Floren Matthews

Datos Biográficos

ID163131
NOMBREFloren Matthews
NOMBRESFloren
APELLIDOMatthews
FIRMAMATTHEWS F
AFILIACIONESYork University
ORCID0000-0002-7981-4482
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS50
TOTAL DE CITAS64
TOTAL COMO AUTOR50
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1964
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • On the Censorship of Conspiracy Theories

    Open AccessFloren MatthewsARTICLESocial Epistemology2025

    Is it permissible for the state to censor or suppress conspiracy theories, even within liberal democracies? According to a number of political and legal theorists, it is. In this paper, I will argue that the state may sometimes censor conspiracy theories, but it should be permitted to do so only after very strict conditions have been met. I shall first offer some brief thoughts about the definition of ‘conspiracy theory’. I will then critique one…

  • The nature of nonduality

    Open AccessJ Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren MatthewsARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2025Citada por: 2Referencias: 48

    In Jylkkä's (Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2022) Mary on Acid: Experiences of unity and the epistemic gap, the author contends that psychedelic experience, by inducing unitary-nondual-experiences of subject-object dissolution, brings to light the epistemic gap between unitary knowledge, constituted by experience, and relational knowledge, distinct from experience. Jylkkä draws a…

  • The environmental counter-history of liberalism

    Open AccessFloren MatthewsARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences2024Referencias: 13

    In the view of the Marxist philosopher Domenico Losurdo, liberalism is ‘the most dogged enemy of freedom’. This surprising statement runs contrary to the received wisdom among liberal thinkers. Losurdo and other ‘counter-historians’ of liberalism are very effective at exposing the historical atrocities that liberal states have committed, and which have been supported by liberal philosophers – including slavery, racism, genocide, and the subjugati…

  • Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics

    Open AccessFloren MatthewsARTICLESocial Epistemology2023

    There has been much interest in conspiracy theories (CTs) amongst philosophers in recent years. The aim of this paper will be to apply some of the philosophical research to issues in political theory. I will first provide an overview of some of the philosophical discussions about CTs. While acknowledging that particularism is currently the dominant position in the literature, I will contend that the ‘undue scepticism problem’, a modified version …

  • The shallow ecology of public reason liberalism

    Open AccessFloren MatthewsARTICLECritical Review of International…2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

    In this article, I shall contend that Rawlsian public reason liberalism (PRL) is in tension with non-anthropocentric environmentalism. I will argue that many reasonable citizens reject non-anthropocentric values, and PRL cannot allow them to be used as the justification for ecological policies. I will analyse attempts to argue that PRL can incorporate non-anthropocentric ideas. I shall consider the view, deployed by theorists such as Derek Bell a…

  • Evaluating the role of psychedelic psychotherapy in addressing societal alienation

    Open AccessJ Tempone-Wiltshire, Floren MatthewsARTICLEJournal of Psychedelic Studies2023Citada por: 2

    Questions are currently being posed concerning the implications of the clinical uptake of psychedelics. While enthusiasm surrounds the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics and critique surrounds their appropriation to commercial ends, limited attention has been given to the role of psychedelics in generating social transformation. Herbert Marcuse contended radical change requires 'new imaginaries of liberation'. We consider whether clin…

  • Flight from the Satanic City

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLECahiers de recherche sociologique2011

    Mainly using points taken from a survey of Californian daily newspapers Fred Matthews tries to dissect and explain the rise of contemporary "Mainstream" America. He introduces us to the way three paradigmatic historians, C. A. Beard, R. Hof stadter and P. Miller, have accounted for the sources of this current which can be seen as an escape from the perils of the open society and a refuge in a commoditized pseudo- Gemeinschaft

  • American academic culture in transformation

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1999

  • In face of the facts

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1999

  • The historic turn in the human sciences

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1998

  • Too Much Empathy? The Dilemma of Toleration in a Plural Society

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1995

    Quentin Anderson. Making Americans; An Essay on Individualism and Money. New York: Harcourt, 1992. Pp. 264. John C. Burnham. Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History. New York: Univer- sity Press, 1993. Pp. xviii + 385. George Kateb. The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 275. These three stimulating books elucidate m…

  • Forms of Uncertainty

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

    Rather than prescribe a single method for the study of literature and history, this work illustrates the value of studying the one with an awareness of the other. The essays collected here consider the element of uncertainty inherent in any critical interpretation of historical fact. Best known for his historiography, Levin here covers the work of Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Benjamin Frankli…

  • Nature/Nurture, Realism/Nominalism

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…1993Referencias: 8

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  • Ambiguities of a Newly Fashionable Concept

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1993Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    Michael Kammen. Meadow of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Pp. xxv + 192. John Bodnar. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1992. Pp. xiii + 296. A couple of generalizations about these two intelligent and interesting books seem as uncontroversial as anything can be today. Beginning f…

  • The Softening of the American Character? Appraising a "New" Myth of Declension

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • In Search of Human Nature

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. By Carl N. Degler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 400 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-506380-5.) Get access In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. By Degler Carl N.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 400 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-506380-5.) Fred Matthews Fred Matthews Eme…

  • Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • Authors of Their Own Lives

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists. Ed. by Bennett M. Berger. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xxviii + 503 pp. $29.95.) Get access Fred Matthews Fred Matthews York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078219 …

  • Present Pasts

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEJournal of History1991

  • Continental Divide

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsREVIEWThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1991

  • That Noble Dream

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEIsis1990

  • Social Scientists and the Culture Concept, 1930-1950

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLESociological Theory1989Citada por: 7Referencias: 22

    This essay attempts to chart the outlines of a major change in the basic assumptions of American social science which took place between 1930 and 1950, and to illustrate it by focusing primarily on the approach of social scientists to race, ethnic and cultural groups. The major formal concept involved is that of Culture, already well known by 1930 but becoming central, in a new and different meaning, by the eve of World War II. It is tempting to …

  • American Singularity

    Floren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1988

  • "Role Models? The Continuing Relevance of the "New York Intellectuals

    Floren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1988Referencias: 7

    Susan Stout Baker. Radical Beginnings: Richard Hofstadter and the 1930s. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1985. xxi 4- 268 pp. Howard Brick. Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism: Social Theory and Political Reconciliation in the 1940s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. xiii 4- 280 pp. Terry A. Cooney. The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle, 1934-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Pr…

  • The utopia of human relations

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred MatthewsARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1988

    The American family literature from the late 1920s through the 1950s is surveyed in the context of the broader history of Western thought and popular attitudes. The writings of human-relations experts represent a late flowering of the Enlightenment's dream of an end to history, achieved through the scientific reconstruction of institutions and personalities to eliminate the tensions that caused conflict. Early in the period, the most influential …