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12Neuroscience and the SoulPhilosophia Christi 15 (1): 11-19. 2013.The constant threats to scientific progress are complacency and the diminished capacity for self-criticism. There have been great advances in our understanding of the functional anatomy of the nervous system, advances that stand in vivid contrast to our understanding of the moral, aesthetic and political dimensions of human life. The contrast is so great as to encourage the belief that these dimensions are found beyond the ambit of scientific explanation. How pathetic, then, to witness strident …Read more
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41. defining the subjectIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 1-46. 2002.
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10PrefaceIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. 2002.
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3IndexIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 221-227. 2002.
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182. constitutive luck: On being determinedIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 47-107. 2002.
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3NotesIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 205-220. 2002.
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7Social Discourse and Moral JudgementAcademic Press. 2013.This edited work presents a unique and authoritative look at morality - its development within the individual, its evolution within society, and its place within the law. The contributors represent some of the foremost authorities in these fields, and the book represents a collection of essays presented at a symposium on social constructivism and morality.
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2Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.
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1" The General Duty to All the World"In Jennifer Radden (ed.), The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oxford University Press. pp. 271. 2004.
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43Antigone's Defense: A Critical Study of Natural Law Theory: Contemporary EssaysReview of Metaphysics 45 (2). 1991.By the sixth century of the modern era, and after centuries of refinement and skillful application by Roman jurists, the core principles appear in Justinian's Institutes, where it is simply taken for granted, without benefit of analysis or argument, that.
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19On Logic, Rhetoric And The Fine Arts (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 672-673. 2006.The sources for this volume are the unpublished papers of Reid contained in the Birkwood Colletion. As the title of the volume indicates, Reid’s teaching as a Regent included Logic, Rhetoric, and the Fine Arts. The regenting system assigned cadres of students to a specific teacher who would pace them through the entire curriculum of study. Broadie cites Reid’s own defenses of this system and the important educational and civic aims achieved by it, at the relatively slight cost of unavoidable sup…Read more
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33Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (review)Faith and Philosophy 26 (4): 478-480. 2009.
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78How religious experience ‘works’: Jamesian pragmatism and its warrantsReview of Metaphysics 56 (4): 357-372. 2003.The Varieties of Religious Experience is not a theological treatise but an inquiry into a ubiquitous feature of the human condition and thus of human nature itself. Its author makes this clear at the outset, claiming competence as a psychologist and promising no more, therefore, than an examination of those “religious propensities of man” which James takes to be “at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution.” The “at least” is clearly ironical for James…Read more
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14The mind (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it might seem that questions about the nature of the mind are best left to scientists rather than philosophers. How could the views of Aristotle or Descartes or Kant possibly contribute anything to debates about these issues, when the relevant neurophysiological facts and principles were completely unknown to them? This Oxford Reader shows that the arguments of philosophers throughout history still provide essential insights into contemporary questio…Read more
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43Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament (review)Faith and Philosophy 28 (4): 478-483. 2011.
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24Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity (review)Review of Metaphysics 69 (4): 825-826. 2016.
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Reason and passion ... againIn Craig Steven Titus (ed.), Philosophical psychology: psychology, emotions, and freedom, Catholic University of America Press. 2009.
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17Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (review)Faith and Philosophy 26 (4): 478-480. 2009.
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8On the evident, the self-evident and the (merely) observedAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 47 (1): 197-210. 2002.
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94. ignorance, unconsciousness, and responsibilityIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 146-178. 2002.
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38Fitness for the Rule of LawReview of Metaphysics 52 (3): 539-554. 1999.“FITNESS FOR THE RULE OF LAW” lends itself to a variety of treatments. I should make clear at the outset one treatment that I do not intend to provide under this heading, even if it is implicitly represented here and there in this essay. I will not examine psychological or psychiatric conceptions of “fitness” as these are featured in, for example, the “insanity defense” or in tests of testamentary capacity. A recent book of mine explores these issues in some historical and analytical detail, but…Read more