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6This book stands as a testimony to the creative impact of W J Kilgore's teaching on the minds of his students. The contributors were each once students of Dr. Kilgore, and this collection of essays is designed to contribute to scholarly work in philosophy, at the same time serving as a tribute to Dr Kilgore's intellectual depth, philosophical rigor, and steadfastness of character.
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30The Deep Spirit of the EnlightenmentPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 6 (3-4): 1-8. 1999.Currently the Enlightenment tradition is under such intense attack that Richard Bernstein calls the present mood a “rage against the enlightenment.” The purpose of this essay is to defend the deep spirit of the Enlightenment, the position that no idea, proposition, or principle should be beyond critical assessment. The defense involves an examination of and a response to two criticisms of the Enlightenment: first that the Enlightenment disdainfully rejects religion, particularly Christianity, an…Read more
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18Western Philosophic Systems and Their Cyclic Transformations (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (4): 887-889. 1995.Brumbaugh divides Western philosophic systems into four families: Platonist, Aristotelian, Democritean, and Anaxagorean. He plots these on a graph with the X-axis designating the method of the system and the Y-axis the direction. Method refers to the system's tendency to employ either dialectical thinking in emphasizing the whole or analysis in emphasizing the parts out of which the whole is constructed. He uses Richard McKeon's terms "holoscopic" for the former, and "meroscopic" for the latter.…Read more
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31Animal Experimentation: The Moral IssuesHastings Center Report 21 (5): 43. 1991.Book reviewed in this article: Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues. Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
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30Practical Indeterminacy and Theoretical DeterminacySouthwest Philosophy Review 23 (2): 73-75. 2007.
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50Euthanasia: the moral issues (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1989.Essays discuss active and passive euthanasia, the right to die, and the care of the terminally ill
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136The ethics of abortion: pro-life vs. pro-choice (edited book)Prometheus Books. 1993.Essays cover the abortion situation before Roe v. Wade, Christians and abortion, abortion and the Constitution, abortion and moral philosophy, and the feminist perspective.
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36MORALITY, JUSTICE AND THE LAW is a co-edited volume pulling together selections on theories of the moral underpinnings of law, morality and lawyering (including the religious lawyering movement), civil disobedience, capital punishment and immigration. The book was published by Prometheus Books in 2007.
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4Morality, justice, and the law: the continuing debate (edited book)Prometheus Books. 2007.Intellectually stimulating articles, which grapple with the tough issues involving morality, justice, and the law. This balanced anthology will be of interest to philosophers, legal scholars, and anyone concerned about the relation of law to morality.