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5On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington). 2020.This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance, richness and vitality of the sacred, and several key theories of the sacred, in the context of science and religion, and philosophical ontology.
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240Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion. First Mariner Books, 2008. / Michael Martin . The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press, 2007. / Louise M. Antony . Philosophers without Gods. Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life. Oxford University Press, 2007 (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (1): 157-176. 2009.
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On the Nature of the Core CurriculumThe 5th ACU Learning and Teaching Conference: Exploring Excellence in Learning and Teaching (Selected Papers). 2018.On the nature, meaning and significance of the "core curriculum" in higher education.
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14Education at the Crossroads? (On the Tragedy of "Humanism")Selected Papers From the 2018 International ACERP Conference (IAFOR). 2018.A critical account of "Humanism" and some of its extreme forms and manifestations; reflection on some of the important challenges these raise in relation to higher education in the 21st century.
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294The Eudaimonian Question: On the Tragedy of Humanism (Ethics, Education and the Common Good)Selected Papers From the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. 2018.
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1The Age of the Advent of Technologism and the End of Communication?In Hersey Leigh Nanney (ed.), Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age, . pp. 69-93. 2019.There can be little doubt that informatics and communication technologies have transformed, and some would say rendered problematic, not just such ways of thinking about relations and authenticity between human subjects, but also the very question of the possibility of such relations, especially given the global phenomenon of simulation, social media, avatars, and technologically mediated communication at almost every point of our personal, interpersonal and professional relationships in the dig…Read more
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paper to be presented at "Religion, Society, and the Science of Life", 2017 IRC-ISSR Conference, 19-22 July, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford University
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Howard Hawks and John Ford ResurgentCinema Papers (1995). 1995.On the aesthetics and poetics of Hawks and Ford; their resurgence in film studies.
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26Heidegger Philosophy & Politics: On the Heidelberg Conference (Gadamer, Heidegger, Derrida and Lacoue- Labarthe)Phenomenological Reviews (November ). 2017.Critical evaluation of Heidegger on philosophy & politics (with particular emphasis on the Heidelberg Conference featuring Gadamer, Derrida and Lacoue- Labarthe)
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Euporia: On Sorrow, Forgiveness and the Idea of the UnforgivableIn Bock Gregory (ed.), The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Vernon. pp. 189-207. 2018.A critical account of forgiveness and the "unforgivable", with particular reference to Bonaventure and Derrida, among others.
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1On the Intellectual VirtuesIn Angus Brook (ed.), An Introduction to Philosophy and Theology, Mcgraw-hill. pp. 280-288. 2014.
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3What is ethics?In Angus Brook (ed.), An Introduction to Philosophy and Theology, Mcgraw-hill. pp. 109-118. 2014.
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What is Philosophy?In Angus Brook (ed.), An Introduction to Philosophy and Theology, Mcgraw-hill. pp. 12-20. 2014.
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38Virtues, Ethics and the ‘Moral Tragedy’ of Climate ChangeATINER Selected Papers (E-Archive). 2017.
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48Patrick McNamara: The Neuroscience of Religious Experience. Cambridge University Press 2009European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (1): 229--238. 2017.A critical analysis and evaluation of McNamara's book, "The Neuroscience of Religious Experience".
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2Review of Soule, Michael E., Lease, Gary, eds., Reinventing Nature. Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (review)Ethics and the Environment 2 (2): 203-206. 1997.
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In a time of terror: globalisation, transformation and the EnlightenmentIn Philip Quadrio Carrol Besseling & Andrew Quadrio (eds.), Politics and religion in the new century: philosophical reflections, Sydney University Press. pp. 233-258. 2009.A critical analysis and evaluation of Habermas' and Derrida's understanding of terrorism (in particular 9/11); some reflections on the role of philosophy and philosophers in the present age.
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Hollywood, Vietnam and the National Imaginary: ‘Three Seasons'Asian Studies Association of Australia E-Journal (September). 1999.
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The persistence of the grand metanarratives of progress (review)Cultural Studies 14 (2): 365-367. 2000.
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Between dialectic, eristic and deconstruction : of Socratic methods and higher education in the 21st CenturyStudies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development 5 (4): 51-62. 2008.
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Religion Literature and the Arts (edited book)RLA. 1996.Selected, expanded, refereed papers from the first international RLA Conference, University of Sydney/ACU, 1994
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12On the ethical life (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2009.The question of the ethical life is arguably one of the most compelling, and urgent, questions of our time. As Peter Singer, among others, has pointed out, almost 10 million children die each year due to poverty, some of whom would not die if the amount of aid that we now offer increases significantly. As Singer has also pointed out, the exploitation of human beings and other animals is a major ethical and practical concern. There can be little reasonable doubt that pain and suffering abound, in…Read more
Raymond Aaron Younis
Lincoln College Oxford
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