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Philosophy And Theology: Responses To ‘After-Birth Abortion’, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2013

Philosophy And Theology: Responses To ‘After-Birth Abortion’, Christopher Kaczor

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Review Of "The Critical Imagination" By J. Grant, Richard Thomas Eldridge Aug 2013

Review Of "The Critical Imagination" By J. Grant, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Review Of "Contrastivism In Philosophy" Edited By M. Blaauw, Peter Baumann Jun 2013

Review Of "Contrastivism In Philosophy" Edited By M. Blaauw, Peter Baumann

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Philosophy And Theology: Reproductive Rights, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2013

Philosophy And Theology: Reproductive Rights, Christopher Kaczor

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The article discusses the philosophy and theology regarding reproductive rights and reproductive duties. It is stated that the term "reproductive rights" is a common euphemism for the ability to access abortion and contraception. It is noted that the ambiguity in speaking about reproductive rights comes from the multiple meanings of the term "rights."


Idealism In 19th Century British And American Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2013

Idealism In 19th Century British And American Literature, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Technology For Social Inclusion, Hugh Lacey Jan 2013

Technology For Social Inclusion, Hugh Lacey

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Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?, Jason Baehr

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The Cognitive Demands Of Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

The Cognitive Demands Of Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Educating For Intellectual Virtues: From Theory To Practice, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Educating For Intellectual Virtues: From Theory To Practice, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy And Theology: The Time-Relative Interest Account, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2013

Philosophy And Theology: The Time-Relative Interest Account, Christopher Kaczor

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Educating For Intellectual Character, Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Educating For Intellectual Character, Jason Baehr

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Teaching With Ignatius: Justice In Pedagogical Practice, Jeffrey Wilson Jan 2013

Teaching With Ignatius: Justice In Pedagogical Practice, Jeffrey Wilson

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The document Justice in the World, released in 1971 by the World Synod of Bishops, is an excellent basis for thinking about pedagogical practice in Ignatian higher education as a constellation of acts of justice. I describe here my personal experience (as an ambiguously Catholic faculty member) of teaching an upper division ethics course in the core curriculum and contextualize it in terms both of Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises and the 1971 Synod document.


Foreword For Virtuous Minds: Intellectual Character Development , Jason Baehr Jan 2013

Foreword For Virtuous Minds: Intellectual Character Development , Jason Baehr

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The Parts Of Prudence And Scientific Solutions For Weakness Of Will, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2013

The Parts Of Prudence And Scientific Solutions For Weakness Of Will, Christopher Kaczor

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This essay outlines a view of practical wisdom drawing on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In it, I discuss the presuppositions of practical wisdom, namely the ordering to the end of true human happiness. Next, the focus shifts to the “parts” or elements of practical wisdom in order to highlight the intellectual aspects of practical wisdom as a cognitive perfection. Finally, the essay addresses prudence as practical, the actual carrying out of the right deed, at the right time and in the right way. Here, the conclusion of the essay considers the findings of contemporary science in the search …


Philosophy And Theology: Reductio Arguments, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2013

Philosophy And Theology: Reductio Arguments, Christopher Kaczor

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John Paul Ii On The Development Of Doctrine, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2013

John Paul Ii On The Development Of Doctrine, Christopher Kaczor

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Review Of "Hegel’S Naturalism: Mind, Nature, And The Final Ends Of Life" By T. Pinkard, Richard Thomas Eldridge Oct 2012

Review Of "Hegel’S Naturalism: Mind, Nature, And The Final Ends Of Life" By T. Pinkard, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Philosophy And Theology: Disability, Christopher Kaczor Oct 2012

Philosophy And Theology: Disability, Christopher Kaczor

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The article focuses on various definitions of disability in human beings given by researcher. It mentions that disability is not universally accepted for normal function of a species. It informs that physical and psychological condition informs about the health of people. It further highlights that species norm defines disability in terms of disease.


Review Of "The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach" By D. Dorsey, Krista Karbowski Thomason Aug 2012

Review Of "The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach" By D. Dorsey, Krista Karbowski Thomason

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Philosophy And Theology: Contemporary Discussions Of Parenthood, Christopher Kaczor Jul 2012

Philosophy And Theology: Contemporary Discussions Of Parenthood, Christopher Kaczor

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The article offers the author's insights on parenthood, which is the topic of interest of philosophers and theologians. The author says that the fundamental and primary obligation of parents to care for their children grounds the prerogatives, which parents have over their children. He mentions the argument between Bernard Prusak and S. Matthew Liao about the article "The Right of Children to Be Loved," in which Prusak objects the idea of the child's right to be loved.


On The Inflation Of Necessities, Peter Baumann Apr 2012

On The Inflation Of Necessities, Peter Baumann

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This paper argues that Kripke’s thesis of the necessity of origin has some implausible consequences.


Philosophy And Theology: What Justifies The Right To Live?, Christopher Kaczor Apr 2012

Philosophy And Theology: What Justifies The Right To Live?, Christopher Kaczor

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In this article, the author presents his views on various articles related to the research on philosophy and theology which was published in the previous issues of several periodicals. He informs about the definitions of potentiality and capacity. He further highlights a book "Embryo: A Defense of Human Life" by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen.


Kant's Argument From The Applicability Of Geometry, Waldemar Rohloff Jan 2012

Kant's Argument From The Applicability Of Geometry, Waldemar Rohloff

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In this paper I develop a reading of Kant's argument from geometry based on distinguishing the roles of pure versus applied geometry. Once these roles are properly distinguished, I argue that the argument from geometry is not susceptible to the problems concerning the development and applications of non-Euclidean geometry, which are often thought to undermine the argument.


Nozick’S Defense Of Closure, Peter Baumann Jan 2012

Nozick’S Defense Of Closure, Peter Baumann

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Knowledge, Practical Reasoning And Action, Peter Baumann Jan 2012

Knowledge, Practical Reasoning And Action, Peter Baumann

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Is knowledge necessary or sufficient or both necessary and sufficient for acceptable practical reasoning and rational action? Several authors (e.g., Williamson, Hawthorne, and Stanley) have recently argued that the answer to these questions is positive. In this paper I present several objections against this view (both in its basic form as well in more developed forms). I also offer a sketch of an alternative view: What matters for the acceptability of practical reasoning in at least many cases (and in all the cases discussed by the defenders of a strong link between knowledge and practical reasoning) is not so much …


Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey Jan 2012

Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey

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Cultural values may constructively have impact on scientific practices, and lead to legitimate culture-based variations in approaches to them. It follows that traditional or indigenous knowledge need not stand opposed to scientific knowledge, and only investigation on a case-by-case basis can establish whether or not the cognitive credentials of particular traditional knowledge claims are adequate or deficient. Building on an analysis of how different methodological strategies may both compete and complement one another, I argue that what is defensible about Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability, and the possibility of the sound scientific status of traditional knowledge, have the same source. …


Reflections On Science And Technoscience, Hugh Lacey Jan 2012

Reflections On Science And Technoscience, Hugh Lacey

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Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments, experimental objects, and new objects and structures, that enable us to gain knowledge of states of affairs of novel domains, especially knowledge about new possibilities of what we can do and make, with the horizons of practical, industrial, medical or military innovation, and economic growth and competition, never far removed from view. The legitimacy of technoscientific innovations can be appraised only in the course of considering fully what sorts of objects technoscientific objects are: objects that embody scientific knowledge confirmed within …


G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2012

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2012

Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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