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Philosophical foundation, cultural and human rights in good faithPhilosophy and Culture 30 (11): 183-194. 2003.
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46Anti-foundationalism, Hendrik Hart and the Nature and Function of Religious BeliefPhilosophy and Theology 8 (2): 167-191. 1993.ln a number of recent essays, Hendrik Hart has elaborated an account of the nature and function of religious belief that, he believes, is post-modern in inspiration and anti-foundationalist in character. ln this paper, I reconstruct what I take to be Hart’s central claims. While Hart does remind us of some important aspects of the nature of religious belief---aspects often overlooked by many critics---l suggest that there are several problems in the account he provides, that there are tensions b…Read more
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3Maritain, Just War Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of TerrorMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 24 98-113. 2008.
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14George Francis Mclean and the Council for Research in Values and PhilosophyDialogue and Universalism 15 (7-8): 141-151. 2005.
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Hospitality, Ethics, and MulticulturalismPhilosophia 40 (1). 2012.How is multiculturalism possible in what we call the “postmodern age”? Postmodernity challenges our norms and conventions, our theories of human nature, our grand narratives, and—in general—any essentialist or foundationalist approach. And so it would seem to challenge any attempt to engage in dialogue across cultures or in any way that proposes to be independent of context.One response to this is to focus not on theories but on practices. In particular, I want to focus on the practice of hospit…Read more
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13Religion within the Limits of Democracy. Some Models for Southeast EuropeSynthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.
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Rationality and the Humanities and Social SciencesIndian Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 257. 1994.
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4Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and DemocracyMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 25 3-19. 2009.In this paper I focus on one of the fundamental democratic freedoms – freedom of conscience – and see to what extent Catholicism is compatible or consistent with it and, by extension, with democracy in civil or political institutions. I draw primarily on recent ecclesial statements on the issue, but also on the philosophical views of Jacques Maritain. First, I outline briefly the view of democracy and freedom of conscience that putatively undergirds modern democratic societies, as well as the un…Read more
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3Migrating Texts and Traditions (edited book)University of Ottawa Press. 2012.This volume examines the phenomenon of the migration of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture. -- Book Jacket.
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