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27"Reduced to a zero-point": Benjamin's critique of Kantian historical experiencePhilosophical Forum 31 (2). 2000.Walter Benjamin’s work shows evidence of a sustained engagement with Kant and neo-Kantianism, particularly his thoughts on history and experience. I read Benjamin’s “Theses” and “Theologico-Political Fragment” against Kant’s “Idea for a Cosmopolitan History” to suggest that actual experience becomes an impossibility in the Kantian system because historical events always outrun the efforts of the Kantian apparatus to contain them. That Kant ignores these excesses indicates the theological basis…Read more
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114Hobbes’s Radical NominalismEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1): 201-223. 2006.This paper analyzes Hobbes’s understanding of signification, the process whereby words come to have meaning. Most generally, Hobbes develops and extends the nominalist critique of universals as it is found in Ockham and subsequently carried forward by early moderns such as Descartes. Hobbes’s radicality emerges in comparison with Ockham and Descartes, as, unlike them, Hobbes also reduces the intellectual faculty entirely to imagination. According to Hobbes, we have nothing in which a stabilizing…Read more
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253Contextual gaps: privacy issues on FacebookEthics and Information Technology 13 (4): 289-302. 2011.Social networking sites like Facebook are rapidly gaining in popularity. At the same time, they seem to present significant privacy issues for their users. We analyze two of Facebooks’s more recent features, Applications and News Feed, from the perspective enabled by Helen Nissenbaum’s treatment of privacy as “contextual integrity.” Offline, privacy is mediated by highly granular social contexts. Online contexts, including social networking sites, lack much of this granularity. These contextual …Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
Poststructuralism |
Critical Theory |