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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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21The Conceptual Carvery: The necessary and sufficient guide to necessary and sufficient conditionsThe Philosophers' Magazine 27 56-56. 2004.
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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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56Hume, 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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72A 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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560Critical Study of Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium (review)Hume Studies 24 (2): 355-366. 1998.
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