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28Review of Mitchell Aboulafia, Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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17Pragmatist Interpretations of Obama: On Two Ways of Being a PragmatistContemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 99-112. 2011.This article distinguishes two ways in which a pragmatist might approach the relation between Obama's politics and the resources furnished by pragmatist political philosophy. The first way, conceptual pragmatism, specifies pragmatism in terms of conceptual commitments in order to find out whether or not those commitments can be found in Obama. The second path, methodological pragmatism, works to better understand what Obama stands for in terms of the practical consequences of his actions, speech…Read more
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23Knowledge and Civilization Barry Allen With a Foreword by Richard Rorty Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004, x + 342 pp (review)Dialogue 45 (2): 384. 2006.
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59Good questions and bad answers in Talisse's a pragmatist philosophy of democracy (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (1). 2009.
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37Foucault and Pragmatism: Introductory Notes on Metaphilosophical MethodologyFoucault Studies 11 3-10. 2011.Being an introduction to a special issue on the theme of “Foucault and Pragmatism” this article offers a brief set of metaphilosophical comments on the project of building bridges across familiar philosophical divides. The paper addresses questions in metaphilosophical methodology raised by the pairing in the issue title: What is at stake in the comparison of philosophical figures like Michel Foucault and John Dewey? What is at stake in the comparison of philosophical traditions such as Genealog…Read more
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101What ought a political philosophy seek to achieve? How should political philosophy address itself to its subject matter? What is the relation between political philosophy and other forms of reflective inquiry? In answering these metaphilosophical questions, political philosophy has long been dominated by a roughly utopian self-image. According to this conception, the aim of political philosophy is the rigorous development of theoretical ideals of justice, state, and law. I show that leading poli…Read more
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23Appropriation and Permission in the History of Philosophy: Response to McQuillanFoucault Studies 9 156-164. 2010.
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22A brief overview on the existing comparative literature on pragmatism and genealogy. This paper comprehensively introduces all of the existing literature, focusing especially on the comparative literature on Dewey and Foucault. This work is intended as an ongoing project collecting work in this area.
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33John J. Stuhr. Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xii + 211. Cloth ISBN 0-415-93967-4. Paper ISBN 0-415-93968-2 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 2 (2): 175-177. 2005.
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15Genealogy, Methodology, & Normativity beyond Transcendentality: Replies to Amy Allen, Eduardo Mendieta, & Kevin OlsonFoucault Studies 18 261-273. 2014.
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92Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian HackingConstellations 22 (4): 571-585. 2015.This deep presence of Foucault’s influence across contemporary theoretical landscapes signals a need for self-reflectiveness that has largely (though not entirely) been missing in contemporary uses of Foucault. While scholarship in a Foucauldian vein is obviously alive and well, scholarship on Foucauldian methodology is not. This paper develops a distinction between two methodological features of Foucault’s work that deserve to be disentangled: I parse the methods (e.g., genealogy, archaeology) …Read more
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87Bernard Williams on Philosophy’s Need for HistoryReview of Metaphysics 64 (1): 3-30. 2010.A rather enthusiastic account, according to which analytical philosophy was thoroughly ahistorical and Williams changed that.
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93Pragmatist Resources for Experimental Philosophy: Inquiry in Place of IntuitionJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (1): 1-24. 2012.Recent attention given to the upstart movement of experimental philosophy is much deserved. But now that experimental philosophy is beginning to enter a stage of maturity, it is time to consider its relation to other philosophical traditions that have issued similar assaults against ingrained and potentially misguided philosophical habits. Experimental philosophy is widely known for rejecting a philosophical reliance on intuitions as evidence in philosophical argument. In this it shares much wit…Read more
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150Language is a form of experience: Reconciling classical pragmatism and neopragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4). 2007.: The revival of philosophical pragmatism has generated a wealth of intramural debates between neopragmatists like Richard Rorty and contemporary scholars devoted to explicating the classical pragmatism of John Dewey and William James. Of all these internecine conflicts, the most divisive concerns the status of language and experience in pragmatist philosophy. Contemporary scholars of classical pragmatism defend experience as the heart of pragmatism while neopragmatists drop the concept of exper…Read more
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10"Good Questions and Bad Answers in Talisse"'s A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy: TalisseRobert B.Pragmatist philosophy of democracy' (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (1): 60-64. 2009.
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19What Pragmatism Was by F. Thomas Burke (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 50 (2): 304-308. 2014.Pragmatism, like every other important intellectual tradition, is best characterized as a tradition of debate. In every intellectual tradition for which internal debate is central, the substance of the constitutive contestations sometimes concerns the aims and achievements of the tradition itself. In the case of pragmatism, the long history of these contesting interpretations is well known. Recent pragmatist philosophy has been characterized by debates between analytic neo-pragmatisms and so-cal…Read more
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59Foucault across the disciplines: introductory notes on contingency in critical inquiryHistory of the Human Sciences 24 (4): 1-12. 2011.Foucault is one of the most widely cited thinkers across social sciences and humanities disciplines today. Foucault’s appeal, and ongoing value, across the disciplines has much to do with the power of his thought and his method to help us see the contingency of practices we take to be inevitable. It is argued in this introductory article that Foucault’s emphasis on contingency is as misunderstood as it is influential. I distinguish two senses of contingency in Foucault. A first sense, widely ack…Read more
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