• Review (review)
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36 (3): 286-289. 2015.
  • Review (review)
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 35 (1): 82-85. 2014.
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    Values and Development: a Pragmatic Reconstruction
    Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 7 (7): 37-55. 2016.
    Broad consensus exists in development studies that development involves achieving and sustaining a so-called “good life.” Considerably less agreement exists, however, as to what the goal of such a life consists in and what the best practices are for bringing such a life about. The varying and competing types of approaches to development currently on offer, including cultural-economic approaches, capabilities approaches, and happiness approaches, are the conceptual by-products of this discord. Th…Read more
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    Edward Scribner Ames’s Unpublished Manuscripts
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36 (3): 286-289. 2015.
    Reviewing the work of a single author collected and edited by someone other than the author presents itself as a uniquely difficult task. The principles that ordinarily serve to structure and facilitate the review process—logically analyzing a thinker’s argument, judging her contribution to the field, relating her work to the wider context of current intellectual debates or trends, and so on—prove to be of limited or no use. Yet this doesn’t mean there exist no principles by which to critically …Read more
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    Naturalism and Pragmatism by Jay Schulkin (review)
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 35 (1): 82-85. 2014.
    With the publication of Jay Schulkin’s Naturalism and Pragmatism, pragmatist philosophers and theologians have been done a great service. A neuroscientist by training, Schulkin brings robust scientific data to bear on pragmatism’s naturalistic theory of inquiry, often charged as superficially concerned with practical expediency—that is, with “what works” apart from considerations of meaning and value that befit what Ernest Sosa influentially called “serious philosophy.”1 To serious-minded pragma…Read more