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In its dominantly ahistorical character, the Journal of Religious Ethics has much in common with its counterparts among philosophical journals, showing as clearly as they do the widespread antihistorical bias of twentieth-century analytical philosophy. Mo

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It is striking that most of the essays in this focus do not explore the specifically religious aspects of Enlightenment ethical thought. a principled reason for this may be found in a conception of religion that makes it hard for Enlightenment thinkers to

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By examining the theories of justice developed by Joseph Butler and David Hume, the author discloses the conceptual limits of their moral naturalism. Butler was unable to accommodate the possibility that justice is, at least to some extent, a social conve

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This essay employs Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) as a vehicle to explore love in eighteenth-century French moral philosophy and theological ethics. The relation between love of self and love of God was understood variously and produced contrasting mod

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In this introduction to a cluster of three articles on eighteenth-century ethics written by Mark Larrimore, John Bowlin, and Mark Cladis, the author maintains that although the broad narrative tracing the emergence of a religiously neutral or naturalistic

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Although our culture struggles to understand the origins and nature of good and evil behavior, the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis contribute to the discourse primarily indirectly. By examining early Judaism and Christianity, the authors seek

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A model of coherentist belief contraction is constructed. The outcome of belief contraction is required to be one of the coherent subsets of the original belief set, and a set of plausible properties is proposed for this set of coherent subsets. The contr

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This paper presents a propositional version of Kit Fine's (quantified) logic for essentialist statements, provides it with a semantics, and proves the former adequate (i.e. sound and complete) with respect to the latter.

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In my article I evaluate Searle's account of mental causation, in particular his account of the causal efficacy of unconscious intentional states. I argue that top-down causation and overdetermination are unsolved problems in Searle's philosophy of mind

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One of the principal difficulties in assessing Science as a Process (Hull 1988) is determining the relationship between the various elements of Hull's theory. In particular, it is hard to understand precisely how conceptual selection is related to Hull'

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The history and theoretical role of the concept of a replicator is discussed, starting with Dawkins' and Hull's classic treatments and working forward. I argue that the replicator concept is still a useful one for evolutionary theory, but it should be r

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The word deme was coined by the botanists J.S.L. Gilmour and J.W. Gregor in 1939, following the pattern of J.S. Huxley's cline. Its purpose was not only to rationalize the plethora of terms describing chromosomal and genetic variation, but also to reduce

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David Hull has demonstrated a marvelous ability to annoy everyone who cares about science (or should), by forcing us to confront deep truths about how science works. Credit, priority, precularities, and process weave together to make the very fabric of sc