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38Pragmatism and Naturalism in the Study of ReligionAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 33 (3): 185-199. 2012.The word naturalism is used in many different ways in contemporary philosophy. For some it has required that a properly naturalistic account of anything appeal only to what is countenanced by the natural sciences and, for a few, that any object of study be reduced to entities and forces studied by physics and chemistry. Research programs have been developed to “naturalize” numbers, norms, intentional states, and other seemingly recalcitrant concepts by performing the requisite reduction. But a n…Read more
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5William A. Christian, Oppositions of Religious Doctrines: A Study in the Logic of Dialogue among Religions, Philosophy of Religion Series, Herder and Herder, New York, 1972, ix+ 129 pp., $6.95, L.C. No. 76-173830 (review)Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2 (2): 197-202. 1975.
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25Rawls on the Individual and the SocialJournal of Religious Ethics 2 (2). 1974.Three models suggested by Rawls (1971) for conceiving the relation between individual and society are described and critically evaluated. Special attention is given to Rawls's analogies of the problem of mapping the moral sentiments with the problem of mapping linguistic competence and of a social union with participation in a game. Similarities are noted between the theory of justice as fairness and traditional religious conceptions. Both aim to transcend particular interests and both embody pe…Read more
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36God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of ReligionPhilosophical Review 117 (3): 465-468. 2008.
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15William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing T He Varieties of Religious ExperienceColumbia University Press. 2004."Damned for God’s Glory": William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant Culture, by David A. Hollinger Pragmatism and "an Unseen Order" in Varieties, by Wayne Proudfoot The Fragmentation of Consciousness and The Varieties of Religious Experience: William James’s Contribution to a Theory of Religion, by Ann Taves James’s Varieties and the "New" Constructivism, by Jerome Bruner Some Inconsistencies in James’s Varieties, by Richard Rorty A Pragmatist’s Progress: The Varieties of James’…Read more
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5God and the Self: Three Types of Philosophy of ReligionBucknell University Press. 1976.This book is a collection of essays on the philosophy of religion, but it draws on contemporary work in the social sciences as well as in philosophy. It examines the ways in which conceptions of God reflect notions of the self that are present in the thought and experience of each author.
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34Review of ginia schnbaumsfeld, A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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1Explaining religious experienceIn R. Douglas Geivett & Brendan Sweetman (eds.), Contemporary perspectives on religious epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 336--352. 1992.
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28Mysticism, the Numinous, and the MoralJournal of Religious Ethics 4 (1). 1976.Two religious interpretations of experience, the mystical and the numinous, are presented. Two constructions of each are explored, one involving a sense of immediacy which obviates the possibility of ethical judgment, and the other providing a leverage which allows ethical criteria. The author suggests a third interpretation, emphasizing the social character of experience, which is more comprehensive than the first two and correlates better with our experience of moral claims.
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New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |