Stephen Buckle
Biographic Data
| ID | 446137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Buckle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckle |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKLE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medieval Political Thought
Assessing Peter Singer’s Argument for Utilitarianism
Descartes, Plato and the Cave
It has been a commonplace, embodied in philosophy curricula the world over, to think of Descartes' philosophy as he seems to present it: as a radical break with the past, as inaugurating a new philosophical problematic centred on epistemology and on a radical dualism of mind and body. In several ways, however, recent scholarship has undermined the simplicity of this picture. It has, for example, shown the considerable degree of literary artifice …
David Hume
Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'. Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light
Aristotle's Republic or, Why Aristotle's Ethics Is Not Virtue Ethics
Modern virtue ethics is commonly presented as an alternative to Kantian and utilitarian views—to ethics focused on action and obligations—and it invokes Aristotle as a predecessor. This paper argues that the Nichomachean Ethics does not represent virtue ethics thus conceived, because the discussion of the virtues of character there serves a quasi-Platonic psychology: it is an account of how to tame the unruly (non-rational) elements of the human …
Marvels, Miracles, and Mundane Order
Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Hume's Enlightenment Tract is the first full study for forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. The Enquiry has, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor. A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, and aims to raise it to its rightful position in Hume's work and in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so ofte…
British Sceptical Realism
Moral prejudices
A progress of sentiments
What is-and isn't-economic education
What is-and isn't-economic education
Moral prejudices
A progress of sentiments
British Sceptical Realism
Marvels, Miracles, and Mundane Order
Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Hume's Enlightenment Tract is the first full study for forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. The Enquiry has, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor. A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, and aims to raise it to its rightful position in Hume's work and in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so ofte…
Aristotle's Republic or, Why Aristotle's Ethics Is Not Virtue Ethics
Modern virtue ethics is commonly presented as an alternative to Kantian and utilitarian views—to ethics focused on action and obligations—and it invokes Aristotle as a predecessor. This paper argues that the Nichomachean Ethics does not represent virtue ethics thus conceived, because the discussion of the virtues of character there serves a quasi-Platonic psychology: it is an account of how to tame the unruly (non-rational) elements of the human …
Hume's Enlightenment Tract
Contrary to Hume's wishes, 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' has long lived in the shadow of its predecessor 'A Treatise of Human Nature'. Stephen Buckle presents the 'Enquiry' in a fresh light
Descartes, Plato and the Cave
It has been a commonplace, embodied in philosophy curricula the world over, to think of Descartes' philosophy as he seems to present it: as a radical break with the past, as inaugurating a new philosophical problematic centred on epistemology and on a radical dualism of mind and body. In several ways, however, recent scholarship has undermined the simplicity of this picture. It has, for example, shown the considerable degree of literary artifice …
David Hume
Assessing Peter Singer’s Argument for Utilitarianism
Medieval Political Thought
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Theory of knowledge (3 works) · 18th century (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Classics (2 works)