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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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21Reason, Truth and Sacred HistoryProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 68 173-185. 1994.
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2Rational AnimalsIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Verstehen and Humane Understanding, Cambridge University Press. 1996.
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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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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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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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1Macintyre's thomist revival : What next?In John Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), After Macintyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Macintyre, University of Notre Dame Press. 1994.
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61Editorial Introduction: Hume on Mind and CausalityJournal of Scottish Philosophy 5 (1): 1-6. 2007.The following essay, whose title has been provided by me for this occasion, is taken from James Ferrier's work The Institutes of Metaphysic where it appears in Section I., the general theme of which is ‘The Epistemology, or Theory of Knowing’. The essay is a statement and elaboration of the ‘ninth proposition’ of the Institutes, and an examination of its implications as these bear upon knowledge of mind and self. The precise source of the text is the 3rd edition of the Institutes of Metaphysic. …Read more
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4Aquinas on Mind By Anthony Kenny London:Routledge, 1993, viii+182pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 69 (268): 242-244. 1994.
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2Some metaphysical presuppositions of agency, agere-sequitur-esse (acting-follows-upon-being)Heythrop Journal-a Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology 35 (3): 296-303. 1994.
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115Brentano's ProblemGrazer Philosophische Studien 35 (1): 1-32. 1989.Contemporary writers often refer to 'Brentano's Problem' meaning by this the issue of whether all intentional phenomena can be accounted for in terms of a materialist ontology. This, however, was not the problem of intentionaUty which concerned Brentano himself. Rather, the difficulty which he identified is that of how to explain the very contentfulness of mental states, and in particular their apparently relational character. This essay explores something of Brentano's own views on this issue a…Read more
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7What Future has Catholic Philosophy?Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 79-90. 1997.
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5Insight, Inference, and IntellectionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 31-45. 1999.
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10.3 ResponseLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 5 (2). 2002.
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29American philosophy: ‘Scotch’ or ‘teutonic’?Philosophy 77 (3): 311-329. 2002.Given as an address to the American Philosophical Association on the occasion of its centennial, this paper examines the character and standing of American philosophy now and at the outset of the twentieth century as seen (then and now) from a British point of view. A century ago Britain was itself the unquestioned leader of Anglo-Saxon thought. Now, however, as in so many areas, the US is the pre-eminent world power. This status brings prestige and various benefits but it also carries responsib…Read more
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8The True, the Good and the PracticalEthical Perspectives 4 (4): 237-242. 1997.In his paper A Philosophical Approach to Professional Ethics, Professor de Stexhe offers a very rich and interesting set of reflections on the possible foundations of professional ethics. First he constructs a compelling problematic arising from the diverse but intersecting dimensions in which ethical action is located. Then he describes a task, or more accurately a series of tasks, involving a skilfully choreographed set of dialectal movements between the various moments or conditioning feature…Read more
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96Philosophy, death and immortalityPhilosophical Investigations 30 (3). 2007.Dewi Phillips was an insightful practitioner of a philosophical method of cultural phenomenology focused upon word and deed. His interests and outlook also brought him close to the concerns of some post-Kantian theologians, such as Schleiermacher. The present essay observes a link between their treatments of the nature and significance of the idea of immortality. It then explores something of Phillips' positions as developed in Death and Immortality, acknowledging the importance, which he emphas…Read more