• Tom Petty Didn't Really Need to Know
    with Don Fallis
    In Randall E. Auxier & Megan A. Volpert (eds.), Tom Petty and Philosophy: We Need to Know, Open Court Publishing. 2019.
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    Fichte and Pure Conscious Events
    Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 1 (10): 3-13. 1995.
  • I attempt to dispel the misconception that all of mysticism advocates seclusion from and apathy towards the concerns of the social world. To this end, I offer a phenomenological analysis of key aspects of two particular mystical ways of life, one propounded by Meister Eckhart and the medieval Christian mystics whom he inspired and the other advocated by Dogen Zenji and the Soto school of Zen Buddhism which he founded. In contrast to the relativism of Steven Katz' 'constructivism', I demonstrate …Read more
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    Several contemporary philosophers have charged that there is a conceptual tension between nondualistic types of mystical awareness--an awareness of some particular conception of the divine as an all-pervasive unity within which there are no distinct substances--and the social character of morality. However, some nondualistic mystics have conceptualized enlightenment not only as being compatible with moral virtue--specifically, compassion and care--but as providing a foundation for it. I here off…Read more
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    Perennialists regarding the phenomenology of mysticism, like Walter Stace, feel that all Christian mystical experiences are fundamentally similar to each other and to experiences described by mystics across religious traditions, cultures and ages. In his seminal work, Mystic Union: An Essay in the Phenomenology of Mysticism, Nelson Pike convincingly argues that this extreme position is inadequate for capturing the breadth of experiences described by the canonical Medieval Christian mystics. Howe…Read more
  • Towards a Phenomenology of Mystical Being
    Analecta Husserliana 47 263. 1995.
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    Fichte and Pure Conscious Events
    Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 3-13. 1995.