Alexander W Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 4682064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander W Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander W |
| FAMILY NAME | Morales |
| SIGNATURE | MORALES A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
America’s answer to communism
This article analyzes Luis Muñoz Marín’s symbolic redeployment of Puerto Rican exemplarity, the geopolitical and strategic logic of situating the island as a hemispheric gateway to the Americas, following the failed assassinations and political insurgencies of 1950. By casting his nationalist adversaries as communist puppets of Eastern empires, Muñoz Marín solidified his position as Puerto Rico’s governor and demonstrated his allegiance to U.S. a…
Skeptical Baconianism
This article shows how David Hume’s notable essay “Of Miracles” responds to the exigency of scientific Christianity by articulating a rationale for divorcing the concerns of English empiricism and Protestantism while also attempting to liberate secular inquiry from religious interference. What it calls skeptical Baconianism denotes how Hume altered Francis Bacon’s cultural grammar to reveal the epistemological incommensurability between science a…
Skepticism as ethos
This article examines David Hume’s mitigated skepticism as enacted through an ethos that refashions moral philosophy’s public identity by appealing to the virtues of England’s transforming scientific community in the eighteenth century. More specifically, this article shows how Hume’s Enquiry, amid competing efforts to escape rationalistic dogmatism and an emerging bourgeois readership, refashions moral philosophy through an antithetical scheme t…
Enlightenment Rhetoric Reconsidered
The phrase “Enlightenment rhetoric” typically denotes discourses bent on rejecting classical oratorical styles in favor of purportedly scientific ones. Likewise, scholars often associate Enlightenment rhetorical styles with the scientific epistemologies that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This article reconsiders Enlightenment rhetoric by analyzing David Hume’s 1742 essay “Of Eloquence.” More specifically, the article argues…
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Enlightenment Rhetoric Reconsidered
The phrase “Enlightenment rhetoric” typically denotes discourses bent on rejecting classical oratorical styles in favor of purportedly scientific ones. Likewise, scholars often associate Enlightenment rhetorical styles with the scientific epistemologies that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This article reconsiders Enlightenment rhetoric by analyzing David Hume’s 1742 essay “Of Eloquence.” More specifically, the article argues…
Skepticism as ethos
This article examines David Hume’s mitigated skepticism as enacted through an ethos that refashions moral philosophy’s public identity by appealing to the virtues of England’s transforming scientific community in the eighteenth century. More specifically, this article shows how Hume’s Enquiry, amid competing efforts to escape rationalistic dogmatism and an emerging bourgeois readership, refashions moral philosophy through an antithetical scheme t…
Skeptical Baconianism
This article shows how David Hume’s notable essay “Of Miracles” responds to the exigency of scientific Christianity by articulating a rationale for divorcing the concerns of English empiricism and Protestantism while also attempting to liberate secular inquiry from religious interference. What it calls skeptical Baconianism denotes how Hume altered Francis Bacon’s cultural grammar to reveal the epistemological incommensurability between science a…
America’s answer to communism
This article analyzes Luis Muñoz Marín’s symbolic redeployment of Puerto Rican exemplarity, the geopolitical and strategic logic of situating the island as a hemispheric gateway to the Americas, following the failed assassinations and political insurgencies of 1950. By casting his nationalist adversaries as communist puppets of Eastern empires, Muñoz Marín solidified his position as Puerto Rico’s governor and demonstrated his allegiance to U.S. a…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · History (2 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (2 works) · Rhetoric (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (2 works) · Skepticism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)