Ben Lazare Mijuskovic

Major Published Works

• The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments: The Simplicity, Unity, and Identity of Thought and Soul from the Cambridge Platonists to Kant : A Study in the History of an Argument.  International Archives of the History of Ideas 13 Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. [References] [Review Agent Intellect]

• Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis. Brill Rodopi, 2018. [Acclaims (pages 1-12)] [Review Bobo] [Review Cragle]

• Contingent Immaterialism: Meaning, Freedom, Time and Mind.  B. R. Grüner Publishing  Co., 1984.

• Feeling Lonesome: The Philosophy and Psychology of Loneliness. Praeger, 2015. [Acclaims (pages 12-14)][Review Bobo] [Review Cragle] [Review Kain] 

• Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology and Literature.  iUniverse, 2012. [Acclaims] [Review Cherin] [Review Mandolessi]

• Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. [Review DeFord]

• Philosophical Roots of Loneliness and Intimacy. Springer Nature, 2022.

• Plato’s Battle Between the Gods and Giants and Its Continuing Relevance in the Speculative Philosophy of History. Brill Rodopi, 2025. [Review Bobo]

• The Psychoanalytic Dynamics of Political Warfare. Independent, 2025.

• Theories of Consciousness and the Problem of Evil in the History of Ideas. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. [Review Bobo]

Selected Published Works

1. “Brentano’s Theory of Consciousness.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 38. 3 (1978): 315-324.
2. “Hume and Shaftesbury on the Self.”  The Philosophical Quarterly 21.85 (1971): 324-336.
3. “Hume on Space (and Time).”  Journal of the History of Philosophy 15.4 (1977): 387-394.
4. “Kant on Reality.”  Cogito 2.3 (1984): 61-67.
5. “Kant’s Reflections on the Unity of Consciousness, Time-Consciousness, and the Unconscious.”  Kritike 4.2 (2010): 105-132.
6. “Mediated Loneliness.” Tampere University, 2021. [Download]
7. “Philosophical Counseling and Loneliness: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Interdisciplinary Research in Counseling, Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 1, issue 1, 2021: 28-37. [Download]
8. “The Argument from Simplicity: A Study in the History of an Idea and Consciousness.”  Philotheos 9 (2009): 228-252.
9. “The General Conclusion of the Argument of the Transcendental Analytic.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 12.3 (1974): 357-364.
10. “The Premise of the Transcendental Analytic.” The Philosophical Quarterly 23.9 (1973): 156-161.
11. “The Simplicity Argument and Absolute Morality.”  Journal of Thought (1975): 123-135.
12. “The Simplicity Argument and the Unconscious: Plotinus, Cudworth, Leibniz and Kant.”  Philosophy & Theology 20.1-2 (2008): 53-83.
13. “The Simplicity Argument in Wittgenstein and Russell.”  Critica 8.22 (1976):  85-103. 
14. “The Simplicity Argument versus a Materialist Theory of Consciousness.” Philosophy Today (1976): 292-305.
15. “Theories of Consciousness, Therapy, and Loneliness.”  International Journal of Philosophical Practice 3.1 (2005): 1-18.
16. Selected Works on Philpapers
17. Selected Papers on Academia.edu

Michael D. Bobo

Theses

1. “The Simplicity Argument in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Roderick M. Chisholm and Richard Swinburne,” (Master’s Thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2010).
2. “Loneliness in the Liberal Arts: Causes, Expressions, and Therapeutic Measures,” (Master of Liberal Arts Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2018).

Papers

1. “Rousseau’s Critiques of Hobbes in Discourse on the Origins of Inequality,” Academia.edu, December 2015, https://www.academia.edu/30569096/Rousseau_s_Critiques_of_Hobbes_in_Discourse_on_the_Origins_of_Inequality.
2. “Idries Shah and Sufism,” Academia.edu, December 2016, https://www.academia.edu/30568847/Idries_Shah_and_Sufism. 
3. “Apollo and Daphne in Myth and Visual Arts,” Academia.edu, June 2016, https://www.academia.edu/30569109/Apollo_and_Daphne_in_Myth_and_Visual_Arts.
4. “The Great Bible and Bellarmine’s Catechism: A Brief History of Two English Reformation Classics,” Academia.edu, April 2017, https://www.academia.edu/33264067/The_Great_Bible_and_Bellarmines_Catechism_A_Brief_History_of_Two_English_Reformation_Classics.
5. “Politico-Religious Entanglements in Roman History,” Academia.edu, August 2017, https://www.academia.edu/34478733/Politico_Religious_Entanglements_in_Roman_History.