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83The Case Against Perfection (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (4): 636-639. 2009.
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26Das leibliche Selbst. Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des Leibes (review)Theologie Und Philosophie 76 (3): 472-475. 2001.
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116Quantum Physics and Theology (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (1): 186-188. 2010.
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46Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 674-677. 2007.
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20Gedankenexperimente. Die Genese einer wissenschaftsphilosophischen Forschungstradition nach Ulrich KühneDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1): 149-157. 2007.This is a review essay of what is probably the best contribution to the history of the philosophical investigation into thought experiments.
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17Wissenschaftstheorie. Eine philosophische Einführung (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 55 (1): 70-74. 2002.
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12Transsexualität zwischen Genetik und sozialer PraxisDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (5): 757-780. 2009.Transsexuality has been subject to careful reflections in many disciplines outside philosophy. I first contextualize my philosophical approach by relating to the existing scholarship on transsexuality. Focusing on matters of sexual identity, I then propose a characterization of what might be considered the philosophical dimension of transsexual identity. Paying particular attention to the propositional consciousness of transsexuals, I develop the main thesis that transsexuality helps philosopher…Read more
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52Poems of Productive Imagination: Thought Experiments, Christianity and Science in NovalisNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 55 (1): 54-83. 2013.Thought experiments are employed for a number of reasons and in many different disciplines. This paper explores the work of Novalis in relation to the method of thought experiments in theology, with a special focus on the encounter between Christianity and the science of his day. In a first step I revisit the ongoing philosophical discussion on thought experiments in order to highlight the lack of interest in the literary features of thought experiments. Step two is dedicated to a discussion of …Read more
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11John Doody;, Adam Goldstein;, Kim Paffenroth . Augustine and Science. vi + 233 pp., bibl., index. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. $65 (review)Isis 106 (3): 690-691. 2015.
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40Die Geschlechtererosion des Semantischen Realismusmentis. 2006.This work is a contribution to analytic philosophy of sex. It deals with the scientific concept of the sexed human body by focusing in particular on the logical and the semantic implications of such a concept.
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42‘Sein, das verstanden werden kann, ist Sprache’. Hommage an Hans-Georg Gadamer (review)Theologie Und Philosophie 77 (3): 460-462. 2002.
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12Der mentale Zugang zur Welt (review)Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 8 (1): 231-238. 2004.
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115This book is an introduction to philosophy of sex. The history of philosophy of sex is depicted (from Plato to Herman Schmitz) to set up the background against which the philosophy of sex by Herman Schmitz is analyzed. This leads to the discussion of topics like masturbation, the ontology of the sexed human body, and same-sex marriage.
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25Medien der Vernunft. Eine Theorie des Geistes und der Rationalität auf der Grundlage einer Theorie der Medien (review)Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 55 (4): 361-365. 2002.
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161Gottesbeweis oder Gedankenexperiment christlicher Theologie? Zu Dombrowskis Verteidigung des Ontologischen ArgumentsJahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie 8 69-91. 2009.In this paper I argue that Daniel A. Dombrowski's defence of a version of Anselm's ontological argument fails.
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148Wessen Wille geschehe? Fremdnützige Forschung an Nichteinwilligungsfähigen. Die Argumente in der philosophischen KritikZeitschrift Fur Philosophie Forschung 58 (3): 397-427. 2004.This paper critically examines the predominant arguments that have been proposed either in favour or against non-benefit medical research with human subjects incapable of informed consent. It is argued that none of the arguments succeeds, while acknowledging that such research is necessary.
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118Sexual diversity and divine creation: A tightrope walk between christianity and scienceZygon 48 (1): 35-59. 2013.Although modern societies have come to recognize diversity in human sexuality as simply part of nature, many Christian communities and thinkers still have considerable difficulties with related developments in politics, legislation, and science. In fact, homosexuality is a recurrent topic in the transdisciplinary encounter between Christianity and the sciences, an encounter that is otherwise rather “asexual.” I propose that the recent emergence of “Christianity and Science” as an academic field …Read more
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52Putnams Semi-FideismusTheologische Quartalschrift 185 (3): 215-234. 2007.In this paper I argue that Hilary Putnam is a semi-fideist.
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174Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (2): 139-143. 2009.
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88"Experiments of Pure Reason": Kantianism and Thought Experiments in ScienceEpistemologia 35 (1): 141-160. 2012.Marco Buzzoni has presented a Kantian account of thought experiments in science as a serious rival to the current empiricist and Platonic accounts. This paper takes the first steps of a comprehensive assessment of this account in order to further the more general discussion of the feasibility of a Kantian theory of scientific thought experiments. Such a discussion is overdue. To this effect the broader question is addressed as to what motivates a Kantian approach. Buzzoni's account and the asses…Read more
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121The relativized a priori and the laboratory of the mind: towards a neo-Kantian account of thought experiments in scienceEpistemologia 36 (1): 55-73. 2013.Building on a previously published contextualization of Marco Buzzoni’s Neo- Kantian account of scientific thought-experiments, this paper examines the explanatory power of this account. It is argued that Buzzoni’s account suffers from a number of shortcomings. Einstein’s clock-in-the-box thought experiment facilitates the demonstration of these deficits. In the light of both the identified inadequacies of Buzzoni’s account and the long-standing history of Kantian approaches to thought experimen…Read more
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86The negation of nonsense is nonsense: Hilary Putnam on science and religionNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 52 (4): 350-376. 2010.While the influential analytical philosopher Hilary Putnam has made significant contributions to philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of science, he isn't generally regarded as a philosopher of religion or a theologian. Nonetheless, I argue that his work should be of great interest to philosophers of religion and theologians. Focusing on the relationship between science and religion, this paper explores the importance of Putnam's attempt to reconcile his anti-metaphysical st…Read more
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7Science and Religion: East and West (edited book)Routledge India. 2015.This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field. At the same time it reveals how science develops in the space that emerges between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. The volume examines a range of themes central to the interaction between science and reli…Read more
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6More than Sand Castles: Paul Tillich, Christianity, and ScienceIn Gerhard Schreiber & Heiko Schulz (eds.), Kritische Theologie: Tillich in Frankfurt, De Gruyter. pp. 251-268. 2015.
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusAssociate Professor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |