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21The Realist Turn: Repositioning LiberalismPhilosophical Quarterly 71 (4). 2021.The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism. By Rasmussen Douglas B., Den Uyl Douglas J..
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21The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In part, this reassessment is driven by the efforts of a group of philosophers and economists to reconstruct Marx from the ground up on a more rigorous basis. The work of these "Analytical Marxists" -- who include G.A. Cohen, Jon Elster, and John Roemer -- is given a sustained examination and critique in…Read more
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19Misguided ArgumentsJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 20 (1): 95-100. 2020.In their book, Equal Is Unfair, Watkins and Brook argue that equality of income and wealth is not needed in order to engage in the creative work required for human flourishing. One can live a successful life even though others have more resources and opportunities. It is contended here that this argument is convincing, but contrary to Watkins and Brook, it does not suffice to rule out all justifications for redistribution.
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19What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic OntologyPhilosophical Quarterly 72 (4): 1043-1045. 2022.Robert M. Adams has written a fairly short book, but into it he has packed a lifetime of rigorous analytic thought, and, what is rarer, deep insight into the nature of things. The book expands and recasts Gifford Lectures that Adams delivered in 1999, as well as other lectures and papers, and though it addresses difficult issues, Adams's clear style, retaining the informality of lectures, considerably eases the task of the reader; and the book is not without an occasional touch of humour, e.g. ‘…Read more
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18The imagery of Ben jonson's the masque of blacknesse and the masque of beautieJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 6 (1): 122-141. 1943.
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17The World According to Kant: Appearances and Things in Themselves in Critical IdealismPhilosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 847-849. 2022.Anja Jauernig here addresses with great scholarship and philosophical insight a central issue in the interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason: ‘The project.
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16Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral ProgressPhilosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 381-385. 2023.Analytic Philosophy contains thirty-three short articles and reviews, written for a popular audience; after an introductory essay, ‘Analytic Philosophy and Huma.
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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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11The Perfectionist TurnJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 20 (2): 447-451. 2020.In The Perfectionist Turn, Den Uyl and Rasmussen argue for an ethics of responsibility and oppose the prevailing ethics of respect. Political philosophy must be “tethered” ontologically, and arguments such as Moore’s open question argument that would, if correct, show that tethering is not possible do not succeed.
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11Rational Powers in Action: Instrumental Rationality and Extended AgencyPhilosophical Quarterly 72 (1): 243-246. 2021.
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10Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowellPhilosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 378-380. 2023.John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of hi.
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8Experience, Explanation and Faith (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 221-222. 1985.
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8Facial Expression of TIPI Personality and CHMP-Tri Psychopathy Traits in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)Human Nature 34 (4): 513-538. 2023.Honest signalling theory suggests that humans and chimpanzees can extract socially relevant information relating to personality from the faces of their conspecifics. Humans are also able to extract information from chimpanzees’ faces. Here, we examine whether personality characteristics of chimpanzees, including measures of psychopathy, can be discerned based purely on facial morphology in photographs. Twenty-one chimpanzees were given naïve and expert personality ratings on the Ten Item Persona…Read more
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7Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real WorldPhilosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.In this brilliantly conceived volume, William Talbott takes aim at the ‘Proof Paradigm’, composed of five erroneous principles, which as he sees it has dominated Western epistemology since the ancient Greeks, and proposes to replace it with a superior alternative, one that involves on his part daring speculation about the metaphysical necessity of the principles of proper reasoning. One may at first glance be inclined to dismiss Talbott's project: Who now adheres to the Proof Paradigm, which, am…Read more
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7Patrick Harries. Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South‐East Africa. xvi + 286 pp., illus., bibl., index. Oxford: James Currey; Harare: Weaver Press; Johannesburg: Wits University Press; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. $26.95 (review)Isis 100 (4): 927-928. 2009.
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6Ethics and the Entrepreneur—Combining Values and BusinessJournal of Business Ethics Education 4 117-118. 2007.
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6Objective Imperatives: An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy (review)Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 844-847. 2023.Kant is hardly an unappreciated philosopher, but in Objective Imperatives, the eminent Kant scholar Ralph Walker argues persuasively that the strength of Kant's.