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The current of development in 20th century logic bypassed Peirce’s existential graphs, but recently much good work has been done by formal logicians excavating the graphs from Peirce’s manuscripts, regularizing them and demonstrating the soundness and completeness of the alpha and beta systems (e.g. Roberts 1973, Hammer 1998, Shin 2002). However, given that Peirce himself considered the...© Copyright 2009 C. Legg [Conference Item]

This thesis examines the extent to which the New Zealand Assemblies of God, one of the largest and oldest Pentecostal denominations in the country, has fostered participation by Maori, and its success in doing so between 1970 and 2008. From the advent of the Mana Maori renaissance in the 1970s the idea of biculturalism became an important vehicle for Maori aspirations. As part of its broader...

A commentary on a current paper by Aaron Sloman where he argues that in order to make progress in AI, consciousness (and other such unclear concepts of common-sense regarding the mind), "should be replaced by more precise and varied architecture-based concepts better suited to specify what needs to be explained by scientific theories". This original vision of philosophical inquiry as...Preprint of an article submitted for consideration in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) © 2009 World Scientific Publishing Company. [Journal Article]

Wittgenstein’s discussion of rule-following is widely regarded to have identified what Kripke called “the most radical and original sceptical problem that philosophy has seen to date”. But does it? This paper examines the problem in the light of Charles Peirce’s distinctive scientific hierarchy. Peirce identifies a phenomenological inquiry which is prior to both logic and metaphysics,...This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. [Journal Article]

Wittgenstein’s discussion of rule-following is widely regarded to have identified what Kripke called “the most radical and original sceptical problem that philosophy has seen to date”. But does it? This paper examines the problem in the light of Charles Peirce’s distinctive scientific hierarchy. Peirce identifies a phenomenological inquiry which is prior to both logic and metaphysics,...This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. [Journal Article]

This thesis is an investigation into the university-level teaching of Buddhism in New Zealand, which has developed as part of the international spread of education about Buddhism for both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. The study was based on Interpretivism and accordingly sought to understand and interpret university teachers’ perceptions and experiences about their teaching of Buddhism; as... [Thesis or Dissertation]

We conduct an experiment to examine the strategic use of trust in an environment similar to Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995) investment game. The environment differs in that the second mover is restricted to the binary choice of returning half of the tripled amount (fair split) or zero (selfish split). We use the theory of guilt aversion to explain the behavior in strategic and non-strategic... [Conference Paper]

This study explores the role of managers and manager-owners in decisions to engage the community and select particular social causes. This exploratory study aims to investigate why and how individuals impact on corporate community involvement (CCI) in their organisations. This is of significance in New Zealand as corporate philanthropic funding to the non-profit sector accounts for only three... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Most introductory texts in environmental ethics (and philosophy in general) are anthologies, and there are advantages to this approach. No philosopher is an expert on all aspects of the field, especially if practical concerns such as climate change, population, biodiversity and globalization are addressed. Moreover, if a course is taught by a single professor, an anthology exposes students to...This article has been published in the journal: Global Environmental Politics. Used with permission. © 2009 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Journal Article]

Concepts of value are used in a wide variety of contexts and meanings in philosophy. Philosophers differ substantially in their meta-normative assumptions, as well as in the normative theories developed on the basis of these assumptions. A very important distinction among meta-normative theories is the choice of an objectivist or a subjectivist interpretation of "value", this... [Book]

There are many ways in which music and the management of work, space, time, bodies and feelings are linked and there is a small but rich tradition of academic research that has attempted to explore these connections. This special issue aims to contribute to this work. Our introduction identifies existing work, introduces the three articles that make up the substantive contribution of this... [Journal Article]

The aim of this thesis is to explore the extent to which formal logic can be applied to the topic of conflict analysis and conflict resolution. It is motivated by the idea that conflicts can be understood as inconsistent sets of goals, beliefs, norms, emotions, or the like. To achieve this aim, two formal frameworks are presented. Conflict Modelling Logic (CML) is a logical system, based on...

In this study, I consider the status of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship as represented in refereed journal articles and citations in the Web of Science database within a broad philosophical framework, developed for this investigative purpose. This dissertation firstly explores an understanding of knowledge as offered by French social theorist, Michael Foucault, identifying two...

