...Ruth Anna Putnam, developing an intense interest in Kant, Anita Hill, Rodney King, going to UCSD for grad school, surfers, eliminative materialism, the Churchlands, the Kitchers, her buddy Elizabeth Buffalo,...
...in play. The main thrust of my book examines and reworks the theory proposed by David Hume in his 1757 essay “Of the Standard of Taste.” While I try to...
...to philosophy by reading Plato, Rawls, and David Lewis, I was introduced to these figures by a Black male professor. Though the authors were white, I didn’t feel distanced from...
...Falling in Love with Wisdom. American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling, edited by David D. Karnos and Robert G. Shoemaker (Oxford U. Press, 1993). I reviewed it for the APA...
...Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia), The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist’s Defence of the Market Gregory Kavka/UC Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy: Massimo Renzo (King’s College London), “Political...
...two-prong research program, splitting my work between contemporary ethics and the history of ethics. In particular, I made my bones partly through scholarship on David Hume and Adam Smith, whose...
...therefore, counts as a rarity in the genre. The closest item to Gadamer’s essay in recent times might be David Foster Wallace’s 2006 attempt to bring religion and tennis together...
...call, to his use of David Cross’ white voice. While fantastical elements are initially used for gags, by the end of the film they become a real point of tension...
Introduction Philosophical analysis, if done carefully, can reveal the manufacturing of a social narrative that is designed to instigate public attention. In this article I will be discussing the relatively...
