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Stephen David Ross
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Ross, Stephen David, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture and Comparative Literature; Art and Aesthetics; Metaphysics and Ontology; Ethics and Politics; Contemporay Continental Philosophy; History of Philosophy; American Philosophy; Nature and Ecology; Feminist Writing and Thought; Cultural Critique.

Hello:-- I am a faculty member of PIC, our doctoral specialization in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, and was director of the program at its inception. If you are interested in what I do, you may e-mail me at sross@binghamton.edu

I have recently been interested in themes of memory and unforgetting. My current collaborative research project is on the enchantment of the world.

I list below some of my publications:

Books

The Meaning of Education, Martinus Nijhoff, 1966

Literature and Philosophy: An Analysis of the Philosophical Novel, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969

The Scientific Process, Martinus Nijhoff, 1971

The Nature of Moral Responsibility, Wayne State University Press, 1973

Transition to an Ordinal Metaphysics, State University of New York Press, 1980

Philosophical Mysteries, State University of New York Press, 1981

Learning and Discovery, Gordon and Breach, 1981

A Theory of Art: Inexhaustibility by Contrast, State University of New York Press, 1982

Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics, State University of New York Press, 1983

Art and its Significance: an Anthology of Aesthetic Theory (editor), State University of New York Press, 1984

Art and its Significance: an Anthology of Aesthetic Theory (editor), 2nd edition, State University of New York Press, 1987

Inexhaustibility and Human Being: An Essay on Locality, Fordham University Press, 1989

Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy, State University of New York Press, 1989

The Ring of Representation, State University of New York Press, 1992

Injustice and Restitution: The Ordinance of Time, State University of New York Press, 1993

Art and its Significance: an Anthology of Aesthetic Theory (editor), 3rd edition, State University of New York Press, 1994

The Limits of Language, Fordham University Press, 1994

Locality and Practical Judgment: Charity and Sacrifice, Fordham University Press, 1994

Plenishment in the Earth: An Ethic of Inclusion, State University of New York Press, 1995

and more recently:

The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art, State University of New York Press, 1996

The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good, State University of New York Press, 1997

Ideals and Responsibilities: Ethical Judgment and Social Identity, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997

The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good, State University of New York Press, 1998

The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance, an ethic of the earth, State University of New York Press, 1999

The Gift of Property: Having the Good, betraying genitivity, economy and ecology, an ethic of the earth. State University of New York Press, 2001

The Gift of Self: Shattering, Emptiness, Betrayal. International Studies in Philosophy Monograph Series in Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, 2005.
[further information]

The World as Aesthetic Phenomenon. International Studies in Philosophy Monograph Series in Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, forthcoming.

Essays:

"The Inexhaustibility of Nature," Journal of Value Inquiry, Winter 1973, VII/4

"Complexities of Judgment," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spring 1976

"Some Ambiguities in Identifying the Work of Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Winter 1977, XXXVI/2

"Translation  as  Judgment," in Translation in the Humanities, M. G. Rose ed., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1977

"Intrinsic Conditions of Artistic Variety," Proceedings, Conference on Value Inquiry, 1978

"Invention, Understanding, and the University," Educational Theory, Summer 1979, XXIX/2

"The Work  of  Art  and  its General Relations," Journal of Aesthetics  and  Art  Criticism, Summer 1980, XXXVIII/4

"Translation and Similarity," in Translation Spectrum, M. G. Rose ed., Albany, State University of New York Press, 1981

"The Sovereignty  and  Utility of the Work of Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art  Criticism, Winter 1981, XL/2

"Skepticism, Holism, and Inexhaustibility," Review of Metaphysics, XXXV, March 1982

"Representations and Paradigms," Annals of Scholarship, Winter 1982

"Judgment and the Question of Human Being," Philosophy Today, XXVII/3-4, Spring 1983

"Inexhaustibility and Ontological Plurality," Metaphilosophy, XV/3-4, July-October, 1984

"The Limits of Sexuality," Philosophy and Social Criticism, IX/3-4, Spring 1984 (reprinted in Alan Soble ed., The Philosophy of Sex, NJ, Rowman, 1991)

"Foucault's Radical Politics," Praxis International, July 1985, V/2.

"Belonging to a Philosophic Discourse," Philosophy and Rhetoric, XVIX/3, 1986.

"Technology and Practical Judgment," Logos, VII, 1986.

"Metaphor, the Semasic Field, and Inexhaustibility," New Literary History, XVIII, 1986-87.

"The Inexhaustibility  of  the  Medium,"  Douglas Bolling  ed.,  Philosophy  and  Literature, Haven Press, 1987

"Comments  on 'Postmodernism': The Future's Future," The Cultural Politics  of  "Postmodernism": Current Debates in Art History #1, Binghamton University, 1988

"Inexhaustibility in Heidegger's Thought," International Studies in Philosophy, XX/3, Fall 1988

"Power,  Discourse,  and  Technology: the Presence of the Future,"  After  the  Future:  Postmodern Times and Places, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990.

"Translation as Transgression," Translation Spectrum, 1990.

"Discourse,  Polis, Finiteness, Perfection," City Images, Mary Ann Caws ed., Gordon and Breach, 1990; reprinted 1992

"The Unthought is Our "Geschlecht," Social Epistemology, 1991

"The Politics  of  Performance  and the Temporality of  Representation,"  Journal  of  Comparative Literature  and  Aesthetics, X/1-2, 1978; to be reprinted in collection edited by Ronald Roblin.

"Modernity  and  the  Misrepresentation of Representation," Dialectic and  Narrative, D. Judovitz and T. Flynn eds., State University of New York Press, 1993

"What of  the  Others?  Whose  Subjection?," in Encountering  the  Other(s):  Studies  in  Literature, History, and Culture, ed., Gisela Brinker-Gabler, State University of New York Press, 1995

"Lyotard  and  Disaster:  Forgetting the Good," in Post-Modernism and  the  Holocaust, eds. Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, Rodopi, 1995 (Value Inquiry Book Series)

"The Good  for  Translation,"  in  Translation Spectrum, Marilyn Gaddis Rose ed., Binghamton University, 1996

Entry on "Beauty," in Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, 1998 "Interruption  and  Exposure: The Abundance of the Earth," in Being and  Dialectic, eds. William Desmond and Joseph Grange, papers from the 1995 meetings of the Metaphysical Society of America, 2000

"Lyotard   and  'The  Forgotten,'"  in  Lyotard:  Philosophy,  Politics,  and  the  Sublime, ed. Hugh Silverman. New York: Routledge, 2002

"The Ego  does not Resemble the Cadaver: Self and Image in Freud," in anthology edited  by  Jon Mills, State University of New York Press, 2004

"Moving  Images  of  Eternity:  Powers in Difference," Schelling  Now:  Contemporary  Readings  of Schelling. Ed. Jason Wirth. Indiana University Press, 2004

"Women,  Birds,  and  Other  Images";  response to  H‚lŠne  Cixous's  essay  "Birds,  Women,  and Writing."  In  Animal  Philosophy: Essential Readings in  Continental  Philosophy. Ed. Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco. New York: Continuum, 2004

"Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the Earth," Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Indiana University Press, 2004

 
 

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