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13Political Theory and the Rights of man. Edited by D. D. Raphael. Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1967. Pp. 151. $6.00 (review)Dialogue 7 (4): 689-690. 1969.
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13On the Assertion of Philosophical DoubtDialogue 10 (1): 82-91. 1971.Familiar arguments against scepticism are explicated in terms of a distinction between logical possibility and assertibility. Certain consistent sceptical propositions are unassertible.
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11Actions and ExtensionsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 7 (4). 1970.Basic Human Actions are event-like, and it should be possible to refer to them without mention of specific intentions. Such reference need not require an act ontology, since actions may be regarded as indivisible complexes -- of agent, object, and tool -- which are referred to by statements rather than named.
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8Liberty, Democracy, CommunityPublic Affairs Quarterly 6 (3): 327-344. 1992.Liberal and communitarian democrats describe different ways in which liberty, democracy, and community might exist together in political associations. The modern differentiation of political associations from traditional communities favours liberal accounts, in which a democratic society's collective acts do not extend beyond the official decisions of elected governments. While participatory self-rule does not seem possible at the level of the nation-state, however, there remain analogues to com…Read more
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8Anti-foundationalism and Practical Reasoning: Conversations Between Hermeneutics and AnalysisAcademic Printing &. 1987.The editor's introduction to the volume explores the thesis of a convergence between analytic and hermeneutic philosophy on the absence of grounds for knowledge and practice. The nature of philosophy without foundations is discussed, along with the conservative tendencies and utopian tensions of "anti-foundationalism."
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5Owen Flanagan, Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (5): 314-316. 1991.
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4Reason Over Passion: The Social Basis of Evaluation and AppraisalWilfrid Laurier Press. 2006."Reason is not passion's slave." Rather, the author argues, reason appraises the cultural appropriateness of passion, thus directing our attitudinal behaviour. He refutes those theories of value which correspond philosophically to societies described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: societies of "honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, pleasure without happiness." His argument, which takes into account traditional philosophic positions, is divided into five parts: Attitudes, Evaluation, Character…Read more
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4Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres, eds., Reading Freire and Habermas: Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Social Change Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (4): 267-268. 2003.
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3Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift, Liberals and Communitarians Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (2): 115-117. 1994.
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3Simone Chambers, Reasonable Democracy: Jurgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (5): 325-327. 1996.
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1Donald RC Reed, Following Kohlberg: Liberalism and the Practice of Democratic Community Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 279-281. 1999.
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1Dennis F. Thompson, Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (1): 68-71. 2006.
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1Stephen Mulhall and Adam Swift, Liberals and Communitarians (review)Philosophy in Review 14 115-117. 1994.
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1SC Brown, ed., Objectivity and Cultural Divergence Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 6 (4): 139-141. 1986.
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McMaster UniversityRetired faculty
Newfoundland, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |