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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
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Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
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    Darwin and the Situation of Emotion Research
    with Stephanie D. Preston
    Emotion Review 12 (3): 179-190. 2020.
    This article demonstrates how researchers from both the sciences and the humanities can learn from Charles Darwin’s mixed methodology. We identify two basic challenges that face emotion research in the sciences, namely a mismatch between experiment design and the complexity of life that we aim to explain, and problematic efforts to bridge the gap, including invalid inferences from constrained study designs, and equivocal use of terms like “sympathy” and “empathy” that poorly reflect such methodo…Read more
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    At the outset it is worth remembering how Heidegger in the 1970s first appeared prominently, though very differently, at the intersection of rhetoric and philosophy. The "rhetoric of figures and tropes" then seemed compelling due in part to Derrida's Heidegger, who played a key role in the famous Derrida essay translated into English with the added subtitle "White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy." Compelling for many was the history there referenced from Cicero, book 3 of Aristotle…Read more
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    Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement by Lisbeth Lipari
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 49 (1): 117-119. 2016.
    We learn something from the mistakes we make with a book. In this case I read the word “quarkism” where I should have read the word “Quakerism.” As in the sentence on page 102 of Lisbeth Lipari’s quirky book: “This kind of listening is perhaps what is called in Quakerism [or was it “quarkism”] the ‘gathered meeting,’ where the assembled silent worshipers cease being individual selves and instead join together in ‘gathered harkening.’” You can guess “worshipers” alerted me to this mistake, but th…Read more
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    Introduction: Alva Noë, "In Focus"
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 54 (1): 25-27. 2021.
    Alva Noë, who is a major figure in establishment philosophy, has been producing work that speaks directly to rhetoric in new ways that are important. This "In Focus" project explores how so, with the help of Carrie Noland on dance, Thomas Rickert on music, and, in a previous issue of Philosophy & Rhetoric 53.1, Nancy Struever on the basics of human inquiry including pictorial, which she thinks almost nobody gets right except for R. G. Collingwood, and perhaps now Noë. In each case you will see h…Read more
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    1. WWJD? The Genealogy of a Syntactic Form WWJD? The Genealogy of a Syntactic Form (pp. 1-25) Free Content
    with Daniel Shore, Michael Taussig, Adam Herring, D. A. Miller, and Keri Walsh
    Critical Inquiry 37 (1): 1-25. 2010.
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    Why Theory Now? An Introduction
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (1): 1-5. 2020.
    “rhetorical theory” since 1800. Data source: Google Trends “rhetorical theory”, “literary theory”, and “critical theory”, since 1800. Data source: Google Trends The old news is that Theory with a capital “T” happened from approximately 1965–85 and then dissipated in scandal. Or to the contrary, Theory is an ancient and global activity we find wherever we have evidence of systematic reflection, upon language especially. Alive and well. But neither of these stories can be adequate given a graph li…Read more
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    Beginnings and Ends of Rhetorical Theory: Ann Arbor 1900
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (1): 34-50. 2020.
    ABSTRACT Google Ngram metadata reveal that the English phrase “rhetorical theory” is not that old, appearing on the scene in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and then picking up dramatically with critical and literary theory in the 1960s. How do we square this with familiar arguments that rhetorical theory is much, much older? In this forum contribution I argue that the long view applies to our contemporary rhetorical theory only if we equivocate. Much of what currently falls under the…Read more
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    Being-moved: rhetoric as the art of listening
    University of California Press. 2020.
    If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening-and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger's early lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric, where his famous topic, Being, gives way to being-moved. The results, Gross goes on to show, are p…Read more
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    The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry by David L. Marshall
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 54 (4): 421-426. 2021.
    When we pick up a big book like this with big names including Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, and Warburg, we want to learn something significant we don't already know by way of reading and reputation. And if we are in rhetoric per se, we are especially eager to see how these people are attached substantially to a field that none of them claimed. Following from these initial expectations, we are then owed a plausible methodology that tends neither toward the wish fulfillment of big rhetoric, nor to…Read more
  • Review (review)
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 54 (4): 421-426. 2021.
  • Review (review)
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 49 (1): 117-119. 2016.
  • Historiography and the limits of (sacred) rhetoric
    In Michael F. Bernard-Donals & Kyle Jensen (eds.), Responding to the sacred: an inquiry into the limits of rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2021.