Part 6 Comprehensive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
Charles Padrón.
In compiling this bibliography I have intentionally left out the following entries relating to John Lachs: (1) articles or op-eds written by Lachs that have appeared in newspapers or other similar kinds of publications; (2) republished printings of individual pieces apart from the original ones; (3) abstracts of any kind; and (4) any translated piece of writing by Lachs into another language.
The listings of Lachs’s own publications follow a chronological order, by year of publication. The “Secondary Bibliography” follows an alphabetical one, by author. Finally, the “Directed Dissertations” list is also chronologically arranged, by year of completion.
Articles and Shorter Pieces
“Consciousness and Weiss’ Mind.” The Review of Metaphysics,13 (1959): 259–70.
“Epiphenomenalism and the Notion of Cause.” The Journal of Philosophy,60 (1963): 141–46.
“Omniscience.” Dialogue,1 (1963): 400–02.
“Professor Prior on Omniscience.” Philosophy,38 (1963): 361–64.
“The Impotent Mind.” The Review of Metaphysics,17 (1963): 187–99.
“The Definition of Materialism.” William and Mary Review,1 (1963): 50–81.
“To Have and To Be.” The Personalist,43 (1964): 5–14.
“Santayana’s Moral Philosophy.” The Journal of Philosophy,61 (1964): 44–61.
“Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind.” The Monist,48 (1964): 419–40.
“Graduate Programs in the Undergraduate College.” The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 36 (1965): 121–30.
“Self-Identity Without a Self.” The Review of Metaphysics,18 (1965): 548–65.
“Experience.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy,3 (1965): 10–17.
“Von Bertanlaffy’s New View.” Dialogue,4 (1965): 365–70.
“Matter and Substance in the Philosophy of Santayana.” The Modern Schoolman,44 (1966): 1–12.
“Alienation Revisited.” Praxis,2 (1966): 131–38.
“Two Concepts of God.” The Harvard Theological Review,59 (1966): 227–40.
“From College to University.” Liberal Education,52 (1966): 277–80.
“Dogmatist in Disguise.” The Christian Century,83 (1966): 1402–05.
“The Proofs of Realism.” The Monist,51 (1967): 284–304.
“Artless Metaphysical Belief.” Pacific Philosophy Forum,6 (1967): 50–68.
“Angel, Animal, Machine: Models for Man.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 5 (1967): 221–27.
“Santayana’s Theory of Man.” American Philosophical Society Year Book (1967): 221–27.
“A Modest Proposal Concerning Spirit and the World.” Annals of the Fourteenth International Congress of Philosophy, vol. 1. Vienna: Herder Verlag, 1968: 92–96.
“Introduction.” Dialectics, nos. 1–9 (1937–1939). New York: Greenwood Reprint Corp., 1968.
“Dogmatist in Disguise.” The Situation Ethics Debate. Ed. Harvey Cox. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968: 236–45.
“Santayana’s Ethical Relationalism.” Parables and Problems.Winona, MN: College of St. Theresa, 1968: 91–100.
“Review of Z. Jordan, The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,378 (1968): 201–02.
“Epiphenominalism.” Contemporary Philosophy: A Survey. Vol. III, Ed. Raymond Klibansky. Florence: La Nuova Italiana Editrice, 1969: 238–42.
“Review of Daniel Cory, The Birth of Reason.” Dialogue,8 (1969): 513–17.
“Should Pound Have Cut More of ‘The Waste Land?’” Matrix,1 (1970): 29–31.
“Philosophy and American Studies.” Challenges in American Culture. Eds. Ray B. Browne, Larry N. Landrum, and William K. Bottorff. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Univ. Popular Press, 1970.
“Fichte’s Idealism.” American Philosophical Quarterly,9 (1972): 311–18.
“Preface.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy: Special Issue on Santayana,10 (1972): 105.
“Belief, Confidence and Faith.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy,10 (1972): 277–85.
“God’s Actions and Nature’s Way.” Idealistic Studies,3 (1973): 223–28.
“Relativism and its Benefits.” Soundings,56 (1973): 312–22.
“Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences.” Peabody Journal of Education,51 (1973): 53–56.
