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61On reading Nietzsche on educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 17 (1). 1983.David E Cooper; On Reading Nietzsche on Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 17, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 119–126, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.
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58Equality and envyJournal of Philosophy of Education 16 (1). 1982.David E Cooper; Equality and Envy, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 16, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 35–47, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1982.tb.
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58Art, nature, significanceThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 (44): 27-35. 2009.It is by now something of a cliché of Green discourse that environmental degradation and devastation is grounded in a sharp opposition – the legacy, it is often charged, of Christian metaphysics – between the human and the non-human, between the realms of culture and nature. If one is to understand, let alone endorse, the very general environmentalist ambition to dissolve the dualism of the human and the non-human, it is by questioning rather more tractable and particular dichotomies, like that …Read more
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56Truth and truthfulness: An essay in genealogy, by Bernard Williams. Princeton university press 2002, pp. XI + 328Philosophy 78 (3): 411-414. 2003.
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56Cognitive development and teaching business ethicsJournal of Business Ethics 4 (4). 1985.This paper discusses how to use cognitive developmental psychology to create a business ethics course that has philosophical integrity. It begins with the pedagogical problem to be overcome when students are not philosophy majors. To provide a context for the practical recommendations, Kohlberg's cognitive developmental theory is summarized and then the relationship between Kohlberg's theory, normative philosophy, and teaching is analyzed. The conclusion recommends strategies that should help ov…Read more
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56Aesthetics: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1997.This is the first volume to be published in and exciting new series of classic collections in philosophy.
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52Metaphors We Live ByRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 18 43-58. 1984.Aside from aperçus of Kant, Nietzsche, and of course, Aristotle, metaphor has not, until recently, received its due. The dominant view has been Hobbes': metaphors are an ‘abuse’ of language, less dangerous than ordinary equivocation only because they ‘profess their inconstancy’.
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48Metaphysics: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000._Metaphysics: The Classic Readings_ is an essential collection of the most influential attempts to depict the fundamental nature of reality or being - from Spinoza's doctrine of a single, indivisible substance to Russell's 'logical atomism', and from the Buddha's account of a causally interrelated world to Leibniz's one of casually independent 'monads'
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47Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida. by Cavell Stanley Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell (1995). x + 200 pp (review)Philosophy 71 (275): 164-167. 1996.
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47Heidegger on NatureEnvironmental Values 14 (3). 2005.The primary purpose of the paper is the broadly exegetical one of explaining and connecting Heidegger's many remarks, made in several different contexts of enquiry, on nature. The three main contexts are those of ontology, scientific methodology, and technology. After showing how Heidegger's central theses in these contexts are related to one another, I argue, in the final section, that his observations on scientific method are pivotal. Unless these are secured, his further claims about ontology…Read more
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44Postmodernism and the 'end of philosophy'International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (1). 1993.No abstract
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43Presupposition.Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional SemanticsPhilosophical Review 86 (2): 274. 1977.
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41Metaphors We Live ByRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 18 43-58. 1984.Aside from aperçus of Kant, Nietzsche, and of course, Aristotle, metaphor has not, until recently, received its due. The dominant view has been Hobbes': metaphors are an ‘abuse’ of language, less dangerous than ordinary equivocation only because they ‘profess their inconstancy’.
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39True to life: Why truth matters by Michael P. Lynch. Cambridge, MASS.: MIT press, 2004, pp. XII + 204Philosophy 80 (4): 601-604. 2005.
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39Technology: Liberation or Enslavement?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38 7-18. 1995.The week, twenty-five years ago, of the Apollo spacecraft's return visit to the moon was described by Richard Nixon as the greatest since the Creation. Across the Atlantic, a French Academician judged the same event to matter less than the discovery of a lost etching by Daumier. Attitudes to technological achievement, then, differ. And they always have. Chuang-Tzu, over 2,000 years ago, relates an exchange between a Confucian passer-by and a Taoist gardener watering vegetables with a bucket draw…Read more
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39A Companion to aesthetics (edited book)Blackwell Reference. 1992.In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art Unique to this edition are six …Read more
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36The Free ManRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 15 131-145. 1983.Not long after the historian, Seeley, had defined ‘perfect liberty’ as ‘the absence of all government’, Oscar Wilde wrote that a man can be totally free even in that granite embodiment of governmental constraint, prison. Ten years after Mill's famous defence of civil freedoms, On Liberty, Richard Wagner declaimed:I'll put up with everything—police, soldiers, muzzling of the press, limits on parliament… Freedom of the spiriti is the only thing for men to be proud of and which raises them above an…Read more
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34Grammar and the possession of conceptsJournal of Philosophy of Education 7 (2). 1973.David E Cooper; Grammar and the Possession of Concepts, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 7, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 204–222, https://doi.org/10.11.
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33HeideggerClaridge Press. 1996.With clear philosophical judgement, Cooper guides the reader through the novel concepts of Heideggerian metaphysics, explores the arguments used to introduce ...
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31World Philosophies: A Historical IntroductionWiley-Blackwell. 1996.This popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world. Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day. Now includes new sections on Indian and Persian thought and on feminist and environmental philosophy. The preface and bibliography have also been updated. Written by a highly successful textbook author
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27Bahm, Archie J.(1995) epistemology (albuquerque: World books). Bloom Irene (trs)(1995) knowledge painfully acquired (columbia university press). Bracken, Joseph A.(1995) 77a; divine matrix (new York: Orbis books). Bronkhorst, Johannes & ramseier, Yves (1994) word index to the prasastapadabhasya (delhi: Motilal banarsidass) (review)Asian Philosophy 6 (2): 171. 1996.
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27Heidegger, Education, and ModernityRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational thought
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