Timothy Chambers, "My Friend Was A Poem"

Timothy Chambers, "My Friend Was A Poem"

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Timothy Chambers, "Won Buddhism's Gratitudes"

Timothy Chambers, "Won Buddhism's Gratitudes"

https://www.scribd.com/document/267099/Timothy-Chambers-Won-Buddhism-s-Gratitudes


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Timothy Chambers, "Godel's Time-Traveling Universes: True or 'Refreshing Surprises'?"

In Transcendent Philosophy vol 6 (December 2005): pp. 147-152 In this discussion, I offer further reflections on matters John L. Bell discusses in his "Time and Causation in Godel's Universe" (Transcendent Philosophy, December 2002). Inter alia, I point out that a principled defense of time travel must include consideration of "personal identity"--especially if we appeal to Bell's "ramifying universes" so as to evade the vexing "Grandfather Paradox."

https://www.docdroid.net/5V6zqNC/timothychambers2005.pdf

Misunderstandings Mar Workplace, by Timothy Chambers

Misunderstandings Mar Workplace, by Timothy Chambers

https://www.scribd.com/document/267098/Misunderstandings-Mar-Workplace-by-Timothy-Chambers

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Arthur Eddington's Two Tables Paradox

Here's a little discussion of Arthur Eddington's "Two Tables Paradox." I cobbled it together while teaching "Science Perception and Reality" at the Summer at Brown Program, sometime in the early 2000s

https://www.scribd.com/document/2305760/Arthur-Eddington-s-Two-Tables-Paradox

To Teach English, Study Korean by Timothy Chambers

"To Teach English, Study Korean" Korea Herald (February 20, 2004).

 https://www.scribd.com/document/267096/To-Teach-English-Study-Korean-by-Timothy-Chambers

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Timothy Chambers What academia means to me

	Distributed June 18, 2003 Copyright ©2003 by Timothy Chambers		Op-Ed Editor: Mark Nickel About 580 Words
	Timothy Chambers What academia means to me

“Sure,” a friend once confided to me, “an academic’s life has its pleasantries. You don’t get your hands dirty. Your summers are free. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck. But is that it? Is academic life more than just avoiding dirt, bosses and heavy-lifting?” How to answer this earnest query? I could touch upon the love of learning or quenching a thirst for thinking. But these are just lazy generalities. “Make it concrete,” I urge my students, whenever their essays veer into the ether. “Examples help.” I would do well to obey my own advice. In the winter of 2000, I was perusing Evan Thomas’ new biography, Robert Kennedy: His Life. The author recounted how, in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the younger brother “was struggling with the good God of his childhood faith. On a yellow sheet found in his papers from about this time, he had scrawled, ‘The innocent suffer – how can that be possible and God be just?’” The scene left me rapt. In a bare dozen words, Robert Kennedy had expressed theology’s holy grail – the Problem of Evil – with a poignancy worthy of Job. But was the sentence of Kennedy’s making? His biographers believed so. By way of a source, Evan Thomas referenced Arthur M. Schlesinger’s authoritative tome, Robert Kennedy and His Times. Schlesinger, in turn, attributes Kennedy’s plea simply to “Handwritten Notes (1964), RFK Papers.” And there the bibliographic trail went cold. Still, I had a detective’s hunch that there was more to the story. After all, Kennedy freely quoted Tennyson during his 85-day campaign for president (“Some men see things as they are, and ask Why – I dream of things that never were, and ask Why not?”). And in his famous extemporaneous remarks mourning the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s passing, Kennedy recited Aeschylus from memory. I couldn’t put a finger on why, but I felt that Kennedy’s agonized query, likewise, echoed some text which had moved him. Then, a clue. I read that shortly after Easter 1964, Kennedy plumbed a cache of texts authored by Bryn Mawr classicist Edith Hamilton. Could this idle-seeming fact solve the case? Indeed. The culprit leaped out from Hamilton’s, The Greek Way, page 185: “In...God, [Aeschylus] holds, rests the final and reconciling truth of this mystery that is human life, which is undeserved suffering. The innocent suffer—how can that be and God be just? That is not only the central problem of tragedy, it is the greatest problem everywhere when men begin to think.” It’s difficult to describe the thrill. Think, perhaps, of the small swell one feels penciling in a crossword puzzle’s final word. Or perhaps it’s more like the scientist’s satisfaction when her shrugging hunch is confirmed by Nature’s nod. But the most heartening part was this: I now knew a nugget, however slight, that had almost died with Kennedy, but was now revived in my own mind. I alone knew the story behind the sentence scrawled on the darkest of spring days in 1964. It’s moments like these that make the academic life a living one. It’s not an escape from the pedestrian drudges of the working world – it’s the pursuit and resurrection of knowledge which would otherwise vanish into the void. Or perhaps never exist at all. It’s instants like these when the academic life exemplifies, in however small a manner, the large charge Kennedy would recite from Tennyson’s Ulysses: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Timothy Chambers is a member of the academic support staff in the Department of Philosophy at Brown University. He has held teaching fellowships at Brown and Harvard and has taught philosophy in the Brown Summer Studies Program since 1998.

