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184Does Applied Ethics Rest on a Mistake?The Monist 67 (4): 498-513. 1984.‘Applied ethics’, as that expression is now used, is a single rubric for a large range of different theoretical and practical activities. Such rubrics function partly as a protective device both within the academic community and outside it; a name of this kind suggests not just a discipline, but a particular type of discipline. In the case of ‘applied ethics’ the suggestive power of the name derives from a particular conception of the relationship of ethics to what goes on under the rubric of ‘a…Read more
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32Colloquium 8: Yet Another Way to Read the Republic?Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 23 (1): 205-224. 2008.
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313Charles Taylor and dramatic narrative: Argument and genrePhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 761-763. 2018.
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29Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social AnthropologyPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (69): 371. 1967.
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135Critical Remarks on The Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (1): 187-190. 1994.
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52Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (review)Journal of Philosophy 87 (12): 708-711. 1990.
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3238. After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryIn Bernard Williams (ed.), Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002, Princeton University Press. pp. 184-186. 2014.
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174Alasdair Macintyre on education: In dialogue with Joseph DunneJournal of Philosophy of Education 36 (1). 2002.This discussion begins from the dilemma, posed in some earlier writing by Alasdair MacIntyre, that education is essential but also, in current economic and cultural conditions, impossible. The potential for resolving this dilemma through appeal to ‘practice’, ‘narrative unity’, and ‘tradition’(three core concepts in After Virtue and later writings) is then examined. The discussion also explores the relationship of education to the modern state and the power of a liberal education to create an ‘e…Read more
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34An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1): 112-114. 1991.
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11Review of Peter Thomas Geach: Truth, Love and Immortality: An Introduction to Mctaggart’s Philosophy (review)Ethics 91 (4): 667-668. 1981.
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31Review of John Finnis: Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute) (review)Ethics 103 (4): 811-812. 1993.
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6Hegel, a Collection of Critical EssaysHazlitt and the Spirit of the AgeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (2): 278. 1972.
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266Book Review: Robert Spaemann, Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something', trans. Oliver O'Donovan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). vii + 255 pp. 45 (hb), ISBN 978 0 19 928181 (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 20 (3): 440-443. 2007.
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130What Morality Is NotPhilosophy 32 (123). 1957.The central task to which contemporary moral philosophers have addressed themselves is that of listing the distinctive characteristics of moral utterances. In this paper I am concerned to propound an entirely negative thesis about these characteristics. It is widely held that it is of the essence of moral valuations that they are universalisable and prescriptive. This is the contention which I wish to deny. I shall proceed by first examining the thesis that moral judgments are necessarily and es…Read more
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49Sōphrosunē: How a Virtue Can Become Socially DisruptiveMidwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1): 1-11. 1988.