Faculty publications from the Department of Philosophy at LMU can be found here.

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Works from 2017

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Philosophy and Theology: Objection to Conscience: An Argument against Conscience Exemptions in Healthcare, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Physicians, Not Conscripts: Conscientious Objection in Health Care, Christopher Kaczor

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

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Review of Aquinas and the "Nicomachean Ethics." ed. by Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams, Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing, Christopher Kaczor

The House that Jack Built: A Homeric Metaphor for Procline Metaphysic, Eric Perl

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

Works from 2016

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Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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

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Responsibilist Virtues and the ‘Charmed Inner Circle’ of Traditional Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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The Four Dimensions of an Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Against Euthanasia for Children: A Response to Bovens, Christopher Kaczor

Life Issues, Medical Choices: Questions and Answers for Catholics, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on a Future-like-ours and the Substance View, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on Debating Dignity, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on Interests and Regret, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor

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Reading St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Book Review of Chance in Evolution, Timothy Shanahan

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The Definition of 'Terrorism', Timothy Shanahan

Works from 2015

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

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Aristotle, Aquinas, and Seligman on happiness, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Artificial Gametes, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on Dignity, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reflections on Euthanasia, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice, Christopher Kaczor

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The Gospel of Happiness, Christopher Kaczor

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

Works from 2014

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SOPHIA: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy and Theology: Duties to Children, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: End of Life Questions, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Insurance Coverage for Elective Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Is Giving Birth More Dangerous than Aborting?, Christopher Kaczor

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The Seven Big Myths about Marriage: What Science, Faith, and Philosophy Teach Us about Love and Happiness, Christopher Kaczor

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The Motion of Intellect On the Neoplatonic Reading of Sophist 248e-249d, Eric D. Perl

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Philosophy and Blade Runner, Timothy Shanahan

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Review of Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 2013

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Educating for Intellectual Character, Jason Baehr

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Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice, Jason Baehr

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Foreword for Virtuous Minds: Intellectual Character Development , Jason Baehr

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Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?, Jason Baehr

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The Cognitive Demands of Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor

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A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor

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"Double Effect Reasoning" and "Choice, Christopher Kaczor

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John Paul II on the Development of Doctrine, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reductio Arguments, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Reproductive Rights, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Responses to ‘After-Birth Abortion’, Christopher Kaczor

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

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Review of David DeGrazia, Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life, Christopher Kaczor

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The Parts of Prudence and Scientific Solutions for Weakness of Will, Christopher Kaczor

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Power, Politics, and Racism, Brad E. Stone

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Understanding of Yin Yang, Robin Wang

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Teaching with Ignatius: Justice in Pedagogical Practice, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2012

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Open-Mindedness as a Christian Virtue?, Jason Baehr

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Review of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, Jason Baehr

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Two Types of Wisdom, Jason Baehr

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Rorty and the Religious: Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher, Jacob L. Goodson and Brad E. Stone

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Can it be Morally Permissible to Assert a Falsehood for a Good Cause?, Christopher Kaczor

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Conscientious Objection and Health Care: A Reply to Bernard Dickens, Christopher Kaczor

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Infanticide, Christopher Kaczor

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Organ Donation following Cardiac Death: Conflicts of Interest, Ante Mortem Interventions, and Determinations of Death, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: After-Birth Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Contemporary Discussions of Parenthood, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Disability, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: What Justifies the Right to Live?, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Good and Evil Actions: A Journey through Saint Thomas Aquinas, by Steven Jensen, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Christopher Kaczor

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The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction about Catholicism, Christopher Kaczor

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Evolutionary Progress: Conceptual Issues, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 2011

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Credit Theories and the Value of Knowledge, Jason Baehr

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The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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The Structure of Open-Mindedness, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Conscience Protections for Health Care Workers, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Double Effect Reasoning, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Fetal Interventions, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on the Violinist Analogy, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Patrick Lee, Abortion and Unborn Human Life, Christopher Kaczor

The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics, Christopher Kaczor

Esse Tantum and the One, Eric Perl

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Diversity and Complexity are Easy, Timothy Shanahan

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Phylogenetic Inertia and Darwin's Higher Law, Timothy Shanahan

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Making Religious Practices Intelligible in the Public Sphere: A Pragmatist Evaluation of Scriptural Reasoning, Brad E. Stone

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Prophetic Pragmatism and the Practices of Freedom: On Cornel West's Foucauldian Methodology, Brad E. Stone

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The Down Low and the Sexuality of Race, Brad E. Stone

Works from 2010

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Epistemic Malevolence, Jason Baehr

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O Rare Ralph McInerny: Stories and Reflections about a Legendary Notre Dame Professor, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Access to Fertility Treatments, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Diachronic Personal Identity, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Human Dignity, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Speciesism, Christopher Kaczor

Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition, Christopher Kaczor

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The Charging of Interest in the Roman Catholic Tradition: Then and Now, Christopher Kaczor

Neither One nor Many: God and the Gods in Plotinus, Proclus, and Aquinas, Eric Perl

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Eric Perl

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A Clever Ruse, Timothy Shanahan