Timothy Chambers "The Free Will Defense: Do the Ends Justify the Means?"

Timothy Chambers "The Free Will Defense: Do the Ends Justify the Means?" an article from Philosophia Christi vol 5.1 (2003): pages 251-257

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The Atheist's Death: A Bad Bargain?

The Atheist's Death: A Bad Bargain?

Originally appeared on BMJ.com

31 May 2003

Timothy E. Chambers

Department of Philosophy

Providence, RI 02912 USA

Brown University 

There's much to appreciate in Dr. Barraclough's
vignette; but one point conspicuously demands
scrutiny.
Barraclough contrasts two death beds. He recounts an
atheist whose mind was 'tortured' as he died, thus
presenting a 'disturbing' scene. A faithful monk's death,
however, is recalled as 'serene and peaceful'.
Which death is the better death?
A variant of Pascal's famous wager would seem to
favor faith. Suppose you're about to confront extinction.
If you have faith, you die peacefully -- even if your faith is
false. If you lack faith, you die painfully -- even if your
belief is true. What, then, is there to be gained by
confronting death as an atheist?
But beware. The question only seems rhetorical if we
gainsay a crucial factor: the value of believing the Truth.
If the truth is priceless (or even sufficiently valuable),
then the contented monk has gotten the worse of the
bargain should his faith be a false one.
If this seems a silly bit of accounting, consider this. A
fair number of mathematicians suffer long, painful
bouts of perplexity. For what? To grasp truths few
others -- perhaps _no_ others -- can hope to
understand, never mind validate or celebrate. Now if
such discomfort is a fair price for a dollop of calculus,
then why _isn't_ an agonized death a good bargain for
grasping the truth of the cosmos?
Perhaps this explains the sign which graced the door to
Plato's Academy: 'Let no one enter here', it read, 'who is
ignorant of mathematics'.

Timothy Chambers

Response to:
 

Soundings Soundings

Do you believe in God?

BMJ 1999; 319 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7214.929a (Published 02 October 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;319:929

Timothy Chambers, "On Behalf of the Devil: A Parody of Anselm Revisited"

 Timothy Chambers, "On Behalf of the Devil: A Parody of Anselm Revisited"

Can Anselm's ontological argument be inverted so as to yield parallel arguments for the exisence of a least (or worst) conceivable being? Such 'devil arguments" strike some commentators as innocuous, or as challenges which are no more troubling than other parodies (e.g., Gaunillo's "perfect island" corollary). I take issues with both allegations. Devil parodies, I argue, can post substantive and novel, challenges to Anselm's Ontological argument.

 https://www.scribd.com/doc/14113915/Timothy-Chambers-On-Behalf-of-the-Devil-A-Parody-of-Anselm-Revisited

Timothy Chambers, "Time Travel: How Not to Defuse the Principal Paradox"

Is time travel possible in a world governed by familiar physical laws? In this article, Chambers takes issue with one affirmative answer to this question, offered by Peter J. Riggs.

In Ratio (1999): 296-301

https://www.scribd.com/document/14114055/Timothy-Chambers-Time-Travel-How-Not-to-Defuse-the-Principal-Paradox

Timothy Chambers, "On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam's 'Intuitionistic Strategy'"

Hilary Putnam has claimed that vague adjectives avoid the Sorites Paradox if we are restricted to "intuitionistic" inferences. This paper recounts basics of the Sorites Paradox, then takes issue with Putnam's claim.

In: The Monist (April 1998): 343-348

https://www.scribd.com/doc/19682864/Timothy-Chambers-On-Vagueness-Sorites-and-Putnam-s-Intuitionistic-Strategy

Timothy Chambers Philosophical Papers

Philosophical Works Chambers, Timothy

 

1. A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas, by Roy Sorensen.Timothy Chambers - 2019 - Teaching Philosophy 42 (2):157-159.
   Philosophy of Education in Philosophy of Social Science

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   Teaching Plato In Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World, by Carlos Fraenkel.Timothy Chambers - 2016 - Teaching Philosophy 39 (4):531-534.
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   Review of "Debating Christian Theism". [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2015 - Essays in Philosophy 16 (2):298-315.
   Philosophy of Religion

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   Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches, Edited by Jeffrey Foss. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2015 - Teaching Philosophy 38 (4):459-463.
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   Reasonable Atheism: A Moral Case for Respectful Disbelief, by Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse.Timothy Chambers - 2013 - Teaching Philosophy 36 (3):291-293.
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   "Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction," by Michael B. Wilkinson and Hugn N. Campbell. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2012 - Teaching Philosophy 35 (3):305-308.
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7. Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Radical Philosophy 156.
   Topics in the Philosophy of Race in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    

   Whiteness in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    

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8. George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race.Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Radical Philosophy 156:56.
   Topics in the Philosophy of Race in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    

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   No, You Can't Steal a Kiss.Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Think 8 (21):63-67.
   Here, Timothy Chambers argues that rape is not a sex act. In the follow up piece, I suggest that it is.

