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38Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (3): 579-580. 1987.Challenging art historians' scientific pretensions as well as their neglect of theoretical questions, the author traces art history's development from the turn of the century by critically reviewing the early and lesser known writings of Erwin Panofsky, "the most influential art historian in the twentieth century." In a brief sketch of art history's nineteenth century roots, the first chapter reviews what is retained and what is discarded in Hegel's, Burckhardt's, and Dilthey's successive concep…Read more
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26Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part 1, Science of Logic (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic constitutes the foundation of the system of philosophy presented in his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Together with his Science of Logic, it contains the most explicit formulation of his enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought. It offers a more compact presentation of his dialectical method than is found elsewhere, and also incorporates changes that he would have made to the second edition of the Sc…Read more
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11The Role and responsibility of the moral philosopher (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1982.Proceedings of the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held in Houston, Tex., Apr. 16-18, 1982. Includes bibliographical references.
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4Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1997.Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments'. Mendelssohn offers a nuanced defence of Leibniz's theodicy and conception of freedom, an examination of the ethics of suicide, an account of the 'mixed sentiments' so central to the tragic genre, a hypothesis about weakness of will, an elaboration of the main principles and types of art, a definition of sublimity and analysis of its basic forms, and, lastly, a brief tra…Read more
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Thinking Fast: Freedom, Expertise, and SolicitationIn Nicolas de Warren & Jeffrey Bloechl (eds.), Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History: Essays in Honor of Richard Cobb-Stevens, Springer. 2015.
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29Towards an Explanation of LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 33-46. 2010.After reviewing basic features of language, this paper reviews a central debate among twentieth-century philosophers over the proper analysis of linguisticmeaning. While some center the analysis of meaning in language’s capacity to be true, others locate meaning in the communicative intentions of the users of thelanguage. As a means of addressing this impasse and suggesting its unfounded character, the paper draws on recent studies of language acquisition and relates them to existential dimensio…Read more
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11Infinity (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1981.Based on the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, April 3-5, 1981. Includes bibliographical references.
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13Review of Martin Heidegger, Medard boss ed., Franz Mayr and Richard Askay (translated with notes and afterwords), Zollikon Seminars: Protocols - Conversations-Letters (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (2). 2002.
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Die Altruistische EinstellungJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 6. 1998.This essay takes a critical look at a specific altruistic interpretation of the moral nature, legitimacy, and value of unselfish actions. The aim of the essay is to raise questions about this altruistic attitude toward the morality of unselfish actions by focussing on certain assumptions that inform that attitude. It is argued that, among those assumptions, the most counterintuitive and deleterious is the notion that the morality of an unselfish action can and should be established by appeal to …Read more
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