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19Editorial: Future Education: Schools and UniversitiesJournal of Philosophy in Schools 6 (1): 1-9. 2019.While some may argue that universities are in a state of crisis, others claim that we are living in a post-university era; a time after universities. If there was a battle for the survival of the institution, it is over and done with. The buildings still stand. Students enrol and may attend lectures, though let’s be clear—most do not. But virtually nothing real remains. What some mistakenly take to be a university is, in actuality, an ‘uncanny’ spectral presence; ‘the nagging presence of an abse…Read more
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15Leadership and EthicsBloomsbury. 2015.Contemporary discussions about the nature of leadership abound. But what constitutes a good leader? Are ethics and leadership even compatible? Accounts of leadership often lie at either end of an ethical spectrum: on one end are accounts that argue ethics are intrinsically linked to leadership; on the other are (Machiavellian) views that deny any such link-intrinsic or extrinsic. Leadership appears to require a normative component of virtue; otherwise 'leadership' amounts to no more than mere po…Read more
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13How Much Aristotle Is in Levine and Boaks’s Leadership Theory?: Response to Schäfer and HühnBusiness Ethics Journal Review 47-50. forthcoming.
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15Pantheism: A Non-theistic Concept of DeityPsychology Press. 1994.Michael Levine's book is the first comprehensive study of pantheism as a philosophical position. Spinoza's Ethics, finished in 1675, has long been seen as the most complete attempt at explaining and defending pantheism. Historically, however, pantheism has numerous forms and Spinoza's version is best considered as one among many variations on pantheistic themes. Levine manages to disentangle the concept from Spinoza; this book is a broad philosophical and historical survey of pantheism itself. T…Read more
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16Historical Anti-RealismThe Monist 74 (2): 230-239. 1991.In “Narrative Explanations: The Case of History,” Paul A. Roth attempts to defend the legitimacy of narrative explanation in history against two central objections—the “methodological” and the “metaphysical.” Like Roth, I find the category of narrative explanation acceptable even if it is problematic, and even if the notions of “narrative,” “explanation,” and “narrative explanation” are not altogether clear. The philosophically grounded “methodological” objections to narrative explanation are of…Read more
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6Hume On MiraclesPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 340-344. 1988.
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5Hume's Analysis of Causation in Relation to His Analysis of MiraclesHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 1 (2). 1984.
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92Contemporary Christian analytic philosophy of religion: Biblical fundamentalism, terrible solutions to a horrible problem, and hearing God (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (2): 89-119. 2000.
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40‘If there is a God, any Experience which seems to be of God, will be Genuine’1: MICHAEL P. LEVINEReligious Studies 26 (2): 207-217. 1990.In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that ‘if there is a God, any experience which seems to be of God, will be genuine – will be of God.’ On the face of it this claim of the essential veridicality of any religious experience, given the existence of God, is incredible. Consider what is being claimed by looking at a particularly dramatic example – but one that is well within the purview of Swinburne's claim. The ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ who murdered at least thirteen women, claimed to hear v…Read more
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3Feeling for Buffy: the girl next doorIn James B. South (ed.), Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, Open Court. 2003.
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78Can the concept of enlightenment evolve?Asian Philosophy 13 (2 & 3). 2003.Those who claim the concept of enlightenment (nibānna) has not evolved must rest their claim on a strong distinction between changing and variant interpretations of the concept on the one hand, and what the term really means or refers to on the other. This paper examines whether all evolution of the concept of enlightenment is best seen as interpretive variation rather than as embodying real notional change - a change in the reference of the term. It is implausible to suppose that the enlightenm…Read more
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79The Problem of EvilThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4 127-146. 1999.The shift from the logical to the empirical argument from evil against the existence of God has been seen as a victory by analytic philosophers of religion who now seek to establish that the existence of evil fails to make the existence of God improbable. I examine several arguments in an effort to establish the following: (i) Their victory is pyrrhic. They distort the historical, philosophical and religious nature of the problem of evil. (ii) In attempting to refute the empirical argument they …Read more
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66War, politics and race: Reflections on violence in the 'war on terror'Theoria 53 (110): 23-49. 2006.The authors argue that the 'war on terror' marks the ultimate convergence of war with politics, and the virtual collapse of any meaningful distinction between them. Not only does it signify the breakdown of international relations norms but also the militarization of internal life and political discourse. They explore the 'genealogy' of this situation firstly through the notion of the 'state of exception'—in which sovereign violence becomes indistinct from the law that is supposed to curtail it—…Read more
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101Pantheism, theism and the problem of evilInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35 (3). 1994.
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33Mystical Experience and Non–Basically Justified Belief: MICHAEL P. LEVINEReligious Studies 25 (3): 335-345. 1989.Two theses are central to foundationalism. First, the foundationalist claims that there is a class of propositions, a class of empirical contingent beliefs, that are ‘immediately justified’. Alternatively, one can describe these beliefs as ‘self–evident’, ‘non–inferentially justified’, or ‘self–warranted’, though these are not always regarded as entailing one another. The justification or epistemic warrant for these beliefs is not derived from other justified beliefs through inductive evidential…Read more
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