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79Wittgenstein + Heidegger on the stream of lifeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 36 (3). 1993.This paper combines views of Wittgenstein and Heidegger into an account of mind/ action. It does this by suggesting that these two philosophers be viewed in part as descendants of Life?philosophy (Lebensphilosophie). Part I describes the conception of life that informs and emerges from these thinkers. Parts Two and Three detail particular aspects of this conception: Wittgenstein on the constitution of states of life and Heidegger on the flow?structure of the stream of life. The Conclusion offers…Read more
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21Book Review: Bourdieu: A Critical Reader (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (3): 445-449. 2002.
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6The Social and Political BodyGuilford Press. 1996.Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this unique book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. Celebrated authors, including Judith Butler and Emily Martin, explore the ways that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our physical selves and how we experience them, and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities, and desires reinforce or challenge the societa…Read more
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35Simulation theory and the verstehen school: A Wittgensteinian approachIn K. R. Stueber & H. H. Kogaler (eds.), Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, Boulder: Westview Press. 2000.
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253Practices and actions a Wittgensteinian critique of Bourdieu and GiddensPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (3): 283-308. 1997.This article criticizes Bourdieu's and Giddens's overintellectualizing accounts of human activity on the basis of Wittgenstein's insights into practical under standing. Part 1 describes these two theorists' conceptions of a homology between the organization of practices (spatial-temporal manifolds of action) and the governance of individual actions. Part 2 draws on Wittgenstein's discussions of linguistic definition and following a rule to criticize these conceptions for ascribing content to the…Read more
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54Mind/Action for Wittgenstein and HeideggerSouthwest Philosophy Review. forthcoming.The paper outlines how Wittgenstein and Heidegger's views can be combined to form a general account of mind and action. It accomplishes this by interpreting Heidegger of the "Being and Time" era and Wittgenstein of the "Philosophical Investigations" onwards asdescendents of the School of Thought called life philosophy. Heidegger is construed as analyzing the occurrence of The Stream of Life, while Wittgenstein is understood as examining (a) The appearances of The Stream in The World and (b) The …Read more
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59The Temporality of TeleologyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 123-143. 2005.
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32Frederick A. Olafson, "Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 466. 1990.
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Todd May, Our Practices, Our Selves. Or, What it Means to be Human (review)Philosophy in Review 22 340-342. 2002.
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2Raimo Tuomela, The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (6): 409-411. 2003.
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314 Landscapes as Temporalspatial PhenomenaIn Jeff Malpas (ed.), The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, Mit Press. pp. 65. 2011.This chapter argues that landscapes are not only spatial phenomena but spatial-temporal entities in that they both occur in time and occupy space. It further argues that aside from being spatial-temporal entities, they are “temporalspatial” phenomena as well, by virtue of the fact that they are anchored and drawn into the timespace of human activity. This phenomenon of “activity timespace” is an overlooked aspect in social theory, although it is arguably an important aspect of social life. Times…Read more
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1Early Heidegger on Being, the Clearing, and Realism in Heidegger (1889-1989)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 43 (168): 80-102. 1989.
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73The social bearing of natureInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (1). 2000.This essay examines how nature pertains to social life. Part I describes the social ontology the essay employs to address this issue. This ontology is of the site variety and is opposed to ontologies of both the individualist and socialist sorts. Part II describes where nature appears in this ontology. Artifacts are differentiated from nature, and much of ?nature? is shown to be second nature, a type of artifact that looks and feels like nature. Part II concludes by disputing the idea that natur…Read more
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Savigny von, EIn Karin Knorr Cetina, Theodore R. Schatzki & Eike von Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge. pp. 5--10. 2000.
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90Pippin's Hegel on ActionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 490-505. 2010.This essay is a commentary on and critique of the conception of human activity that Robert Pippin attributes to Hegel in his recent book, Hegel's Practical Philosophy. Two principal features of this conception are that it treats human activity as indeterminate and that it construes what someone does and why on a given occasion as depending on social contexts. Pippin suggests that these two features will sound strange to contemporary philosophers. The essay claims, by contrast, that these feature…Read more
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28Subjects, intelligibility, and historyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 28 (1-4): 273-287. 1985.
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39Martin Heidegger: theorist of spaceSteiner. 2007.Explaining Heidegger's ideas on spatial phenomena simply and succinctly, this book will be provocative and invaluable to anyone interested in space and spatial theory. The author gives incisive, informative, and compelling analyses of Heidegger's overall philosophy and of his changing ideas about space, spatiality, the clearing, places, sites, and dwelling. This study also charts the legacy of these ideas in philosophy, geography, architecture, and anthropology and includes a bibliography of sel…Read more
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115This book develops an original Heideggerian account of the timespace and indeterminacy of human activity while describing insights that this account provides into the nature of activity, society and history. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues that activity timespace is a key component of social space and time, shows that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of social phenomena, offers a novel account of the existence of the past in the present, and defends the teleo…Read more
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Hans Sluga and David G. Stern, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (4): 291-293. 1997.
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34Social causalityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 31 (2). 1988.This paper combines a phenomenological account of the types of causal transaction found in social reality with a critique of two theories, one structuralist and one Marxist, that contravene it. Part I argues that there are three types of causal transaction in social life in addition to physical causal transactions: people bringing about states of affairs by acting, states of affairs bringing about actions by inducing responses, and entities and states of affairs bringing about what makes sense t…Read more
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54On sociocultural evolution by social selectionJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 31 (4). 2001.The essay criticizes an alleged new paradigm for explaining sociocultural change: selectionism. Part one describes the general selectionist explanatory schema, which selectionists claim applies to realms beyond the biological, in particular, the sociocultural. Part two focuses on the way most selectionists, in focusing on cultural change alone, wrongly separate culture from society. Particular atten-tion is paid to the accounts these selectionists offer of human action. Part three fills out a co…Read more
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12Where times meetCosmos and History 1 (2): 191-212. 2005.This essay pursues two goals: to argue that two fundamental types of time—the time of objective reality and “the time of the soul”—meet in human activity and history and to defend the legitimacy of calling a particular version of the second type a kind of time. The essay begins by criticizing Paul Ricoeur’s version of the claim that times of these two sorts meet in history. It then presents an account of human activity based on Heidegger’s Being and Time, according to which certain times of the …Read more
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