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

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Works from 2010

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Betraying a Certain Corruption of Mind: How (and How Not) to Define 'Terrorism', Timothy Shanahan

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Philosophy of Biology Evolving, Timothy Shanahan

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Review: Back to Darwin, Timothy Shanahan

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Subjectivity and Truth, Brad E. Stone

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Ideal Womanhood in Chinese Thought and Culture, Robin Wang

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Performing the Meanings of Dao: A Possible Pedagogical Strategy for Teaching Chinese Philosophy, Robin Wang

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Review of Daoism: An Introduction, Robin Wang

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The Virtuous Body at Work: The Ethical Life as Qi 氣 in Motion, Robin Wang

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Zhang Zai’s Theory of Vital Energy, Robin Wang

Works from 2009

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Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Is There a Value Problem?, Jason Baehr

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Anthropological, Theological, and Ethical Aspects of Human Life and Procreation, Christopher Kaczor

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

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Jeff McMahan, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Organ Donation after Cardiac Death, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Procreative Beneficence, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on the Human Embryo Debates, Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics of Ectopic Pregnancy: A Critical Reconsideration of Salpingostomy and Methotrexate, Christopher Kaczor

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Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues, Christopher Kaczor and Thomas Sherman

The Good of the Intellect, Eric Perl

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The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism, Timothy Shanahan

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Units of Selection, Timothy Shanahan

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Xavier Zubiri: An Introduction, Brad E. Stone

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Zubiri and the Very Problem of the Problem of Evil, Brad E. Stone

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Kundao: A Lived Body in Female Daoism, Robin Wang

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Zhang, Zailin 張再林, Traditional Chinese Philosophy as the Philosophy of the Body 作爲身體哲學的中國古代哲學, Robin Wang

Works from 2008

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Four Varieties of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Early/Late Term Abortion, Non-Human Rational Animals, and Twinning, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Infanticide, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Sex Selection, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on “The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine”, Christopher Kaczor

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The Divine in Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: Can We be Good without God?, Christopher Kaczor

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Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love: Edited and Explained for Everyone, Christopher Kaczor

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The Morality of Palestinian Terrorism, Timothy Shanahan

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Why Don't Zebras Have Machine Guns? Adaptation, Selection, and Constraints in Evolutionary Theory, Timothy Shanahan

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Review of Reconceiving Women’s Equality in China: A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality, Robin Wang

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Teleology and Moral Action in Kant's Philosophy of Culture, Jeffrey L. Wilson

Works from 2007

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On the Reliability of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, Jason Baehr

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Review of Bob Roberts & Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Intention, Foresight, and Mutilation: A Response to Giebel, Christopher Kaczor

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

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Condom Use by HIV Infected Spouses and Embryo Ethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Pro-Life Consistency, Personhood Potentiality, and Prayer for Healing, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy and Theology: Notes on Reponses to the Papal Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State, Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition, Christopher Kaczor

Why Is Beauty Form? Plotinus’ Theory of Beauty in Phenomenological Perspective, Eric Perl

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Not a Four-Letter Word, Timothy Shanahan

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Review of Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine by Aaron Stalnaker, Robin Wang

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Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light by Franklin Perkins (Review), Robin R. Wang

Works from 2006

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Character, Reliability, and Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Review of Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck, Jason Baehr

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Review of Michael DePaul & Linda Zagzebski, Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Being in Love and Begetting a Child: A Greek Myth of Eros and the Christian Mystery of Marriage, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, Morality and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Jean Porter, Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law, Christopher Kaczor

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The Violinist and Double Effect Reasoning, Christopher Kaczor

The Togetherness of Thought and Being: A Phenomenological Reading of Plotinus’ Doctrine ‘That the Intelligibles Are Not outside the Intellect, Eric Perl

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Can There Be a Nonconsequentialist Rights-Based Moral Justification of Terrorism?, Timothy Shanahan

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Review of Jordi Corominas and Joan Albert Vicens, Xavier Zubiri: La soledad sonora, Brad E. Stone

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Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China by Keith Nathaniel Knapp (Review), Robin R. Wang

Works from 2005

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Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of James Doig, Aquinas's Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Natural Law Reconsidered: The Ethics of Human Liberation, by Stephen Theron, Christopher Kaczor

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

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The Edge of Life, Christopher R. Kaczor

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Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism, Timothy Shanahan

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Review of Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan, Robin Wang

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Dong Zhongshu's Transformation of "Yin-Yang" Theory and Contesting of Gender Identity, Robin R. Wang

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Zhou Dunyi's Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate Explained ("Taijito Shuo"): A Construction of the Confucian Metaphysics, Robin R. Wang

Works from 2004

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Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition: Contradiction, Change in Circumstance, or Development of Doctrine, Christopher Kaczor

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Disclaimers in Thomas’s Commentary on the Ethics? A Reconsideration, Christopher Kaczor

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Does the Right to Life Begin with Conscious Desires?, Christopher Kaczor

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Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Ethics: Merely an Interpretation of Aristotle?, Christopher Kaczor

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Design by Nature, Timothy Shanahan

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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation, and Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Timothy Shanahan

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Defending Society from the Abnormal: The Archaeology of Bio-Power, Brad E. Stone

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On the Very Problem of the Problem of God in Zubiri and Unamuno, Brad E. Stone

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A Confucian Defense of Gender Equity, Robin Wang

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Women in Daoism by Catherine Despeux and Livia Kohn (Review), Robin R. Wang

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Autobiography as Critique in Thoreau’s Walden, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2003

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A Priori and A Posteriori, Jason Baehr

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Korsgaard on the Foundations of Moral Obligation, Jason Baehr

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Necessity and Rational Insight: BonJour and Audi on A Priori Justification, Jason Baehr

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Review of Ronald M. Green, The Human Embryo Research Debates, Christopher Kaczor

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The Tragic Case of Jodie and Mary: Questions about Separating Conjoined Twins, Christopher Kaczor

Maximus Confesso, Eric Perl

Pseudo-Dionysius, Eric Perl

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The Evolutionary Indeterminism Thesis, Timothy Shanahan

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Reason and Insight: Western and Eastern Perspectives on the Pursuit of Moral Wisdom, Timothy Shanahan and Robin Wang

Works from 2002

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Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition, Christopher Kaczor

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Review of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives, by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Mark J. Cherry, (eds.), Christopher Kaczor

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The culture of life and the quality of life ethic: an either/or?, Christopher Kaczor

Signifying Nothing: Being as Sign in Neoplatonism and Derrida, Eric Perl

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Globalizing the Heart of Dragon: The Impact of Technology on Confucian Ethical Values, Robin Wang

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The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought by J. J. Clarke, Robin Wang

Works from 2001

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Distinguishing Intention from Foresight: What Is Included in a Means to an End?, Christopher Kaczor

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Fetal Research and Consent, Christopher Kaczor