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31Machinery, Monstrosity, and Bestiality: An Analysis of Repulsion in Kierkegaard's Practice in ChristianityHeythrop Journal 55 (5): 903-915. 2014.In reaction to a particularly scathing review of his Practice in Christianity, Kierkegaard postulated what he called a ‘preacher-machine.’ As we will see, the preacher-machine is only one type of character-machine, for, in Practice in Christianity, there are five other such machines. Starting up these character-machines will allow for an analysis of the repulsion of the God-man, Christ himself. This repulsion is important because Kierkegaard claims that it is the condition for the emergence of f…Read more
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16The Cartesian Eye Without Organs: The Shaping of Subjectivity in Descartes's OpticsPhilosophy and Rhetoric 51 (1): 73-90. 2018.I examine the role that Descartes’ theory of optics shapes the entire Cartesian methodology. After explaining the importance of methodology in Descartes’ project, I his method in terms of the three dimensions of time. I put this method to work by describing Descartes’ search for the elusive hyperbolic lens, a lens that would offer the type of perfect vision that is necessary for the Cartesian scientific process. It will soon become clear that this lens is the mind itself. The task of this projec…Read more
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12Teaching Philosophy as a Way of LifeAmerican Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 6 1-8. 2021.
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1115 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism EncounterIn Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 270-288. 2017.
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3Annotated BibliographyAmerican Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 6 221-234. 2021.
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A thousand antiquitiesIn Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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Lucretius and naturalism [1961]In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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The muses and philosophy: elements for a history of the Pseudos [1991]In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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Science regained [1962]In Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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Elon UniversityDepartment Of PhilosophyAssistant Professor
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |