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6Works CitedIn Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments, Yale University Press. pp. 311-328. 2013.
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14Adam Smith's Pluralism: Rationality, Education, and the Moral SentimentsYale University Press. 2013.In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith, a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith’s two major works, _The Theory of Moral Sentiments _and _The Wealth of Nations_, Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Wein…Read more
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61Adam Smith and the Educative Critique: A response to my commentatorsStudies in Philosophy and Education 34 (5): 541-550. 2015.This paper is both a response to the four reviewers in a special symposium on my book Adam Smith’s Pluralism and a substantive discussion of philosophy of education. In it, I introduce what I call “the educative critique,” a mode of analysis similar to Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial critiques, but focusing on the educative role of a text. I argue that choosing education as a theme is itself a solution to interpretive difficulties, not an add-on that only concerns pedagogues and policy-makers
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49Public Philosophy: IntroductionEssays in Philosophy 15 (1): 1-4. 2014.In this article, I examine the purpose of public philosophy, challenging the claim that its goal is to create better citizens. I define public philosophy narrowly as the act of professional philosophers engaging with nonprofessionals, in a non-academic setting, with the specific aim of exploring issues philosophically. The paper is divided into three sections. The first contrasts professional and public philosophy with special attention to the assessment mechanism in each. The second examines th…Read more
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54What Does Public Philosophy Do?Essays in Philosophy 15 (1): 33-57. 2014.In this article, I examine the purpose of public philosophy, challenging the claim that its goal is to create better citizens. I define public philosophy narrowly as the act of professional philosophers engaging with non-professionals, in a non-academic setting, with the specific aim of exploring issues philosophically. The paper is divided into three sections. The first contrasts professional and public philosophy with special attention to the assessment mechanism in each. The second examines t…Read more
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29D.d. Raphael, the impartial spectator. Oxford and new York: Oxford university press, 2007. 143 pp (review)Economics and Philosophy 24 (1): 129-137. 2008.
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78Overlapping Consensus or Marketplace of Religions? Rawls and SmithPhilosophia 40 (2): 223-236. 2012.In this paper, I examine the claim that Rawls’s overlapping consensus is too narrow to allow most mainstream religions’ participation in political discourse. I do so by asking whether religious exclusion is a consequence of belief or action, using conversion as a paradigm case. After concluding that this objection to Rawls is, in fact, defensible, and that the overlapping consensus excludes both religious belief and action, I examine an alternative approach to managing religious pluralism as pre…Read more
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30Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeJournal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 499-501. 2011.Nicholas Phillipson’s biography of Adam Smith was published just forty-five days before the second edition of Ian Simpson Ross’s definitive biography The Life of Adam Smith (Oxford, 2010).The contrast is telling. Ross’s is a book for scholars with ubiquitous in-text references to recent scholarship. Phillipson’s is a narrative intellectual biography for a wider audience that relegates recent work to the bibliography. Ross is reticent to make claims about Smith’s motivations, but Phillipson thriv…Read more
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18John Rawls, the Harvard Professor, died rights open to any and all challenges, even stupid last month. He was, without question, the most ones. important political philosopher of the Twentieth What does a country do when faced century. It is a terrible time to lose him because with a person, group, or nation that claims that America, and the world, is faced with dire such rights are not obvious but dubious? What questions of justice, rights, and political stability. do we do when faced with an e…Read more
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16Adam SmithInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.entry for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/smith.htm.
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2In analyzing specific battles, many pundits will point to the Paul Wellstone memorial service as a major tactical mistake, one that alienated the electorate at large and did more harm than good. The Republicans assaulted the event immediately, charging Wellstone's mourners with wrongly converting a memorial into a political rally, calling it the worst kind of partisanship.
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21I’d like to begin my comments by reminding all necessary preconditions for finding a new us that democracy is not a good in itself. We..
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27A. Twentieth Century Progressivism............................................ 4 B. Nineteenth Century Reforms................................................... 6 C. Historians on Progressivism................................................... 8 D. Contemporary Issues in Progressive Theory.............................. 9..
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18James Otteson’s Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life is the latest instalment in a wave of new scholarship signalling a renewed interest in Adam Smith. These works share several characteristics. First, they present Smith as a philosopher and not an economist. Second, they take seriously The Theory of Moral Senti- ments (TMS), Smith’s first book, by suggesting that his moral theory holds..
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42In the midst of a long and unpredictable rules are in alignment with those set forth by the election season, American voters find themselves divine. Martin Luther King, Jr. made this exact asking very difficult questions: How is the..
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18There is a photo of George W. Bush circulating..
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27My intent in this discussion is to offer a glimpse into our popular and political culture and to unpack some of the values inherent in our university system. Educational institutions evolve because of changes in our cultural relationship to knowledge. Only by understanding this relationship can we respond coherently to criticism aimed at the university and its population.
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19Reviews (review)to Mankind in general”. The same holds for the “Ties of Blood”, which let us prefer the interests of our close relatives. He realizes that such a denial of private desire may be strenuous, and he offers two ways out: On the one hand, he says that we have to cultivate public affections – which shows that not all customs and habits are bad and not all natural dispositions are good. On the other, he claims that those who are most benevolent to their relatives are, as an empirical fact, also most be…Read more
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12In response to the Supreme court’s ruling that equality was beginning to be recognized, people anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional, like Pat Robertson pointed to the advancements evangelist Pat Robertson urged his followers to and called them evil. Twenty years from now, engage in what he called a 21- day “prayer..
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31Our children need ethical skills as much as they need and wisdom, and substitutes regurgitation for any others, and if we wish our children to grow up to judgment. It presumes, for example, that if we can be good people and good citizens, we must allow for..
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19People who notice details might have observed I would like to take this point further to suggest that the description of this panel that appears on the that the terms communities of faith and people of Ten Percent Society literature is different than the faith are inapplicable in the Christian or any other one included on the Philosophy and Religion religious context as well. One does not have faith in Colloquium announcements. This is intentional; I..
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8She weepeth sore in the night For there is hope of a tree, And her tears are on her cheeks; If it be cut down, that it will sprout (Lam. 1:1 – 2) again.
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82Sympathy, difference, and education: Social unity in the work of Adam SmithEconomics and Philosophy 22 (1): 79-111. 2006.In this article, I examine Adam Smith's theory of the ways individuals in society bridge social and biological difference. In doing so, I emphasize the divisive effects of gender, race, and class to see if Smith's account of social unity can overcome such fractious forces. My discussion uses the metaphor of “proximity” to mean both physical and psychological distance between moral actors and spectators. I suggest that education – both formal and informal in means – can assist moral judgment by h…Read more
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University of North Dakota, Grand ForksDepartment of Philosophy and Religious StudiesRegular Faculty
Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America