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18Moral Realism and the Foundations of EthicsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 731-735. 1993.
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266Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven phi…Read more
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38The Rationality of Belief in GodReligious Studies 17 (3). 1981.The major purpose of Hans Kung's SOO-page book entitled Does God Exist? is to show that belief in the Christian God is rationally justifiable. Given the title, purpose and size of the book, I was surprised by many of the things the book does not contain. It gives little attention and offers no solution to the problem of evil; it deals briefly with the traditional proofs for God, devoting at most one page each to the cosmological, teleological, ontological and moral arguments; and it contains no …Read more
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282Intellectual virtue: perspectives from ethics and epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working on either side of the …Read more
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17Moral statusesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (4). 1988.This Article does not have an abstract
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67Argument and Perception: The Role of Literature in Moral InquiryJournal of Philosophy 85 (10): 552-565. 1988.
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27The Rationality of Belief in God: MICHAEL R. DEPAULReligious Studies 17 (3): 343-356. 1981.In the introduction to his account of the debate concerning religion between Cleanthes, Philo and Demea, Pamphilus remarks that ‘reasonable men may be allowed to differ where no one can reasonably be positive’. Pamphilus goes on to suggest that natural theology is an area that abounds with issues about which ‘no one can reasonably be positive’. Assuming that the beliefs of reasonable men are themselves reasonable, Pamphilus can be interpreted as holding that If no one is reasonably positive that…Read more
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21Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.The contributions in this volume make an important effort to resurrect a rather old fashioned form of foundationalism. They defend the position that there are some beliefs that are justified, and are not themselves justified by any further beliefs. This epistemic foundationalism has been the subject of rigorous attack by a wide range of theorists in recent years, leading to the impression that foundationalism is a thing of the past. DePaul argues that it is precisely the volume and virulence of …Read more
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102Liberal exclusions and foundationalismEthical Theory and Moral Practice 1 (1): 103-120. 1998.Certain versions of liberalism exclude from public political discussions the reasons some citizens regard as most fundamental, reasons having to do with their deepest religious, philosophical, moral or political views. This liberal exclusion of deep and deeply held reasons from political discussions has been controversial. In this article I will point out a way in which the discussion seems to presuppose a foundationalist conception of human reasoning. This is rather surprising, inasmuch as one …Read more
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6Balance and Refinement, beyond Coherence Methods of Moral InquiryErkenntnis 42 (3): 413-417. 1993.
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99Truth consequentialism, withholding and proportioning belief to the evidencePhilosophical Issues 14 (1). 2004.
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256Naivete and corruption in moral inquiryPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (4): 619-635. 1988.
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Metaphilosophy |
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