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28Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, by Martha Nussbaum (review)Faith and Philosophy 34 (1): 110-114. 2017.
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23Nir Eisikovits Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, NegotiationJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (3): 470-472. 2012.
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18Character as Moral Fiction, written by Mark AlfanoJournal of Moral Philosophy 14 (2): 233-236. 2017.
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17Attitudes and PracticesAustralasian Philosophical Review 3 (3): 288-304. 2019.ABSTRACT The philosophical literature on forgiveness has ignored a distinction that has a profound bearing on when we should forgive, namely, the distinction between attitudes and practices. Most of the literature focuses on the attitudes called for in the aftermath of wrongdoing. And it attempts to derive the ethics of forgiving directly from the ethical profile of those attitudes. However, attitudes underdetermine what one ought to do. I argue that assessing what we should do also requires us …Read more
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16Morality and the Emotions, edited by Bagnoli Carla: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. vii + 304, £37.50Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (4): 801-804. 2013.No abstract
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15Morality and the Emotions, edited by Bagnoli Carla: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. vii + 304, £37.50 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (4): 801-804. 2013.
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15The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Pyschology of Forgiveness (edited book)Routledge. 2023.Brings into conversation research in two separate disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research. Its 42 chapters are divided into five sections: I. Religious Traditions; II. Historic Treatments; III. The Nature of Forgiveness; IV. Normative Issues; V. Empirical Findings.
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10The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness (edited book)Routledge. 2023.Brings into conversation research in two separate disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research. Its 42 chapters are divided into five sections: I. Religious Traditions; II. Historic Treatments; III. The Nature of Forgiveness; IV. Normative Issues; V. Empirical Findings.
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9Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (New York: Routledge, 2011) 212 pp. ISBN: 9780415885430. £76.00 (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (4): 564-566. 2013.
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9From Enlightenment to Receptivity: Rethinking Our Values, by Michael SloteMind 124 (493): 384-387. 2015.
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7Rights, Reasons, and Religious ConflictSocial Philosophy Today 21 81-93. 2005.The role of religious commitments in John Rawls’s version of political liberalism has drawn frequent criticism. Some of the critics have complained that it fails to respect those with deep religious commitments by excluding explicitly religious reasons from debate about fundamental issues of justice. Others criticize the exclusion of religious reasons on the ground that it is unnecessary. Political liberalism, they argue, can accommodate appeals to religious reasons. For critics of both stripes,…Read more
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7Forgiveness without godJournal of Religious Ethics 3 (40): 518-544. 2012.Of the many forgiveness-related questions that she takes up in her novels, the one with which Iris Murdoch wrestles most often is the question, ‘Is forgiveness possible without God?’ The aim of this paper is to show, in the first instance, why the question Murdoch persistently raises is a question worth asking. Alongside this primary aim stands a secondary one, which is to consider how one might glean moral insights from the Christian tradition even if one does not (any longer) endorse its the…Read more
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5Indoctrination, autonomy, and authenticityIn Peter Caws & Stefani Jones (eds.), Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 134-152. 2010.The paper offers a qualified defense of religious indoctrination, pursuing three primary lines of argument. First, it contends that it can be virtuous to indoctrinate, even if the doctrines one instils are wrong. Second, it argues that religious indoctrination per se does not undercut a person’s autonomy. Finally, it defends the claim that, as a general practice, religious indoctrination does not make the world worse off than it would otherwise be, even if believing in a particular doctrine o…Read more
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2Virtue ethics, virtue theory and moral theologyIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.The virtues have long played a central role in Christian moral teaching. Not surprisingly, over the centuries theologians have produced a number of interesting versions of virtue ethics. In spite of the fact that they hearken back to and are profoundly shaped by a shared set of canonical texts, theological commitments, and ritual observances, many of these versions of virtue ethics differ quite markedly from one another. The perfectionism of Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection is…Read more
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1Changing Our MindIn Michael Brady & Miranda Fricker (eds.), The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 111-129. 2016.A complete analysis of group knowledge would include an account of the acquisition and revision of group beliefs. This paper explores what an account of group belief revision would require. Focusing on moral communities and moral beliefs, I identify a number of ways in which such communities might revise their beliefs. And I develop an account of group belief revision that can accommodate modifications of a) propositional content, b) non-propositional content, c) understanding and d) concepti…Read more
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1Palestinian Political Forgiveness: Agency, Permissibility, and ProspectsSocial Theory and Practice 4 (36): 661-688. 2010.The Israel-Palestine conflict stands at the heart of tensions in the Middle East and, more than that, at the heart of tensions between the West and the Islamic world. It is sometimes suggested that the resolution of this conflict will require forgiveness on the part of both Palestine and Israel. However, what such forgiveness would involve has not been adequately explored. Our aim is to remedy this gap in the discussion. Our consideration of Palestinian political forgiveness will address thr…Read more
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1Passions, Perceptions, and Motives: Fault-Lines in Hutcheson's Account of Moral SentimentIn Heather Kerr, David Lemmings & Robert Phiddian (eds.), Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 203-222. 2014.In the 1720s Francis Hutcheson developed a systematic account of the origins of ethical judgments that would have a profound influence on later writers. Ethical judgments, he argues, arise from the perceptions of internal senses that are, themselves, rooted in ‘Passions and Affections’. This paper describes his account and draws attention to an important tension at its heart. When judging particular cases, Hutcheson praises kindly, generous, and merciful affections as exemplary. But when he …Read more
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Hindu Virtue EthicsIn Michael Slote & Lorraine Besser-Jones (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics, Routledge. pp. 51-62. 2015.Is it accurate to speak of ‘Hindu virtue ethics’? Or would that amount to forcing the tradition into a conceptual framework it does not fit? The answers to these questions will depend upon (1) what one means by “virtue ethics”, (2) how one restricts the scope of the term “Hindu ethics”, and (3) whether one is construing the question as about the “external” or “internal” history of Hindu ethics. We consider three accounts of what it means to be “an ethics of virtue” and use them to identify se…Read more
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Real Politics, Ideal Discourses, and the Value of AgreementYearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2007 159-177. 2007.John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Bruce Ackerman have identified legitimate political arrangements with those to which speakers in an idealized discourse could agree. Michael Walzer, Tim Heysse, and others have raised questions regarding this appeal to ideal speech situations, arguing that we ought to ground our political decisions in real, rather than ideal conversations. This paper responds to some of these criticisms by examining the value of agreement.
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Characters and rolesIn Tim Dare & Christine Swanton (eds.), Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation, Routledge. 2019.
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Seeking Forgiveness: Studies in Moral and Political PhilosophyDissertation, University of California, Riverside. 2003.Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in forgiveness and apology in a number-of disciplines, including political science, sociology, psychology, theology and philosophy. Many of these discussions have been hampered by a lack of clarity regarding the concepts and practices relevant to seeking and offering forgiveness. The following studies analyze apologizing, forgiving and related practices in order to promote a better understanding of apology and forgiveness in personal and political c…Read more