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14Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism (Review) (review)Philosophy in Review 17 262-264. 1997.
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24La antiteoría y la filosofía del RenacimientoCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 20 173-178. 1993.This article defends the philosophy of the Renaissance against a critique by Ortega y Gasset. Renaissance philosophy, it is argued, was a rebirth of the Hellenistic and Roman conviction that theory should not be pursued for its own sake; rather, it should be kept on a short leash controlled by practical ends. This Renaissance view is a precursor to the contemporary anti-theory of thinkers like Aranguren, Toulmin, and Williams.
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140Two Types of Moral DilemmaIn Matti Häyry & Tuija Takala (eds.), The Future of Value Inquiry, Rodopi. 2001.This chapter identifies two types of moral dilemma. The first type is described as ethical clash: whether affirmative action is just or unjust, for example, or whether withholding information from an inquisitive relative is honest or dishonest. In these cases the dilemma takes the form of conflict between an ethical predicate and its complement. The second type of moral dilemma is ethical overlap. Instead of a clash between a single predicate and its complement, here two or more predicates apply…Read more
John R. Welch
Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus
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Saint Louis University - Madrid CampusRetired faculty
Areas of Interest
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Decision Theory |
Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Probability |