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'Institutions and the Spontaneous Evolution of MoralityIn Gerard Radnitzky (ed.), Values and the social order, Avebury. pp. 3--245. 1997.
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Phenomenology of musicIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.
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51Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2006.In this multi-faceted volume, Christian and other religiously committed theorists find themselves at an uneasy point in history—between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity—where disciplines and methods, cultural and linguistic traditions, and religious commitments tangle and cross. Here, leading theorists explore the state of the art of the contemporary hermeneutical terrain. As they address the work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida, the essays collected in this wide-ranging work engage k…Read more
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9The Dance That Transforms: Gadamer on Morality, Music, and ReligionIn Sam McAuliffe (ed.), Gadamer, Music, and Philosophical Hermeneutics, Springer Verlag. pp. 51-62. 2023.The reason why Gadamer’s Truth and Method opens with a discussion of ‘humanistic’ concepts—Bildung, judgment, sensus communis, tact, and taste—is that these ‘ways of knowing’ are basic to human knowledge and understanding. In this paper, I consider the role that religion (defined in a broad sense) played in helping human beings develop a common sense of understanding. Specifically, I examine some instances of religion in the form of song and dance—forms of religion that appear to date back to ma…Read more
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23Jurisdictional Choice in International Trade: Implications for Lex CybernatoriaJournal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 10 (1): 3-32. 2000.Lémergence des marchés en Europe de lEst, en Asie et celle du cyber-espace ne se fait pas avec la rapidité que beaucoup dobservateurs voudraient. La lenteur de ce développement provient de lenvironnement institutionnel : les systèmes législatifs ne soutiennent pas les droits de propriété privée et ne font pas plus respecter les contrats. Ainsi, beaucoup soutiennent que les Etats doivent intensifier leurs efforts pour établir un droit commercial. En réalité, il faut réclamer un désengagement …Read more
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4IntroductionIn Bruce Ellis Benson & Norman Wirzba (eds.), Words of life: new theological turns in French phenomenology, Fordham University Press. pp. 1-12. 2010.
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The Evolution of Property Rights SystemsIn Peter J. Boettke & Christopher J. Coyne (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics, Oxford University Press Usa. 2015.This chapter examines the institutions of a property rights system. It discusses the two ways for institutions of property to be developed: through explicit or implicit bargaining as individuals combine their bilateral and multilateral relationships into communities made up of people with shared values and through the use of “political means” entailing the threat to use violence as one individual or organized group takes scarce resources or the products of those resources from another individual…Read more
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In the Beginning, There Was ImprovisationIn George E. Lewis & Benjamin Piekut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 2, Oxford University Press Usa. 2016.The theological doctrine of creatio ex nihilo attempts to safeguard both the power and freedom of God. If creation is understood as God’s work of art, then creatio ex nihilo is the strongest artistic account of creation possible. The Kantian artist possesses something like this power and freedom, since his or her original and exemplary ideas arise inexplicably. The modern and romantic artistic traditions have perpetuated this myth of the lone artist whose creation is a kind of godlike activity. …Read more
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34Resisting “Forgiveness Oppression”Philosophy Today 65 (4): 863-879. 2021.Victims of abuse and violence are often pressured to forgive their perpetrators. The idea of unconditional forgiveness—forgiveness granted regardless of apology, remorse, or change of behavior—has become a norm for many in the west and those who refuse to forgive are often seen as resentful and bitter. Yet those imploring forgiveness are often the powerful and those asked to forgive are often minorities who have comparatively little power. Since forgiveness in western culture derives from Jesus’…Read more
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18Lambert Zuidervaart, Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure (review)Philosophical Review 116 (1): 118-121. 2007.
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79. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is GoingIn Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, University of Toronto Press. pp. 220-244. 2020.
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219In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine (review)Comparative and Continental Philosophy 6 (1): 84-89. 2014.In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine presents Jean-Luc Marion's rethinking of the modern notion of the self by way of an original reading of Saint Augustine through the lens of a phenomenology of givenness. Here he tests the hermeneutic validity of concepts forged in his previous works. His goal is to show that the Confessiones are inscribed within the confessio, that love is an underlying epistemic condition of truth, and that God's call and our response to God are both gifts. U…Read more
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10The Kingdom of Heaven as Endless Hermeneutic: A Phenomenology of the WaySophia 56 (1): 59-67. 2017.In this essay, I attempt to think along with Kevin Hart, though improvising on his text in my own way, by suggesting that ‘the way’ is one that calls anyone who wishes to follow, that it is, at heart, all about doing battle with oneself, and that this battle is best thought of as an endless hermeneutic, one inaugurated by Jesus yet also with classical precedents.
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6Evil, Fallenness, and Finitude (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2017.This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil. The contributors approach these issues from perspectives in Continental philosophy relating to phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, rabbinical traditions, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Paul Ricoeur. While centering on the traditional theme of theodicy, this volume is also oriented to the phenomenology of religion, with contributions …Read more
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16The Kingdom of Heaven as Endless Hermeneutic: A Phenomenology of the WaySophia 56 (1): 59-67. 2017.In this essay, I attempt to think along with Kevin Hart, though improvising on his text in my own way, by suggesting that ‘the way’ is one that calls anyone who wishes to follow, that it is, at heart, all about doing battle with oneself, and that this battle is best thought of as an endless hermeneutic, one inaugurated by Jesus yet also with classical precedents.
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17The Development Of Criminal Law Ans Its Enforcement: Public Interest Or Political Transfers?Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 3 (1): 79-108. 1992.
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95Guns for protection, and other private sector responses to the Government's failure to control crimeJournal of Libertarian Studies 8 (1): 92-95. 1986.
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78Enforcement of private property rights in primitive societies: law without governmentJournal of Libertarian Studies 9 (1): 1-26. 1989.
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157Customary law with private means of resolving disputes and dispensing justice: a description of a modern system of law and order without state coercionJournal of Libertarian Studies 9 (2): 25-42. 1990.
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264Reciprocal exchange as the basis for recognition of law: Examples from American historyJournal of Libertarian Studies 10 (3): 53-82. 1991.
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128The phenomenology of prayer (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2005.This collection of ground-breaking essays considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a uniquely phenomenological point of view, demonstrating that the phenomenology of prayer is as much about the character and boundaries of phenomenological analysis as it…Read more
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Continental philosophyof religionIn Paul Copan & Chad V. Meister (eds.), Philosophy of religion: classic and contemporary issues, Blackwell. 2008.
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35Nietzsche's Musical Askesis for Resisting DecadenceJournal of Nietzsche Studies 34 (1): 28-46. 2007.
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40The Fundamental Heteronomy of Jazz ImprovisationRevue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (4): 453-467. 2006.