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Can ethics be taught? Connecting the classroom to everyday lifeIn C. R. Crespo & Rita Kirk (eds.), Ethics at the heart of higher education, Pickwick Publications. 2020.
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22Why is Deliberation Necessary for Choice?Apeiron 57 (2): 195-217. 2024.In the ethical texts, Aristotle claims that all instances of choice (prohairesis) must be preceded by deliberation, but it is not clear why he believes this. This paper offers an explanation of that commitment, drawing heavily from the De Anima and showing that the account emerging from there complements that of the ethical texts. The view is that the deliberative faculty has the capacity to manipulate reasons combinatorially, while the perceptual/desiderative faculty does not, and choice requir…Read more
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7Religion and the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology, by Vincent W. Lloyd; and Break Every Yoke: Religions, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, by Joshua Dubler and Vincent W. Lloyd (review)Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40 (2): 383-385. 2020.
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10The art of cycling, living, and dying: moral theology from everyday lifeCascade Books. 2021.Forty years of avid bicycling came to a conclusion for D. Stephen Long in early October, 2020. Fearing his own imminent death required Long to reflect on life, on its beginnings, middle, and endings. This work uses the lessons learned from cycling, and the experience of the rapid onset of illness, to discuss God, friendship, racism, sexuality, justice, virtues, vices, and much more. It offers a moral theology but one more in keeping with how we take it up--not through theories but in the practic…Read more
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13On teaching and learning Christian ethicsGeorgetown University Press. 2024.This book addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics. While teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized. The approach of the work is historical, philosophical, and theological. It begins with the historical transformation in the mid nineteenth century by Henry Sidgwick, who rejected establishing ethics on theology or metaphysics. G. E. Moore, John Rawls, Thomas Hurka, Bart Schultz, and Peter Singer later exp…Read more
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43Partaking of Reason in a Way: Aristotle on the Rationality of Human DesireApeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 55 (1): 35-63. 2022.Three times in Book 1 chapter 13 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says desire partakes of reason in a way. There is a consensus view in the literature about what that claim means: desire has no intrinsic rationality, but can partake of reason by being blindly obedient to the commands of reason. I argue this consensus view is mistaken: for Aristotle, adult human desire has its own intrinsic rationality, and while it is to be obedient to reason, it is not blind obedience, for when reason tells…Read more
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33Aristotle's On the Soul: A Critical Guide (review)Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 861-863. 2022.Caleb Cohoe helms another excellent entry in the Cambridge Critical Guides series. The volume consists of thirteen contributions, nominally ordered to proceed t.
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28The Relation Between Logos and Thumos: An analysis of EN VII.6 1149a24–b3Rhizomata 10 (1): 94-117. 2022.At EN VII.6 1149a24-b3, Aristotle offers an argument for the conclusion that akrasia due to thumos is less shameful than akrasia due to epithumia. The reasoning in this argument is obscure, for Aristotle makes two claims in particular that are difficult to understand; first, that in some way thumos “hears” reason when it leads to akrasia, and second, that thumos responds to what it hears “as if having syllogized” to a conclusion about how to act. This paper argues that previous attempts to under…Read more
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37Partaking of Reason in a Way: Aristotle on the Rationality of Human DesireApeiron 55 (1): 35-63. 2022.Three times in Book 1 chapter 13 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says desire partakes of reason in a way. There is a consensus view in the literature about what that claim means: desire has no intrinsic rationality, but can partake of reason by being blindly obedient to the commands of reason. I argue this consensus view is mistaken: for Aristotle, adult human desire has its own intrinsic rationality, and while it is to be obedient to reason, it is not blind obedience, for when reason tells…Read more
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14Desires, Their Objects, and the Things Leading to PursuitInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.I offer a novel analysis of the relations between Aristotle’s three species of desire - appetite, temper, and wish - and the three things he says in EN 2.3 lead to pursuit - the pleasant, the beneficial, and the noble. It has long been tempting to think that these trios line up with one another in some way, ideally relating their members in one-to-one fashion. One account, by John Cooper, has gathered prominent adherents, but other authors, notably Giles Pearson, have argued we should give up on…Read more
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43Review of Marta Jimenez, Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 202106. 2021.
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80On the Necessity of Deliberation in AristotleAncient Philosophy 41 (1): 167-184. 2021.Many authors have argued that Aristotle does not stay true to his official account on which every instance of choice must be preceded by deliberation, and it is a good thing that he does so because his official account has catastrophically bad theoretical implications. I argue that Aristotle does not deviate from his official account, and that the official account does not have the decisively bad implications others have claimed it to have. These objectionable entailments only obtain on a certai…Read more
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