M. Andrew Holowchak
Auteur van The Stoics: A Guide for the Perplexed
Over de Auteur
M. Andrew Holowchak is assistant professor of philosophy at Rider University. His research interests are principally in ancient philosophy, philosophy and history of science, Freudian psychoanalysis, critical reasoning, and philosophy of sport. He is the author of multiple books, including Ancient toon meer Science and Dreams, Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought, The Stoics, and Critical Reasoning and Science. toon minder
Werken van M. Andrew Holowchak
Framing a Legend: Exposing the Distorted History of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (2013) 24 exemplaren
Critical Reasoning & Philosophy: A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical Works (2003) 7 exemplaren
Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive : An Examination of Freud's Doctrines (2017) 4 exemplaren
The Thick Bog of Metaphor and the New-wave Hermeneutic Defense of Psychoanalysis (2020) 2 exemplaren
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Holowchak also attacks the flawed logic of the evidence to tie Jefferson to Hemings, which is: (1) Jefferson was around when Hemings got pregnant, (2) people accused them of having a relationship, (3) DNA proves one of Hemings's children has male Jefferson DNA. (4) Thus, Jefferson MUST have fathered ALL of Hemings's children.
But this, logically, is an argument that does not necessarily follow. It may, but it may not. (1) Other Jeffersons were around when Hemings got pregnant, and maybe Hemings wasn't always around Monticello when Jefferson was; (2) accusations don't necessarily prove anything (as another supposed African American descendant of Jefferson, Thomas Woodson, has no Jefferson DNA); (3) just because the DNA is Jefferson DNA, doesn't mean it's THOMAS Jefferson DNA; (4) just because Eston Hemings has Jefferson DNA doesn't mean that Sally's other children were fathered by a Jefferson.
That said, a convincing case is not made that Jefferson DID NOT have a relationship Hemings. (It is hard to prove a negative, anyway.) This book serves to knock Gordon-Reed's agenda-driven research down a peg, but it doesn't invalidate it. And, the argument that Jefferson would not have had sex with her because of his principles is, well, a hard sell. History tells us principled people oftentimes lose their principles all the time when sex is dangled before them. A better book than
Did Thomas Jefferson have a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings? Who knows for sure. This book tells us why we can only say "maybe" and why those books that say "for certain" are, in fact, stretching a bit.… (meer)