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56Review of particle physics (review)© 2016 Regents of the University of California.The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,062 new measurements from 721 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. All the particle properties and search li…Read more
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7The New Intuitionism (edited book)A&C Black. 2011.Some of the world's leading scholars in metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology explore the latest insights into and challenges to Robert Audi's intuitionism.
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18Wonder Woman vs. Harley QuinnIn Jacob M. Held (ed.), Wonder Woman and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017-03-29.This chapter is unique for several reasons. First, it brings together two unlikely authors, a PhD ethicist and her 15‐year‐old high‐school daughter, whose diverse interests include thinking about depictions of female characters in graphic novels. Second, it compares two unlikely DC female characters, Wonder Woman (the Amazonian princess heroine who protects innocent citizens from evil) and Harley Quinn (the ever‐evolving anti‐hero who vacillates between being an outright villain to being merely …Read more
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9The Existential Ground of True CommunityIn Fritz Allhoff, Scott F. Parker & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Coffee, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-03-04.This chapter contains sections titled: A Dark Brew: Traditional Existentialism and Community Coffee and Otherness: Community and Coffee Coffee, Community, and Hope.
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16“Pervading the Sable Veil”: Phillis Wheatley as Early Modern Philosopher of ReligionIn Amber L. Griffioen & Marius Backmann (eds.), Pluralizing Philosophy’s Past: New Reflections in the History of Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 107-121. 2023.This chapter contends that Phillis Wheatley, African-American slave-turned-poet, can and should be read as a philosopher of religion. Her work, collectively, takes up the problem of evil and demonstrates a commitment to moral improvement in the face of suffering, and knowledge of divine benevolence and care for all people. As early modern philosophy, her work presents courageous arguments about the equality of those on the margins of moral considerability, as well as criticisms of the system of …Read more
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13Voices from the edge: Centring marginalized perspectives in analytic theology, edited by Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, Oxford University Press, 2020, 236 pp, $80.00 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 91 (1): 87-90. 2022.
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14Bodies, Authenticity, and Marcelian ProblematicityIn Cynthia D. Coe (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 85-106. 2021.This chapter explores Marcel’s relationship with German idealism, the impact idealism had on his existentialism, his philosophical evolution beyond idealist conceptions of objectivity and consciousness, and his own move towards the authentic “ethical self,” whose goal is a reciprocal, intersubjective relationship with others who are freely seeking the inner meaning of experience. It will argue that the authentic self is fundamentally personal because it is embodied, non-objective, and creates op…Read more
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33Problems for Problematizing the Philosophical Canon: A Modest ProposalEarly Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16 (1): 3-13. 2021.
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20There’s Something about Mary: Challenges and Prospects for Narrative TheodicyJournal of Analytic Theology 9 26-44. 2021.This paper explores the constraints of narrative theodicy to account for the misery of the powerless and uses Mary of Bethany as a case study as evaluated through the early modern theodical writings of Mary Astell and Mary Hays. Eleonore Stump has pointed out that Mary of Bethany’s misery is interesting because it is so personal; it results from losing her heart’s desire. But, Mary of Bethany’s case fails as narrative theodicy because it cannot sufficiently demonstrate the power of God in situat…Read more
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34Transmuted Goods and the Legacy of the Atrocity ParadigmSocial Philosophy Today 35 103-114. 2019.This paper responds to a recent challenge posed to Claudia Card’s atrocity paradigm by “transmuted goods,” or, goods which positively transmute victims of atrocity in ways which are difficult for the paradigm to explain. Whereas the legacy of Card’s atrocity paradigm will surely be its demand that we hold others culpable for allowing and perpetuating systems of harm which threaten our ability to flourish, this paper suggests a way for the paradigm to incorporate transmuted goods in a manner that…Read more
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25On the problem and mystery of evil: Marcel’s existential dissolution of an antinomyAngelaki 23 (2): 113-124. 2018.This paper maps out Marcel’s conception of evil onto his fundamental distinction between problem and mystery, shows that the distinction creates two effective methodologies for dealing with evil in the world, draws the antinomy of evil based on these methodologies, and then demonstrates that the antinomy can be dissolved through an existentially engaged, communal encounter with evil and hope. The antinomy between the problem of evil and the mystery of evil is not one to be solved, then, but is o…Read more
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The existential ground of true community : coffee and othernessIn Fritz Allhoff, Scott F. Parker & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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373Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of EvilReligions 9 (4): 1-13. 2018.This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world. Her arguments about those harms actually presage those of contemporary feminist ethicists, which positions Cavendish’s scholarship in a unique position: it makes a positive theodical contribution, by relying on evils that contemporary atheists think are the best evidence ag…Read more
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391Exaltation and atrocity: why kenotic humility can’t justify divine concurrence of evilInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 79 (5): 493-506. 2017.ABSTRACT‘Exaltation views’ of humility are grounded on a kenotic view of humility, such that divine blessing comes proportionate to the extent to which an agent humbles herself. This article rejects exaltation views of humility which define humility kenotically, justify their arguments from a divine hiddenness perspective, and which conclude that divine concurrence with evil is justified as long as all humble believers eventually are exalted and blessed. Rather, I will contend that exaltation vi…Read more
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37The God Relationship: The Ethics for Inquiry about the Divine (review)Faith and Philosophy 35 (2): 272-276. 2018.
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152Moral Evil and Leibniz’s Form/Matter Defense of Divine OmnipotenceSophia 49 (1): 1-13. 2010.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Leibniz’s form/matter defense of omnipotence is paradoxical, but not irretrievably so. Leibniz maintains that God necessarily must concur only in the possibility for evil’s existence in the world (the form of evil), but there are individual instances of moral evil that are not necessary (the matter of evil) with which God need not concur. For Leibniz, that there is moral evil in the world is contingent on God’s will (a dimension of divine omnipote…Read more
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1"Leibniz and the Best of All Possible Worlds"In James Dew Chad Meister (ed.), God and Evil, Intervarsity Press. pp. 94-108. 2013.
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72The anxious believer: Macaulay’s prescient theodicyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (3): 175-187. 2013.Recent feminists have critiqued G.W. Leibniz’s Theodicy for its effort to justify God’s role in undeserved human suffering over natural and moral evil. These critiques suggest that theodicies which focus on evil as suffering alone obfuscate how to thematize evil, and so they conclude that theodicies should be rejected and replaced with a secularized notion of evil that is inextricably tied to the experiences of the victim. This paper argues that the political philosophy found in the writings of …Read more
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16Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil: Atrocity & TheodicyRoutledge. 2015._Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil_ examines the concept of theodicy—the attempt to reconcile divine perfection with the existence of evil—through the lens of early modern female scholars. This timely volume knits together the perennial problem of defining evil with current scholarly interest in women’s roles in the evolution of religious philosophy. Accessible for those without a background in philosophy or theology, Jill Graper Hernandez’s text will be of interest to upper-level under…Read more
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"The Border Wall as a Failed Moral Project from a Second-Person Standpoint"Global Virtue Ethics Review 6 (2): 4-19. 2011.
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1Mark Timmons, John Greco, and Alfred R. Mele, eds. Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (6): 445-448. 2008.
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"The Changing Face of Ethics in the Workplace: Care and the Impact of Immigration Enforcement"In Maurice Hamington & Maureen Sander-Staudt (eds.), Applying Care Ethics to Business, Springer Verlag. pp. 157-174. 2010.
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41Human Value, Dignity, and the Presence of OthersHEC Forum 27 (3): 249-263. 2015.In the health care professions, the meaning of—and implications for—‘dignity’ and ‘value’ are progressively more important, as scholars and practitioners increasingly have to make value judgments when making care decisions. This paper looks at the various arguments for competing sources of human value that medical professionals can consider—human rights, autonomy, and a higher-order moral value—and settles upon a foundational model that is related to the Kantian model that is popular within the …Read more
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20Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope: God, Evil and VirtueContinuum. 2011.The idea of ‘hope’ has received significant attention in the political sphere recently. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human. Under this conception of hope, given to us by Gabriel Marcel, hope is not optimism, but the creation of ways for us to flourish. War, poverty and an absolute reliance on technology are real-life evils that can su…Read more
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Instuctor Resource Manual for "The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy" by Robert Solomon (edited book)Cengage. 2013/2009.
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35The New Intuitionism (edited book)Continuum. 2012.Since the 2004 publication of his book The Good in the Right, Robert Audi has been at the forefront of the current resurgence of interest in intuitionism – the idea that human beings have an intuitive sense of right and wrong – in ethics. The New Intuitionism brings together some of the world’s most important contemporary writers from such diverse fields as metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology to explore the latest implications of, and challenges to, Audi’s work. The book also includes …Read more
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