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8The Rise of the Mexican New ClassTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2002 (122): 189-192. 2002.
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4Try Hell, It's a Democracy and the Weather Is WarmIn Galen A. Foresman (ed.), Supernatural and Philosophy, Wiley. 2013-09-05.Heaven falls into chaos during God's absence, and Hell becomes fairly democratic. With Lucifer caged up and out of the picture, demons build a relatively civil society through contracts. This is sovereignty by institution as opposed to acquisition. The leviathans are unlike the angels in that the angels lacked a unity of wills. Driven by their nature, people—and angels—cannot live in harmony without a central and absolute authority to keep them in order. Without the presence of God to command th…Read more
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3Resistance Really Is Futile: On Being Assimilated by Our Own TechnologyIn Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl (eds.), The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy, Wiley. 2016-03-14.By technology, Martin Heidegger is referring to modern industrial technology, as opposed to older handicraft technology, or craft. Technology gives a way of viewing the world and everything in it as resources, the purpose of which is to serve further applications of technology. This is how the Borg views the universe, as raw material that they can assimilate into the Collective to feed their quest to continually assimilate more. The Borg also views the assimilation of species as an improvement, …Read more
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2This analysis provides a fact-based examination of the doctrine of nationalism and its idol, the national interest, couched within the context of twentieth century wartime presidential speeches and writings. What is significant about this rhetoric is that it provides a clear delineation of the growth of nationalism as America’s underlying political ideology and has fueled reliance on the concept of the national interest in guiding foreign affairs. By building public policies around their own per…Read more
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Profits and Sustainability: Lessons Learned from Workers' CooperativesPhilosophy for Business 63. 2010.
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Florida State UniversityRegular Faculty
Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |