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10The Case Against Public PhilosophyIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.The subdiscipline of public philosophy is in its adolescence. The mark of maturity in philosophy is the introduction of a metatheoretical discourse. The niche subfield “experimental philosophy” tries to incorporate social scientific methods, but like public philosophy, it too is in its adolescence, often falling back on haphazard and poorly defined methodologies. The definition of public philosophy distinguishes between professional philosophers and what would best be termed amateurs, where prof…Read more
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20Guest Editor’s IntroductionInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 18 (1): 4-21. 1998.
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44Review: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 1 (2): 181-184. 2003.
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10FrontmatterIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. 2013.
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9ContentsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. 2013.
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7Eight: Education FoundationsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 169-184. 2013.
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11Nine: Formal EducationIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 185-218. 2013.
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5Three: Education As AcculturationIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 68-81. 2013.
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8Four: Education And Social UnityIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 82-108. 2013.
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3List Of AbbreviationsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. 2013.
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1Six: Reason And The SentimentsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 129-146. 2013.
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13Conclusion: A Smithian LiberalismIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 264-270. 2013.
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1IntroductionIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 1-18. 2013.
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11Seven: Normative ArgumentationIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 147-166. 2013.
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2AcknowledgmentsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. 2013.
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8NotesIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 271-310. 2013.
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3Two: One System, Many MotivationsIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 40-67. 2013.
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10Five: Finding Rationality In ReasonIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 109-128. 2013.
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4Eleven: Progress Or Postmodernism?In Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 239-263. 2013.
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6Ten: History And NormativityIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 219-238. 2013.
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6One: Mediating Terminology And Textual ComplexityIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 21-39. 2013.
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1IndexIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 329-341. 2013.
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6Works CitedIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 311-328. 2013.
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20Three ConversationsTeaching Philosophy 26 (1): 3-20. 2003.Students sometimes leave introductory courses in philosophy with no deep sense of the connection between the work of Plato and contemporary philosophy, with a view of Plato’s dialogues as a kind of literature, or with a somewhat shallow sense of the thrust of Plato’s philosophy. This paper proposes a pedagogical method that offers students a highly sophisticated understanding of Plato’s philosophy that is both applicable to lower-level survey courses and capable of being delivered in a limited a…Read more
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32Three Types of Critical Thinking About ReligionInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15 (3): 79-88. 1996.
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41Critical Thinking and the Moral SentimentsInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 16 (3): 76-91. 1997.
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11Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral SentimentsYale University Press. 2013.In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith, a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith’s two major works, _The Theory of Moral Sentiments _and _The Wealth of Nations_, Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Wein…Read more
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58Adam Smith and the Educative Critique: A response to my commentatorsStudies in Philosophy and Education 34 (5): 541-550. 2015.This paper is both a response to the four reviewers in a special symposium on my book Adam Smith’s Pluralism and a substantive discussion of philosophy of education. In it, I introduce what I call “the educative critique,” a mode of analysis similar to Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial critiques, but focusing on the educative role of a text. I argue that choosing education as a theme is itself a solution to interpretive difficulties, not an add-on that only concerns pedagogues and policy-makers