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10Book ReviewsPhilippa Foot,. Natural Goodness.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. 136. $22.00Ethics 113 (2): 410-414. 2003.
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9Philosophy of Law: The FundamentalsWiley-Blackwell. 2006._The Philosophy of Law_ is a broad-reaching text that guides readers through the basic analytical and normative issues in the field, highlighting key historical and contemporary thinkers and offering a unified treatment of the various issues in the philosophy of law. Enlivened with numerous, everyday examples to illustrate various concepts of law. Employs the idea of three central commonplaces about law - that law is a social matter, that law is authoritative, and that law is for the common good…Read more
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9Introduction of the Aquinas Medalist Alasdair MacIntyreProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 19-21. 2010.
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7Ln a 1991 interview, Alasdair Maclntyre summarized the history of his own philosophical work as follows: My life as an academic philosopher falls into three parts. The twenty-two years from 1949, when l became a graduate student of philosophy at Manchester University, until 1971 were a period, as it now appears (review)In Alasdair Macintyre, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1. 2003.
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6Hobbes' Shortsightedness Account of ConflictSouthern Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 239-253. 2010.
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4Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral WrongdoingPhilosophical Books 37 (1): 61-63. 2009.
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2Defect and deviance in natural law jurisprudenceIn Matthias Klatt (ed.), Institutionalized reason: the jurisprudence of Robert Alexy, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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1Philosophical Anarchism and the Possibility of Political ObligationDissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1993.Philosophical anarchism is the thesis that there is no moral requirement to obey the law. I challenge philosophical anarchism by showing that there is a consent account of political obligation, two proponents of which are Hobbes and Aquinas, that manages to avoid criticisms leveled by the philosophical anarchists against consent theories as a class. ;The philosophical anarchists purport to have refuted every plausible account of political obligation; they also claim that no important practical c…Read more
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Hobbes on the Evil of Death by Mark C. Murphy (Washington, DC)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 28 36. 2000.
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Philosophical Anarchisms, Moral and EpistemologicalCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 20 (1): 95-112. 2007.The moral formulation of philosophical anarchism is that most persons, even in just political communities, do not have a moral obligation to obey the law. The epistemological formulation of philosophical anarchism is that most persons are unjustified in believing that they have a moral obligation to obey the law. But the philosophical anarchists’ argument strategies do not, and in fact cannot, show that belief in the moral obligation to obey the law is unjustified. And, further, given that most …Read more
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Two unhappy dilemmas for natural law jurisprudenceIn George Duke & Robert P. George (eds.), The Cambridge companion to natural law jurisprudence, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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Alasdair Macintyre (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.The contribution to contemporary philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre is enormous. His writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue, spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bourns of academic philos…Read more
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Practical Reality (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (2): 388-389. 2001.The central thought of Jonathan Dancy’s Practical Reality is that any philosophically adequate account of reasons for action has to preserve the sense of the idea that agents can act for good reasons. Though platitudinous enough, this notion embodies the central difficulty faced in the theory of reasons for action: that the notion of a reason for action serves two roles, that of explaining action and that of justifying it. It is sometimes suggested that there is mere ambiguity here: there are mo…Read more