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792Freedom, Truth, and History (review)The Owl of Minerva 26 (2): 221-224. 1995.Stephen Houlgate has written an introduction to Hegel that is more than historical. For him, “Hegel’s is still a viable philosophical endeavour with extremely important things to contribute to modern debates, particularly the debates about historical relativism, poverty and social alienation, the nature of freedom and political legitimacy, the future of art, and the character of the Christian faith”. This ambitious book is clearly written and very thoughtful. By concentrating on a number of cent…Read more
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4Heidegger and Habennas on Criticism and TotalityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (3): 683-693. 1992.
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453Modernity's Self-Justification: The Thought of Robert B. PippinIdealism as Modernism: Hegelian VariationsThe Owl of Minerva 30 (2): 253-275. 1999.
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34Martin Drenthen and Josef Keulartz, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Crossing Divides and Breaking Ground (review)Environmental Philosophy 12 (1): 123-126. 2015.
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14Learning Places: Building Dwelling Thinking OnlineJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (1): 121-133. 2000.Lack of information is hardly our problem. Information comes at us in waves, sloshing out of the magazine rack, lapping at our computer monitors. It repeats and repeats on all-day news shows. It comes neatly packaged as sound bites, or little nuggets ready for trivia games. We have plenty of information, but it is not often the information we need. Even if it is, we need to learn how to deal with it. It is not just the amount, but the speed. Too much happens everywhere that may be important anyw…Read more
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969Learning places: Building dwelling thinking onlineJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (1). 2000.What would it take to design a real place online where real learning would happen?
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8Heidegger on East-West Dialogue (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 164-167. 2009.
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8Socrates in the Labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, PhilosophyEastgate Systems. 1994.Explores the relationships among hypertext, rhetoric, and philosophy.
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190The Logic of Language ChangeProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 17 179-195. 2006.A discussion of the relation of dialectical transitions in Hegel's speculative logic to changes in categories and grammar in the empirical historical languages.
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57. The Final Name of GodIn Michael Baur & John Russon (eds.), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris, University of Toronto Press. pp. 162-175. 1998.
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2Michael E. Zimmerman, Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (1): 43-46. 1985.
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55The critique of pure modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and afterUniversity of Chicago Press. 1986.He uses the novel strategy of presenting Heidegger's critique of Hegel and then suggesting the critique of Heidegger that Hegel might have made.
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410Sellars and the measure of all thingsPhilosophical Studies 34 (4). 1978.Argues that Sellars' theories can be seen as an elaborate argument for scientific realism as an almost-transcendental condition for the meaningfulness of language.
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340Tiger Stripes and Embodied Systems: Hegel on Markets and ModelsIn Michael Thompson (ed.), Hegel’s Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics, Routledge. pp. 286-300. 2018.From Hegel's philosophy of nature, this essay develops a critique of economic models and market society, based on Hegel's notion of what it takes for a formally described system to be embodied and real.
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406Hegel and Heidegger as CriticsThe Monist 64 (4): 481-499. 1981.A comparison of the ways in which Hegel and Heidegger critique modernity
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768Heidegger On The Limits Of ScienceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (January): 50-64. 1983.How Heidegger criticizes and "locates" science, and some problems with what he is trying to do.
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155Language and metalanguage in AquinasJournal of Religion. 1981.An evaluation of David Burrell's theory of the nature of analogy in Thomas Aquinas.
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449Building together / buildings togetherIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.A discussion of the problem of creating unified places in a pluralistic multicultural society.
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211Making places for ourselvesIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.The second part on the discussion of communal self discernment in seeking goals and values for making places and architectural planning.
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282Self-identity and placeIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.First part of a discussion about what kind of guidelines we can find in our group or cultural identity for our place making and architectural planning.
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326Haughty and humble ironiesIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.A critical examination of the different kinds of irony relevant to architecture, especially romantic and postmodern irony, and a suggestion for a less self-sure haughty kind of irony.
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274Extending architectural vocabularyIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. pp. 116-129. 1990.A discussion of the role of metaphor and reinterpretation in extending architectural vocabularies.
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195Where do the architects live?In Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.discussion of the extent to which architects can float about history and the inevitable finitude of architectural possibilities from any historical standpoint.
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628Modern versus postmodern architectureIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.A discussion of "postmodern" architecture in the sense in which the term was used in the late 1980s, namely, the introduction of historical substantive content and reference into architecture, disrupting the supposedly ahistorical purity of modernist architecture. Argues that postmodern use of history is really another version of the modern distance from history.
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214Life in a balloonIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.The essay offers a thought experiment to try to clarify our distinction between our naïve ancestors and our sophisticated moderns. The effect of the thought experiment is to cast doubt upon the distinction and examine further our own myths about our ancestors. And to wonder at what it means to be truly modern.
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202Form and content in utopiaIn Postmodern Sphistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition, University of Chicago Press. 1990.A critique of Habermas is theory of the three worlds as a foundation for criticism and social philosophy.