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  1. (1 other version)The Ethics Toolkit: A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods.Julian Baggini & Peter S. Fosl - 2007 - Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by Peter S. Fosl.
    _The Ethics Toolkit_ provides an accessible and engaging compendium of concepts, theories, and strategies that encourage students and advanced readers to think critically about ethics so that they can engage intelligently in ethical study, thought, and debate. Written by the authors of the popular _The Philosophers’ Toolkit_ ; Baggini is also a renowned print and broadcast journalist, and a prolific author of popular philosophy books Uses clear and accessible language appropriate for use both inside and beyond the classroom Enlivened through (...)
     
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    Hume's Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic.Peter S. Fosl - 2019 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Peter S. Fosl offers a radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He first contextualises Hume's thought in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of his work - including the Treatise, Enquiries, Essays, History, Dialogues and letters.
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    Catalina González Quintero, Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics.Peter S. Fosl - 2023 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 21 (3):307-312.
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    Doubt and divinity: Cicero's influence on Hume's religious skepticism.Peter S. Fosl - 1994 - Hume Studies 20 (1):103-120.
  5. Skepticism in Hume's Politics and Histories.Peter S. Fosl - 2018 - Araucaria 20 (40).
    This essay argues that Hume's political and historical thought is well read as skeptical and skeptical in a way that roots it deeply in the Hellenistic traditions of both Pyrrhonian and Academical thought. It deploys skeptical instruments to undermine political rationalism as well as theologically and metaphysically political ideologies. Hume's is politics of opinion and appearance. It labors to oppose faction and enthusiasm and generate suspension, balance, tranquility, and moderation. Because Hume advocate the use of reflectively generated but epistemically and (...)
     
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  6. Scepticism and Naturalism in Cavell and Hume.Peter S. Fosl - 2015 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (1):29-54.
    This essay argues that the exploration of scepticism and its implications in the work of Stanley Cavell and David Hume bears more similarities than is commonly acknowledged, especially along the lines of what I wish to call “sceptical naturalism.” These lines of similarity are described through the way each philosopher relates the “natural” and “nature” to the universal, the necessary, and the conventional.
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    (1 other version)Philosophy: The Classic Readings.David E. Cooper & Peter S. Fosl (eds.) - 2009 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _Philosophy: The Classic Readings_ provides a comprehensive, single-volume collection of the greatest works of philosophy from ancient to modern times. Draws on both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions Arranged chronologically within parts on Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy Features original readings from more than a hundred of the world's great philosophers - from Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Buddha, Plato, Śamkara, Aquinas, al-Ghazāli, Kant, and Kierkegaard, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt, and Quine and many others Provides an (...)
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    The Big Lebowski: Nihilism, Masculinity, and Abiding Virtue.Peter S. Fosl - 2022 - In David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 917-949.
    This chapter argues that in addition to being a hilarious stoner comedy, one of the most beloved cult films of all time, and a trenchant genre critique of film noir detective cinema, as well as American Westerns, Ethan and Joel Coen’s film, The Big Lebowski (1998, TBL), also presents reflections on several important philosophical themes. First, as a matter of feminist and gender philosophy, TBL examines and criticizes prominent ideals of masculinity, especially as they appear in US cinema, exploring the (...)
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    Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers by Brian Ribeiro.Peter S. Fosl - 2022 - Hume Studies 47 (2):319-322.
    Brian Ribeiro’s slim volume presents a comparative study of three of the most important figures in the history of skepticism: Sextus Empiricus, Michel de Montaigne, and David Hume. Ribeiro’s rich text, like most of his work, is written in a colloquial, easy style that nearly masks the considerable erudition informing his thought. This text, in fact, gathers, synthesizes, and expands on the substantial work with which Ribeiro has been engaged for decades. Drawing from that precedent research, Ribeiro’s focus here is (...)
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    Hume’s True Scepticism, written by Donald C. Ainslie.Peter S. Fosl - 2018 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (4):348-353.
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    The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom.William Irwin & Peter S. Fosl (eds.) - 2012 - Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
    _Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind _The Big Lebowski__ Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and _The Big Lebowski and Philosophy_ explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche, the book explores the movie's hidden philosophical layers, cultural reflection, and political commentary. It also answers key questions, including: The Dude abides, but is abiding a virtue? Is the Dude an (...)
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    (2 other versions)Philosopher's Toolkit.Julian Baggini & Peter S. Fosl - 2002 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by Peter S. Fosl.
    The Philosophers' Toolkit provides all the intellectual equipment necessary to engage with and participate in philosophical argument, reading and reflection. Each of its 87 entries explains how to use an important concept or argumentative technique accurately and effectively.
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    British philosophers, 1500-1799.Philip Breed Dematteis & Peter S. Fosl (eds.) - 2002 - Detroit: Gale Group.
