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3Rem B. Edwards, Religious Values and Valuations (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 53 (1): 57-60. 2003.
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Reason and Religion. An Introduction to the Philosophy of ReligionReligious Studies 10 (4): 503-504. 1974.
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28Review of Pleasures and Pains: A Theory of Qualitative Hedonism (review)Ethics 91 (2): 314-317. 1981.
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1540J. S. Mill and Robert Veatch's Critique of UtilitarianismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (2): 181-200. 1985.Modern bioethics is clearly dominated by deontologists who believe that we have some way of identifying morally correct and incorrect acts or rules besides taking account of their consequences. Robert M. Veatch is one of the most outspoken of those numerous modern medical ethicists who agree in rejecting all forms of teleological, utilitarian, or consequentialist ethical theories. This paper examines his critique of utilitarianism and shows that the utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill is either n…Read more
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2425Do pleasures and pains differ qualitatively?Journal of Value Inquiry 9 (4): 270-81. 1975.Traditional hedonists like Epicurus, Bentham and Sidgwick were quantitative hedonists who assumed that pleasures and pains differ, not just from each other, but also from other pleasures and pains only in such quantitatively measurable ways as intensity, duration, and nearness or remoteness in time. They also differ with respect to their sources or causes. John Stuart Mill introduced an interesting and important complication into the modern theory of hedonism by insisting that pleasures also dif…Read more
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12Bioethics (edited book)Harcourt, Wadsworth. 1988.This textbook in Medical Ethics covers most of the standard issues. Each chapter begins with detailed comments by the editors, followed by the best available articles on each topic covered.
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7A Return to Moral and Religious Philosophy in Early AmericaReligious Studies 19 (3): 421-422. 1982.
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6A Return to Moral and Religious Philosophy in Early AmericaUniversity Press of America. 1982.A Return to Moral and Religious Philosophy in Early America concentrates especially on three philosophical positions that dominated early American philosophy, Puritanism and Idealism, the Enlightenment or Age of Realism, and Transcendentalism. This book focuses primarily but not exclusively on the best representatives of each. Jonathan Edwards was the most brilliant and philosophically minded of early Puritan thinkers; his thinking was colored by metaphysical idealism. Thomas Jefferson gave us t…Read more
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4Freedom, responsibility and obligationM. Nijhoff. 1970.This work is conceived as a modem study of the relationships of the concept of human freedom with the moral concepts of responsibility and obligation and other closely allied notions. One pitfall into which writers on my sub jects have occasionally fallen has been that of spending too much time in critically examining positions and arguments which no sane philosopher has ever offered. In order to guard against the danger of debating with "straw men," I have attempted to engage in critical conver…Read more
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5Psychiatry and ethics: insanity, rational autonomy, and mental health care (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1982.
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18Ethics and psychiatry: insanity, rational autonomy, and mental health care (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1997.Ethics of Psychiatry addresses the key ethical and legal issues in mental health care. With selections by Paul S. Applebaum, Christopher Boorse, Kerry Brace, Peter R. Breggin, Paula J. Caplan, Glen O. Gabbard, Donald H.J. Hermann, Lawrie Reznek, Thomas Szasz, Jerome Wakefield, Bruce J. Winick, and Robert M. Veatch, among others, this sourcebook offers the latest research in psychiatry, psychology, advocacy, mental health law, social services, and medical ethics relevant to the rational autonomy …Read more
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316Existential experience, and limiting questions and answersInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2). 1973.This article critically examines the positions taken by Stephen E. Toulmin, Robert C. Coburn, and and Gordon D. Kaufman on existential experience and limiting questions and answers.
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591The Knowledge of Good: Critique of Axiological Reason (edited book)BRILL. 2002.This book presents Robert S. Hartman’s formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson.
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25A response to 'on being "mentally healthy"'Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 8 (2): 199-202. 1983.
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6477The principle of utility and mill's minimizing utilitarianismJournal of Value Inquiry 20 (2): 125-136. 1986.Formulations of Mill's principle of utility are examined, and it is shown that Mill did not recognize a moral obligation to maximize the good, as is often assumed. His was neither a maximizing act nor rule utilitarianism. It was a distinctive minimizing utilitarianism which morally obligates us only to abstain from inflicting harm, to prevent harm, to provide for others minimal essentials of well being (to which rights correspond), and to be occasionally charitable or benevolent
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445Whitehead's Theistic Metaphysics and AxiologyProcess Studies 45 (1): 5-32. 2016.This article explores and critically examines the concepts and value dimensions of God, process, creativity, eternal objects, and individuals in Whitehead's thought.
