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3Early Heidegger on SocialityIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Conclusion: Heidegger and Social Theory.
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4Ancient and Naturalistic Themes in Nietzsche's EthicsIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1994, De Gruyter. pp. 146-167. 1993.
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5Nietzsche's WesensethikIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1991, De Gruyter. pp. 68-87. 1991.
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15Social Change in a Material Worldoffers a new, practice theoretical account of social change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing on general ideas about events, processes, and change, the book conceptualizes social changes as configurations of significant differences in bundles of practices and material arrangements. Illustrated with examples from the history of bourbon distillation and the formation and evolution of digitally-mediated associati…Read more
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18Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory (edited book)Routledge. 2018.Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of parallels and points of contact between these two traditions. The contributors all are steeped in one or both of these streams and well-known for their work on…Read more
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14Where Times MeetCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 1 (2): 191-212. 2006.This essay pursues two goals: to argue that two fundamental types of time—the time of objective reality and “the time of the soul”—meet in human activity and history and to defend the legitimacy of calling a particular version of the second type a kind of time. The essay begins by criticizing Paul Ricoeur’s version of the claim that times of these two sorts meet in history. It then presents an account of human activity based on Heidegger’s Being and Time, according to which certain times of the …Read more
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51Comments on Irene McMullin's "Articulating DiscourseSouthwest Philosophy Review 22 (2): 131-134. 2006.
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Social Reality and Social ScienceDissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1986.My dissertation traces the consequences following for social science from an analysis of the nature of its object domain, which I call "socio-historical reality." In particular, I hope thereby to dissolve many misconceptions about the character of social science. ;Influenced by Dilthey, I propose an "individualist" account that analyzes socio-historical reality as nothing but interrelated everyday lives, which themselves consist in series of actions that are governed by practical intelligibility…Read more
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95Reply to 'Rethinking Social Criticism: Rules, Logic and Internal Critique'History of the Human Sciences 16 (4): 91-94. 2003.
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133Overdue analysis of Bourdieu's theory of practiceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 30 (1 & 2). 1987.Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice is an unsung classic of contemporary social philosophy. It combines the first analysis by a social theorist of the practical intelligibility governing action with an exciting perspective on how the structure of social phenomena determines and is itself perpetuated by action. Bourdieu, however, misinterprets his own theory of intelligibility as a theory of the causal generation of action. Moreover, he attempts to analyze the underlying structure of intelligibi…Read more
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Marx and Wittgenstein as natural historiansIn Gavin Kitching & Nigel Pleasants (eds.), Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics, Routledge. 2002.
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33Social science in societyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (1). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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10Book Review: Science of Science and Reflexivity (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 36 (4): 496-499. 2006.
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77Wittgenstein + Heidegger on the stream of lifeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 36 (3). 1993.This paper combines views of Wittgenstein and Heidegger into an account of mind/ action. It does this by suggesting that these two philosophers be viewed in part as descendants of Life?philosophy (Lebensphilosophie). Part I describes the conception of life that informs and emerges from these thinkers. Parts Two and Three detail particular aspects of this conception: Wittgenstein on the constitution of states of life and Heidegger on the flow?structure of the stream of life. The Conclusion offers…Read more
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21Book Review: Bourdieu: A Critical Reader (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 32 (3): 445-449. 2002.
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6The Social and Political BodyGuilford Press. 1996.Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this unique book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. Celebrated authors, including Judith Butler and Emily Martin, explore the ways that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our physical selves and how we experience them, and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities, and desires reinforce or challenge the societa…Read more
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35Simulation theory and the verstehen school: A Wittgensteinian approachIn K. R. Stueber & H. H. Kogaler (eds.), Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, Boulder: Westview Press. 2000.
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251Practices and actions a Wittgensteinian critique of Bourdieu and GiddensPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 27 (3): 283-308. 1997.This article criticizes Bourdieu's and Giddens's overintellectualizing accounts of human activity on the basis of Wittgenstein's insights into practical under standing. Part 1 describes these two theorists' conceptions of a homology between the organization of practices (spatial-temporal manifolds of action) and the governance of individual actions. Part 2 draws on Wittgenstein's discussions of linguistic definition and following a rule to criticize these conceptions for ascribing content to the…Read more
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54Mind/Action for Wittgenstein and HeideggerSouthwest Philosophy Review. forthcoming.The paper outlines how Wittgenstein and Heidegger's views can be combined to form a general account of mind and action. It accomplishes this by interpreting Heidegger of the "Being and Time" era and Wittgenstein of the "Philosophical Investigations" onwards asdescendents of the School of Thought called life philosophy. Heidegger is construed as analyzing the occurrence of The Stream of Life, while Wittgenstein is understood as examining (a) The appearances of The Stream in The World and (b) The …Read more
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32Frederick A. Olafson, "Heidegger and the Philosophy of Mind" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 466. 1990.
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59The Temporality of TeleologyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 123-143. 2005.
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Todd May, Our Practices, Our Selves. Or, What it Means to be Human (review)Philosophy in Review 22 340-342. 2002.
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