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14Film and the Emotions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of The Midwest Studies in Philosophy covers topics such as the role of imagination in our capacity to respond emotionally to films, how emotions felt in response to films relate to emotions felt about real events, and the moral implications of responding emotionally to fictions, among others. This collection includes ninetee…Read more
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Causal theory of proper namesIn Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 109--10. 1995.
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Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman’s paper, “Perceiving God,” presented at the Henle Conference at St. Louis University, April 2008, evaluates a couple of arguments that attempt to establish the existence of God on the basis of individual religious experience. I can send his paper if anyone is interested. The following are my comments on his paper.
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5Presents essays (previously unpublished) by prominent philosophers on topics such as rationality and alien cultures, moral realism and social science, human sciences in the case of literature, Foucault's genealogical method, Vigotsky and artificial intelligence. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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5Philosophy of Religion. 1997.This volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series contains 18 essays which discuss the range of of religious traditions which inform the discussion of contemporary issues.
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191Demonstrative reference and definite descriptionsPhilosophical Studies 40 (2): 241--257. 1981.A distinction is developed between two uses of definite descriptions, the "attributive" and the "referential." the distinction exists even in the same sentence. several criteria are given for making the distinction. it is suggested that both russell's and strawson's theories fail to deal with this distinction, although some of the things russell says about genuine proper names can be said about the referential use of definite descriptions. it is argued that the presupposition or implication that…Read more
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100The semantic significance of the referential-attributive distinctionPhilosophical Studies 44 (2): 187--96. 1983.
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9Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXIV, Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of issues of metaphysics and issues of ethics. In the Midwest Studies tradition, twenty of the more important philosophers writing in this area have contributed original papers that extend the boundaries of philosophical discussion of issues that are of both theoretical and practical concern to a wide-ranging audience. Topics considered include the…Read more
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95Against TheodicyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4 (1-4): 115-125. 1999.The problem of theodicy is a philosophical classic. I argue that not only are the classical answers suspect, but that the question itself is problematic. In its classical form, the problem presupposes a conception of divinity—call it “perfect-being theology”—that does not go without saying. Even so, there is a significant gap between what the Western religions tell us about the reign of justice and what we seem to find in the world. I argue that approaches to evil need to maintain focus on this …Read more
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13Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., 1935-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (5). 2007.
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Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29) (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.
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15Social and Political Philosophy (edited book)Univ of Minnesota Press. 1982.Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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19Forward-looking collective responsibility (edited book)Wiley Periodicals. 2014.• Explores various aspects of the concept of forward-looking collective responsibility and its application • Presents fifteen articles written by leading philosophers from around the world • Extends the philosophical discussion of collective responsibility and collective morality towards future collective action.
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24Philosophy and the Empirical (edited book)Blackwell. 2007.This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies. Explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm – philosophy as conceptual analysis – is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar
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8The New Atheism and Its CriticsWiley-Blackwell. 2013.This volume of the classic series is devoted to the claims, arguments, and perspectives of the New Atheists. The volume collects original work on these topics of leading thinkers in the philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics, and philosophy of science. These studies are punctuated by an original short story by a leading novelist.
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5Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Truth and its Deformities (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.Truth and Its Deformities is the 32nd volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series. It contains major new contributions on a range of topics related to the general theme of the volume by some of the most important philosophers writing on truth in recent years.
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68Against theodicyPhilosophia 30 (1-4): 131-142. 2003.It has long been urged against traditional theism, very long indeed, that God’s perfections—specifically in the domains of goodness, knowledge and power—are logically incompatible with the existence of unwarranted human suffering. It has almost equally long been urged that the problem is illusory—or at least surmountable; the tradition of theodicy must be only moments younger than the problem. The debate is a philosophical classic, with many ingenious moves on both sides, and epicycles galore. B…Read more
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56Précis of The Magic Prism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (3): 720-722. 2007.
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