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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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49Commitment, 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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31Thomasma, 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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22Adorno’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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22The 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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50Marcel 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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25Homo 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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36A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 363-365. 1999.
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33Pennock, 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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13Truth 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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26Gabriel 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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32Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty, eds. , A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (4): 329-330. 2013.
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19The Evidential Argument from Evil (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4): 484-486. 1997.
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5Religion: Key Concepts in PhilosophyContinuum Books. 2007.An introduction to the philosophy of religion for undergraduates
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47This 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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9Nicholas Wolterstorff, Selected Essays, Vol.1: Inquiring about God and Vol. II: Practices of BeliefInternational Philosophical Quarterly 51 (3): 389-406. 2011.
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39Four Common Confusions about Religion and EvolutionThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (3): 479-485. 2003.
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14The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (2): 259-261. 2009.
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20Between 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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3A 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
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 |