    Essays on British philosophers engaged with philosophical topics and used methods that were both different from and continuous with those that were taken up by British philosophers of the next two centuries. Major focus on the influence of Francis Bacon, who launched the era's most influential British attack on the traditional theories and practices of philosophy itself offering an alternative vision of a profoundly different and more powerful form of philosophy.
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  14. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 252: British Philosophers, 1500-1799.Philip B. Dematteis & Peter S. Fosl (eds.) - 2002
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    Anarchism and Authenticity, or Why SAMCRO Shouldn't Fight History.Peter S. Fosl - 2013 - In George A. Dunn & Jason T. Eberl (eds.), Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy. Wiley. pp. 201–213.
    We can think of the club not as a small business, but as a would‐be “anarchist‐syndicalist commune.” Anarcho‐syndicalism is a kind of anarchism based in labor unions, where workers take control of the economy not through a top‐down government bureaucracy but through revolutionary labor associations called “syndicates. The club resembles just such a syndicate: it's hierarchical, but, unlike capitalist enterprises, it is a democratically governed hierarchy. The state is essentially an instrument of class struggle and will gradually “wither away,” as (...)
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    Bredo Johnsen, Righting Epistemology: Hume's Revolution.Peter S. Fosl - 2019 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 17 (2):175-177.
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    Commonplace Commitments: Thinking Through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell.Peter S. Fosl, Michael J. McGandy & Mark D. Moorman (eds.) - 2016 - Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
    This volume explores the many dimensions of the work of Joseph P. Fell. Drawing from continental sources such as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as North American thinkers such as John William Miller, Fell has secured a place as an enduring and important thinker within the tradition of phenomenological thought. Fell’s critical development of these strands of philosophy has resulted in a provocative and original challenge to complacent dualism and persistent problems of skepticism, alienation, and nihilism.
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    The Critical Thinking Toolkit.Peter S. Fosl - 2016 - Malden, MA: Wiley.
    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations. Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and errors from psychology, race and gender from sociology and political science, and tropes and symbols from rhetoric Follows the proven format of The Philosopher’s Toolkit and (...)
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    Empiricism, difference, and common life.Peter S. Fosl - 1993 - Man and World 26 (3):319-328.
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    Hume’s Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology, written by Kevin Meeker.Peter S. Fosl - 2015 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (3):263-268.
  21. 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism.Peter S. Fosl - 2010 - In Joseph Campbell (ed.), Knowledge and Skepticism. MIT Press. pp. 325.
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    Hume, Skepticism, and Early American Deism.Peter S. Fosl - 1999 - Hume Studies 25 (1-2):171-192.
    This article first builds upon precedent work--including that of John M. Werner, Kerry S. Walters, and James Dye-to articulate a more complete understanding of David Hume's influence upon North American colonial and early U.S. thought. Secondly, through a comparison with arguments concerning miracles developed by early American deists Elihu Palmer, Ethan Allen, and Thomas Paine, the article clarifies and evaluates Hume's arguments against the rationality of belief in miracles. It judges Hume's arguments to be superior. Thirdly, the article uses this (...)
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    Hume’s Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu Susato.Peter S. Fosl - 2017 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1):165-166.
    This rich and detailed volume reads David Hume as a skeptic, but Susato is less interested in dissecting Hume’s particular skeptical arguments and more concerned with what he regards as Hume’s larger skeptical vision as it relates to his social and political thought. Susato argues against the idea that Hume’s historical work is independent of his philosophical skepticism; and he opposes the idea that Hume ought best to be read as a conservative thinker. Broadly speaking, the question Susato addresses is (...)
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    It couldn’t possibly be any clearer.Peter S. Fosl - 2007 - The Philosophers' Magazine 38:79-79.
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    Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume’s Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation, written by Graciela De Pierris.Peter S. Fosl - 2019 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9 (4):345-356.
  26. John E. Seery, Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death Reviewed by.Peter S. Fosl - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (5):373-375.
     
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    Righteous blasphemy.Peter S. Fosl - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 35:70-77.
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    Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries eds. by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini.Peter S. Fosl - 2016 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 54 (4):682-683.
    Edited by two leading scholars of the history of early modern skepticism, this volume collects thirteen essays from a variety of North and South American as well as European authors. Following the groundbreaking work of Richard H. Popkin and others such as Richard A. Watson, José Maia Neto, and James Force, much has been made about skepticism in relation to early modern natural sciences and to religion. Curiously little, however, addresses skepticism and early modern politics. This volume works to fill (...)
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    Show me the money.Peter S. Fosl - 2009 - The Philosophers' Magazine 44:81-82.
    Many philosophers are little devoted to the love of wisdom. In only a merely “academic” way do they aspire to intellectual virtue. Even less often do they exhibit qualities of moral excellence. On the contrary, many philosophers, or what pass as philosophers, are, sadly, better described as petty social climbers, meretricious snobs, and acquisitive consumerists.
