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14Post-Cultural Studies: A Brief IntroductionEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7 (4): 78-84. 2023.Preview: This is a relatively brief reflection on where we are with our “culture” in the present, a time when Politics has done a great deal of damage to our communicative purposes and hopes. Our culture has become a “post-culture,” we believe, in a sense to be defined here. It is hard enough to say what one means by “culture,” so the challenge of describing what “post-culture” means will be greater. It should be attempted because there has been a deep-seated change, in recent decades, in how hu…Read more
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14Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications (edited book)BRILL. 2022.The authors of this collection argue that all philosophy is really philosophy of culture and that through it we can live more meaningful, flourishing, and wisely guided lives.
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14The Life of the ImageEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (1): 1-6. 2020.Preview: Bergson noted that the cinematographic image does not really move. It is, then as now, a series of still photographs. The real motion in such images is produced by machinery, which imparts a kinesis, an energy of movement, to the succession of fixed images. Our perception then endows such images with their “life,” insofar as they can be said to possess life. It is an illusion, it is “virtual” both as space and time. The real duration, as generated by the machinery or as lived by the per…Read more
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13Scheler and the Very Existence of the ImpersonalEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (1): 74-86. 2018.Usually philosophers worry about the existence of mind, or consciousness, or persons, or other difficult-to-explain phenomena. Having posited matter or nature, or fields, they wonder where can person or consciousness originate? This kind of thinking is backward. Only persons ask such questions. Persons exist. I turn the tables on the traditional problem of person by asking whether anything impersonal really exists. I argue that the impersonal almost exists, using the theory of feeling of Max Sch…Read more
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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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12Gordon Kaufman's Astronauts: A Review Essay of "Jesus and Creativity"American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 29 (1). 2008.
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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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12“A Necessary Shadow of Being”: Irony, Imagination, and Personal IdentityStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 17 (2): 21-45. 2022.This is the second of the essays on the existential-ontological ground of otherness, in which we see this ground as essentially entwined with our personhood and our personal identities. We analyze irony as both a “mechanism” of constituting these very identities and as an act revealing their self-altering nature. Irony in our view — informed by Kierkegaard, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis — is a subtle existential strategy by means of which subjectivity (not “the subject”) not only asserts its…Read more
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12Eco on Interpreting the Sign: The Limits of Narrating that which Cannot Be TheorizedEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (1): 102-109. 2020.Eco says that which cannot be theorized must be narrated. What about that which cannot be narrated? What must we do about the limits of interpretation, especially as narration. This review essay takes a method from Giambattista Vico and applies it to the interpretation of Laurent Binet’s portrayal of Umberto Eco in his novel The Seventh Function of Language. Comparing the character of Eco with the thought of the historical Eco we find coincidences and other angles at incidence that reveal some p…Read more
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11To Serve Man? Rod Serling and Effective DestiningEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (4): 190-204. 2021.Popular culture is a vital part of the philosophy of culture. Immersion in the world of popular culture provides an immanent understanding, and after all, some of what is merely popular culture today will be the high culture of tomorrow. The genre of science fiction is one of the more important and durable forms of cultural and social criticism. Science fiction narratives guide our imaginations into the relation between the might-be and the might-have-been. The central idea of this paper is that…Read more
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11The philosophy of Hilary Putnam (edited book)Open Court. 2015.This volume consists of an intellectual autobiography by world-renowned philosopher Hilary Putnam, 26 critical or descriptive essays, 26 replies by Arthur C. Danto, and a bibliography listing all of Putnam's published writings.
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11Rorty and Beyond (edited book)Lexington Books. 2019.The edited collection Rorty and Beyond assesses and moves beyond Rorty’s legacy, bringing together leading international philosophers. The collection covers diverse territory, from his views about what we may hope for to his personal character, and everything in between.
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11Strangers in the Hands of an Angry “I”: On the Immediacy of Other PersonsStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 17 (1): 5-26. 2022.In the first of two essays on the ontological ground of otherness, and its phenomenological availability, we argue that what we call the “occasion” within the encounter of others are sources as well as re-sources for disclosing the results of a construction and concealment of a secret identity, one we keep from ourselves even though we have created it. Yet, individuals are capable of returning their encounters to the well of sensus communis, and that sensus communis is as natural as it is cultur…Read more
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11Real Deletion, Time, and PossibilityAnaliza I Egzystencja 62 5-41. 2023.Czy coś naprawdę „odchodzi” całkowicie? Niniejszy artykuł jest poszukiwaniem „rzeczywistego usunięcia” i metafizyki, która musi temu towarzyszyć. Dlaczego to jest ważne? W badaniach nad sztuczną inteligencją naukowcy zaproponowali ruchomy punkt docelowy do momentu osiągnięcia sztucznej inteligencji. Zaczęło się od testu Turinga i ewoluowało przez dużą ilość argumentacji (np. Dreyfussa, dotyczącą tego, czego nie potrafią komputery, przez „osobliwość” Kurzweila oraz wiele innych kryteriów i tysiąc…Read more
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10The Future of the Humanistic Study and Its Associated InstitutionsEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (1): 89-93. 2017.
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9Should Analytic Epistemology Be Replaced By Ameliorative Psychology?Southwest Philosophy Review 23 (1): 163-171. 2007.
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9The 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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9The philosophy of Arthur C. Danto (edited book)Open Court. 2013.Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential philosopher of art in the last half century. As an art critic for The Nation for 25 years and frequent contributor to other widely read outlets such as the New York Review of Books, Danto also has become one of the most respected public intellectuals of his generation. He is the author of some two dozen important books, along with hundreds of articles and reviews which have been the ce…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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8The philosophy of Umberto Eco (edited book)Open Court. 2017.The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The Italian philosopher's name and works are well known in the humanities, both his philosophical and literary works being translated into fifteen or more languages. Eco is a founder of modern semiotics and widely known for his work in the philosophy of language and aesthetics. He is also a leading figure in th…Read more
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7The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney, 1977-1993The Pluralist 2 (1): 127-133. 2007.
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