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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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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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11Maclntyre on History and PhilosophyIn Mark C. Murphy (ed.), Alasdair Macintyre, Cambridge University Press. pp. 10. 2003.
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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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24Leslie 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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4Shape 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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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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21Religion 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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34Political theory and political practiceJournal of Applied Philosophy 16 (2). 1999.What is the role of political theory in the real world of politics? Opinions have varied about this, ranging from Plato’s arguments for philosopher‐kings to Marx’s relegation of political philosophy to the realms of mere ideology. This paper contrasts the competing claims of intellectualism vs pragmatism in politics. It explores the ends/means relation as one account of how ideas and actions might be connected. This relation is found to be inadequate, and with it the more ambitious claims of int…Read more
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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.
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Music and electro-sonic artIn Kathleen Stock (ed.), Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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6Aesthetic empiricism and the challenge of fakes and ready-madesIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell. pp. 11--21. 2006.
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16De Crespigny and Cronin: Ideologies of Politics (review)Philosophical Quarterly 27 (106): 94. 1977.
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8Art and Architecture: A Place Between: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (1): 100-101. 2008.
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42Liberalism and DemocracyJournal of Applied Philosophy 9 (2): 149-160. 1992.ABSTRACT Political liberalism and the democratic ideal together supply the foundation of almost all contemporary political thinking. This essay explores the relation between them. It argues that, despite common parlance, there is an inevitable tension between the two. Furthermore, attempts to resolve this tension by showing that democracy is a good thing in its own right, or that it is the inevitable development of liberal aspirations, or that it is conceptually connected to fundamental liberal …Read more