Bruce Wilshire

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Bruce W. Wilshire is a Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University philosophy department, where he started teaching in 1970. He received his B.A from the University of Southern California and his M.A and Ph.D from New York University. In 2001 he was awarded the Herbert Schneider Award from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.[1]

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  • Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (ISBN 0791454290) is a collection of nine related essays. Wilshire criticizes the impersonal nature of analytic philosophy, and how it is overwhelmingly accepted by contemporary academia. The book has been criticized for neglecting to clearly define the analytic methods it criticizes,[2] and for misrepresenting various authors and groups.[3]
  • Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities (ISBN 0739112791) advances a comprehensive theory of genocide and terrorism, attempting to explain their motivations and receptions psychologically. Throughout the book, Wilshire analyzes five historical cases of genocide: "Nazis' in Europe, Serbs' in Bosnia, Pol Pot's group's in Cambodia, Hutus' in Rwanda, [and] whites' in California."[4]

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  1. ^ http://www.american-philosophy.org/documents/Schneider_award_recipients.doc
  2. ^ Review by David Hoekema
  3. ^ Brian Leiter, Replies to Hoekema and Wilshire
  4. ^ Wilshire, Bruce. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities, p XV.

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