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Philosophy Faculty Works

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

Works from 2002 2002

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

Works from 2001 2001

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

Fetal Research and Consent, Christopher Kaczor

Moral Absolutism and Ecotopic Pregnancy, Christopher Kaczor

Thomas Aquinas on the Development of Doctrine, Christopher Kaczor

Evolution Is Opportunistic, Not Directional - Response, Timothy Shanahan

Methodological and Contextual Factors in the Dawkins/Gould Dispute Over Evolutionary Progress, Timothy Shanahan

Progress – A Philosophical Analysis, Timothy Shanahan

Incommensurable, Supersensible, Sublime, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2000 2000

Review of Jay Wood, Becoming Intellectually Virtuous, Jason Baehr

Proportionalism For and Against, Christopher Kaczor

Evolutionary Progress?, Timothy Shanahan

Species, Timothy Shanahan

Metaphysical Questions in Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 1999 1999

Is the 'medical management' of ectopic pregnancy by the administration of methotrexate morally acceptable?, Christopher Kaczor

Proportionalism and the Pill: How Developments in Theory Lead to Contradictions to Practice, Christopher Kaczor

The Presence of the Paradigm: Immanence and Transcendence in Plato’s Theory of Forms, Eric Perl

A Mystery Still, Timothy Shanahan

Evolutionary Progress from Darwin to Dawkins, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1998 1998

Double-Effect Reasoning: From Jean Pierre Gury to Peter Knauer, Christopher Kaczor

Faith and Reason and Physician Assisted Suicide, Christopher Kaczor

MacIntyre and Emotivism: Gaps Between the Meaning and Use of Words, Christopher Kaczor

The Demiurge and the Forms: A Return to the Ancient Interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus, Eric Perl

The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of Group Selectionism, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1997 1997

‘The Power of All Things’: The One as Pure Giving in Plotinus, Eric Perl

Darwinian Naturalism, Theism, and Biological Design, Timothy Shanahan

Kitcher's Compromise: A Critical Evaluation of the Compromise Model of Scientific Closure, and its Implications for the Relationship Between History and Philosophy of Science, Timothy Shanahan

Pluralism, Antirealism, and the Units of Selection, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1996 1996

Realism and Antirealism in Evolutionary Biology, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1994 1994

Teleological Reasoning in Robert Boyle's Disquisition about Final Causes, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1992 1992

Selection, Drift, and the Aims of Evolutionary Theory, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1991 1991

Chance as an Explanatory Factor in Evolutionary Biology, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1990 1990

Evolution, Phenotypic Selection, and the Units of Selection, Timothy Shanahan

Group Selection and the Evolution of Myxomatosis, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1989 1989

Beatty on Chance and Natural Selection, Timothy Shanahan

Kant, Naturphilosophie, and Oersted's Discovery of Electromagnetism: A Reassessment, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1988 1988

God and Nature in the Thought of Robert Boyle, Timothy Shanahan

Works from 1986 1986

The First Moment of Scientific Inquiry: C.S. Peirce on the Logic of Abduction, Timothy Shanahan