“Two Views of Happiness in Mill.” The Mill News Letter,9 (1973): 16–20.
“J.S. Mill’s Ideas of the Happy Man.” American Philosophical Society Year Book (1973): 612–13.
“Review of Richard. C. Lyon, Santayana on America.” Dialogue,12 (1973): 370–71.
“Review of George Santayana, Lotze’s System of Philosophy, ed. Paul G. Kuntz.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion,XLI, no. 4 (1973): 644–47.
“Review of Hegel: The Essential Writings, ed. Frederick G. Weiss.” Teaching Philosophy,1 (1975): 206–07.
“The Omnicolored Sky: Bayliss on Perception.” Fact, Value, and Perception. Ed. Paul Welsh. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1975: 139–50.
“Mediation and Psychic Distance.” Theories of Alienation: Critical Perspectives in Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Eds. R. Felix Geyer and David R. Schweitzer. Leiden: Nijhoff, 1976: 151–67.
“Pre-Socratic Categories in Fichte.” Idealistic Studies, no. 6 (1979): 160–68.
“Humane Treatment and the Treatment of Humans.” The New England Journal of Medicine, no. 294 (8 April, 1976): 838–40.
Co-authored with Michael Hodges. “Hume on Belief.” The Review of Metaphysics,30 (1976): 3–18.
“I Only Work Here: Mediation and Irresponsibility.” Ethics, Free Enterprise, and Public Policy: Original Essays on Moral Issues in Business. Eds. Michael Harrington, Richard T. DeGeorge, and Joseph A. Pichler. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978 :201–13.
Co-authored with Michael Hodges. “Meaning and the Impotence Hypothesis.” The Review of Metaphysics,32 (1979): 515–29.
“Mediation and Our Social Life.” Anglican Theological Review,61 (1979): 127–40.
“On Selling Organs.” Forum on Medicine,2 (1979): 746–47.
“The First Years of SAAP.” The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter, no. 8 (June 1980): 8–12.
“Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol.16, no. 1 (1980): 3–13.
“Resuscitation.” Frontiers in Medical Ethics: Applications in a Medical Setting. Ed. Virginia Abernethy. Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing, 1980: 115–20.
“A Community of Psyches: Santayana on Society.” Rice University Quarterly,66 (1980): 75–85.
“Philosophy and the Constitution of Reality.” Der Transzendentale Gedanke: die gegenwärtige Darstellung de Philosophie Fichtes. Ed. Klaus Hammacher. Hamburg: Meiner Verlag, 1981: 437–41.
“Machines that Shield Us.” Technology and Human Affairs. Eds. Larry Hickman and Azirah al-Hibri. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Co., 1981: 432–38.
“Personal Relations Between Physicians and Patients.” The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association,75 (1982): 310–13.
“Mediation as Alienation.” The Question Behind the Answers. Ed. Donald R. Gregory. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982: 113–24.
“Individual Rights and the Public Good.” The Humanistic Delivery of Services to Families in a Changing and Technological Age. Ed. Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982: 35–46.
“Review of Robert M. Veatch, A Theory of Medical Ethics.” Social Science and Medicine,17 (1983): 1939–40.
“Professional Advertising in an Ignorant World.” Soundings,66 (1983): 493–500.
“George Santayana.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, 2 (1984): 15–22.
“Toast on George Santayana’s 120th Birthday.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of Santayana Society,2 (1984): 26–27.
“Persons and Technology.” The Personalist Forum,1 (1986): 5–21.
“Biological Being and Quality of Life.” Ethics of Dealing with Persons with Severe Handicaps: Towards a Research Agenda. Eds. Paul R. Dolecki, and Richard M. Zaner. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 1986: 93–96.
“Introduction” to section on George Santayana. Classical American Philosophy. Ed. John J. Stuhr. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987: 268–76.
“Public Benefit, Private Cost.” Ethical Principles and Practice. Ed. John Howie. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987: 65–89.
“Free from the Problem of Freedom.” Tulane Studies in Philosophy,XXXV (1987): 17–22.
“Review of Thomas P. Hohler, Imagination and Reflection.” International Studies in Philosophy,XIX (1987): 85–86.
“The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought.” Doctrine and Experience: Essays in American Philosophy. Ed. Vincent G. Potter. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1988: 190–204.
“The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death.” Death: Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria. Ed. Richard M. Zaner. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Pub., 1988: 233–51.
“Violence as Response to Alienation.” Alienation and Violence. Ed. S. Giora Shoman. Northwood, England: Science Reviews, 1988: 147–59.
“Is There an Absolute Self?” The Philosophical Forum,XIX (1988): 169–81.
“The Enduring Value of Santayana’s Philosophy.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society,8 (1988): 1–3.
Co-authored with Shirley Lachs. “Comments on ‘Laughter in Nietzsche’s Thought.’” International Studies in Philosophy, vol. XX, no. 2 (1988): 81–83.
“Education and the Power of the State: Reconceiving Some Problems and their Solutions.” Public Values, Private Schools. Ed. Neal E. Devins. London & New York: The Falmer Press, 1989: 235–50.
“Mill.” Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy. Eds. Robert J. Cavalier, James Gouinlock, and James P. Sterba. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989: 244–70.
“Active Euthanasia.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics,1 (1990): 113–15.
“How Relative Are Values? Or Must a Nazi Be Irrational and Why the Answer Matters?” The Southern Journal of Philosophy,XXVIII (1990): 319–28.
“Human Natures.” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association,63 (1990): 29–39.
“Values and Relations.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1 (1991): 1–10.
“Is Everything Absolutely Good?” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1 (1991): 20–24.
“The Philosophical Significance of Psychological Differences Among Humans.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy,XXIX (1991): 329–39.
“Law and the Importance of Feelings.” Peirce and Law: Issues in Pragmatism, Legal Realism, and Semiotics. Ed. Roberta Kevelson. New York: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 1991: 121–29.
“The Ultimate Doomsday Device.” Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy,90, no. 2 (Winter, 1991): 53–54.
“Immediacy and De-Alienation.” Alienation, Community, and Work. Eds. Andrew Oldenquist and Menachem Rosner. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991: 119–30.
“Mill and Constant: A Neglected Connection in the History of the Idea of Liberty.” History of Philosophy Quarterly (January 1992): 87–96.
“The Relevance of Philosophy to Life.” Frontiers in American Philosophy. Eds. Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press, 1992: 58–65.
“Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race.” Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture: Pragmatic Essays After Dewey. Ed. John J. Stuhr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993: 97–110.
“George Santayana.” A Companion to Epistemology. Eds. Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992: 455–56.
“Moral Truth or Empirical Truth About Morality.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society,12 (1994): 13–16.
“When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok.” Journal of Clinical Ethics,5 (1994): 10–13.
“George Santayana.” A Companion to Metaphysics. Eds. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995a: 452–53.
Co-authored with Michael Hodges. “Thinking in the Ruins: Two Overlooked Responses to Contingency.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society,13 (1995): 1–8.
“What Humans Did Not Make.” Becoming Persons: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Persons. Ed. Robert N. Fisher. Oakland, CA: Applied Theory Press, 1995.
“Footnotes to Plato.” The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
“George Santayana.” The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995b: 709.
“The Social Construction of Human Nature.” The Philosophy of Paul Weiss. Ed. Lewis E. Hahn. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1995: 73–83.
“What Constitutes a Pluralistic Philosophy Department?” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association,70, no. 2 (November, 1996): 167–68.
“Intellectuals and Courage.” Intelligentsia in the Conditions of Social Instability. Ed. Alexander Studenikin. Moscow: Editorial URSS, 1996.
“Valuational Species.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 51 (1997): 297–311.
“Fichte’s Wissenschaftlehre of 1794.” International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 29, no. 1 (1997): 149–50.
“Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. XI, no. 4 (1997): 247–55.
“Actions and Character: A Reply to Todd Lekan.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 1 (1998): 149–54.
“Researchers and their Subjects as Neighbors.” Politics and the Life Sciences, vol. 17, no. 1 (March, 1998): 24–25.
“George Santayana.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 8. Ed. Edward Craig. London: Routledge, 1998.
“George Santayana.” Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy. Ed. John J. Stuhr. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999: 340–430.
“Dying Old as a Social Problem.” Pragmatist Bio-Ethics. Ed. Glenn McGee. Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1999: 207–18.
“Peirce: Inquiry as Social Life.” Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary Vitality. Eds. Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman, and Douglas R. Anderson. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999: 75–84.
“Spirituality Without Moral Concerns.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, no. 18 (2000): 17–22.
“Grand Dreams of Perfect People.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 9, no. 3 (July, 2000): 323–29.
“Neoplatonic Elements in the Spiritual Life.” Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics. Eds. Aphrodite Alexandrakis and Nicholas J. Moutafakis. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001: 143–52.
“Both Better Off and Better: Moral Progress Amid Continuing Carnage.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3 (2001): 173–83.
“American Moral Philosophy.” Encyclopedia of Ethics,2nd ed. Eds. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. New York: Routledge, 2001: 54–56.
“Immortality.” If I Should Die: Life, Death, and Immortality. Ed. Leroy S. Rouner. South Bend, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
“The Insignificance of Individuals.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 38, nos. 1–2 (2002): 79–93.
“The Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy.” The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy. Ed. George Yancy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002: 237–48.
Co-authored with Shirley M. Lachs. “Education in the Twenty-First Century.” A Pedagogy of Becoming. Ed. Jon Mills. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002: 219–28.
“The Past, the Future, and the Immediate.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 2 (2003): 151–62.
“Substance and Matter: A Response to Kerr-Lawson.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 3 (2003): 373–81.
“Improving Life.” In Dewey’s Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction. Ed. William J. Gavin. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003: 199–212.
“Leaving Others Alone.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 4 (2004): 261–72.
“The Difference God Makes.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. 28, no. 1 (September, 2004): 183–94.
“Stoic Pragmatism.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 2 (2005): 95–106.
“The Future of Philosophy.” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 78, no. 2 (November, 2004): 5–14.
“Why Do Things Keep Going Wrong with the APA?” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association (April 20, 2006).
“Learning About Possibility.” Education for a Democratic Society. Eds. John Ryder and Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007: 177–84.
“George Santayana.” The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. Ed. Tom Flynn. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007: 682.
“Labour and Hope.” The Philosopher’s Magazine,39 (3rd Quarter, 2007): 39–41.
“Afterword.” Bruce D. White, Drugs, Ethics, and Quality of Life: Cases and Materials on Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Dilemmas in Medicine and Pharmacy Practice.Binghamton, NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2007: 225–26.
“Are We All Materialists or Idealists After All?” Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana. Eds. Matthew Caleb Flamm and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007: 9–13.
Co-authored with Michael Hodges. “An Overview of ‘Thinking in the Ruins.’” Teorema (SPAIN), vol. 27 (2007): 23–26.
“The Lessons of History.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 43, no. 2 (2007): 390–94.
“Understanding America.” George Santayana: The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States. Ed. James Seaton. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2009: 148–59.
“What Can Philosophy Contribute?” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, vol. 16, no. 1 (2009): 130–34.
“Primitive Naturalism.” The Future of Naturalism. Eds. John R. Shook and Paul Kurtz. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009: 65–76.
“Good Enough.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 1 (2009): 1–7.
“Rescher’s Cognitive Pragmatism.” Contemporary Pragmatism, vol. 6, no. 1 (2009): 169–78.
“Animal Faith and Ontology.” The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 4 (2009): 484–90.
“Can Philosophy Still Produce Public Intellectuals?” Philosophy Now, no. 75 (Sept./Oct. 2009): 24–27.
“Grieving a Consummate Professional.” The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 46, no. 1 (2010): 78–81.
“The Method of Animal Faith.” Santayana: Un Pensador Universal. Eds. José Beltrán, Manuel Garrido, and Sergio Sevilla. Valencia: Biblioteca Javier Coy d’estudis nord-americans, 2011: 119–24.
“A Satisfying Life.” The Montreal Review (June 2012): www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Stoic-Pragmatism.php.
“Santayana’s Vision.” Limbo: Boletín Internacional de Estudios sobre Santayana, no. 33 (2013): 81–90.
“Subjective Worlds.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 66 no. 4 (2013): 809–21.
“Physician-Assisted Suicide is Ethical.” Contemporary Debates in Bioethics. Eds. Arthur L. Caplan and Robert Arp. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2014: 203–12.
