Elizabeth W. Prior’s research while affiliated with La Trobe University and other places

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Publications (11)


Parental Autonomy
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February 2008

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7 Citations

Journal of Applied Philosophy

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JOHN CAMPBELL

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ABSTRACT We argue that in societies like our own the prevailing view that parents have both special responsibilities for and special rights over their children fails to give a proper understanding of the autonomy both of parents and of children. It is our claim that there is a logical priority of the separable interests of a child over the autonomy of its parents in the fulfilment of their special responsibilities for and the exercise of their special rights over their children. However, we believe that in acknowledging the child as a distinct locus of interests appropriate weight can still be given to parental autonomy. In particular, since raising a child is a long-term commitment which plays a central role in the life-plans of many adults it will be a legitimate exercise of an adult's autonomy strongly to influence the future of any children involved in such a plan. Such influence will be quite separate from paternalistic concern for those children. But the logical priority of the child's interests will at the same time show why parents are not entitled to behave proprietorially toward their children, even when paternalistic concern is called for.








Functionalism and type-type identity theories
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September 1982

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Philosophical Studies

Token-token identity theorists do not and need not deny that it may frequently be the same (kind of) brain state which on different occasions fills the functional rôle definitive of a given mental state. That is not at issue. What is at issue is whether functionally-oriented identity theorists should make two claims or three claims. The two claims they customarily make are, first, that each instance of a mental state is an instance of a brain state, and, secondly, that being in a mental state is having in one a state filling the relevant functional rôle. But to be in a mental state is to have that state in one. To be in pain is to have pain, to desire water is to have desire for water, and so on; just as to be poisoned is to have poison in you. (It is to have what is poison for you at the time, of course; and likewise for pain, desire and so on.) Our paper has been about a third sort of claim — relating particularly not to being in a mental state, nor to instances of that state, but to the mental state itself. We have argued that functionally-oriented identity theorists can and should make, in addition to the first two claims, the third type-type identity claim that mental states are brain states. Consequently a token brain state is a token of pain in a derivative sense. What makes it a token of pain is that it is a token of the type of brain state which realizes the pain-rôle for the organism at the time.

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... Categoricalism is argued by many philosophers (for example, Armstrong (1968Armstrong ( , 1973Armstrong ( , 1983Armstrong ( , 1986Armstrong ( , 1997Armstrong ( , 2012, Mackie (1973Mackie ( , 1974aMackie ( , 1977, Pargetter and Prior (1982), Prior, Pargetter and Jackson (1982), Prior (1982)) as a theory about the nature of properties. In this subsection, I will explain categoricalism by 46 I will use ordinary quotation marks where, strictly, corner quotes are required as far as there is no danger of confusion. ...

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Critique of rationalism in the epistemology of modality
THE DISPOSITIONAL AND THE CATEGORICAL
  • Citing Article
  • October 1982

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

... According to the school of radical feminism, women had been trained to internalise the traits that resulted in the acceptance of their own oppression. This oppression was experienced as a self-regulated exclusion from positions which held authority in society, and the radical feminist position attempted to expose and oppose this training (Pargetter and Prior, 1986;MacKinnon, 1987;Bartky, 1990). When sex is viewed as a socially produced, relevant and inscribed differentiation of people, their bodies, and their knowledges that maintains inequality, then these oppressions that are suffered almost exclusively by women, become issues which reproduce the dominance by men over women in substantive systems (MacKinnon, 1987, pp. ...

Against the sexuality of reason
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  • June 1986

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

... (See, for example, Smith [33]. Prior [30], by contrast, claims to solve the problem by treating dispositional properties as incomplete predicates; however that solution cannot be considered a preservation of supervenience.) The proposal is to save covariation of macro with micro by weakening it-with enlargement of the supervenience base to include characteristics or conditions pertaining to environment. ...

Smith On ‘Dispositions’
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  • June 1981

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

... Like most dispositions, fitness is multiply realizable, meaning that it can be instantiated in a variety of causal bases (Prior et al., 1982;McKitrick, 2003). Fragility, for example, can be instantiated in the physical structure of glass, but also in that of porcelain and of eggshells. ...

Three Theses About Dispositions
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  • January 1982

American Philosophical Quarterly

... John Bigelow et al. identify the development of a child's autonomy as a moral requirement for an adequate parent-child relationship. 33 The authors note that when most children grow up, "the end result of the process should be autonomy for the new adult." 34 However, they do not discuss how children are to develop this autonomy. ...

Parental Autonomy
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  • February 2008

Journal of Applied Philosophy

... The emergence of the functionalist perspective on identity was prompted by a critical response to the Type Identity theory in the realm of philosophy of mind, particularly as articulated by Smart (2000). The conventional Type Identity theory correlated identity with brain processes in interaction, proposing that human experience was not synonymous with brain processes (Davis, 1998;Jackson, 1998). The functionalist perspective, however, deviated slightly by underscoring that mental states are distinguishable by their functions rather than their composition. ...

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Functionalism and type-type identity theories

Philosophical Studies