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139Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity and AngerRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 66 11-33. 2010.Medical analogies are commonly invoked in both Indian Buddhist dharma and Hellenistic philosophy. In the Pāli Canon, nirvana (or, in Pāli,nibbāna) is depicted as a form of health, and the Buddha is portrayed as a doctor who helps us attain it. Much later in the tradition, Śāntideva described the Buddha’s teaching as ‘the sole medicine for the ailments of the world, the mine of all success and happiness.’ Cicero expressed the view of many Hellenistic philosophers when he said that philosophy is ‘…Read more
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44Intimacy, Freedom, and Unique Value: A "Kantian" Account of the Irreplaceable and Incomparable Value of PersonsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 33 (1). 1996.
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167Virtue and natureSocial Philosophy and Policy 25 (1): 28-55. 2008.The Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism of Philippa Foot and Rosalind Hursthouse purports to establish a naturalistic criterion for the virtues. Specifically, by developing a parallel between the natural ends of nonhuman animals and the natural ends of human beings, they argue that character traits are justified as virtues by the extent to which they promote and do not inhibit natural ends such as self-preservation, reproduction, and the well-being of one’s social group. I argue that the approac…Read more
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174Two concepts of the given in C. I. Lewis: Realism and foundationalismJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 573-590. 1989.It is usually assumed that what Lewis says about the given in Mind and the World-Order (MWO) and An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (AKV) is essentially the same, and that both works are defenses of foundationalism. However, this assumption faces two problems: first, it is difficult to bring Lewis's diverse remarks on the given into coherence, especially when those in MWO are compared with those in AKV; and second, though AKV is a defense of foundationalism, there is much in MWO that can be …Read more
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102C. I. Lewis's Critique of Foundationalism in Mind and the World-OrderTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (3). 1984.
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50An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 513-518. 2010.
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33Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict, by James D. Wallace (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 478-481. 1991.
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12Foundations of Cartesian Ethics (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1): 118-120. 1996.
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23The Value of Humanity in Kant’s Moral Theory—Richard Dean (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1): 107-109. 2008.
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99Review of David B. Wong, Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (4). 2007.
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8Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4): 554-556. 2002.
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138Practical Identities and Autonomy: Korsgaard’s Reformation of Kant’s Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 546-570. 2002.Kant has long been taxed with an inability to explain the detailed normative content of our lives by making universalizability the sole arbiter of our values. Korsgaard addresses one form of this critique by defending a Kantian theory amended by a seemingly attractive conception of practical identities. Identities are dependent on the contingent circumstances of each person's world. Hence, obligations issuing from them differ from Kantian moral obligations in not applying to all persons. Still, …Read more
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7Buddhist Understandings of Well-BeingIn Guy Fletcher (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being, Routledge. pp. 70-80. 2015.
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