•  39
    Thinking about almost everything: new ideas to light up minds
    with Ash Amin, Donna Brown, and Shari Daya
    Thinking About Almost Everything brings together original thinking on a staggering range of topics across the sciences, arts and humanities, grouped into nine imaginative and sometimes startling thematic categories. Entries on terror, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and climate change are juxtaposed in the 'settlement' section, while 'Presences' brings together plant genetics, race, humans and animals, music theology, and the Willmore Conjecture. The short essays are written in a lively and accessi…Read more
  •  31
    The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Romanticism is, and always has been, one of the most hotly contested terms in literary and cultural history. Many of the writers now described as Romantic refused to be defined by the word: 'it would be such bad taste', said Byron in 1820. Lovejoy spoke of a plurality of ‘romanticisms’, born of distinct thought complexes, whilst René Wellek argued that literatures labelled Romantic indicated common conceptions. Comparably, in the post-Wo…Read more
  •  22
    Prolegomena to a materialist humanism
    Angelaki 19 (1): 99-112. 2014.
    This article sets the agenda for a new materialist humanism through a critique and analysis of theories of materialist subjectivity in recent French philosophy. I begin with a critique of the lack of a properly internal account of the human subject in the work of Alain Badiou, arguing that his disavowal of any sort of humanism and a dismissal of the natural sciences leaves him without a way to conceptualize the internal activity of the human subject. I then consider the neurological account of h…Read more
  •  19
    Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 59 (1): 169-171. 2005.
    In Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience, Guiseppina D'Oro gives a compelling case for the position that Collingwood's philosophical project is a form of descriptive metaphysics in the Kantian critical mode. For D'Oro, the unity of Collingwood's thought as a whole is not due to a particular problem Collingwood is treating, or even to the theme of history. Rather, she believes that "there is a fundamental continuity between Collingwood's early and later work, that, in its essentials, and …Read more
  •  16
    In this volume, Heinrich Meier sets out to present what is “of lasting importance in [Schmitt’s] political theology”. The four chapters seek to develop the theme of the radical “eitheror” that faces human beings in Schmitt’s thought. Meier argues the distinction between political theology and philosophy rests on their fundamental causes—faith in revelation and human wisdom. Schmitt’s political theology and the choice he sees forced on mankind derives from the eschatological view of history found…Read more
  •  10
    International Perspectives on Educational Reform and Policy Implementation
    with D. S. G. Carter
    British Journal of Educational Studies 44 (1): 118-119. 1996.
  •  10
    James Bradley , Philosophy after F. H. Bradley
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (3): 475. 1998.
    . Books Briefly Noted. International Journal of Philosophical Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 475-480.
  •  8
    Grammar-Mediated Time-Series Prediction
    with A. Brabazon, K. Meagher, E. Carty, and P. Keenan
    Journal of Intelligent Systems 14 (2-3): 123-142. 2005.
  •  6
    Of the Unity of Human Experience
    In S. Campbell & P. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 123. 2013.
  •  4
    Arguments around weighting the first year in degree classification algorithms
    Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 23 (1): 24-27. 2019.
  •  3
    It's taken yoga several thousand years to make the journey from a handful of monasteries dotting the Himalayas to the yoga studios popping up everywhere. Whether bathing with holy men in the Ganges or joining the chorus of a thousand voices chanting 'om,' photographer Michael O'Neill decided to devote himself to experience and record the world of yoga at this critical juncture in its history. The result is a powerful photographic tribute to the age-old discipline turned global phenomenon, with o…Read more
  •  2
    The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse
    In Jeffery L. Nicholas (ed.), The Expanse and Philosophy, Wiley. 2021.
    The aesthetic techniques used in The Expanse are indicative of the infinite space that is an essential and ever‐present character in the show. The cinematography and set design of The Expanse make extensive use of chiaroscuro—a famous artistic technique in the history of painting. For some reason, the infinity of The Expanse attracts us. The look and design of the show indulges us in an experience of the sublime. The dynamically sublime is an experience of infinite power, but not where our survi…Read more
  •  1
    Poetry as Literary Criticism
    In David Fuller & Patricia Waugh (eds.), The Arts and Sciences of Criticism, Oxford University Press. 1999.
  • In this paper, I discuss the role of Anselm’s ontological argument in the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood. Anselm’s argument appears prominently in Collingwood’s Essay on Philosophical Method (1933) and Essay on Metaphysics (1940), as well as in his early work Speculum Mentis (1924). In the proof, Collingwood finds the central expression of the priority of “faith” in the first principles of thought to reason’s activities. For Collingwood, it is Anselm’s proof that clearly expresses this relations…Read more
  • Noel Curran, The Logical Universe
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 384-384. 1995.
  • The Intelligibility of Human Nature in the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood
    Dissertation, The Catholic University of America. 2004.
    The primary aim of this dissertation is an exegesis of Collingwood's historical science of mind. I take seriously Collingwood's claim that history is for "self-understanding" and treat his philosophy of history as a form of reflective philosophy. In particular, I examine the epistemological basis for Collingwood's claim that mind is an object that changes as it understands itself. ;In Chapter One, I consider the distinction between natural process and historical process as central to an understa…Read more