http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2133 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:54:54 GMT 2013-05-22T04:54:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20827 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; The following work is in part about framing various sciences of emotions. In addition to some modest interest in organizational issues pertaining to differing scientific research agendas, my further interest in focusing on emotions, specifically scientific perspectives on emotions, is that emotions are a type of "borderland" phenomena that, on the one hand, concern the felt experience of things---consequently they have an air of ineffability about them, making emotions the sort of topic apparently not amenable to appropriate scientific investigation---and on the other hand, concern neuro-physiological processes, observable behaviors, etc. which are to an extent "quantifiable"---consequently they appear to be the sort of topic a sophisticated science (pertaining to consciousness, artificial intelligence, and so on) would strive to understand. In other words, emotions are both a central part of human experience, and a "grail" which cognitive science seeks to more fully grasp.; What is at stake in exploring whether there can be a science of emotion is the question: Can there be a science of mind? Given the contemporary acknowledgement that apparently all "mind processes" are emotive-cognitive processes---or simply "affective systems"---modern research programs seek to better understand these affective systems in the search for a "science" of "the mind."; What prospects might science offer us in way of illuminating various emotive phenomena? The question I seek to explore (but not definitively answer) is whether a science of emotion is possible. To be sure, there are particular sciences, each of which investigates a restricted range of emotive phenomena. However, a science of emotion is broader than these particular investigations. Hence the question is really, what sense, if any, does it make to speak of a "science" of emotive phenomena, most generally speaking? There are two sciences that I bring to bear on this issue: biology---or more properly, the evolutionary framework by which biology "hangs together"---and the new "science" of complexity. I place most of the emphasis on evolutionary considerations; the concepts associated with complexity make their appearance in the final two chapters.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 321-334).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 355 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20827 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Takaki, Kyle R http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20826 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; My thesis demonstrates that Zhu Xi is a kind of ethical naturalist in the sense that he never imagined moral values or properties as independent of the natural order of the Heaven-Earth. Finally, Zhu Xi's ethical thought eventually comes down to the matter of how to carry on in daily life, viz. the ethics of ordinariness in the sense that all efforts to become an ethical being are inseparable from how one should live in this world.; This thesis aims to show that Zhu Xi's moral philosophy can best be reconstructed by exploring his views of self-cultivation in accord with moral motivation, moral imagination and virtue ethics. I define the nature of self-cultivation not as an instrumental tool for attaining virtue, but as a continuous process of a way of living. Accordingly, I argue that the distinctive feature of Zhu Xi's self-cultivation has a role to play in unifying all dyadic factors in ethical discourse: the external/internal, the rational/emotional, and the intellectual/virtuous.; Zhu's ethical insights into an organic unification between binary frameworks has clearly been substantiated within his way of thinking on human nature and the mind, which imply an axiological disposition and emotive/cognitive faculty, respectively. Establishing his view of the "New Discourse of Equilibrium and Harmony", Zhu Xi harmoniously unified human nature with the mind by assigning the two states of weifa and yifa into the same entity, the mind, which is conceived as a creative vitality of the cosmic order. The total unity of all dyadic frameworks makes us interpret his ideas of moral motivation from a different angle: the unity between the inside and the outside. Rather than a kind of internalist, therefore, Zhu Xi should be read as one claiming proper resonance between axiological disposition and specific situations that are independent of desire. Hence, in the ethical dimension the matter of moral motivation as the proper way of resonance is tightly bound up with the development of the human capacity of sympathetic deliberation that resonates with the heart of another. This is termed moral imagination, and it is a breakthrough in delineating the human capacity of moral judgment in light of a unified perspective, combining rationality with sentiment.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-198).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 198 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20826 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, Chan http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20825 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; As fascinating neuroscientific studies tempt us to take our remembered past as spread out in the brain---a view Henri Bergson had meticulously argued against, hard questions about felt duration, and the role of memory in perception of time and space, remain.; Complex argumentation from Classical Indian, Western analytic and Continental philosophical original sources lead this work to a surprising tilt towards a realist panpsychist ontology of the immaterial but objective past. Genuinely tensed "prior" times, transcending actual individual minds, is seen to be embedded in impersonal Consciousness, as Abhinavagupta and Bergson had both concluded. Is this what young Wittgenstein was remembering when he wrote: "Only remember that the spirit of the snake, of the lion, is your spirit....the same with the elephant, the fly, the wasp" (Notebooks-1914-1916, p 85e)?; From such ontological complexities we are led, in the third part, to axiological questions of moral, aesthetic and spiritual evaluation of the past to which we belong.; Memory is philosophically puzzling. It is prone to errors of undetectable deletion and embellishment, and seems too derivative to deserve the status of knowledge. Yet it is the enabling condition for other means of knowing like perceiving, inferring, and testimony. In the first part of this work we show that correct memory is an independent means of knowing the past, directly and non-representationally. Not only does it generate and regenerate knowledge, but it also makes us who and what we are.; What and where is the past that we happen to recall or forget? Can we call it real without reducing it to the present? Is the past simply what is made of it at present? Could it be permanent yet changeable? These difficult ontological issues are explored in the second part. Since we are directly acquainted with the past which remains 'back there/then' inside what stands 'out here' now), the past cannot be something extended in an inaccessibly remote space-time. Our epistemically accessible past must stay open to the revisions and transformations by our present and future actions adding to its value. This value-added past is nothing but what it could have been.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves xxx-xxx).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 479 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20825 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mitias, Lara M http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11809 Photocopy of typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1974.; Bibliography: leaves 141-145.; viii, 145 leaves Tue, 01 Jan 1974 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11809 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fandozzi, Phillip R http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11808 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves [259]-262.; iv, 262 l Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11808 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Coleman, Earle Jerome; Shitao, 17th/18th cent http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11807 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1970.; Bibliography: leaves 197-203.; vi, 203 l Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11807 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Bradie, Michael Peter http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11806 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1969.; Bibliography: leaves [131]-135.; v, 135 l Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11806 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mahajan, Satinder Nath http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11805 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves [288]-292.; ix, 292 l Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11805 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Stewart, Donald Lee http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11804 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1969.; Bibliography: leaves 116-118.; 118 l Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11804 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Malhotra, Ashok Kumar http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11803 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1967.; Bibliography: leaves [123]-126.; ix, 126 l Sun, 01 Jan 1967 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11803 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Fan, Kuang Tih http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11802 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1966.; Bibliography: leaves [306]-310.; v, 310 l Sat, 01 Jan 1966 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11802 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Koller, John M; Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948; Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11801 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1967.; Bibliography: leaves [179]-183.; iii, 183 l Sun, 01 Jan 1967 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11801 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z De Silva, Padmasiri, 1933 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11800 Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-244).; Electronic reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; viii, 244 leaves, bound col. ill. 29 cm Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11800 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddath, Virginia D http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11799 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-304).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; viii, 304 leaves, bound 29 cm Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11799 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Richardson, Brian William, 1966 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11798 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 230-239).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; vii, 239 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11798 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Geir Sigurðsson http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11797 Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 356-368).; Electronic reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; ix, 368 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11797 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Park, Bradley Douglas http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11796 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-269).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; viii, 269 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11796 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ganesathasan, Menaka http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11795 Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-167).; Electronic reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; x, 167 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11795 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalvi, Rohit, 1974 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11794 Chinese characters in title.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 2007-226).; Electronic reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; xxiii, 226 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11794 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Trowbridge, John http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11793 Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 324-334).; Electronic reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; xii, 334 leaves, bound 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11793 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruya, Brian, 1966