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Jeffrey Barnouw
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 23
Citations - 437
Jeffrey Barnouw is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sign (semiotics) & Morality. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 416 citations.
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Hobbes's psychology of thought: Endeavours, purpose and curiosity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present Hobbes's psychology of thought: endeavours, purpose and curiosity, and discuss the role of purpose in the development of European ideas.
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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment.
Jeffrey Barnouw,Lorraine Daston +1 more
TL;DR: In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications as mentioned in this paper.
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The Morality of the Sublime: To John Dennis
TL;DR: The notion of the sublime experience was first delineated as an aesthetic experience in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century, above all in the writings of the :third earl of Shaftesbury and of John Dennis as discussed by the authors.
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Passion as "confused" perception or thought in Descartes, Malebranche, and Hutcheson.
TL;DR: In his insistence on confusion Descartes is reviving a theme of classical philosophy, giving it a new definition and application, and the theme takes on further new senses and uses in Malebranche and Hutcheson.