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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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16Time and Personality: Bowne on Time, Evolution, and HistoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (3). 1998.
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46Divine Beauty: The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (1): 203-207. 2005.
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29Commentary on Eric Morton’s “Empiricism, Naturalism, and Freedom: An Alternative Diagnostic Solution to McDowell’s Problem of Empirical Content”Southwest Philosophy Review 32 (2): 7-10. 2016.
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33American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth CenturyJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 313-315. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS 3~3 reaction to them into account. The actual historical dialectic involving Moore, Mal- colm, and Wittgenstein is a good deal more complicated, and more interesting, than the story told here by Stroll. Moving on to Stroll's discussion of Wittgenstein, I should now acknowledge that, so far as I can judge, Stroll offers a largely reliable account of On Certainty. In particular, in the best chapter of the book, on "Wittgenstein's Foundationalism," he makes a convincing case for the vi…Read more
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It's all dark : the eclipse of the damaged brainIn George A. Reisch (ed.), Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with That Axiom, Eugene!, Open Court. 2007.
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41The Return of the InitiateThe Owl of Minerva 22 (2): 191-208. 1991.The question of the import and role of Christian allusions in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit has received much historical attention, and this continues into the present. Often juxtaposed in this interpretive issue are two questions: Does Hegel think that “the ontological project was first a Greek event from which Christianity would have developed an outer graft”? Or is it more accurate to say that, “for Hegel at least, no ontology is possible before the Gospel or outside it”? In the latter case…Read more
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22Commentary on Richard Cole’s “Nature, Value and Duty”Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 77-79. 2010.
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John Michael Krois, "Cassirer: Symbolic Forms and History" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (2): 159. 1993.
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