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    Reasonable Faith
    Routledge. 2010.
    In this awaited follow up to his book _Faithful Reason_, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the nature and destiny of the human soul. His arguments weave elements drawn from philosophy of mind, epistemology and aesthetics, together with recurrent features of human experience to create a structure that simultaneously frames and supports ideas such as that the cosmos is a creation, human beings…Read more
  • Philosophy and its Public Role (edited book)
    Imprint Academic. 2004.
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    In this wide ranging volume of philosophical essays John Haldane explores some central areas of social life and issues of intense academic and public debate. These include the question of ethical relativism, fundamental issues in bioethics, the nature of individuals in relation to society, the common good, public judgement of prominent individuals, the nature and aims of education, cultural theory and the relation of philosophy to art and architecture. John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy, an…Read more
  • A philosophical inquiry into the nature of information and communication media raises conceptual and ontological questions. This analysis provides conceptual mappings and also raises the question of what is involved in the emergence of media out of some prior state from which they were absent, and again in subsequent phases of higher-level emergent phenomena. “Emergence” can be understood in a number of ways: epistemically, causally, or metaphysically, and there is a danger of equivocating betwe…Read more
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    Aquinas and Anscombe on Connaturality and Moral Knowledge1
    New Blackfriars 104 (1114): 668-688. 2023.
    The idea of ‘connatural knowledge’ is attributed to Aquinas on the basis of passages in which he distinguishes between scientific and affective experiential knowledge of religious and moral truths. In a series of encyclicals beginning with Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris, popes have celebrated and commended Aquinas as the supreme guide in philosophy and theology and in some of these cited his discovery of connatural knowledge. The course and context of his ‘elevation’ are explored before proceeding to…Read more
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    In Faithful Reason, the noted Catholic philosopher John Haldane explores various aspects of intellectual and practical life from a perspective inspired by Catholic thought and informed by his distinctive philosophical approach: "Analytical Thomism." Haldane's discussions of ethics, politics, education, art, social philosophy and other themes explain why Catholic thought is still relevant in today's world, and show how the legacy of Thomas Aquinas can benefit modern philosophy in its efforts to a…Read more
  • De Consolatione Philosophiae
    In Michael McGhee (ed.), Spiritual life, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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    What Has Metaphysics to Do with Wisdom?
    Nova et Vetera 20 (4): 1249-1271. 2022.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:What Has Metaphysics to Do with Wisdom?John HaldaneThere are two loci of ambiguity in the title of the symposium from which this essay derives—"Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas's Summa contra gentiles in a Contemporary Context."1 The first concerns the opening question, "is belief in God reasonable?" and the second the closing clause "in a contemporary context." I observe this not in the spirit of pedantry, but because I want to …Read more
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    Character, Choice, and Harry Potter
    with Alfred J. Freddoso, Catherine Jack Deavel, and Mark Wynn
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5 (4): 49-64. 2002.
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    Mind, Metaphysics and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions
    with James Mcevoy, Michael Dunne, Fergus Kerr, Brian Davies, and Robert Pasnau
    Philosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 469-473. 2004.
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    Character, Choice, and Harry Potter
    with Alfred J. Freddoso, Catherine Jack Deavel, and Mark Wynn
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5 (4): 49-64. 2002.
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    European and American Philosophers
    with John Marenbon, Douglas Kellner, Richard D. Parry, Gregory Schufreider, Ralph McInerny, Andrea Nye, R. M. Dancy, Vernon J. Bourke, A. A. Long, James F. Harris, Thomas Oberdan, Paul S. MacDonald, Véronique M. Fóti, F. Rosen, James Dye, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Lisa J. Downing, W. J. Mander, Peter Simons, Maurice Friedman, Robert C. Solomon, Nigel Love, Mary Pickering, Andrew Reck, Simon J. Evnine, Iakovos Vasiliou, John C. Coker, Georges Dicker, James Gouinlock, Paul J. Welty, Gianluigi Oliveri, Jack Zupko, Tom Rockmore, Wayne M. Martin, Ladelle McWhorter, Hans-Johann Glock, Georgia Warnke, Joseph S. Ullian, Steven Rieber, David Ingram, Nick Fotion, George Rainbolt, Thomas Sheehan, Gerald J. Massey, Barbara D. Massey, David E. Cooper, David Gauthier, James M. Humber, J. N. Mohanty, Michael H. Dearmey, Oswald O. Schrag, Ralf Meerbote, George J. Stack, John P. Burgess, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Nicholas Jolley, Adriaan T. Peperzak, E. J. Lowe, William D. Richardson, Stephen Mulhall, and C.
    In Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.
    Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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    In Samuel Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.
    Since the late 1960s there has been a significant and fast‐expanding interest in medieval philosophy, and though once largely confined to questions of logic and general ontology, the range of this interest has now extended to cover most aspects of normative enquiry such as ethics, politics and aesthetics (seeHaldane, 1991, 1992). The philosophy of the Renaissance is far less widely studied, though in recent times there have been signs of a developing interest and no doubt in the coming years the…Read more
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    Applied Ethics
    In Nicholas Bunnin & E. P. Tsui‐James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.
    This chapter contains sections titled: What is Applied Ethics? The Rise of Applied Ethics A Neglected Precedent The Future of the Subject.
  • Further Reflections on Theism for the Second Edition
    In J. J. C. Smart & J. J. Haldane (eds.), Atheism and Theism, Blackwell. 2003.
    This chapter contains section titled: Preliminary Philosophy and Religion, and Philosophy of Religion The Emergence of Life and the Origins of Reproduction The Prime Thinker Realism, Idealism, Anti‐Realism and Theism The Nature of God God, Evil, and Hope.
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    Reply to Smart
    In J. J. C. Smart & J. J. Haldane (eds.), Atheism and Theism, Blackwell. 2003.
    This chapter contains section titled: Methodology The Existence of God Metaphysical Matters Reason, Faith and Revelation A Religious Conclusion.
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    Atheism and Theism
    In J. J. C. Smart & J. J. Haldane (eds.), Atheism and Theism, Blackwell. 2003.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Theism and Science Some Varieties of Explanation ‘Old’ Teleology ‘New’ Teleology The Cause of Things God and the World God, Good and Evil Liberty and Providence Theism — Philosophical and Religious.
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    Introduction
    In J. J. C. Smart & J. J. Haldane (eds.), Atheism and Theism, Blackwell. 2003.
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    Theology after Wittgenstein
    Philosophical Quarterly 38 (151): 259-261. 1988.
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    Values, Education and the Human World
    Philosophical Quarterly 56 (223): 312-315. 2006.
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    The Future of the University
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (4): 731-749. 2013.
    Higher education is in flux, and one of the challenges it faces is to relate education, research, and training. So far as Catholic institutions are concerned, there is also the fundamental issue of what it means to be Catholic. Leaving aside matters of history and religious observance, this bears in large part on issues of educational philosophy. This essay sets these matters within a historical context, considering Confucius, Augustine, and Aquinas, while focusing on nineteenth-century British …Read more
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    Privative causality
    Analysis 67 (3). 2007.
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    Privative causality
    Analysis 67 (295): 180-186. 2007.
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    On the very idea of spiritual values
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 47 53-71. 2000.
    It is unusual for an academic philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to discuss the subject of spirituality. Not so long ago this fact might have been attributed to a general view of philosophy as the practice of conceptual analysis and the theory of logic. However in a period when the discipline has developed to a point where almost every aspect of human life has been made the subject of some department of ‘applied philosophy’ it could hardly be said that the subject of spirituality, in so…Read more
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    Metaphysical (Im)mortality and Philosophical Transcendence
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 65 37-55. 2009.
    There is a lapidary saying owing to Etienne Gilson, that is often misquoted or adapted – with ‘metaphysics’ taking the place of ‘philosophy’ – and which is invariably reproduced in isolation. It is that ‘Philosophy always buries its undertakers’. Understanding this remark as Gilson intended it is relevant to the issues of the nature of philosophy, and of what conception of it may be most appropriate or fruitful for us to pursue. The question of the mortality or otherwise of philosophy in general…Read more