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13Julian Young, Willing and Unwilling: A Study of the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (1987). (review)International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1): 151-152. 1992.Review of the book by Julian Young.
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35Review: Naturalism and Value in Nietzsche (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (3). 2005.
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5IX—The Subject and the Objective OrderProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 84 (1): 147-166. 1984.
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18Review of: T. J. Difffey, The Republic of Art and Other Essays (review)Philosophical Quarterly 43 (171): 250. 1993.Book review.
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15EditorialEuropean Journal of Philosophy 16 (2): 163-163. 2008.The short 'Editorial' introduces the published papers in 'Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value', and explains their origin in a conference at the University of Southampton in July 2007.
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24Schopenhauer's philosophy of valueIn Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway (eds.), Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.Editor's contribution to the edited volume, Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value, which reassesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics and ethics and their contemporary relevance.
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222Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and lifeIn Daneil Came (ed.), Nietzsche on Art and Life, Oxford University Press. 2014.Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should…Read more
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70Nietzsche's Psychology as a Refinement of Plato'sJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (1): 12-21. 2014.In their recent book The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick claim that Nietzsche takes Plato’s theory of the soul to be ‘a hypothesis, which his own psychology is an attempt to refine’. This essay accepts that claim, but argues for a more streamlined account of the relation between Nietzsche and Plato than Clark and Dudrick give. There is no justification for their suggestion that Nietzsche diagnoses an ‘atomistic need’ as responsible for what he objects…Read more
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64Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009._Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value_ reassesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics and ethics and their contemporary relevance. Features a collection of new essays from leading Schopenhauer scholars Explores a relatively neglected area of Schopenhauer's philosophy Offers a new perspective on a great thinker who crystallized the pessimism of the nineteenth century and has many points of contact with twenty-first century thought
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102Arts and crafts in Plato and CollingwoodJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (1): 45-54. 1992.R.G. Collingwood argues that what is properly called 'art' shares none of the features of craft. This article looks critically at his attribution to Plato of the sharply contrasting view that poetry is simply a craft. There is an important sense in which poetry is not a craft (techne) for Plato. Moreover, Plato's views are much closer to Collingwood's own than Collingwood appreciates.
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |