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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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9Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran DesiertoUniversity of Arizona Press. 2006.This book chronicles his years of exploration, a vivid and personal introduction to a thorny but ultimately enchanting place that manages to endear itself over time, if it doesn’t kill you first.
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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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40The Future Past of the Nation State and the European UnionThe European Legacy 14 (1): 79-82. 2009.No abstract
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125The Metaphoric Fallacy to a Deductive InferenceInformal Logic 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 set of known in…Read more
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16The Natural Complexes of EncountersIdealistic Studies 49 (2): 103-121. 2019.The totalizing and absolutizing tendencies of metaphysics can undermine our essential ethical relationality. Is there a metaphysics that is robust enough and conducive to preserving this intuition? In answer, this paper will draw upon Martin Buber and Justus Buchler. Buber’s seminal work, I and Thou, explores the nature of the ethical encounter. Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes develops a general ontology, which can be described as an ordinal metaphysics. Encounters are thoroughly rela…Read more