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  1. The Subject Matter of Phenomenological Research: Existentials, Modes, and Prejudices.Anthony Vincent Fernandez - 2017 - Synthese 194 (9):3543-3562.
    In this essay I address the question, “What is the subject matter of phenomenological research?” I argue that in spite of the increasing popularity of phenomenology, the answers to this question have been brief and cursory. As a result, contemporary phenomenologists lack a clear framework within which to articulate the aims and results of their research, and cannot easily engage each other in constructive and critical discourse. Examining the literature on phenomenology’s identity, I show how the question of (...)
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    (1 other version)Subject-Matter and Intensional Operators III: State-Sensitive Subject-Matter and Topic Sufficiency.Thomas Macaulay Ferguson - 2024 - Review of Symbolic Logic 17 (4):1070-1096.
    Logical frameworks that are sensitive to features of sentences’ subject-matter—like Berto’s topic-sensitive intentional modals (TSIMs)—demand a maximally faithful model of the topics of sentences. This is an especially difficult task in the case in which topics are assigned to intensional formulae. In two previous papers, a framework was developed whose model of intensional subject-matter could accommodate a wider range of intuitions about particular intensional conditionals. Although resolving a number of counterintuitive features, the work made an implicit (...)
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  3. Subject Matter: A Modest Proposal.Matteo Plebani & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2021 - Philosophical Quarterly 71 (3):605-622.
    The notion of subject matter is a key concern of contemporary philosophy of language and logic. A central task for a theory of subject matter is to characterise the notion of sentential subject matter, that is, to assign to each sentence of a given language a subject matter that may count as its subject matter. In this paper, we elaborate upon David Lewis’ account of subject matter. Lewis’ proposal (...)
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    Subject-matter and intensional operators I: conditional-agnostic analytic implication.Thomas Macaulay Ferguson - 2023 - Philosophical Studies 180 (7):1849-1879.
    Although logical settings are typically concerned with tracking alethic considerations, frameworks exist in which topic-theoretic considerations—e.g., tracking subject-matter or topic—are given equal importance. Intuitions about extending topic through a propositional language are generally straightforward for extensional cases. For a number of reasons, arriving at a compelling account of the subject-matter of intensional operators—such as intensional conditionals—is a more difficult task. In particular, the framework of topic-sensitive intentional modals (TSIMs) championed by Francesco Berto and his collaborators leave (...)
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    Predicative subject matter.Matteo Plebani & Giuseppe Spolaore - 2024 - Philosophical Studies 181:247-265.
    The notions of subject matter and aboutness have been objects of considerable attention among philosophers over the last few years. Current theories of subject matter take sentences to be the primary bearers of subject matter: “sentences have aboutness properties if anything has” (Yablo, Aboutness, Princeton University Press, 2014). However, some subsentential expressions can also be thought of as being about something. Moreover, it appears that the subject matters of sentences depend in a systematic (...)
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    Towards Subject Matters for Counterpossibles.Felipe Morales Carbonell - 2022 - Studia Semiotyczne 35 (2):125-152.
    In this paper, I raise the problem of dealing with counterpossible conditionals for theories of subject matter. I argue that existing accounts of subject matter need to be revised and extended to be able to a) provide reasonable (potentially non-degenerate) verdicts about what counterpossibles are about, b) explain the intuition that counterpossibles are in some sense about what would happen if the antecedent were true, and c) explain in what sense counterpossibles can be about individuals. I (...)
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    Subject-matter”: The Graphic Evidence of an Operative Field.Gioia Laura Iannilli - 2024 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 16 (2).
    The persistent occurrence of a locution that turns out to be far from trivially used, and the translation hurdles related to it are the core elements of this contribution. The term in question is subject-matter, which is used by John Dewey in many of his writings and of which he provides an explicit conceptualization in Art as Experience. Focusing on this term and its hyphenation allows to emphasize and shed new light on important aspects of Dewey’s thought, in (...)
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  8. On the Subject Matter of Phenomenological Psychopathology.Anthony Vincent Fernandez & Allan Køster - 2018 - In Giovanni Stanghellini, Matthew Broome, Anthony Vincent Fernandez, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Andrea Raballo & René Rosfort, The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 191–204.
    “On the Subject Matter of Phenomenological Psychopathology” provides a framework for the phenomenological study of mental disorders. The framework relies on a distinction between (ontological) existentials and (ontic) modes. Existentials are the categorial structures of human existence, such as intentionality, temporality, selfhood, and affective situatedness. Modes are the particular, concrete phenomena that belong to these categorial structures, with each existential having its own set of modes. In the first section, we articulate this distinction by drawing primarily on the (...)
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  9. Creeping Minimalism and Subject Matter.Matthew Simpson - 2020 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (6):750-766.
