•  2
    Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka (review)
    Contemporary Buddhism 11 (2): 287-290. 2010.
  •  5
    Buddhism and the environment
    Contemporary Buddhism 8 (2): 93-96. 2007.
  •  8
    Emptiness: interpretation and metaphor
    Contemporary Buddhism 3 (1): 7-20. 2002.
  •  253
    Ethics: The Classic Readings (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 1997.
    This is the second volume in a new series of classic readings in philosophy and collects together the central texts in the history of moral philosophy thus representing many of the most important topics in the field
  •  89
    No Title available: New Books (review)
    Philosophy 71 (275): 164-167. 1996.
  •  25
    Husserl (The Arguments of the Philosophers)
    Philosophical Books 32 (4): 221-223. 1991.
  •  89
    Meaning
    Routledge. 2003.
    Meaning is one of our most central and most ubiquitous concepts. Anything at all may, in suitable contexts, have meaning ascribed to it. In this wide-ranging book, David Cooper departs from the usual focus on linguistic meaning to discuss how works of art, ceremony, social action, bodily gesture, and the purpose of life can all be meaningful. He argues that the notion of meaning is best approached by considering what we accept as explanations of meaning in everyday practice and shows that in the…Read more
  •  46
    Deconstruction
    with Stuart Sim, Kathleen Marie Higgins, and Robert Stecker
    In Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker & David Cooper (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, Wiley. 2009.
  •  87
    Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays
    with Jurgen Habermas and William Mark Hohengarten
    Philosophical Quarterly 43 (173): 572. 1993.
    This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range of current debates. The remainder of the essays can be seen as his contribution to these debates.Habermas's essay on George Herbert Mead is a focal point of the book. In it he sketches a postmetaphysical, intersubjective approach to q…Read more
  •  28
    Music, Nature and Trasncendence
    Rivista di Estetica 80 48-64. 2022.
    In both Western and East Asian traditions, large claims have been made about the power of aesthetic experience, whether of art (especially music) or of nature, to foster a sense of transcendence. There are, however, important differences between the traditions and, in consequence, between the characters of these claims. After illustrating these claims, I identify and elaborate on some of their salient aspects. I then argue that East Asian traditions possess greater resources than Western ones fo…Read more
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    Presupposition
    Philosophical Review 86 (2): 274-278. 1977.
  •  154
    Moral relativism
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3 (1): 97-108. 1978.
  •  79
    Linguistics and'cultural deprivation'
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 12 (1). 1978.
    David E Cooper; Linguistics and ‘Cultural Deprivation’, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 12, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 113–120, https://doi.org/10.1.
  •  77
    David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon philosophical concerns. For Nietzsche, the purpose of true education was to produce creative individuals who take responsibility for their lives, beliefs and values. His ideal was human authenticity. David E. Coo…Read more
  •  89
    A Companion to Aesthetics (edited book)
    with Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, and Robert Stecker
    In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art Unique to this edition are six …Read more
  •  35
    Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that Buddhism is, in many important respects, in tune with environmental concerns, Cooper and James argue that what makes it 'green' is its view of human life. The true connection between the religion and …Read more
  •  48
    Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy, ed. Endre Szécsényi
    with Endre Szécsényi, Peter Cheyne, Cairns Craig, Emily Brady, Douglas Hedley, Mary Warnock, Guy Bennett-Hunter, Michael McGhee, James Kirwan, Isis Brook, Fran Speed, Yuriko Saito, James MacAllister, Arto Haapala, Alexander J. B. Hampton, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson, and Arnar Árnason
    On 18–19 May 2018, a symposium was held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ronald W. Hepburn (1927–2008). The speakers at this event discussed Hepburn’s oeuvre from several perspectives. For this book, the collection of the revised versions of their talks has been supplemented by the papers of other scholars who were unable to attend the symposium itself. Thus this volume contains contribution…Read more
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    Aesthetic Value
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (2): 490-492. 1998.
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    Philosophy: The Classic Readings is a collection of accessible readings from the history of philosophy specifically focused on metaphysics and epistemology. The philosophers include Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Russell and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia.
  • The Persistence of Beauty
    In Claes Entzenberg & S. Säätela (eds.), Perspectives on Aesthetics, Art and Culture, Thales. 2005.
    Throughout the twentieth century, aestheticians and art theorists declared the 'death' of beauty as a serious, meaningful concept for aesthetics and art practice. Such declarations are better understood as polemical provocations, making their obituarism premature. Careful attention to the writings of those cited testify to the persistence of beauty, albeit in new, 'difficult', 'challenging' forms. Beauty persists, taking on new forms and inflections.
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    Buddhism, Beauty, and Virtue
    In Kathleen J. Higgins, Shakti Maira & Sonia Sikka (eds.), Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. pp. 123-138. 2017.
    The chapter challenges hyperbolic claims about the centrality of appreciation of beauty to Buddhism. Within the texts, attitudes are more mixed, except for a form of 'inner beauty' - the beauty found in the expression of virtues or wisdom in forms of bodily comportment. Inner beauty is a stable presence throughout Buddhist history, practices, and art.