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11Hobbes and 'The Beautiful Axiom'Philosophy 65 (251). 1990.The ‘beautiful axiom’ to which Dickens refers is a central feature of Thomas Hobbes' thinking but its precise role in his moral philosophy remains unclear. I shall here attempt both to dispel the unclarity and to evaluate the adequacy of the position that emerges. Given the high level of contemporary interest in Hobbes' thought, both within and beyond philosophical circles, this is an enterprise of considerable importance. None the less, my interest is not merely interpretative, since the assess…Read more
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11Bioethics, EarlyView.
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8Moralism and Anti-moralism: Aspects of Bonhoeffer’s Christian EthicIn Peter Wong, Sherah Bloor, Patrick Hutchings & Purushottama Bilimoria (eds.), Considering Religions, Rights and Bioethics: For Max Charlesworth, Springer Verlag. pp. 63-79. 2019.Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thinking about ethics and Christianity in his famous book Ethics, an unfinished and posthumously published work representing his most mature thought on the subject, is a fascinating attempt to combine different, and often conflicting, strands in the Christian intellectual tradition. In this article, I outline his thinking therein, analyse the advantages and disadvantages in his approach, and relate it to developments in contemporary philosophy. His critique of an excessive …Read more
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8Descartes' Other MythProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83. 1983.C. A. J. Coady; VIII*—Descartes' Other Myth, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 83, Issue 1, 1 June 1983, Pages 121–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/ar.
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8Contract, Justice and Self InterestAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 74 (3): 519-539. 2000.
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7Meaning By Stephen R. Schiffer Oxford University Press, 1972, 166 pp., £3.25 (review)Philosophy 51 (195): 102-. 1976.
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6Words and Deeds By David Holdcroft Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, xi + 178 pp., £7.50 (review)Philosophy 56 (218): 580-. 1981.
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5Applied Philosophy of ReligionIn Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.This essay characterises applied philosophy of religion as a certain sort of engagement with what religion means in the private and public lives of its practitioners. After emphasising continuities with the past, such as Hume's critique of miracles and Hobbes and Spinoza's discussions of scriptural meanings, it then discusses John Cottingham's recent work on spirituality and religious sensibility, followed by a section on new explorations of religious epistemology citing Linda Zagzebski's work o…Read more
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5Meaning By Stephen R. Schiffer Oxford University Press, 1972, 166 pp., £3.25 (review)Philosophy 51 (195): 102-109. 1976.
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5Wittgenstein on Meaning: An Interpretation and Evaluation By Colin McGinn Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, xiv+202 pp., £12.50 (review)Philosophy 62 (239): 103-106. 1987.
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4Dirty HandsIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.When Huck Finn embarks upon his hilarious education of the slave Jim in the moral vagaries of the monarchies of Europe, he takes himself to be propounding the merest common sense. He may have thought large‐scale villainy restricted to autocracies, but his creator was clearly not so naive. More to the present point, Huck ends his discourse on princely rule with remarks that show he was not merely cataloguing the fact of widespread royal vice, but willing to countenance it as necessary. As he puts…Read more
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3NotebookPhilosophy 62 (n/a): 413. 1987.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0031819100038961/resource/name/firstPage-S0031819100038961a.jpg.
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3Religion and PoliticsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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2Reviews (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (3). 1976.This Article does not have an abstract
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2War and TerrorismIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: The Just War: Jus ad Bellum The Jus in Bello Terrorism.
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1The Status of CombatantsIn David Rodin & Henry Shue (eds.), Just and Unjust Warriors: The Moral and Legal Status of Soldiers, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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1The Jus Post BellumIn Paolo Tripodi & Jessica Wolfendale (eds.), New wars and new soldiers: military ethics in the contemporary world, Ashgate. 2011.
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1Testimony and ObservationIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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Religion and moral knowledgeIn Aaron Zimmerman, Karen Jones & Mark Timmons (eds.), Routledge Handbook on Moral Epistemology, Routledge. 2018.
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The moral reality in realismIn Igor Primoratz (ed.), Politics and morality, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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