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    Kierkegaard On Escaping the Cult of Busyness
    Institute of Art and Ideas. 2018.
    A 2016 article in the Journal of Consumer Research argues that busyness has become a status symbol. In earlier societies, such as the 19th century Thorstein Veblen describes in his Theory of the Leisure Class, the wealthy conspicuously avoided work. They saw idleness as an ideal. By contrast, contemporary Americans praise being overworked. They see busy individuals as possessing rare and desirable characteristics, such as competence and ambition. To respond philosophically to our new overwork…Read more
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    Each of us experiences two conflicting attitudes towards time. On the one hand, we all, at least to some degree, look ahead towards the future. On the other hand, we sometimes feel like we ought to live in the present, without this concern about the future. Derek Parfit claims that we would be happier if we lacked our focus on the future: we would not be sad when good things were in the past, we could take life’s pleasures as they come, and we would have fewer reasons to regret aging and death. …Read more
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    Sharpening our Tools for Moral Inquiry
    Southwest Philosophy Review 34 (2): 23-26. 2018.
    This paper is a response to Justin Bell's “Depression Applied to Moral Imagination: Deweyan Tools for Moral Inquiry." The author first contextualizes Bell’s use of evolutionary psychology in the context of two influential philosophical engagements with medicine: Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of the therapeutic and the recent turn towards person-centered medicine over disease-centered medicine. He then raises two concerns about the accounts of depression used in the sources Bell draws on: the wa…Read more
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    Kierkegaard and Augustine on Time
    In Doody John A., Paffenroth Kim & Russell Helene Tallon (eds.), Augustine and Kierkegaard, Lexington Books. pp. 91-109. 2017.
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    What Can’t You Do After Studying Philosophy?
    American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 8 106-108. 2023.
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    Soren Kierkegaard (1813‐1855) is primarily known as a moral philosopher. This chapter looks at his contributions to ethics, and shows how Kierkegaard's writings can contribute to epistemology, metaphysics, and other areas of contemporary philosophy. In order to contextualize Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy the chapter briefly surveys some of the ways Kierkegaard is connected to nineteenth‐century philosophers, as well as classical figures like Socrates. It considers Kierkegaard's contr…Read more
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    William James's Pragmatic Pluralism and the American University's Loss of Soul
    In Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professional Development T. Laine Scales & Jennifer L. Howell (eds.), Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 221-238. 2017.
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    Kierkegaard on Moral Particularism and Exemplarism
    In Patrick Stokes, Eleanor Helms & Adam Buben (eds.), The Kierkegaardian Mind, Routledge. pp. 78-88. 2019.