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Deontic modality schematized according to the semiotic square

The Art of Recitation

Applications of Text Theory to Moral Philosophy

Language and Being

What is the nature of explanation?

The Thinkable and the Unthinkable

When Should We Trust Our Intuitions?

The Morality of Lying and Deception

Moral Conventionalism

Some Defects of Moral Particularism

Moral Imagination

The Moral High Ground

To Elsewhere and Forever: a Dream about the Metaphysics of Time

Ideal Moral Agency

Some preliminary definitions of meta-ethical terms

Baseball Card Aesthetics

Shouldn't Professional Sports Teams Employ Sports Ethicists?

Practical Applications of a Theory of Racial Justice

Stigmas as Signs of Social Rejection

Surfaces of Inscription

Modes of Address

Frames as Ways of Seeing the World

What is Technophilosophy?

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Moral Agency and Personhood

Prioritizing Moral Duties

Philippa Foot and Jonathan Harrison, on the Nature of Moral Principles

"Seeing to it" as a Principle of Moral Conduct

Linda Zagzebski's Exemplarist Moral Theory

The Letter and Spirit of the Law

"Selling" Ourselves: The Ethics of Self-Marketing

Will the Truth Always Set You Free?

Better Not to Know

Culpable Ignorance: A Consequentialist Perspective

Some Objections to the Simulation Hypothesis

Nicholas Rescher's Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge

Revolutionary Love

Grounded in Love

A Theology of Love

Love and Understanding

Seeing Others as Ourselves, and Ourselves as Others

Perfectionist Fallacies

On the Origins, Nature, and Extent of Epistemic Rights

Some Propositions Concerning Epistemic Ground, Warrant, and Justification

The End of the World

Destination Infinity

The Street Knowledge - Book Knowledge Dichotomy

Philosophy as Performance

The Concept of Futility

Positive and Negative Intentions

Caveats Regarding the Expression of Intentions

Conditions for having the Moral Right to Speak for Others

Some Arguments against Ethnocentrism

Why it may be difficult to make one's voice heard

The Voice of Conscience as Internal Speech

Looking Beyond Morality

The Obligatoriness of Washing Our Hands, and the Permissibility of Getting Them Dirty

Monism and Pluralism

The Dalai Lama visits the Washington National Cathedral, 2014

Monadic Realism

Arnold Relman's Proposals for U.S. Health Care System Reform

Medical Hermeneutics

Health Care as a Basic Human Right

Bias in Medicine

Maryland's Tuskegee Experiment, 2016

Medical Indications as Epistemic Justifications

Treating Patients who have Substance Abuse Disorders and Chronic Pain

Medicine and Philosophy

The Physician Philosopher

Some of Plato's Views on the Art of Medicine

Galen, on the Physician as Philosopher

The Lankavatara Sutra

The Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra

Laozi and Self-Effacement in Moral Theory

Some Teachings of the Dao De Jing

Two of Nagarjuna's Most Radical Suggestions

Confucius and the Rectification of Names

Confucius and Mozi, on Ritual

Mencius and Xunzi, on Human Nature

Han Feizi's Critique of Confucianism and Mohism

Zhu Xi, on the Investigation of Things

Wang Yangming and the Unity of Knowledge and Action

The Four-Seven Debate

James Baldwin, On Why We Must Define Ourselves, Rather than Be Defined by Others

The Metaphysics of Race: A Glossary

The Metaphysics of Gender: A Glossary

Being Invisible

Black being/Being black

Why "Y'all" ain't one of my favorite expressions

Systems of Signification in African-American Culture

Why Formulate a List of Black Philosophers?

The Racial Integration of Academic Philosophy Departments

Black Philosophers Online

Questions for the Black Philosopher

Why I Don't Own a Gun

James McCune Smith's The Destiny of the People of Color

Philosophy from the Margins

Transgression in Philosophy

Plato's Parmenides, on the One and the Many

Wilhelm Vossenkuhl's The Possibility of the Good

Joseph Raz, on Reasons and Norms

Keith DeRose, on Single Scoreboard Semantics

Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

E.J. Lowe's Four-Category Ontology

The Dispositional-Occurrent Distinction

Problems for the Supposed Maximality of Possible Worlds

Márta Ujvári’s The Trope Bundle Theory of Substance

Jean-Luc Nancy's Being Singular Plural

François Laruelle, on Non-Philosophy

Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Givenness

One and the Same

Nicolai Hartmann's Theory of the Relation between Being-There and Being-So

Nicolai Hartmann's Outlines of a Metaphysics of Knowledge

A Possible Misunderstanding of Modality in Kant's Groundwork

Kant's Distinction between the Transcendent and the Transcendental

Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation

Schelling's On the Unconditional in Human Knowledge

Hegel on Self-Consciousness

Some Equivalence Relations in Hegel's Phenomenology that may Provide a Key to its Understanding