    The problem of creeping minimalism concerns how to tell the difference between metaethical expressivism and its rivals given contemporary expressivists’ acceptance of minimalism about truth and related concepts. Explanationism finds the difference in what expressivists use to explain why ethical language and thought has the content it does. I argue that two recent versions of explanationism are unsatisfactory and offer a third version, subject matter explanationism. This view, I argue, captures the advantages of previous views without their disadvantages (...)
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  10. Medium, subject matter and representation.John Dilworth - 2003 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (1):45-62.
    I argue that the physical marks on a canvas resulting from an artist's intentional, stylistic and expressive acts cannot themselves be the artist's expression, but instead they serve to signify or indicate those acts. Thus there is a kind of indicative content associated with a picture that is distinct from its subject matter (or 'representational content'). I also argue that this kind of indicative content is closely associated with the specific artistic medium chosen by the artist as her (...)
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  11. Yablo on subject-matter.Kit Fine - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (1):129-171.
    I discuss Yablo’s approach to truthmaker semantics and compare it with my own, with special focus on the idea of a proposition being true of or being restricted to some subject-matter, the idea of propositional containment, and the development of an ‘incremental’ semantics for the conditional. I conclude with some remarks on the relationship between truth-maker approach and the standard possible worlds approach to semantics.
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  12. Does Subjectivity Matter? On the Critique of Objectivity in Feminist Thought.W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz - 2015 - Stree: Journal of Women Studies 7:1-5.
    The notion of objectivity in science has come under critique of feminist writers. The scientific ideal of a detached, neutral observer, who has no race, no gender, no cultural identity, no class, and views the world “from nowhere,” has been challenged, and patterns of domination explored. Feminists argue that objectivity is a tacit generalization from the subjectivity of a small, privileged social group “of educated, usually prosperous, white men.” Hence, it is a result of the denial of the subjectivity of (...)
     
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  13. The Subject Matter of Logic: Explaining what logic is about.Elizabeth Olsen - 2021 - Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington
    Logicians disagree about how validity—the very heart of logic—should be understood. Many different formal systems have been born due to this disagreement. This thesis examines how teachers explain the subject matter of logic to students in introductory logic textbooks, and demonstrates the different explanations teachers use. These differences help explain why logicians have different intuitions about validity.
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  14. (1 other version)Content Recarving as Subject Matter Restriction.Vincenzo Ciccarelli - forthcoming - Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 42 (1).
    In this article I offer an explicating interpretation of the procedure of content recarving as described by Frege in §64 of the Foundations of Arithmetic. I argue that the procedure of content recarving may be interpreted as an operation that while restricting the subject matter of a sentence, performs a generalization on what the sentence says about its subject matter. The characterization of the recarving operation is given in the setting of Yablo’s theory of subject (...)
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  15. Introduction: Subject Matters.Russell Sbriglia & Slavoj Žižek - 2020 - In Russell Sbriglia & Slavoj Zizek, Subject lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the future of materialism. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
     
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    Ethical subject-matter and language.John Dewey - 1945 - Journal of Philosophy 42 (26):701-712.
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  17. Why subjectivity matters: Critical theory and the philosophy of the subject.Dieter Freundlieb - 2000 - Critical Horizons 1 (2):229-245.
    In this paper it is argued that Habermas' critique of German Idealism is misguided and that his rejection of the philosophy of the subject is unjustified. Critical Theory needs to recognise the importance of subjectivity for all social philosophy if its theoretical aims are to be achieved. In order to demonstrate the relevance of subjectivity to Critical Theory the essay draws on analytic philosophy of mind and on the work of Manfred Frank and Dieter Henrich.
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  18. (2 other versions)The Subject-matter of Metaphysical Inquiry.John Dewey - 1915 - Philosophical Review 24:680.
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  19. Frege on subject matter and identity statements.Eros Corazza & Kepa Korta - 2015 - Analysis 75 (4):562-565.
    In formulating the puzzle about cognitive significance in ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’, Frege rejects the approach he suggested in the Begriffsschrift on the ground that if the utterance of a sentence of the form a = b is understood as ‘a’ and ‘b’ referring to the same object we lose the subject matter. In this note, we will show how Frege’s concerns can be understood and circumvented.
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  20. The Subject-Matter of Ethics.G. E. Moore - 1997 - In Thomas L. Carson & Paul K. Moser, Morality and the good life. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Coerecion and the Subject Matter of Public Justification.James W. Boettcher - 2016 - Public Reason 8 (1-2).
    Some public reason liberals identify coercive law as the subject matter of public justification, while others claim that the justification of coercion plays no role in motivating public justification requirements. Both of these views are mistaken. I argue that the subject matter of public justification is not coercion or coercive law but political decision-making about the basic institutional structure. At the same time, part of what makes a public justification principle necessary in the first place is (...)
