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    Criminalization is a form of social marginalization that is little appreciated as a determinant of poor health. Criminalization can be understood in at least two ways — in the narrow sense as the imposition of criminal penalties for a certain behavior, and more broadly as the conferral of a criminalized status on all individuals in the population, whether proven guilty of a specific offense or not. Both criminal penalties and criminalized status threaten the mental and physical health of these p…Read more
  • For The Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing And Everything
    In Judy Illes & Barbara J. Sahakian (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics, Oxford University Press. 2011.
    The law has taken a long-standing interest in the mind. Cognitive neuroscience, the study of the mind through the brain, has gained prominence in part as a result of the advent of functional neuroimaging as a widely used tool for psychological research. Existing legal principles make virtually no assumptions about the neural bases of criminal behavior, and as a result they can comfortably assimilate new neuroscience without much in the way of conceptual upheaval: new details, new sources of evid…Read more
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    Nietzsche’s Second Turning
    Pli 25 35-54. 2014.
    Locates, discusses, and explains the transition between Nietzsche's middle and late periods represented by the first four books of _The Gay Science_.
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    First page preview
    with Jonathan Bain, Timothy Bays, Katherine A. Brading, Stephen G. Brush, Murray Clarke, Sharyn Clough, Giancarlo Ghirardi, Brendan S. Gillon, and Robert G. Hudson
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18 (2-3). 2004.
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    Nietzsche's Musical Conception of Time
    In Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Time and History, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 291. 2008.
  • Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy (edited book)
    with Mohan Matthen
    Routledge. 2021.
  • In Nietzsche's Footsteps (2nd ed.)
    8th House. 2018.
    A philosophical travel memoir, discussing Nietzsche's life and philosophy while visiting his three favorite residences, Nice, Turin, and Sils-Maria.
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    Nietzsche as Philosopher
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 (40): 81-82. 2010.
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    Full-length studies of individual books of Nietzsche have been lacking until now both because of the immaturity of the field and because Nietzsche's style itself seems to contraindicate them. Close reading, however, reveals a great deal of literary and philosophical unity. This holds good even of Human, All-Too-Human, Nietzsche's longest and most unwieldy work. The book represents Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer and Wagner, as well as the birth of Nietzsche as we know him in the later works.…Read more
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    Rex Aut Lex
    Apeiron 29 (2). 1996.
    Compares the differing answers as to whether human rulers or the law should be supreme in the works of Plato and Aristotle
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    Review (review)
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 40 (1): 81. 2010.
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    Philosophy is Education is Politics
    Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 1-20. 2002.
    In the central section of the _Protagoras_, the discussion between Socrates and Protagoras has broken down in a seemingly irresolvable dispute about methodology - Protagoras wants to make long speeches, while Socrates wants to proceed by means of the short questions and answers characteristic of the elenchus. The onlookers offer solutions in an attempt to restart the discussion. This section appears to be a mere dramatic interlude, but I argue that in fact it constitutes a parable establishing l…Read more
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    Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 148-149. 2003.
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    Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Science (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 148-149. 2003.
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    Nietzsche as Philosopher (review)
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 40 (1): 81-82. 2010.
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    Born to Affirm the Eternal Recurrence
    Philosophy in the Contemporary World 3 (3): 1-11. 1996.
    I argue that the Bruce Springsteen song “Born to Run” needs to be interpreted in light of---and thus gives evidence of a connection between---the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Buber. Along the way I give an in-depth reading of the Nietzschean doctrines of Eternal Recurrence and Overman as they emerge from Also Sprach Zarathustra, as well as a brief overview of Buber’s I and Thou.