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29Postmodernity, Poststructuralism, and the Historiography of Modern PhilosophyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 35 (3): 255-267. 1995.Well-known for its criticism of totalizing accounts of reason and truth, postmodern thought also makes positive contributions to our understanding of the sensual, ideological, and linguistic contingencies that inform modernist representations of self, history, and the world. The positive side of postmodernity includes structuralism and poststructuralism, particularly as expressed by theorists concerned with practices of the body (Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze), commodity differences (Adorno, Althusse…Read more
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Teaching Recent Continental PhilosophyIn Tziporah Kasachkoff (ed.), Teaching Philosophy: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Suggestions, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 197-206. 2004.An explanation of how to organize and teach a course in recent continental thought, including treatments of the major figures in critical theory, hermeneutics, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. Reprint from *In the Socratic Tradition: Essays on Teaching Philosophy*, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
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1103The ramist context of Berkeley's philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (3). 2001.Berkeley's doctrines about mind, the language of nature, substance, minima sensibilia, notions, abstract ideas, inference, and freedom appropriate principles developed by the 16th-century logician Peter Ramus and his 17th-century followers (e.g., Alexander Richardson, William Ames, John Milton). Even though Berkeley expresses himself in Cartesian or Lockean terms, he relies on a Ramist way of thinking that is not a form of mere rhetoric or pedagogy but a logic and ontology grounded in Stoicism. …Read more
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13Contemporary Continental ThoughtPrentice-Hall. 2004.A survey with readings in critical theory, hermeneutics, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. Aimed at students and scholars interested in an overview of movements in continental philosophy in the past century.
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IntroductionIn Stephen Hartley Daniel (ed.), Reexamining Berkeley's Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. 2007.
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52Edwards, Berkeley, and Ramist LogicIdealistic Studies 31 (1): 55-72. 2001.I will suggest that we can begin to see why Edwards and Berkeley sound so much alike by considering how both think of minds or spiritual substances notas things modeled on material bodies but as the acts by which things are identified. Those acts cannot be described using the Aristotelian subject-predicatelogic on which the metaphysics of substance, properties, attributes, or modes is based because subjects, substances, etc. are themselves initially distinguishedthrough such acts. To think of mi…Read more
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37The Narrative Character of Myth and Philosophy in VicoInternational Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 1-9. 1988.
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John R. Roberts. A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley (review)Berkeley Studies 18 36-39. 2007.
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957Berkeley's Christian neoplatonism, archetypes, and divine ideasJournal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2): 239-258. 2001.Berkeley's doctrine of archetypes explains how God perceives and can have the same ideas as finite minds. His appeal of Christian neo-Platonism opens up a way to understand how the relation of mind, ideas, and their union is modeled on the Cappadocian church fathers' account of the persons of the trinity. This way of understanding Berkeley indicates why he, in contrast to Descartes or Locke, thinks that mind (spiritual substance) and ideas (the object of mind) cannot exist or be thought of apart…Read more
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308Les limites de la philosophie naturelle de BerkeleyIn Sébastien Charles (ed.), Science et épistémologie selon Berkeley, Presses De L’université Laval. pp. 163-70. 2004.(Original French text followed by English version.) For Berkeley, mathematical and scientific issues and concepts are always conditioned by epistemological, metaphysical, and theological considerations. For Berkeley to think of any thing--whether it be a geometrical figure or a visible or tangible object--is to think of it in terms of how its limits make it intelligible. Especially in De Motu, he highlights the ways in which limit concepts (e.g., cause) mark the boundaries of science, metaphysic…Read more
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1Lawrence J. Hatab, Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (review)Philosophy in Review 11 (5): 324-326. 1991.Review of Lawrence Hatab's *Myth and Philosophy*
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88"Spinoza on Knowing, Being and Freedom," ed. J. G. van der Bend (review)Modern Schoolman 53 (3): 329-330. 1976.
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454Berkeley's Rejection of Divine AnalogyScience Et Esprit 63 (2): 149-161. 2011.Berkeley argues that claims about divine predication (e.g., God is wise or exists) should be understood literally rather than analogically, because like all spirits (i.e., causes), God is intelligible only in terms of the extent of his effects. By focusing on the harmony and order of nature, Berkeley thus unites his view of God with his doctrines of mind, force, grace, and power, and avoids challenges to religious claims that are raised by appeals to analogy. The essay concludes by showing how a…Read more
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33Paramodern Strategies of Philosophical HistoriographyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1): 41-63. 1993.
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