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11IntroductionIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. pp. 1-4. 2020-10-05.This is an Introduction to the special issue of Metaphilosophy entitled Philosophy as a Way of Life, giving a brief account of the genesis of the project, an overview of the topic, and a summary of the topics covered in the issue.
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12Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives (edited book)Wiley. 2020-10-05.In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. For philosophers today to ignore this dimension of philosophy is not to ignore an accidental subset of the subject that can be divorced from its essential nature - it is to ignore philosophy itself. The articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom; it is not merely an addendum to it. But how might we convey the love of wis…Read more
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1A Feminist Challenge to Practices of Medicine (review)Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (1): 70-75. 1994.
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2Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics by Stephen David Ross (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (4): 222-227. 1982.
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3Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics by Stephen David Ross (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (4): 222-227. 1982.
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7The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal IdentityRoutledge. 2019.The concept of a relational self has been prominent in feminism, communitarianism, narrative self theories, and social network theories, and has been important to theorizing about practical dimensions of selfhood. However, it has been largely ignored in traditional philosophical theories of personal identity, which have been dominated by psychological and animal theories of the self. This book offers a systematic treatment of the notion of the self as constituted by social, cultural, political, …Read more
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14Common morality and moral reformTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (1): 55-68. 2009.The idea of moral reform requires that morality be more than a description of what people do value, for there has to be some measure against which to assess progress. Otherwise, any change is not reform, but simply difference. Therefore, I discuss moral reform in relation to two prescriptive approaches to common morality, which I distinguish as the foundational and the pragmatic. A foundational approach to common morality (e.g., Bernard Gert’s) suggests that there is no reform of morality , but …Read more
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13Metaphysics of Natural Complexes: Second, Expanded Edition (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1989.During the past two decades Metaphysics of Natural Complexes has exerted a strong a growing influence on the continuing development of contemporary philosophy. This new and expanded edition acknowledges this influence and brings together much material. Included are the previously published articles “On the Concept of ‘the World,’” and “Probing the Idea of Nature,” which Buchler wrote subsequent to Metaphysics of Natural Complexes as extensions and completions of the system. Previously unpublishe…Read more
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9Reconstructing Judgment: Emotion and Moral JudgmentHypatia 8 (3). 1993.A traditional association of judgment with "reason" has drawn upon and reinforced an opposition between reason and emotion. This, in turn, has led to a restricted view of the nature of moral judgment and of the subject as moral agent. The alternative, I suggest, is to abandon the traditional categories and to develop a new theory of judgment. I argue that the theory of judgment developed by Justus Buchler constitutes a robust alternative which does not prejudice the case against emotion. Drawing…Read more
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4Incarnation, Difference, and Identity: Materialism, Self, and the Life of SpiritIn Philosophy in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition, Fordham Univ Pr. pp. 47-76. 1997.Santayana gives a rich account of the self which is simultaneously bound by material conditions and circumstances and able to transcend those boundaries if not in material fact, at least in the life of spirit. In this essay I pursue the question, whether and how Santayana’s view of "spirit" can be reconciled with his materialism. There is a tension between two of Santayana’s claims about spirit: its inefficacy (required by his materialism) and its role in transforming human life from merely phys…Read more
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6Moral reform, moral disagreement, and abortionMetaphilosophy 38 (4): 380-403. 2007.Bernard Gert argues that legitimate moral disagreement calls for tolerance and moral humility; when there is more than one morally acceptable course of action, then intolerance and what Gert calls “moral arrogance” would be objectionable. This article identifies some possible difficulties in distinguishing moral arrogance from moral reform and then examines Gert's treatment of abortion as a contemporary example of moral disagreement that he characterizes as irresolvable.
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13Agency, personhood, and identity: Carol Rovane's The Bounds of AgencyMetaphilosophy 31 (3): 311-322. 2000.Book reviewed in this article:Carol Rovan, The Bounds of Agency
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2Metaphysics of Natural Complexes: Second, Expanded EditionState University of New York Press. 1989.Provides a systematic framework for understanding the broad features of the world and nature, and for locating the understanding of self and society within nature. Includes Buchler's reply to his critics. No bibliography.
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8IntroductionMetaphilosophy 51 (2-3): 161-165. 2020.This is an Introduction to the special issue of Metaphilosophy entitled Philosophy as a Way of Life, giving a brief account of the genesis of the project, an overview of the topic, and a summary of the topics covered in the issue.
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