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    Animals and Misanthropy.David E. Cooper - 2018 - New York: Routledge.
    This engaging volume explores and defends the claim that misanthropy is a justified attitude towards humankind in the light of how human beings both compare with and treat animals. Reflection on differences between humans and animals helps to confirm the misanthropic verdict, while reflection on the moral and other failings manifest in our treatment of animals illuminates what is wrong with this treatment. Human failings, it is argued, are too entrenched to permit optimism about the future of animals, but ways (...)
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  2. The Presidential Address: Analytical and Continental Philosophy.David E. Cooper - 19934 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94:1 - 18.
    David E. Cooper; I*—The Presidential Address: Analytical and Continental Philosophy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, P.
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  3. Visions of Philosophy.David E. Cooper - 2009 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 65:1-13.
    Characterizations of philosophy abound. It is ‘the queen of the sciences’, a grand and sweeping metaphysical endeavour; or, less regally, it is a sort of deep anthropology or ‘descriptive metaphysics’, uncovering the general presuppositions or conceptual schemes that lurk beneath our words and thoughts. A different set of images portray philosophy as a type of therapy, or as a spiritual exercise, a way of life to be followed, or even as a special branch of poetry or politics. Then there is (...)
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  4. The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery.David E. Cooper - 2005 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2):497-499.
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  5. A Philosophy of Gardens.David E. Cooper - 2007 - Philosophy 82 (319):187-189.
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    A Companion to Aesthetics.Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker & David E. Cooper (eds.) - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley.
    A COMPANION TO AESTHETICS This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and (...)
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    On Yuriko Saito, Aesthetics of care: practice in everyday life. London, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 232.Yuriko Saito, Arnold Berleant, David E. Cooper & Mădălina Diaconu - 2023 - Studi di Estetica 27 (3).
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    Existentialism: A Reconstruction.David E. Cooper - 1991 - Philosophical Quarterly 41 (164):362-363.
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    Reactionary Modernism.David E. Cooper - 1999 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44:291-304.
    ‘Reactionary modernism’ is a term happily coined by the historian and sociologist Jeffrey Herf to refer to a current of German thought during the interwar years. It indicates the attempt to ‘reconcil[e] the antimodernist, romantic and irrationalist ideas present in German nationalism’ with that ‘most obvious manifestation of means–ends rationality … modern technology’. Herf's paradigm examples of this current of thought are two best-selling writers of the period: Oswald Spengler, author of the massive domesday scenario The Decline of the West (...)
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    Postmodernism, Quietism, and Philosophy.David E. Cooper - 2024 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1):45-58.
    In my 1993 IJPS paper it was suggested that postmodernist verdicts on ‘the death of philosophy’ relied on a rejection of any ‘substantive’ or ‘metaphysical’ notion of truth. The present paper relates these verdicts to Wittgenstein’s alleged ‘philosophical quietism’. In both cases, for example, there is a rejection of ‘depth’. Various characterisations of Wittgenstein’s position are questioned, including the idea that his quietism consists in showing the impossibility of sceptical challenges to our ‘hinge’ propositions and beliefs. It is then argued, (...)
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    The Environment in Question: Ethics and Global Issues.David E. Cooper & Joy Palmer (eds.) - 1992 - Taylor & Francis US.
    By addressing specific global problems and placing them within an ethical context, "The Environment in Question" provides the reader with both a theoretical and practical understanding of environmental issues. The contributors are internationally known figures drawn from the various disciplines which bear upon these issues, such as geography, psychology, social policy, and philosophy. The contributions range from those tackling individual concrete issues (such as nuclear waste and the threat to the rain forest) to those addressing matters of policy, principle and (...)
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    Verstehen, Holism and Fascism.David E. Cooper - 1996 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 41:95-107.
    A subtitle for this paper might have been ‘The ugly face ofVerstehen’, for it asks whether the theory ofVerstehenhas, to switch metaphors, ‘dirty hands’. By the theory ofVerstehen, I mean the constellation of concepts—life, experience, expression, interpretative understanding—which, according to Wilhelm Dilthey, are essential for the study of human affairs, thereby showing that ‘the methodology of the human studies[Geisteswissenschafteri]is … different from that of the physical sciences’ :1 for in the latter, these concepts have no similar place. Even critics of (...)
