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25Politics, Religion, and National IdentityRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 45 73-84. 2000.This essay is not a further contribution to the debate about liberal individualism, the chief topic of discussion in political and social philosophy for the last twenty-five years or more. Nevertheless it is necessary to begin by rehearsing some features of that debate, claims that will be very familiar to contemporary political philosophers. Inspired largely by John Rawls, the modern version of political liberalism has tried to make coherent a conception of politics according to which political…Read more
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29Nature, Kant, and GodFaith and Philosophy 33 (2): 163-178. 2016.This paper draws on some lines of thought in Kant’s Critique of Judgment to construct an aesthetic counterpart to the moral argument for the existence of God that Kant formulates in the Critique of Practical Reason. The paper offers this aesthetic version as a theistic way of explaining how the natural world can be thought valuable independently of human desires and purposes. It further argues that such an argument must commend itself to anyone who is as deeply committed to the preservation of n…Read more
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SCRUTON, ROGER From Descartes to Wittgenstein: A Short History of Modern Philosophy (review)Philosophy 57 (n/a): 419. 1982.
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8Conceptions of natureIn Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought, Oxford University Press. pp. 399. 2013.
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11The shape of the pastOxford University Press. 1997.Can human history as a whole be interpreted in any meaningful way? Has there been real progress between stone age and space age? Does history repeat itself? Is there evidence of divine providence? Questions such as these have fascinated thinkers, and some of the greatest philosophers, notably Kant and Hegel, have turned their minds to philosophical history. As a branch of philosophy, however, it has received little attention in the analytical tradition. This pioneering work aims to bring the met…Read more
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14Reason and Religion. A Royal Institute of Philosophy SymposiumPhilosophical Quarterly 29 (117): 378. 1979.
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315 Tolerance, Pluralism, and RelativismIn Paul K. Moser (ed.), Moral Relativism: A Reader, Oup Usa. pp. 226. 2000.
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61Public opinion and the public sphereIn Christian Emden & David R. Midgley (eds.), Beyond Habermas: democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere, Berghahn Books. pp. 29. 2013.
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The decline of Common Sense and the rise of Scottish Idealism (Thomas Reid)Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 95 (1): 37-52. 2003.
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11Maclntyre on History and PhilosophyIn Mark C. Murphy (ed.), Alasdair Macintyre, Cambridge University Press. pp. 10. 2003.
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5Shape of the Past: A Philosophical Approach to HistoryOxford University Press UK. 1997.Can human history as a whole be interpreted in any meaningful way? Has there been real progress between stone age and space age? Does history repeat itself? Is there evidence of divine providence? Questions such as these have fascinated thinkers, and some of the greatest philosophers, notably Kant and Hegel, have turned their minds to philosophical history. As a branch of philosophy, however, it has received little attention in the analytical tradition. This pioneering work aims to bring the met…Read more
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25Leslie Ellen Brown, Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish EnlightenmentJournal of Scottish Philosophy 14 (2): 205-208. 2016.
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24Religion and PoliticsPhilosophy 58 (224). 1983.1. The appearance of Islam upon the stage of international politics hasbeen greeted by some commentators as a return to the Middle Ages. Preciselywhat they mean by this is not very clear, to themselves no less than their readers perhaps. In part, no doubt, they refer to the kinds of punishment Islamic law requires, which have a brutality associated in the common mind with medieval Europe. In part too there is the feeling that the phenomena of religion in politics, inquisitions, holy wars, govern…Read more
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13Wittgenstein and Natural ReligionOxford University Press. 2014.Gordon Graham presents a bold new account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, which argues for its relevance to the study of religion and aims to revitalize the philosophy of 'true religion'. He uses Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy to argue in favour of the idea that 'true religion' is to be understood as human participation in divine life.
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1Expressivism: Croce and CollingwoodIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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53The Re-Enchantment of the World: Art Versus ReligionOxford University Press. 2007.This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of European philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy, Gordon Graham investigates the idea that art has the potential to re-enchant an irreligious world.