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108Book Review: Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 18 (3): 151-153. 2005.
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46Commentary on "Multiple Personality and Moral Responsibility"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3 (1): 55-57. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Commentary on “Multiple Personality and Moral Responsibility”Stephen R. L. Clark (bio)Theaitetos sleeping is not quite “the same” as Theaitetos waking, any more than Alcibiades drunk is Alcibiades sober. Nor am I, at fifty, quite “the same” as Stephen was when he was five. In one way, my sober fifty-year-old waking self can reasonably disclaim responsibility for what Stephen did or seemed to do when he was dreaming, drunk, or five ye…Read more
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96Book Review : Anarchy and Christianity by Jacques Ellul, translated by G. W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Eerdmans, 1988. vi + 110pp. no price (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 6 (1): 52-55. 1993.
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668Constructing Persons: The Psychopathology of IdentityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 10 (2): 157-159. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10.2 (2003) 157-159 [Access article in PDF] Constructing Persons:The Psychopathology of Identity Stephen R. L. Clark Keywords identity, legal fictions, materialism, psychopathology. Steve Matthews argues that the criteria proposed by Stephen Behnke and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong for establishing personal identity in cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) are flawed. Neither brain identity nor…Read more
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37G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking ForwardTempleton Foundation Press. 2006.Offering a detailed study of early 20th-century essayist, poet, novelist, political campaigner, and theologian G.K. Chesterton, author Stephen R.L. Clark ...
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13Understanding Faith: Religious Belief and its Place in SocietyImprint Academic. 2009.A philosophical discussion of religion and its place in society. The book will examine the nature of faith and of the attacks upon it; considering both external and internal criticism - from non-believers and between believers. Having clarified the character of faith and considered its intellectual status, and its relation to scientific, moral, artistic and philosophical modes of thought; the book will then address a number of issues of contemporary public interest where religious faith is at is…Read more
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33Icons, Sacred Relics, Obsolescent PlantJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (2): 201-210. 1986.Whether churches should be demolished, rebuilt, restored or preserved is a contentious issue. Some hold that the needs of a present worshipping community should take precedence over antiquarian or aesthetic interest, others that we owe a debt to the ages. Arguments mirror those between developers and environmentalists. It is argued here that it is not abstract rights that matter, but a sense of history, and of the sacred. Church buildings and landscapes are to be maintained not as museum pieces …Read more
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48Tolstoy on Aesthetics: What is Art? By H. O. Mounce (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2001), pp viii + 115, £xxxx, ISBN 0 7546 0488 8 (review)Philosophy 78 (2): 289-307. 2003.
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36Plotinian dualisms and the "greek" ideas of selfJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (4): 554-567. 2009.No Abstract
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36Taylor's waking dream: No one's replyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (2). 1991.Taylor recognizes the problems posed by the ideals of disengaged reason and the affirmation of ?ordinary life? for unproblematic commitment to other ideals of universal justice and the like. His picture of ?the modern identity? neglects too much of present importance and he is too disdainful of Platonic realism to offer a convincing solution. The romantic expressivism that he seeks to re?establish as an important moral resource can only avoid destructive effects if it is taken in its original an…Read more
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29III. Morals, Moore, and maclntyreInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (4). 1983.Maclntyre's claim that contemporary moral language is, by traditional standards, merely chaotic somewhat exaggerates our chaos, and traditional order. He accuses. Moore and his disciples in particular of using moral language merely as propaganda, failing, like other critics, to reckon with the Platonic context of Moore's argument and the reasons why Goodness is an idea that rational inquiry should not abandon. Genuine moral action is done as the right thing, that produces more that is good than …Read more
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265How to believe in fairiesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 30 (4). 1987.To believe in fairies is not to believe in rare Lepidoptera or the like, within a basically materialistic context. It is to take folk?stories seriously as accounts of the ?dreamworld?, the realm of conscious experience of which our ?waking world? is only a province, to acknowledge and make real to ourselves the presence of spirits that enter our consciousness as moods of love or alienation, wild joy or anger. In W. B. Yeats's philosophy fairies are the moods and characters of human life, conceiv…Read more
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19How Chesterton read historyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39 (3 & 4). 1996.Chesterton was a serious and even excellent philosopher, whose reputation has suffered because his style was so striking, and his conversion to Catholicism so unpopular with Whiggish Britons. He had many ?politically incorrect? opinions, but those ?faults? were symptoms of a greater virtue, his insistence that ?the whole object of history is to make us realize that humanity can be great and glorious, under conditions quite different and even contrary to our own?. His desire for a United Europe w…Read more
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73Waking-up: A neglected model for the afterlifeInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (2). 1983.An inquiry into the possibility that life?after?death be understood as waking from a shared dream into the real world. Attempts to outlaw the possibility that ?really? we are, e.g., vat?brains are shown to lead to unwelcome, anti?realist conclusions about either the world or consciousness. The unsatisfactory nature of empirically observable (Humean) causal connections suggests that real causes may be found beyond the world of our present experience. Though such a story cannot now be proved to be…Read more
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19The verge of philosophy . By John Sallis. University of chicago press: Chicago, 2007. 144 pp (review)Philosophy 84 (1): 156-158. 2009.
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27Notes on the undergroundInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 33 (1). 1990.The victory of Ellerman's technetronic civilization is indeed a fearful prospect, but one that is much less plausible than he allows. His imagined makers, as was pointed out forty odd years ago by C. S. Lewis, could themselves have no criterion of right action or right belief, nor could they sensibly expect ? either on secular or on thcistic suppositions ? to be able to control the world forever
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35The possible truth of metaphorInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (1). 1994.No abstract
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22Berkeley on religionIn Kenneth P. Winkler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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6How to Think About the EarthMowbray. 1993.Explores and criticizes contemporary models for an environmentally-conscious theology, such as goddess worship, national socialism and process philosophy. The author argues that Christian faith, and other great religions of the world, already teach respect for the sanctity of God's creation.
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19Money, obedience, and affection: essays on Berkeley's moral and political thought (edited book)Garland. 1989.This book, first published in 1985, presents a key collection of essays on Berkeley's moral and political philosophy. They form an introduction to, and analysis of, Berkeley's immaterialist arguments, part of his consciously adopted strategy to subvert Enlightenment thought, which he saw as a danger to civil society.
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22God, good, and evilIn J. Houston (ed.), Is it reasonable to believe in God?, Handsel Press. 1984.
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God-appointed Berkeley and the general goodIn John Foster & Howard Robinson (eds.), Essays on Berkeley: a tercentennial celebration, Oxford University Press. 1985.
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10The Covenant with All Living CreaturesIn Mark J. Cartledge & David Mills (eds.), Covenant Theology: Contemporary Approaches, Paternoster Publishing. 2001.Philosophers are usually expected to argue only from premises acceptable to a secular audience, in ways that require no special commitment beyond that to the value of argument itself. As a philosopher, I see no particular reason to deny myself the opportunity to argue from other, more `sectarian', premises, in ways now unfamiliar to an unbelieving nation. In so doing I may (as theistical philosophers often do) sound more traditional than many theologians
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University of BristolHonorary Research Fellow
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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