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Works from 2022

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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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Review of What is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions, by John M. Rist, 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

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

Works from 2021

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

Works from 2020

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Faith and Reason and the Consistent Ethic of Life, 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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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

Works from 2019

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Wisdom, Suffering, and Humility, Jason Baehr

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

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 Virtue, 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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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

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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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Constructions in Kant’s Philosophy of Physics, Jeffrey Wilson

Works from 2017

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Intellectual Virtues and Educational Practice, Jason Baehr

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When Humility Answers Hate, Jason Baehr

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

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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

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

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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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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

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

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