KAI NIELSEN
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Kai Nielsen

Philosopher - Author - Professor

Unpublished Works

Books
  • Meta-philosophy, Once Again
  • Oh What a Wonderful World
  • On Late Writings of Alasdair MacIntyre: A Critical Examination with Some Asides Against Trumpism, and on Our Conditions of Life​
  • Toward an Emancipatory Social Science
  • Why Philosophize? Some Maverick Wittgensteinian and Marxian Turnings
    • ​​​​“Chapter 6 - Fragment 1”
  • Justification and Morals, Ph.D. thesis (Duke University, 1955)
  • Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, and Scholasticism, Honor Essay (University of North Carolina, 1949)
Articles
  • “‘Afterlife’ Persuasively Redefined”
  • “Addendum to In Defense of Socialism”
  • “Alasdair MacIntyre and After Virtue”
  • “Alasdair MacIntyre on the Enlightenment Project”
  • “An Ambition for Transcendence: Habermas on Truth”
  • “Anti-philosophy Philosophy or Just Anti-philosophy?”
  • “Bernie And Hilary Along With Some Trumpeting Off-Key As Usual”
  • “Cosmopolitanism Revisited: The Need for More than Armchair Thinking”
  • “Cosmopolitanism, Its Discontents and a Prolegomena to the U.S. Election 2016”
  • “Cosmopolitanism: A Prolegomena and Apologia”
  • “Could the Axis Powers Have Won the Second World War? And Is There Any Reasonable Point in What Has Been Called ‘Counterfactual History’
  • “Counting the Costs of Equality”
  • “Descriptions Are Not Enough in Philosophy”
  • “Emotivism Reconsidered and Non-Cognitivism Tamed”
  • “In Defense of Socialism Chapter 1: Utopia”
  • “In Defense of Socialism Chapter 2: Pragmatic Progress”
  • “In Defense of Socialism Chapter 3: Fiddling While Rome Burns”
  • “Marxism and Sticking with the, or a, Moral Point of View”
  • “Meta-Moralism”
  • “More on Anti-Philosophy”
  • “Notes on a Fragment of My Life”
  • “On a Kind of Cosmopolitanism”
  • “On Anti-Philosophy Tout Court: What Once Was a Therapeutic Turn and Now Is Its Lingering Life”
  • “On Anti-Philosophy”
  • “On Forms of Life and Being Parti Pris”
  • “On Indispensability”
  • “On Morality and Religious Belief: Grant Havers vs Kai Nielsen” (with Grant Havers)
  • “On Not Needing Philosophy”
  • “On Our World and Some of its Discontents”
  • “On Philosophy and Religion and Their Discontents”
  • “On Ronald Dworkin's Religion without God”
  • “On Scrubbing away Philosophy: Some Further Considerations about Forms of Life”
  • “On Socialism”
  • “On Standing Alone”
  • “On Sufficient Reason”
  • “On the Choice between Property-Owning Democracy and Liberal Socialism”
  • “On the Miseries of Neoliberalism”
  • “On the Morphing of Philosophy”
  • “On What, if any Philosophical Perplexities are Genuine”
  • “Philosophy as a Way of Life”
  • “Pragmatism without Method”
  • “Religious Belief and its Nemesis”
  • “Religious or Non-Religious Commitment or Staying Loose of Any Commitments at All”
  • “Rorty on the Priority of Democracy to Philosophy”
  • “Some Problems in John Dewey: On the Fact/Value Distinction”
  • “Sometimes Doing What is Right has No Right Answer: On Hilary Putnam's Pragmatism with Existential Choices”
  • “The Future: A Note”
  • “The Morphing of Philosophy Again”
  • “The Philosophical Predicament?”
  • “Toward a Cosmopolitan Socialist Nationalism”
  • “What Now is to be Done? Reflections on USA Politics”
  • “Where Progressively We Might Go”
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