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81John Dewey is a Tool: Lessons from Rorty and Brandom on the History of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 50 (2): 246. 2014.Richard Rorty’s writings have long frustrated scholars of classical American philosophy. Robert Brandom’s recent engagements with the history of pragmatism have been met with similar disdain. This essay draws on Larry A. Hickman’s theory of technology and tool-use to find a productive framework for thinking through these interpretations. Foregrounding the purposes that guide their readings, we may find value where many readers have seen only ignorance. This strategy does not embrace interpretive…Read more
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69Toward a Practice of Stoic PragmatismThe Pluralist 10 (2): 150-171. 2015.Despite broad influence on the history of philosophy, Stoicism has lain long dormant as a practical philosophy. Of late, however, some have sought to modernize Stoicism for the contemporary world.1 It has found success in the military, as Stockdale and Sherman report. While the promise of tranquility through reason and self-discipline presents an appealing vision in emotional times, some tenets of Stoicism cannot gain purchase among society at large: predetermination, absolute morality at all ti…Read more
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72Consonances between Indian Thought and Josiah Royce’s Developing AbsoluteThe Pluralist 8 (2): 60-77. 2013.Few American thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were acquainted with Eastern traditions of thought. Early Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, were happy exceptions to this, with each showing passing familiarity of and an approving attitude toward the Bhagavad-Gita and other early Vedic texts. Other thinkers of the period, including Walt Whitman and Bronson Alcott, were influenced to varying degrees by Indian thought. Despite this limit…Read more
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411Richard Rorty. An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. 72 + xxii. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15056-9 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 8 (1): 222-225. 2011.
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10The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (4): 963-964. 2000.Stewart ambitiously presents twenty-one essays about the similarities and differences between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, along with six illustrative primary texts by Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and de Beauvoir. While both men are acknowledged as prominent existential-phenomenological thinkers, the interaction of their thought as students together, coworkers on Les Tempes Modernes, and philosophical interlocutors, is often overlooked. Stewart has skillfully chosen essays providing thoughtful insights a…Read more
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11Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'We': The Dangerous Thing -- 1 The Sellarsian Ethical Framework -- 2 Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty -- 3 Richard Rorty's Quasi-Sellarsian We -- 4 On the Prospects of Redescribing Rorty Roycely -- Bibliography -- Index.
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16From Projects to Problems: A Deweyan Analysis of Participatory BudgetingJournal of Social Philosophy 49 (2): 252-269. 2018.
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39Investigating the effect of stimulus variables and eye movement profiles on binocular rivalry rate: Implications for large-scale endophenotype studiesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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12On Instruments and AestheticsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 5 (2). 2013.Larry A. Hickman and Albert Borgmann have carried on a decades-long debate about the status and value of technological practices. Hickman’s work develops from the thought of John Dewey. A recent essay alleges that Hickman’s engagement with Borgmann has been superficial, particularly because full engagement would involve admitting that Dewey’s instrumentalist theory of inquiry and his aesthetics are at odds. This paper argues not only that Hickman has attended to the full scope of Borgmann’s thou…Read more
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22Pragmatism and the Philosophy of SportJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 41 (2): 279-282. 2014.No abstract