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5Emplotting 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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5A 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 Fritz Allhoff & Stephen E. Schmid (eds.), Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's There, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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19Environmentalism 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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11God 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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8Anatheism: 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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8The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less is More—More or Less (review)Environmental Ethics 38 (3): 383-384. 2016.
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6Jill Graper Hernandez, Gabriel Marcel’s Ethic of Hope: Evil, God and VirtueJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 20 (1): 143-146. 2012.Review of Jill Graper Hernandez, Gabriel Marcel's Ethic of Hope: Evil, God, and Virtue.
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4Embodied ears: being in the world and hearing the otherIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology, Fordham University Press. pp. 222-232. 2010.
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3Carnal Hermeneutics (edited book)Fordham. 2015.Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes "all the way down," carnal hermene…Read more
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