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Review Of Laura Doyle's (Ed.) Bodies Of Resistance: New Phenomenologies Of Politics, Agency, And Culture, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Review Of Laura Doyle's (Ed.) Bodies Of Resistance: New Phenomenologies Of Politics, Agency, And Culture, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Bodies of Resistance is a collection of ten essays on embodiment and its various forms of resistance to disciplinary regimes, plus a lengthy introduction by the editor, Laura Doyle. The essays are paired and divided into five sections, each with its own brief introduction, which tends to make the book seem more like a patchwork than a unified whole; nevertheless, Doyle insists on its cohesion. Most of the ten authors, she says, are engaged in what she calls “postmodern phenomenology” (xiii). (The final essay, “The Dimensions of History: Colonial Mapping, Architecture, and the Perils of ‘Constructive Phenomenology’” by Daniel Bertrand …
Nietzsche And "An Architecture Of Our Minds" (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche And "An Architecture Of Our Minds" (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Nietzsche and "An Architecture of our Minds," edited by Alexandre Kostka and Ivan Wohlfarth. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1999.
Critical Thinking By Alec Fisher (Book Review), G. C. Goddu
Critical Thinking By Alec Fisher (Book Review), G. C. Goddu
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The aim of Critical Thinking is to explicitly and directly teach critical thinking skills and to facilitate the use of these skills to subjects and contexts beyond critical thinking (v, 1). Though the book is primarily intended as an introductory textbook for the teaching of critical thinking, Fisher maintains that the "material is presented in such a way that it can be worked through on a self-study basis"(vi).
The 'Most Important And Fundamental' Distinction In Logic, G. C. Goddu
The 'Most Important And Fundamental' Distinction In Logic, G. C. Goddu
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In this paper I argue that the debate over the purported distinction between deductive and inductive arguments can be bypassed because making the distinction is unnecessary for successfully evaluating arguments. I provide a foundation for doing logic that makes no appeal to the distinction and still performs all the relevant tasks required of an analysis of arguments. I also reply to objections to the view that we can dispense with the distinction. Finally, I conclude that the distinction between inductive and deductive arguments is not one of the most important and fundamental ideas in logic, but rather is unnecessary.
Nietzsche, Philosophy And The Arts (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche, Philosophy And The Arts (Book Review), Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts," edited by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, and Daniel W. Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.