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117The fate of transcendental reasoning in contemporary philosophyIn James Williams, Jack Reynolds, James Chase & Edwin Mares (eds.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. 2010.A significant methodological difference between analytic and continental philosophers comes out in their differing attitudes to transcendental reasoning. It has been an object of concern to analytic philosophy since the dawn of the movement around the start of the twentieth century, and although there was briefly a mini-industry on the validity of transcendental arguments following Peter Strawson’s prominent use of them, discussion of their acceptability – usually with a negative verdict – is fa…Read more
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John Llewelyn, Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (review)Philosophy in Review 23 44-46. 2003.
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121Understanding ExistentialismRoutledge. 2005.This book discusses the work of the existential phenomenologists - Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and de Beauvoir - and the final chapter looks at the legacy of existentialism upon the thought of Derrida and other post-structuralist thinkers.
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28Jacques Derrida, Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (2): 94-96. 2003.
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80The master–slave dialectic and the “sado-masochistic entity”Angelaki 14 (3): 11-26. 2009.Hegel's famous descriptions of the “master–slave dialectic,” and the more general analysis of the struggle for recognition that it is a part of, have been remarkably influential throughout the nine...
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57Neither-Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"In Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Publishing Usa. 2018.Jean-Paul Sartre's moving eulogy for Merleau-Ponty on his death was entitled "Merleau-Ponty vivant" – Merleau-Ponty lives. And it is indeed difficult to deny that Merleau-Ponty’s thought remains a live and enduring part of the contemporary philosophical scene, in a manner that could not be said for his more famous contemporary. Despite the enduring significance of Merleau-Ponty and the voluminous writings about his work, the book that was intended to be his magnum opus, The Visible and the Invis…Read more
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109Habituality and undecidability: A comparison of Merleau-ponty and Derrida on the decisionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (4). 2002.This essay examines the relationship that obtains between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida through exploring an interesting point of dissension in their respective accounts of decision-making. Merleau-Ponty's early philosophy emphasizes the body-subject's tendency to seek an equilibrium with the world (by acquiring skills and establishing what he refers to as 'intentional arcs'), and towards deciding in an embodied and habitual manner that minimizes any confrontation with what might be termed a decisio…Read more
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92Review of Michael Marder, The Event of the Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.In this review we consider Michael Marder's association of Derrida with realism.
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117Dreyfus and Deleuze on L’habitude, Coping, and Trauma in Skill AcquisitionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (4). 2006.One of the more important and under-thematized philosophical disputes in contemporary European philosophy pertains to the significance that is given to the inter-related phenomena of habituality, skilful coping, and learning. This paper examines this dispute by focusing on the work of the Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger-inspired phenomenologist Hubert Dreyfus, and contrasting his analyses with those of Gilles Deleuze, particularly in Difference and Repetition. Both Deleuze and Dreyfus pay a lot of a…Read more
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51In _Phenomenology, Naturalism and Empirical Science_, Jack Reynolds takes the controversial position that phenomenology and naturalism are compatible, and develops a hybrid account of phenomenology and empirical science. Though phenomenology and naturalism are typically understood as philosophically opposed to one another, Reynolds argues that this resistance is based on an understanding of transcendental phenomenology that is ultimately untenable and in need of updating. Phenomenology, as Reyno…Read more
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171Post-analytic philosophy : Overcoming the divideIn James Williams, Jack Reynolds, James Chase & Edwin Mares (eds.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. 2010.This essay uses citational analyses to argue that most of the philosophers considered "postanalytic" - Wittgenstein, McDowell, Davidson, and Rorty - are not, in fact, genuine figures of rapprochement, since the particular essays cited, and/or the background literature that is cited, are not shared in common between the standard-bearing analytic and continental journals
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158While there have been many essays devoted to comparing the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty with that of Jacques Derrida, there has been no sustained book-length treatment of these two French philosophers. Additionally, many of the essays presuppose an oppositional relationship between them, and between phenomenology and deconstruction more generally. Jack Reynolds systematically explores their relationship by analyzing each philosopher in terms of two important and related issues—embodiment and a…Read more
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16Time out of Joint 2In Stuart Grant & Jodie McNeilly (eds.), Phenomenology and Temporalisation: Time Happens, Palgrave. 2015.
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236Problems of other minds: Solutions and dissolutions in analytic and continental philosophyPhilosophy Compass 5 (4): 326-335. 2010.While there is a great diversity of treatments of other minds and inter-subjectivity within both analytic and continental philosophy, this article specifies some of the core structural differences between these treatments. Although there is no canonical account of the problem of other minds that can be baldly stated and that is exhaustive of both traditions, the problem(s) of other minds can be loosely defined in family resemblances terms. It seems to have: (1) an epistemological dimension (How …Read more
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200Jacques DerridaInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2002.This article attempts to introduce some of the central dimensions of Jacques Derrida's thought, with attention given to both early and late texts in his oeuvre.
