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4Felix Klein’s early contributions to anschauliche GeometrieArchive for History of Exact Sciences 78 (4): 401-477. 2024.Between 1873 and 1876, Felix Klein published a series of papers that he later placed under the rubric anschauliche Geometrie in the second volume of his collected works (1922). The present study attempts not only to follow the course of this work, but also to place it in a larger historical context. Methodologically, Klein’s approach had roots in Poncelet’s principle of continuity, though the more immediate influences on him came from his teachers, Plücker and Clebsch. In the 1860s, Clebsch rewo…Read more
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8Einstein Studies, volume 11: A retrospective reviewStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 (3): 667-686. 2008.
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26Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century (edited book)Springer New York. 2018.Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology explores the rich interplay between mathematical and physical ideas by studying the interactions of major actors and the roles of important research communities over the course of the last century.
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16Nietzsche and Contemporary EthicsJournal of Nietzsche Studies 53 (2): 225-231. 2022.Simon Robertson's Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics is a significant contribution to analytic-style interpretations of Nietzsche and his impact on contemporary ethics. Robertson proposes a Nietzschean-inspired ethics, which, while not committed to everything Nietzsche says, is largely consistent with Nietzsche's views. The resultant position is an error theory about contemporary morality with a positive alternative that is naturalist, internalist, irrealist, cognitivist, non-elitist, non-categor…Read more
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46Death Does Not Harm the One Who Dies Because There is No One to HarmSouthwest Philosophy Review 37 (2): 83-106. 2021.If death is a harm then it is a harm that cannot be experienced. The proponent of death’s harm must therefore provide an answer to Epicurus, when he says that ‘death, is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not present, and when death is present, then we are not’. In this paper I respond to the two main ways philosophers have attempted to answer Epicurus, regarding the subject of death’s harm: either directly or via analogy. The direct way argues that there is a truth-maker (or difference-…Read more
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18A Nietzschean Metaethics: Criticism of Some Contemporary Themes in MetaethicsLexington Books. 2019.This book provides an interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position, which is to say a theory about our practice of ethics. Rowe uses this interpretation to provide some interesting and thought-provoking criticisms of themes in contemporary metaethics.
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619If death is a harm then it is a harm that cannot be experienced. The proponent of death's harm must therefore provide an answer to Epicurus, when he says that ‘death, is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not present, and when death is present, then we are not’. In this paper I respond to the two main ways philosophers have attempted to answer Epicurus, regarding the subject of death's harm: either directly or via analogy. The direct way argues that there is a truth-maker (or difference-…Read more
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40Truthmaker Theory and NaturalismMetaphysica 19 (2): 225-250. 2018.This paper argues that there is a heretofore unresolved tension between truthmaker-style metaphysics and a plausible version of Naturalism. At the turn of the century, George Molnar proposed four prima facie plausible principles for a realist metaphysics in order to expose truthmaker theory’s incapacity to find truthmakers for negative truths. I marshal the current plethora of attempted solutions to the problem into a crisp trilemma. Those who solve it claim that Molnar’s tetrad is consistent; t…Read more
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106Nietzsche’s ‘Anti-Naturalism’ in ‘The Four Great Errors’International Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (2): 256-276. 2013.This paper is primarily a response to ‘analytically-minded’ philosophers, such as Maudemarie Clark and Brian Leiter, who push for a ‘naturalistic’ interpretation of Nietzsche. In particular, this paper will consider Leiter’s (2007) discussion of Nietzsche’s chapter in Twilight of the Idols, ‘The Four Great Errors’, and argue that Leiter has misinterpreted this chapter in at least four ways. I provide a superior interpretation of this chapter, which argues that Nietzsche is using a transcendental…Read more
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242The Eternal Return of the Same: Nietzsche's "Valueless" Revaluation of All ValuesParrhesia 15 71-86. 2012.In this paper I argue that Nietzsche should be understood as a “thorough-going nihilist”. Rather than broaching two general projects of destroying current values and constructing new ones, I argue that Nietzsche should be understood only as a destroyer of values. I do this by looking at Nietzsche’s views on nihilism and the role played by Nietzsche’s cyclical view of time, or his doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the same. I provide a typology of nihilisms, as they are found in Nietzsche—neg…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Meta-Ethics |
Nietzsche: Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Meta-Ethics |