“Reply to Lee.” Contemporary Debates in Bioethics. Eds. Arthur L. Caplan and Robert Arp. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2014: 222–24.
“Was Santayana a Stoic Pragmatist?” George Santayana at 150: International Interpretations. Eds. Matthew C. Flamm, Giuseppe Patella, and Jennifer A. Rea. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014: 203–10.
“The Obligations of Philosophers.” Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism. Ed. Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. Leiden/Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2015: 3–12.
“Justice and Sorrow,” being the "Preface" to The Life of Reason in An Age of Terrorism: Contemporary Views, co-edited by Charles Padrón and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. Leiden/Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2018: ix–xiii.
Books
Editor, Animal Faith and Spiritual Life: Unpublished and Uncollected Works of George Santayana with Critical Essays on his Thought. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1967.
Marxist Philosophy: A Bibliographical Guide.Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Co-editor with Shirley Lachs, Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1969.
Translator and Co-editor with Peter Heath, J.G. Fichte, The Science of Knowledge: with the First and Second Introductions. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1970; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.
The Ties of Time.Montreal: Delta Canada, 1970.
Co-editor with Charles E. Scott. The Human Search: An Introduction to Philosophy.Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981.
Intermediate Man.Indianapolis: Hackett Publishers, 1981.
Mind and Philosophers.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1987.
George Santayana.Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
The Relevance of Philosophy to Life.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1995.
In Love with Life: Reflections on the Joy of Living and Why We Hate to Die.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1998.
Co-author with Michael Hodges. Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2000.
A Community of Individuals.New York: Routledge, 2003.
Co-editor with D. Micah Hester. A William Ernest Hocking Reader: With Commentary.Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2004.
On Santayana.Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2006.
Co-editor with Robert Talisse. American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia.New York: Routledge, 2008.
Co-editor with Matthew Caleb Flamm and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives.Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Stoic Pragmatism.Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2012.
Meddling: On the Virtue of Leaving Others Alone.Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2014.
Freedom and Limits, ed. Patrick Shade. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2014.
The Cost of Comfort (submitted for publication).
Secondary Bibliography
“Book Review. John Lachs and Shirley Lachs, eds.: Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 47, no. 3 (1969): 417–20.
“Book Review. John Lachs, ed.: Animal Faith and Spiritual Life: Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana with Critical Essays on His Thought.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 22, no. 3 (1969): 581–82.
“Book Review. John Lachs and Peter Heath, eds. and trans.: J.G. Fichte, The Science of Knowledge with the First and Second Introductions.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 24, no. 3 (1971): 542.
“Analysis: What Philosophy Is and Why People Should Care.” (Broadcast Transcript of All Things Considered, 8 May, 2002). Cengage Learning, 2002.
Abbott James E. “Book Review. John Lachs, George Santayana.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (1 July, 1989): 355–60.
Baloun Vladimir. “Ethics of Terrorism,” in The Ethics of Terrorism: Innovative Approaches from an International Perspective. Eds. Gilly Thomas Albert, Gilinskiy Yakov, and Sergevnin Vladimir A. (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Pub., 2009): 182.
Bauman Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust.Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2000. Bauman discusses Lachs on two occasions in this book: pp. 24 and 194. He is also cited in the “Back Matter.”
Bernstein Jeffrey A. “Book Review. John Lachs: The Relevance of Philosophy to Life.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 50, no. 1 (1996): 167–68.
Bregman Jay. “Santayana and Neoplatonism.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, no. 34 (2016):4–15.
Brodrick Michael. “Book Review. John Lachs: Stoic Pragmatism.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 66, no. 3 (2013): 585–86.
Brodrick Michael. “Book Review. John Lachs: Freedom and Limits, ed. Patrick Shade.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 68, no. 4 (2015a): 859–61.
Brodrick Michael. “Lachs and Santayana on the Importance of Philosophy,” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 33 (Fall 2015b): 45–55.
Campbell James. “The American Philosophical Association and Its History.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 43, no. 2 (2007): 404–10.
“Coleman Martin. "Interview with John Lachs.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society, no. 35 (Fall, 2017): 8–10.
