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161Merleau-Ponty on Movement and Relativity, or the "Irrepressible Consciousness" of Einstein's Little FingerPhenomenological Investigations 3 (1). 2024.
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8The Landscape of Merleau-Pontyan ThoughtIn Patrick Londen, Jeffrey Yoshimi & Philip Walsh (eds.), Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications, Springer Verlag. pp. 123-155. 2023.Merleau-Ponty wrote prolifically throughout his life on psychology, aesthetics, and politics, on pedagogy, physics, and painting. Between his appointment to the Université de Lyon in 1945 and his sudden death in Paris in 1961—a copy of Descartes’ Dioptrique on the desk in front of him—the survey of courses he taught is dizzying in scope. For all its promise, however, the interdisciplinary nature of Merleau-Ponty’s work, and the abruptness of its end, raises the question of how these projects con…Read more
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12The Dred Scott Ontology and the Philosophical Significance of Slave NarrativesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (2): 149-161. 2022.ABSTRACT Framed by a critical assessment of R. M. Hare’s classic paper “What Is Wrong With Slavery?,” this article argues that traditional forms of philosophical analysis miss chattel slavery’s specifically racialized harm. A crucial reason is the failure to attend to how slavery was experienced by those who were enslaved. To remedy this neglect, and adapting Calvin Warren’s reading of the Dred Scott decision, I show that slave narratives are rich philosophical resources for thinking about the e…Read more
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17McDowell’s Romantic ConceptualismProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 10 101-106. 2018.My paper is motivated by two thoughts: that there’s significant overlap between J. G. Herder’s romanticism and, what I call, the ‘late’ conceptualism of John McDowell; that recognizing this helps to settle a dispute in contemporary epistemology concerning the contents of perception. I argue, on the basis of that overlap, that “romantic conceptualism” avoids two pressing criticisms of conceptualism: It offers a reply to the argument from the fineness of grain of perceptual experience and it expla…Read more
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81Merleau-Ponty and the Radical Sciences of MindSynthese (Suppl 9): 1-35. 2018.In this paper, I critically reconstruct the development of Merleau-Pontyan phenomenology and “radical embodied cognitive science” out of Berlin-School Gestalt theory. I first lay out the basic principles of Gestalt theory and then identify two ways of revising that theory: one route, followed by enactivism and ecological psychology, borrows Gestaltist resources to defend a pragmatic ontology. I argue, however, that Merleau-Ponty never endorses this kind of ontology. Instead, I track his seco…Read more
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7Exchange between Tr'n Duc Thao and Alexandre KojèveGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 30 (2): 349-354. 2009.
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30Merleau-Ponty and the Quarrel over the Conceptual Contents of PerceptionGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 30 (1): 59-77. 2009.
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68The Logic of the Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty's Early PhilosophyErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4. 2017.The trajectory of Merleau-Ponty’s career is often seen as a progressive development: he begins by analyzing scientific consciousness in The Structure of Behavior, complements that account with a phenomenological analysis of behavior as lived in Phenomenology of Perception, and then overcomes the “philosophy of consciousness” to which the earlier texts are committed in the turn toward an ontology of flesh in The Visible and the Invisible. Through close readings of Merleau-Ponty’s engagements with…Read more
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50Further Reading in Philosophy and RaceGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 429-441. 2014.
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