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14Achieving Rorty’s New Private-Public DivideIn Martin Müller (ed.), Handbuch Richard Rorty, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 865-881. 2023.Richard Rorty reimagined the traditional liberal private-public divide to face contingency. This chapter explains Rorty’s understanding of it as a crucial component of any just and stable political order in the post-secular West. Rorty’s continued defense of the liberal private-public divide has been criticized from the political right and left. His foundation-neutral model is, however, equipped (or can easily be modified) to answer these objections. And this is good news, because Rorty has show…Read more
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8Attitudes of Seriously Ill Patients toward Treatment that Involves High Costs and Burdens on OthersJournal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2): 109-112. 1994.
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4Some aspects of scriptural quotation in Piers Plowman: Lady Holy ChurchBulletin of the John Rylands Library 77 (3): 19-30. 1995.
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2Introduction: The Bible and early English literature from the beginnings to 1500: Proceedings of the second G. L. Brook Symposium held in the University of Manchester, 1993Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 77 (3): 3-8. 1995.
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8Front MatterJournal of Religious Ethics 35 (1). 2007.'With this scheme, John Anderson joins a very distinguished line of philosophers who have presented us with a set of categories. We have first Plato, then Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Samuel Alexander.' - D. M. Armstrong, from the introduction. Space, Time and the Categories presents a unique record of personal influence and inspiration over three generations of philosophers in Australia, England and Scotland. This work is a vitally important text in the history of the development of realist phil…Read more
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36Fraud in research, 1986-1992: an annotated bibliographyJournal of Information Ethics 3 (2): 64. 1994.
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1Digital imaging: A reaffirmation of integrity in researchJournal of Information Ethics 5 (1): 52-58. 1996.
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An Enquiry on the Origins of Injustice in Legal SystemsDissertation, The Catholic University of America. 1995.The Aristotelian notions of "natural justice" and epieikeia are neglected, and even incomprehensible in much of contemporary jurisprudence and legal practice. This neglect, and any associated imbalance between legal justice and natural justice are, it is argued, at the root of many legal injustices. Concrete paradigmatic examples of legal injustices are the starting point of the analysis and used to give meaningful content to the notion of legal injustices. Ronald Dworkin's attempted justificati…Read more
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45Attitudes of seriously ill patients toward treatment that involves high costs and burdens on othersJournal of Clinical Ethics 6 (1): 96-61. 1995.
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2The Rhetoric of Homosexual Practice: A Critique of the Identity/act Distinction in Protestant Ordination PoliciesJournal of Religious Ethics 41 (4): 601-625. 2013.Many Protestant denominations have or recently had policies that prohibit “self‐avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained. By only prohibiting “practicing” homosexuals, proponents of these policies claim that they do not discriminate against homosexuals as a group since, technically, a homosexual can still be ordained as long as she is “non‐practicing.” In other words, a condemnation of homosexual practice is not the same as a condemnation of homosexual persons. I argue that this is not…Read more
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32The Rhetoric of Homosexual PracticeJournal of Religious Ethics 41 (4): 601-625. 2013.Many Protestant denominations have or recently had policies that prohibit “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained. By only prohibiting “practicing” homosexuals, proponents of these policies claim that they do not discriminate against homosexuals as a group since, technically, a homosexual can still be ordained as long as she is “non-practicing.” In other words, a condemnation of homosexual practice is not the same as a condemnation of homosexual persons. I argue that this is not…Read more
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67Review: Is Alcoholics Anonymous Really a Religious Cult That Uses Communist-Derived Techniques to Brainwash Its Members? (review)Behavior and Philosophy 28 (1/2). 2000.
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Ethics in Linguistic Space and the Challenge of MoralityDissertation, University of Virginia. 2000.For Kant and his followers, pure reason can be practical, and its substantive practical command is, broadly speaking, that we treat ourselves and others as worthy of respect as free and equal. If those who have defended the Kantian morality system are correct, this moral imperative will not be authoritative and inescapable simply because we don't know how to coherently reweave our practical commitments so as to leave it out, but because it is presupposed by the possibility of practical reason. O…Read more
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