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37Three Faces of Desire (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 680-682. 2006.Drawing upon neuroscientific research, Schroeder argues that there is biological evidence in favor of his philosophical conclusions. Specifically, the brain areas that show activity correlated with feelings of pleasure are distinguishable from those that seem to be associated with the consciousness of possible reward; and, in theory, these latter areas “could exist” in an organic being that lacked the capacity for behavior. At this point, the partly theoretical basis of Schroeder’s scientific cl…Read more
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69Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkeg…Read more
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248A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard: An Introduction and Patrick Stokes' (2010) Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (review)Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 119-123. 2010.A review of two recent books on Kierkegaard's thought, with attention to his relevance for ethics, phenomenology, and metaphysics.
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4616The Virtues of AuthenticityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 43 (4): 423-438. 2003.Discussions of the concept of authenticity often fail to define the conditions of an appropriate emotional orientation toward the world. With a more solid philosophical understanding of emotion, it should be possible to define more precisely the necessary conditions of emotional authenticity. Against this background, I interpret Kierkegaard’s Either/Or as a narrative text that suggests a moral psychology of emotion that points toward the development of a better way of thinking about the ethics o…Read more
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22Review of Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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2417Emotion, the bodily, and the cognitivePhilosophical Explorations 13 (1). 2010.In both psychology and philosophy, cognitive theories of emotion have met with increasing opposition in recent years. However, this apparent controversy is not so much a gridlock between antithetical stances as a critical debate in which each side is being forced to qualify its position in order to accommodate the other side of the story. Here, I attempt to sort out some of the disagreements between cognitivism and its rivals, adjudicating some disputes while showing that others are merely super…Read more
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188Review of George Pattison's The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14. 2006.
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1Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction (edited book)University of Scranton Press. 2007.
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63Thoreau's importance for philosophy (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2012.The purpose of this volume is to remedy this neglect, to explain Thoreau's philosophical significance, and to argue that we can still learn from his polemical conception of philosophy.
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688Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in "Works of Love"Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2013 (1): 217-242. 2013.Name der Zeitschrift: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Jahrgang: 2013 Heft: 1 Seiten: 217-242.
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21A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard (review)Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 119-123. 2010.
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450Wisdom in love: Kierkegaard and the ancient quest for emotional integrityArs Disputandi 6 1566-5399. 2006.
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1197Skepticism and perceptual faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley Cavell on seeing and believingTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (3). 2007.: Thoreau's journal contains a number of passages which explore the nature of perception, developing a response to skeptical doubt. The world outside the human mind is real, and there is nothing illusory about its perceived beauty and meaning. In this essay, I draw upon the work of Stanley Cavell (among others) in order to frame Thoreau's reflections within the context of the skeptical questions he seeks to address. Value is not a subjective projection, but it also cannot be perceived without th…Read more
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