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31‘I am not what I am’: Paradox and indirect communication – the case of the comic god and the dramaturgical selfEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 1 (2): 225-236. 2010.An exploration of the self in dramaturgical societies: This is the double, duplicitous, witty self, the one who communicates indirectly through characters and masks, the self who is a personality, who knowingly plays a role on the public stage, and who inhabits a wry, not to say awry, paradoxical world created by a mischievous comic God. A motley bunch of characters wander across the stage of this article. These include recusant Catholics, American sociologists, theologians of paradox, philosoph…Read more
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22French abortion opinion and the possibility of framing effectsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (8). 2007.No abstract
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18Review of Collins, Hall, and Paul, Causation and Counterfactuals (review)Metapsychology Online Reviews 2005. 2005.As you scroll through this review, you move your hand; this causes the mouse to move; in turn this causes, via a series of intermediary events, changes on your screen. A bit more reflection shows that this case is entirely mundane: causal relations are a ubiquitous feature of the physical world. Causal relations are also, according to many philosophers, at the center of phenomena like knowledge, perception, linguistic meaning, mental content, belief, free action, and right action. In fact, one i…Read more
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15Introduction: Paradox and communicationEmpedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 1 (2): 153-160. 2010.
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13Review of “Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Vols. 1 & 2” (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 15. 2008.
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9Social phusis and the pattern of creationBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 9 (1): 39-74. 2005.
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8Review of Nuccetelli, New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge" (review)Essays in Philosophy 7 (1): 11. 2006.
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8Help the Patient, But Be Complicit With Homophobic Social Norms? Four IssuesAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 5 (1): 13-14. 2014.
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8Review of Descartes’s Method of Doubt, by Janet Broughton (review)Essays in Philosophy 10 (1): 139-143. 2009.
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7Review of Michael Resnik, Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting (review)Politics and the Life Sciences 23 75-77. 2004.This book is devoted to showing that with the single exception of patents on people's whole genomes, DNA patents are morally permissible. Resnik begins with three useful background chapters: one on recent controversies over DNA patents in the United States and abroad; another on the basic science of DNA, as well as research and product development related to DNA; and another, especially useful, chapter on the legal nature of patents and intellectual property. The focus of moral evaluation is pat…Read more
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1Review of Michael Bergmann, Justification without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (5): 314. 2009.
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1Review of New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, ed. Susana Nuccetelli (review)Essays in Philosophy 7 (1): 118-121. 2006.
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A neo-Calvinist sociology : John Carroll's metaphysical modernityIn Sara James (ed.), Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll, Routledge. 2018.
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Authenticity or Happiness? Michael Scott and the Ethics of Self-Deception (US)In Jeremy Wisnewski (ed.), The Office and Philosophy: Scenes From the Unexamined Life, Blackwell. 2008.
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Public Relations Guide for New Precrime OfficersIn D. E. Wittkower (ed.), Philip K. Dick and Philosophy. pp. 207-216. 2011.
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |