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10Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the VirtuesLexington Books. 2016.Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs. It explores how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. Particular attention is paid to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional types of values in good lives. More generally, it explores the relevance of memoir to moral philosophy and, in turn, how moral philosophy enters into elucidating and critiquing memoirs.
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10Ethics as TherapyInternational Journal of Philosophical Practice 1 (1): 1-24. 2001.From the inception of philosophical counseling an attempt was made to distinguish it from (psychological) therapy by insisting that therapy could not be more misleading. It is true that philosophical counselors should not pretend to be able to heal major mental illness; nevertheless they do contribute to positive health—health understood as something more than the absence of mental disease. This thesis is developed by critiquing Lou Marinoff’s book, Plato not Prozac!, but also by ranging more wi…Read more
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9Moral health: Responsibility in therapeutic culture (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 34 (1): 27-43. 2000.
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9Rationalization and responsibility: A reply to WhisnerJournal of Social Philosophy 23 (2): 176-184. 1992.
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8Cognitive-Behavior Interventions for Self-Defeating Thoughts: Helping Clients to Overcome the Tyranny of "I Can’t" (review)International Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (1): 127-132. 2021.
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7Advocating ValuesTeaching Philosophy 20 (1): 19-34. 1997.With reference to the “Campus Wars” debates, this paper argues that within the classroom, professional responsibilities justify professors advocating for personal commitments which are pertinent to their discipline. In fact, given a professor’s commitment to pursuing truth in the classroom, this advocacy is both inevitable and desirable. The question to ask, then, is what separates appropriate from inappropriate forms of influence on students. The author draws on the American Association of Univ…Read more
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7Reseña de "Razón de la frontera y fronteras de la razón" de Zalamea, FernandoIdeas Y Valores 60 (146): 196-201. 2011.
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6Mindfulness in Good LivesLexington Books. 2019.The myriad meanings of mindfulness are connected by the core idea of value-based mindfulness: paying attention to what matters in light of relevant values. When the values are sound, mindfulness is a virtue that helps implement the kaleidoscope of values in good lives.
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5In this book, Mike W. Martin interprets Schweitzer's 'reverence for life' as an umbrella virtue, drawing together the specific virtues--authenticity, love, compassion, gratitude, justice and peace loving--in individual chapters. Martin's treatment of his subject is sympathetic yet critical, and for the first time clearly places Schweitzer's environmental ethics within the wider framework of his ethical theory.
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3Terence Penelhum, Butler (The Arguments of the Philosophers) Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 6 (10): 521-524. 1986.
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2Love, sex and relationshipsIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. pp. 242--251. 2014.
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1EpistemologyIn A. C. Grayling (ed.), Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject, Oxford University Press. 1998.
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1John King-Farlow and Sean O'Connell, Self-Conflict and Self Healing Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (6): 223-225. 1988.
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Suffering in Happy LivesIn Lisa Bortolotti (ed.), Philosophy and Happiness, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 100--115. 2009.
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Rights of conscience inside the technological corporationIn Otto Neumaier (ed.), Wissen und Gewissen: Arbeiten zur Verantwortungsproblematik, Vwgö. 1986.
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John King-Farlow and Sean O'Connell, Self-Conflict and Self Healing (review)Philosophy in Review 8 223-225. 1988.
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