Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy
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    Jonathan Edward’s Idealistic Argument From Resistance
    Southwest Philosophy Review 4 (2): 39-47. 1988.
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    When the text Speaks the truth: The preconception of completion
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 395-405. 1987.
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    Recalling the Hermeneutic Circle
    Philosophy Today 40 (2): 263-272. 1996.
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    Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics
    with Fred Dallmayr, Nicholas Davey, István M. Fehér, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean Grondin, John Sallis, Christopher Smith, and Ben Vedder
    Lexington Books. 2000.
    In this book, internationally recognized scholars in philosophical hermeneutics discuss various aspects of language and linguisticality. The translations of Hans-Georg Gadamer's two recent essays provoke a preliminary discussion on the philosopher's polemic claim in Truth and Method—"Being that can be understood is language." Topics addressed by the contributors include the relationship of rituals to tradition and the immemorial; the unity of the word; conversation; translation and conceptuality…Read more
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    Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics (edited book)
    with Dieter Misgeld, Graeme Nicholson, and MoniKa Reuss
    State University of New York Press. 1992.
    In these essays, appearing for the first time in English, Gadamer addresses practical questions about recent politics in Europe, about education and university reform, and about the role of poetry in the modern world. This book also includes a series of interviews that the editors conducted in 1986. Gadamer elaborates on his experiences in education and politics, touching on the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the early Frankfurt School, Heidegger and the Nazis, university life in East Germany,…Read more
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    When the Text Speaks the Truth: The Preconception of Completion
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 395-405. 1987.
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    Understanding Hermeneutics
    Acumen Publishing. 2006.
    Presenting the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment, this work introduces modern hermeneutics through an examination of the ideas of its key philosophical proponents.
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    Adjudicating Ethical Prejudgements
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (3): 281-296. 2003.
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    This text adresses the timely topic of relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy - the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions - in the context of the work of Gadamer. Although centred on Gadamer and including the first English translation of one of his essays, the volume does not narrowly define or defend the approach of philosoph…Read more
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    Understanding Hermeneutics
    Routledge. 2006.
    This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All books in the series are written for undergraduates meeting the subject for the first time. Hermeneutics concerns itself with the theory of understanding and the interpretation of language. The question of how to correctly interpret and understand others remains one of the most contested branches of philo…Read more
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    Application and Praxis
    In Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.
    There are broad and narrow senses of hermeneutic application as well as of hermeneutic praxis. The broad sense of hermeneutic application means using what one has already understood in some later situation. Hermeneutic praxis in the narrow sense refers to an interpreter using a hermeneutic theory to interpret written or spoken language. The narrow sense of hermeneutic application is discussed by Hans‐Georg Gadamer in Truth and Method as the central problem of philosophical hermeneutics. Friedric…Read more