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28Self-Deception and Self-Understanding (review)Idealistic Studies 18 (1): 82-85. 1988.The volume of essays, edited by Mike Martin, is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary interest in the topic. Martin has produced a helpful, if not penetrating, general introduction to the volume, and has prefaced each of the four parts of the book with a short orienting essay. The book is completed with an extensive bibliography that will well serve the student interested in pursuing the topic.
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42Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic StructureOxford University Press. 1987.Taking into account pragmatic considerations and recent linguistic and psychological studies, the author forges a new understanding of the relation between metaphoric and literal meaning. The argument is illustrated with analysis of metaphors from literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language.
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35Deadly Medicine: Project T4, Mental Disability, and Racism A very early version of this paper was inspired by the Deadly Medicine Exhibit 1, which was held at Stony Brook University 1, Spring 2009, and was presented at the 1 lecture series accompanying the exhibit, June 1, 2009 (review)Res Philosophica 93 (4): 715-741. 2016.Equal moral status for all human beings does not commit us to the malignant exclusionary practices we find in racism and pernicious nationalism. Racism (like the other harmful “ism”) involves a group that is constituted by appropriating to one’s own “primal group” a set “desirable” intrinsic properties (or traits) and expelling from the primal group those with the undesirable properties through subjugation, exploitation, sterilization, or extermination. The moral harm in racism is practiced by a…Read more
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America