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  1. Matthew King (2009). Clarifying the Foucault—Habermas Debate: Morality, Ethics, and `Normative Foundations'. Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (3):287-314.
  2. Matthew King (2009). Heidegger and Happiness: Dwelling on Fitting and Being. Continuum.
     
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  3. Matthew King (2008). The Glass Shatters and Ducks Turn Into Rabbits: Bad Faith and Moral Luck. Dialogue 47 (3-4):583-.
    ABSTRACT: This article shows how the "problem of moral luck" and Sartre's concept of "bad faith" are mutually illuminating, since both have to do with confusions about how much we control, or are controlled by, our situations. I agree with three recent proposals that the problem of moral luck results from certain epistemic malfunctions. However, I argue that the problem cannot be dissolved by overcoming these malfunctions because they are rooted in bad faith. Against the currently dominant interpretation, I argue (...)
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  4. Matthew King (2007). Heidegger's Etymological Method: Discovering Being by Recovering the Richness of the Word. Philosophy Today 51 (3):278-289.
     
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  5. Matthew King (2007). The Meno's Metaphilosophical Examples. Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (3):395-412.
    I propose that an ill-appreciated contrast between the examples Socrates gives Meno, to show him how he ought to philosophize, is the key to understanding the Meno. I contend that Socrates prefers hisdefinitions of shape to his account of color because the former are concerned with what shape is, while the latter is concerned with how color comes to be. This contrast suggests that Plato intends ananalogous contrast between the (properly philosophical) way of inquiry that leads to Socrates’ definition of (...)
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