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9Introduction: Athens and JerusalemIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-16. 2012.
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9Cartesian Realism and G/P-ImplosionJournal of Philosophical Research 23 307-329. 1998.Did Descartes make a revolutionary contribution to philosophy? Given the widespread application to him of the title ‘father of modem philosophy,’ the standard affirmative proves surprisingly difficult to justify. ln this paper I locate Descartes’s epoch-making philosophical shift. Descartes contributed a very strong idea of realism, an idea modelled in his cogito-argument. To grasp the contribution aright, it is however necessary to de-emphasise what is usually identified as his key contribution…Read more
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8Reason and Substance. The Kantian Metaphysics of Conceptual PositivismKant Studien 73 (1-4): 1-16. 1982.
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812. MisbehaviourismIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 269-297. 2012.
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8IndexIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 347-356. 2012.
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8NotesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 307-342. 2012.
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8The Practical WorldIdealistic Studies 29 (1-2): 1-31. 1999.'Everything,' Kant remarks, 'gravitates ultimately towards the practical.' Judging by 'everything,' Kant is fixing on some feature of reality that he regards as invariant across times, places, and people. Judging by 'ultimately,' Kant believes that the feature yields itself up only to penetrative philosophical scrutiny. The remark is, I believe, a key to 'the basic problem confronting any reader of [Kant],' his idealism.
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87. NobodiesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 151-173. 2012.
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7The King and ‘I’: Agency and Rationality in Athens and JerusalemRatio 10 (1): 10-34. 1997.Although Western culture draws substantively on Athens and Jerusalem, hostility tends to be shown towards Jerusalem from the philosophical wing. I attempt to correct the imbalance. Philosophy, I argue, arose in the Greek context because of a problem of self‐confidence. ‘Philosophical rationality’ cannot therefore be taken as normative for rationality generally. The contrast between the Jerusalemite and the Athenian views of self and of the contrasting estimates and explanations of the efficacy (…Read more
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7FrontmatterIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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7The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and JerusalemUniversity of Toronto Press. 2012.This study presents a substantial revision to received ideas about the relationship between biblical and ancient Greek conceptions of human nature.
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7BibliographyIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 343-346. 2012.
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6Middleman: Homer's Philosophical RhapsodyPhilosophy and Literature 47 (2): 407-420. 2023.Abstract:Although the Iliad is typically approached as a version of, say, Catch-22, the epic is not about armed conflict and its horrors. The war at Troy serves the poet as a metaphor for life. Advanced in the hexameters is an account of the genesis, and a defense, of the humanist view that men and women occupy an autonomous place midway between clods and gods. Plato's harsh criticism of Homer's work comes into focus once Achilles's transformation is interpreted along these philosophical lines. …Read more
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6Thinning Thick Reflectivity: A Feature of Philosophical RhetoricJournal of Speculative Philosophy 3 (3). 1989.
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68. The Birth of DeathIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 174-192. 2012.
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6Preface and AcknowledgmentsIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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610. Love StoriesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 216-242. 2012.
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64. Raven’s LandIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 78-105. 2012.
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511. Life and TimesIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 243-268. 2012.
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51. In Defence of PerplexityIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 17-38. 2012.
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59. Becoming PoliticalIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 193-215. 2012.
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4How Philosophers See 'Red'Grazer Philosophische Studien 4 (1): 43-64. 1977.To what extent is conceptual analysis under strict semantic control? In an effort to show that conceptual structure transcends the linguistic dimension proper, the tensions within, and between, several current treatments of the concept red are revealed and explored. It is argued that certain extra-semantic factors — factors, broadly speaking, which concern the manner in which a concept applier interacts with the world as an extralinguistic agent - provide a backdrop against which conceptual anal…Read more
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4ContentsIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. 2012.
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43. An Ethical CompassIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 64-77. 2012.