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    Virtue Ethics in Social Theory
    American Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4): 329-340. 2023.
    Tommie Shelby has offered an influential, carefully stated, and well-argued set of objections to any volitional analysis of racism (VAR) as consisting centrally in certain forms of race-based disregard. Here I hope to defend aspects of VAR by analyzing, evaluating, and sometimes countering several of his major contentions, which have stood unchallenged in the literature over more than two decades. First, I sketch and respond to his Methodological objection to VAR, which criticizes VAR's reliance…Read more
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    Intending and Acting: Toward a Naturalized Action Theory (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 41 (2): 375-376. 1987.
    Myles Brand's rather audacious goal in his new book is nothing less than "to usher in the next... stage of philosophical action theory," which stage he understands as its "naturalization". Hence the subtitle. Naturalization will consist, he explains, in showing that action theory is "continuous with scientific theory", especially with cognitive science and motivational psychology. One familiar with Stich's view that one moves from "folk psychology" to cognitive science by eliminating such mental…Read more
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    Interpersonal Virtues
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 31-60. 1997.
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    White Nights of the Soul
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9 (4): 82-117. 2006.
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    Some Mortal Questions
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6 (2): 125-133. 2003.
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    A Note on Religious Assent and Dissent
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 4 (2): 160-177. 2001.
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    Death of the (Hand)maiden: Contemporary Philosophy in Faith and Reason
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 2 (3): 11-19. 1999.
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    Are Some People Better Off Dead?
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 2 (1): 68-81. 1999.
  • Milenario de Avicenna
    with A. Badawi, M. Cruz Hernández, S. Gómez Nogales, and R. Muñoz
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 45 (2): 306-307. 1983.
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    Humanae Vitae (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 45 (4): 883-884. 1992.
    Janet Smith has written an important, imposing, and ambitious book. In what began life as a translation of, and commentary on, Paul VI's controversial 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, those two elements now form but two of the book's four appendices.
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    Intending and Acting (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 41 (2): 375-377. 1987.
  •  8
    Risk and Protective Factors Associated to Peer School Victimization
    with Inmaculada Méndez and Cecilia Ruiz-Esteban
    Frontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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    Intentions and Wrongdoings
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (4): 605-617. 1995.
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    The racial contract hypothesis
    Philosophia Africana 4 (1): 27-42. 2001.
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    The problem of comparative value
    Mind 98 (390): 277-283. 1989.
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    The Idea of Human Rights (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 19 (2): 256-260. 2002.
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    The intentional and the intended
    Erkenntnis 33 (2). 1990.
    The paper defends the thesis that for S to V intentionally is for S to V as (in the way) S intended to. For the normal agent the relevant sort of intention is an intention that one's intention to V generate an instance of one's V-ing along some (usually dimly-conceived) productive path. Such an account allows us to say some actions are intentional to a greater or lesser extent (a desirable option for certain cases of wayward causal chains), preserves the intuitive link between intention and inte…Read more
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    Rahner, H., Symbole der Kirche (review)
    Augustinianum 5 (2): 423-424. 1965.
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    Racism, Psychology, and Morality: Dialogue with Faucher and Machery
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 41 (2): 250-268. 2011.
    I here respond to several points in Faucher and Machery’s vigorous and informative critique of my volitional account of racism (VAR). First, although the authors deem it a form of "implicit racial bias," a mere tendency to associate black people with "negative" concepts falls short of racial "bias" or prejudice in the relevant sense. Second, such an associative disposition need not even be morally objectionable. Third, even for more substantial forms of implicit racial bias such as race-based fe…Read more
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    Reason Informed by Faith (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (4): 507-511. 1991.
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    Reason Informed by Faith (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (4): 507-511. 1991.
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    Proportionalism (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (3): 418-421. 1990.
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    Proportionalism (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (3): 418-421. 1990.
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    On the irreducibility of the will
    Synthese 86 (3). 1991.
    This paper criticizes the thesis that intending to do something is reducible to some combination of beliefs and desires. Against Audi's recent formulation of such a view I offer as counterexample a case wherein an agent who wants and expects to V has not yet decided whether to V and hence does not yet intend to. I try to show that whereas belief that one will V is not necessary for intending to V, as illustrated in cases of desperate attempts to V, one cannot intend to V without preferring to V …Read more
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    On consequence dependence
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (2). 1989.
    This Article does not have an abstract