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5Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought: From Gratian to AquinasCambridge University Press. 2011.The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursued by medieval philosophers, theologians and canon lawyers, illustrating his discussion with a diverse range of examples of the moral dilemmas which they considered. He shows that much of what seems pa…Read more
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9Ghazālī and Metaphorical Predication in the Third Discussion of the Tahāfut al-FalāsifaAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 82 (3): 391-409. 2008.Ghazālī’s The Incoherence of the Philosophers is an unusual philosophical work for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the author’s explicit disavowalof any of the conclusions contained within it. The present essay examines some of the hermeneutical challenges that face readers of the work and offers anexegetical account of the much-neglected Third Discussion, which examines a key point of Neoplatonic metaphysics. The paper argues that Ghazālī’s maintaining of the incompatibility of m…Read more
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6Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham by Thomas M. Osborne, JrJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (2): 331-332. 2015.
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10Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil: A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil is a careful and detailed analysis of the general topic of evil, including discussions on evil as privation, human free choice, the cause of moral evil, moral failure, and the so-called seven deadly sins. This collection of ten, specially commissioned new essays, the first book-length English-language study of Disputed Questions on Evil, examines the most interesting and philosophically relevant aspects of Aquinas's work, highlighting what is distincti…Read more
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5Pico Della Mirandola: New Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, a distinguished group of scholars presents the central topics and texts of Pico's literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated 'Oration on the Dignity of Man', Pico also wrote several other prominent works. They include an influential diatribe against astrology, an ambitious metaphysi…Read more
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2Moral Dilemmas and Moral LuckProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 233-246. 2004.In recent years, Alasdair MacIntyre and others have observed an increasing interest on the part of contemporary ethicists regarding the question of whetherinnocent agents ever find themselves in moral dilemmas. This present-day support for the existence of moral dilemmas for innocent agents has spawned a re-reading of canonical ethical texts in the history of philosophy. The point of departure for the present paper is one particularly contentious battleground of this ongoing historical retrieval…Read more
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2Descartes's Demonstration of the Impossibility of Error in the Apprehension of SimplesHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 22 (2). 2005.
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3Moral Dilemmas and Moral LuckProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 233-246. 2004.In recent years, Alasdair MacIntyre and others have observed an increasing interest on the part of contemporary ethicists regarding the question of whetherinnocent agents ever find themselves in moral dilemmas. This present-day support for the existence of moral dilemmas for innocent agents has spawned a re-reading of canonical ethical texts in the history of philosophy. The point of departure for the present paper is one particularly contentious battleground of this ongoing historical retrieval…Read more
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9Giovanni Pico della MirandolaIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 423--426. 2011.
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1Alasdair MacIntyre (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (3): 678-680. 2005.This volume is the most recent addition to the relatively new series Contemporary Philosophy in Focus published by Cambridge University Press. Previous volumes have focused on Stanley Cavell, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Thomas Kuhn, and Robert Nozick. The series is patterned after the well-respected Cambridge Companion series, with the difference between the two appearing to be merely that the former treats of living or recently living philosophers, while the latter for the most part deals …Read more
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