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81ConstellationsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3): 369-392. 2006.This paper examines the postmodern question of the otherness of the other from the perspective of Gabriel Marcel’s philosophy. Postmodernity—typified by philosophical movements like deconstruction—has framed the question of otherness in all-or-nothing terms; either the other is absolutely, wholly other or the other is not other at all. On the deconstructive account, the latter position amounts to a kind of “violence” against the other. Marcel’s philosophy offers an alternative to this all-or-not…Read more
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61Book reviews (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (2). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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15Narrative Environmental Virtue Ethics: Phronesis without a PhronimosEnvironmental Ethics 30 (4): 361-379. 2008.It is increasingly clear that virtue ethics has an important role to play in environmental ethics. However, virtue ethics—which has always been characterized by a degree of ambiguity—is faced with substantial challenges in the contemporary “postmodern” cultural milieu. Among these challenges is the lure of relativism. Most virtue ethics depend upon some view of the good life; however, today there is no unambiguous, easily agreed-upon account of the good life. Rather, we are presented with a bewi…Read more
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9Emplotting virtue: narrative and the good lifeIn Brian Treanor & Henry Isaac Venema (eds.), A passion for the possible: thinking with Paul Ricoeur, Fordham University Press. pp. 173-189. 2010.
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53A passion for the possible: thinking with Paul Ricoeur (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2010.The essays in this volume trace the fluid movement between phenomenological and religious descriptions of the capable self that emerges across Ricoeur's oeuvre ...
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1The Paradox of Justice and Love: Emmanuel Levinas and Gabriel Marcel on the Nature of OthernessDissertation, Boston College. 2001.This dissertation opens, or perhaps re-opens, a dialogue between the work of Emmanuel Levinas and that of Gabriel Marcel. These two thinkers, each in his own way a philosopher of "the other," both provide us with descriptions of the intersubjective relationship. However, the remarkable similarity of these descriptions is matched by a frustrating incompatibility. The remarkable similarity manifests itself in the emphasis both philosophies place on the unique and in some sense inviolable position …Read more
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High aspirations : climbing and self-cultivationIn Stephen E. Schmid (ed.), Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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92Environmentalism and Public VirtueJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 23 (1-2): 9-28. 2009.Much of the literature addressing environmental virtue tends to focus on what might be called “personal virtue”—individual actions, characteristics, or dispositions that benefit the individual actor. There has, in contrast, been relatively little interest in either “virtue politics”—collective actions, characteristics, or dispositions—or in what might be called “public virtues,” actions, characteristics, or dispositions that benefit the community rather than the individual. This focus, however, …Read more
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38Interpreting Nature (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2013.The twentieth century saw the rise of hermeneutics, the philosophical interpretation of texts, and eventually the application of its insights to metaphorical “texts” such as individual and group identities. It also saw the rise of modern environmentalism, which evolved through various stages in which it came to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory that are viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science a…Read more
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4Plus de secret: The paradox of prayerIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), The phenomenology of prayer, Fordham University Press. pp. 154-167. 2005.
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42God and the Other PersonProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 75 313-324. 2001.One of the most astonishing aspects of Levinas’s philosophy is the assertion that other persons are absolutely other than the self. The difficulties attending a relationship with absolute otherness are ancient, and immediately invoke Meno’s Paradox. How can we encounter that which is not already within us? The traditional reply to Meno (anamnesis) reduces other persons to the role of midwife and thereby, says Levinas, mitigates their alterity. Although Descartes seems to provide a rejoinder to a…Read more
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28Anatheism: Returning to God After GodInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (5). 2011.International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 19, Issue 5, Page 771-777, December 2011
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