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35In Philosophy as Frustration: Happiness Found and Feigned from Greek Antiquity to Present Bruce Silver argues that traditional philosophical views of happiness, as well as recent psychological theories of happiness, are at odds with themselves and with important accounts of a truly happy life
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80Clarke on the quaker background of bartram, William approach to natureJournal of the History of Ideas 47 (3): 507-510. 1986.
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The Status of the Sciences in the Philosophy of George BerkeleyDissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder. 1971.
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2188Dante's Paradiso: No Human Beings AllowedPhilosophy and Literature 38 (1): 110-127. 2014.“But when you meet her again,” he observed, “in Heaven, you, too, will be changed. You will see her spiritualized, with spiritual eyes.”1Dante is not a philosopher, although George Santayana sees him as one among a very few philosophical poets.2 The Divine Comedy deals in terza rima with issues that are philosophically urgent, including the relation between reasoning well and happiness.3And as one of the few great epics in Western literature, the Comedy offers its readers the pleasures of world-…Read more
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119A Note on Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision and Thomas Reid’s Distinction Between Primary and Secondary QualitiesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 253-263. 1974.
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83George Ripley and miracles: External evidence versus internal convictionMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.I maintain that George Ripley (1802-1880) is among the most philosophically searching New England transcendentalists. In this essay I argue that Ripley’s denial that God’s miracles are the sole evidence of Christian truth clarifies the issues and debate that divide empiricists who seek evidence for truth through external verification and intuitionists who maintain that religious truth is manifest only within the minds, hearts, and special senses of true believers
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106Reply to Professor MirarchiJournal of the History of Ideas 38 (4): 714. 1977.Professor l a mirarchi argues, In his "force and absolute motion in berkeley's philosophy of physics" (_journal of the history of ideas<d>, Volume 38, Pages 705-713), That I have misunderstood berkeley's treatment of inertial motion. I contend, Despite professor mirarchi's criticism, That while berkeley accepts the newtonian principle of inertia, He cannot accommodate it into his own radically contingent picture of the universe
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96Boswell on Johnson's refutation of Berkeley: revisiting the stoneJournal of the History of Ideas 54 (3): 437-448. 1993.
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71Montaigne, An Apology for Raymond Sebond: Happiness and the Poverty of ReasonMidwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 94-110. 2002.
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Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |