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    A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues. From there it develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fit…Read more
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    Defining Leadership
    Philosophy of Management 21 (1): 99-128. 2022.
    This essay examines the concept of leadership as it is commonly understood within the field of leadership studies today. The inquiry is framed by an analysis of three generally accepted definitions of leadership. I look at the selected definitions from four angles, which I call the four dimensions of leadership: the behavioral (what the leader does, or ought to do, that makes it leadership), the asymmetrical (in what sense a leader is different from the others in the group), the social (what it …Read more
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    The Philosophy of Management Today
    Philosophy of Management 22 (4): 493-503. 2023.
    This essay reviews the recently released Handbook of Philosophy of Management, using it as a jumping off point to explore some potential confusions in contemporary philosophy of management. The handbook itself, comprising 58 articles and some 1,000 pages, is a milestone for the field. At the same time, it brings a few problems into sharp relief. I argue for more clarity about the distinction between the philosophy of management and the philosophy of management research. I make the case that logi…Read more
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    Leadership, Management, and the History of Ideas
    Philosophy of Management 16 (2): 183-189. 2017.
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    Functionalism and moral personhood: One view considered
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (June): 521-530. 1984.
    Daniel Dennett has offered a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for something's being the proper object of our moral commitment, that is, for something's being a person. Strict application of these largely pragmatic conditions, however, would result in a moral community with quite a surprising membership roster, because of both who is on it and who isn't. The problem is that "your" being a person should amount to more than a function of "my" goals and cleverness.
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    The Leading Edge of Leadership Studies
    Philosophy of Management 17 (3): 373-378. 2018.
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    Management, Political Philosophy, and Social Justice
    with Marian Eabrasu
    Philosophy of Management 21 (3): 281-287. 2022.
    This paper introduces the special theme on management and political philosophy, following a call for papers in the journal Philosophy of Management. The scope of this introduction is to emphasize the importance of political philosophy as a subtheme in the discipline of philosophy of management by shedding light on a cornerstone conversation: the role of the state in fostering corporate accountability for social injustice. For doing so, we present the papers invited to this special theme and show…Read more
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    A Guide to Good Reasoning
    Mcgraw-Hill College. 1999.
  • Evidential Privilege: An Inquiry Into Justified Belief, God, and Plantinga
    Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1986.
    Some of our beliefs are justified regardless of the quality of the evidence for them. This, at least, is what Alvin Plantinga argues; and, he adds, belief in God is typically just such a belief. With the objective of determining whether Plantinga is right, I conduct a broad inquiry into the pertinent epistemological issues. ;I begin with meta-epistemology. A justified belief, I argue, is a belief that satisfies the internal necessary conditions for knowledge. Alternatively, it is a belief that w…Read more