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209Public funding of abortions and abortion counseling for poor womenAdvances in Bioethics 2 303. 1997.This article tries to show that commonplace economic, ethico-religious, anti-racist,and logical-consistency objections to public funding of abortions and abortion counseling for poor women are quite weak. By contrast, arguments appealing to basic human rights to freedom of speech, informed consent, protection from great harm, justice and equal protection under the law, strongly support public funding. Thus, refusing to provide abortions at public expense for women who cannot afford them is moral…Read more
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638How Process Theology Can Affirm Creation Ex NihiloProcess Studies 29 (1): 77-96. 2000.Most process theologians have rejected the creation of the world out of nothing, holding that our universe was created out of some antecedent universe. This article shows how on process grounds, and with faithfulness to much of what Whitehead had to say, process theologians can and should affirm the creation of our universe out of nothing. Standard process objections to this are refuted.
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617Composition and the cosmological argumentMind 77 (305): 115-117. 1968.This article argues that not all arguments from parts to wholes commit the informal logical fallacy of composition,and especially not the cosmological argument for God which moves from the contingent existence of all the parts of the cosmos to the contingent existence of the whole.
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262The value of man in the Hartman value systemJournal of Value Inquiry 7 (2): 141-147. 1973.This article summarizes and critique’s Robert S. Hartman’s four alleged “proofs for the infinite value of man.” Each “proof” assumes that all individual human beings actually contain within themselves an infinite number of good-making properties, and that this accounts for the literal infinite worth of each. Hartman developed four variations on this central theme. This critique shows that none of his arguments are plausible and none succeed in “proving” their conclusion.
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17Analogies between nature and its partsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2). 1976.
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364Process Thought and the Spaciness of MindProcess Studies 19 (3): 156-166. 1990.The process claim that matter is mentally infused and that mind or consciousness is spatially and temporally extended is explored. The views of Peirce, Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb, Ford and Griffin on the following questions are examined: If spacy, where are the occasions of human consciousness, how are they related to the brain, how large are they, and can they be externally perceived directly or with instruments? It is proposed that what is internally experienced as human consciousness is obje…Read more
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402On Being ‘Rational’ About NormsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 5 (3): 180-186. 1967.The theses of this paper i: I. that the attempt to found absolute norns on rationality presupposes the availability of a single universal absolute conception of rationality but that no such conception is available; and II. that any conception of rationality which might be available for justifying one's ultimate normative commitments is itself evaluative. “Rationality” itself is a value-laden concept, as are all its philosophical sub-divisions—logic, ethics, aesthetics, axiology, etc. Choosing ul…Read more
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540Kraus’s Boethian Interpretation of Whitehead’s GodProcess Studies 11 (1): 30-34. 1981.The Metaphysics of Experience: Companion to Whitehead’s Process and Reality by Elizabeth M. Kraus develops very classical, Boethian, atemporal understanding of Whitehead’s God. Kraus contends that Whitehead intended “to infer that the divine actual world includes all actual worlds in unison of becoming” (p. 164). Her position is that even in his consequent nature, God coexists simultaneously and changelessly with the entire past, present, and future of every occasion in every world or cosmic epo…Read more
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131Review of Freedom and Value (review)International Studies in Philosophy 10 219-221. 1978.This is a review of Robert O. Johann, ed., Freedom and Value, 1976 which consists of nine essays written by members of the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University. These deal with the nature and value of human freedom and its relations with other human values.
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25The New Science of Axiological PsychologyRodopi. 2005.This book uses scientific validity measures to create empirical value science and a normative new science of axiological psychology by integrating cognitive psychology with Robert S. Hartman’s formal theory of axiological science. It reveals a scientific way to identify and rank human values, achieving values appreciation, values clarification, and values measurement for the twenty first century. Rem B. Edwards edited it for publication, but its author is Leon Pomeroy.
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17A Return to Moral and Religious Philosophy in Early AmericaInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (4): 256-256. 1982.
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