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Did Erasmus of Rotterdam reject all philosophy, or rather did he have a very special understanding of it as, at its best, a way of life? This study attempts to answer this question. The work reconstructs his concept of philosophy.
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The ancient Western conception of philosophy as a way of life was eclipsed as philosophy became an academic discipline, a development that peaked under the influence of 13th-century scholasticism. Domański both traces this development and explores how some resisted it.
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Creative error genealogy: toward a method in the history of philosophyIn Marta Faustino & Hélder Telo (eds.), Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments, Brill. 2024.
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21Confucian Academies in East Asia, edited by Vladimir Glomb, Eun-Jeung Lee, and Martin GehlmanJournal of Chinese Philosophy 48 (4): 441-444. 2021.
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10Bibliometrics and Qualitative Assessment: a Pragmatist ApproachContemporary Pragmatism 20 (1-2): 150-168. 2023.In this essay we explore whether and how we should use bibliometrics in hiring, promoting, and granting in the academy. We suggest a Deweyan-Hickmanian pragmatist approach to reflecting on the technology of bibliometrics as a resource for inherently qualitative judgements in these deliberations. We begin with a literature review of current work evaluating the role and use of bibliometrics in the academy, from advocating for them to questioning their construct validity and assessing their limitat…Read more
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9Let’s Be Frank: Revitalizing Frank Friendship in the Contemporary Philosophy ClassroomAmerican Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 6 53-73. 2021.Philodemus’s On Frank Criticism offers a unique conception of friendship that relies on frank speech, or truth-telling. The ability to have frank conversations with one another is the heart of a conception of friendship in which we are seen, heard, and acknowledged. This is the friendship through which we become better citizens and better selves. In particular, Philodemus is offering this truth-based friendship to students and their mentors. Yet, one would be hard put to find such trust and deep…Read more
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1Introduction: Toward a Philosophy of Higher EducationIn Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-23. 2018.This essay intends to create a path forward for philosophical work in higher education that is sensitive to the discursive, organizational, economic, epistemic, and political cultures of the institution. This essay will therefore not provide a grand theory of higher education that might be overlaid onto university practice. Instead, as we will argue, any viable philosophy of higher education must not only recognize but also be prepared to account for and harness the heterogeneity of theoretical,…Read more
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11Utopia as the Gift of Ethical Genius: Ernst Cassirer’s Theory of UtopiaEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (1): 96-108. 2018.In this essay, I explore Cassirer’s brief discussion of utopia in An Essay on Man, as likely built upon Kant’s theory of genius as from the Critique of Judgment. This exploration of Cassirer’s theory of utopia lays the groundwork to argue that a utopia is the dynamic product of the “ethical genius,” a work that advances culture by luring it, via ideal imaginaries, to new realms of possibility for ethical advancement. Utopias have their dangers and limits, but nevertheless have a critical role to…Read more
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11Introduction to symposium on Philosophy and the art of writing by Richard ShustermanMetaphilosophy 54 (4): 373-376. 2023.This introductory piece provides context for this symposium on Richard Shusterman's new book, Philosophy and the Art of Writing. The piece reflects on the symposium genre from Plato's classic dialogue to its form today. It claims that Shusterman's work asks us to take this kind of philosophical writing more seriously, and for that reason the symposium itself has taken on a different structure. The piece discusses how each of the contributors responding to the book (with Shusterman leading the wa…Read more
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14Philosophy of Culture as Theory, Method, and Way of Life: Contemporary Reflections and Applications (edited book)BRILL. 2022.The authors of this collection argue that all philosophy is really philosophy of culture and that through it we can live more meaningful, flourishing, and wisely guided lives.
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13The philosophical way of life as sub‐creationMetaphilosophy 54 (4): 377-389. 2023.Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing suggests something vital about the tension between philosophical discourses that cannot capture or be the full meaning of living a life in relation to wisdom, and lived philosophies that cannot do away with discourses to deepen a lived experience beyond them: that philosophy as “an embodied way of life” is a sub-creation that emerges from the tension between them. This paper uses several different moments and ideas from Philosophy and the Ar…Read more
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8The Spiritual Exercise of "Sankofa": Toward a Post-Colonial, Pluralistic, and Intercultural PhilosophyEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7 (1): 1-5. 2023.Preview: Philosophy has notably struggled in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to come to terms with how it participated in the erasure and invisibility of persons across the globe. Western philosophy over hundreds of years found itself immersed in the colonial project, in all its economic, social, political, legal, disciplinary, and aesthetic dimensions. Its logic of Western racial superiority, grounded in eugenics, social Darwinism, and deterministic accounts of racial realism, grew and…Read more
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7Intercultural modes of philosophyBrill. 2021.Until rather recently, philosophy, when practiced as a way of life, was, for most, a communal enterprise of mutually reinforced personal cultivation. In these times of social isolation, including in academic philosophy itself, it is time, yet again, to revitalize this lost, but vital, intercultural mode of philosophy. This volume characterizes a neglected communal mode of philosophy - the philosophical community - by describing the constellation of metaethical principles (general, axiological, c…Read more
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10Philosophical Wandering as a Mode of Philosophy in Cultural Life: From Diogenes of Sinope to Cornel WestEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2 (3): 51-73. 2018.In this essay, I defend philosophical wandering not only as an approach to doing philosophy, but also as an important force to incite critical reflection in cultural life. I argue that philosophical wanderers have an embodied, errant praxis, supporting wisdom whenever they engage with others. For these philosophers reflection is not given in a series of systematic assertions, nor through phenomenological description, nor analytic dissection. Rather, reflective life is the force that enhances the…Read more
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7In Quest of Platonopolis: Excerpts from Research Visits to Philosophical CommunitiesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (2): 107-115. 2017.
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5The Arrhythmic Blues: The Rhythm of Learning and How Humanity’s Natural Propensity for Arrhythmia May Doom CivilizationPhilosophy of Education 71 400-407. 2015.
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