Brendan Sweetman

Rockhurst University
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    Thine Own Self (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 523-526. 2010.
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    Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military. Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 57 (1): 99-102. 2017.
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    Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics. By Mary Warnock (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 63 (253): 846-848. 2013.
    © 2013 The Editors of The Philosophical QuarterlyMary Warnock's book is an attempt to address in a short space a large theme: ‘some aspects of the role of religion, and therefore the idea of God, in the twenty‐first century, as it relates to legislation and politics’. Along the way she raises many subsidiary themes, including the historical influence of religion on the law, the tension between religion and liberalism, the difficulty of providing a philosophical foundation for secularist ethics, …Read more
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    Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 403-406. 2008.
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    Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George (review)
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9 (3): 607-610. 2009.
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    Lyotard, Postmodernism, and Religion
    Philosophia Christi 7 (1): 141-153. 2005.
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    This book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the ...
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    Gabriel Marcel and the Problem of Knowledge
    Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 7 (1-2): 148-163. 1995.
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    The Evidential Argument from Evil (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4): 484-486. 1997.
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    Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Continuum Books. 2007.
    An introduction to the philosophy of religion for undergraduates
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    Adorno’s Positive Dialectic (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 443-445. 2004.
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    Nicholas Wolterstorff, Selected Essays, Vol.1: Inquiring about God and Vol. II: Practices of Belief
    International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (3): 389-406. 2011.
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    This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel's unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a di…Read more
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    Introduction
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 319-319. 2012.
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    Four Common Confusions about Religion and Evolution
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (3): 479-485. 2003.
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    The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2): 259-261. 2009.
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    Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 51 (1): 153-154. 1997.
    This work, translated from the German, is divided into nine chapters with a preface plus a very helpful introduction by the translator. There is also a postscript by Habermas, as well as a reprinting of two earlier papers on related topics. The book is intended as a contribution to contemporary political philosophy, and, as such, Habermas accepts certain assumptions in advance and does not attempt to argue for them at any length. The first is the “linguistic turn” in philosophy, the antirealist …Read more
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    Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 507-509. 2000.
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    A Gabriel Marcel Reader (edited book)
    St. Augustine's Press. 2011.
    French existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The central themes of his philosophy, which are developed with a blend of realism, concreteness, and common sense, continue to be relevant for the plight of humanity in the twentieth-first century. All of Marcel’s important ideas are introduced here, ranging from his unique conception of philosophy; to his original approach to epistemology and the nature of knowledge; to his view o…Read more
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    Marcel and Phenomenology
    Renascence 55 (3): 179-192. 2003.
  • Patrick Masterson, The Sense of Creation (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 63 (3): 710-713. 2010.
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    Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 52 (2): 472-474. 1998.
    This collection of ten essays “by a team of leading philosophers, social scientists, intellectual historians and literary critics” aims to critically engage Jürgen Habermas’s critique of postmodernism in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Five of the essays have been previously published, and Habermas’s essay, “Modernity: An Unfinished Project,” is also reprinted here. The book also contains a very helpful introduction by Passerin d’Entrèves, and an index.
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    The Flight From God (edited book)
    St. Augustine's Press. 2014.
    "Max Picard was a Swiss-German writer, who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. A doctor and psychologist, Picard worked in Berlin but retired in the 1920s to Switzerland. He is often regarded as a "wisdom thinker," and his rich and penetrating writings continue to speak to us in the twenty-first century. The Flight from God is an incisive, profound description of many of the problems facing modern culture, and its analysis resonates with us more today than when first published in 1934. Picard…Read more
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    Joseph J. Godfrey, S.J., "Trust of People, Words and God: A Route for Philosophy of Religion" (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 54 (3): 354-356. 2014.
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    Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 403-406. 2008.
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    Nicholas Wolterstorff, Selected Essays, Vol.1: Inquiring about God and Vol. II: Practices of Belief (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (3): 389-406. 2011.
    Critical Review essay on Nicholas Wolsterstorff's two volume collection of essays.
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    Presents a convincing argument as to why religion should be mixed with politics, ascertaining that certain religious beliefs should be made public and ...