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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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59The Temporality of TeleologyNew Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 5 123-143. 2005.
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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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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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2Raimo Tuomela, The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (6): 409-411. 2003.
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314 Landscapes as Temporalspatial PhenomenaIn Jeff Malpas (ed.), The Place of Landscape: Concepts, Contexts, Studies, Mit Press. pp. 65. 2011.This chapter argues that landscapes are not only spatial phenomena but spatial-temporal entities in that they both occur in time and occupy space. It further argues that aside from being spatial-temporal entities, they are “temporalspatial” phenomena as well, by virtue of the fact that they are anchored and drawn into the timespace of human activity. This phenomenon of “activity timespace” is an overlooked aspect in social theory, although it is arguably an important aspect of social life. Times…Read more
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73The social bearing of natureInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (1). 2000.This essay examines how nature pertains to social life. Part I describes the social ontology the essay employs to address this issue. This ontology is of the site variety and is opposed to ontologies of both the individualist and socialist sorts. Part II describes where nature appears in this ontology. Artifacts are differentiated from nature, and much of ?nature? is shown to be second nature, a type of artifact that looks and feels like nature. Part II concludes by disputing the idea that natur…Read more
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1Early Heidegger on Being, the Clearing, and Realism in Heidegger (1889-1989)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 43 (168): 80-102. 1989.
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Savigny von, EIn Theodore R. Schatzki, K. Knorr-Cetina & Eike von Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge. pp. 5--10. 2001.
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90Pippin's Hegel on ActionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (5): 490-505. 2010.This essay is a commentary on and critique of the conception of human activity that Robert Pippin attributes to Hegel in his recent book, Hegel's Practical Philosophy. Two principal features of this conception are that it treats human activity as indeterminate and that it construes what someone does and why on a given occasion as depending on social contexts. Pippin suggests that these two features will sound strange to contemporary philosophers. The essay claims, by contrast, that these feature…Read more
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28Subjects, intelligibility, and historyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 28 (1-4): 273-287. 1985.
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38Martin Heidegger: theorist of spaceSteiner. 2007.Explaining Heidegger's ideas on spatial phenomena simply and succinctly, this book will be provocative and invaluable to anyone interested in space and spatial theory. The author gives incisive, informative, and compelling analyses of Heidegger's overall philosophy and of his changing ideas about space, spatiality, the clearing, places, sites, and dwelling. This study also charts the legacy of these ideas in philosophy, geography, architecture, and anthropology and includes a bibliography of sel…Read more
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