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302On CosmopolitanismsIn Lucian Stone (ed.), Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 159-175. 2014.
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270A Fact, As It Were: Obligation, Indifference, and the Question of EthicsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 219-234. 2016.According to Immanuel Kant, the objective validity of obligation is given as a fact of reason, which forces itself upon us and which requires no deduction of the kind that he had provided for the categories in the Critique of Pure Reason. This fact grounds a moral philosophy that treats obligation as a good that trumps all others and that presents the moral subject as radically responsible, singled out by an imperatival address. Based on conceptions of indifference and facticity that Charles Sco…Read more
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529Alterity in Merleau-Ponty’s Prose of the WorldEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 425-442. 2012.I argue in this paper that Maurice Merleau-Ponty provides a compelling account of alterity in The Prose of the World. I begin by tracing this account of alterity back to its roots in Phenomenology of Perception. I then show how the dynamic of expression articulated in The Prose of the World overcomes the limitations of the account given in the earlier work. After addressing an objection to the effect that the account given in The Prose of the World fails for the same reason as the one given in P…Read more
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264Democratic Inheritance and the Problem of Normativity: A Review Essay of Samir Haddad’s Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (review)SCTIW Review 11 (1): 1-6. 2014.
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457Moral Dilemma and Moral Sense A Phenomenological AccountJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 218-235. 2015.In this paper I argue that a phenomenological account of moral sense-bestowal can provide valuable insight into the possibility of moral dilemmas. I propose an account of moral sense-bestowal that is grounded in the phenomenology of expression that Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed throughout the course of his philosophical work, and most explicitly in the period immediately following the publication of Phenomenology of Perception. Based on this Merleau-Pontian account of moral sense-bestowal, I d…Read more
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