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7Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 507-509. 2000.
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6A 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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35Habermas 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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6The 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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37Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga , Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 32 (5): 370-372. 2012.
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14Joseph 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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21Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 403-406. 2008.
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9Nicholas 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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31Why Politics Needs Religion: the place of religious arguments in the public squareInterVarsity Press. 2006.Presents a convincing argument as to why religion should be mixed with politics, ascertaining that certain religious beliefs should be made public and ...
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17Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2): 250-252. 2003.
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37The Dispute between McMullin and Plantinga over EvolutionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 343-354. 2012.The discussion between Ernan McMullin and Alvin Plantinga concerning evolution and religion, which first appeared in Christian Scholar’s Review in September 1991, is an enlightening airing of many of the issues that arise with regard to this complex, controversial topic. Overall, Plantinga favors a confrontational view of the relationship between religion and evolution, while McMullin favors a dialogue model. The two thinkers disagree about the evidence for evolution, about what Plantinga calls …Read more
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22Rival Enlightenments (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (1): 176-178. 2002.The main objective of this book “is to reinstate a marginalized intellectual culture to its proper place in the intellectual history of early modern Germany”. In order to do this, Hunter offers an account of two independent intellectual cultures—two “rival enlightenments”—of civil and metaphysical philosophy in early German intellectual history. The first of these rival versions is the current mainstream view: that the enlightenment influences in modern Germany became gradually unified, through …Read more
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20An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1): 144-146. 2005.
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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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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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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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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.
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 |
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |