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336Some Thoughts on Thinking and Teaching StylesInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 16 (1): 48-54. 1996.Descartes provides us with an invaluable framework for thinking critically. And his views on personhood can serve both as a guide for critical thinking and as a means to sharpen some of the concepts central to these programs. My paper is an attempt to illustrate the effectiveness of the seventeenth century Cartesian conception of thinking for scholars today who stress critical thinking in the classroom.
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44Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language: Critical and Historical Essays (edited book)Praeger. 2002.This edited collection of original essays by prominent Russell scholars focuses on the philosopher's positions on the key issues of nuclear war, peace, and ...
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4Reason and Belief: Great Issues in Philosophy (edited book)Whittier Publications. 2011.This is a collection of brilliant and often lucid philosophical writings that will appeal to and engage students new to philosophy. Spanning the entire history of philosophy, the collection contains material from the Upanishads, Socrates, Aquinas, the British Empiricists, the Continental Philosophers and some of the leading analytic philosophers.
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403Hume's Labyrinth: A Search for the SelfCambridge Scholars Press. 2012.In his magnum opus, David Hume asserts that a person is “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.” (Treatise 252) Hume is clearly proud of his bold thesis, as is borne out by his categorical arguments and analyses on the self. Contributions like this will, in his opinion, help establish a new science of human nature, “which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much sup…Read more
Rice University
PhD, 1988
APA Eastern Division
Areas of Specialization
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |