False Moves in Philosophy and Social Theory: Losing Public Purpose (Paperback, 2023)

Introduction: How Factoring Philosophy Puts Philosophy on the Sidelines.-?Chapter One: Is Life Absurd?.-?Chapter Two: Being Mortal.-?Chapter Three: Reinventing Humans: The Strange Allure of Stoicism.-?Chapter Four: Beyond the Illusion of Philosophical Egoism: Recovering Self-Love and Selfishness.-?Chapter Five: Moral Luck, Responsibility, and this Worldly Life.-?Chapter Six: The Pure Self in Political Life: Reconsidering the Primacy of the Right over the Good.-?Chapter Seven: Values as Purely Subjective: Against the Idea of "A New Creation".-?Chapter Eight: Setting Aside the Purely Subjective: Reclaiming the Discourse of Truth and Error.-?Beyond "the Illusion of the Economic": Renewing the Concept of Capital: A Foreword to Chapters Nine, Ten, and Eleven.-?Chapter Nine: Why Wealth is a Poor Concept.-?Chapter Ten: Capital, the Truth about Utility.-?Chapter Eleven: The Myth of Instrumental Reason and Action.-?Conclusion: Just Enough Phenomenology.-?Appendix A: Dogmas of Factoring Philosophy.-?Appendix B: Symptoms of Factoring Philosophy.