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14Religion and Science: An IntroductionContinuum Books. 2009.A one-stop resource for undergraduate students examining the many complexities of the relationship between religion and science.
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29Haught, John F. Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 2 (2): 350-351. 2002.
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18The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7 (3): 625-627. 2007.
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20Thaddeus J. Kozinski: The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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75Postmodernism, Derrida, and Différance: A CritiqueInternational Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1): 5-18. 1999.This article provides, through a discussion of the work of Jacques Derrida, an examination of the philosophical basis of postmodernism. The first section identifies and explains the positive claims of postmodernism, including the key claim that all identities, presences, etc. depend for their existence on something which is absent and different from themselves. The second section further illustrates the positive claims through an analysis of Derrida's "deconstructionist" reading of Plato. The fi…Read more
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4Faith and the Life of the Intellect (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 2003.Many of the contributions offer personal reflections on those events and experiences that helped shape their response to the general issue of faith seeking understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
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13Kavanaugh, John F., S.J. Who Count as Persons? Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (4): 857-859. 2003.
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19Why the Ultra-Darwinists and the Creationists Both Get It Wrong by Conor Cunningham (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 15 (3): 605-607. 2015.
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32Thomasma, David C., Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma, and Chris Ciesielksi-Carlucci, eds. Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2): 280-282. 2001.
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56Commitment, Justification, and the Rejection of Natural TheologyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (3): 417-436. 2003.This paper considers two related claims in the work of D. Z. Phillips: that commitment to God precludes a distinction between the commitment and the grounds for the commitment, and that belief and understanding are the same in religion. Both these claims motivate Phillips’s rejection of natural theology. I examine these claims by analyzing the notion of commitment, discussing what is involved in making a commitment to a worldview, why commitment is necessary at all in religion, levels of commitm…Read more
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23Adorno’s Positive Dialectic (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 443-445. 2004.
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13Religion in the Liberal Polity—ed. Terence Cuneo (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 237-239. 2007.
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26The Failure of Modernism: the cartesian legacy and contemporary pluralism (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 1999.Brings together a distinguished group of philosophers and theologians to critique several aspects of modernism.
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51Marcel on God and Religious Experience, and the Critique of Alston and HickAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3): 407-420. 2006.This article examines Gabriel Marcel’s unique approach to the existence of God, and its implications for traditional philosophy of religion. After some preliminary remarks about the realm of “problems” (which would include the “rational”), and about the question of whether Marcel thinks God’s existence admits of a rational argument, Part I explains his account of how the individual subject can arrive at an affirmation of God through experiences of fidelity and promise-making. Part II proposes a …Read more
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28Homo Viator: Introduction to the Metaphysic of Hope. By Gabriel Marcel. Translated by Emma Craufurd and Paul Seaton (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (4): 737-741. 2012.
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9Twilight of the Literary (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (4): 874-875. 2006.The emergence of modernity in Western thinking entails a new, radically different worldview from the past, one dominated by secular understandings of history and tradition, and of new forms of what Cochran calls “collective consciousness.” Modernity also requires a rethinking of the role of human knowledge in the world. Cochran’s aim is to explore the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of these developments by looking at the ideas of a variety of thinkers, and by focusing in particular on t…Read more
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14Religion, Secularism, and God in Public Education (review)Philosophia Christi 9 (1): 215-222. 2007.
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42A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 363-365. 1999.
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39Pennock, Robert T., ed. Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives (review)The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (3): 640-642. 2003.
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15Truth and Religious Belief: Conversations on Philosophy of ReligionM.E. Sharpe. 1998.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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31Gabriel Marcel and the Problem of KnowledgeBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 7 (1-2): 148-163. 1995.none.
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19The Evidential Argument from Evil (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4): 484-486. 1997.
Brendan Sweetman
Rockhurst University
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Rockhurst UniversityProfessor
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Business Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |