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Philosophy And Theology: Better Never To Have Been Born, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2017

Philosophy And Theology: Better Never To Have Been Born, Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics Of Pregnancy, Abortion, And Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices In Childbearing, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2017

The Ethics Of Pregnancy, Abortion, And Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices In Childbearing, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Pre-Birth And Post-Birth Abortion, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2017

Philosophy And Theology: Pre-Birth And Post-Birth Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Objection To Conscience: An Argument Against Conscience Exemptions In Healthcare, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2017

Philosophy And Theology: Objection To Conscience: An Argument Against Conscience Exemptions In Healthcare, Christopher Kaczor

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Selfish Genes And Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins' And Stephen Jay Gould's Divergent Darwinian Research Agendas, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2017

Selfish Genes And Lucky Breaks: Richard Dawkins' And Stephen Jay Gould's Divergent Darwinian Research Agendas, Timothy Shanahan

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Darwin expressed alternative theoretical perspectives on a range of issues fundamental to our understanding of evolution, thereby making it possible for his intellectual descendants to develop his ideas in markedly different and even incompatible directions while still promoting their views as authentically “Darwinian.” The long-running and well-publicized scientific rivalry between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould is a striking case in point. In elegantly written books and essays spanning the last quarter of the twentieth century, they developed and defended diametrically opposed views on the units of selection, the scope and depth of adaptation, the significance of chance events, and …


Honesty's Threshold, Jason Baehr Jan 2017

Honesty's Threshold, Jason Baehr

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Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2017

Virtue, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

Intellectual virtues are character traits that facilitate the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods. This chapter takes up the question of which traits are intellectual virtues in relation to a particular variety of knowledge; namely, knowledge of God. It is argued that moral humility (as distinct from intellectual humility) is an intellectual virtue in this context. This account of moral humility and its epistemically salutary effects is sketched against the backdrop of an account of human pride and the obstacles such pride poses to the acquisition of theistic knowledge. Finally, an objection is considered according to which, …


The Situationist Challenge To Educating For Intellectual Virtues, Jason Baehr Jan 2017

The Situationist Challenge To Educating For Intellectual Virtues, Jason Baehr

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The Varieties Of Character And Some Implications For Character Education, Jason Baehr Jan 2017

The Varieties Of Character And Some Implications For Character Education, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

The moral and civic dimensions of personal character have been widely recognized and explored. Recent work by philosophers, psychologists, and education theorists has drawn attention to two additional dimensions of character: intellectual character and “performance” character. This article sketches a “four-dimensional” conceptual model of personal character and some of the character strengths or “virtues” proper to each dimension. In addition to exploring how the dimensions of character are related to each other, the article also examines the implications of this account for character education undertaken in a youth or adolescent context. It is argued that “intellectual character education,” which emphasizes …


Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Interests And Regret, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2016

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Interests And Regret, Christopher Kaczor

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The article provides an assessment of the burdens of continuing a pregnancy. Topics discussed include the burdens and costs of abortion, anecdotal evidence regarding feelings of regret after opting for abortion, reference to the book "A Defense of Abortion" by David Boonin, and the violinist argument, which must take account of the possible burdens of a crisis pregnancy.


Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2016

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2016

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On A Future-Like-Ours And The Substance View, Christopher Kaczor

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Service And Learning For Whom? Toward A Critical Decolonizing Bicultural Service Learning Pedagogy, Kortney Hernandez Apr 2016

Service And Learning For Whom? Toward A Critical Decolonizing Bicultural Service Learning Pedagogy, Kortney Hernandez

LMU Theses and Dissertations

The notion of service has enjoyed historical longevity—rooted deeply within our institutions (i.e., churches, schools, government, military, etc.), reminiscent of indentured servitude, and rarely questioned as a colonizing practice that upholds oppression. Given the relentless insertion of service learning programs into working class communities, the sacrosanctity awarded and commonsensically given to service is challenged and understood within its colonial, historical, philosophical, economic, and ideological machinations. This political confrontation of service learning practices serves to: (a) critique the dominant epistemologies that reproduce social inequalities within the context of service learning theory and practice; and (b) move toward the formulation of a …


The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2016

The Four Dimensions Of An Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr Jan 2016

Is Intellectual Character Growth A Realistic Educational Aim?, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr Jan 2016

Responsibilist Virtues And The ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ Of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

In Judgment and Agency, Ernest Sosa takes “reliabilist” virtue epistemology deep into “responsibilist” territory, arguing that “a true epistemology” will assign “responsibilist-cum-reliabilist intellectual virtue the main role in addressing concerns at the center of the tradition.” However, Sosa stops short of granting this status to familiar responsibilist virtues like open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual humility. He cites three reasons for doing so: responsibilist virtues involve excessive motivational demands; they are quasi-ethical; and they are best understood, not as constituting knowledge, but rather as putting one “in a position” to know. I elaborate on and respond to each of these …


Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2016

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2016

Book Review Of Chance In Evolution, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Space, Geometry, And Kant's Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories, Jeffrey L. Wilson Dec 2015

Book Review: Space, Geometry, And Kant's Transcendental Deduction Of The Categories, Jeffrey L. Wilson

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Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Euthanasia, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2015

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Euthanasia, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

In this article the author discusses the views of Luc Bovens on euthanasia in referance to his work "Child Euthanasia: Should We Just Not Talk about It?". Topcis discussed include Palliative Care, Legalization of euthanasia, killing of patients than relieving pain, euthanasia for minors, and parents for pressuring of children into euthanasia by their parents.


Philosophy And Theology: Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2015

Philosophy And Theology: Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Domination And The Free Will Defense: A Reply To Pruss, Daniel Speak Jul 2015

Domination And The Free Will Defense: A Reply To Pruss, Daniel Speak

Philosophy Faculty Works

Few arguments have enjoyed as strong a reputation for philosophical success as Alvin Plantinga's free will defense (FWD). Despite the striking reputation for decisiveness, however, concerns about the success of the FWD have begun to trickle into the philosophical literature. In a recent article in this journal, Alexander Pruss has contributed to this flow with an intriguing argument that a proposition necessary to the success of Plantinga's FWD is false. Specifically, Pruss has argued, contrary to the FWD, that, necessarily, God is able to actualize a world containing at least one significantly free creature who never does anything morally wrong. …


Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Gametes, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2015

Philosophy And Theology: Artificial Gametes, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Character Virtues, Epistemic Agency, And Reflective Knowledge, Jason Baehr Jan 2015

Character Virtues, Epistemic Agency, And Reflective Knowledge, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Intellectual Humility: Owning Our Limitations, Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, Daniel Howard-Snyder Jan 2015

Intellectual Humility: Owning Our Limitations, Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, Daniel Howard-Snyder

Philosophy Faculty Works

What is intellectual humility? In this essay, we aim to answer this question by assessing several contemporary accounts of intellectual humility, developing our own account, offering two reasons for our account, and meeting two objections and solving one puzzle


Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Dignity, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2015

Philosophy And Theology: Reflections On Dignity, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

The article discusses the human dignity of a person. The meaning of human dignity in the philosophy of religion means each and every person value or worth of great respect. In Catholic teachings it believes that human being are created in the image and likeness of God has had the dignity of a person.


Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach To Environmental Virtue Ethics, Brian Treanor Nov 2014

Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach To Environmental Virtue Ethics, Brian Treanor

Faculty Pub Night

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Philosophy And Theology: Is Giving Birth More Dangerous Than Aborting?, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2014

Philosophy And Theology: Is Giving Birth More Dangerous Than Aborting?, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: End Of Life Questions, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2014

Philosophy And Theology: End Of Life Questions, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Philosophy And Theology: Insurance Coverage For Elective Abortion, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2014

Philosophy And Theology: Insurance Coverage For Elective Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.