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  22. The Subject Matter of Ethical Science.Felix S. Cohen - 1932 - International Journal of Ethics 42 (4):397-418.
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    (1 other version)The subject matter fallacy.John Perry - 2003 - Journal of Applied Logic 1 (1-2):93-105.
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    The subject matters: relations among types of anxiety, ADHD symptoms, math performance, and literacy performance.Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr & Jo-Anne LeFevre - 2021 - Cognition and Emotion 35 (7):1334-1349.
    In this study, we extended a model of the relations among ADHD symptoms, anxiety, and academic performance. Undergraduates (N = 515) completed self-report measures of anxiety (i.e. trait, test, math, and literacy) and ADHD symptoms. During the study, they completed math and literacy measures and reported their current (i.e. state) anxiety three times. There were significant correlations among ADHD symptoms and all measures of anxiety. However, neither ADHD symptoms nor trait anxiety were correlated with math or literacy performance. Test-anxious students (...)
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    The subject matter of culture: constraints, attunement and information.Josu Acosta - 2022 - Filosofia Unisinos 23 (3):1-14.
    Naturalistic accounts of culture share the assumption that culture is nothing more than information in people minds/brains and the environment. They do not provide, however, neither a definition nor a theory of information. I address this lacuna adopting a theory of information called “Situation Theory” (Barwise and Perry, 1983). I argue that the notions of constraint and attunement allow to account for cultural information, and, furthermore, that culture is, at a fundamental level, constituted by a set of constraints. Constraints are (...)
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    The Subject-Matter of Philosophy.Edward G. Ballard - 1958 - Tulane Studies in Philosophy 7:5-26.
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    The subject matter of psychology.Gustav Bergmann - 1940 - Philosophy of Science 7 (4):415-433.
    The coordination of both logical syntax and methodological analysis of scientific language by scientific empiricism has achieved a twofold result:1. Elimination of philosophical pseudo-problems and purification of the empirical sciences from the biases engendered in them by these problems.2. Creation of an instrument apt for exact formulation, location, and analysis of the real meaning of the valid philosophical issues.
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    The Subject-Matter of Metaphysics.Douglas Browning - 1971 - Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 2 (1-2):103-115.
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    Subject Matter in John Dewey: Making Objects of Knowledge.J. J. Chambliss - 1994 - Education and Culture 11 (1):3.
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    (1 other version)The subject matter of formal logic.Morris R. Cohen - 1918 - Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 15 (25):673-688.
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    The Subject Matter of Ethical Science.Felix S. Cohen - 1931 - International Journal of Ethics 42 (4):397.
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    The Subject Matter of Physics and Metaphysics in Jacques Legrand's Compendium utriusque philosophie.Daniel A. di Liscia - 2017 - Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 24:249.
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    The subject-matter distinctive of philosophy.C. J. Ducasse - 1945 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 6 (3):417-421.
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    The Subject Matter of Dewey's Metaphysics.Thomas Gardner - 2000 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (3):393 - 405.
  35. The subject-matter of music.M. Whitcomb Hess - 1931 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 12 (3):200.
     
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    The Subject Matter of Ethics.Edmund L. Pincoffs - 1964 - Memorias Del XIII Congreso Internacional de Filosofía 7:389-397.
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    The subject matter of biojurisprudence and biolaw.Roman Tokarczyk - 2000 - Dialogue and Universalism 10:101.
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    Minimalism's continued creep: Subject matter.Joshua Gert - forthcoming - Analytic Philosophy.
    The problem of creeping minimalism is the problem of drawing a principled distinction between expressivists and non-expressivists. Explanationism is a popular strategy for solving the problem, but two of its forms—ontological explanationism and representational explanationism—have fatal problems. Christine Tiefensee and Matthew Simpson have recently, and independently, endorsed a third form: subject matter explanationism. But this form also fails. At bottom, the problem is that it does not note the existence of non-reductive expressivist views, just as earlier forms of (...)
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    Legal Scholarship and the Subject Matter of Jurisprudence.Fábio Perin Shecaira - 2015 - Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 101 (3):411-427.
    There is a remarkable difference between that which Anglo-American legal philosophers more or less unanimously regard as their subject matter and that which prominent Continental writers have emphasized as one of the main topics for jurisprudential discussion. The latter have often directed their attention to something quite specific: not law or the aforementioned law-related phenomena, but the study of law, or legal scholarship. In particular, Continental writers have been interested in legal scholarship as it is characteristically produced by (...)
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    Sosein as Subject Matter.Matteo Plebani - 2018 - Australasian Journal of Logic 15 (2):77-94.
    Meinongians in general, and Routley in particular, subscribe to the principle of the independence of Sosein from Sein. In this paper, I put forward an interpretation of the independence principle that philosophers working outside the Meinongian tradition can accept. Drawing on recent work by Stephen Yablo and others on the notion of subject matter, I offer a new account of the notion of Sosein as a subject matter and argue that in some cases Sosein might be (...)
