Michigan State University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1999
East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
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    University Teaching (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 20 (4): 424-430. 1997.
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    University Teaching (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 20 (4): 424-430. 1997.
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    Emergence and Religious Naturalism: The Promise and Peril
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 35 (2): 153-171. 2014.
    While the topics of emergentism and religious naturalism have both received renewed attention in the past two decades, the recent publication of several books and numerous articles arguing for emergentism and its religious significance suggests that they are converging in interesting ways. Indeed, religious naturalists such as cell biologist Ursula Goodenough, complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman, and philosopher Loyal Rue have been important voices in this conversation. While they cannot be easi…Read more
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    Making Space for Agnosticism: A Response to Dawkins and James
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 34 (2): 135-153. 2013.
    A common strategy in philosophical debate is to limit the alternative positions available in order to increase the appeal of one's own position. Unfortunately, this has too often been true in debates regarding the justification of religious faith. Both defenders and critics of religious faith have tried to rule out agnosticism as a viable alternative in order to support their own arguments for or against religious faith. Unfortunately, this strategy only encourages what is already the problemati…Read more
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    In Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism, Carol Wayne White sets out to develop a new religious ideal for African American culture by bringing two unlikely partners, African American religiosity and religious naturalism, into conversation. This is an ambitious project given the prominent role that supernaturalistic theism plays in African American religiosity and the paucity of attention that contemporary religious naturalism has given to cultural issue…Read more
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    Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism by Donald A. Crosby
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 38 (2): 232-235. 2017.
    Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism is the fifth book on religious naturalism that Donald Crosby has published since 2002, and it must be seen in that context. Religion of Nature makes the claim for the religious and metaphysical ultimacy of nature, Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil explores possible responses of religious naturalism's to natural and human evil, The Thou of Nature: Religious Naturalism and Reverence for Sentient Beings…Read more
  • Pragmatism and Practical Philosophy
    Dissertation, Michigan State University. 1999.
    Philosophers are increasingly shifting their attention from the abstract and technical problems which have characterized professional philosophy to problems of a more practical and public nature. While this interest in practical philosophy has been welcomed by many people, it has also met with significant skepticism and criticism. Many professional philosophers still view practical philosophy as academically suspect, if not professionally inappropriate. My goals in this project are to develop a …Read more
  • Experts in ethics-Reply
    Hastings Center Report 29 (5): 4-5. 1999.
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    The Nature of Ethical Expertise
    Hastings Center Report 28 (6): 11. 1998.
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    Individual Responsibility for Health: Decision, not Discovery
    Hastings Center Report 32 (2): 22-31. 2002.
    Health policy sometimes hinges on claims about the responsibility borne by people or corporations for health outcomes. We don't want these claims to be arbitrary, so we construe them as discoveries of plain fact. But we're mistaken. They are interwoven with our values and social institutions. Recognizing that they are allows us to debate them more honestly and thoroughly.
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    University Teaching (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 20 (4): 424-430. 1997.
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    Is sexism the issue?
    American Journal of Bioethics 1 (1). 2001.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Perhaps the best way to understand this book is to see it as the first installment on a larger project. Woell’s ultimate goal is to write a pragmatic philosophy of religion, but this work is not it. This preliminary project attempts to clear the way for the larger project by reclaiming pragmatism in such a way that it can provide an adequate framework for doing the philosophy of religion. In other words, this is a book about pragmatism that serves as a “prolegomena to a pragmatic philosophy of r…Read more