• Ricoeur, narrative, and legal contingency
    In Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor & Eileen Brennan (eds.), Reading Ricoeur Through Law, Lexington Books. 2021.
  • Introduction : reading Ricoeur through law
    In Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor & Eileen Brennan (eds.), Reading Ricoeur Through Law, Lexington Books. 2021.
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    Ricoeur's Philosophy of Imagination
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 16 (1-2): 93-104. 2006.
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    Ricœur and Just Institutions
    Philosophy Today 58 (4): 571-589. 2014.
    In Oneself as Another, Ricœur famously writes of the ethical intention as “aiming at the ‘good life’ with and for others, in just institutions.” This article explores the potential meaning of “just institutions,” a theme underdeveloped in Ricœur’s work. While many have argued that institutions necessarily reify and so cannot aim toward just ends, the article draws on Ricœur’s differentiation between objectification and reification to show why this need not be the case. While reification destroys…Read more
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    Digital Ricoeur
    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 7 (2): 124-145. 2016.
    As Ricœur scholars know, the literature by and on Ricœur is vast. Material written by Ricœur that is not collected in published volumes is often difficult to locate, and even in the published volumes it is frequently a challenge to locate where Ricœur discusses a particular topic. Given the amount of his work it can be a challenge too to determine changes in his analyses over the life of his corpus. And locating secondary literature on Ricœur can be equally problematic. In response, we have been…Read more
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    Addressing Contemporary Challenges to Hermeneutics
    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 12 (1): 71-89. 2021.
    Hermeneutics encounters three current challenges: by more quantitative orientations, by stances that reject pluralism, and by criticism that the hermeneutic field is elitist and esoteric. The article offers a response through Ricœur. The hermeneutic “choice in favor of meaning” insists upon the ontological value of the human condition. It shows the insufficiency of the quantitative approach, the remaining value of pluralistic consideration of what human meaning entails, and the real world conseq…Read more
  • Editor's introduction
    In Paul Ricœur (ed.), Lectures on imagination, University of Chicago Press. 2023.
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    Reading Ricoeur Through Law (edited book)
    with Marc De Leeuw and Eileen Brennan
    Lexington Books. 2021.
    This is the first collection of essays examining Paul Ricoeur's writings on law, bringing together eminent Ricoeur scholars from around the world to demonstrate the importance of Ricoeur's philosophy for the juridical field while offering new paths to extend and build on his work.
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    It is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts. I want to explore this metaphor and the insights it may offer us for better understanding legal interpretation. As in the opening epigraph from James Boyd White, I shall develop the metaphor of the text as window in three ways: the text may be transparent, opaque, or translucent. My goal will be to argue that the best way to understand legal interpretation is to conceive of the legal text as translucent, but along …Read more