• Philosophical foundation, cultural and human rights in good faith
    Philosophy and Culture 30 (11): 183-194. 2003.
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    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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    Maritain, Just War Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of Terror
    Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 24 98-113. 2008.
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    Jacques Maritain
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    George Francis Mclean and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy
    with Hu Yeping
    Dialogue and Universalism 15 (7-8): 141-151. 2005.
  • Hospitality, Ethics, and Multiculturalism
    Philosophia 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
  • Rationality and the Humanities and Social Sciences
    Indian Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 257. 1994.
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    Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and Democracy
    Maritain 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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    Migrating 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.