Desmond W.F. “Book Review. John Lachs and Michael Hodges: Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency.” Choice, vol. 38, no. 6 (2001): 1059.
Eldridge Michael. “When Philosophy Became What It Is Today.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 43, no. 2 (2007): 375–81.
Fiala Andrew G. “Toleration and Pragmatism.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 2 (2002): 103–16.
Flamm Matthew. “Cheering on Life: A Conversation with John Lachs.” Kinesis: A Graduate Journal in Philosophy,27 (2000): 4–24.
Flamm Matthew. “Book Review: Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism.” European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. Volume 5, No. 1, 2013: 236–239.
Ford Lewis S. “John Lachs’s Two Concepts of God: A Rejoinder.” The Harvard Theological Review, vol. 6, no. 3 (July, 1968): 498–99.
Grossman Morris. “Book Review. John Lachs and Shirley Lachs, eds.: Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana.” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 68, no. 15 (1971): 467–70.
Grossman Morris. “Book Review. John Lachs and Michael Hodges: Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 37, no. 1 (2001): 137–42.
Hart Richard E. “Book Review. John Lachs: Mind and Philosophers.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 3, no. 4 (1989): 275–79.
Heney Diana. “Book Review: The Genteel Tradition Revisited.” Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, no. 28 (2010): 35–38.
Houser Nathan. “Santayana’s Peirce.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly in American Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 4 (2009): 516–31.
Innis Robert E. “Meaning, Art, and Politics: Dimensions of a Philosophical Engagement.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 1 (2005): 55–62.
Jackman Henry. “Book Review. John Lachs and Michael Hodges: Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3 (2001): 251–53.
Kaufman Whitley. “Book Review: John R. Shook and Paul Kurtz, eds.: The Future of Naturalism.” Philosophy in Review, vol. 30, no. 5 (2010): 379–81.
Kegley Jacquelyn Ann. “Mining the Past, Acting in the Present, and Enriching the Future.” The Pluralist, vol. 7, no. 3 (2012): 7–24.
Kerr-Lawson Angus. “A Name for Substance.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 1 (1979): 28–50.
Kerr-Lawson Angus. “Book Review. John Lachs: Mind and Philosophers.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 25, no. 4 (1989): 25–28.
Kerr-Lawson Angus. “Toward One Santayana: Recent Scholarship.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 1 (1991): 1–25.
Kerr-Lawson Angus. “Realms (Santayana) and Rules (Wittgenstein).” Book Review. John Lachs and Michael Hodges: Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency.Teorema (SPAIN), vol. 27 (2007): 43–54.
Kerr-Lawson Angus. “Responses to Friendly Critics.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 4 (2009): 596–648.
Kind A. “Book Review. John Lachs: Meddling: On the Virtue of Leaving Others Alone.” Choice, vol. 52, no. 7 (2015): 1159.
Kohák Erazim. “Why Is There Something Good, Not Simply Something? Reflections on the Ontological Status of Value.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1 (1991): 10–20.
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McDonald Dana Noelle. “Book Review. John Lachs and D. Micah Hester, eds.: A William Ernest Hocking Reader.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly in American Philosophy, vol. 41, no. 1 (2005): 232–38.
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Miller Steven A., and Taoka Yasuko. “Toward a Practice of Stoic Pragmatism.” The Pluralist. Vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer, 2015): 150–71.
Moreno Moreno Daniel. “On the Recent Elucidations of Santayana’s Materialism by Angus Kerr-Lawson and John Lachs.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 4 (2009): 491–505.
Oliver Phil. William James’s “Springs of Delight”: The Return to Life. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (2001), pp. xv, 120, 225–226, 229.
Padrón Charles. “Crosscurrents Between Giants.” Limbo : Boletín Internacional de Estudios sobre Santayana, no. 27 (2007): 135–43.
Padrón Charles. “Santayanan Insights in Valencia: Papers from the 3rd International Conference.” Limbo: Boletín Internacional de Estudios sobre Santayana, no. 32 (2012): 99–106.
Padrón Charles. “The Lachsian Version of Santayana: Reflections on Stoic Pragmatism.” Limbo: Internacional de Estudios sobre Santayana, no. 33 (2013): 163–74.
Phillips Wesley. “The Future of Speculation?” Cosmos and History, vol. 8, no. 1 (2012): 400–11.
Pihlström Sami. “Book Review. John Lachs: Stoic Pragmatism.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, vol. 48, no. 4 (2012): 569–71.
Pinkas Daniel. “Santayana, the Absurd and Ultimate Humor.” Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana Eds. Matthew Caleb Flamm and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2007): 161–170.
Potrovskii Nikita Evgenevich. “Material Progress and the New Morality: Russia as a Proving Ground.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3 (2001): 201–13.
Rubin Richard Marc. “Angus Carmichael Kerr-Lawson, 1932–2011 (IN MEMORIAM).” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 65, no. 1 (2011): 271–72.
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Schachter Ron. “Whatever Happened to Shared Governance? Twenty-First Century Challenges Are Threatening a Bastion of Faculty Power and Pride.” University Business, vol. 14, no. 8 (2011): 33–48.
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Scott Charles E. “A Response to John Lachs on Current French Philosophy.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1 (1996): 24–28.
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Directed Dissertations at Vanderbilt University
1968 Sanford Watts Wood. “Christian Politics and Civil Philosophy: An Interpretation of Hobbes’ Leviathan.”
1970 Hoyt L. Edge. “Epiphenomenalism and Rorty’s Theory of Identity.”
1971 Douglas Malcolm MacDonald. “Reason in Action or Spirit Detached: An Examination of the Compatibility of the Life of Reason and the Spiritual Life in Santayana’s Philosophy.”
1972 Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. “An Explication and Critical Examination of George Santayana’s Concept of Animal Faith.”
1973 Tom Rockmore. “Man as Activity in Fichte and Marx.”
1974 Myron James Edward Abbott. “Anarchy and Anarchism: Santayana on the Nature of Moral and Political Authority.”
1974 Thomas Campbell Brickhouse. “Aristotle: Free Will and Determinism.”
1974 David L. Rouse. “The Form and Content of Social Life: An Examination of Marx’s Materialism.”
1976 John J. Stuhr. “Experience as Activity: Dewey’s Metaphysics.”
1978 Almer Joseph Mandt. “The Metaphysics of Activity: An Inquiry into the Self-Actualization of an Idea.”
1979 William Hawk. “A Theory of Violence.”
1979 John Ashley Waide. “Need.”
1981 John Thomas Cook. “Understanding Human Freedom in a Naturalistic Context: A Spinozistic Study.”
1981 David Nicholas James. “What is Professional Ethics?”
1983 Alan Brady Conrath. “The Theories of Labor of Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse.”
1984 Robert Earl Birt. “Alienation in the Later Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.”
1985 Mark David Bandas. “Peirce’s Defense of the Scientific Method of Inquiry.”
1985 Michael Alan Principe. “Nature in History: The Development of Marx’s View of Humanity’s Relationship to Nature.”
1986 Christopher B. Kulp. “John Dewey and the Spectator Theory of Knowledge.”
1988 Donald Boehm. “Interpretation and Community: Josiah Royce and the Reconstruction Tradition in American Philosophy.”
1988 Wesley Felix. “History Within History, Method Without Method: John Dewey and Genetic Argument.”
1988 Janet Arline Vice. “From Patients to Persons: The Psychiatric Critiques of Thomas Szasz, Peter Sedgwick and R.D. Laing.”
