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7British philosophers, 1500-1799 (edited book)Gale Group. 2002.Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form of philosophy.
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5Show 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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4The most useful column ever — and that claim’s indefeasibleThe Philosophers' Magazine 34 82-82. 2006.
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50Hume’s Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology, written by Kevin MeekerInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (3): 263-268. 2015.
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6The critical thinking toolkitWiley-Blackwell. 2017.The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, and tropes and symbo…Read more
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852Scepticism and Naturalism in Cavell and HumeInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (1): 29-54. 2015.This essay argues that the exploration of scepticism and its implications in the work of Stanley Cavell and David Hume bears more similarities than is commonly acknowledged, especially along the lines of what I wish to call “sceptical naturalism.” These lines of similarity are described through the way each philosopher relates the “natural” and “nature” to the universal, the necessary, and the conventional.
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48The clearest guide to key concepts, all other things being equalThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 (40): 79-79. 2008.
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36Bohlin, Henrik. Groundless Knowledge: A Humean Solution to the Problem of Skepticism (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (1): 144-145. 1999.
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78The bibliographic bases of Hume's understanding of sextus empiricus and pyrrhonismJournal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2): 261-278. 1998.The Bibliographic Bases of Hume's Understanding of Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonism PETER S. FOSL N~q~e ~vaoo 6t~ttoxe~v' Epicharmus OVER THE PAST FORTY YEARS, the work of many scholars has served to advance and secure a hermeneutical approach to the development of modern philoso- phy first articulated by Richard H. Popkin3 The central proposition upon which this approach turns is that the discovery and application of ancient I am grateful to Richard Popkin, Julia Annas , Jonathan Barnes , Craig …Read more
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53On the 2007 Clarendon Critical Edition of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (review)Hume Studies 33 (2): 289-296. 2007.
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114 Hume's Skeptical NaturalismIn Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O.’Rourke & Harry S. Silverstein (eds.), Knowledge and Skepticism, Mit Press. pp. 325. 2010.
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