   Feminism: Rape and Sexual Violence in Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

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    The Little Philosophy Book.Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Teaching Philosophy 32 (3):315-321.
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    My Friend Was a Poem: A Philosophical Memoir: Chambers My Friend Was a Poem.Timothy Chambers - 2007 - Think 5 (15):31-36.
    The ‘Problem of Evil’ has been the focus of a number of articles in Think. Here, Timothy Chambers offers an unusual perspective on this seemingly intractable difficulty facing theists. ‘Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.’.

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    Thinking.Timothy Chambers - 2007 - Teaching Philosophy 30 (3):329-331.
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    Coffee and Philosophy: A Conversational Introduction to Philosophy with Readings. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2006 - Teaching Philosophy 29 (4):363-364.
    Philosophy of Education in Philosophy of Social Science

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14. Literary Intentionalism: A File in the Ointment?Timothy Chambers - 2005 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 40 (86):157-164.
    Literary Interpretation in Aesthetics

     

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15. Literary Intentionalism and the Identity Thesis: A Filé in the Ointment?Timothy Chambers - 2005 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 40 (86):157-164.
    Aspects of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind

     

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16. Gernot Böhme, Ethics in Context Reviewed By.Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (1):1-3.
    Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous

     

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17. Gernot Böhme, Ethics in Context. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23:1-3.
    Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous

     

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18. Free Will Defense: Do the Ends Justify the Means?Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophia Christi 5 (1):251-258.
    Ethics in Value Theory, Miscellaneous

     

    Topics in Free Will, Misc in Philosophy of Action

     

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    The Free Will Defense.Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophia Christi 5 (1):251-257.
    Philosophy of Religion

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    Do Doomsday's Proponents Think We Were Born Yesterday?Timothy Chambers - 2001 - Philosophy 76 (3):443-450.
    In a recent article, John Leslie has defended the intriguing Carter-Leslie ‘Doomsday Argument’ (Philosophy, January 2000). I argue that an essential presupposition of the argument—that ‘the case of one's name coming out of [an] urn is sufficiently similar to the case of being born into the world’—engenders, in turn, a parallel ‘Ussherian Corollary’. The dubiousness of this Corollary, coupled with independent considerations, casts doubt upon the Carter-Leslie presupposition, and hence, dooms the Doomsday argument.

    Doomsday Argument in Philosophy of Probability

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    Putnam's Paradox: A Less Quick Reply to Haukioja and Kroon.Timothy Chambers - 2001 - Mind 110 (439):709-714.
    The Model-Theoretic Argument in Metaphysics

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22. Waiter Benesch, An Introduction to Comparative Philosophy: A Travel Guide to Philosophical Space Reviewed By.Timothy Chambers - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21 (6):396-398.
    Time Travel in Metaphysics

     

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    A Quick Reply to Putnam's Paradox.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Mind 109 (434):195-197.
    The Model-Theoretic Argument in Metaphysics

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24. Index of MIND Vol. 109 Nos. 1–4, 2000.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Mind 109:436.
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    On Behalf of the Devil: A Parody of Anselm Revisited.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1):93–113.
    This paper treats a question which first arose in these Proceedings: Can Anselm's ontological argument be inverted so as to yield parallel proofs for the existence (or non-existence) of a least (or worst) conceivable being? Such 'devil parodies' strike some commentators as innocuous curiosities, or redundant challenges which are no more troubling than other parodies found in the literature (e.g., Gaunilo's Island). I take issue with both of these allegations; devil parodies, I argue, have the potential to pose substantive, and (...)

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    V-On Behalf of the Devil: A Parody of Anselm Revisited.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1):93-113.
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    Is Goodman's Solution of Hume's Riddle Too Strong?Timothy Chambers - 1999 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 34 (74):63-70.
    Hume and Other Philosophers in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

     

    Hume: Induction in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

     

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    Time Travel: How Not to Defuse the Principal Paradox.Timothy Chambers - 1999 - Ratio 12 (3):296–301.
    Time Travel in Metaphysics

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    On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam’s “Intuitionistic Strategy”.Timothy Chambers - 1998 - The Monist 81 (1):343--8.
    Intuitionistic Theories of Vagueness in Philosophy of Language

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30. On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam’s “Intuitionistic Strategy”.Timothy Chambers - 1998 - The Monist 81 (2):343-348.
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31. Note on a Contentious Conditional.Timothy Chambers - 1994 - Lyceum 6 (2):50-54.
    Conditionals in Philosophy of Language

     

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