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  1. Naturalism without a subject: Huw Price's pragmatism.Brandon Beasley - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (10):1793-1820.
    Huw Price has developed versions of naturalism and anti-representationalism to create a distinctive brand of pragmatism. ‘Subject naturalism’ focuses on what science says about human beings and the function of our linguistic practices, as opposed to orthodox contemporary naturalism’s privileging of the ontology of the natural sciences. Price’s anti-representationalism rejects the view that what makes utterances contentful is their representing reality. Together, they are to help us avoid metaphysical ‘placement problems’: how e.g. mind, meaning, and morality fit into the natural (...)
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  2. What should the idealist critique of naturalism be? Hegel, Smithson, and liberal naturalism.Brandon Beasley - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (5):903-916.
    In this journal, Robert Smithson argues that considerations stemming from Kantian and post-Kantian idealism undermine naturalistic arguments that seek to debunk elements of the ‘manifest image’ in favour of the ‘scientific image’. The idealist tradition, on this view, holds that philosophy’s task is to uncover and clarify the principles and norms which underlie different forms of inquiry, and is thus well placed to dispel the apparent ‘placement’ problems that stem from the collision of our ordinary worldview with contemporary philosophical naturalism. (...)
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  3. Appreciating the Mind of a Friend: A Josiah Royce Autograph Inscription About William James.Brandon Beasley - 2024 - William James Studies 19 (2):84-92.
    I provide a transcription of an inscription written by Josiah Royce in a copy of his The Spirit of Modern Philosophy which pertains to William James’ opinion of that book and of Royce’s work in general, followed by some brief remarks thereon.
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  4. Pragmatism and the Problem of Reason in Nature: Meaning, Naturalism, and the Threat of Semantic Nihilism.Brandon Beasley - forthcoming - London and New York: Routledge.
    This book argues that pragmatism offers a solution to a fundamental problem in the philosophy of language and mind: namely, the problem of the place of conceptual meanings—and so human minds—in nature. It contends that a pragmatist approach to resolving the problem avoids the dual traps of either reductionist elimination of genuine meanings or rationalist metaphysical excess. -/- The current intellectual, scientific, and cultural landscape is dominated by scientism, reductionism, and scepticism about such things as values, meanings, and everything that (...)
     
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    Responses to naturalism: critical perspectives from idealism and pragmatism: edited by Paul Giladi, Routledge, 2020, ix + 319 pp., £120.00, $155.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781138744745. [REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2020 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (4):563-568.
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    Single-minded animals sharing intentionality and norms: Preston Stovall: The single-minded animal: shared intentionality, normativity, and the foundations of discursive cognition. New York: Routledge, 2022, 398 pp, $136.00 HB, $42.36 PB. [REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2023 - Metascience 32 (3):437-440.
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    Review of Steven Levine, Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience[REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2021 - Philosophy in Review 41 (3):204-206.
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    (1 other version)Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy: by Trevor Pearce, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2020, 384 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780226719917. [REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2022 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (1):105-108.
    Trevor Pearce has done something remarkable and all too rare: written a book at the intersection of philosophy, science, and history that is equally excellent in all three respects.
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    Review of Robert B. Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's ‘Phenomenology’[REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2021 - Hegel Bulletin 42 (2):301-304.
  10. Review of Turri & Klein, eds., Ad infinitum: New essays on epistemological infinitism[REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2018 - Dialogue 57 (1):194-196.
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    Review of Huw Price, Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism[REVIEW]Brandon Beasley - 2015 - Dialogue 54 (3):573-576.