1989 Kevin Davis. “Freedom’s Ring: A New Interpretation of Kant’s Political Philosophy.”
1990 Andrew Steven Piker. “Moral Realism, Anti-Realism, and the Project of Developing a Moderate Alternative.”
1990 Xinmin Zhu. “The Chinese Tradition is in Crisis: The Rule of Man in Chinese Political Philosophy.”
1991 Daryl Lynn Hale. “Restoring the Appearances: Kant’s Copernican Experiment in Metaphysics.”
1992 Marina Constance Bear. “Maturity.”
1992 Kelly Parker. “The Principle of Continuity in Charles S. Peirce’s Phenomenology and Semeiotic.”
1992 Susan Marie Schoenbohn. “Touching Loss: Thinking of Determination and Excess.”
1993 Jeffrey Mitchell. “Reason’s Different Tastes: Nietzsche, Dewey, and the Affective Component in Valuation.”
1994 Glenn Edwards McGee. “Pragmatism and Human Genetic Engineering.”
1995 Joanna Leigh Crosby. “Michel Foucault: Politics of the Ethical.”
1995 Thomas Mether. “Towards a Pragmatist Philosophy of Language and Meaning.”
1995 Griffin Trotter. “The Loyal Physician: An Essay Applying the Ethics of Josiah Royce to the Practice of Medicine.”
1997 Lisa Bellantoni. “The Progress of Moral Traditions: A Critique of MacIntyre.”
1997 Andrew Fiala. “Spirit, Freedom, and Self-Consciousness in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.”
1997 Kenneth Sacks. “The Metaphysics of a Groove.”
1997 Patrick A. Shade. “Habits of Hope: A Pragmatic Theory of Life of Hope.”
1998 Edward Prioleau Ellis. “Satisfaction as Art: An Account of Human Satisfaction Based Upon Dewey’s Ethics.”
1998(With Michael Hodges) D. Micah Hester. “Community as Healing: Pragmatism and Medical Encounters.”
1998 James Philip Oliver. “Beyond Words: The ‘Springs of Delight’ in William James’s Philosophy of Transcendence.”
1998 Christopher Perry. “Flexible Meliorism: A Pragmatic Critique of Leibniz, Schopenhauer, and James.”
1999 Jon Mills. “The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis.”
1999 Noel Dane Scott. “The Widening Spiral: Freedom, Health, Environment.”
2000 Paul J. Ford. “Virtual Shifts in Disabling Realities: Computer Mediated Environments and Selves.”
2000 David Justin Hodge (LaRocca). “The Fate of Embodiment.”
2000 Phillip Andrew McReynolds. “John Dewey’s Science of Ethics.”
2000 Charles Luis Padrón. “Reflections on Santayana and Tragic Value.”
2000 Michael Sullivan. “Pragmatism, Rights, and Philosophy of Law.”
2001 Francis Dominic Degnin. “Compassion and Medicine: Postmodern Ethics and the Physician-Patient Relationship.”
2001 Andrew Cameron Sergienko. “Towards a Peircean Aesthetic.”
2002 Sergio Franzese. “William James and the Ethics of Energy.”
2002 Mary Elizabeth Morton. “An Ethnographic Inquiry of the Distribution of Cultural, Linguistic, and Symbolic Capital in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse First-Grade Classroom.”
2004 Stephen Denton Carden. “The Growth of Virtues: MacIntyre and Dewey on Ethics.”
2004 Matthew Fitzsimmons. “John Dewey as Critical Philosopher.”
2005 John Caleb Clanton. “The Problem of Religion in the American Public Square: Toward an Open Socratic Model.”
2005 Susanne C. Goethals. “Medicine, Sexuality, and Power: Transgender Discourses and the Ethics of Possibility.”
2005 Jennifer K. Thompson. “John Dewey and Pragmatic Economics.”
2006 Scott Borchers. “Hegel’s Logic and Global Climate Change.”
2006 Stephen E. Faison. “A Poor Man’s Existentialism: Film Noir and Hard-Boiled Fiction.”
2006 Dylan E. Suzanne (Wittkower). “Lessons from the Digital Crisis in Copyright: Ethical and Political Implications of Radical Automation.”
2008 Janusz Polanowski. “The Imago of the Self Within Whitehead’s Metaphysics.”
2009 Jason Matthew Bell. “The Relevance of Royce’s Applied Ethics: Studies in War, Business, and Environmental Ethics.”
2009 Stewart Scott Zeman. “Placebos of Development: A Critique of Modern Health Objectivity in Kant, Marx, and Psychoanalysis.”
2010 Michael Brodrick. “Everyday Spirituality.”
2012 Joshua M. Hall. “Figuration: A Philosophy of Dance.”
2015 Johanna Motacha. “The Living System: Life, Ideation, and Freedom in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.”
2015 Kenneth Mark Faber. “The Totality, the Individual, and their Relation: A Study of the Nature of Reality and the Significance of Life.”
2016 Michael P. Caruso. “Respect for Persons: The Foundational Moral Disposition of Medicine.”