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53Comic and Tragic Interlocutors and Socratic MethodTeaching Philosophy 22 (4): 361-375. 1999.Teaching is often framed in terms of performance: an orator stands before a crowd, attempting to capture attention and to deliver material prepared in advance. This analogy falls apart, however, when one considers the extent to which teaching is a dialogical endeavor. Looking to the Meno, the Symposium, and the Republic, this paper offers an interpretation of these texts which deepens our understanding of Plato’s theory of education. First, a Platonic view of education recommends a view of educa…Read more
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1211 Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of GadgetsIn Eva Kit Wah Man & Jeffrey Petts (eds.), Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living, Amsterdam University Press. pp. 201-220. 2023.
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27Game: Animals, Video Games and HumanityJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1): 117-120. 2023.In her provocative 1978 essay, “Eating Meat and Eating People,” (Philosophy Vol. 53, No. 206, pp. 465–479) Cora Diamond asks us to consider Jane Legge’s “Learni.
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722Falsely, Sanely, ShallowlyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 19 (1): 139-156. 2005.Our reluctance to demystify grief is a sign of the distinctive obligation and discomfort that people feel towards those who have died. These feelings, however, are instructive about the nature of grief. As a vehicle of a living person’s relation to the dead, grief is mysterious—and we are rightly reluctant to take that mystery away. But grief is not to be avoided by philosophy on that account. I defend a less Romantic view of grief, in which a grieving person’s experience of “normal” grief: 1) i…Read more
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22Discovering Design: Explorations in Design StudiesDesign History: An AnthologyGraphic Design: Reproduction and Representation since 1800Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual DesignThe Idea of DesignDesign and Aesthetics: A ReaderJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (1): 76. 2000.
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2Cathryn Vasseleu, Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 289-291. 1999.
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19Taste and the Household: The Domestic Aesthetic and Moral ReasoningState University of New York Press. 2001.Shows how lousy food, cheesy clothes, and dingy homes can ruin our lives
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22Dogs and Birds in PlatoPhilosophy and Literature 38 (2): 446-461. 2014.Arguing for censorship of the poets in the Republic, Socrates draws most of his examples from Homer. These examples often depict soldiers facing death on the battlefield. Homer, in turn, often represents a soldier’s death with the image of dogs and birds scavenging upon his body. Homer’s representations of death, then, often include dogs or birds, and these images are found in the near background of Plato’s Republic. How does Plato himself use these animal images? I discuss Plato’s depictions of…Read more
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22The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects by schwenger, peterJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (3): 336-338. 2011.
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1Susan L. Feagin and Patrick Maynard, eds., Aesthetics (review)Philosophy in Review 19 14-15. 1999.
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Taste and the Household: The Domestic Aesthetic and Moral ReasoningJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 60 (4): 366-367. 2002.
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |