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10Book Review: Science of Science and Reflexivity (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (4): 496-499. 2006.
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80Wittgenstein + 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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257Practices 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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55Mind/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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