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38The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom (edited book)Wiley. 2012._Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind _The Big Lebowski__ Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and _The Big Lebowski and Philosophy_ explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche, the book explores the movie's hidden philosophical layers, cultural reflection, and political commentary. It also answers key questions, including: The Dude abides, but is abiding a virtu…Read more
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9The Conceptual Carvery: The necessary and sufficient guide to necessary and sufficient conditionsThe Philosophers' Magazine 27 56-56. 2004.
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9Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries eds. by John Christian Laursen and Gianni PaganiniJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (4): 682-683. 2016.Edited by two leading scholars of the history of early modern skepticism, this volume collects thirteen essays from a variety of North and South American as well as European authors. Following the groundbreaking work of Richard H. Popkin and others such as Richard A. Watson, José Maia Neto, and James Force, much has been made about skepticism in relation to early modern natural sciences and to religion. Curiously little, however, addresses skepticism and early modern politics. This volume works …Read more
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1The clearest guide to key concepts, all other things being equalThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 79-79. 2008.
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31Donald Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium (review)Hume Studies 24 (2): 355-366. 1998.
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8Commonplace Commitments: Thinking Through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell (edited book)Bucknell University Press. 2016.This volume explores the many dimensions of the work of Joseph P. Fell. Drawing from continental sources such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as North American thinkers such as John William Miller, Fell has secured a place as an enduring and important thinker within the tradition of phenomenological thought. Fell’s critical development of these strands of philosophy has resulted in a provocative and original challenge to complacent dualism and persistent problems of skepticism, …Read more
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21The Conceptual Carvery: The necessary and sufficient guide to necessary and sufficient conditionsThe Philosophers' Magazine 27 56-56. 2004.
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58Hume, Skepticism, and Early American DeismHume Studies 25 (1-2): 171-192. 1999.This article first builds upon precedent work--including that of John M. Werner, Kerry S. Walters, and James Dye-to articulate a more complete understanding of David Hume's influence upon North American colonial and early U.S. thought. Secondly, through a comparison with arguments concerning miracles developed by early American deists Elihu Palmer, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine, the article clarifies and evaluates Hume's arguments against the rationality of belief in miracles. It judges Hume's a…Read more
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5Deborah Cook, The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (1): 13-15. 1997.
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81A Treatise of Human Nature (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2): 325-326. 2008.David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton’s new edition of David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature , volumes 1 and 2 of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, establishes a new standard for scholars engaged with that work, in two ways. In the first place, it presents the cleanest critical text to date of the Treatise itself, together with the most robust scholarly apparatus available. Secondly, and in some ways more extraordinarily, the new Clarendon edition realizes for the first time an …Read more
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12Philosophy: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009._Philosophy: The Classic Readings_ provides a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the greatest works of philosophy from ancient to modern times. Draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions Arranged chronologically within parts on Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy Features original readings from more than a hundred of the world's great philosophers - from Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Buddha, Plato, Śamkara, Aquinas, al-Ghazāli, Ka…Read more
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42Show me the moneyThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 81-82. 2009.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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33The most useful column ever — and that claim’s indefeasibleThe Philosophers' Magazine 34 82-82. 2006.
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1John E. Seery, Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 373-375. 1997.
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84Note to realistsThe Philosophers' Magazine 8 (8): 40-42. 1999.Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists
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