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27As a worldview, naturalism depends on a set of cognitive commitments from which flow certain propositions about reality and human nature. These propositions in turn might have implications for how we live, for social policy, and for human flourishing. But the presuppositions, basis, and implications of naturalism are not uncontested, and indeed there’s considerable debate about them among naturalists themselves.
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26Place and Experience (review)Philosophical Review 110 (4): 632-634. 2001.This is an ambitious work that attempts to elucidate the nature of place and the way in which we are, in part, at least, constituted by and complexly embedded within it. The central claim of the book is that “place is integral to the very structure and possibility of experience”, where experience is understood in a broad sense that is not restricted to perception but also includes thought and action. More generally, “place is... that within which and with respect to which subjectivity itself is …Read more
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26Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond (edited book)BRILL. 2022._Living Skepticism_ challenges the philosophical orthodoxy that dismisses skepticism as an intellectual embarrassment or overreaction. In this original collection of adventurous and engaging papers, skepticism is demonstrated to be true or insightful enough to form the core of an enlightened philosophy.
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25Review of Possibilities of Perception by Jennifer ChurchAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (1): 178-182. 2015.
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24Gavin Kitching, Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century: A Global Future Beyond Nationalism (London: Routledge, 2020)☆ (review)Philosophical Investigations 45 (1): 98-104. 2021.Philosophical Investigations, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 98-104, January 2022.
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18IntroductionIn Hilary Putnam & Ruth Anna Putnam (eds.), Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey, D. Macarthur (ed.), Harvard University Press. pp. 1-10. 2017.
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14Naturalism In Question (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2004.Today most philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to “naturalist” credos that philosophy is continuous with science, and that the natural sciences provide a complete account of all that exists. This volume presents a group of leading thinkers who criticize scientific naturalism in order to defend a more inclusive or liberal naturalism.
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10Possibilities of Perception by Jennifer Church: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. viii + 284, £35 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (1): 178-182. 2015.
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9Richard Rorty and (the End of) Metaphysics (?)In Alan Malachowski (ed.), A companion to Rorty, Wiley. 2020.A poeticized or post‐metaphysical culture is one in which the imperative that is common to religion and metaphysics – to find an ahistorical, transcultural matrix for one's thinking, something into which everything can fit, independent of one's time and place – has dried up and blown away. Richard Rorty's neo‐pragmatism aims to replace the hopeless and ancient metaphysical search for “an ahistorical transcultural matrix” – key exemplars of which are Plato's Forms and Immanuel Kant's transcendent…Read more
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36 Naturalism and SkepticismIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press. pp. 106-124. 2004.
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2Skeptical Reason and Inner Experience: A Re-Examination of the Problem of the External WorldDissertation, Harvard University. 1999.In contrast to the recent trend of taking external world skepticism as a narrow problem for a demanding conception of "objective" or "certain" knowledge about the world, my thesis offers a re-examination of the distinctively perceptual basis of the skeptical problem. On my view the skeptic challenges the very possibility of rationally justifying beliefs in so far as they are based on sense experience, a characterization that helps to explain the continuity into the modern period of the ancient s…Read more
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1Taking the Human Sciences SeriouslyIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism and Normativity, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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1Skepticism & Naturalism of Other Minds: Remarks on the (In)visibility of Other MindsIn Stephen Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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1Review of Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll, Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (4): 272-274. 2003.
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Pragmatism, quasi-realism, and the global challengeIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), New pragmatists, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Skepticism as Nihilism : Sartre's Nausea reads CavellIn Talia Morag (ed.), Sartre and Analytic Philosophy, Routledge. 2023.Stanley Cavell's writings on external world skepticism (which he speaks of as “the repudiation of criteria” and "an attack on the ordinary") are profound but also widely misunderstood. Part of the reason for this is Cavell's commitment to the claim that his understanding of skepticism is continuous with that of the epistemological skepticism of Descartes, Hume and Kant. Another is the painful ambiguity of his pronouncements on the "truth" in skepticism. In this paper I argue that key passages in…Read more
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Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of ThinkingIn Stephen Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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Introduction: Science, naturalism, and the problem of normativityIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism and Normativity, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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Wittgenstein and expressivismIn Daniel Whiting (ed.), The later Wittgenstein on language, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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