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12Religious education in a pluralist society: A Philosophical Examination1British Journal of Educational Studies 34 (2). 1986.No abstract
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2Rational AnimalsIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Verstehen and Humane Understanding, Cambridge University Press. 1996.
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Forms of thoughtIn Lewis Edwin Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, Open Court. pp. 25--149. 1997.
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8Examining the AssumptionHeythrop Journal 43 (4): 411-429. 2002.Many believe that at the end of her life Mary was assumed bodily ‘into heaven’ where she remains exalted by her divine son. This claim, magisterially entitled The Doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strikes some as absurd. Even many traditional Christians are opposed to, or have doubts about this aspect of Catholic doctrine of the Theotokos[the one who ‘gave birth to’ God]).Typically critics regard the doctrine as being at best a sentimental piety and at worst a neo–Pagan accr…Read more
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42Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue by Alasdair MacIntyre (review)European Journal of Philosophy 17 (4): 610-614. 2009.No Abstract
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5Algunas presuposiciones metafísicas de la acción humanaAnuario Filosófico 27 (3): 923-938. 1994.In opposition to compatibilism, it is argued that the thesis of universal causal determinism is at odds with the idea of free action. Free agency involves liberty of indifference -that is to say the non-determination of action by antecedent events-. Action issues from habitual behavioural tendencies; but this relation is neither deterministic nor random: it is one of propensity, in this case conditioned by practical rationality. In general, specifying reasons for action is not identifying antece…Read more
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14Return to the crossroads: Maritain fifty years onBritish Journal of Educational Studies 43 (2): 162-178. 1995.Writing a little over a decade ago of developments in educational philosophy, R. F. Dearden remarked on the dearth of alternative approaches to that of conceptual analysis which predominated, at least in Anglophone cultures, at that time. One possible avenue of enquiry which he identified as conspicuously absent in this respect was the development of a distinctively Catholic approach to problems of educational philosophy, observing that a work of the mid-war years, Maritain's Education at the Cr…Read more
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11Philosophy, the silencing of religion and the prospects for religious philosophyRevue Internationale de Philosophie 3 349-368. 2003.
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85Architecture, philosophy and the public worldBritish Journal of Aesthetics 30 (3): 203-217. 1990.
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41The state and fate of contemporary philosophy of mindAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 37 (3): 301-21. 2000.A few years ago philosophy of mind in the main English-language tradition was characterized by marked optimism about progress and by broad agreement that a correct theory would be a version of physicalism that admitted the sui generis nature of psychological descriptions and explanations. Now consensus seems to have given way to chaos supervenient physicalism has become so weak as to be virtually contentless and reductionism has become no more plausible than when it was generally rejected. The e…Read more
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15Atheism and Theism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1996.In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief, debate the central issues of atheism and theism. Considers one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions: is there a God? Presents the atheism/theism issue in the form of philosophical debate between two highly regarded scholars, widely praised for the clarity and verve of their work. This second edition contains new essays by each philosopher, responding to criticisms and building…Read more
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37An embarrassing question about reproductionPhilosophical Psychology 5 (4): 427-431. 1992.Standard objections to dualism focus on problems of individuation: what, in the absence of matter, serves to diversify immaterial items? and interaction: how can material and immaterial elements causally affect one another? Given certain ways of conceiving mental phenomena and causation, it is not obvious that one cannot reply to these objections. However, a different kind of difficulty comes into view when one considers the question of the origin of the mental. Here attention is directed upon t…Read more
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31The Modernist Fallacy: philosophy as art's undoing [1]Journal of Applied Philosophy 5 (2): 159-173. 1988.ABSTRACT The essay is concerned with the widely held view that contemporary fine art is obscurantist, shallow and unrewarding of attention. It is argued that the opposition between common opinion and the advocates of modernism rests upon a philosophical disagreement about the nature and value of art. An account of aesthetic experience is then presented and illustrated by reference to Raphael's The School of Athens. This account shows the reasoning implicit in modernism to rest upon a fallacy rel…Read more
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26Notes and commentsHeythrop Journal 26 (1): 41-46. 1985.Two Short Communications:R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great and In I Regum, by Francis ClarkAquinas's Claim ‘Anima Mea Non Est Ego’, by Stephen Priest
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8The Examined Death and the Hope of the FutureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 245-257. 2000.
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18Mind and World (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (2): 420-422. 1995.This slim volume derives from the John Locke Lectures delivered in Oxford in 1991 and expands and develops the themes presented there and in a series of influential articles published during the last decade and a half. McDowell offers the prospect of "re-enchanting" a world laid bare by reductive "bald" naturalism, drawing support in this effort from Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Sellars. Others who feature prominently are Donald Davidson, Gareth Evans, Richard Rorty, and Sir Peter S…Read more