Naturalism and the impulse-image

Post has three assignments

1: According to the text, “Hume’s philosophy made the external world unknowable and rendered reason impotent to unlock the secrets of nature.” How does Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” overcome the limits to knowledge raised by Hume’s empiricism? Your essay should address how Kant’s critical philosophy refashions the meaning of knowledge, even as it reconceptualizes how objectivity is possible. What roles do his notions of phenomena and noumena, transcendental ideas and the regulative ideas play? Finally, how does Kant’s reconfigured philosophy of knowledge change the way we understand what knowledge of the external world is? In what sense does it allow us to unlock the “secrets of nature” and in what sense does it not?

2. Kant’s moral philosophy is often described as “reason-based” or rationalistic, versus Hume’s which is sentiment-based. Write an essay first clarifying the role of reason in Kant’s moral philosophy. Your essay should address the differences between theoretical and practical reason, inclination and acts of will, the good will, duty, hypothetical and categorical imperatives. Second, indicate at least three ways in which Kant’s theory of the moral life differs from Hume’s. Lastly, what are the strengths and weaknesses of these two competing visions? Which do you prefer, and why?

2: What are naturalism and the impulse-image and how are they illustrated by Luis Bunel’s film, Exterminating Angel?
Check reading and film:http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Phillosophy_of_Cinema/Naturalism,_the_Fetish,_and_the_Impulse_Image.html

3:The Steel head Police Department

The Steel head Police Department, a medium-sized agency of 40 sworn officers, has relatively recently hired a new police chief from outside the department after a nationwide search. He is bringing in many new ideas and innovations to the department. The new chief wrote a grant proposal and was awarded grant funding for new state-of-the-art soft body armor vests for all officers. Previous attempts to purchase and implement wearing of soft body armor by officers in this department had been unsuccessful.

You are assigned as a patrol lieutenant, one of the shift supervisors and watch commanders, supervising about ten officers. All patrol shifts rotate every 4 months. Because of your expertise as a firearms instructor the new chief selected you to research and draft a policy for mandatory wear of soft body armor by officers in the department. Obstacles you will, or may, encounter include opposition from the department’s unionized line officers, complaints of medical issues to include rashes that prevent the wearing of the vests, heat-related factors, freedom of movement, freedom of choice, and about everything in between.

The links below provide resources to get you started on your work.

Ballistic Body Armor

Zakhary, Y. (2007, Dec.) Ballistic body armor: A chief’s refresher course. The Police Chief. 74(12). Retrieved from http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&article_id=1340&issue_id=122007

Provides IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) guidance on body armor wear policy for officers in uniform and other specifications.

Delaware Administration Labor Relations Hearing

State of Delaware. Public Employment Relations Board.. Retrieved from from http://perb.delaware.gov/pdfs/decisions/1999/DPDFOP15.pdf

The Delaware administrative labor relations hearing shows a case where a city lost attempting to implement mandatory wear without collective bargaining.

Write a 700–1,050 word analysis of the actions you would take to create and implement this soft body armor mandatory wear policy. Consider the following in your analysis:
Discuss the organizational theories that apply to law enforcement and criminal justice agencies.
Address arguments that can be raised against the policy to illustrate typical organizational behavior.
Suggest solutions to the arguments against the mandatory wear policy that take into account and describe law enforcement culture and this agency’s unionized law enforcement culture.

Hume’s philosophy