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20The Centrality of the Imagination in Scepticism and Animal FaithIn Martin A. Coleman & Glenn Tiller (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 177-192. 2024.Rubin examines the central role of the imagination in Santayana’s life and works. He shows how the imagination is fundamental to Santayana’s sceptical inquiry in SAF and a necessary condition for knowledge about the material world and the mind. The imagination is a predominant theme in Santayana’s life and work. Even as a boy, he found himself solitary and unhappy in America and “attached only to a persistent dream life.” He published several literary works, including three plays, a novel, and m…Read more
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32Character and Philosophic Creativity–the Example of SantayanaOverheard in Seville 36 (36): 89-98. 2018.
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19The Robot Sol Explains Laughter to His Android BrethrenThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 3 (1): 235-252. 2022.Android understanding of laughter is limited even when robots have become self-motivated and understand frustration. Laughter is one of four ways to cope with upset. The others are detachment, suffering, and escape. Detachment is natural to androids as they originally had no stake in any outcome. Suffering takes two forms: grief and anger. Grief often needs to be faced before turning to other means of coping. Humor can often deflect anger by revealing it has either no basis or a common one. Esca…Read more
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10Santayana in 1946 Part I: Parcels, Family, Visitors, Health, PoliticsOverheard in Seville 39 (39): 18-32. 2021.
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26Character and Philosophic Creativity–the Example of SantayanaOverheard in Seville 36 (36): 89-98. 2018.
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443Comment on Richard Rubin’s “Santayana and the Arts” and Richard Rubin’s ReplyOverheard in Seville 34 (34): 59-61. 2016.
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72Edward W. Lovely: George Santayana’s philosophy of religion: his Roman Catholic influences and phenomenology: Lexington, Lanham, MD, 2012, xvi +\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$+$$\end{document} 240 pp., $70 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 75 (3): 249-253. 2014.Religious discourse can be harsh and disconnected. In our time, determined atheists strive to refute fundamentalist beliefs promoted by demagogues for political purposes. In the news, we hear about the spiritual needs of the secular. Practicing clergy no longer believe what their congregations want them to preach. Edward W. Lovely’s new book George Santayana’s Philosophy of Religion is therefore a timely publication, as it focuses on a philosopher who showed great appreciation of religious stori…Read more
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18How John Dewey and George Santayana help us look at John Searle and Daniel DennettOverheard in Seville 28 (28): 11-24. 2010.
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1Metaphysics as Morals: The Controversy Between John Dewey and George SantayanaDissertation, Washington University. 2000.John Dewey and George Santayana engaged in a philosophic controversy that lasted more than forty years, beginning with Dewey's two reviews of The Life of Reason and concluding with a posthumously published essay by Santayana . The most well-known part of this controversy began with Santayana's review of Experience and Nature in which he said that Dewey's naturalism is "half-hearted and short-winded." To this Dewey replied that if his naturalism is half-hearted, then Santayana's is "broken-backed…Read more
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6The Philosophical and Interpretive Import of Santayana’s Marginalia: Bulletin of the Santayana SocietyOverheard in Seville 24 (24): 12-18. 2006.
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