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

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Works from 2024

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Thomas Osborne on Thomas Aquinas on the Virtues, Christopher Kaczor

Works from 2023

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Educating for Good Thinking: Virtues, Skills, or Both?, Jason Baehr

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The Declaration of Independence: Inalienable Rights, the Creator, and the Political Order., Christopher Kaczor

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On the Integration of Positive Psychology and the Psychology/Spirituality: Logical, Normative, and Methodological Questions, S.L. Porter, Jason Baehr, T. Porter, and R. C. Roberts

Works from 2022

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Limitations-Owning and Interpersonal Dimension of Intellectual Humility, Jason Baehr

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Does a Human Being Gain the Right to Live after He or She is Born?, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Gender Ideology, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Lethal Organ Donation, Christopher Kaczor

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Psychology and Religion, Christopher Kaczor

Psychology and Religion, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of What is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions, by John M. Rist, 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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Thomas Aquinas on Gratitude to God, Christopher Kaczor

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Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl, Ian Alexander Moore

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How to Read Meister Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon, Ian Alexander Moore

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Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’s Algontology, Ian Alexander Moore

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“The Pealing of Stillness”: Gadamer on Georg Trakl, Ian Alexander Moore

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Translating Gadamer and Heidegger Translating Aristotle: Über'setzen' and 'Über'setzen, Ian Alexander Moore

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Heidegger on Deep Time and Being-in-Itself: Introductory Thoughts on ‘The Argument against Need’, Ian Alexander Moore and Tobias Keiling

Plato and Aristotle in the Enneads, Eric Perl

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Deductive and Inductive Arguments, Timothy Shanahan

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Schematism and Embodiment in Kant’s Opus postumum, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2021

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Deep in Thought : A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues, Jason Baehr

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Democracy, Information Technology, and Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Two Concepts of Intellectual Humility, Jason Baehr

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Fuller Defenses and Partial Critiques: a Discussion of “Ectogestation and the Problem of Abortion”, Christopher Kaczor

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Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Artificial wombs, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Birth, Viability, and Bestowing Meaning, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Revisiting the Violinist Argument, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: The Repugnant Conclusion on Earth-C, Christopher Kaczor

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The Reception of Thomas Aquinas in Moral Theology and Moral Philosophy in the Late 20th Century: Richard McCormick, John Finnis, and Alasdair MacIntyre as Rival Models, Christopher Kaczor

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Book Review: Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas: Briefwechsel 1928–1976, Ian Alexander Moore

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Memory and Mystical Detachment in Paul Celan's Eckhart-Poems, Ian Alexander Moore

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On the Manifold Meaning of Letting-Be in Reiner Schürmann, Ian Alexander Moore

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Review of Ilit Ferber, Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language, Ian Alexander Moore

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Heidegger, Our Monstrous Site: On Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of the Beiträge, Ian Alexander Moore and Francesco Guercio

Into the Dark: How (Not) to Ask ‘Why Is There Anything at All?’, Eric Perl

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The Puzzle of Humility and Disparity, Dennis Whitcomb, Heather Battaly, Jason Baehr, and Daniel Howard-Snyder

Works from 2020

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Defining Humility: The Scope of Humility, Jason Baehr

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The Structure of an Intellectual Vice, Jason Baehr

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Disputes in Bioethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Faith and Reason and the Consistent Ethic of Life, Christopher Kaczor

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Forward of The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Does Greater Access to Contraception Reduce Abortion?, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Gamete Donation, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Mindfulness, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Transgender Issues, Christopher Kaczor

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Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love : A Summa of the Summa on the Theological Virtues, Christopher Kaczor

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On the History and Future of Heidegger’s Literary Estate, with Newly Published Passages on Nazism and Judaism: A Review of Klaus Held’s Marbach-Bericht, Ian Alexander Moore

‘All Men by Nature Desire to Know:’ The Classical Background of Aquinas on Beauty and Truth, Eric Perl

“Proclus’ Multi-Level Ontology: The Meaning of Monads vs. A Tale Told by Thomists., Eric Perl

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Becoming Honest: Why We Lie and What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter and Jason Baehr

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Blade Runner as Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Be Human?, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 2019

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Intellectual Virtues, Civility, and Public Discourse, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education, Jason Baehr

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Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, and the Structure of Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Wisdom, Suffering, and Humility, Jason Baehr

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God’s Plan, Married Love, and the Gift of Children, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Conscientious Objection in Europe and Mexico, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Is Birth Ethically Relevant?, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Life-Limiting Fetal Anomaly, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Savulescu and Schuklenk on Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor

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The Gospel of Happiness, Christopher Kaczor

Lessened by Addition: Procession by Diminution in Proclus and Aquinas, Eric Perl

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Wisdom through Adversity: The Potential Role of Humility, Tenell Porter, Georgi Gardiner, Don E. Davis, and Jason Baehr

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Do You Long for Having Your Heart Interlinked?, Timothy Shanahan

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Her Eyes Were Green, Timothy Shanahan

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We're All Just Looking for Something Real, Timothy Shanahan

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What Am I to You? The Deck-a-Rep Debate and the Nature of Fictional Truth, Timothy Shanahan

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Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration, Timothy Shanahan and Paul Smart

Works from 2018

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Finding Middle Ground Between Intellectual Arrogance and Intellectual Servility: Development and Assessment of the Limitations-Owning Intellectual Humility Scale, Jason Baehr

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Flannery O’Connor and Religious Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Creativity, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtues and Truth, Understanding, and Wisdom, Jason Baehr

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Should Pediatric Euthanasia be Legalized?, Marije Brouwer, Christopher Kaczor, Margaret P. Battin, Els Maeckelberghe, John D. Lantos, and Eduard Verhagen

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Abortion Rights: For and Against, Christopher Kaczor

A Case for Equal Basic Rights for All Human Beings, Christopher Kaczor

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A Defense of Conscientious Objection in Health Care: A Reply to Recent Objection, Christopher Kaczor

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Ectogenesis and a right to the death of the prenatal human being: A reply to Räsänen, Christopher Kaczor

English Workgroup I, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Chemerinski and Goodwin on Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: The Egg and I: Conception and Identity, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: The Ethics of Circumcision, Christopher Kaczor

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Mirrors for the Human Condition, Timothy Shanahan

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Constructions in Kant’s Philosophy of Physics, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2017

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Honesty's Threshold, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtues and Educational Practice, Jason Baehr

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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

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Virtue, Jason Baehr

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When Humility Answers Hate, Jason Baehr

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365 Days to Deeper Faith: The Catechism of the Catholic Church in Short Daily Readings, Christopher Kaczor

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A dubious defense of ‘after‐birth abortion’: A reply to Räsänen, Christopher Kaczor

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Is It Ethically Permissible to Separate Conjoined Twins? Murder, Mutilation, and Consent, Christopher Kaczor

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On Definitions and Traditions, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Better Never to Have Been Born, Christopher Kaczor