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66Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in PhilosophyKierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2013 (1): 189-216. 2013.Name der Zeitschrift: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Jahrgang: 2013 Heft: 1 Seiten: 377-402.
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40Rethinking philosophers' responsibilityIn Jinfen Yan & David E. Schrader (eds.), Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 19-29. 2009.Should philosophers address the needs of their societies? If the answer is affirmative, and if today's needs are being inadequately answered within the New Age movement for lack of viable alternatives, philosophers' minimal response could be teaching critical thinking outside the academe, and maximal response would be providing relevant wisdom for the world. The first option requires construing logic and epistemology as practical fields. The second requires reforming part of Philosophy as social…Read more
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38Shaftesbury—An Important Forgotten Indirect Source of Kierkegaard’s ThoughtKierkegaard Studies Yearbook 19 (1): 189-216. 2013.Name der Zeitschrift: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Jahrgang: 19 Heft: 1 Seiten: 189-216
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33Carroll, Noël. Humour: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014, 126 pp., $11.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (1): 99-101. 2016.
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32Three Questionable Assumptions of Philosophical CounselingInternational Journal of Philosophical Practice 2 (1): 1-32. 2004.Philosophical practice or counseling has been described as a cluster of methods for treating everyday problems and predicaments through philosophical means. Notwithstanding the variety of methods, philosophical counselors seem to share the following tenets: 1. The counselee is autonomous; 2. Philosophical counseling differs from psychological counseling and 3. Philosophical counseling is effective in solving predicaments. A critical examination shows these to be problematic at both theoretical…Read more
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29Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann, KierkegaardState University of New York Press. 2014._An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications._
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25What’s it all about? A Guide to Life’s Basic Questions and Answers (review)Philosophical Practice 2 (2): 125-127. 2006.
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25Rethinking Philosophers' ResponsibilityProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 49 19-29. 2008.Should philosophers address the needs of their societies? If the answer is affirmative, and if today's needs are being inadequately answered within the New Age movement for lack of viable alternatives, philosophers' minimal response could be teaching critical thinking outside the academe, and maximal response would be providing relevant wisdom for the world. The first option requires construing logic and epistemology as practical fields. The second requires reforming part of Philosophy as social…Read more
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3The Role of Impersonal Love in Everyday LifeIn H. Herrestad, A. Holt & H. Svare (eds.), Philosophy in Society, Unipub. pp. 217-242. 2002.
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1Taking the History of Philosophy on Humor and Laughter SeriouslyIsraeli Journal of Humor Research: An International Journal 5 43-87. 2014.
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1The Unconscious: Freud versus SartreIn Peter Raabe (ed.), Philosophical Practice and the Unconscious, Trivium Publications. pp. 23-78. 2006.
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1When Nietzsche Laughed: The Sanctification of Laughter in Nietzsche’s Thought.Metaphora 6 109-125. 2006.
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Philosophy’s Attitude towards the Comic. A ReevaluationEuropean Journal of Humor Research 1 (1): 6-21. 2013.
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A “Dangerous Idea” – Taking Seriously Thomas Magnell’s Moral Injunction to Direct Thought to ThoughtHomo Oeconomicus 30 (4): 475-479. 2013.
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The Affective Aspect of Wisdom: Some Conceptions of Love of Humanity and their Use in Philosophical PracticePractical Philosophy 7 (1): 14-25. 2004.
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Que Podemos Aprender de la Filosofia Helenista? (What Can We Learn from Hellenistic Philosophy?Sophia: Revista de Filosofia 5 81-89. 2009.
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Kierkegaard and the Philosophical Traditions of the ComicKierkegaard Studies Yearbook 377-401. 2013.
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Philosophers, Ethics, and EmotionsPhilosophical Practice 4 (2): 447-458. 2009.In this paper I continue to probe the roles of philosophy and psychology in moral education. In a previous article published in this journal, I criticized the moral views of various schools of psychotherapy, and argued that philosophers are the sole professionals equipped to teach normative morality in a pluralistic, critical, and reasoned way . In this paper, I argue that effective moral education involves emotional education; that philosophers’ views of emotions tend to be reductive, and when …Read more
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A New Skeptical Worldview for Contemporary World CulturesIn Jian Chang (ed.), World Culture Development Forum 2013, Chian Social Sciences Academic Press. pp. 337-363. 2014.
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The Good Life Is the Good Laugh: The Comic in the History of PhilosophyIn A. Ziv & A. Sover (eds.), The Importance of Not Being Earnest, Carmel Press. pp. 206-253. 2012.
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