Debating Christian Theism Review Essay by Timothy Chambers

Review Essay of "Debating Christian Theism" edited by J.P. Moreland, Chad Meister, and Khaldoun A. Sweis (NY: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Essays in Philosophy (July 2015): 298-315

https://www.scribd.com/document/280098792/Debating-Christian-Theism-Review-Essay-by-Timothy-Chambers

Timothy Chambers "Be Careful What You Wish For"

Be Careful What You Wish For

By Timothy Chambers
Hartford Courant
May 19, 2012

"Be careful what you wish for," we often warn. But perhaps we should also say, "… and be careful how you wish for it."

 https://www.scribd.com/document/95159722/Be-Careful-What-You-Wish-For

Timothy Chambers "Habits Trump Resolve: Downhill Always Easier"

 

 

Habits Trump Resolve: Downhill Always Easier

By: TIMOTHY CHAMBERS 

January 22, 2012

Just after New Year's, I did a bit of informal research. While the statistics vary by source, one conclusion rang clearly: Before long, most of us who made resolutions for 2012 will lapse back into our old ways, and end up feeling no newer than we did in 2011. It goes to show what a challenge "making a change" can be.

 https://www.scribd.com/document/84191071/Habits-Trump-Resolve-Downhill-Always-Easier

Timothy Chambers "Groundhog Day: Ritual Need Not Be a Rut"

In: Hartford Courant (2 February 2010)
Remarks on repetition, ruts, and rituals, inspired by the Bill Murray movie, "Groundhog Day."

 https://www.scribd.com/doc/57086285/Groundhog-Day-Repetition-need-not-be-a-Rut

Timothy Chambers Discussion of John Wisdom

"One who has nothing to say except what everybody knows already," philosopher John Wisdom once said, "may yet say something worth saying." This essay probes the truth of Wisdom's claim.

 https://www.scribd.com/document/57086016/Sometimes-the-Obvious-can-work-like-Insight

Timothy Chambers, Review of "The Little Philosophy Book," by Robert Solomon

Review of "The Little Philosophy Book," by Robert Solomon (Oxford University Press, 2008)
in: Teaching Philosophy (September 2009): 315-318

https://www.scribd.com/document/19683125/Timothy-Chambers-Review-of-The-Little-Philosophy-Book-by-Robert-Solomon

Review of George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race

Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race 
by 

George Yancy (Goodreads Author)

We average Americans’, observed Eric Holder in February 2009, ‘simply do not talk enough with each other about race.’ The Attorney General’s diagnosis of this deficit was a national failure of nerve: ‘We always have been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.’ Seeking to overcome such cowardice in his new book Black Bodies, White 
Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race, George Yancy’s tools are as varied as his subject: phenomenology and existentialism, literature and current events, calm analysis and charged classroom illustrations. The result is a blueprint of racism’s mechanisms that 
Cornel West has pronounced ‘the most philosophically sophisticated treatment we have of the most visceral issue in America and modernity.’ Bringing together the insights of numerous thinkers – Douglass and DuBois, Husserl and Sartre, Toni Morrison and Frantz Fanon 
– Yancy attempts to unpack, in turn, the white gaze and how it denigrates the black body; how this denigration threatens to violate its victims’ subjectivities, and how such violations can be resisted; and, finally, how whites evade responsibility for the wreckage their 
gaze still wreaks, but can yet recognize, and resist, its ‘ambushes’.

This is part of a review which was published in "Radical Philosophy" vol 156 (July/August 2009): pages 56-59. pdf files can be found at 
https://www.scribd.com/doc/93514995/Timothy-Chambers-The-Elevator-Effect-Review-of-Black-Bodies-White-Gazes-The-Continuing-Significance-of-Race-by-George-Yancy
and
  https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/156-reviews

Timothy Chambers: Important lessons for kids in hard facts about Santa

Good not always rewarded in harsh light of real world

TIMOTHY CHAMBERS
, Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

Published 6:30 am CST, Wednesday, December 24, 2008  

 https://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Timothy-Chambers-Important-lessons-for-kids-in-1775423.php

Love comes not from a potion

• 
  
• 
  
• 
  

By Timothy Chambers |

PUBLISHED: February 14, 2008
Monterey (California) Herald

https://www.montereyherald.com/2008/02/14/love-comes-not-from-a-potion/

Love: IT'S A NOTION, NOT A POTION by Timothy Chambers

IT'S A NOTION, NOT A POTION

TIMOTHY CHAMBERS 

Timothy Chambers teaches philosophy at the University of Hartford 

THE HARTFORD COURANT

February 14, 2008

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2008-02-14-0802130411-story.html

