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120Economic theories of democratic legitimacy and the normative role of an ideal consensusPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 12 (2): 156-178. 2013.Economic theories of democratic legitimacy have criticized deliberative accounts of democratic legitimacy on the grounds that they do not represent a practical possibility and that they create conditions that make actual democracies worse. It is not simply that they represent the wrong ideal. Rather, they are too idealistic – failing to show proper regard for the cognitive and moral limitations of persons and the depth of disagreement in democratic society. This article aims to show that the min…Read more
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13Formative encounters with the other: examining the structural differences between Bonhoeffer and LevinasInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 84 (1): 35-54. 2023.In this paper, I offer an account of the structural differences, neglected in the literature, between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emmanuel Levinas, showing how Bonhoeffer’s account of persons and responsibility is differentiated through creation, fall, and redemption, whereas Levinas’s account of ethical selfhood offers itself as a kind of transcendental account of persons in which the self is structured by its encounter with the other which commands responsibility. This difference (situationally di…Read more
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12On the Conversion of Philosophy: The Problems and Promise of Emmanuel Falque’s Theology of PhilosophyHeythrop Journal 62 (1): 75-84. 2021.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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9From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and BonhoefferDissertation, University of South Florida. 2017.This dissertation offers an account of the different ways in which putatively idealist and transcendental models of sociality, which grounded the subject’s relation to other human beings in the subject’s own cognition, were rejected and replaced. Scrapping this account led to a variety of models of sociality which departed from the subject as the ground of sociality, positing grounds outside of the subject. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, Franz Rosenzweig, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer represent…Read more
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21The response of teachers to new subject areas in a national science curriculum: The case of the earth science componentScience Education 85 (6): 636-664. 2001.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |