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13Film and RepresentationIn Ananta Charana Sukla (ed.), Art and Representation: Contributions to Contemporary Aesthetics, Praeger. pp. 210. 2000.
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W Marx's Hegel's Phanomenologie Des Geistes (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 9 18-21. 1984.
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88The nature of art: an anthology (edited book)Harcourt College. 2002.THE NATURE OF ART is a collection of 29 seminal, historically-organized readings that are focused on a basic philosophical question: What is Art? Including writings from the Western tradition'both Continental and Analytic traditions'as well as non-Western, minority, and feminist writings, this volume provides students with a rich set of resources to explore this matter both broadly and deeply. Introductions to each reading situate the selection amidst each respective thinker's body of work and t…Read more
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44"But would you want your daughter to marry one?" The representation of race and racism in guess who's coming to dinnerJournal of Social Philosophy 25 (s1): 99-130. 1994.
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2Hegel's idealism: The logic of conceptuality'In Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, Cambridge University Press. pp. 102--29. 1993.
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16SYMPOSIUM: Danto's' The Transfiguration of the Commonplace'Twenty-Five Years LaterContemporary Aesthetics 6. 2008.
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11PerspectivesQuestions 4 8-11. 2004.A Chair of the Philosophy Department at a local college explains his reasoning and tactics on how he transferred knowledge from teacher to student for his newly created course, “Philosophy for Children” at MHC.
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19Can romance function as social criticism? A defense of unlikely couplesJournal of Social Philosophy 33 (2). 2002.
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3Big Ideas for Little Kids includes everything a teacher, a parent, or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book explains why it is important to allow young children access to philosophy during primary-school education. Wartenberg also gives advice on how to construct a "learner-centered" classroom, in which children discuss philosophical issues with one another as they respond to open-ended ques…Read more
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Ted Cohen and Paul Guyer, eds., Essays in Kant's Aesthetics (review)Philosophy in Review 4 185-187. 1984.
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17Review of Robert B. Pippin, Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (9). 2010.
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49Wordy pictures: theorizing the relationship between image and text in comicsIn Aaron Meskin, Roy T. Cook & Warren Ellis (eds.), The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 87--104. 2011.
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52Order through Reason. Kant’s Transcendental Justification of ScienceKant Studien 70 (1-4): 409-424. 1979.
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87Thinking on Screen: Film as PhilosophyRoutledge. 2009.Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a clear and engaging style, Thomas Wartenberg examines films’ ability to discuss, and even criticize ideas that have intrigued and puzzled philosophers over the centuries such as the nature of personhood, the basis of morality, and epistemological skepticism. Beginning with a demonstration of how specific forms of philosophical disco…Read more
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35Assessing an Elementary School Philosophy ProgramThinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 20 (3-4): 90-94. 2014.This paper describes a research project assessing the effect on second grade students’ understanding of argumentation that a twelve-week program of weekly philosophy lessons had. The philosophy lessons were taught using popular picture books in the manner employed in my Teaching Children Philosophy program. Compared to a control group of second graders who did not study philosophy, it was demonstrated that the 45-minute weekly philosophy classes led to a significant and sustainable increase in s…Read more