David McPherson
@davidlmcpherson
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Philosopher @UF. Books: Spiritual Alienation & the Quest for God (Oxford, forthc.), The Virtues of Limits (Oxford, 2022) and Virtue & Meaning (Cambridge, 2020).
Gainesville, Florida
Joined March 2017
Very exciting day: my author’s copies of The Virtues of Limits (@OUPPhilosophy @OxUniPress @OUPAcademic) just arrived in the mail!
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Very glad to be a part of a Substack project with some of my graduate student colleagues at UF! Here's my first article for Inquietum, in which I discuss my path into classical education:
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The paperback edition of The Virtues of Limits (@OUPPhilosophy) has arrived - a possible stocking stuffer! https://t.co/sA1SI2KvZX
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Many thanks to @harry_readhead for this very nice reflection on my book The Virtues of Limits (@OUPPhilosophy):
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A review of ‘The Virtues of Limits’, by David McPherson; Oxford University Press, 2022.
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"UF is making significant strides toward returning the pursuit of truth and freedom of inquiry to a central place in its work... the most visible outcome of this shift is the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education." Come to Florida.
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Very nice review essay of my book The VIrtues of Limits (@OUPPhilosophy). Thanks @grupaman_! Open access here:
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My essay "Spiritual Alienation: What Is It? How Can It Be Overcome?" has been published in Res Philosophica, and is available for free download. It is a precursor to my forthcoming book with @OUPPhilosophy, "Spiritual Alienation and the Quest for God."
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In this essay I provide an account of the human spiritual condition in terms of the problem of spiritual alienation, which, most generally, can be understood as the state of being estranged from the...
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Nihilism is a very real & very urgent problem, and an indictment of us older generations. @RoKhanna, here's a small thing we're doing @Harvard with @SpencerJCox. Would love to have you, @RichardvReeves & @JonHaidt come and speak! https://t.co/GuUkehvhIs
@Sean_D_Kelly
artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This is such a powerful thread about the lack of hope of many young Americans. @RichardvReeves @JonHaidt @LHSummers have been sounding the alarm for years. I would be curious to hear in replies concrete & constructive ideas of things we must do to address this.
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Have you been waiting for some good news from academia? Here's some *great* news! Donald Landry, MD, PhD, has been named interim President of the University of Florida. Dr. Landry, who is Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia and President of the American Academy
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A campus should be beautiful. Our future home at the Hamilton School at @UF.
Exciting to see these visuals of our future @ufhamilton home:
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Exciting to see these visuals of our future @ufhamilton home:
hamilton.ufl.edu
Soon, the UF Infirmary, a Collegiate Gothic style structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will become the Hamilton School’s new home.
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Very happy to have this article on Hobbes and Independency out @HistoricalJnl!
📣Out now on #firstview! Amy Chandran (@amy_chandran) (@UF) on 'Empire, Conscience, and Another Independency in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan' #Sovereign #Commonwealth #Politics #England #17thc 👑 👉Read open access: https://t.co/r13YbCoYMk
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Introducing the new PPEL (Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law) major at @ufhamilton at the University of Florida. Come study with us.
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Very excited to share that this is forthcoming! Tentative release date is December 2025.
routledge.com
Should our beliefs be proportioned to our evidence? Are we doing something wrong in believing with little or no evidence? And may our beliefs be based partly or wholly on moral or practical conside...
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at a time when so much of our culture regards any limits as abhorrent, and keeps telling us that we can “have it all,” it is also a very timely work. -- @GeneCal52255456 on @davidlmcpherson's The Virtues of Limits
Limits and the Good Life @GeneCal52255456 on THE VIRTUES OF LIMITS by @davidlmcpherson. @OUPAcademic
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Very nice new review of The Virtues of Limits, which is out in paperback soon (it can be preordered on Amazon).
Limits and the Good Life @GeneCal52255456 on THE VIRTUES OF LIMITS by @davidlmcpherson. @OUPAcademic
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Here's a new paper where I argue we should stop telling young people to get out there and change the world. Open access link below.
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*Philosophers* I'm the book review editor at the Journal of Moral Philosophy. We have a pile of books looking for reviewers. If interested in reviewing a book in ethics/political/action that came out in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025, please keep reading. And please share this too!
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Our own Dr. David McPherson reflects on the enduring legacy of Alasdair MacIntyre—one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time. A powerful tribute to a life shaped by virtue, tradition, and intellectual courage. 🔗 https://t.co/B4Zmxmw5Fb
#Philosophy #MacIntyre
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What to make of the work and influence of the legendary philosopher and academic in the wake of his death at 96.
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I was honored to be asked to be a part of this @NRO symposium in tribute to Alasdair MacIntyre (the other contributors are @rclu, @McCormickProf, and Susan Hanssen). My contribution is on "Alasdair MacIntyre's Quest for God."
nationalreview.com
What to make of the work and influence of the legendary philosopher and academic in the wake of his death at 96.
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