Whole document restricted, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.Throughout the 20th Century, a number of philosophers, writers, artists and film makers have implied that there is some profound significance to the work of Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814). The project at hand is to evaluate the claim that Sade, in some sense, is a philosopher, and to assess what his philosophy amounts to. There are two aspects to this task.... [Thesis or Dissertation]

International Trade Policy Research CentreSome look to holy books for hints, even gems; some to literature; others to the wiser scientists and statesmen. Philosophers on the hunt have always had the riddle like fragments of the Pre-Socratics, the tantalising remains brought to us care of the destruction of the great library at Alexandria. Strip away the details, the dust of subtle squabbles, and we recover at the core the worlds of... [Working or Discussion Paper]

International Trade Policy Research CentreSome look to holy books for hints, even gems; some to literature; others to the wiser scientists and statesmen. Philosophers on the hunt have always had the riddle like fragments of the Pre-Socratics, the tantalising remains brought to us care of the destruction of the great library at Alexandria. Strip away the details, the dust of subtle squabbles, and we recover at the core the worlds of... [Working or Discussion Paper]

Book Review: This book, officially a contribution to the subject area of Charles Peirce’s semiotics, deserves a wider readership, including philosophers. Its subject matter is what might be termed the great question of how signification is brought about (what Peirce called the ‘riddle of the Sphinx’, who in Emerson’s poem famously asked, ‘Who taught thee me to name?’), and also...This is an author's accepted version of an article published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. ©2006 Australasian Association of Philosophy. [Journal Article]

This research operates at both the meeting of wilderness and landscape, and also landscape architecture and design-directed research. It applies a phenomenological understanding of landscape to the New Zealand conservation estate as a means to reconsider wilderness’ prevalent framing as an untouched ‘other’. It does this through enlisting the designerly imperative found within landscape... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Despite its origins in England two hundred years ago, the picturesque continues to influence landscape architectural practice in late twentieth-century New Zealand. The evidence for this is derived from a close reading of the published discourse of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, particularly the now defunct professional journal, The Landscape. Through conceptualising the... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Time, landscape and memory represent a potent triumvirate. Each is embedded within the other, and the landscape architect has a critical role to play in orchestrating connections. In this paper I explore the hegemony of the visual over the other senses, and contrast this with the potency which the sense of smell has in the context of evoking time and memory. I identify some opportunities for... [Conference Paper]

Paper presented at the conference Globalisation and Landscape Architecture, held at St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Russia, 3-6 June 2007.One of the most insidious influences of globalisation on landscape architecture is the hegemony of the visual. The dominance of visuality is nothing new, having been spawned during the Enlightenment, yet it has rapidly gained momentum under the auspices of globalisation's colonisation of space and time. Design professions have embraced digital media, and as a concomitant of this, have... [Conference Paper]

This phenomenological study has been conducted to reveal midwives’ experiences working as coordinator/charge midwives in tertiary hospital delivery suite settings. The methodology is informed by Heidegger’s interpretive phenomenological, hermeneutic philosophy (1927/1962). Data analysis is based on van Manen’s (1990) research methodology. Five coordinator/charge midwives who work at three... [Thesis or Dissertation]

Describes an experiment in teaching undergraduate epistemology, guided by Peirce’s pragmatic maxim.This is an author’s accepted version. This article was published as Legg, C. (2008). Letting reality bite. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 44(2), 208-212. No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Indiana... [Journal Article]

In this paper we propose the design of a tool that will allow the construction of a formal, textual description of a software system even if it has a graphical user-interface as a component. An important aspect of this design is that it can be used for two purposes-the teaching of first-order logic and the formal specification of graphical user-interfaces. The design has been suggested by...©1996 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. [Conference Item]

This thesis has investigated the life and publications of Mary Wollstonecraft. The thesis is divided in to three chapters the first chapter explores the political and social context of late Eighteenth century England in which Wollstonecraft lived the majority of her life. It then moves on to discuss the 'Revolution Controversy' and Wollstonecraft's contribution to that debate.... [Thesis or Dissertation]