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45Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy: On Experimentalism in EthicsBloomsbury Academic. 2010.In Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy, Eric Weber argues for an experimentalist approach to moral theory in addressing practical problems in public policy. The experimentalist approach begins moral inquiry by examining public problems and then makes use of the tools of philosophy and intelligent inquiry to alleviate them. Part I surveys the uses of practical philosophy and answers criticisms - including religious challenges - of the approach, presenting a number of areas in which philosophe…Read more
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64Religion, Public Reason, and Humanism: Paul Kurtz on Fallibilism and EthicsContemporary Pragmatism 5 (2): 131-147. 2008.I present a persistent religious moral theory, known as divine command theory, which conflicts with liberal political thought. John Rawls's notion of public reason offers a framework for thinking about this conflict, but it has been criticized for demanding great restrictions on religious considerations in public deliberation. I argue that although Paul Kurtz is critical of organized religion, his epistemological suggestions and ethical theory offer a feasible way to build common moral ground be…Read more
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Lessons for Leadership from Keping and DeweySkepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 19 (1-2). 2008.
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