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Rouse’s Conception of Practice Theory and Existential PhenomenologyPhänomenologische Forschungen 2017 (2): 92-110. 2017.Joseph Rouse is one of the most distinctive and innovative proponents of practice theory today. This article focuses in section I on two extended elaborations with systematic intent from Rouse’s corpus over the last two decades regarding the nature of practices, highlighting in particular the concept of normativity. Toward this end, this article explains why Rouse argues that we need to bring about something like a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the intrinsic normativity of practi…Read more
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362The Possibility of Philosophical AnthropologyIn Georg W. Bertram, Robin Celikates, Christophe Laudou & David Lauer (eds.), Socialité et reconnaissance: Grammaires de l’humain, L'harmattan. pp. 105-121. 2007.Is a conception of human nature still possible or even desirable in light of the “postmetaphysical sensibilities” of our time? Furthermore, can philosophy make any contribution towards the articulation of a tenable conception of human nature given this current intellectual climate? I will argue in this paper that affirmative answers can be given to both of these questions. Section I rehearses briefly some of the difficulties and even dangers involved in working out any conception of human nat…Read more
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1253Early Heidegger on Social RealityIn Alessandro Salice & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), The Phenomenological Approach to Social Reality: History, Concepts, Problems, Springer Verlag. pp. 91-119. 2016.This book chapter shows how the early Heidegger’s philosophy around the period of Being and Time can address some central questions of contemporary social ontology. After sketching “non-summative constructionism”, which is arguably the generic framework that underlies all forms of contemporary analytic social ontology, I lay out early Heidegger’s conception of human social reality in terms of an extended argument. The Heidegger that shows up in light of this treatment is an acute phenomenologist…Read more
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366The Expressivist Conception of Language and World: Humboldt and the Charge of Linguistic Idealism and RelativismIn Jon Burmeister & Mark Sentesy (eds.), On language: analytic, continental and historical contributions, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 3-26. 2007.Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is rightly regarded as a thinker who extended the development of the so-called expressivist conception of language and world that Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) and especially Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) initially articulated. Being immersed as Humboldt was in the intellectual climate of German Romanticism, he aimed not only to provide a systematic foundation for how he believed linguistic research as a science should be conducted, but also to attempt to…Read more
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480Heidegger’s Underdeveloped Conception of the Undistinguishedness (Indifferenz) of Everyday Human ExistenceIn Schmid Hans Bernhard & Thonhauser Gerhard (eds.), From conventionalism to social authenticity : Heidegger’s anyone and contemporary social theory, Springer. 2017.This chapter provides an interpretation of the early Heidegger’s underdeveloped conception of the undistinguishedness of everyday human existence in Being and Time. After explaining why certain translation choices of some key terms in this text are interpretively and philosophically important, I first provide a concise argument for why the social constitution interpretation of the relation between ownedness and unownedness makes better overall sense of Heidegger’s ambivalent attitude toward the …Read more
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22Understanding the Social Constitution of the Human IndividualDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 2011.
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380Concrete Interpersonal Encounters or Sharing a Common World: Which is More Fundamental in Phenomenological Approaches to Sociality?In Thomas Szanto & Dermot Moran (eds.), Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’, Routledge. pp. 93-106. 2015.A central question along which phenomenological approaches to sociality or intersubjectivity have diverged concerns whether concrete interpersonal encounters or sharing a common world is more fundamental in working out an adequate phenomenology of human sociality. On one side we have philosophers such as the early Sartre, Martin Buber, Michael Theunissen, and Emmanuel Levinas, all of whom emphasize, each in his own way, the priority of some mode of interpersonal encounters (broadly construed) in…Read more
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Duke UniversityDepartment of Political Science
Department of PhilosophyVisiting scholar (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |