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    Dialogue between Faith and Science: The Role of the Hospital Chaplain
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 6 (3): 280-284. 1995.
  • H. A. Prichard's Moral Epistemology
    Dissertation, The University of Iowa. 1988.
    The view I try to develop and defend, which I call the Subjective Theory of Moral Obligation, is based on the writings of H. A. Prichard, primarily on the essay "Duty and Ignorance of Fact". According to this view an agent is rendered morally bound not by the objective facts of his situation, but by his thoughts about the situation in which he is. ;The subject of the first chapter is Prichard's account of knowledge, belief, and likelihood. Cook Wilson's epistemology is discussed at length. The n…Read more
  • The Challenge of War: A Christian Realist Perspective
    In Jean Bethke Elshtain (ed.), Just War Theory, New York University Press. pp. 169--196. 1992.
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    Dialogue between faith and science: the role of the hospital chaplain
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 6 (3): 280. 1995.
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    Selling appropriate development vs. selling-out rural communities: Empowerment and control in indigengous knowledge discourse (review)
    with Cornelia Butler Flora
    Agriculture and Human Values 9 (2): 95-102. 1992.
    This paper looks at the languages of empowerment and control as they are expressed by authors writing about “indigenous knowledge.” We performed a content analysis on CIKARD News, a newsletter dealing with the concept of indigenous knowledge. This concept has become increasingly prominent in the discourse of alternative development, addressing issues of ecological sustainability and the empowerment of the rural poor. However, mediated by institutions that perpetuate global and local power asymme…Read more
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    Proponents of ecological restoration view the practice as a means of both repairing damage done to ecosystems by humans and creating an avenue to re-establish respectful and cooperative human-environment relationships. One debate affecting ecological restoration focuses on the place of 'exotic' species in restored ecosystems. Though popular, campaigns against exotics have been criticized for their troubling rhetorical parallels with nativism aimed at human immigrants. I point to some of the reas…Read more
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    Boredom
    Analysis 74 (2): 236-244. 2014.
    The author proposes an analysis of boredom. The analysis he proposes is that boredom is an unpleasant mental state consisting of weariness, restlessness, and lack of interest, where certain causal relations exist among the components. He goes on to elaborate on and defend his analysis, concluding with some thoughts on the idea that boredom has some grand metaphysical significance