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12Tom Petty and Philosophy: We Need to Know (edited book)Open Court Publishing. 2019.Philosophers analyze the last of the great rock stars.
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58The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead’s Radical EmpiricismRoutledge. 2017._The Quantum of Explanation_ advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This …Read more
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20Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.The collection presents a variety of promising new directions in Royce scholarship from an international group of scholars, including historical reinterpretations, explorations of Royce's ethics of loyalty and religious philosophy, and contemporary applications of his ideas in psychology, the problem of reference, neo-pragmatism, and literary aesthetics
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26Eco, Peirce, and the Pragmatic Theory of SignsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 10 (1). 2018.This paper aims to consider Peirce and Eco’s approach to signs and semiotics in order to assess their relation to Peirce’s mature pragmatism. Both thinkers attempted to set out a truly general theory of signs, and ran into difficulties on similar points. I show that the responses of Peirce and Eco to the difficulties that arose in seeking a truly general theory of signs were quite different. And yet, the differences are not so deep as to prevent us from thinking of both Peirce and Eco as pragmat…Read more
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7Commentary on Torsten Menge’s “Making it Uncanny: The Critical Effect of Telling a Genealogy”Southwest Philosophy Review 33 (2): 31-34. 2017.
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40Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders PeirceTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (4): 626-631. 2017.Finally someone has saved future Peirce scholars from having to piece together for themselves the comparative points in Peirce’s development as it concerns his most widely read essays. The significance of the Popular Science Monthly articles of 1877–78 for pragmatism and for Peirce’s thought is universally known. But we have had to dig for ourselves, one by one, repeating each other’s labors, to learn how the ideas at the root of pragmatism evolved in Peirce’s own estimation.Cornelis de Waal her…Read more
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16Randall E. Auxier and Mark Y. A. Davies (eds.), Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons: The Correspondence, 1922–1945 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52 (2): 115-117. 2002.
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14Examining the Role and Function of Socrates' Narrative Audience in Plato's EuthydemusSouthwest Philosophy Review 24 (1): 163-172. 2008.
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9Should Analytic Epistemology Be Replaced By Ameliorative Psychology?Southwest Philosophy Review 23 (1): 163-171. 2007.
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13The Death of Darwinism and the Limits of EvolutionPhilo 9 (2): 193-220. 2006.George Holmes Howison’s 1895 essay entitled “The Limits of Evolution,” argued that there are four things evolutionary theory does not explain. In examining whether 11 decades have made a difference in these four, I argue that the arrogance of scientists over the past century in refusing to distinguish between full explanations and explanatory hypotheses is in some ways responsible for the fundamentalist backlash against evolutionary science. A scientific community that is honest and forthcoming …Read more
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Signs and Symbols: An Analogical Theory of Metaphysical LanguageDissertation, Emory University. 1992.This dissertation takes as its central problem the several dilemmas associated with the metaphysical implications of meaning and reference, sign and object, symbol and thing symbolized. In recent times, this group of problems has been more passed over than wrestled with, more dismissed and ignored than answered. A practical solution is proposed herein which might be best termed an "heuristic" regarding the language employed in speaking of subjects metaphysical. ;As an heuristic, the theory of an…Read more
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9Metaphysical Grafitti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of RockOpen Court. 2017.A long essay, in a collection of essays, about the relationship between rock music and philosophy. Philosophers include Plato, Kant, Vico, Whitehead, Sartre, Cassirer, Langer, Machiavelli, and so forth. Musicians include the Rollings Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Led Zeppelin and Rush.
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8Charles M. Sherover, The Human Experience of Time: The Development of Its Philosophic Meaning (review)Continental Philosophy Review 35 (3): 347-351. 2002.
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24Charles S. Peirce (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 19 (60): 7-11. 1991.
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Cuts like a knifeIn Richard Greene & Rachel Robison (eds.), The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust, Open Court. 2009.
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55Why One Hundred Years Is Forever: Hartshorne’s Theory of ImmortalityThe Personalist Forum 14 (2): 109-132. 1998.
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48The Death of Darwinism and the Limits of EvolutionPhilo 9 (2): 193-220. 2006.George Holmes Howison’s 1895 essay entitled “The Limits of Evolution,” argued that there are four things evolutionary theory does not explain. In examining whether 11 decades have made a difference in these four, I argue that the arrogance of scientists over the past century in refusing to distinguish between full explanations and explanatory hypotheses is in some ways responsible for the fundamentalist backlash against evolutionary science. A scientific community that is honest and forthcoming …Read more
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53On Mark McEvoy’s “Should Analytic Epistemology Be Replaced by Ameliorative Psychology?”Southwest Philosophy Review 23 (2): 47-49. 2007.
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20Commentary on Nikolay Milkov’s “A Logical-Contextual History of Philosophy”Southwest Philosophy Review 27 (2): 1-3. 2011.
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