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The decline of evolutionary naturalism in later pragmatismIn Robert Hollinger & David J. Depew (eds.), Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism, Praeger. pp. 180--207. 1995.I argue that genuine evolutionary naturalism, which characterized the first generation of pragmatism (Dewey, James, Peirce, and Mead) was replaced by a kind of naturalism that was not in any thorough-going way genuinely evolutionary. Tracing the form of naturalism inherited by Rorty and his generation to Quine's and C.I. Lewis's forms of pragmatism, I argue that this is not naturalism in any empirically defensible sense, mainly because it cannot accommodate scientific inquiry that depends on pro…Read more
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40Hartshorne and Brightman on God, process, and persons: the correspondence, 1922-1945 (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2001.In 1922 Charles Hartshorne, then an aspiring young philosopher, wrote to Edgar Sheffield Brightman, a preeminent philosopher of religion for twenty-three subsequent years and, remarkably, almost every letter was preserved. In their introductory essays, editors Randall Auxier and Mark Davies place the unusually rich and intensive correspondence in its intellectual context and address the relationship between personalism and process philosophy/theology in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and soc…Read more
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314Foucault, Dewey, and the history of the presentJournal of Speculative Philosophy 16 (2): 75-102. 2002.
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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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16Time and Personality: Bowne on Time, Evolution, and HistoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (3). 1998.
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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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