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20Raquel Lazaro and Julio Seoane eds, The Changing Faces of Religion in XVIIIth Century ScotlandJournal of Scottish Philosophy 16 (1): 97-100. 2018.
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29Hume and Smith on Natural ReligionPhilosophy 91 (3): 345-360. 2016.The prominence of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in contemporary philosophy of religion has led it to overshadow his other short work, The Natural History of Religion, and thus obscure the fact that the social psychology of religion was in many ways of greater interest and more widely debated among the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment than philosophical theology. This paper examines and compares the social psychology of religion advanced by Hume and Adam Smith. It a…Read more
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24Art, Therapy, and DesignThe Monist 101 (1): 59-70. 2018.This paper first elaborates ‘Art’ and the aesthetic as these concepts emerged in the eighteenth century, and uncovers the conflict between the resulting ideal of ‘art for art’s sake’ and the increasing use ‘art therapy’ for personal and social purposes. Taking this conflict to be a reason for the rejection of ‘Art’, it considers two accounts of ‘the end of Art’, one by Arthur Danto and the other by Nicholas Wolterstorff. The paper argues that both accounts fall short of adequately recognizing th…Read more
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39Identifying Scottish Philosophers: A Brief Response to Deborah BoyleJournal of Scottish Philosophy 15 (3): 295-297. 2017.
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5Philosophy, Art, and Religion: Understanding Faith and CreativityCambridge University Press. 2017.At a time when religion and science are thought to be at loggerheads, art is widely hailed as religion's natural spiritual ally. Philosophy, Art, and Religion investigates the extent to which this is true. It charts the way in which modern conceptions of 'Art' often marginalize the sacred arts, construing choral and instrumental music, painting and iconography, poetry, drama, and architecture as 'applied' arts that necessarily fall short of the ideal of 'art for art's sake'. Drawing on both hist…Read more
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Politics in its Place : a Study of Six IdeologiesRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (1): 103-103. 1988.
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23Review: Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (2): 221-225. 2010.
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7The Internet: A Philosophical InquiryPsychology Press. 1999.The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry offers the first concise and accessible exploration of the issues which arise as we enter further into the world of Cyberspace.
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36Graham, G. (1996). Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Harman Gilbert and Thomson Judith Jarvis Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996, (review)Philosophy 71 (278): 622-624. 1996.
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20Can There Be History of Philosophy?History and Theory 21 (1): 37-52. 1982.The understanding which a philosopher has, can have, or ought to have of the work of his predecessors cannot be historical in character. Collingwood is right about evidence and the nature of historical understanding. But what a philosopher wrote is not evidence of his thought, it is his thought. The ideas and doctrines of past philosophers are not themselves in the past and do not therefore belong to a special period of the past. Philosophic ideas cannot be said to be in time at all. Different i…Read more