Susan Haack's Evidence and Inquiry

Why Rorty's Conception of Epistemology is Wrong

Thin vs. Thick Theology

What is Lived Theology?

Pascal's Penseés

Weaknesses of Pascal's Wager

Erasmus's The Praise of Folly

Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther, on Human Understanding of God

Aquinas's Proofs for the Existence of God

Maimonides, on Divine Attributes

The Mind of God

Hume and Augustine on the Problem of Evil

The Intentionality of Evil

A Case for a Gender-Inclusive Lord's Prayer

Is God at Work in All Things?

Perspectives on Servanthood

Becoming Beloved Community

The Cosmic Christ

The Christian Concept of Suffering

A Meditation on Life and Death

Apophatic Eternalism in Theology

Moral Authority

"Church" as a Noun without an Article

The Story of Abraham and Isaac

Abraham J. Heschel's Concept of Divine Pathos

This is My Church

The Cornerstone of the Church

Bonhoeffer's Ethics

Chronology of the Life of Pauli Murray (1910-1985)

Inclusion and Belonging

Storytelling and Narrativity

Edith Stein, on Finite and Infinite Being

Non-Propositional Language

Propositional Signs

Presuppositions

Pre-texts and Pretexts

Non-signs and Non-signification

Questions of Language

Carl Wellman's The Language of Ethics

Creel Froman's Language and Power

The Projective Character of Being

Questions Raised by "The New Thinking"

Conference on Race, Recognition and Respect

Fernando Broncano's The Melancholia of the Cyborg

Luis Villoro's Power and Value: Fundamentals of a Political Ethic

Luis Villoro's The Challenges of the Coming Society

Emilio Uranga's Analysis of Mexican Being

Paulette Dieterlen, on Distributive Justice

Mauricio Beuchot's Analogical Hermeneutics

Artscape, 2014, Baltimore

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Artscape, 2024, Baltimore

Baltimore 10 Miler, 2017

Charlottesville Ten Miler, 2018

Baltimore Ten Miler, 2018

Annapolis Ten Mile Run, 2018

Baltimore 10 Miler, 2019

Baltimore 10 Miler, 2021

2021 Under Armour Charles Street 12

Baltimore 10 Miler, 2023

Baltimore Ceasefire Parade, Saturday, August 4, 2018

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When You're at a Loss for Words

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Interesting Articles and Websites

A Companion to African Philosophy, edited by Kwasi Wiredu
Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
Amanda Gefter, "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic"
Amy Hawkins, "China's human rights lawyers speak out, 10 years after crackdown"
Amy Qin, "A Prominent Chinese-American Artist Is the Latest to Fall Afoul of China's Censors"
Anastasia Corell, "Tibet's Tense New Reality"
Anastasia Piatakhina Giré, "In Treatment, but in Which Language?"
Andrew Jacobs, "China Fences In its Nomads, and an Ancient Life Withers"
Andrew Jacobs, "Xinjiang Seethes Under Chinese Crackdown"
Andrew Jacobs and Chris Buckley, "Chinese Activists Test New Leader and are Crushed"
Andrew Robinson, "Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia"
Austin Ramzy, "Explaining China's Cultural Revolution"
Benjamin Anastas, "The Breakup List"
Chiu-Ti Jansen, "Silence and Storytelling in Zhang Xiaogang's New Works at Pace"
Chris Buckley, "Tibetan Who Spoke Out for Language Rights Is Freed From Chinese Prison"
Chris Buckley, "Why did Beijing Slap Down Hong Kong Separatists? To Make a Point."
Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, "China is Erasing Mosques and Precious Shrines in Xinjiang"
Christy Wampole, "The Essayification of Everything"
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, edited by Chung-Ying Cheng and Nicholas Bunnin
David Chalmers's "Two-Dimensional Semantics"
David Pierson and Tiffany May, "This Is What Can Land You in Jail for Sedition in Hong Kong"
Dennis Barron, "Language & Society"
Edmund Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?"
Elizabeth Grosz, "A Note on Essentialism and Difference"
George Yancy and Judith Butler, "What's Wrong with 'All Lives Matter'?"
Glossary of English Grammar Terms - UsingEnglish.com
Glossary of Linguistics Terms, by Eugene E. Loos, et al.
Ha Jin, "Exiled to English"
Hanneke Beaumont
Human Rights Watch, "China, Events of 2024"
Human Rights Watch, "China, Events of 2023"
Human Rights Watch, "China, Events of 2022"
Human Rights Watch, "China, Events of 2021"
Ian Johnson, "As Beijing Becomes a Supercity, the Rapid Growth Brings Pains"
Jim Holt, "Is Philosophy Literature?
Jimmy Carter's 2003 op-ed article opposing the proposed invasion of Iraq
John Turri, "Manifest Failure: The Gettier Problem Solved"
Joy Harjo, "Remember"
Julia Lovell, "Mo Yan's 'Frog'"
Julie Sedivy, "Your Speech is Packed with Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages"
Keith Ridgway, "Everything is Fiction"
Lera Boroditsky, "How Language Shapes Thought"
Li Yuan, "When Tragedy Strikes in China, the Government Cracks Down on Grief"
Mark Kitto, "You'll never be Chinese: Why I'm leaving the country I loved"
Matt Schiavenza, ""China's Intensifying Suppression of Foreign Journalism"
Michael Kimmelman, "Pardon My French"
Michael Segal, "The Twin Prime Hero"
Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?"
Natalie Wolchover, "How Gödel's Proof Works"
Peter Suber, "Glossary of First-Order Logic"
Robert Anthony Siegel, "My Mother, My Writing Student"
Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author"
Sam Anderson, "How Roland Barthes Gave Us the TV Recap"
Sean Thomas Dougherty, "Biography of LeBron as Ohio"
Simon Makin, "Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice Streaming through Their Head"
Stig Hjarvard, "The Globalization of Language"
Theodore Roethke, "In a Dark Time"
Victor Fleischer, "Stop Universities from Hoarding Money"
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "America, Say My Name"
Walter Glannon, "The free-will fix"
William Wan, "China's labor camps come under scrutiny"
Xiao Guozhen, "China vs. Its Human Rights Lawyers"
Zhang Jie

World Newspapers

Die Zeit
El Diario La Prensa NY
la Repubblica
Le Monde
The Guardian

Philosopher Web Pages

Thomas Hurka's web page at the Univ. of Toronto

Kent Bach's web page at San Francisco State University

Avery Archer's web page

Ásta's web page

Chris Fraser's web page at the Univ. of Hong Kong

Yang Xiao's web page at Kenyon College

John Turri's web page

Tuomas Tahko's web page

Jay Lemke's web page

Terry Horgan's web page at the Univ. of Arizona

Carlos Sánchez's web page at San José State Univ.

Steven Pinker's web page at Harvard Univ.

Daniel Star's web page

Miranda Fricker's web page

Bryce Huebner's web page at Georgetown Univ.

Christian Nimtz's web page at Bielefeld University

Andreas Stokke's web page

Stephen Grimm's web page at Fordham Univ.

Justin D'Arms's web page at Ohio State Univ.

Andy Egan's web page

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http://philosophyreaders.blogspot.com/: Alex Scott was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Chicago, and has lived in Baltimore since the 1980's. He attended Groton School, Yale University, and Rush Medical College. He is a physician who has had a long-time interest in philosophy. His philosophical interests include ethics, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. He is the author of three books, and has co-translated with Stephanie Adair a major work by the German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann (Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit, 1938; Possibility and Actuality, 2013). (Unfortunately, unnecessary commas were added, without his permission, to every page of the manuscript before it went to publication.) He enjoys running, listening to classical music, jazz, and blues, and seeing concerts, plays, and films. He also finds that reading the Bible and attending church make an important contribution to his spiritual life. He is married and has two sons.

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