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    Kant's Compatibilism (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 49 (3): 661-663. 1996.
    Hudson presents a lucid, thoughtful, and convincing account of how Kant's belief in causal determinism is compatible with his belief in human free will. Hudson's book is divided into five largely self contained chapters, the first of which clearly sets forth the apparent conflict. The second chapter is the heart of the book and is also where Hudson is at his best. Hudson brings Kant into contemporary philosophy of mind in the third chapter. The fourth chapter, which is the least crucial for an a…Read more
  • Bataille's Moral Summit: The Communication Between Lacerated Beings
    Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. 1998.
    Bataille has often been dismissed as an "excremental" philosopher. Recently, however, his writings have garnered more serious attention, especially because of their influence upon contemporary French thought. But Bataille's importance far exceeds his place in the history of ideas. In his notion of communication, Bataille offers us a radically new conception of value. ;Bataille diagnoses utilitarian values as representative of a fundamental selfishness. This selfishness is a result of our placing…Read more
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    Sovereign ‘Subjectivity’ in Bataille
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 32 (1): 14. 2001.