INSIDE THE LIBERAL ARTS
Critical Thinking and Citizenship
(Rowman & Littlefield , 2023)
As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
THE SOUND BITE SOCIETY
Television and the American Mind
Named a Choice
“Outstanding Academic Title”
SOUND BITE is an intellectual bungie jump off a suspension bridge. It's a bold, fresh, creative, thought-provoking book.
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Co-Editor (with John E. MacKinnon): Renford Bambrough and the Roots of Reason: Selected Essays. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
In my previous post, I introduced you to Ludwig Wittgenstein the man, with a thumbnail biography of his extraordinary life. In this post and the next one, we’ll talk in general terms about his thought and its enormous impact on philosophy in the 20th Century. That impact was mainly because of his focus on the very medium of philosophy: language itself.