At various points, and in different writings, John McDowell recognizes that he is liable to be regarded as a kind of idealist. Thus in Mind and World he imagines someone asking him: Why should we be so sure of our capacity to comprehend the world if not because we conceive the world as a shadow or reflection of our thinking? (1994: 40) And in similar vein, in the Woodbridge Lectures, he anticip...

This paper argues that idealism can offer a new solution to the problem of relating “static” presence things eternity and “dynamic” passage reality in temporal realm. I first presentation this using dispute between Aquinas Scotus, then describe “ontological about time,” as smaller–scale idealism, show how it resolves original problem. conclude by demonstrating view is consonant with recent emph...

The paper presents a framework to interpret information systems development (ISD) as composed of activities for the creation and exchange of knowledge. The framework is based on the five inquiring systems presented by Churchman (1971). The main contribution of the framework is in showing that the inquiring systems are complementary rather than competing: rationalism, empiricism, idealism, diale...

This article examines a half-century of trends in family attitudes and beliefs the United States, including toward gender, marriage, childbearing, cohabitation, sex outside divorce, same-sex relations. These are viewed through lens developmental idealism. We also describe how idealism framework applies to Western contexts generally States specifically. trace from 1960s 2018 using four data sour...

Abstract This chapter on Algeria, and Chaps. 5 6 Nanterre Chicago respectively, present certain historical conceptual aspects of Ricœur’s activism campus outline his intellectual development. I will demonstrate the irrefutable connections between ideas applied work. As a junior academic, Ricœur held utopian about university as site for self-development rich educational opportunities all, well l...