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16What can well-meaning people do about terror and genocide? The more we fight against systems of violence, the further we seem to sink into them. This book explores the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich. Trained in history, literary criticism, philosophy, and theology, its four authors look at the role of myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling in cultivating a self. They explain how we might use these ordinary stra…Read more
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6Review of Philosophy and Tragedy, ed. Miguel de Beistegui and Simon Sparks (review)Essays in Philosophy 3 (2): 295-299. 2002.
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15Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated ReadingsOxford University Press USA. 1993.Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Eleventh Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core questions of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clarifying the readings and providing context with their own detailed commentary and explanation. Spanning 2,500 years, the selections rang…Read more
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45Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated ReadingsOxford University Press USA. 1993.Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clarifying the readings and providing context with their own detailed commentary and explanation. Spanning 2,500 years, the selections range fr…Read more
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21Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition is a thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy, including explanations and background by the authors along with generous excerpts from the philosophers under discussion. Organized topically, the chapters present alternative perspectives-including analytic, continental, feminist, and non-Western viewpoints-alongside the historical works of major philosophers. The text provides the course materials that allow ins…Read more
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1The intersections of deception and self-deceptionIn Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The philosophy of deception, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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193The philosophy of deception (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.This title gathers together essays on deception, self-deception, and the intersections of the two phenomena, from the leading thinkers on the subject.
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21Mundus Vult Decipi, or The Pleasure of Being DupedInternational Studies in Philosophy 39 (3): 43-59. 2007.
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32Review of Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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Introduction: "The intersections of deception and self-deception"In Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The philosophy of deception, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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72Freedom and reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (3). 2008.Michelle Kosch's study of autonomy and moral agency in Kant, Schelling and Kierkegaard is a model of clear-thinking analysis, deeply involved with the scholarly literature , and informed by the best contemporary work on ethics and rationality. The book is a pleasure to read, and it boldly takes on one of the most difficult problems in philosophy: what does it mean to be free? Kosch does not herself offer an answer the question, but shows a history of one attempt to solve the problem, beginning i…Read more
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40Ethics Across the Professions: A Reader for Professional Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2009.What does it mean to be an ethical professional? A professional career can be so demanding that it permeates every aspect of a person's life and personality. In light of this fact, it is especially important for students who are planning to enter a chosen profession to understand its moral status, moral virtues, and possible moral pitfalls, so that they will be equipped to deal with the inevitable moral quandaries that they will encounter as professionals. The most up-to-date professional ethics…Read more
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14Book ReviewsHarry Frankfurt,. On Truth.New York: Knopf, 2006. Pp. 101. $12.50Ethics 117 (4): 758-765. 2007.
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49Michael Theunissen, Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair:Kierkegaard's Concept of DespairEthics 117 (3): 576-579. 2007.