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48Venerating DeathPhilosophical Papers 44 (1): 61-81. 2015.In this paper, I am concerned with elucidating and expanding our attitudes toward our own death. As it is, our common attitudes toward our death are the following: we fear our premature death, and we dread our inevitable death. These attitudes are rational, but I want to argue that our attitudes toward death should be more complicated than this. A condition upon our value, our preciousness, as creatures is that we are vulnerable, and our vulnerability is, at bottom, a vulnerability to death. A c…Read more
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12Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies, by George M. Wilson: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. viii + 220, £30 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 628-629. 2013.
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1John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education and Of the Conduct of the Understanding Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 346-347. 1997.
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96A Lover’s ShameEthical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (5): 615-630. 2012.Shame is one of the more painful consequences of loving someone; my beloved’s doing something immoral can cause me to be ashamed of her. The guiding thought behind this paper is that explaining this phenomenon can tell us something about what it means to love. The phenomenon of beloved-induced shame has been largely neglected by philosophers working on shame, most of whom conceive of shame as being a reflexive attitude. Bennett Helm has recently suggested that in order to account for beloved-ind…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |