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116Pragmatic vs. Skeptical Empiricism: Hume and Dewey on Experience and CausationThe Pluralist 8 (1): 31-62. 2013.All knowledge 'begins with experience,' but it does not therefore 'arise' from experience.The classical American pragmatists are usually considered to be either empiricists or heirs to the empiricist tradition in philosophy. This is unsurprising given the nature of the pragmatist philosophical program as a late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century reaction against transcendental idealism. Pragmatists sought to ground their inquiry resolutely in experience sans speculative metaphysics. However,…Read more
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35Naked wax and necessary existence: modal voluntarism and Descartes’s motivesIntellectual History Review 28 (4): 477-513. 2018.
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After Nature: On Bodies, Consciousness, and CausalityJournal of Consciousness Studies 19 (5-6): 229-250. 2012.Within John Dewey's pragmatic naturalism, consciousness, meaning, and value were conceptualized as ontologically real phenomena. During the century that has passed since Dewey's time, naturalism has come to be dominated by physicalist and realist perspectives within which the reality of consciousness, meaning, and value are problematic. Given this historical tension in naturalism, the present paper does the following: describes why consciousness, causality, and the body were all at home in Dewey…Read more
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10After Nature: On Bodies, Consciousness, and CausalityJournal of Consciousness Studies 19 (5-6): 5-6. 2012.
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24Volitional efficacy and the paralytic's arm: Hume and the discursus of occasionalismIntellectual History Review 25 (4): 401-412. 2015.
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2OccasionalismIn James Fieser & Bradley Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . 2011.
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North Carolina State UniversityRegular Faculty
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
20th Century Philosophy |