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42. Man’s EstateIn The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, University of Toronto Press. pp. 39-63. 2012.
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4Persons and Other things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew BibleUniversity of Toronto Press. 2021.The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of …Read more
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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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3Gods, Giants, Fractals, and the Geometry of Early Modernity: Descartes, Gassendi, and the Rise of SciencePerspectives on Science 3 (4): 480-519. 1995.The recent scholarly promotion of Pierre Gassendi to a key position in the formative modern period raises doubts about the portrayal of Descartes as “the father” of the post-Scholastic philosophical conceptualization. I defend the Cartesio-centric account against Thomas M. Lennon’s elliptical alternative. The defense necessitates a reassessment of the root nature of Descartes’s contribution—specifically of the interplay between philosophy and science, the latter being the crucial extraphilosophi…Read more
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2Cartesian CertaintyIdealistic Studies 15 (3): 219-247. 1985.Whence the Cartesian’s advantage over competing world investigators? Descartes’s answer is that those of his persuasion do not proceed by “resting [their] reasons on any other principle than the infinite perfections of God”. The claim’s considerable opacity does not prevent it from letting this much light filter through: only Cartesian scientists operate on the right metaphysical basis.
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2Certainty, the cogito, and Cartesian DualismStudia Leibnitiana 22 (2): 123-137. 1990.Il se peut du point de vue des etudiants qui s'approchent de la position contextuelle de Descartes, qu'il accepte la distinction reelle entre l'esprit et le corps parce qu'il n'a pas percu comment une forme d'explicarion mecanique-materialiste pourrait etre appropriee aux phenomenes psychologiques. Mais on pourrait demander la signification de cette proposition en ce qui concerne le raisonnement de Descartes pour Pactualite du dualisme. Je demontre que son raisonnement dans les Meditations est d…Read more
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1Intellectual intuition and cognitive assimilabilityJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10 (3): 153-163. 1979.
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1The Origins and Implications of Kant's Critical Philosophy: NC [is Approximately Equal To] PKLewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen. 1990.Examining Kant's critical philosophy, this study focusses upon its dialectical constitution and gauging its implications. It attempts to determine the meaning of the critical system more by determining the dialectical and rhetorical influences on Kant by focussing on its manifest reasoning. The volume begins by taking stock of meta-physical and meta-interpretive materials; then goes on to examine the major doctrines of the first Critique; and finally draws wider morals for Kant specifically and …Read more
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Consciousness and Cognition: From Descartes to BerkeleyStudia Leibnitiana 14 (n/a): 244. 1982.En soulignant la position ressemblante du Dieu dans le système de Descartes et de Berkeley comme sujet de connaissance optimale, c'est à dire ' certain', et le rôle de la notion cartésienne de ‛certitude’ en définissant la nature de la vérité scientifique, on peut nettement transformer la théorie réalistique cartésienne en théorie idéalistique berkelienne. L'élimination une équivoque dans la conception de certitude de Descartes est crucial à cette transformation. Sans cette équivoque, la distinc…Read more