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32Formal, Transcendental, and Dialectical ThinkingInternational Philosophical Quarterly 30 (4): 503-507. 1990.
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13Is the Argument from Evil Decisive?Religious Studies 19 (3). 1983.Dale Lugenbehl, in ‘Can the Argument from Evil Be Decisive After All?’ provides a powerful defence of the argument from evil against several theistic objections to it. In my opinion, however, he has failed to prove his case. The question of the consistency of the amount of evil existing in the world with the existence of God remains, after Lugenbehl's argument, exactly where it was before – in a state of uncertainty
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JC Lester, Escape from Leviathan: Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy ReconciledJournal of Libertarian Studies 17 (4): 101-109. 2003.
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Kirkpatrick, Jerry. Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education. Claremont: TLJ Books, 2008 (review)Reason Papers 30 129-133. 2008.
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52Projectivist utilitarianism and the satisfaction of desireErkenntnis 29 (3). 1988.N. M. L. Nathan's argument that IDP utilitarianism, if universally adopted, is inconsistent, does not succeed. The argument requires that if an IDP utilitarian has only self-regarding desires, then none of these desires can be informed. This rests on a partial misuse of the expression satisfaction of desire. For an individual attempting to realize his self-regarding desires, the satisfaction of the satisfaction of a desire is unmeaning. The naming of an object of the desire is an intrinsic part …Read more
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47Ng and Singer on UtilitarianismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (2). 1983.In an ingenious argument, Ng and Singer claim to show that it is possible to derive the general principle of utility from another principle, Weak Majority Preference, which many who are not utilitarians would be prepared to accept. WMP does indeed sound acceptable: ‘For a community of N individuals choosing between two possibilities, X and Y, if no individual prefers Y to X, and at least individuals prefer X to Y, then X increases social welfare and is preferable’. But from this seemingly innocu…Read more
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2The Morals of Markets offers a philosophically and historically informed defense of a market-based form of social organization. Acton discusses the profit motive, competition, monopoly, the supposed impersonality of the marketplace, the assumed chaos of markets, self-interest, egalitarianism, central planning, and distributive justice. For all their high moral tone, Acton concludes the criticisms leveled and the political platforms proffered against free markets are full of contradictions and un…Read more
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22A Critique of the New Natural Law TheoryInternational Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1): 103-106. 1989.
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8Experience, Explanation and Faith (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 221-222. 1985.
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21Does Theism Need Middle Knowledge?Religious Studies 25 (1). 1989.David Basinger, in ‘Middle Knowledge and Classical Christian Thought’, has claimed that whether the concept of God's middle knowledgeis coherent ‘cannot be dismissed lightly or ignored by those interested in classical Christian thought. For what is at stake is the very coherence of Christian theism itself’
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24Can the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes Be Appraised?New Scholasticism 58 (4): 483-485. 1984.