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260The Good of Friendship at the End of LifeInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (4): 445-459. 2015.This article attempts to explain the value that we assign to the presence of friends at the time when life is ending. It first shows that Aristotle’s treatment of friendship does not provide a clear account of such value. It then uses J. L. Austin’s notion of performativity to supplement one recent theory of friendship – given by Dean Cocking and Jeanette Kennett – in such a way that that theory can then account for friendship’s special value at our time of death.
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189Nineteen Fifty Eight: Information Technology and the Reconceptualization of CreativityThe Cambridge Quarterly 40 (4): 301-327. 2011.Nineteen fifty-eight was an extraordinary year for cultural innovation, especially in English literature. It was also a year in which several boldly revisionary positions were first articulated in analytic philosophy. And it was a crucial year for the establishment of structural linguistics, of structuralist anthropology, and of cognitive psychology. Taken together these developments had a radical effect on our conceptions of individual creativity and of the inheritance of tradition. The present…Read more
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Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Aesthetics |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |