Author: David Stubblefield
We Have Never Been Rational: A Genealogy of the Affective Turn
David Stubblefield, Senior Editor While the humanities have traditionally privileged the realm of language and symbolic behavior, the contemporary affective turn has questioned this bias and raised important questions about […]
Making Good Inductive Arguments
David Stubblefield, Senior Editor The famous 18th century, Scottish philosopher David Hume claimed that we cannot know for certainty that the sun will rise tomorrow. His reasoning rested on his […]
Thinking Makes What We Read Ours—A Conversation with Professor David Stubblefield, Senior Editor at CIFC
Amanda Sparrow Dr. David Stubblefield is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Wesleyan University. Stubblefield has earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of […]
Saved by the Dog Who Bit You: The Life of the Rhetorical Figure
David Stubblefield, Senior Editor “Like a dog!, he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.” (Franz Kafka, from The Trial) Why do people find metaphors, […]