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Jack Russell Weinstein
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Boston University

Office: Merrfield 201C
Phone: (701) 777-2887
E-mail: jack.weinstein@und.nodak.edu
Webpage: http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/weinstei/

Jack Weinstein


Interests: 
Adam Smith, The Scottish Enlightenment, Alasdair MacIntyre, Social and Political Philosophy; History of Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Critical Thinking Theory, Philosophy of Education


Selected Publications:

Books, Edited Volumes, and Stand-alone Publications

Guest Editor, “Symposium on Adam Smith and Education” The Adam Smith Review, No. 3 (2007): 49 – 158.

Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market. North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Fellowship Tabloid (4 pages with essay and interview), 2005.

On MacIntyre (Wadsworth Philosophers Series). Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2003.

On Adam Smith (Wadsworth Philosophers Series). Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001.

Guest Editor, Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines. Special Issue: Political Philosophy and Critical Thinking. Montclair: Institute for Critical Thinking, vol. 18, no. 1 (Autumn, 1998).

Editor, Academic Inquiry: in Progress. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), 1995.

 

Articles and Book Chapters:  

“The Two Adams: Ferguson and Smith on Sympathy and Sentiment,” in Adam Ferguson: A Reassessment, Philosophy, Politics and Society edited by Eugene Heath and Vincenze Merolle (London: Rickering & Chatto Publishers, LTD.), forthcoming.

“Adam Smith,” entry for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/smith.htm.

“Adam Smith’s Ad Hominem: Eighteenth Century Insight on the role of Character in Argument,” Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007): 1461 – 1466.

“Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Education,” The Adam Smith Review, No. 3 (2007): 51 – 74.

“On the Meaning of the Term ‘Progressive’: A Philosophical Investigation,” The William Mitchell Law Review 33:1 (2006), 1-50.

“Sympathy, Difference, and Education: Social Unity in the Work of Adam Smith,” Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 2006): 79 – 111.

“A Response to Lauren Brubaker”, The Adam Smith Review, No. 1 (2004), 194 – 196.

“Aliens, Traitors, and Elitists: University Values and the Faculty,” Thought and Action, Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2004), 95 - 106

“Neutrality, Pluralism, and Education: Civic education as learning about the other,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 23, No. 4 (July 2004), 235 – 263.

Emotion, Context and Rhetoric: Adam Smith's Informal Argumentation,Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003, 1065 – 1070.

“Three Conversations: Teaching Plato in Introduction to Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 26 No. 1 (March 2003), 3 – 20.

“Religion and Justice in the work of Adam Smith,” Kontroversen, Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Gesselschaft, Issue 9 (2000).

“Guest Editor’s Introduction: Critical Thinking and the Tradition of Political Philosophy — An Historical Overview,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 18, no. 1 (Autumn, 1998), 4 - 21.

“Critical Thinking and the Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith's Moral Psychology and Contemporary Debate in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1997), 78 - 91.

“Three Types of Critical Thinking About Religion,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 15, no. 3 (Spring 1996), 79 - 88.

“Separating the Inseparable: MacIntyre on Rawls' Public Reason in a Political Conception of Justice,” Academic Inquiry: in Progress. Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 1995, 16 - 38.

“A Computer Generation of Community and Freedom: A Reply to David Applefield,” Fin de Siècle vol. I, no. 1 (September 1995), 62 - 65.

Translator (German to English), Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Newsletter 47. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), October/December 1994.

“Self-Correction, Hidden Assumptions and Cultural Pluralism,” Bulletin of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (December 1994).

 

Reviews:

“Review essay: Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety by Stephen J. McKenna; Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture by Jerry Evensky; and The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in the Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations by Dogan Göçmen,”  British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, forthcoming.

“Review Essay: D.D. Raphael’s The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy by (Oxford University Press, 2007), Economics and Philosophy, pp. 129 - 137.

The Wealth of Nations and the Morality of Opulence (Review Essay of Jerry Evansky’s Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law, Ethics, and Culture)” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 25-A (2007): 61- 69.

“Review: Leonidas Montes: Adam Smith in Context : A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought,” The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13:1 (2005), 179 – 183. 

“Review: James W. Otteson’s ‘Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life,” Mind Vol. 113, No. 449 (January 2004), 202 – 207.

“Review: Knud Haakonssen’s ‘Adam Smith’s Theory Of Moral Sentiments’,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Vol. 1 No. 2 (Autumn 2003), 181 – 184.


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