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23Inverting the image: Dreyfus's commentary on HeideggerInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 35 (2). 1992.No abstract
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19Figuratively Speaking, by Robert J. Fogelin (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 471-473. 1991.
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17Experience and the growth of understandingJournal of Philosophy of Education 14 (1). 1980.David E Cooper; Experience and the Growth of Understanding, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 14, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 97–103, https://doi.org/1.
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73Epistemology: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1999.From Plato to Quine, this volume provides a concise collection of the essential, classic readings in theory of knowledge.
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173Ethics: The Classic Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.This is the second volume in a new series of classic readings in philosophy and collects together the central texts in the history of moral philosophy thus representing many of the most important topics in the field
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16Comment on dr Fairhurst's paperJournal of Philosophy of Education 14 (2). 1980.David E Cooper; Comment on Dr Fairhurst's Paper, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 254–255, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1.
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3858Existentialism: A ReconstructionWiley-Blackwell. 1990.First published in 1990, _Existentialism_ is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and argues that it deserves as much attention from analytic philosophers as it has always received on the continent
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19Buddhism and the Ethics of Species ConservationEnvironmental Values 15 (1): 85-97. 2006.Efforts to conserve endangered species of animal are, in some important respects, at odds with Buddhist ethics. On the one hand, being abstract entities, species cannot suffer, and so cannot be proper objects of compassion or similar moral virtues. On the other, Buddhist commitments to equanimity tend to militate against the idea that the individual members of endangered species have greater value than those of less-threatened ones. This paper suggests that the contribution of Buddhism to the is…Read more
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67Beautiful people, beautiful thingsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 48 (3): 247-260. 2008.This paper sympathetically examines the neglected virtue-centric idea that the primary location of beauty is in bodily expressions of human virtues, so that things like buildings are beautiful only because of an appropriate relationship they have to beautiful people. After a brief history of the idea as articulated by, for example, Kant, it is then distinguished from accounts of beauty with which it might be confused, such as the view that something is beautiful only if it helps to instil virtue…Read more
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4Authenticity, life and liberal educationIn Paul Heywood Hirst & Patricia White (eds.), Philosophy of Education: Major Themes in the Analytic Tradition, Routledge. pp. 32--67. 1998.
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160A Philosophy of GardensOxford University Press. 2006.Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the ap…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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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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