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(2018) In Chapter One of this book, I explore four paradigms of justification: epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (which I call the traditional paradigms) and pragmatism and contextualism (the existential paradigms.) I argue that the existential paradigms are pragmatically superior.
In Chapter Two, I build a bridge between pragmatist thinkers like James and Dewey, contextualists such as Wittgenstein, and existentialists such as Sartre and Camus. After arguing that all three share a unique first philosophy, I distinguish epistemic pragmatism and contextualism by pointing out three key features of each.
In Chapter Three, I codify many popular so-called “neo-pragmatists” such as Rorty, Putnam, Annis, Alston, Quine, and Brandom according to my distinction.
In Chapter Two, I build a bridge between pragmatist thinkers like James and Dewey, contextualists such as Wittgenstein, and existentialists such as Sartre and Camus. After arguing that all three share a unique first philosophy, I distinguish epistemic pragmatism and contextualism by pointing out three key features of each.
In Chapter Three, I codify many popular so-called “neo-pragmatists” such as Rorty, Putnam, Annis, Alston, Quine, and Brandom according to my distinction.
(2016) Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is known for being as inaccessible as it is brilliant—an unreadable masterpiece. And as a cardinal text for graduate students in philosophy, Kant’s first critique and its dense, ungainly style can stand as an intimidating challenge. But for careful students interested in exploring this pivotal work, Kant’s first critique can have profound implications for their understandings of both metaphysics and epistemology—as well as of the history of philosophy in general.
I hope this book will be a valuable resource for students, professors, and scholars interested in learning more about Kant’s philosophy. It provides definitions for key terms that students of Kant’s first critique will need to understand. It discusses the nature and role of synthetic a priori judgments and Kant’s notion of experience. It examines the historical context of the problem at the heart of Kant’s critique, explains Kant’s transcendental idealism, the transcendental proof, and his so-called first antinomy, as well as Kant’s categories and principles, and his critical refutation of skepticism, idealism, and dogmatic rationalism.
I hope this book will be a valuable resource for students, professors, and scholars interested in learning more about Kant’s philosophy. It provides definitions for key terms that students of Kant’s first critique will need to understand. It discusses the nature and role of synthetic a priori judgments and Kant’s notion of experience. It examines the historical context of the problem at the heart of Kant’s critique, explains Kant’s transcendental idealism, the transcendental proof, and his so-called first antinomy, as well as Kant’s categories and principles, and his critical refutation of skepticism, idealism, and dogmatic rationalism.
(2005) I provided the concluding chapter of this volume edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl. In my article, "Religious Pragmatism Through the Eyes of Luke Skywalker", I examine the epistemic skepticism of William Clifford along with William James' response that there may be appropriate conditions under which it is morally acceptable to have faith or "will to believe." Luke Skywalker's salvific belief in his friends, in the goodness of his father, and in the force may be a paradigm example of such faith.