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521There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophersJournal of Speculative Philosophy 19 (3): 229-237. 2005.
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389Heretics EverywherePhilosophy and Theology 22 (1-2): 49-76. 2010.By carefully considering Galileo’s letters to Castelli and Christina, we argue that his position regarding the relationship between Scripture and science is not only of historical importance, but continues to stand as a perspective worth taking seriously in the context of contemporary philosophical debates. In particular, we contend that there are at least five areas of contemporary concern where Galileo’s arguments are especially relevant: (1) the supposed conflict between science and religion,…Read more
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268Revisiting Gender-Inclusive God-TalkPhilosophy and Theology 20 (1-2): 243-263. 2008.Though academic debate over gender-inclusive God-talk seems to have fizzled, the issue is a pressing one within many Christiandenominations today—both within and outside the Church—and for that reason deserves to be briefly revisited. Accordingly, althoughin this essay we approach the issue as professional philosophers, our focus is on the life of the Church—more specifically, those no doubt sizable segments of the Church for which a personal God and Satan exist and evangelism matters. Running a…Read more
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99WHAT ABOUT ISAAC?: Rereading Fear and Trembling and Rethinking Kierkegaardian EthicsJournal of Religious Ethics 35 (2): 319-345. 2007.In this essay I offer a reading of Fear and Trembling that responds to critiques of Kierkegaardian ethics as being, as Brand Blanshard claims, “morally nihilistic,” as Emmanuel Levinas contends, ethically violent, and, as Alasdair MacIntyre charges, simply irrational. I argue that by focusing on Isaac's singularity as the very condition for Abraham's “ordeal,” the book presents a story about responsible subjectivity. Rather than standing in competition with the relation to God, the relation to o…Read more
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97Helping more than “a little”: recent books on Kierkegaard and philosophy of religion (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3): 227-242. 2012.Helping more than “a little”: recent books on Kierkegaard and philosophy of religion Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-16 DOI 10.1007/s11153-012-9345-6 Authors J. Aaron Simmons, Department of Philosophy, Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Hwy, Greenville, SC 29613, USA Journal International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Online ISSN 1572-8684 Print ISSN 0020-7047
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90God in recent French phenomenologyPhilosophy Compass 3 (5): 910-932. 2008.In this essay, I provide an introduction to the so-called 'theological turn' in recent French, 'new' phenomenology. I begin by articulating the stakes of excluding God from phenomenology (as advocated by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger) and then move on to a brief consideration of why Dominique Janicaud contends that, by inquiring into the 'inapparent', new phenomenology is no longer phenomenological. I then consider the general trajectories of this recent movement and argue that there are f…Read more
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80Levinasian otherism, skepticism, and the problem of self-refutationPhilosophical Forum 40 (1): 29-54. 2009.No Abstract
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75Prospects for A Levinasian Epistemic InfinitismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (3): 437-460. 2012.Abstract Epistemic infinitism is certainly not a majority view in contemporary epistemology. While there are some examples of infinitism in the history of philosophy, more work needs to be done mining this history in order to provide a richer understanding of how infinitism might be formulated internal to different philosophical frameworks. Accordingly, we argue that the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas can be read as operating according to an ?impure? model of epistemic infinitism. The infinite o…Read more
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54P-curve: A key to the file-drawerJournal of Experimental Psychology: General 143 (2): 534-547. 2014.
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49Levinas and WhiteheadProcess Studies 40 (1): 25-53. 2011.Alfred North Whitehead and Emmanuel Levinas are not often considered together in the contemporary philosophical literature. There are clearly sensible reasons for this. While Whitehead is a systematic thinker who explicitly engages in metaphysical philosophy within the tradition of process thought and who does not focus primarily on ethics, Levinas is resistant to systematic metaphysics and works within the phenomenological tradition in order to argue that ethics is first philosophy. Despite the…Read more
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48Jean-Luc Marion's Givenness and RevelationEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (3): 225-230. 2017.This is a book review of Jean-Luc Marion's Givenness and Revelation.
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38On Shared Hopes for (Mashup) Philosophy of Religion: A Reply to TrakakisHeythrop Journal 54 (2): 691-710. 2013.
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36Become Joyful, Become Active, But Do Not Forget About Being ResponsibleSouthwest Philosophy Review 23 (2): 21-26. 2007.
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34Is Continental Philosophy Just Catholicism for Atheists?Philosophy in the Contemporary World 15 (1): 94-111. 2008.There is much within contemporary continental philosophy that might give the indication that it is really just disguised Christian theology. However, in line with Hent de Vries and in contrast to Dominique Janicaud, I contend that there are reasons for taking continental God-talk seriously on purely philosophical grounds. On this basis, I then go on to advocate a specific form of God-talk-that dealing with kenosis-as being deeply relevant to contemporary politics because of the way in which it p…Read more
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29From necessity to hope: A Continental Perspective on Eschatology without TelosHeythrop Journal 50 (6): 948-965. 2009.
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28God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2011.The theological turn in French phenomenology has been of great interest to scholars working in contemporary continental thought, but according to J. Aaron Simmons, not enough has been done to bring these debates into conversation with more mainstream philosophy. Building on the work of Kierkegaard, Levinas, Marion, and Derrida, among others, Simmons suggests how continental philosophy of religion can intersect with political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and theories of knowledge. By pro…Read more
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24Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and Levinas’s Ethics (review)Environmental Philosophy 6 (2): 96-99. 2009.
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23Review of Nick Trakakis, The End of Philosophy of Religion: London: Continuum, 2008, ISBN: 978-8470-6534-6, hb viii + 172pp (review)Sophia 51 (3): 407-410. 2012.
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20Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on “The Virtue of Justice”Philosophia 41 (2): 271-272. 2013.
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19Being For the Other: Emmanuel Levinas, Ethical Living, and Psychoanalysis. By Paul MarcosHeythrop Journal 51 (3): 504-506. 2010.
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18Intuitive confidence: Choosing between intuitive and nonintuitive alternativesJournal of Experimental Psychology: General 135 (3): 409-428. 2006.People often choose intuitive rather than equally valid nonintuitive alternatives. The authors suggest that these intuitive biases arise because intuitions often spring to mind with subjective ease, and the subjective ease leads people to hold their intuitions with high confidence. An investigation of predictions against point spreads found that people predicted intuitive options more often than equally valid nonintuitive alternatives. Critically, though, this effect was largely determined by pe…Read more
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18Cheaper than a Corvette: The Relevance of Phenomenology for Contemporary Philosophy of ReligionSophia 56 (1): 33-43. 2017.Contemporary phenomenology has often been critiqued as having crossed into the domain of confessional theology. Though I reject this characterization, I do think it is important to consider how best to understand the distinction between philosophy and theology. Accordingly, in this essay, I argue that continental philosophy of religion faces something of a mid-life crisis regarding its own professional and disciplinary identity as philosophical. Through an engagement with the recent work of Kevi…Read more
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