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140Argument in mixed company: Mom's Maxim vs. mill's principle: Aikin and Talisse argument in mixed companyThink 10 (27): 31-43. 2011.It is impolite to discuss matters of religion or politics in mixed company. So goes the popular adage which all of us were supposed to have learned as children from our mothers. Let's call it Mom's Maxim. We tend to accept Mom's Maxim. But is it philosophically sound? In this short essay, we raise some objections to Mom's Maxim and make a case for an alternative which we call Mill's Principle.
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112Pragmatism, Experience, and the GivenHuman Affairs 19 (1): 19-27. 2009.Pragmatism, Experience, and the Given The doctrine of the Given is that subjects have direct non-inferential awareness of content of their experiences and apprehensions, and that some of a subject's beliefs are justified on the basis of that subject's awareness of her experiences and apprehensions. Pragmatist criticisms of the Given as a myth are shown here not only to be inadequate but to presuppose the Given. A model for a pragmatist account of the Given is then provided in terms of refinement…Read more
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111Xenophanes the High Rationalist: The Case of F1:17-8Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (1): 1-14. 2014.Scholarship on Xenophanes’s F1 has had two foci, one on the rules of the symposium and the other on the religious program posed at its close. Thus far, the two areas of focus have been treated as either separate issues or as the religious program proposed in the service of the sympotic objectives. Instead, I will argue that the sympotic norms Xenophanes espouses are in the service of the broader program of rational theology.
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Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
| American Pragmatism |
| Informal Logic |