| Thomas M. Alexander
Publications
Books:
John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling, SUNY Press, June 1987.
The Essential Dewey (2 vols.), co-edited with Larry Hickman, Indiana University Press, 1998.
The World’s Rim, by Hartley Burr Alexander, edited by Hubert G. Alexander with a new introduction by Thomas M. Alexander, Dover, 1999.
Articles in Professional Journals:
"Vital Symbolism," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. II, 1977, pp. 39-49.
"Richard Rorty and Dewey's Metaphysics of Experience," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. V, 1980, pp. 24-35
"Eros and Poiesis in Plato's Symposium," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. VII, pp. 100-114, 1982.
"Art, Truth, and Knowledge," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 3, pp. 16-23, 1983.
"Perspectives on Punishment," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. IX, No. 3, pp. 86-95, 1984.
"The Sphairos God in Empedocles' Two Poems," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. X, No. 1, pp. 84-95, 1985.
"Dewey's Metaphysics and the Principle of Continuity," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. XI, No. 2, pp. 39-51, 1986.
"Arche, Dike, Phusis: The Origins of Natural Justice in Anaximander," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. X, No. 3, pp. 11-20, 1987.
"Philosophy and the Humanities," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. XII, 1990, pp. 1-11.
"Pragmatic Imagination," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, pp. 325-348, 1990.
"Dewey and the Metaphysical Imagination," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 203-215, 1992.
"The Context of Community," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. 14, pp. 16-25, 1992.
"Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty Toward a Postmodern Ethics," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, pp. 369-400, 1993.
"Santayana's Unbearable Lightness of Being: Aesthetics as a Prelude to Ontology," Overheard in Seville, Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 11, pp. 1-10, 1993.
"Educating the Democratic Heart," Studies in Philosophy & Education, ed. Jim Garrison, Vol. 13, pp. 243-259, 1995.
"The Fourth World of American Philosophy: The Philosophical Significance of Native American Culture," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, pp. 375-402, Summer 1996.
“Santayana’s Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment, “Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. XXXIII, No, Spring 1997.
“Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism.” Overheard in Seville: The Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 18, Fall 2000.
“Eros and Education: Postmodernism and the Dilemma of Humanist Pedagogy” (article length book review), Studies in Philosophy and Education (2002).
“Thinking in Place: Comments on Scott Pratt’s Native Pragmatism,” Philosophy and Geography 6 No 2 (August 2003).
Creative Contributions:
“The Alexander Tradition in Philosophy.” Falling in Love with Philosophy, ed. David D. Karnos and Robert Shoemaker, Oxford University Press, 1993.
“Memorial Notice: Paul Grimley Kuntz,” Overheard in Seville, The Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 18, Fall 2000.
Chapters in Professional Books:
"The Technology of Desire: Dewey, Social Criticism, and the Aesthetics of Human Existence," Europe, America and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Paul T. Durbin, (Kluwer Press), 1991, pp. 109-126.
"Community and Creativity," Frontiers in American Philosophy, Vol. II (University of Texas Press), 1996.
"Dewey and the Moral Imagination," Moral Education and the Liberal Arts, ed. Michael H. Mitias, (Greenwood Press), 1992, pp. 93-112.
"The Human Eros," invited, Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture: Pragmatic Essays after Dewey, ed. John Stuhr, (SUNY Press), 1993.
"John Dewey," article of Dictionary of Literary Biography, co-authored with Richard Field.
"John Dewey," A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. David E. Cooper (Basil Blackwell, UK), 1993.
"Susanne Langer," A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. David E. Cooper (Basil Blackwell, UK), 1993.
"The Pepper-Croce Thesis and Dewey's 'Idealist' Aesthetics," reprinted in John Dewey: Articles, (Basil Blackwell, 4 vols.), ed. J. E. Tiles, 1995.
"Pragmatism," Ready Reference: Ethics , Sean Woodward, ed. (Salem Press), 1994. "John Dewey and the Roots of Democratic Imagination" in Recovering Pragmatism's Voice: The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication, ed. Lenore Langsdorf and Andrew R. Smith, (SUNY Press), pp. 131-301, 1995.
"Dewey's Theory of Aesthetic Expression," The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed., Michael Kelly, Basil Blackwell, 1995.
"Art of Life: Dewey's Aesthetics," invited chapter for Reading Dewey: His Basic Ideas in Context, ed. Larry Hickman, (Indiana University Press, 1998.
"Eros and Understanding: Gadamer's Aesthetic Ontology of Community," invited chapter for The Library of Living Philosophers: Hans Georg Gadamer, Open Court, 1996.
"John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Human Existence," Classical American Pragmatism, ed. Sandra Rosenthal, (University of Illinois Press), l999.
"Beyond the Death of Art: Community and the Ecology of the Self," Philosophy in Experience, eds. Richard E. Hart and Douglas Anderson, Fordham University Press, 1999.
“James Gouinlock,” in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed John Lachs and Michael Sullivan (2002).
“The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey’s Ecological Theory of Experience,” in Dewey’s Logical Theory: New Studies and interpretations Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
“Between Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation” in In Dewey’s Wake, ed. William Gavin, SUNY Press (2003)
Book Reviews:
Review of Susanne Langer, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Mind and Nature (Emory University), 1978.
Review of Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 130-137, 1989.
Review of Larry Hickman, John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 5., No. 2, pp. 144-151, 1991.
Review of Steven C. Rockefeller, John Dewey; Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism, Transactions for the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, pp. 856-869, Fall 1992.
Review of Robert Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, pp. 150-152, 1993.
Review of Calvin Martin, In the Spirit of the Earth, Southwest Philosophical Studies, 18, 1996.
Review of Eric Voegelin, "In Search of the American Mind," The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. I, Documentary Editing, Vol. 18, no. 3, 1996.
Review of Jim Garrison, Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching and Philip Jackson, John Dewey and the Lessons of Art in Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2000, vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 467-481.
Other:
“Myth and Native American Aesthetics,” Workshop session for Non-Western Wisdom Traditions in the Curriculum, Hartford University, Feb. 9, 2003.
“Between Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation” in In Dewey’s Wake, ed. William Gavin, SUNY Press (2003).
“Thinking in Place: Comments on Scott Pratt’s Native Pragmatism,” Philosophy and Geography 6 No 2 (August 2003).
“Dewey’s Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread Through the Labyrinth,” SAAP Birmingham Alabama, (March 2004).
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