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1Ethical issues in a national mental health arts and film festivalJournal of Ethics in Mental Health 4 (2): 1-5. 2009.The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival has seen hundreds of arts, public and community groups coproduce over 300 events to over 25,000 audience members. Integral to this arts-based approach, in contrast to social marketing or public education models, is the notion that mental health is an essentially contested concept whereby meanings are negotiated and debate encouraged. With emerging evidence that the festival is an ef ective way of engaging people intellectually and emotionally, we…Read more
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2Toward environmental wholeness: method in experimental ethics and scienceState University of New York Press. 2024.Offers a vision of wholeness for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.
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22The Ethics of Personal Responsibility: A Tribute to William Murnion, caro amicoThe Lonergan Review 6 (1): 100-133. 2015.
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64. Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjectivity: American Phenomenology, Catholic Philosophy, and Lonergan from an Institutional PerspectiveIn Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds.), The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, University of Toronto Press. pp. 114-126. 2020.
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9The Unity of Science, the Universe, and Humanity for Teilhard and LonerganLonergan Workshop 26 21-70. 2012.
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23The Goodness of Being in Lonergan’s InsightAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1): 43-72. 2007.One of the lesser known features of Bernard Lonergan’s Insight is his theory of the relationship between being and goodness. Central to that theory is his claimthat the totality of being is good. From this central claim, Lonergan worked out an “ontology of the good,” in which the structures of ontological interdependencyare reflected in a theory of the scale of higher and lower values. Unfortunately, Lonergan’s way of supporting his claim in Insight is problematic. This article firstsummarizes L…Read more
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39Empathy, Insight and Objectivity: Edith Stein & Bernard LonerganJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 51 (1): 55-70. 2019.ABSTRACTEdith Stein’s study of empathy has much to offer to the current growth of research into empathy. This article first summarizes her phenomenological account of the complex layers involved in...
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30Curiosity: Vice or Virtue? Augustine and LonerganAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (1): 69-93. 2021.Two recent studies by Joseph Torchia and Paul Griffiths show the importance of Augustine’s critique of the vice of curiositas to contemporary life and thought. Superficially, it might seem that Augustine condemned curiosity because it “seeks to find out whatever it wishes without restriction of any kind.” Though profoundly influenced by Augustine, Bernard Lonergan praised intellectual curiosity precisely insofar as it is motivated by an unrestricted desire to know, rather than by less noble moti…Read more
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23Discernment and Self-Appropriation: Ignatius of Loyola and Bernard Lonergan, S.JRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76 (4): 1399-1424. 2020.Bernard Lonergan’s vocation as a Jesuit was central to his entire life’s work, although this is not well known. This essay shows the indebtedness of Lonergan’s method of self-appropriation owes a great deal to Ignatian spiritual practices. In particular, it shows how Ignatian prayer and Lonergan’s account of the structures of consciousness mutually enhance one another. In particular, it concentrates on how prayer is a transforming encounter between Christ and the one praying.
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26Desiring and Practical ReasoningInternational Philosophical Quarterly 60 (1): 75-96. 2020.In his most recent book Alasdair MacIntyre criticizes the dominant moral system of advanced societies, which “presents itself as morality as such.” Yet, he argues, its primary function is to channel human desires into patterns that will minimize conflict amid distinctively modern economic and political arrangements. Although he appreciates how what he calls “expressionism” has unmasked this ideological function of modern morality, he points out that expressionism is also impotent to provide adeq…Read more
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43Is the Universe on Our Side? Scientific Understanding and Religious FaithThe Lonergan Review 3 (1): 140-161. 2011.
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12Developing the Lonergan Legacy: Historical, Theoretical, and Existential Themes (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (4): 511-512. 2006.
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37Statistics as Science: Lonergan, McShane, and PopperJournal of Macrodynamic Analysis 3 55-75. 2003.On this occasion of honouring the achievement of Philip McShane, I would like to recall his earliest and, in my judgment, most important work, Randomness, Statistics and Emergence. In particular, I will recall how that work situated Lonergan’s important breakthrough on statistical method in relation to the major currents of thought on the subject, many of which remain influential still today
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144Lonergan, Evolutionary Science, and Intelligent DesignRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 63 (4). 2007.This article shows how Bernard Lonergan's philosophy of science can bring resolution to a recent controversy: the controversy that arises from Intelligent Design theorists' and proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution. Intelligent Design theories argue that the complex structures of living organisms cannot be adequately explained by neo-Darwinian theories, especially by its postulate of random variations. Hence, an "intelligent designer" must be postulated in order to fill out scientific explanatio…Read more
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62The Goodness of Being in Lonergan’s InsightAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1): 43-72. 2007.One of the lesser known features of Bernard Lonergan’s Insight is his theory of the relationship between being and goodness. Central to that theory is his claimthat the totality of being is good. From this central claim, Lonergan worked out an “ontology of the good,” in which the structures of ontological interdependencyare reflected in a theory of the scale of higher and lower values. Unfortunately, Lonergan’s way of supporting his claim in Insight is problematic. This article firstsummarizes L…Read more
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