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19Bush's national security strategy: A critique of united statesIn Gail M. Presbey (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism, Brill. pp. 131-140. 2007.Many individuals domestically and internationally who strive for peace and justice are concerned about the new National Security Strategy issued by the George W. Bush Administration in September 2002. 1 William Galston, for example, writes in a recent issue of Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly: A global strategy based on the new Bush doctrine of preemption means the end of the system of international institutions, laws and norms that we have worked to build for more than a half a century. T…Read more
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60Ricoeur on metaphor and ideologyDarshana International 32 (1): 59-70. 1992.arguments concerning whether such changes are creative. [2] Less frequently addressed are questions about how to assess the perceptual implications of these linguistic innovations. [3] Using insights of Ricoeur and, to a lesser extent, M. Merleau Ponty and V. N. Volosinov, I will provide a model for evaluating a certain class of linguistic innovations, namely, new uses of language which rely upon distortion of typical perceptual associations. (Excluded from such new linguistic uses are, for exam…Read more
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21The New Reign of Terror: The Politics of Defining Weapons of Mass Destruction and TerrorismIn Gail M. Presbey (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism, Brill. pp. 23-33. 2007.“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” So begins Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. While he was writing about London and Paris during the turbulent times associated with the rise of the British Industrial Revolution and the French Political Revolution, these lines express the current sentiments of many Americans. Before 11 September 2001, many people thought we were living in the best of times. Baby boomers were relishing in the prospects that through inheritance they would …Read more
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61The practice of linguistic nonviolencePeace Review 10 (4): 545-547. 1998.Does language do violence, and, if so, can linguistic violence be overcome? Language can do violence if violence does not require the exercise of physical force, and linguistic violence can be overcome if its use can be avoided. Some forms of violence do not use physical force, and various means are available for avoiding linguistic violence. Hence, although linguistic violence can and does occur, it also can be overcome. Much of my recent work has focused on how language, which does not rely on…Read more
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10The Philosophy of Forgiveness is multi-dimensional and complex. As recent scholarly philosophical works on forgiveness illustrate, incorporating personal, relational, political, ethical, psychological, and religious dimensions into one consistent conception of “forgiveness” is difficult. As part of Vernon Press’s series on the Philosophy of Forgiveness, Explorations of Forgiveness: Personal, Relational, and Religious begins the task of creating a consistent multidimensional account of forgivenes…Read more
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9Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization: Contemporary Philosophical Problems (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2016._Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization_ provides essays in English by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. Their essays articulate Russian perspectives on the key global issues being faced internationally and in Russia.
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13Democracy and the Quest for Justice: Russian and American Perspectives (edited book)BRILL. 2004.This book examines the changes and challenges to democracy particularly in contemporary Russia. In the first section, Russian and American philosophers scrutinize the virtues and vices facing a country changing to a democratic government. The book, secondly, explores the challenges facing a democratic Russia. Lastly, the book considers carefully issues of social justice arising from the relationship between democracy and the current economic climate of globalization. The series _Contemporary Rus…Read more
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11Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2014.This book provides brief expositions of the central concepts in the field of Global Studies. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev says, “The book is intelligent, rich in content and, I believe, necessary in our complex, turbulent, and fragile world.” 300 authors from 50 countries contributed 450 entries. The contributors include scholars, researchers, and professionals in social, natural, and technological sciences. They cover globalization problems within ecology, business, ec…Read more
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6On the Eve of the 21st Century: Perspectives of Russian and American Philosophers (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1994.'A groundbreaking cooperative effort by Russian and Western philosophers to analyze the developing new world order.'-Robert L. Homes, University of Rochester
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151Exposing and overcoming linguistic alienation and linguistic violencePhilosophy and Social Criticism 24 (2-3): 137-156. 1998.
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108Myths about nuclear war: Misconceptions in public belefs and governmental planPhilosophy and Social Criticism 9 (2): 116-144. 1982.
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14Merleau-Ponty on language and social science: The dialectic of phenomenology and structuralism (review)Man and World 12 (3): 322-338. 1979.
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71From Wittgenstein to Applied PhilosophyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 9 (1): 15-20. 1994.I stumbled into my interpretation of Wittgenstein as an advocate of what is now termed applied philosophy. In doing research for an essay on linguistic violence, [2] I decided to read more by and about Ferrucio Rossi Landi because I had already made use of his work on linguistic alienation. [3] One source, in particular, caught my attention because of its clever, though sexist, subtitle. In 1991, Ranjit Chatterjee published an essay titled "Rossi Landi's Wittgenstein: 'A philosopher's meaning is…Read more
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27Bourdieu and the Social Conditions of Wittgensteinian Language GamesInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (1): 15-21. 1996.
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13What Would Make For A Better World?In Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working toward a Better World, Brill | Rodopi. pp. 51-69. 2021.Andrew Fitz-Gibbon in Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working Toward a Better World argues that a principled form of pragmatism—pragmatism shaped by the theory of nonviolence—is the best hope for our world. He defines nonviolence as “a practice that, whenever possible seeks the well-being of the Other, by refusing to use violence to solve problems, and by having an intentional commitment to lovingkindness.” In the first part of the book, Fitz-Gibbon asks what a better world would look like. In the second…Read more
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32A bibliography on philosophy and the nuclear debateJournal of Social Philosophy 18 (2): 50-60. 1987.
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The language of civility and resistance: a critique of tolerance and violenceIn Amin Asfari (ed.), Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice, Brill | Rodopi. 2019.
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134William C. Gay -- philosophy and the nuclear debatePhilosophy and Social Criticism 10 (3-4): 1-8. 1984.
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59Analogy and metaphor: Two models of linguisticPhilosophy and Social Criticism 7 (3-4): 300-317. 1980.
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36Justification of Legal Authority: Phenomenology vs Critical TheoryJournal of Social Philosophy 11 (2): 1-10. 1980.
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76In each decade of the nuclear age, philosophers have provided critical reflections on the nature, use, and consequences of nuclear weapons. Frequently, these reflections have addressed the morality of producing, testing, deploying, and using nuclear weapons. Already, these philosophical reflections have passed through four phases and are now entering a fifth phase. The first phase stretches from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to the above ground nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. From the initial u…Read more
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University of North Carolina, CharlotteRetired faculty
Areas of Specialization
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
War and Violence |
Applied Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |