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61The Metaphoric Fallacy to a Deductive InferenceInformal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice 30 (2): 185-193. 2010.Our article identifies and describes the metaphoric fallacy to a deductive inference (MFDI) that is an example of incorrect reasoning along the lines of the false analogy fallacy. The MFDI proceeds from informal semantical (metaphorical) claims to a supposedly formally deductive and necessary inference. We charge that such an inference is invalid. We provide three examples of the MFDI to demonstrate the structure of this invalid form of reasoning. Our goal is to contribute to the se…Read more
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17Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world
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3Merleau-Ponty and God: Hallowing the HollowLexington Books. 2017.In this book, Michael P. Berman uses Merleau-Ponty’s thought to develop a critique, grounded in his phenomenology, of certain issues in the philosophy of religion such as faith, love, vision, soul, magic and miracles, judgment, evil, and hallowing.
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35The World of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty Translated by Oliver Davis New York: Routledge, 2004, 125 pp., $29.95 (review)Dialogue 45 (2): 410. 2006.
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48The thought space of God: The haunting below the I-thou relationHeythrop Journal 54 (1): 70-76. 2013.This essay attempts a phenomenological analysis of Descartes' statement, ‘my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself,’ and Buber's claim that God ‘is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.’ I radicalize the implications of Descartes' and Buber's claims by drawing on the thought of Husserl and Levinas, and couching the analysis in terms of Merleau-Ponty's experiential notions of haunting and reversibility. This forces us to interrogate the subjective space in …Read more
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15Buddhism and the Emerging World Civilization: Essays in Honor of Nolan Pliny JacobsonPhilosophy East and West 47 (4): 599. 1997.
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115Reflection, Objectivity, and the Love of God, A Passage from Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of PerceptionHeythrop Journal 63 (4): 520-530. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 520-530, July 2022.
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29The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-PontyPolitics and Ethics Review 2 (2): 202-220. 2006.
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9The Situatedness of Judgment and Action in Arendt and Merleau-PontyJournal of International Political Theory 2 202-220. 2006.
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16The Hyper-Dialectic in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the FleshPhilosophy Today 47 (4): 404-420. 2003.
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75‘The Happy Accident’: Merleau-Ponty and Kant on the Judgment of GodThe European Legacy 16 (2): 223-236. 2011.Kant's ideas about, questions, and challenges to the Western tradition of philosophy reverberate into the third century of the reception of his texts. The writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the twentieth-century French existential and hermeneutic phenomenologist, are interlaced with engagements with Kant's ideas. Often these incidents are marked by Merleau-Ponty's critique, yet there is a noticeable recurrence of his efforts to contend with Kant's philosophy. In Merleau-Ponty's course notes, Nat…Read more
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1Merleau-ponty and nagarjuna : Enlightenment, ethics, and politicsIn Jin Y. Park & Gereon Kopf (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Lexington Books. 2009.
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68The dirty wordThink 10 (27): 77-81. 2011.For the first two years of my daughter's life, I was scheduled to teach an Introductory Logic course. While I had taught Critical Thinking courses in the past, having to steep myself in categorical and propositional logic left a lasting impression on my own thinking. More importantly, though, these courses influenced my speech-habits during the early years of my child's development. By no means do I intend to assert that my child somehow gained some cognitive benefit from my communication with h…Read more
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104Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna: relational social ontology and the ground of ethicsAsian Philosophy 14 (2). 2004.Through a comparative analysis of the key ontological notions in Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna, I develop a relational social ontology that is grounded in their respective implicit and explicit ethics. Both thinkers take heed of our being-in-the-world; this is evident in their views on intersubjective sociality and language. Recognizing the limitations in these views points us toward a greater understanding of the meaningfulness of our situated existences. In this vein, I propose a number of ideas…Read more
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1Images of Absence in P.K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Literature & Aesthetics 16 (2): 75-94. 2006.
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1Heroes, Monsters and Values: Philosophy and Sci-Fi Films of the 1970's (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.
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1Deception as the self in Zamyatin's weIn Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici & Ernesto Virgulti (eds.), Disguise, Deception, Trompe-L'oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Peter Lang. 2009.
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Brock UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy |
Asian Philosophy |
Literature |
Religious Studies |