University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1981
New York City, New York, United States of America
  •  23
    Objectivism and Realism in the Sciences and Morality
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 59 (n/a): 308-318. 1985.
  •  13
    Review of Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom by Robert Kane (review)
    Ethics 122 (2): 425-430. 2012.
  •  34
    Intuition and Argument in Philosophy
    International Philosophical Quarterly 24 (2): 125-140. 1984.
  •  2
    Universalizability
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
  •  39
    Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 207-211. 1985.
  •  22
    Should Fred elicit our derision or our compassion?
    Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (1). 2004.
  •  5
    Responsibility
    Philosophical Books 35 (3): 203-206. 1994.
  •  22
    An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy
    International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 124-126. 2009.
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    Moral Dilemmas and Prescriptivism
    American Philosophical Quarterly 26 (3). 1989.
    The purpose of this paper is to establish that, For an important class of moral judgments, The claim that there are moral dilemmas is false. The judgments are the judgments an agent committed to morality makes as the conclusion of deliberation about what, All things considered, He or she morally ought to do in some situation. The argument is that these judgments are prescriptive, In the sense of implying an intention to act, And that it is implausible to think there are dilemmas involving such p…Read more
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    An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 513-518. 2010.
  •  13
    Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1): 128-129. 1994.
  •  22
    Reality at Risk (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (1): 98-101. 1982.
  •  12
    The Realm of Rights
    Philosophical Books 33 (2): 105-108. 1992.
  •  26
    Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience
    International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4): 554-556. 2002.
  •  6
    Reason in Action (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2): 235-236. 1997.
  •  13
    Practical Guilt (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (3): 730-732. 1998.
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    Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity and Anger
    Royal 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