True love potion beyond the skill of any chemist

True love potion beyond the skill of any chemist 

By Timothy Chambers | 

San Jose CA Mercury News

February 13, 2008

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/02/13/true-love-potion-beyond-the-skill-of-any-chemist/

Timothy Chambers, "My Friend Was A Poem"

Timothy Chambers, "My Friend Was A Poem"

 https://www.scribd.com/document/683182/Timothy-Chambers-My-Friend-Was-A-Poem

 Timothy Chambers, Timothy Chambers Hartford, Timothy Chambers West Hartford, Timothy Chambers Brown University, Timothy Chambers Harvard University, Timothy Chambers philosophy

Timothy Chambers, "Nature, Nurture? How About Both?" [letter] (2007)

NATURE, NURTURE? HOW ABOUT BOTH?

THE HARTFORD COURANTJune 2, 2007

As one who as co-authored articles in neuroscience, I was fascinated by the front-page story on the brain's role in our abilities to empathize and moralize [May 29, "We Can't Help But Do Good"]. But as one who has also written about ethics, I worry that the philosophical conclusions the article draws are hasty and flawed. Two of these conclusions merit particular attention.

Because "morality arises from basic brain activities," we're told, our values are "not 'handed down' by philosophers and clergy, but 'handed up' [as] an outgrowth of our brain's basic tendencies." But this ignores another, equally scientific, fact: A child who is raised in chaotic, valueless surroundings will, far more often than not, grow up to bear a pathological lack of conscience.

For this reason, it's best to view nature and nurture as partners, not rivals, in crafting the adult moral faculties we take for granted.

Nature indeed "hands up" a brain that is amazingly receptive to learning values. But then it's necessary for the environment -- in the form of conscientious parents and mentors -- to "hand down" the specific values to that receptive brain. Otherwise, like a seeded field that lacks hands to tend it, the brain's ethical potential will fail to achieve fruition.

Another "troubling question," according to the article, is that neuroscience reduces "morality and immorality to brain chemistry -- rather than free will," and that this "might diminish the importance of personal responsibility."

A little reflection shows why this is an overreaction. We've long known that our capacity to use language is ingrained in various brain centers. Does this mean that we use language robotically? Does it mean that I have no choice over the words I'm writing now, or would lack responsibility if my words were libelous? Clearly not. But if brain-based language centers don't threaten our free use of language, it's unclear why brain-based ethical centers should threaten free will, either.

Beneath both of these errors, I imagine, lies a more general worry: that if we can scientifically explain our astonishing human abilities, then this somehow makes those abilities less astonishing. I disagree. After all, embryologists have come a long way toward describing how a zygote becomes a full-term infant. Does that make childbirth any less of a miracle? I think not.

Timothy Chambers

West Hartford

The writer teaches philosophy at the University of Hartford.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2007-06-02-0706020587-story.html Timothy Chambers philosophy, Timothy Chambers Hartford

Timothy Chambers, "Won Buddhism's Gratitudes"

Timothy Chambers, "Won Buddhism's Gratitudes"

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


Timothy Chambers, Timothy Chambers Hartford, Timothy Chambers West Hartford, Timothy Chambers Brown University, Timothy Chambers Harvard University, Timothy Chambers philosophy

Time Travel and its Paradoxes

A review of basic puzzles and paradoxes engendered by time travel. Outline of a lecture I gave in April 2006

https://www.scribd.com/document/4894243/Time-Travel-and-its-Paradoxes

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

Timothy Chambers, Timothy Chambers Hartford, Timothy Chambers West Hartford, Timothy Chambers Brown University, Timothy Chambers Harvard University, Timothy Chambers philosophy

"Literary Intentionalism and the Identity Thesis: A filé in the Ointment?"

Timothy Chambers, "Literary Intentionalism and the Identity Thesis: A filé in the Ointment?" Diálogos, Vol. 40, Nº 86, 2005 , pps. 157-164

https://www.scribd.com/document/6886519/Literary-Intentionalism-and-the-Identity-Thesis-A-file-in-the-Ointment

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

Timothy Chambers, Timothy Chambers Hartford, Timothy Chambers West Hartford, Timothy Chambers Brown University, Timothy Chambers Harvard University, Timothy Chambers philosophy

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

https://www.docdroid.net/vX7ebGR/timothychambersfreewilldefense.docx