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106The Analytic/Continental Divide: A Contretemps?In Graham Robert Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), The Antipodean philosopher, Lexington Books. 2011.In the late 1980s, the American economist Jeremy Rifkin claimed that “a battle is brewing over the politics of time” because he felt that the pivotal issue of the twenty first century would be the question of time and who controlled it. I argue in this chapter that a battle over the politics of time (and the metaphysics of time) is also a major part of what is at stake in the differences between analytic and continental philosophy. Very different philosophies of time, and associated methodologi…Read more
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68Sartre's Legacy (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Examines Sartre's reception and legacy, both within France and beyond
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407Deleuze’s Other-StructureSymposium 12 (1): 67-88. 2008.Deleuze suggests that his work grounds a new conception of the Other–the Other as expression of a possible world, as a structure that precedes any subsequent dialectical mediation, including the master-slave dialectic of social relations. I will argue, however, that the ethico-political injunction that Deleuze derives from his analysis of the 'other-structure' confronts a different problem. It commits Deleuze to either tacitly prescribing a romantic morality of difference that valorizes expressi…Read more
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67Philosophy, Violence, MetaphorSophia 55 (1): 1-4. 2016.In this paper, I explore the complex ethical dynamics of violence and nonviolence in Mahāyāna Buddhism by considering some of the historical precedents and scriptural prescriptions that inform modern and contemporary Buddhist acts of self-immolation. Through considering these scripturally sanctioned Mahāyāna ‘case studies,’ the paper traces the tension that exists in Buddhist thought between violence and nonviolence, outlines the interplay of key Mahāyāna ideas of transcendence and altruism, and…Read more
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161Throughout much of the 20th Century, the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy has been one of disinterest, caution or hostility. Recent debates in philosophy have highlighted some of the similarities between the two approaches and even envisaged a post-continental and post-analytic philosophy. Opening with a history of key encounters between philosophers of opposing camps since the late 19th Century - from Frege and Husserl to Derrida and Searle - the book goes on to explore …Read more
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121Possible and Impossible, Self and Other, and the Reversibility of Merleau-Ponty and DerridaPhilosophy Today 48 (1): 35-49. 2004.This essay examines some of Derrida’s most famous ‘possible-impossible’ aporias, including his discussions of giving, hospitality, forgiveness, and mourning. He argues that the condition of the possibility of such themes is also, and at once, the condition of their impossibility. In order to reveal the shared logic upon which these aporias rely, and also to raise some questions about their persuasive efficacy, it will be argued that of the two polarities evoked by each of his possible-impossible…Read more
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545Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts (Kindle e-book edition) (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together leading international scholars, the book examines concepts from across Sartre's career, from his initial views on the "inner life" of conscious experience, to his later conceptions of hope as the binding a…Read more
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20Jacques Taminiaux, The Metamorphoses of Phenomenological Reduction Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (4): 302-303. 2004.
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Neither-Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in the "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"In Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Publishing Usa. 2018.In this chapter we examine Merleau-Ponty's chapter, "The Intertwining/The Chiasm", before considering some of the criticisms made by his contemporaries and ‘successors’: Lacan, Irigaray, Levinas, Derrida and Deleuze.
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Jacques Derrida, Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (review)Philosophy in Review 23 94-96. 2003.
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75Time out of Joint: Between Phenomenology and PoststructuralismParrhesia: A Critical Journal of Philosophy (9): 55-64. 2010.In this essay, I take off from Nathan Widder’s impressive book, Reflections on Time and Politics, by highlighting what I take to be one of the major internal differences within continental philosophy that Widder’s book helps to make manifest: that between phenomenology and post-structuralism (which includes the renewed interest in, and use of, Nietzsche and Bergson’s work by poststructuralist philosophers). While many deplore the use of umbrella terms like these, I hope to be able to proffer som…Read more
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75Phenomenology and naturalism: a hybrid and heretical proposalInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (3): 393-412. 2016.In this paper I aim to develop a largely non-empirical case for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism. To do so, I will criticise what I take to be the standard construal of the relationship between transcendental phenomenology and naturalism, and defend a ‘minimal’ version of phenomenology that is compatible with liberal naturalism in the ontological register and with weak forms of methodological naturalism, the latter of which is understood as advocating ‘results continuity’, over …Read more
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