• Hybridization as an evolutionary stimulus
    with G. L. Stebbins
    In Francisco José Ayala & John C. Avise (eds.), Essential readings in evolutionary biology, The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Andrew Altman, David Archard, Faith Armitage, Gustaf Arrhenius, Marcus Arvan, Michael Bacon, Daniel Bar-Tal, and Paul Benson
    Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (4): 399-402. 2010.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Lucy Allais, Anita Allen, Andrew Altman, Elizabeth S. Anderson, David Archard, Faith Armitage, Barbara Arneil, Gustaf Arrhenius, and Marcus Arvan
    Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (4): 363-366. 2012.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Elizabeth S. Anderson, David Archard, Marcus Arvan, Linda Barclay, Marcia Baron, Daniel Bar-Tal, Debra Bergoffen, and Alyssa Bernstein
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (4): 341-345. 2011.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Katy Abramson, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Chris Armstrong, Barbara Arneil, Richard Arneson, Gustaf Arrhenius, Marcus Arvan, Elizabeth Ashford, and Michael Bacon
    Journal of Social Philosophy 44 (4): 309-312. 2013.
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    Sailing the Seas of Cheese
    In Max Ryynänen & Paco Barragán (eds.), The Changing Meaning of Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance, Palgrave / Macmillan (springer Verlag). pp. 87-117. 2023.
    Memphis Elvis is cool; Vegas Elvis is cheesy. How come? To call something cheesy is, ostensibly, to disparage it, and yet cheesy acts are some of the most popular in popular culture today. How is this possible? The concepts of cheese, cheesy, and cheesiness play an important and increasingly ubiquitous role in popular culture today. I offer an analysis of these concepts, distinguishing them from nearby concepts like kitschy and campy. Along the way I draw attention to the important roles of cult…Read more
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    Countering MacKinnon on Rape and Consent
    Social Philosophy Today 38 17-32. 2022.
    Feminists are divided on whether consent should be employed in legal definitions of rape. Catharine MacKinnon has criticized the usefulness of consent in enabling legal systems to recognize and prosecute instances of rape (MacKinnon 1989, 2005, 2016). In a recent article in this journal, Lisa H. Schwartzman defends the use of affirmative consent in rape law against MacKinnon’s critique (Schwartzman 2019). In contrast to MacKinnon, Schwartzman claims our understanding of rape must include both fo…Read more
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    Deliberative Sincerity and the Opacity of the Self
    Journal of Social Philosophy 51 (3): 422-440. 2020.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
  • Believers and Citizens: Religious Freedom in a Deliberative Democracy
    Dissertation, The University of Connecticut. 2001.
    A deliberative democracy is a society committed to the ideal of reasoned political deliberation as the source of legitimate laws and policies. Recently, the role that citizens' religious convictions should play in political deliberation has been the subject of much philosophical debate. I enter this debate by rejecting the claim that participants in political deliberations must refrain from basing their political proposals on their religious convictions. I argue that citizens and legislators may…Read more
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    The “new natural lawyers” (NNLs) are a prolific group of philosophers, theologians, and political theorists that includes John Finnis, Robert George, Patrick Lee, Gerard Bradley, and Germain Grisez, among others. These thinkers have devoted themselves to developing and defending a traditional sexual ethic according to which homosexual sexual acts are immoral per se and marriage ought to remain an exclusively heterosexual institution. The sterility objection holds that the NNLs are guilty of maki…Read more
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    The Paradox of Public Secularism
    Faith and Philosophy 23 (2): 137-155. 2006.
  • Amy Gutmann, ed., Freedom of Association (review)
    Philosophy in Review 19 183-185. 1999.
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    The Paradox of Public Secularism
    Faith and Philosophy 23 (2): 137-155. 2006.
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    Amy Gu tmann, ed., Freedom of Association Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 19 (3): 183-185. 1999.
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    Nicholas Wolterstorff and Christopher J. Eberle have defended the view that the ethics of liberal citizenship allows citizens to publicly support the passage of coercive laws based solely on their religious convictions. They also develop positive conceptions of virtuous citizenship that place moral limits on how citizens may appeal to their religion. The question I address in this essay is whether the limits they impose on citizens’ appeals to their religion are adequate. Since Eberle’s “ideal o…Read more