Keith O. Campbell

Self-mastery and Stoic Ethics

For the Stoic hero, the man or woman of virtue, the conduct of life presents no serious problems. The life of the sage comprises a consistent and effortless flow of actions, all conforming to virtue and all undertaken for the sake of their place in a virtuous life. The Stoic sage has advanced to a point where a life of courage and wisdom, justice and temperance comes easily and naturally, without struggle and without repinings.

Philosophy and Common Sense

This paper raises once more the question of the relationship between philosophy on the one hand and common sense on the other. More particularly, it is concerned with the role which common sense can play in passing judgment on the rational acceptability (or otherwise) of large-scale hypotheses in natural philosophy and the cosmological part of metaphysics. There are, as I see it, three stages through which the relationship has passed in the course of the twentieth century. There is the era of G. E. Moore, the Quine–Feyerabend period, and now a new and modest vindication of common sense is emerging in the work of Jerry Fodor.

Can intuitive psychology survive the growth of neuroscience

This paper considers the impact which developments in neuroscience seem likely to have on our inherited, intuitive psychology ‐ the system of beliefs called ‘folk psychology’ by enthusiasts for its elimination. The paper argues that while closer relations between a developing genuinely scientific cognitive psychology and a burgeoning neurological understanding are to be welcomed, physiology will not reduce psychology, and the concepts belonging to intuitive psychology will be transformed and enriched, but not discredited or discarded, when psychology, in its cognitive form, emerges as a science with genuine explanatory power. The analogy between belief and desire, on one hand, and witches and phlogiston, on the other, is rejected. So is the parallel between folk psychology and folk physics. We face the choice, on Churchlands principles, between the rejection of historical, literary, and moral culture, and accepting a dualism in human thought which despairs of a comprehensively naturalistic vision of ours...

The Implications of Land's Theory of Colour Vision

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the implications of Lands theory of color vision. There are two critical areas of difficulty for any metaphysical materialism in the philosophy of mind: the interpretation of intentionality and the reduction of secondary qualities. It explains that a major part of Lands contribution to the problem lies in a series of experiments demonstrating the independence of color and flux and so explaining why no unifying flux formulae for the different colors are forthcoming. The chapter discusses that, at any given wavelength, a surface will reflect some incident light and absorb some. The proportion reflected at a given wavelength is the reflectance at that wavelength. Colored surfaces, as contrasted with white, grey, or black ones, have different reflectances at different points on the spectrum that is why they are described as selective reflectors. Finally, it reviews that if Land is right every variation in color can be correlated with a specific physical variation. In principle, the color that a surface will have in any specified illumination can be calculated and predicted in advance. Color will be in the same position as sound or felt temperature or, if stereo-chemical theory is on the right track, smell.

The Quest for Reality; Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour

Book Information The Quest for Reality; Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour. The Quest for Reality; Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour Barry Stroud New York Oxford University Press 2000 xv + 228 Hardback By Barry Stroud. Oxford University Press. New York. Pp. xv + 228. Hardback:,

Recent changes in the constitution and powers of Australian marketing boards

Abstract The article reviews recent changes in the composition and administrative responsibilities of the federal and state agricultural marketing boards in Australia. The changes have been politically and administratively inspired and have not had farmer support. In fact, they are diametrically opposed to the long-standing attitudes of the rural community regarding agricultural marketing.

REPORT ON SHORTCOMINGS OF AUSTRALIAN FARM FINANCIAL STATISTICS AND DESIRABLE IMPROVEMENTS

In February 1962 the Council of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society appointed a sub-committee to report on the present state of farm financial statistics in Australia and to recommend desirable improvements. The aims in calling for this report were twofold: (a) Members of the Society have long felt the need for more comprehensive economic information about Australian agriculture. The adverse movement of prices of farm products in Australia during the last decade has increased the urgency to obtain such data. (b) In view of the possible reorganisation of various statistical series, it was felt that the Society - whose members are major users of farm financial statistics - should outline its views on desirable improvements in this field. The Societys concern in this matter is not the result of any decline in the quantity of data published by the various statistical agencies, but is due rather to the rapid growth in the demand for more comprehensive coverage and increased accuracy.