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    Buddhism as Pessimism.David E. Cooper - 2021 - Journal of World Philosophies 6 (2):1-16.
    This paper defends the description of Buddhism—by Schopenhauer and many other nineteenth-century figures—as pessimistic. Pessimism, in the relevant sense, is a dark, negative judgment on the psychological, social, and moral condition of humankind and the prospects for its amelioration. After discussing texts in the Pali canon that provide prima facie support for the charge of pessimism, two familiar responses are considered. One emphasizes the positive aspects of the human condition recognized by the Buddha; the other emphasizes the prospect held out (...)
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    Collective Responsibility: Again.David E. Cooper - 1969 - Philosophy 44 (168):153 - 155.
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    Buddhism, Virtue and Environment.David E. Cooper & Simon P. James - 2005 - Routledge.
    Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that Buddhism is, in many important respects, in tune with environmental concerns, Cooper and James argue that what makes it 'green' is its view of human life. The true connection between the religion and environmental thought (...)
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    (1 other version)Experience and the Growth of Understanding.David E. Cooper - 1979 - Philosophical Books 20 (1):26-29.
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    Education, Values and Mind: Essays for R. S. Peters.David E. Cooper (ed.) - 1986 - Boston: Routledge.
    R. S. Peters has not only been the major philosopher of education in Britain during second half of the twentieth century, but by common consent, he has transformed the subject and brought it into the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. The ten essays in this book attest to his influence whether by critical examination of his ideas or by original treatment of topics in which has has inspired a new interest.
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    From World Philosophies to Existentialism—And Back.David E. Cooper - 2018 - Journal of World Philosophies 3 (2):105-109.
    This essay charts the author’s philosophical journey from schoolboy enthusiasms for Sartre, Plato, and Buddhism to the equally intercultural themes of his writings over the last few decades. It tells of his disillusion with the dominant style of philosophy in 1960s Oxford and of the liberating effect of working for three years in the USA. The author relates the revival of his interest in Existentialism and how his reading of Heidegger led to an increasing appreciation of Asian traditions of thought. (...)
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    Illusions of Equality.David E. Cooper - 1980 - Mind 91 (362):302-304.
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    Illusions of Equality.David E. Cooper - 1980 - Routledge.
    Educational policy and discussion, in Britain and the USA, are increasingly dominated by the confused ideology of egalitarianism. David E. Cooper begins by identifying the principles hidden among the confusions, and argues that these necessarily conflict with the ideal of educational excellence - in which conflict it is this ideal that must be preserved. He goes on to criticize the use of education as a tool for promoting wider social equality, focussing especially on the muddles surrounding 'equal opportunities', 'social mix' (...)
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  21. (1 other version)Metaphor.David E. Cooper - 1988 - Philosophy 63 (243):129-130.
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  22. Nietzsche and the Analytical Ambition.David E. Cooper - 2003 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26:1-11.
     
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    Presupposition.David E. Cooper & Deirdre Wilson - 1977 - Philosophical Review 86 (2):274-278.
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  24. Philosophy and the Nature of Language.David E. Cooper - 1975 - Foundations of Language 13 (2):295-296.
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    Searle on intentions and reference.David E. Cooper & Alonso Church - 1972 - Analysis 32 (5):159-163.
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    Trust.David E. Cooper - 1985 - Journal of Medical Ethics 11 (2):92-93.
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  27. The Persistence of Beauty.David E. Cooper - 2005 - In Claes Entzenberg & S. Säätela (eds.), Perspectives on Aesthetics, Art and Culture. Stockholm: Thales. pp. 69–80.
    Throughout the twentieth century, aestheticians and art theorists declared the 'death' of beauty as a serious, meaningful concept for aesthetics and art practice. Such declarations are better understood as polemical provocations, making their obituarism premature. Careful attention to the writings of those cited testify to the persistence of beauty, albeit in new, 'difficult', 'challenging' forms. Beauty persists, taking on new forms and inflections.
     
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  28. Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone.Dan O'brien & David E. Cooper (eds.) - 2010 - Wiley.
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    Humans in the Land: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape: Book Reviews. [REVIEW]David E. Cooper - 2009 - British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2):188-191.
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    The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink: Book Reviews. [REVIEW]David E. Cooper - 2008 - British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1):98-99.
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