Brendan Sweetman

Rockhurst University
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    Why 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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    God and Goodness (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1): 136-138. 2002.
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    Commitment, Justification, and the Rejection of Natural Theology
    American 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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    Adorno’s Positive Dialectic (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 443-445. 2004.
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    Religion in the Liberal Polity—ed. Terence Cuneo (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 237-239. 2007.
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    The 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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    Marcel on God and Religious Experience, and the Critique of Alston and Hick
    American 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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    Homo 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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    Twilight 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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    Believing by Faith (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 26 (4): 467-471. 2009.
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    Religion, Secularism, and God in Public Education (review)
    Philosophia Christi 9 (1): 215-222. 2007.
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    A Feminist Philosophy of Religion (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (3): 363-365. 1999.
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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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    Lyotard, Postmodernism, and Religion
    Philosophia Christi 7 (1): 141-153. 2005.
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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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    Adorno’s Positive Dialectic (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 443-445. 2004.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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