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50Review of Lynn Holt, Apprehension: Reason in the Absence of Rules (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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48Review of Stephen Napier, Virtue Epistemology: Motivation and Knowledge (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.A Review of S. Napiers, book Virtue Epistemology. While concerned with the nature of knowledge, Napier also wants to claim that a key implication of responsibilist VE is “a shift away from analyzing epistemic concepts (knowledge, etc.) in terms of other epistemic concepts (e.g. justification) to analyzing epistemic concepts with reference to kinds of human activity…much of analytic epistemology centers on epistemic concepts, whereas the responsibilist focuses on epistemic activity” (144).Of the …Read more
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47The Present Dilemma in PhilosophyContemporary Pragmatism 3 (1): 15-35. 2006.In opening the Lowell Lectures of 1906 with "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy," William James confounded his audience with the initial thesis that "The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of temperaments." This article revisits James's thesis, using the latitude afforded by his title to describe a different dilemma than he was concerned with in his lecture. Pragmatism can be applied to diagnose the apparently irreconcilable perspectives that give rise to a dilemma…Read more
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44Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991.
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43Cognitive Economy (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 19 (60): 14-16. 1991.
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40Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.This is a unique collection of new and recently-published articles which debate the merits of virtue-theoretic approaches to the core epistemological issues of knowledge and justified belief. The readings all contribute to our understanding of the relative importance, for a theory of justified belief, of the reliability of our cognitive faculties and of the individuals responsibility in gathering and weighing evidence. Highlights of the readings include direct exchanges between leading exponents…Read more
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39Book Reviews : Daniel Little, Varieties of Social Explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. pp. vii, 258. $19.95. John Holmwood and Alexander Stewart. Explanation and Social Theory. Lon don : MacMillan, 1991. pp. x, 244. $49.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (2): 252-256. 1994.
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34Blind Man’s Bluff: The Basic Belief Apologetic as Anti-skeptical StratagemPhilosophical Studies 130 (1): 131-152. 2006.Today we find philosophical naturalists and Christian theists both expressing an interest in virtue epistemology, while starting out from vastly different assumptions. What can be done to increase fruitful dialogue among these divergent groups of virtue-theoretic thinkers? The primary aim of this paper is to uncover more substantial common ground for dialogue by wielding a double-edged critique of certain assumptions shared by 'scientific' and 'theistic' externalisms, assumptions that undermine …Read more
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21Logicism, Pragmatism, and Metascience: Towards a Pancritical Pragmatic Theory of Meta-Level DiscoursePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 1990.The faults of logical empiricist accounts of metascientific discourse are examined through a study of the modifications Carnap makes to his version of the program over four decades. As empiricists acquiesced on the distinction between theory and observation, Carnap attempted to retain and insulate an equally suspect sharp distinction between the theoretic and the pragmatic. Carnap's later philosophy was understood as a modification of the program in the direction of pragmatism. But neither the k…Read more
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19Risk-limited indulgent permissivismSynthese 200 (4): 1-15. 2022.This paper argues for a view described as risk-limited indulgent permissivism. This term may be new to the epistemology of disagreement literature, but the general position denoted has many examples. The paper argues for the need for an epistemology for domains of controversial views, and for the advantages of endorsing a risk-limited indulgent permissivism across these domains. It takes a double-edge approach in articulating for the advantages of interpersonal belief permissivism that is yet ri…Read more
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9Stuart Rosenbaum, ed. Pragmatism and Religion: Classical Sources and Original Essays. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 376. Cloth ISBN 0-252-02838-4. Paper ISBN 0-252-07122-0 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (2): 182-191. 2004.
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9Gorazd Andrejč: Wittgenstein and Interreligious Disagreement. A Philosophical and Theological Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016. xii + 278 pages, $69.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-50307-7 (review)Wittgenstein-Studien 11 (1): 285-290. 2020.
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7Cognitive Economy (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 19 (60): 14-16. 1991.
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5Agency ascriptions in ethics and epistemology : or, navigating intersections, narrow and broadIn Heather Battaly (ed.), Virtue and Vice, Moral and Epistemic, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Major Problems with Trait Ascriptions The Logic of Intellectual Trait Ascription and the Generality Problem The Logic of Moral Trait Ascription and the Global Trait Problem The Common Structure of the Two Problems Acknowledgments References.
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4Book Reviews : Daniel Little, Varieties of Social Explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Science. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. pp. vii, 258. $19.95. John Holmwood and Alexander Stewart. Explanation and Social Theory. Lon don : MacMillan, 1991. pp. x, 244. $49.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 24 (2): 252-256. 1994.
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3Walls can be physical; they can also be psychological, social, political, economic, and ontological. Theological walls are ontological and typically also moral, though when we break down the “religion/non-religion” distinction and consider other dimensions of religious life beyond doctrinal ones, they are also psychological, social, and increasingly political. Among Enlightenment era philosophers eager to provide a genealogy of religious and political divisiveness was Rousseau, who held that “T…Read more
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2Epistemic Paternalism Reconsidered: Conceptions, Justifications and Implications (edited book)Rowman & LIttlefield. 2020.This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society. It explores whether and when manipulation of the conditions of inquiry without the consent of those manipulated is morally or epistemically justified. The contributors provide a wealth of examples of manipulation, and debate whether epistemic paternalism is distinct from other forms of paternalism debated in political theory. Special attention is given to medical practice, for science communication, …Read more
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1Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited ReviewedPhilosophy in Review 22 (5): 372-374. 2002.
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1Review of Rosenbaum (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 178-187. 2003.There are many books on the market about religion in American thought and history, but the idea for a collection of essays focused directly upon pragmatist reconstructions of religious belief and sentiment is overdue. Stuart Rosenbaum’s reader admirably fills this need, and is bound to bring fresh insights to students and advanced researchers alike.
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Hunter Brown, William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion (review)Philosophy in Review 21 322-324. 2001.
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The New Problem of Religious LuckIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. pp. 436-450. 2019.The study of problems of religious luck, I hope to convince the reader, is a needed focus today, in that this study promotes useful dialogue among theologians, philosophers, and researchers in the cognitive science of religions. There is a strong tendency among faith traditions to invoke asymmetric explanations of the religious value or salvific status of the home religion vis-à-vis all others. Philosophy of luck will be presented in this chapter as aiding our understanding of what is going on w…Read more
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Hunter Brown, William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 322-324. 2001.
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Critical Thinking |
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