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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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30Moral character is explored in all its dimensions: virtues, vices, attitudes, emotions, commitments, and personal relationships, in addition to right and wrong conduct. The aim is to stimulate personal reflection and group dialogue, rather than to offer solutions. It seeks to sharpen ideas which we use as tools in coping responsibly with our daily lives.
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1EpistemologyIn A. C. Grayling (ed.), Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject, Oxford University Press. 1998.
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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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Suffering in Happy LivesIn Lisa Bortolotti (ed.), Philosophy and Happiness, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 100--115. 2009.
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13Conflict of interest and physical therapyIn Michael Davis & Andrew Stark (eds.), Conflict of Interest in the Professions, Oxford University Press. pp. 314--332. 2001.
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17Zimmerling, R. y V. RühIe, Alber, Beiträge zur Philosophie aus SpanienLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 27 343. 1993.Sin resumen
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34La función del noema en la constitución intencional del objetoLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 27 339. 1992.Sin resumen
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30Religion Ethics and ProfessionalismProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 3 (2): 17-35. 1994.
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67Responsibility for Health and Blaming VictimsJournal of Medical Humanities 22 (2): 95-114. 2001.If we are responsible for taking care of our health, are we blameworthy when we become sick because we failed to meet that responsibility? Or is it immoral to blame the victim of sickness? A moral perspective that is sensitive to therapeutic concerns will downplay blame, but banishing all blame is neither feasible nor desirable. We need to understand the ambiguities surrounding moral responsibility in four contexts: (1) preventing sickness, (2) assigning financial liabilities for health care cos…Read more
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46Love's ConstancyPhilosophy 68 (263). 1993.‘Marital faithfulness’ refers to faithful love for a spouse or lover to whom one is committed, rather than the narrower idea of sexual fidelity. The distinction is clearly marked in traditional wedding vows. A commitment to love faithfully is central: ‘to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part… and thereto I plight [pledge] thee my troth [faithfulness]’. Sexual fidelity is promi…Read more
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181Personal meaning and ethics in engineeringScience and Engineering Ethics 8 (4): 545-560. 2002.The study of engineering ethics tends to emphasize professional codes of ethics and, to lesser degrees, business ethics and technology studies. These are all important vantage points, but they neglect personal moral commitments, as well as personal aesthetic, religious, and other values that are not mandatory for all members of engineering. This paper illustrates how personal moral commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to the work of engineers, contributing to both self-fulfillment and p…Read more
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73Moral creativity in science and engineeringScience and Engineering Ethics 12 (3): 421-433. 2006.Creativity in science and engineering has moral significance and deserves attention within professional ethics, in at least three areas. First, much scientific and technological creativity constitutes moral creativity because it generates moral benefits, is motivated by moral concern, and manifests virtues such as beneficence, courage, and perseverance. Second, creativity contributes to the meaning that scientists and engineers derive from their work, thereby connecting with virtues such as auth…Read more
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35Alcoholism as sickness and wrongdoingJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 29 (2). 1999.It is now commonplace to call persons sick when their wrongdoing becomes entrenched, extensive, and extreme. This mixing of moral and therapeutic categories seems incoherent if we uncritically embrace a morality-therapy dichotomy: Behavioral problems like alcoholism are either moral or therapeutic matters, but not both. This paper dissolves the dichotomy by arguing that chronically abusive drinking is simultaneously a sickness and wrongdoing. Alcoholism is at least partly a self-inflicted impair…Read more
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140Happiness and virtue in positive psychologyJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 37 (1). 2007.Positive psychologists aspire to study the moral virtues, as well as positive emotions, while retaining scientific objectivity. Within this framework, Martin Seligman, a founder of positive psychology, offers an empirically-based argument for an ancient and venerable theme: happiness can be increased by exercising the virtues. Seligman's project is promising, but it needs to pay greater attention to several methodological matters: greater care in defining happiness, so as to avoid smuggling in v…Read more
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38Good Fortune Obligates: Gratitude, Philanthropy, and ColonialismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1): 57-75. 1999.
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14Truth and Healing a Veteran's DepressionPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (3): 229-231. 2009.
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42Advocating 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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220Meaningful work: rethinking professional ethicsOxford University Press. 2000.As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school tea…Read more
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43Happiness, Virtue, and Truth in Cohen’s Logic-Based Therapy (review)International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (1): 129-133. 2007.
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47Depression: Illness, insight, and identityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 6 (4): 271-286. 1999.
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99Personality Disorders and Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (2): 127-129. 2010.In “Personality Disorders: Moral or Medical Kinds—or Both?” Peter Zachar and Nancy Nyquist Potter (2010) reject any general dichotomy between morality and mental health, and specifically between character vices and personality disorders. In doing so, they provide a nuanced and illuminating discussion that connects Aristotelian virtue ethics to a multidimensional understanding of personality disorders. I share their conviction that dissolving morality–health dichotomies is the starting point for …Read more
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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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71Happiness and the Good LifeOup Usa. 2012.What is happiness? How is it related to morality and virtue? Does living with illusion promote or diminish happiness? Is it better to pursue happiness with a partner than alone? Philosopher Mike W. Martin addresses these and other questions as he connects the meaning of happiness with the philosophical notion of "the good life." Defining happiness as loving one's life and valuing it in ways manifested by ample enjoyment and a deep sense of meaning, Martin explores the ways in which happiness in…Read more
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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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