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37Poincaré, Kant, and the Scope of Mathematical IntuitionReview of Metaphysics 62 (4): 779-801. 2009.Today it is no news to point out that Kant’s doctrine of space as a form of intuition is motivated by epistemological considerations independent of his commitment to Euclidean geometry. These considerations surface—apparently without his own recognition—in Poincaré’s, Science and Hypothesis, the very work that helped turn analytically-minded philosophers away from the Critique. I argue that we should view Poincaré as refining Kant’s doctrine of space as the form of intuition, even as we see both…Read more
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24Religion, Interpretation and Diversity of Belief: The Framework Model From Kant to Durkheim to DavidsonCambridge University Press. 1989.Different religious traditions offer apparently very different pictures of the world. How are we to make sense of this radical diversity of religious belief? In this book, Professor Godlove argues that religions are alternative conceptual frameworks, the categories of which organise experience in diverse ways. He traces the history of this idea from Kant to Durkheim, and then proceeds to discuss two constraints on the diversity of all human judgment and belief: first that human experience is mad…Read more
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20Moral Actions, Moral Lives: Kant on Intending the Highest GoodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (1): 49-64. 1987.
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30Respecting Autonomy and Understanding Religion: TERRY F. GODLOVE, JRReligious Studies 28 (1): 43-60. 1992.My topic is a long-standing tension in the interpretation of religion. On the one hand, it seems undeniable — seems almost to go without saying — that liturgical and sacrificial practices, sacred dance, divination, procession and pilgrimage are intentional actions undertaken by persons. Yet there is a distinguished tradition in the study of religion according to which religious activity is typically caused by forces over which the agent has little or no control. Visible, latter-day members of th…Read more
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33Charles M. Lewis (ed.). Relativism and religion. (London: Macmillan, 1995.) Pp. 158 (review)Religious Studies 34 (2): 219-229. 1998.
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58The Objectivity of Regulative Principles in Kant’s Appendix to the DialecticIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 129-140. 2013.
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56Hanna, Kantian Non-Conceptualism, and Benacerraf’s DilemmaInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (3). 2011.Abstract Robert Hanna has recently advanced a theory of non-conceptual content, the central claim of which is that "it is perfectly possible for there to be directly referential intuitions without concepts". Hanna bases this claim in Kant's account of intuition in the Critique of Pure Reason, and so extends his Kantian non-conceptualism beyond the epistemology of empirical knowledge into the realm of mathematics. Thus, Hanna has proposed a Kantian non-conceptualist solution to a well-known dilem…Read more
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12BOOKS ReviewMetaphilosophy 25 (1): 96-106. 1994.Life's Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. By Ronald Dworkin. Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartse. By Gareth B. Matthews.
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13Kant and the Meaning of ReligionColumbia University Press. 2014.Terry F. Godlove discovers in Immanuel Kant's theoretical philosophy resources that have much wider implications beyond Christianity and the philosophical issues that concern monotheism and its beliefs. For Godlove, Kant's insights, when properly applied, can help rejuvenate our understanding of the general study of religion and its challenges. He therefore bypasses what is usually considered to be the "Kantian philosophy of religion" and instead focuses on more fundamental issues, such as Kant'…Read more
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13Review of Warren Schmaus, Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (2). 2005.
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30Epistemology in Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious LifeJournal of the History of Philosophy 24 (3): 385-401. 1986.
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31Moral actions, moral lives: Kant on intending the highest goodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (1): 49-64. 1987.
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74Christopher J. Insole: Kant and the creation of freedom: a theological problem: Oxford University Press, New York, 2013, 288 pp., $125 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 75 (3): 259-262. 2014.Christopher Insole argues that we have underestimated the importance of the following theological problem in the development of Kant’s mature, critical philosophy: “How can it be said that we are free, given that we are created by God?” (p. 5). The author makes a strong case that this problem was formative for a range of Kant’s pre-critical views. What role it continues to play in the 1780s and beyond will be, as the author himself notes, controversial. Chapters 1–3 contain lucid and, especially…Read more
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17Subjectivity, Enchantment, and Truth: Frankenberry among the PuritansAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37 (1): 21-35. 2016.Philosophers of religion are indebted to Nancy Frankenberry for a trail of important papers and books in which she scouts the line between philosophical and religious thinking. Robert Neville has already conveyed some sense of the breadth and scope of her work—of the difficult landscape through which she has guided us. So I am going to go small. I am going to focus on two clusters of issues that have been central to her thinking. I have had the good fortune over the years to think with Frankenbe…Read more
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10Making Pauses PregnantPhilosophy Today 27 (2): 132-137. 1983.Godlove argues that Dauenhauer, whatever the merits of Silence,suffers from a fundamental confusion about the topic of silence itself. Godlove's paper is presented here in its entirety
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