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Richard Fishacre's Super s. Augustini librum de haeresibus adnotationes an Edition and CommentaryArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 60. 1993.
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73. Aquinas and Franciscan Nature MysticismLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 8 (2). 2005.
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3The Limits of Anti-Anti-Commodification ArgumentsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (2): 1-10. 2023.James Stacey Taylor, in his book Markets With Limits, argues that Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski, in their book Markets Without Limits, systematically mischaracterize the views of the anti-commodification theorists they are critiquing, attributing to them positions (e.g., semiotic essentialism and an asymmetry thesis) that they do not hold. Further, Taylor offers an anti-commodification hypothesis of his own to explain why talented academics like Brennan and Jaworski could fall into such syste…Read more
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The classical roots of radical individualismIn David Keyt & Fred Dycus Miller (eds.), Freedom, reason, and the polis: essays in ancient Greek political philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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31Richard Rufus’s Reformulations of Anselm’s Proslogion ArgumentInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (3): 329-347. 2007.In a Sentences Commentary written about 1250 the Franciscan Richard Rufus subjects Anselm’s argument for God’s existence in his Proslogion to the most trenchant criticism since Gaunilon wrote his response on behalf of the “fool.” Anselm’s argument is subtle but sophistical, claims Rufus, because he fails to distinguish between signification and supposition. Rufus therefore offers five reformulations of the Anselmian argument, which we restate in modern formal logic and four of which we claim are…Read more
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33Stephen Langton, Quaestiones Theologiae ed. by Riccardo Quinto and Magdalena BieniakJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): 782-783. 2015.
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5The Significance of Richard Fishacre's Sentences-CommentaryBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 6 214-216. 2002.
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11Scholastic Texts and Orthography: A Response to Roland HissetteBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 41 149-151. 1999.
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6The First Oxford Debate on the Eternity of the WorldRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 65 (1): 52-96. 1998.
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14Postmodern Rand, Transatlantic RandJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 23 (1-2): 356-373. 2023.Neil Cocks’s collection Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts engages Rand’s ideas from a standpoint that is philosophically postmodernist and politically adversarial; while the contributors occasionally make illuminating connections, their obscurantist style, their superfi cial engagement with Rand, and an impatience borne of hostility render the result disappointing. Claudia Brühwiler’s Out of a Gray Fog: Ayn Rand’s Europe, by contrast, provides a fascinating look…Read more
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16Hunting the Pseudo-PhilosopherJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 21 (2): 247-288. 2021.In False Wisdom, Gary H. Merrill develops criteria for distinguishing genuine from pseudo-philosophy, and then applies his criteria to several case studies, including Ayn Rand, all of whom he finds to be pseudo-philosophers. While offering a mostly helpful overview of better and worse ways of doing philosophy, Merrill fails to motivate adequately his way of distinguishing pseudo-philosophy from mere philosophical vices, errors, or failings. He is inconsistent in his characterization of the crite…Read more
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174Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action: Praxeological InvestigationsPsychology Press. 2008.Fascinating and thought-provoking, this book shows how the methodology of Austrian economics can be justified and strengthened by grounding it in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Frege and Wittgenstein argued that whatever counts as thought must embody logical principles. Their arguments also support the conclusion that whatever constitutes action must embody economic principles. In this incisive text, the author shows that this confirms the claims of Austrian economists such as Mises and Hayek t…Read more
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23From Defiant Egoist to Submissive Citizen: Is There a Bridge? Why the Hell Is There a Bridge?Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 20 (2): 372-399. 2020.The author reviews Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy, edited by Gregory Salmieri and Robert Mayhew, and finds it to be a rich and provocative anthology. However, the author is unpersuaded by the arguments, from a number of the contributors, for separating the prohibition on initiatory force as an ethical principle, from individual rights as a political principle—a separation that, on the ethical side, unduly discards the Aristotelean ethical approach w…Read more
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8Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical TraditionPalgrave Macmillan. 2017.This collection seeks to excavate the tradition of radical liberal class analysis, which predated and inspired Marx's reflections on class. Liberal class theory is distinctive because it regards relationship with the state as constitutive rather than just indicative of social class membership. Along with an introduction that frames the discussion historically and conceptually, Social Class and State Power provides readers with easy access to provocative texts from the early modern period to the …Read more
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78Immanent Liberalism: The Politics of Mutual ConsentSocial Philosophy and Policy 12 (2): 1-31. 1995.Part One of Marx's “On the Jewish Question” is a communitarian manifesto, one of the finest and subtlest ever penned. But has it anything valuable to offer defenders of liberalism?I think it does; for in “On the Jewish Question” Marx points to a potential danger into which communitarians are liable to fall, and I shall argue that his discussion sheds light on an analogous peril for liberals. Specifically, Marx distinguishes between a genuine and a spurious form of communitarianism, and warns tha…Read more
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68The Irrelevance of Responsibility: RODERICK T. LONGSocial Philosophy and Policy 16 (2): 118-145. 1999.Responsibility is often thought of as primarily a legal concept. Even when it is moral responsibility that is at issue, it is assumed that it is above all in moralities based on law-centered patterns and models that responsibility takes center stage, so that responsibility is a legal concept at its core, and is applicable to the realm of private morality only by extension and analogy
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101Mill's Higher Pleasures and the Choice of Character*: Roderick T. LongUtilitas 4 (2): 279-297. 1992.J. S. Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures is often thought to conflict with his commitment to psychological and ethical hedonism: if the superiority of higher pleasures is quantitative, then the higher/lower distinction is superfluous and Mill contradicts himself; if the superiority of higher pleasures is not quantitative, then Mill's hedonism is compromised.
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10Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country? (edited book)Ashgate. 2008.Robert Nozick sharply distinguished his vision of the free society from egalitarian liberals such as John Rawls. Less remarked upon is the distinction he drew between the free society governed by a strictly limited government and the society without any government at all. In this volume, the editors have brought together a selection of specially commissioned essays from key theorists actively involved in this debate.
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Review of Anthony de Jasay, Justice and Its Surroundings (review)The Independent Review 8 (1): 121-124. 2003.
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Review of Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (review)The Independent Review 15 615-619. 2011.
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11Two cheers for modernityFree Radical 1 (58): 16-18. 2003.of Freedom in America (New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 102.) More recently, David Kelley has distinguished three contemporary subcultures. One is the "Enlightenment" or Blog Entry..
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