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168Husserl's Transcendental SubjectivityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 21-45. 1980.The article aims to show that there are everyday analogues to husserl's 'transcendental' subjectivity, And that this 'transcendence' can be understood as a limit of these varieties of detachment. Evidence is cited that his 'transcendental ego' is the body itself, In its capacity to transcend its conditions. Within this 'naturalized' interpretation of transcendental subjectivity we can see its practical and philosophical importance to our objectivity. His notion of a 'life-World' is a prophylacti…Read more
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75Some recollections of Ryle and remarks on his notion of negative actionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (3). 1982.
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81In Sensible JudgmentSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (1): 203-225. 2012.The article focuses on the support to the position of Hannah Arendt that taste and feelings have roles in having sensible judgment. It mentions the pleasure that are derived from judgment such as aesthetic judgment and judging what is right. It states that Arendt argues that judgment should be used to defeat moral epithets.
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85Forms, Qualities, ResemblancePhilosophy 67 (262). 1992.Long after we have abandoned belief in a Cosmic Law Giver, still we cling to the word ‘law’ in science. It is in this same way that we cannot let go of the substantializing and pluralizing ‘universal’, even though its literal sense indicates a kind of turning, a ‘one-turning’, rather than a kind of thing . Yet ‘the problem of Universals’ is supposed to have become, again, a ‘compulsory examination question’ for philosophers. Let us reveal how this tradition begins for us
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3Remembering "remembering"In John Heil (ed.), Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989.
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799Thinking from undergroundIn Danielle Celermajer Andrew Schaap (ed.), Power, Judgment and Political Evil, Ashgate. pp. 27-38. 2010.Arendt is a philosopher despite herself, and this paper uses the resources of her > to develop her comparison of thinking as a 'departure' from the world with the fore-doomed attempt by Orpheus to bring from underground into the light of day. The paper investigates how thinking, though we 'lose' it in the speech and writing that makes it public, still can have the delicate power that Arendt attributes to it.
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LANGE, John: The Cognitivity Paradox (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50 (n/a): 293. 1972.
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University of QueenslandProfessor (Part-time)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
| Philosophical Traditions |