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    Problematic Aspects of Subject Matter in Criminal Deeds, Related to Illegal Disposition of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (text only in Lithuanian).Edita Gruodytė - 2010 - Jurisprudencija: Mokslo darbu žurnalas 122 (4):153-167.
    Lithuania’s legislation, establishing criminal liability for illegal disposition of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, uses two different terms while identifying the subject matter for criminal deeds: “narcotic and psychotropic substances” and “plants, incorporated into the lists of controlled substances.” The legislation in article 269 of the Lithuanian criminal code explains that narcotic and psychotropic substances, indicated in the respective chapter of the Lithuanian criminal code, shall be those substances that are included in the lists of narcotic and psychotropic (...)
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    (1 other version)Some Notes on the Subject Matter of Skinner's Verbal Behavior.Vicki L. Lee - 1984 - Behaviorism 12 (1):29-40.
    This paper offers some comments about the subject matter of Skinner's book Verbal Behavior (1957). It first presents an argument against the common misconception that Verbal Behavior is about language. It then discusses the nature of verbal behavior as a subdivision of op?rant .behavior. Following that, the paper identifies three aspects of the concept of verbal behavior that need some clarification. Finally, the paper concludes by pointing out that the significance of Verbal Behavior lies most centrally in its (...)
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  43. Curriculum and Subject Matter.John P. Portelli - 1987 - Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 7 (1).
    The English word 'curriculum' is derived from the Latin word curriculum meaning 'a course', 'a race' or 'a running'. This suggests a process, the idea of going through something which has a beginning, a development and an end. The secondary meaning of curriculum was 'career'. Both the primary and the secondary meanings of curriculum referred to temporal space and to non-temporal endeavours or intellectual pursuits. The expression 'curriculum vitae', then referred to both intellectual and non-intellectual pursuits. Today curriculum in the (...)
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  44. Data quality, experimental artifacts, and the reactivity of the psychological subject matter.Uljana Feest - 2022 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (1):1-25.
    While the term “reactivity” has come to be associated with specific phenomena in the social sciences, having to do with subjects’ awareness of being studied, this paper takes a broader stance on this concept. I argue that reactivity is a ubiquitous feature of the psychological subject matter and that this fact is a precondition of experimental research, while also posing potential problems for the experimenter. The latter are connected to the worry about distorted data and experimental artifacts. But (...)
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  45. Reconsidering Avicennan Theory of Science: Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa and Taftāzānī’s Discussions of the Issue of the Subject Matter.Kenan Tekin - 2023 - Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 13 (13:3):17-38.
    Post-classical period witnessed intense debates on aspects of the Avicennan theory of science. Among them one set of discussions concerned the issue of subject matter (mabāhith al-mawdūʿ) in a science. They were raised by Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa (d. 747/1346) in the introduction of his al-Tawḍīh, a commentary on his legal theory text al-Tanqīḥ. Therein, he raised three questions: (1) whether the subject matter of a science can be multiple, (2) what restricting subject matter of a (...)
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  46. Kant on Aesthetic Ideas, Rational Ideas and the Subject-Matter of Art.Ido Geiger - 2021 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (2):186-199.
    The notion of aesthetic ideas is of great importance to Kant's thinking about art. Despite its importance, he says little about it. He characterizes aesthetic ideas as representations of the imagination and says that the gift of artistic genius is the inscrutable capacity to envision them. Furthermore, they are counterparts of rational ideas. Works of art thus sensibly present rational ideas; the pleasure they occasion is a consequence of the enriching process of reflection upon the wealth of content they sensibly (...)
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  47. Aristotle on the subject matter of geometry.Richard Pettigrew - 2009 - Phronesis 54 (3):239-260.
    I offer a new interpretation of Aristotle's philosophy of geometry, which he presents in greatest detail in Metaphysics M 3. On my interpretation, Aristotle holds that the points, lines, planes, and solids of geometry belong to the sensible realm, but not in a straightforward way. Rather, by considering Aristotle's second attempt to solve Zeno's Runner Paradox in Book VIII of the Physics , I explain how such objects exist in the sensibles in a special way. I conclude by considering the (...)
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  48. Avicenna on the subject matter of logic.A. I. Sabra - 1980 - Journal of Philosophy 77 (11):746-764.
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    II.—The Subject-Matter of Psychology.G. E. Moore - 1910 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 10 (1):36-62.
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    Science as subject-matter and as method.John Dewey - 1995 - Science & Education 4 (4):391-398.
    This paper is the fourth in the annual 'Golden Oldies'. It is Dewey's address to the 1909 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference. It appeared originally in Science 31(787), 1910, pp. 121-127. It is reproduced with the generous permission of the AAAS.
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