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Solidarity, imagination, and Richard Rorty's unfulfilled democratic possibilities: a Deweyan reconstructionIn Randall Auxier, Eli Kramer & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), Rorty and Beyond, Lexington Books. 2019.
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5Alain Locke, Imaginative Reconstruction, and the Condemnation of StereotypesSouthwest Philosophy Review 39 (2): 89-92. 2023.
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6Memories and PortraitsEducation and Culture 31 (1): 97-100. 2015.In Memories and Portraits, H. G. Callaway presents us with the memoir of a philosopher. I will, as readers of this review will hardly find surprising, be reviewing this book with two foci. First, I will address the merits of the work itself and, second, with an eye toward our shared interests in John Dewey, other pragmatists, and how the work incorporates or neglects pragmatism’s contributions to the themes Callaway discusses. However, in many ways this second task is auxiliary. Callaway does no…Read more
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16Comments on Samuel Arnold’s “Social Equality and the Duty to Participate in Personal and Political Relationships”Southwest Philosophy Review 33 (2): 19-21. 2017.
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17American Pragmatism, Disability, and the Politics of Resilience in Mental Health EducationIn David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 623-634. 2018.In this chapter, we critique a concept of resilience that has emerged from contemporary positive psychology and its application to health education. We argue that the present popularity of “resilience” as a strategy for managing mental health discourages educational institutions from providing students with the mental health services they need. Using the tools of American pragmatism, especially the work of John Dewey, we criticize the paradigm of resilience and identify several concrete reformul…Read more
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14Dewey and Conservativism: Reading Liberalism and Social Action in Light of Vannatta’s Conservatism and PragmatismContemporary Pragmatism 15 (4): 525-533. 2018.Seth Vannatta argues that there can be a fruitful synthesis of pragmatism and classical conservatism. In doing this, he focuses the methodological commitments of pragmatism and conservatism. However, I will demonstrate with a reading of Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action that other commitments might prevent this synthesis—at least a synthesis between the thought of John Dewey and Edmund Burke. My conclusion is that pragmatism and conservativism might travel parallel to one another but that we …Read more
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7William J. Gavin, William James in Focus: Willing to Believe (review)William James Studies 10 (1). 2013.
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73Propranolol, post-traumatic stress disorder and narrative identityJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (11). 2008.Funding: Research funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, NNF 80045, States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics. While there are those who object to the prospective use of propranolol to prevent or treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), most obstreperous among them the President’s Council on Bioethics, the use of propranolol can be justified for patients with severe PTSD. Propranolol, if effective, will alter the quality of certain memories in the brain. But this is not a ser…Read more
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25Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to EllisonThe Pluralist 8 (2): 116-121. 2013.
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40Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison by James M. Albrecht (review)The Pluralist 8 (2): 116-121. 2013.Pragmatism seeks to reconstruct the individual's understanding of herself so that she is better equipped to grow and seek integration in her community. Given radical changes through the modern age and into our contemporary time, the idea of individualism that informs modern philosophy is radically out of step with reality. Pragmatism holds that individuality develops in interaction with an environment and, therefore, there is no originary individual such as moderns like Locke posit that exists a…Read more
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44The cambridge companion to Dewey (review)Education and Culture 27 (2): 92-96. 2011.In a typical book review, I would look for and examine what is new about a particular thinker’s idea or presentation. However, as I read The Cambridge Companion to Dewey I find that I cannot and should not use the same criteria for evaluation. I pick up a Cambridge Companion when I need an introduction or a refresher on material—not when I need to see what the cutting-edge scholarship is. That being said, a companion ought not propagate the status quo or fail to communicate what is current in th…Read more
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24John Dewey’s Basis for Moral Philosophy: Growth of Ordered Richness and EudaimoniaSouthwest Philosophy Review 27 (1): 235-243. 2011.
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36Depression Applied to Moral ImaginationSouthwest Philosophy Review 34 (1): 93-101. 2018.Based upon research done by evolutionary psychologists into the reason why human beings feel depression in social situations, I argue that philosophers have significant warrant to consider depression as an important feature conditioning moral imagination. The moral imagination come up with new enterprises and new ways of organizing social life. This reorganization would meet many of the goals put forth by pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. I argue that depression will work as a leading clue and …Read more
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15Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics, written by Beth L. Eddy (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 14 (2): 266-269. 2017.
Justin Bell
University of Houston - Victoria
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University of Houston - VictoriaAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
American Pragmatism |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
American Pragmatism |
Normative Ethics |