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30Murdoch's Caring Gaze and "My Octopus Teacher"Film and Philosophy 28 71-89. 2024.In her essay “The Idea of Perfection,” Iris Murdoch argues that sustained attention directed towards another can result in a person’s moral improvement by getting them to have a more accurate view of the other. In this essay, I argue that the award-winning film My Octopus Teacher illustrates Murdoch’s view and corrects some of its shortcomings. It illustrates Murdoch’s claim by showing how one of the filmmaker’s sustained attention directed at an octopus results not only in an alternation in the…Read more
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28Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience by plantinga, carlJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (1): 70-72. 2010.
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28PerspectivesQuestions 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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26Teaching Philosophy Through Film Aristotle's Theory of Friendship and The Third ManFilm and Philosophy 13 19-34. 2008.
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257 Reason and the practice of scienceIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Kant, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--228. 1992.
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23Teaching Philosophy by Teaching Philosophy TeachingTeaching Philosophy 26 (3): 283-297. 2003.Standard approaches to teaching philosophy tend to focus on teaching aspects of philosophy that are important to doing professional philosophy. This paper suggests an alternative to this approach by preparing college students to teach philosophy to elementary school children. After arguing that classics in children’s literature ought to be the primary vehicle for initiating philosophical discussion in elementary school children, an upper-level seminar for undergraduates at Mount Holyoke College …Read more
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23Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of KnowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (1): 159. 1987.
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22Style and Methodologies, on Noel Carroll's Engaging the Moving ImageFilm-Philosophy 9 (4). 2005.
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21Thomas E. Wartenberg’s Thinking Through Stories: Children, Philosophy, and Picture BooksPrecollege Philosophy and Public Practice 5 31-43. 2023.
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20Philosophy in Classrooms and Beyond: New Approaches to Picture-Book Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2019.The contributors to this volume describe a range of programs that use picture books to teach philosophy to diverse audiences. From a pre-school program in which college students to do the teaching to a program focused on overcoming the legacy of violence and genocide in Mali in which the teachers write and illustrate their own picture books, the authors demonstrate the impact that learning philosophy has on diverse communities of young students and their teachers.
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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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19Thinking on Screen: Film as PhilosophyRoutledge. 2007.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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18BERGER, SUSANNA. The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment. Princeton University Press, 2017, 352 pp., 30 color + 169 b&w illus., $65.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2): 258-260. 2018.
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18[Book review] the forms of power, from domination to transformation (review)Social Theory and Practice 17 105-130. 1991.
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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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17_Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books?_ This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound philosophical wisdom contained in children's picture books, from Dr Seuss's _Sneetches_ to William Steig's _Shrek!_. With a light touch and good humor, Wartenberg discusses the philosophical ideas in these classic stories, and provides parents with a practical starting point for discussing philosophical…Read more
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17Thoughtful images: illustrating philosophy through artOxford University Press. 2023.Thoughtful Images: Philosophy Illustrated is the first systematic investigation of how artists throughout the ages have illustrated philosophical texts, ideas, concepts, and theories. The book begins by developing a theory of visual illustrations of philosophical texts and undermining what the author calls "the denigration of illustration." The book then takes a more historical approach, beginning in Ancient Greece and Rome and proceeding through Medieval illuminations and printed broadsides to …Read more
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16SYMPOSIUM: Danto's' The Transfiguration of the Commonplace'Twenty-Five Years LaterContemporary Aesthetics 6. 2008.
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16Review of Irving Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5). 2008.
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15Rethinking PowerSUNY Press. 1992.The authors represent the cutting edge of current research into the concept of power. Among the topics discussed are power in social theory, feminist conceptions of power, power and sexuality, modes of oppression and domination, the significance of Foucault’s theory of power, and power in market transactions. Included are contributions by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, Terence Ball, Jeffrey Isaac, Thomas McCarthy, Gayatri Spivak, Iris Marion Young, Jean Baker Miller, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Samuel Bowles…Read more