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66Augustine on Liberty of the Higher-Order WillProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 67-89. 2007.I have argued that like Harry Frankfurt, Augustine implicitly distinguishes between first-order desires and higher-order volitions; yet unlike Frankfurt, Augustineheld that the liberty to form different possible volitional identifications is essential to responsibility for our character. Like Frankfurt, Augustine recognizes that we can sometimes be responsible for the desires on which we act without being able to do or desire otherwise; but for Augustine, this is true only because such responsib…Read more
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13Tradition(s) (review)The Owl of Minerva 32 (1): 65-82. 2000.Tradition must rank as one of the ten most important works within the hermeneutic tradition to be published in the 1990s, alongside recent books by Jean-Luc Nancy, Drucilla Cornell, Simon Critchley, John Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, and Jacques Derrida. In Tradition, Stephen Watson, who is influenced by Heidegger, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Alasdair MacIntyre, works out a historical hermeneutics with obvious connections to their views, but that also stakes out a different position "between" t…Read more
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39Review of R. Jay Wallace, Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (12). 2007.
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21Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and VirtueOpen Court Publishing. 2001.The 1990s saw a revival of interest in Kierkegaard's thought, affecting the fields of theology, social theory, and literary and cultural criticism. The resulting discussions have done much to discredit the earlier misreadings of Kierkegaard's works.
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