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    Sons of History.Peter S. Fosl - 2013 - In George A. Dunn & Jason T. Eberl (eds.), Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy. Wiley. pp. 187–200.
    The past is, indeed, so essential to the club that they might just as well be called the Sons of History. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel argues that history follows a rational course of development that begins with civilization's earliest and crudest forms of thinking but culminates in modern science and philosophy. Thinking develops and matures through a process Hegel calls “dialectic.” A dialectical process has often been described as one in which an initial “thesis” is set against an opposing “antithesis,” (...)
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    The bibliographic bases of Hume's understanding of sextus empiricus and pyrrhonism.Peter S. Fosl - 1998 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2):261-278.
    The Bibliographic Bases of Hume's Understanding of Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonism PETER S. FOSL N~q~e ~vaoo 6t~ttoxe~v' Epicharmus OVER THE PAST FORTY YEARS, the work of many scholars has served to advance and secure a hermeneutical approach to the development of modern philoso- phy first articulated by Richard H. Popkin3 The central proposition upon which this approach turns is that the discovery and application of ancient I am grateful to Richard Popkin, Julia Annas , Jonathan Barnes , Craig Walton , (...)
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    (2 other versions)The Conceptual Carvery.Peter S. Fosl - 2003 - The Philosophers' Magazine 24:56-56.
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    The Conceptual Carvey.Peter S. Fosl - 2005 - The Philosophers' Magazine 32:83-83.
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    The Conceptual Carvery: The necessary and sufficient guide to necessary and sufficient conditions.Peter S. Fosl - 2004 - The Philosophers' Magazine 27:56-56.
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    The Conceptual Carvery: Making sense of sense and reference.Peter S. Fosl - 2005 - The Philosophers' Magazine 29:85-85.
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    The clearest guide to key concepts, all other things being equal.Peter S. Fosl - 2008 - The Philosophers' Magazine 40 (40):79-79.
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    The editor’s tale.Peter S. Fosl - 2002 - The Philosophers' Magazine 18:46-47.
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    Tuck in with Hume’s fork.Peter S. Fosl - 2007 - The Philosophers' Magazine 39:80-80.
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    (1 other version)The Moral Imperative to Rebel Against God.Peter S. Fosl - 1997 - Cogito 11 (3):159-168.
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    The most useful column ever — and that claim’s indefeasible.Peter S. Fosl - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 34:82-82.
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    The philosopher's toolkit: a compendium of philosophical concepts and methods.Peter S. Fosl - 2020 - Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by Julian Baggini.
    Philosophy can be an extremely technical and complex affair, one whose terminology and procedures are often intimidating to the beginner and demanding even for the professional. Like that of surgery, the art of philosophy requires mastering a body of knowledge as well as acquiring precision and skill with a set of instruments or tools. The Philosopher's Toolkit may be thought of as a collection of just such tools. Unlike those of a surgeon or a master woodworker, however, the instruments presented (...)
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    The synthetic primer with nothing artificial added.Peter S. Fosl - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 33:78-78.
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    Why you can’t make a valid point.Peter S. Fosl - 2007 - The Philosophers' Magazine 37:79-79.
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    Your objective guide to philosophical distinctions.Peter S. Fosl - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 35:82-82.
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    You ought to read this — fact.Peter S. Fosl - 2006 - The Philosophers' Magazine 36:85-85.
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    British Philosophers, 1800-2000.Philip Breed Dematteis, Peter S. Fosl & Leemon B. McHenry - 2002 - Bruccoli Clark Layman.
    In this volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, notable British philosophers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are represented, including thinkers from the traditions of empiricism, idealism, logical positivism, and analytical philosophy.
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    David Hume on God: selected works newly adapted for the modern reader.David W. Purdie, Peter S. Fosl & David Hume (eds.) - 2019 - Edinburgh: Luath Press.
    David Hume's writings on history, politics and philosophy have shaped thought to this day. His bold scepticism ranged from common notions of the 'self' to criticism of standard theistic proofs. He insisted on grounding understandings of popular religious beliefs in human psychology rather than divine revelation, and he aimed to disentangle philosophy from religion in order to allow the former to pursue its own ends. In this book, Professors David W Purdie and Peter S Fosl decipher some of Hume's most (...)
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  48. (1 other version)Critical Study of Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium. [REVIEW]Peter S. Fosl - 1998 - Hume Studies 24 (2):355-366.
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    (1 other version)Bohlin, Henrik. Groundless Knowledge: A Humean Solution to the Problem of Skepticism. [REVIEW]Peter S. Fosl - 1999 - Review of Metaphysics 53 (1):144-145.
  50. Deborah Cook, The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture. [REVIEW]Peter S. Fosl - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (1):13-15.
     
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