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1124Self-Responsibility, Tradition, and the Apparent GoodStudia Phaenomenologica 11 55-76. 2011.The crucial distinction for ethics is between the good and the apparent good, between being and seeming. Tradition is useful for developing our ability to make this distinction and to live ethically or in self-responsibility, but it is also threatening to this ability. The phenomenology of Husserl and of others in the Husserlian tradition, especially Robert Sokolowski, are helpful in spelling out how tradition works; how the difference between the apparent good and the good is bridged in the exp…Read more
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822The Cultural Community: An Husserlian Approach and ReproachHusserl Studies 28 (1): 25-47. 2012.What types of unity and disunity belong to a group of people sharing a culture? Husserl illuminates these communities by helping us trace their origin to two types of interpersonal act—cooperation and influence—though cultural communities are distinguished from both cooperative groups and mere communities of related influences. This analysis has consequences for contemporary concerns about multi- or mono-culturalism and the relationship between culture and politics. It also leads us to critique …Read more
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807A Realer Institutional Reality: Deepening Searle’s (De)Ontology of CivilizationInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (1): 43-67. 2012.This paper puts Searle’s social ontology together with an understanding of the human person as inclined openly toward the truth. Institutions and their deontology are constituted by collective Declarative beliefs, guaranteeing mind-world adequation. As this paper argues, often they are constituted also by collective Assertive beliefs that justify (rather than validate intrainstitutionally) institutional facts. A special type of Status Function-creating ‘Assertive Declarative’ belief is introduce…Read more
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673The Living Body as the Origin of Culture: What the Shift in Husserl’s Notion of “Expression” Tells us About Cultural ObjectsHusserl Studies 25 (1): 57-79. 2009.Husserl’s philosophy of culture relies upon a person’s body being expressive of the person’s spirit, but Husserl’s analysis of expression in Logical Investigations is inadequate to explain this bodily expressiveness. This paper explains how Husserl’s use of “expression” shifts from LI to Ideas II and argues that this shift is explained by Husserl’s increased understanding of the pervasiveness of sense in subjective life and his increased appreciation for the unity of the person. I show how these…Read more
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534Social ConstructionismIn R. L. Fastiggi (ed.), New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013, Gale. 2013.
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518EpocheIn R. L. Fastiggi (ed.), New Catholic Encyclopedia 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, Gale. 2013.
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323The Agent of Truth: Reflections on Robert Sokolowski's Phenomenology of the Human PersonThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 10 (1): 319-336. 2011.
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217“Socratism as a Vocation.”Society 54 64-68. 2017.This paper discusses the rhetorical problems teachers face in presenting Socratic activity to students, and it then argues that parallel problems arise in presenting liberal education to many academic colleagues. Given the nature of philosophy and the nature of expertise in today’s academy, most academics will not understand, and perhaps be hostile to, philosophy, and philosophers may sometimes seem to them both arrogant and ignorant. The contemporary academy, dominated by assumptions Weber arti…Read more
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194“Edmund Husserl: Transcending Ideology.”In Lee Trepanier John von Heyking (ed.), Teaching in an Age of Ideology, Lexington Books. 2013.
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23The Agent of Truth: Reflections on Robert Sokolowski's Phenomenology of the Human PersonNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 10 (1): 319-336. 2012.
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16Teaching in an Age of IdeologyLexington Books. 2012.This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines what obstacles they confronted as teachers and how they overcame them in conveying truth to their students in an age dominated by ideological thinking
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14Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers From Core Texts (edited book)Upa. 2011.This book contains essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons, and essays that highlight who we are in light of communal ties. ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication
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Who are we? Old, new, and timeless answers from core texts: selected papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts, April 3-6, 2008 (edited book, review)University Press of America. 2011.In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is exp…Read more
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“The Poverty of ‘Corruption’: On Reframing the Debate on Money in Politics”Albany Government Law Review 9 (2). 2016.
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