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Philosophical Embarrassment
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12 May 2026

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Psychology: emotions, Philosophy of mind
Béla Szabados has a PhD from the University of Calgary and is professor emeritus at the University of Regina.
Peter Campbell took a PhD in philosophy at UBC and is emeritus professor at the University of Regina.
Acknowledgments; Preface; I. Rousseau and the Culture of Embarrassment; II. Hume’s Reduction: The Examined Life is Unliveable; III. Late Modern Embarrassments: Early Wittgenstein, Logical Positivists, and Quine; IV. Doing Philosophy After the Death of the Tradition; V. The Later Wittgenstein; VI. Reflections from an Evolutionary Point of View; VII. Eliot’s Dissent from Darwin’s Language of the Emotions Thesis; VIII. Wittgenstein on Self-Deception in Science, Psychology, and Philosophy; IX. Embarrassment: An Overview; Envois: Two Moments of Embarrassment; Bibliography; Index