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15Rob R. Brady, 1941-2004Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2). 2004.
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5Recovering the Personal: The Philosophical Anthropology of William H. Poteat (edited book)Lexington Books. 2016.This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat’s philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recovery of the pre-reflective ontological ground of the person where our personhood can be recovered and re-appropriated.
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8The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love Kierkegaard, Cavell, NussbaumPennsylvania State University Press. 1999.Starting from Søren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity. All three thinkers follow a "logic of paradox" in showing how success in…Read more
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11Recovering the personal: the philosophical anthropology of William H. Poteat / edited by Dale W. Cannon and Ronald L. Hall (edited book, review)Lexington Books. 2016.This book explores aspects of William H. Poteat's philosophical anthropology, which proposes a post-critical alternative to the prevailing dualistic conception of the person and opens a path to recovery of the pre-reflective ontological ground of the person where our personhood can be recovered and re-appropriated.
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39Word and Spirit: A Kierkegaardian Critique of the Modern AgeIndiana University Press. 1993.By means of a Kierkegaardian critique of postmodernism, Ronald L. Hall argues that the postmodernist flirtation with Kierkegaard ignores the existential import of his thought. Word and Spirit offers a novel interpretation of Kierkegaard's conception of the self, according to which spirit is essentially linked to the speech act. In an extended interpretation of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hall uses insights from Austin, Wittgenstein, Polanyi, and Poteat to fill out and explicate Kierkegaard's views …Read more
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44Anthony C. Thiselton, Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation and Promise (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (2): 121-123. 1997.
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175Poteat’s VoiceTradition and Discovery 38 (2): 19-22. 2008.The focus of these remarks is on the impact that Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Investigations had in shaping Bill Poteat’s philosophical voice. Of the two works, I claim that, for good or ill, it was Personal Knowledge that had the more profound influence on Poteat. Of course, both sources had profound influence. What makes Personal Knowledge more profound is that his use of it, at least in those early years, was more indirect than his direct and explicit use of Wittgenstein’s ideas. Foll…Read more
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88Michael Polanyi on art and religion: Some critical reflections on meaningZygon 17 (1): 9-18. 1982.This paper is a critique of the theory of meaning in art and religion that Michael Polanyi developed in his last work entitled Meaning. After giving a brief summary of Polanyi’s theory of art, I raise two serious difficulties, not with the theory itself, but with the claims Polanyi makes about the relation of meaning in art to science and religion. Regarding the first difficulty, I argue that Polanyi betrays an earlier insight when in Meaning he attempts to dissociate meaning in art from meaning…Read more
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38I think, therefore I may not exist: Cavell, skepticism, and the melodrama of the unknown womanPhilosophical Investigations 26 (2). 2003.
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18I Think, Therefore I May Not Exist: Cavell, Skepticism, and the Melodrama of the Unknown WomanPhilosophical Investigations 26 (2): 149-166. 2003.
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117It's a Wonderful Life: Reflections on Wittgenstein's Last WordsPhilosophical Investigations 33 (4): 285-302. 2010.On his deathbed, Wittgenstein is reported to have said, upon hearing that his friends were coming for a visit, “Tell them I've had a wonderful life.” Malcolm found this puzzling, given that Wittgenstein seemed to be fiercely unhappy. I find my way into these words against the backdrop of the Hollywood film It's a Wonderful Life and Wittgenstein's famous remark, to wit, “Man has to awaken to wonder . . . Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” Along the way I discuss Plato's praise of wo…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Religion |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |