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31Comment on “Still in Hot Water” by Duncan PurvesSouthwest Philosophy Review 27 (2): 57-61. 2011.
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27When Complementarianism becomes Gender Apartheid: Feminist Philosophers’ Objections to the Christian RightSouthwest Philosophy Review 30 (1): 195-203. 2014.
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25WAXLER, ROBERT P. The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014, vii + 191 pp., $77.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (3): 310-311. 2016.
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23Thinking Hypothetically about Hypothesis-Testing in the HumanitiesSouthwest Philosophy Review 31 (1): 21-28. 2015.
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22Legislating Pain Capability: Sentience and the Abortion DebateIn David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 661-675. 2018.Over the past few years, over a dozen states have proposed, and almost as many have passed, something referred to as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a piece of legislation that makes abortion impermissible once fetal pain is possible and that further stipulates the fetus can feel pain at or before 20 weeks of gestation. Some very important questions immediately relevant to the abortion debate, perhaps even to the more complex issue of fetal rights, are raised by this legislation, e…Read more
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20Not Sitting Down for It: How Stand‐Up Differs from FictionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (4): 513-524. 2020.ABSTRACT One of the standard defenses of Daniel Tosh, Andrew Dice Clay, Bernard Manning, and other stand-up comedians who have been accused of crossing moral lines is that the responses they elicit belong to an aesthetic rather than a moral domain to which standard methods of ethical evaluation are therefore inapplicable. I argue, first, that fictionality does not confer immunity to ethical criticism and, second, that the stance adopted by the stand-up artist is not fully analogous to a fictive …Read more
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20Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for IdentityRes Philosophica 93 (4): 951-969. 2016.This article responds to two ethical conundrums associated with the practice of disability passing. One of these problems is the question of whether or not passing as abled is morally wrong in that it constitutes deception. The other, related difficulty arises from the tendency of the able-bodied in contemporary society to reinforce the activity of passing despite its frequent condemnation as a form of pretense or fraud. We draw upon recent scholarship on transgender and disability passing to cr…Read more
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19Comment on “Solving the Puzzle of Aesthetic Assertion” by Andrew MorganSouthwest Philosophy Review 33 (2): 39-42. 2017.
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19Comment on James Rocha, “Forced to Listen to the Heart”Southwest Philosophy Review 30 (2): 51-54. 2014.
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17A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature edited by hagberg, garry l. and walter jostJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2): 237-239. 2012.
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17The pleasures of tragedyIn James A. Harris (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press. pp. 450. 2013.There is a resurgence of Aristotelian concerns in philosophical approaches to tragedy in the eighteenth century. The philosophical literature of the period is rife with proposed solutions to the problem of the delightfulness of imitations of undelightful things and to the more specific problem of tragic pleasure. The latter include attempts to identify different objects of our pleasure and uneasiness as well as distinct attempts to explain how it is that pleasure can depend on such uneasiness. T…Read more
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14Comments on Deborah K. Heikes' "Let's Be ReasonableSouthwest Philosophy Review 25 (2): 31-35. 2009.
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13Kames on Ideal PresenceSouthwest Philosophy Review 26 (1): 17-25. 2010.The problem of fiction and emotion is the problem of how we can be moved by the contemplation of fi ctional events and the plight of fictional characters when we know that the former have not occurred and the latter do not exist. I will give a general sketch of the philosophical treatment of the issue in the present day, and then turn to the eighteenth century for a solution as effective as the best that are presently on offer. The solution is to be found in the account of ideal presence given b…Read more
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12Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Oup Usa. 2018.What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.
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11Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’s AdornmentJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (4): 499-503. 2021.Stephen Davies offers a compelling account of adornment as a form of aesthetic enhancement that aims either to intensify or to contribute to beauty and sublimit.
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9What's Hecuba to Him?: Fictional Events and Actual EmotionsPennsylvania State University Press. 1997.The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate that construals of our emotional responses to fictions as irrational or merely pseudo-emotional are not the only explanations available to us, and that necessary and sufficient conditions for an emotional response to a fiction can be established without abandoning either its intentionality or the assignment of a causal role to our beliefs. ;Colin Radford's claim that our emotional responses to fictions are irrational and inconsistent is challenged …Read more
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9Hume and Austen on Jealousy, Envy, Malice, and the Principle of ComparisonIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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8Indolence and Industry in Hume and AustenIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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7Hume and Austen on PrideIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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7“Lovers,” “Friends,“ and other Endearing Appellations: Marriage in Hume and AustenIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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7How Literature Can be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original AccountsIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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7Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane AustenIn Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-04-17.
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