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33Natural Law and Moral Inquiry (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (4): 479-481. 1999.
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31Aquinas’s Theory of Perception: An Analytic ReconstructionOxford University Press UK. 2016.Anthony J. Lisska presents a new analysis of Thomas Aquinas's theory of perception. While much work has been undertaken on Aquinas's texts, little has been devoted principally to his theory of perception and less still on a discussion of inner sense. The thesis of intentionality serves as the philosophical backdrop of this analysis while incorporating insights from Brentano and from recent scholarship. The principal thrust is on the importance of inner sense, a much-overlooked area of Aquinas's …Read more
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30“Sounds Fine, But No Thanks!”: On Distinguishing Judgments About Action and Acceptability in Attitudes Toward Cognitive EnhancementAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 10 (1): 57-59. 2019.
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28Higher Education and Wealth Equity: Calibrating the Moral Compass Empathy, Ethics, and the Trained WillJournal of Academic Ethics 14 (1): 35-47. 2016.This paper will argue the importance of the creation of a moral compass, driven by empathy and a rigorously trained will in higher education leadership to develop a tighter relationship between higher education and wealth equity. We will explore the foundational documents that first discussed these issues within a global context. Further, We explore how these goals, enhanced by insights promulgated by the United Nations, can be achieved by teaching empathy, developing a moral compass and trainin…Read more
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28Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian EthicsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2): 275-277. 2002.
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27On the Revival of Natural LawAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 613-638. 2007.The last third of the twentieth century witnessed a burst of energy by philosophers sorting out the many-faceted claims of natural law theory. Natural law theory, rooted in the Nicomachean Ethics with some modifications by the Stoics, was studied in the twentieth century mainly through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, followed by those of the Salamanca school, which was central to the Second Scholasticism. The horrors of the Second World War and the trials following it, with their charges of “cri…Read more
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27Promises of access and inclusion: Online education in AfricaJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (1). 2000.The promises and pitfalls of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are tied to two quintessential motifs of our times: globalisation and the learning society. Both ideas have a rather different purchase in Africa than they do in Europe, North America and Australasia. So, too, do the promises of information technology.
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27Presentation of the Aquinas MedalProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 77 13-14. 2003.
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27Visions of Eye Commensals: The Known and the Unknown About How the Microbiome Affects Eye DiseaseBioessays 40 (11): 1800046. 2018.Until recently, the ocular surface is thought by many to be sterile and devoid of living microbes. It is now becoming clear that this may not be the case. Recent and sophisticated PCR analyses have shown that microbial DNA‐based “signatures” are present within various ethnic, geographic, and contact lens wearing communities. Furthermore, using a mouse model of ocular surface disease, we have shown that the microbe, Corynebacterium mastitidis (C. mast), can stably colonize the ocular mucosa and t…Read more
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26Education-business partnership: Shifting sands in the university and corporate community (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 32 (2): 257-268. 1998.
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25Natural laws and the closure of physicsIn Raymond Y. Chiao, Marvin L. Cohen, Anthony J. Leggett, William D. Phillips, Charles L. Harper Jr & Charles L. Jr Harper (eds.), Visions of Discovery: New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. pp. 612-623. 2010.
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23True believers: the recption of Descartes's meditations by Malebranche and HuetKriterion: Journal of Philosophy 43 (106): 89-107. 2002.
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22The History and Significance of Hume’s Burning Coal ExampleJournal of Philosophical Research 27 511-526. 2002.This paper examines the function of Hume’s use of a peculiar example from A Treatise of Human Nature. The example in question is that of a burning piece of coal that is whirled around at a sufficient speed to present to a viewer an image of a circle of fire. The example is a common one; and Hume himself points to Locke as his source in this case. Hume’s reference appears accurate since both Locke and Hume seem to marshal the example in order to bolster a case for an upper and lower temporal thre…Read more
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21Deely, Aquinas, and Poinsot: How the intentionality of inner sense transcends the limits of empiricismSemiotica 2010 (178): 135-167. 2010.
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21Information about the human causes of global warming influences causal attribution, concern, and policy support related to global warmingThinking and Reasoning 28 (3): 465-486. 2022.Scientists know that human activities, primarily fossil fuel combustion, are causing Earth’s temperature to increase. Yet in 2021, only 60% of the US population understood that human activities are the primary cause of global warming. We experimentally test whether information about the human causes of global warming influences Americans’ beliefs and concerns about global warming and support for climate policies. We find that communicating information about the human-causes of global warming inc…Read more
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20For-Profit Education: The Sleep of Ethical ReasonJournal of Business Ethics 126 (3): 415-421. 2015.This article argues the philosophical concerns and foundational challenges raised by a for-profit model of education. The for-profit model is governed by a business paradigm, without reference to the context in which it is found. The authors explore primary ethical questions and challenges presented by this model. As such, they present potential solutions to the growing problem in higher education as a corporate entity. The authors introduce a potential model for analysis of the issues and sugge…Read more
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19Mind, Method, and Morality (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 375-378. 2012.
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18Christians among the Virtues (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (4): 460-462. 1998.
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18Racial Disparities in Service Use among Medicaid Beneficiaries after Mandatory Enrollment in Managed Care: A Difference-in-Differences ApproachInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 38 (1): 49-59. 2001.
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18Uniting the Sciences and ArtsPhilosophy and Literature 38 (1): 178-194. 2014.More than a decade ago, Edward Wilson investigated how to link the sciences and arts in Consilience (1998),1 in which he argues that consilience—the unification of facts—is possible between every subject across the intellectual spectrum. Wilson claims that the sciences, humanities, and arts are linked by reduction from the fine arts, down to the humanities, down, finally, to the natural sciences. For example, René Magritte’s Reckless Sleeper can be understood to be composed of the paints on the …Read more
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17Presentation of the Aquinas MedalProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79 19-20. 2005.