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La filosofia del senso comune e la sua ricezioneIn Evandro Agazzi (ed.), Valore E Limiti Del Senso Comune, F. Angeli. 2004.
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12Pluralism: Self-image or social reality?Bijdragen 64 (3): 299-310. 2003.This essay is a critical exploration of certain key elements in modernity's self-understanding – pluralism, secularism, the morally neutral state, and the the harm conditoin as a principle of law. Careful examination of all these elements reveals deep confusion about how they are to be understood. The picture that emerges is one in which modern society's self-image diverges dramatically from the reality, and critque of this self-image uncovers a pressing need for a reappraiasal of the values tha…Read more
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20Music and the emotions: The philosophical theories by Malcolm Budd Routledge and kegan Paul, 1985. XIV + 190 pp. £14.95 (review)Philosophical Books 18 (2): 114-115. 1977.
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12Human Beings Edited by David Cockburn Cambridge University Press. 1991, vi + 227 pp., £14.95 (review)Philosophy 67 (262): 569-. 1992.
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42Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996, x+225pp. £40.00, £12.99 (review)Philosophy 71 (278): 622-. 1996.
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11ProgressPhilosophy 61 (237). 1986.For a long time theories of history of the speculative sort have been out of favour. Accounts of the whole sweep of human history, like Hegel's, or even of more limited historical cycles, like Spengler's or Toynbee's, have been found much too grand for the workaday historian and have smacked too much of apriorism for post-positivist philosophy. Consequently, few take them seriously or treat them as more than fanciful aberrations which may serve as useful examples of how not to proceed in history…Read more
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37Religion, Secularization and ModernityPhilosophy 67 (260). 1992.The ideas of modernity and post-modernity have recently come to figure prominently in social thought. Their importance for social thought about religion, however, has not generally been explored. Yet recent concern with modernity and its aftermath is closely related to the widespread interest that used to be taken in secularization. Indeed, I hope to show that some of the basic questions at issue are much the same
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111Liberal vs Radical Feminism RevisitedJournal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2): 155-170. 1994.ABSTRACT This essay considers the movement away from a feminism based upon liberal political principles, such as John Stuart Mill espoused, and towards a radical feminism which seeks to build upon more recent explorations of psychology, biology and sexuality. It argues that some of these moves are philosophically suspect and that liberal feminism can accommodate the more substantial elements in these radical lines of thought.
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44The doctor, the rich, and the indigentJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (1): 51-61. 1987.This essay explores the major conflict between doing the best for indigents requiring health care and not unfairly imposing burdens on those who pay for that care through cost-shifting. The author argues that there is in fact no dilemma or conflict of duties presented here, but only because the doctor's concern with justice in bearing the burden of health care requires a system within which different levels of health care are available and in which indigent care is provided in a manner that mini…Read more
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7Conceptions 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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14Reason and Religion. A Royal Institute of Philosophy SymposiumPhilosophical Quarterly 29 (117): 378. 1979.
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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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315 Tolerance, Pluralism, and RelativismIn Paul K. Moser & Thomas L. Carson (eds.), Moral Relativism: A Reader, Oxford University Press. pp. 226. 2001.
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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.