelian concepts by calling for global c...
This paper will use a case study from the history of science to question the rationale behind any impetus toward scientific unification. In the 1960s, processual, or new archaeology, based on Hempelian explanation, proposed a roadmap for Archaeology to become a science. Regardless of contemporary archaeologists’ feelings about the successes or fail...
A medieval mold-made lead pilgrimage ampulla was retrieved in an underwater excavation in the port of 'Akko. It exhibits molded ribbing, resembling a scallop shell or drawstring purse on one side, and an aniconic quatrefoil petal on the other. Such mass-produced, budget-friendly, lead pilgrim ampullae are well-known in medieval Christianity, probab...
Abstract: Public philosophy asks us, as philosophers, to step outside of our
domain specific research in order to have an impact on the world around us.
While that work will look different when applied to different contexts and
fields, I see some specific, and perhaps unique, ways where public philosophy
connects with the epistemic pluralism found...
This paper aims to develop a comparative analysis of the place of emotion from Indian and Western philosophical perspectives. Both Eastern and Indian philosophy consider three mental states as being involved with the arousal of emotions, i.e., cognitive (epistemic), conative (desire), and affective. In Indian philosophy, there is no such single ter...
William H Krieger,1 Brandi P Cotton2 1Department of Philosophy, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA; 2Renfrew Center, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence: William H Krieger Email Krieger@uri.eduAbstract: Phone or tablet-based healthcare applications, or “medical apps,” play an important role in an evolving healthcare system. The effect of m...
The philosophy of science focuses on the theoretical and methodological foundations of science as well as on the implications of these factors on scientific practice. Practitioners ask about the characteristics of science, the workings of science, the goals of science, and the impact of our theoretical goals and assumptions on our methods and outco...
http://www.prindlepost.org/2016/09/smartphones-medical-apps/
In July 2011, a salvage excavation was conducted on the western slopes of the Ha-Hoterim ridge and north of Nahal Sefunim (Permit No. A-6194; map ref. 197572/738889), following damage to antiquities. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and financed by the Ministry of Defense, was directed by J. Sharvit and D. Pl...
An ampulla-shaped pendant from the Crusader period was discovered during the excavation of the eastern sea wall at Akko (Acre) (license A- 6557/2012). The excavation lasted for about five years (2008-2013) in the sea at the foot of the eastern Ottoman wall, working in an area about 250 m long, stretching from “Hof Hasussim” (horses’ beach) to the m...
In the 19th century, ‘scientific archaeologists’ split from their antiquarian colleagues over the role that provenience (context) plays in the value of an artifact. These archaeologists focus on documenting an artifact’s context when they remove it from its original location. Archaeologists then use this contextual information to place these artifa...
Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology: An Introductory Guide. Gibbon Guy . 2014. AltaMira Press, Lanham. viii + 245 pp. $38.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7591-2341-0. - Volume 79 Issue 3 - William H. Krieger
Those of us living in modern democratic states like to think that we are more evolved (or at least more rational) than our forbears. However, although we have made huge theoretical and methodological strides in understanding the past, we are apparently no better than the rest of the international community when it comes to matters of archaeological...
Multiple groups have interests that intersect within the field of deep submergence (beyond the 50 meter range of SCUBA) archaeology. These groups’ differing priorities present challenges for interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly as there are no established guidelines for best practices in such scenarios. Associating the term ‘archaeology’ w...
INTRODUCTION There are two ways to do the unexpected. The banal way – let’s call it the expectedly unexpected – is simply to chart the waters of what is and is not done, and then set out to do something different. For a philosopher, this can be done by embracing a method of non sequitor or by perhaps inverting some strongly held assumption of the f...
Typescript (photocopy). Thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate University, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-181).