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30Reconciling Gadamer's non-intentionalism with standard conversational goalsPhilosophical Forum 30 (4). 1999.
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The Pragmatic Turn in Early HeideggerDissertation, Columbia University. 1990.This dissertation aims to clarify and evaluate early Heidegger's argument that traditional philosophy has fallen victim to an intellectualistic fallacy because it overlooks the fact that human beings are not merely knowers, but also historically rooted, willing agents. The argument at issue purports to show that 'care' and 'concern' are central to a proper philosophical understanding of knowledge, truth and experience. ;I begin with a detailed analysis of two key terms in Heidegger's argument, '…Read more
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216A New Defense of Gadamer’s HermeneuticsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 45-65. 2000.This paper re-examines the central thesis of Gadamer’s hermeneutics that objectivity is not a suitable ideal for understanding a text, historical event, or cultural phenomenon because there exists no one correct interpretation of such phenomena. Because Gadamer fails to make clear the grounds for this claim, this paper considers three possible arguments. The first, predominant in the literature on Gadamer, is built on the premise that we cannot surpass our historically situated prejudgments. The…Read more
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50The Nonfixity of the Historical PastReview of Metaphysics 50 (4). 1997.In a book that first appeared in 1965 entitled Analytical Philosophy of History, Arthur Danto argues that historical inquiry cannot be conceived as an attempt to reconstruct the past along the lines of an "ideal chronicler." The ideal chronicler "knows whatever happens the moment it happens, even in other minds. He is also to have the gift of instantaneous transcription: everything that happens across the whole forward rim of the Past is set down by him, as it happens the way it happens." Histor…Read more
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82Heidegger and the Disclosive Character of the EmotionsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 34 (3): 379-410. 2010.
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1Gadamer's hermeneutics, non-intentionalism and the underdeterminedness of aesthetic propertiesO Que Nos Faz Pensar 255-277. 2004.
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53Heidegger's relationalismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (1). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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27A New Defense of Gadamer’s HermeneuticsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 45-65. 2000.This paper re-examines the central thesis of Gadamer’s hermeneutics that objectivity is not a suitable ideal for understanding a text, historical event, or cultural phenomenon because there exists no one correct interpretation of such phenomena. Because Gadamer fails to make clear the grounds for this claim, this paper considers three possible arguments. The first, predominant in the literature on Gadamer, is built on the premise that we cannot surpass our historically situated prejudgments. The…Read more
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65Liberal Democracy, Autonomy, and Ideology CritiqueSocial Theory and Practice 23 (2): 205-233. 1997.
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39Book Review:On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and the Theory of Ideology. Michael Rosen (review)Ethics 108 (3): 617-. 1998.
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6Historische ObjektivitätPeter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. 1991.Diese Studie will zeigen, daß die Antwort auf das Problem des historischen Erkennens nicht in der Alternative zwischen Objektivismus und Subjektivismus zu suchen ist. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen drei zeitgenössische Philosophen, Gadamer, Habermas und Danto, die das objektivistische Modell für inadäquat halten. Dies führt zu einer weiterentwickelten Konzeption der Zukunftsorientiertheit des historischen Erkennens und strebt einer Widerlegung aller Arten des Objektivismus an, auch derjenigen…Read more
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58Cambridge changes revisited: Why certain relational changes are indispensableDialectica 53 (2). 1999.Peter Geach and others suppose that change in an object's relational properties absent any change in its intrinsic properties is not a genuine change in that object but only a “mere Cambridge change.” I explain and reject two strategies challenging Geach's position. I then present my own argument against Geach which depends on the recognition of entities identified in terms of their emergent properties, i.e. properties not reducible to physical properties. I provide some examples of such entitie…Read more
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