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    Metaphors We Live By
    Royal 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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    The Free Man
    Royal 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
  •  65
    Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Humility
    Philosophy 72 (279): 105-123. 1997.
    In 1929, doubtless to the discomfort of his logical positivist host Moritz Schlick, Wittgenstein remarked, ‘To be sure, I can understand what Heidegger means by Being and Angst’. I return to what Heidegger meant and Wittgenstein could understand later. I begin with that remark because it has had an instructive career. When the passage which it prefaced was first published in 1965, the editors left it out—presumably to protect a hero of ‘analytic’ philosophy from being compromised by an expressio…Read more
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    Collective Responsibility—Again: PHILOSOPHY
    Philosophy 44 (168): 153-155. 1969.
    I shall not try to deal with all of the interesting points Mr. R. S. Downie raises against my paper, Collective Responsibility . I shall deal with a matter of clarification, one of the lesser issues between us, and the major issue between us. . On one point, surely, Downie has simply misunderstood what I said. He claims that my criticisms do not work against the common view that Responsibility is analytically tied to blameworthiness; but only apainst the claim that Responsibility is analytically…Read more
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    No Title available: New Books (review)
    Philosophy 71 (275): 164-167. 1996.
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    Daoism, Nature and Humanity
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74 95-108. 2014.
    This paper sympathetically explores Daoism's relevance to environmental philosophy and to the aspiration of people to live in a manner convergent with nature. After discussing the Daoist understanding of nature and the dao (Way), the focus turns to the implications of these notions for our relationship to nature. The popular idea that Daoism encourages a return to a way of life is rejected. Instead, it is shown that the Daoist proposal is one of living more than people generally do in the modern…Read more
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    Do SR's paraphrase sentences?
    Foundations of Language 11 (4): 571-574. 1974.
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    S0ren Kierkegaard
    In Robert C. Solomon & David L. Sherman (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. pp. 12--43. 2003.
  • Truth and liberal education
    In Paul Heywood Hirst, Robin Barrow & Patricia White (eds.), Beyond Liberal Education: Essays in Honour of Paul H. Hirst, Routledge. pp. 30--48. 1993.
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    Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence
    with P. H. Matthews
    Philosophical Quarterly 30 (118): 90. 1980.
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    Bruce almighty
    Free Inquiry 23 (4). 2003.
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    Meaning and Illocutions
    American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1). 1972.
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    Irony and 'the essence of writing'
    Philosophical Papers 18 (1): 53-73. 1989.
    No abstract
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    Heidegger
    Claridge 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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    Delusions of modesty: A reply to my critics
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 15 (1). 1981.
    David E Cooper; Delusions of Modesty: a reply to my critics, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 125–135, https://doi.org.
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    Grammar and the possession of concepts
    Journal 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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    Presupposition
    Mouton. 1974.
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    Technology: 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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    Liberal Equality
    Philosophical Books 23 (4): 248-250. 1982.
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    Referential occurrence
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 21 (1): 182-188. 1980.
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    Modern mythology: the case of 'Reactionary Modernism'
    History of the Human Sciences 9 (2): 25-37. 1996.
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    Science, society and rationality
    History of the Human Sciences 8 (2): 109-115. 1995.
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    Human Sentiment and the Future of Wildlife
    Environmental Values 2 (4). 1993.
    Identifying what is wrong with the demise of wildlife requires prior identification of the human sentiment which is offended by that demise. Attempts to understand this in terms of animal rights (individual or species) and the benefits of wildlife to human beings or the wider environment are rejected. A diagnosis of this sentiment is attempted in terms of our increasing admiration, in the conditions of modernity and postmodernity, for the 'harmony' or 'at homeness' of wild animals with their env…Read more