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11Scientism: the new orthodoxy (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2014.Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the place of science in the humanities and religion. Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies the dimensions that differentiate science from scientism. Leading scholars appraise the means available to science, covering the impact of the neurosciences and the new challenges it presents for the law and the self. Illustrating th…Read more
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9IQ And Mental Testing: An Unnatural Science And Its Social History By Brian Evans; Bernard Waites (review)Isis 73 (3): 480-481. 1982.
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7Social Discourse and Moral JudgementAcademic Press. 2013.This edited work presents a unique and authoritative look at morality - its development within the individual, its evolution within society, and its place within the law. The contributors represent some of the foremost authorities in these fields, and the book represents a collection of essays presented at a symposium on social constructivism and morality.
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6This book collects several excerpts from the work of each of nine 18th and 19th century Scottish thinkers: Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, Sir William Hamilton, James Frederick Foster, and James McCosh. A brief account of each man's life and work accompanies the selections.
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6Markov uniqueness of degenerate elliptic operatorsAnnali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa- Classe di Scienze 10 (3): 683-710. 2011.
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5The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age 1450-1700CE (edited book)Routledge. 2018.The third volume of The History of Evil encompasses the early modern era from 1450–1700. This revolutionary period exhibited immense change in both secular knowledge and sacred understanding. It saw the fall of Constantinople and the rise of religious violence, the burning of witches and the drowning of Anabaptists, the ill treatment of indigenous peoples from Africa to the Americas, the reframing of formal authorities in religion, philosophy, and science, and it produced profound reflection on …Read more
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45. punishment and forgivenessIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 179-204. 2002.
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41. defining the subjectIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 1-46. 2002.
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3NotesIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 205-220. 2002.
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3IndexIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 221-227. 2002.
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2Contemporary business ethics asks the question: what moral responsibilities do actors in a market economy have? Specifically, what obligations do corporate managers have? In this paper I consider a new method for answering these questions, Joseph Heath’s market failure model of business ethics. On this view, the market is a staged competition that is normatively justifiable through its tendency to promote Pareto efficiency. Since the market is justified by Pareto efficiency, competitive behaviou…Read more
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2Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.
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1Introducing DescartesDistributed to the trade in the U.S. by National Book Network. 1998.Rene Descartes is the 16th century philosopher who perpetually doubted everything--even his own physical existence!
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Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic GuideIntroducing. 2011.Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied being a philosopher at all.
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Lloyd Weinreb's Problems with Natural LawIn Robert P. George (ed.), Natural law, liberalism, and morality: contemporary essays, Oxford University Press. 1996.
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Teaching and leading as a principled act: how Ethel T. Overby built foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1957In Doris A. Santoro & Lizabeth Cain (eds.), Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas, Harvard Education Press. 2018.
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Reason and passion ... againIn Craig Steven Titus (ed.), Philosophical psychology: psychology, emotions, and freedom, Catholic University of America Press. 2009.