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14Intuitions and the Value of a PersonJournal of Applied Philosophy 14 (1): 83-86. 1997.In contemporary moral theory and normative ethics there is frequent recourse to ‘intuitions’ of value. One current instance of this is the appeal in reproductive and population ethics to the thought that the existence of a human being is not as such good or bad. Here the status and substance of this assumption are challenged. In addition, doubt is cast on the value of appeals to intuition where these are not related to some philosophical account of the grounds of value.
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14Analytical ThomismThe Monist 80 (4): 485-486. 1997.Thomism, conceived of as the set of broad doctrines and style of thought expressed in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas and of those who follow him, first emerged in the thirteenth century. Aquinas himself was born in 1225 into a religious culture in which the dominant tradition of speculative thought was a version of Christian neoplatonism heavily influenced by St. Augustine. Early in his studies as a Dominican, however, Aquinas came under the direction of Albert the Great, who was to exercise an…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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14Ludwig Wittgenstein Architect By Paul Wijdeveld London: Thames & Hudson, 1994, pp. 294, £45.00Philosophy 70 (272): 292-. 1995.
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14'Medical ethics'--an alternative approachJournal of Medical Ethics 12 (3): 145-150. 1986.Contemporary medical ethics is generally concerned with the application of ethical theory to medico-moral dilemmas and with the critical analysis of the concepts of medicine. This paper presents an alternative programme: the development of a medical philosophy which, by taking as its starting point the two questions: what is man? and, what constitutes goodness in life? offers an account of health as one of the primary concepts of value. This view of the subject resembles that implied by ancient …Read more
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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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13Aquinas and Anscombe on Connaturality and Moral Knowledge1New Blackfriars 104 (1114): 668-688. 2023.The idea of ‘connatural knowledge’ is attributed to Aquinas on the basis of passages in which he distinguishes between scientific and affective experiential knowledge of religious and moral truths. In a series of encyclicals beginning with Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, popes have celebrated and commended Aquinas as the supreme guide in philosophy and theology and in some of these cited his discovery of connatural knowledge. The course and context of his ‘elevation’ are explored before proceeding to…Read more
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13The Philosophy of State CompensationJournal of Applied Philosophy 12 (3): 273-282. 1995.Notwithstanding that there is now widespread interest in the rights of victims, little has been written about the theoretical justification of state compensation. Here we offer an initial exploration of the field in the hope that others might venture further and examine the points at which issues of compensation connect with other general and specific themes in social and political philosophy. For example, there has been much discussion about communitarian conceptions of civil society but the pr…Read more
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13Reasoning about the Human Good, and the Role of the Public PhilosopherIn John Keown & Robert P. George (eds.), Reason, morality, and law: the philosophy of John Finnis, Oxford University Press. pp. 37. 2013.
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12Character, Choice, and Harry PotterLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5 (4): 49-64. 2002.
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12Religious education in a pluralist society: A Philosophical Examination 1British Journal of Educational Studies 34 (2): 161-181. 1986.
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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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12Theory, Realism and Common Sense: A reply to Paul Churchland.1Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93 (1): 321-328. 1993.John Haldane; Theory, Realism and Common Sense: A reply to Paul Churchland.1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 93, Issue 1, 1 June 1993, Pages 32.
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12Thomas Reid By Keith Lehrer London: Routledge, 1989, xii + 311 pp., £35.00 (review)Philosophy 66 (256): 252-. 1991.
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11What Has Metaphysics to Do with Wisdom?Nova et Vetera 20 (4): 1249-1271. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:What Has Metaphysics to Do with Wisdom?John HaldaneThere are two loci of ambiguity in the title of the symposium from which this essay derives—"Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas's Summa contra gentiles in a Contemporary Context."1 The first concerns the opening question, "is belief in God reasonable?" and the second the closing clause "in a contemporary context." I observe this not in the spirit of pedantry, but because I want to …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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11The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.Thomas Reid was one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century and a contemporary of Kant's. This volume is part of a new wave of international interest in Reid from a new generation of scholars. The volume opens with an introduction to Reid's life and work, including biographical material previously little known. A classic essay by Reid himself - 'Of Power' - is then reproduced, in which he sets out his distinctive account of causality and agency. This is followed by ten original es…Read more
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10Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900–2000 (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (2): 401-403. 2001.This is the first volume in a series— Handbook [sic.] of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion —of which the author is also editor. Two things strike one immediately: first, it is very impressive in its range and depth of coverage; second, it is outrageously expensive. Kluwer’s pricing policy is a disgrace which reviewers ought not to let pass uncriticized. It is a disservice to individual readers, to institutions, and to writers. The present author has evidently labored long, hard, and fruitfully…Read more
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10Sentiments of Reason and Aspiration of the SoulLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 7 (3): 31-46. 2004.
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10(I am) ThinkingRatio 16 (2): 124-139. 2003.The activity of thought is deeply perplexing. Anyone resistant to its consignment to the domain of sub‐personal psychology, or to quasi‐behaviouristic elimination, needs to address such matters as why it is that thinking seems to elude capture in consciousness, and what the nature of self‐ascription may be. This paper takes up from an earlier discussion by Claudio Costa (‘ “I’m Thinking” ’Ratio 2001) and argues that his account of thinking is flawed. It also argues, in opposition to Costa, that …Read more
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9Intelligence and the Philosophy of MindProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 39-55. 2006.
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9The Metaphysics of IntellectProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 80 39-55. 2006.In the heyday of conceptual analysis philosophical psychology was practised without regard to the ontology of mind as that was associated with disputes between materialism and non-materialism. The rise of functionalism, however, led philosophical psychology in the direction of materialism, though with a residue deriving from phenomenal consciousness. This is now widely viewed as ‘the hard problem’ for physicalism and probably an insuperable one for it, raising the spectre of epiphenomenalism. I …Read more
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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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8Practical Philosophy: Ethics, Society and CultureImprint Academic. 2009.In this wide ranging volume of philosophical essays John Haldane explores some central areas of social life and issues of intense academic and public debate. These include the question of ethical relativism, fundamental issues in bioethics, the nature of individuals in relation to society, the common good, public judgement of prominent individuals, the nature and aims of education, cultural theory and the relation of philosophy to art and architecture. John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy, an…Read more