Showing posts with label Timothy Chambers Harvard University. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Misunderstandings Mar Workplace, by Timothy Chambers
Misunderstandings Mar Workplace, by Timothy Chambers
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Friday, February 20, 2004
To Teach English, Study Korean by Timothy Chambers
"To Teach English, Study Korean" Korea Herald (February 20, 2004).
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Timothy Chambers What academia means to me
Distributed June 18, 2003
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What academia means to me
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“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.” |
Sunday, May 4, 1980
Timothy Chambers Philosophical Papers
- A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas, by Roy Sorensen.Timothy Chambers - 2019 - Teaching Philosophy 42 (2):157-159.
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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.
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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.
- Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Radical Philosophy 156.Export citation
Bookmark - George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race.Timothy Chambers - 2009 - Radical Philosophy 156:56.Export citation Bookmark
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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.
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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.’.No categories
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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.
- Literary Intentionalism: A File in the Ointment?Timothy Chambers - 2005 - Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 40 (86):157-164.Export citation Bookmark
- 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.
- Gernot Böhme, Ethics in Context Reviewed By.Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (1):1-3.Export citation Bookmark
- Gernot Böhme, Ethics in Context. [REVIEW]Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23:1-3.Export citation Bookmark
- Free Will Defense: Do the Ends Justify the Means?Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophia Christi 5 (1):251-258.Export citation Bookmark
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The Free Will Defense.Timothy Chambers - 2003 - Philosophia Christi 5 (1):251-257.
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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.
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Putnam's Paradox: A Less Quick Reply to Haukioja and Kroon.Timothy Chambers - 2001 - Mind 110 (439):709-714.
- 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.Export citation Bookmark
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A Quick Reply to Putnam's Paradox.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Mind 109 (434):195-197.
- Index of MIND Vol. 109 Nos. 1–4, 2000.Timothy Chambers - 2000 - Mind 109:436.No categories
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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.
- 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.
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Time Travel: How Not to Defuse the Principal Paradox.Timothy Chambers - 1999 - Ratio 12 (3):296–301.
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On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam’s “Intuitionistic Strategy”.Timothy Chambers - 1998 - The Monist 81 (1):343--8.
- On Vagueness, Sorites, and Putnam’s “Intuitionistic Strategy”.Timothy Chambers - 1998 - The Monist 81 (2):343-348.No categories
- Note on a Contentious Conditional.Timothy Chambers - 1994 - Lyceum 6 (2):50-54.Export citation Bookmark
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