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71Interpretation and the Indefinability of Truth in Heidegger and DavidsonAnalecta Hermeneutica 1 35-45. 2009.Heidegger famously diminishes the significance of everyday theories of truth like the correspondence theory, disparaging these as a matter of ‘mere’ correctness.They are among the starting points that lead to ‘the true’ but are not themselves genuine or authentic. Donald Davidson develops a theory of interpretation that suggests some reasons why the ordinary senses of truth should not be so mistreated: responsible theories of interpretation should treat the everyday senses of truth more seriousl…Read more
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30The radical political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson: An essay in retrievalMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
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4Yuval Ginbar, Why Not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the'Ticking Bomb'Justification for TorturePhilosophy in Review 29 (4): 251-253. 2009.
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1Heidegger and Quine on the (ir)relevance of logic for philosophyIn C. G. Prado (ed.), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Humanity Books. 2003.
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Heidegger and the Fate of CriticismDissertation, Queen's University at Kingston (Canada). 1998.This thesis examines some of the consequences of Heidegger's devaluation of normative practice in favor of the authentic reflection engaged in by great thinkers, poets and statesmen. I focus upon the way in which the privileging of authentic reflection requires the exclusion of normative categories and argue that this deprives Heidegger of the possibility of ethical and epistemological identification and evaluation. Whereas interpreters such as William Spanos take this as a positive contribution…Read more
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Joan Cocks, Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (1): 5-7. 2003.
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Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |