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17Editorial: 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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12How 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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13Pantheism: 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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51Historical 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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5Hume 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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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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100Pantheism, theism and the problem of evilInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35 (3). 1994.
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31Mystical 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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20Kierkegaardian dogma: Inwardness and objective uncertainty (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (3). 1983.
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G.I. Mavrodes, "Revelation in religious belief"International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 27 (3): 181. 1990.
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7I6 Philosophers on miraclesIn Graham H. Twelftree (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, Cambridge University Press. pp. 291. 2011.
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31Deep Structure and the Comparative Philosophy of Religion*: MICHAEL P. LEVINEReligious Studies 28 (3): 387-399. 1992.Through various applications of the ‘deep structure’ of moral and religious reasoning, I have sought to illustrate the value of a morally informed approach in helping us to understand the complexity of religious thought and practice…religions are primarily moved by rational moral concerns and…ethical theory provides the single most powerful methodology for understanding religious belief. Ronald Green, Religion and Moral Reason
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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