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126The handbook of virtue ethics (edited book)Acumen Publishing. 2014.Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory - whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness of morality - and has proved itself invaluable to many aspects of contemporary applied ethics. Virtue ethics now flourishes in philosophy, sociology and theology and its applications extend to law, politics and bioethics. 'The handbook of virtue ethics' brings together leading international scholars …Read more
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9The ethical analysis of dual relationships in psychotherapyMonash Bioethics Review 27 (4): 1. 2008.
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67A Dilemma for Naturalized Epistemology?In Michael Shaffer & Michael Veber (eds.), What Place for the A Priori?, Open Court. pp. 157. 2011.
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136Defending Lewis’s Local Miracle CompatibilismPhilosophical Studies 130 (2): 337-349. 2006.Helen Beebee has recently argued that David Lewis’s account of compatibilism, so-called local miracle compatibilism, allows for the possibility that agents in deterministic worlds have the ability to break or cause the breaking of a law of nature. Because Lewis’s LMC allows for this consequence, Beebee claims that LMC is untenable and subsequently that Lewis’s criticism of van Inwagen’s Consequence Argument for incompatibilism is substantially weakened. I review Beebee’s argument against Lewis’s…Read more
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1112Some epistemological concerns about dissociative identity disorder and diagnostic practices in psychologyPhilosophical Psychology 18 (1): 1-29. 2005.In this paper we argue that dissociative identity disorder (DID) is best interpreted as a causal model of a (possible) post-traumatic psychological process, as a mechanical model of an abnormal psychological condition. From this perspective we examine and criticize the evidential status of DID, and we demonstrate that there is really no good reason to believe that anyone has ever suffered from DID so understood. This is so because the proponents of DID violate basic methodological principles of …Read more
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University of North Carolina at WilmingtonDepartment of Philosophy and ReligionOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
General Philosophy of Science |