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4On 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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223Richard 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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283The 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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20Heidegger 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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46Patrick 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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16Condemned to be free: Sartre, Existentialism and humanismPhilosopher: revue pour tous 1 (2): 22-30. 1995.
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Ethics, Virtues, Neuroscience and EducationIn Michael Peters Tina Besley & Jayne White (eds.), Education and Philosophies of Engagement, Forthcoming 2015. 2015.
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26Against method, against science? On logic, order and analogy in the sciencesIn Jeremy Horne (ed.), Philosophical Perceptions on Logic and Order, Igi Global. pp. 270-282. 2017.
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Euporia: on the limits horizons and possibilities of critical theory (or: on reconstruction)In Harry Dahms & Eric Lybeck (eds.), On Reconstruction, Ashgate. pp. 89-108. 2017.
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Religious experience, modern fiction and the aesthetics of the sacredIn Raymond Aaron Younis, Michael Griffith, James Tulip, Ross Keating & Elaine Lindsay (eds.), Religion Literature and the Arts, Rla. pp. 457-465. 1996.
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Language Games, Postmodernism and DeconstructionIn M. Freund M. O’Loughlin & J. Mackenzie (eds.), Politics, Business and Education: the Aims of Education in the Twenty First Century, Pesa. 2006.
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77Neuroscience, Virtues, Ethics, Compassion and the Question of CharacterReimagining the University. 2015.There has been much debate recently about the meaning, place and function of “character” and “character traits” in Virtue Ethics. For example, a number of philosophers have argued recently that Virtue Ethics would be strengthened as a theory by the omission of talk of character traits; recent neuroscientific studies have suggested that there is scope for scepticism about the existence of such traits. I will argue that both approaches are flawed and unconvincing: in brief, the first approach tend…Read more
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The Last "Post"In Raymond Aaron Younis, Michael Griffith, James Tulip, Ross Keating & Elaine Lindsay (eds.), Religion Literature and the Arts, Rla. pp. 348-359. 1996.
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