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434The Event of Sense in Lyotard's Discours, FigureJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 41 (3): 246-260. 2010.One of the dominant themes structuring the trajectory of Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical work is his concern to think the event in a way that renders it intelligible, but that also respects the alterity and the uncanniness that are essential to it. In this paper I defend Lyotard's earlier understanding of the event, articulated most thoroughly in Discours, figure, from the criticisms of the later Lyotard, articulated most thoroughly in The Differend. More specifically, I attempt to demonst…Read more
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656The Terrifying Concupiscence of Belonging: Noise and Evil in the Work of Michel SerresSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 19 (1): 249-267. 2015.In this paper I examine the conception of evil and the prescriptions for its mitigation that Michel Serres has articulated in his recent works. My explication of Serres’s argument centers on the claim, advanced in many different texts, that practices of exclusion, motivated by what he calls “the terrifying concupiscence of belonging,” are the primary sources of evil in the world. After explicating Serres’s argument, I examine three important objections, concluding that Serres overestimates somew…Read more
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715Dignity at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy on the Possibility of Incommensurable WorthContinental Philosophy Review 49 (3): 309-323. 2016.Dignity, according to some recent arguments, is a useless concept, giving vague expression to moral intuitions that are better captured by other, better defined concepts. In this paper, I defend the concept of dignity against such skeptical arguments. I begin with a description of the defining features of the Kantian conception of dignity. I then examine one of the strongest arguments against that conception, advanced by Arthur Schopenhauer in On the Basis of Morality. After considering some sta…Read more
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297On CosmopolitanismsIn Lucian Stone (ed.), Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 159-175. 2014.
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259A 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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