New Britain, Connecticut, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy
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    John Macmurray on the “Personal” as Involving a “Practical Contradiction” and Why It Matters
    Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (1): 67-73. 2018.
    Macmurray replaces the traditional philosophical standpoint of subject-as-thinker with self-as-agent, and only persons are agents. The unit of the personal is “I-and-you”; I become “I” when I distinguish myself from “not-I”, namely, “you”. Awareness of the negative begins in babyhood, as I learns I am dependent on a relationship with an Other who can fail to fulfil my needs. The logic of the personal then differs from mathematical logic or Hegelian “logic”, since for it, “the positive is constit…Read more
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    The Being Which Is Behind Us
    International Studies in Philosophy 30 (1): 47-56. 1998.
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    Private Scholars-Public Intellectuals
    International Studies in Philosophy 29 (1): 35-44. 1997.
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    What It Contains
    with Kurt H. Wolff
    Lexington Books. 2002.
    What It Contains brings together the newest and most important essays of one of the most eminent and creative twentieth-century social theorists, Kurt H. Wolff. More than simply a collection of essays, this is a unified book with a highly self-reflexive and self-referential commentary running throughout the text. Extending and expanding on some of Wolff's important earlier work, the book covers topics that are of vital importance today: surrrender-and-catch, the ineluctable, man as a mixed pheno…Read more
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    The Being Which Is Behind Us
    International Studies in Philosophy 30 (1): 47-56. 1998.
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    Alternative Ontology in Practice
    International Studies in Philosophy 34 (2): 1-12. 2002.
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    The World as One Action
    International Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 79-87. 2008.