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38Three Questionable Assumptions of Philosophical CounselingInternational Journal of Philosophical Practice 2 (1): 1-32. 2004.Philosophical practice or counseling has been described as a cluster of methods for treating everyday problems and predicaments through philosophical means. Notwithstanding the variety of methods, philosophical counselors seem to share the following tenets: 1. The counselee is autonomous; 2. Philosophical counseling differs from psychological counseling and 3. Philosophical counseling is effective in solving predicaments. A critical examination shows these to be problematic at both theoretical…Read more
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Philosophers, Ethics, and EmotionsPhilosophical Practice 4 (2): 447-458. 2009.In this paper I continue to probe the roles of philosophy and psychology in moral education. In a previous article published in this journal, I criticized the moral views of various schools of psychotherapy, and argued that philosophers are the sole professionals equipped to teach normative morality in a pluralistic, critical, and reasoned way . In this paper, I argue that effective moral education involves emotional education; that philosophers’ views of emotions tend to be reductive, and when …Read more
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1The Unconscious: Freud versus SartreIn Peter Raabe (ed.), Philosophical Practice and the Unconscious, Trivium Publications. pp. 23-78. 2006.
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A New Skeptical Worldview for Contemporary World CulturesIn Jian Chang (ed.), World Culture Development Forum 2013, Chian Social Sciences Academic Press. pp. 337-363. 2014.
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The Good Life Is the Good Laugh: The Comic in the History of PhilosophyIn A. Ziv & A. Sover (eds.), The Importance of Not Being Earnest, Carmel Press. pp. 206-253. 2012.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |
Normative Ethics |
19th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |