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Probing the Consummatory: The Complications of John Dewey's Metaphysics of ExperienceDissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1984.This dissertation critically examines the nature and meaning of metaphysics in the philosophy of John Dewey. This is accomplished by focusing our analysis of Dewey's metaphysics upon the level of generality appropriate to the study of human experience. Central to Dewey's metaphysics is the category of the consummatory or what he alternatively calls the qualitative. An analysis of this category serves as the basis for our reflections upon the adequacy of Dewey's entire categorical framework. Our …Read more
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Introduction (The philosophical legacy of Roderick M. Chisholm)Metaphilosophy 34 (5): 541-542. 2003.
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6Fragments of a Lost HomelandI. B. Tauris. 2015.The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of survival passed on by a grandparent who made it through the cataclysm or, if lucky, an old photograph of a distant, silent, ancestor. By contrast the Dildilian family chose to speak. Two generations ga…Read more
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156Acknowledging Intergenerational Moral Responsibility in the Aftermath of GenocideGenocide Studies and Prevention 4 (2): 211-220. 2009.This article argues for the claim that we are morally responsible (in the qualified sense proposed in the article) for the crimes of our ancestors if our ancestors, as a collectivity, were part of a community for whose sake and in whose name crimes were committed that meet the definition of the crime of genocide. This claim of ‘‘vicarious intergenerational moral responsibility’’ is supported by two arguments. The first counters the claim that one cannot have responsibilities for events in the pa…Read more
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34Saying, singing, or semiotics: "Prima la musica E poi le parole" revisitedJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (3): 269-277. 1996.
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34Symposium on Daniel Dennett's freedom evolves: Introductory noteMetaphilosophy 36 (4): 413-413. 2005.
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59Introduction to the fortieth anniversary of metaphilosophy special issueMetaphilosophy 42 (3): 183-185. 2011.
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44Symposium on human rights: Origins, violations, and rectificationsMetaphilosophy 41 (4): 462-463. 2010.
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99. Aesthetic Form Revisited: John Dewey's Metaphysics of ArtIn Richard E. Hart & Douglas R. Anderson (eds.), Philosophy in experience: American philosophy in transition, Fordham University Press. pp. 195-222. 1997.
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19Art and the AestheticIn Armen Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Art as the Commonplace George Santayana: Beauty as the Objectification of Pleasure John Dewey: The Centrality of Aesthetic Experience Defining Art: Monroe C. Beardsley and George Dickie Nelson Goodman on Reference and Arthur C. Danto on Interpretation Justus Buchler: Art as Exhibitive Judgment.
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6The Philosophical Challenge of September 11 (edited book)Blackwell. 2005.While most people agree that September 11, 2001, witnessed a terribly important series of events, opinions about the meaning of these events diverge sharply. This book searches for sense in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Consisting of fourteen essays written by leading philosophers, most of which have been specially commissioned for this volume, it offers a philosophical reflection on the implications of 9/11. The contributors engage with a broad range of issues associated with the c…Read more
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Raymond D. Boisvert, "Dewey's Metaphysics" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 3 (4): 282. 1989.
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13Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1990.Paper edition (0492-7), $24.95. (RC) An anthology of both original and reprinted essays on the work of philosopher Justus Buchler (b. 1914), intended not as a festschrift but as a study in ordinal metaphysics for philosophers and scholars.
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31Does metaphysics rest on an agrarian foundation? A deweyan answer and critiqueAgriculture and Human Values 7 (1): 27-32. 1990.This paper provides an analysis of John Dewey's appreciation of the effects of the emergence of agriculture on the patterns of Western thought. It shows the role played by this agrarian theme in Dewey's own critique of the dominant values inherent in Western metaphysics
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