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17European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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17Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary EthicsPhilosophical Quarterly 46 (183): 273-276. 1996.
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7Historical Understanding and “The Blemish of Extraordinary Moral Legacies”Philosophy of Education 73 33-56. 2017.
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13Book ReviewsRaymond Geuss,. Outside Ethics.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 320. $59.50 ; $24.95Ethics 117 (2): 352-356. 2007.
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9Book ReviewPaul Ricoeur,. The Just. Translated by David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv+155. $20.00 (review)Ethics 112 (2): 406-408. 2002.
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40Virginia’s Slavery DeliberationsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 48 (2): 218-236. 2018.For many deliberative theorists, the importance of a public exchange of reasons lies in its capacity to improve the quality of democratic decision making. The 1831-1832 debate over abolishing slavery in Virginia in the state’s House of Delegates raises the question of whether it can do so on its own. The bigotry of those opposing the abolition of Virginian slavery was matched only by the prejudice of those advocating for its end. This paper examines James Bohman’s sophisticated defense of delibe…Read more
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10Heidegger: Thought and historicity : Christopher Fynsk , 229 pp., S27.45 cloth (review)History of European Ideas 9 (5): 616-617. 1988.
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Hermeneutics and the Critique of Positivism: Gadamer's Contribution to the Philosophy of the Human SciencesDissertation, Boston University Graduate School. 1982.This dissertation explores the significance of the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer for the current discussion of the methodology of the human sciences. Its purpose is to demonstrate the radical reorientation of this discussion that Gadamer's perspective suggests and to examine the consequences to which this leads. My thesis is that while Gadamer is successful in elucidating the historicity underlying social and historical understanding, he confuses two different dimensions of the argument: that histo…Read more
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254 Hermeneutics, Ethics, and PoliticsIn Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 79. 2002.
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37Experiencing Tradition versus Belonging to It: Gadamer’s DilemmaReview of Metaphysics 68 (2): 347-369. 2014.
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19Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective (edited book)MIT Press. 1984.The explanation versus understanding debate was important to the philosophy of the social sciences from the time of Dilthey and Weber through the work of Popper and Hempel. In recent years, with the development of interpretive approaches in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and language analysis, the problematic has become absolutely central. The broad literature to which it has given rise, while still split along "analytic" versus "continental" lines, shows increasing signs of a reunification in phi…Read more
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18Reading HabermasPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (166): 129. 1992.In the past decade the work of Jurgen Habermas has sparked off a series of lively debates over modernity and post-modernity, the nature of language, the interplay of law and politics and the dilemmas of morality. Significantly, these debates unfold in the context of his particular reading of the modern philosophical tradition from the German enlightment to the present period. In this original interpretation, David Rasmussen provides both guide and critique to the later Habermas encountered in th…Read more
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31Legitimacy and consensus: Comments on part of the work of Thomas McCarthyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 22 (2): 67-81. 1996.
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40Intersexuality and the Categories of SexHypatia 16 (3): 126-137. 2001.Operations on intersexuals indicate that the sex of a person is based on more than biology. Expectations about proper gender activities furnish the frameworks through which certain features and combinations of features are understood to be fundamental to bodies and to comprise their sex. Yet, we can ask whether this interpretation is either coherent or consistent with our fuller conceptions of ourselves. Is there a point to interpreting a person as a sex?
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72Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and ReasonPolity. 1987.Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His philosophical hermeneutics has had a major impact in a wide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, literary criticism, theology and jurisprudence. Truth and Method, his major work, is widely recognised to be one of the great classics of twentieth-century thought. In this book Georgia Warnke provides a clear and systematic exposition of Gadamer's work, as well as a balanced and thoughtful assessment of his…Read more
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Democracy and interpretationIn Marianne Janack (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010.
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4Social interpretation and political-theory, Walzer and his criticsPhilosophical Forum 21 (1-2): 204-226. 1989.
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811. Ocularcentrism and Social CriticismIn David Michael Levin (ed.), Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision, University of California Press. pp. 287-308. 1993.
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52Introduction to Philosophical HermeneuticsPhilosophical Review 105 (3): 408. 1996.Jean Grondin’s starting point in his impressive book is what Hans-Georg Gadamer refers to as the universal claim of hermeneutics. Gadamer is better known for the limits his hermeneutics seems to place on universal claims. Against the reliance the Enlightenment placed on the insights of a reason common to humanity, Gadamer stresses the prejudiced and partial character of attempts to understand meaning. And against more contemporary attempts to ground Enlightenment conceptions in universal human c…Read more
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Hermeneutics, tradition, and the standpoint of womenIn Brice R. Wachterhauser (ed.), Hermeneutics and truth, Northwestern University Press. pp. 206--26. 1994.
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40Feminism and democratic deliberationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 26 (3): 61-74. 2000.rgen Habermas's response to struggles for recognition on the part of women and minority groups. Although this response expands the focus of liberal political theory from the achievement and constitutional protection of individual rights to the public deliberations and discussions of democratic citizens, the article argues that Habermas pays insufficient attention to the interpretive aspects of democratic deliberation. For Habermas the role of interpretation in feminist struggles for recognition …Read more
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30After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and GenderCambridge University Press. 2008.Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. A racial, sexed or gendered understanding of who we and others are is neither exhaustive of the 'meanings' we can be said to have nor uniquely correct. We are neither …Read more
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22Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public DebatesUniversity of California Press. 1999._Legitimate Differences_ challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as _moral_ debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty to those of equality, principles of equality to those of fairness, and principles of fairness to those of integrity, when we as Americans share all these principles? Debates over such issues are no…Read more
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44Intersections between analytic and continental feminismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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