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22John Cottingham, Philosophy of Religion: Towards a More Humane Approach (review)Religious Studies 51 (1): 135-139. 2015.
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107To What Extent Must We Go Beyond Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism?American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (4): 627-654. 2012.In this essay I discuss the limits of recent attempts to develop a neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic on the basis of a commitment to ‘ethical naturalism.’ By ‘ethical naturalism’ I mean the view that ethics can be founded on claims about what it is for human beings to flourish qua member of the human species, which is analogous to what it is for plants and other animals to flourish qua member of their particular species. Drawing on Charles Taylor’s account of ‘strong evaluation,’ I argue that there …Read more
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62Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles TaylorDissertation, Marquette University. 2013.In this dissertation I examine the topics of ethics, religion, and their relationship in the work of Charles Taylor. I take Taylor's attempt to confront modern disenchantment by seeking a kind of re-enchantment as my guiding thread. Seeking re-enchantment means, first of all, defending an `engaged realist' account of strong evaluation, i.e., qualitative distinctions of value that are seen as normative for our desires. Secondly, it means overcoming self-enclosure and achieving self-transcendence,…Read more
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119Nietzsche, Cosmodicy, and the Saintly IdealPhilosophy 91 (1): 39-67. 2016.In this essay I examine Nietzsche’s shifting understanding of the saintly ideal with an aim to bringing out its philosophical importance, particularly with respect to what I call the problem of ‘cosmodicy’, i.e., the problem of justifying life in the world as worthwhile in light of the prevalent reality of suffering. In his early account Nietzsche understood the saint as embodying the supreme achievement of a self-transcending ‘feeling of oneness and identity with all living things’, while in hi…Read more
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52Cosmic Outlooks and Neo-Aristotelian Virtue EthicsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2): 197-215. 2015.I examine Bernard Williams’s forceful challenge that evolutionary science has done away with the sort of teleological worldview that is needed in order to make sense of an Aristotelian virtue ethic perspective. I also consider Rosalind Hursthouse’s response to Williams and argue that it is not sufficient. My main task is to show what is needed in order to meet Williams’s challenge. First, I argue that we need a deeper exploration of the first-personal evaluative standpoint from within our human …Read more
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University of FloridaProfessor
Marquette University
PhD, 2013
Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Virtue Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |