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    Morality, Altruism, and Religion in Economics Perspective.James A. Montanye - 2012 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 20 (2):19-44.
    Recent brain imaging studies support sociobiology’s earlier claims about morality, altruism, and religion being rooted in evolved brain function. Despite these insights, however, neuroscience and sociobiology, like theology, provide incomplete answers to persistent what and why questions regarding the metaphysical aspects of human behavior. This essay addresses some unsettled issues along these lines by combining a priori economics principles with the standard consilience of natural science and moral philosophy.
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    Civilization without romance.James A. Montanye - 2009 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 17 (2):101-128.
    Civilization, rather than being an alternative to the state of nature, is instead its efficient form. The instruments and institutions of civilization—economic and political structure, law, culture, religion, war, etc.—are manifestations of humankind’s genetic predispositions toward cooperation and reason. The fabric of civilization comprises behaviors and institutions that coalesce around core beliefs that need not be objectively true. The principal cost of civilization is defined by the social obligations that individuals are compelled to incur, and the opportunities for private benefit (...)
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    Defending the Humanistic Virtue of Holiday Commercialism.James A. Montanye - 2015 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 23 (2):265-276.
    A prominent study of holiday gift giving estimates the correlative amount of wasted value to be roughly $25 billion worldwide. This result is predictable from economic theory and casual experience. Regrettably, the study neither substantiates its broad condemnation of holiday gift giving, nor does it support any of the normative generalizations that might be drawn from it; for example, the desirability of modifying the Christmas holiday’s commercial aspect, or of augmenting its religious dimension. The following essay argues that holiday gift (...)
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    Grievance and Shame in the Modern Age of Entitlement.James A. Montanye - 2016 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 24 (1):59-85.
    Philosophers since Plato have questioned whether might makes right, and whether the weak are condemned perforce to suffer at the hands of strong, cunning, and ruthless elites and majorities. This essay argues that communicative and strategic uses of grievance, shame, “bullshit,” collective action, and economic rent seeking mitigate conventional forms of social might, thereby helping the weak and the few to prosper and flourish despite their inferior strength, numbers, and social status. The argument is supported empirically by macroeconomic and ngram (...)
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    The Varieties of Religious Purpose.James A. Montanye - 2017 - Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 25 (2):141-170.
    This essay argues that economic scarcity, along with mankind’s evolved propensity for reciprocity, are keys to understanding the origins and evolution of Western religion in all its varieties and purposes. Scarcity is religion’s first cause uncaused. Eusocial cooperation and productive efficiency, which are mobilized by religion, are shown to be inherent and rational responses to scarcity. The reformation that began around 1500 CE represents the substitution of efficient secular religions for traditional theological varieties. The balance between traditional and secular religions (...)
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    A Profession Without Expertise? Professionalization in Reverse.Joseph A. Raho & James A. Hynds - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (3):44-46.
    Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 44-46.
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    Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach.James A. Martin - 1975 - Philosophical Review 84 (1):103.
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    The protection of the rich against the poor: The politics of Adam smith’s political economy.James A. Harris - 2020 - Social Philosophy and Policy 37 (1):138-158.
    My point of departure in this essay is Smith’s definition of government. “Civil government,” he writes, “so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” First I unpack Smith’s definition of government as the protection of the rich against the poor. I argue that, on Smith’s view, this is always part of (...)
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    Sexual selection and religion: Can the evolution of religion be explained in terms of mating strategies?James A. Van Slyke & Konrad Szocik - 2020 - Archive for the Psychology of Religion 42 (1):123-141.
    This article considers the application of sexual selection theory to the study of religion by discussing the basic concepts and theories in sexual selection and then outlines possibilities of its application to the study of the evolution of religion. The first section outlines basic principles in the sexual selection account, including the evolution of human mating strategies based on dimorphism, gender differences in human mating strategies, and the role of different cultural activities in mating dynamics. Such an overview may be (...)
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  10. The Evolving Notion and Role of Kuhn’s Incommensurability Thesis.James A. Marcum - 2015 - In William J. Devlin & Alisa Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On. Cham: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 311. Springer.
     
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    Argumentation: understanding and shaping arguments.James A. Herrick - 2019 - State College, Pennsylvania: Strata Publishing.
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    Distinguishing the Lover of Peace from the Pacifist, the Appeaser, and the Warmonger.James A. Harold - 2013 - Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 18 (1):5-18.
    How is one to distinguish a true lover of peace from a mere appeaser, a pacifist, and a warmonger? Distinguishing them can be sometimes confusing, as they will often appropriate each other’s language. The criterion for the above distinction does not only lie in outward behavior, as knowledge of inward attitudes is also required. A right understanding of these attitudes and motivations involve at least an implicit grasp of the true nature of peace, which is investigated as something more than (...)
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    Incorporating the Creative Arts into the Study of Business Ethics.Hershey H. Friedman, Deborah S. Kleiner & James A. Lynch - 2023 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 20:77-102.
    Many scholars believe that traditional courses in ethics (especially business ethics) have not been successful in making students ethical. The best that educators can hope is that these courses will help build ethical awareness. It is thus apparent that the apparatus used to teach ethics does not inspire the intellectual leap needed between the abstract awareness of ethical issues to the functional changes in behavior and decision-making. This paper posits that the creative arts, including literature, poetry, music, pictorial art, and (...)
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    The interpretation of Locke’s Two Treatises in Britain, 1778–1956.James A. Harris - 2020 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (3):483-500.
    This paper describes how Locke’s Two Treatises of Government was read in Britain from Josiah Tucker to Peter Laslett. It focuses in particular upon how Locke’s readers responded to his detailed and...
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    The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya.Alex Hughes, Emma Roe, Elvis Wambiya, James A. Brown, Alister Munthali & Abdhalah Ziraba - 2024 - Agriculture and Human Values 41 (2):749-767.
    This paper investigates the challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship – reducing and optimizing the use of antibiotics – in agricultural settings of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) as a strategic part of addressing the global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It does so through analysis of the rapidly transforming yet diverse Kenyan poultry sector, characterized by growing commercial operations alongside traditional smallholder farming. Our research involves interviews with farmers, processors, policymakers, and agro-veterinary stores in these settings. We blend Chandler’s ( (...)
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    The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885.Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler, James A. Good & John R. Shook (eds.) - 2019 - Albany: SUNY Press, State University of New York.
    The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s associated with Harvard, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America's distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand's bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James - appear in this book, alongside other thinkers such as John Dewey who were never in the Club. The Real Metaphysical Club tells the (...)
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    Professing clinical medicine in an evolving health care network.James A. Marcum - 2019 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40 (3):197-215.
    For at least the past several decades, medicine has been embroiled in a crisis concerning the nature of its professionalism. The fundamental questions that drive this ongoing crisis are primarily three. First, what is the nature of medical professionalism? Second, who are medical professionals? Third, what does medicine or these professionals profess or promise? In this paper, the professionalism crisis vis-à-vis these questions is examined and analyzed chiefly in terms of both Francis Peabody’s and Edmund Pellegrino’s writings. Based on their (...)
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    The Dignity of Science Studies in the Philosophy of Science Presented to William Humbert Kane.James A. Weisheipl & William Humbert Kane - 1961 - Thomist Press.
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    Incomplete archaeologies: knowledge in the past and present.Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn J. Franklin & James A. Johnson (eds.) - 2016 - Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.
    Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept--assemblages--and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The discussions presented here engage with the practices of collection, construction, performance and creation in the past (and present) which constitute the things and groups of things studied by archaeologists--and examine as well how these things and thing-groups are dismantled, rearranged, and even destroyed, only to be rebuilt and recreated. The ultimate aim is to reassert (...)
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    Christianity and Consequentialism.James A. Keller - 1989 - Faith and Philosophy 6 (2):198-206.
    In a recent paper, Gilbert Meilaender argues that Christian ethics must not be consequentialist. Though Meilaender does indicate some problems which may exist with certain consequentialist theories, those problems do not exclude all types of consequentialist theories from consideration as Christian ethical theories. A consequentialism like R. M. Hare’s offers virtually all the advantages Meilaender claims for his Christian deontological view. Moreover. Meilaender has overlooked certain advantages of consequentialism and certain disadvantages of the sort of deontological theory he espouses.
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    Comtemporary Christian Doubts About the Resurrection.James A. Keller - 1988 - Faith and Philosophy 5 (1):40-60.
    In a recent issue of Faith and Philosophy, Stephen Davis argues that it is rational for supernaturalists, though not for naturalists, to believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ in (roughly) the sense of an event which happened to Jesus in which Jesus, though he had truly died, was restored to life and consciousness and after which his living body left the tomb. After making some clarifications regarding supernaturalism and the concept of a miracle, I argue that Davis has not (...)
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    Should Christian Theologians Become Christian Philosophers?James A. Keller - 1995 - Faith and Philosophy 12 (2):260-268.
    This paper continues a debate about the relation between Christian philosophers and theologians begun by Gordon Kaufman, who argued that Christian theologians need not be interested in “evidentialism.” In particular it replies to a paper by William Hasker charging that an earlier defense of Kaufman’s position introduced tensions because it required judgments about the merits of “evidentialism” which could be defended only by using the evidentialist arguments whose importance Kaufman denied. This reply denies that there are the tensions Hasker claims (...)
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    Being and Freedom: On Late Modern Ethics in Europe.James A. Harris - 2022 - Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3):849-852.
    For John Skorupski, as of course for many historians of Western thought, the end of the eighteenth century was a moment of radical transformation. European cult.
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    Accepting the Authority of the Bible.James A. Keller - 1989 - Faith and Philosophy 6 (4):378-397.
    This paper provides an answer to this question: is the Christian of today rationally justified in using the views expressed in the Bible as a (or the) standard for what she should accept for her own beliefs and practices. I argue against trying to answer this question on thebasis of some alleged character of the biblical writings (e.g., their inerrancy or inspiredness). Such a thesis would itself have to be rationally justified, as would the interpretations and applications of biblical writings (...)
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    Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology.James A. Hampton & Yoad Winter (eds.) - 2017 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stimulating much new research in cognitive science. Researchers in this interdisciplinary domain aim to explain how meanings of complex expressions are derived from simple (...)
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    Clinical Decision-Making, Gender Bias, Virtue Epistemology, and Quality Healthcare.James A. Marcum - 2017 - Topoi 36 (3):501-508.
    Robust clinical decision-making depends on valid reasoning and sound judgment and is essential for delivering quality healthcare. It is often susceptible, however, to a clinician’s biases such as towards a patient’s age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Gender bias in particular has a deleterious impact, which frequently results in cognitive myopia so that a clinician is unable to make an accurate diagnosis because of a patient’s gender—especially for female patients. Virtue epistemology provides a means for confronting gender bias in clinical (...)
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    Neo-Vitalism in Affective Science.James A. Russell - 2022 - Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture 6 (1):49-52.
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    Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China. By Chiew Hui Ho.James A. Benn - 2022 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 141 (3).
    Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China. By Chiew Hui Ho. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 144. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv + 520. $159.
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    Continuity, Possibility, and Omniscience.James A. Keller - 1986 - Process Studies 15 (1):1-18.
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    The Basingers on Divine Omnipotence.James A. Keller - 1982 - Process Studies 12 (1):23-25.
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    Resemblance, Signification, and Metaphor in The Visual Arts.James A. W. Heffernan - 1985 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (2):167-180.
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    James Beattie: Selected Philosophical Writings.James Beattie & James A. Harris (eds.) - 2004 - Imprint Academic.
    James Beattie was appointed professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland at the age of twenty-five. Though more fond of poetry than philosophy, he became part of the Scottish 'Common Sense' school of philosophy that included Thomas Reid and George Campbell. In 1770 Beattie published the work for which he is best known, An Essay on Truth, an abrasive attack on 'modern scepticism' in general, and on David Hume in particular, subsequently and despite Beattie's attack, (...)
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    Human Origins and Human Nature.James A. Marcum - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (5):566-570.
    Both religion and science provide powerful images of human origins and human nature. Often these images are seen as incompatible or irreconcilable, with the religious image generally marginalized vis-à-vis the scientific image. Recent genetic studies into human origins, especially in terms of common cellular features like the mitochondrion from females and the Y-chromosome from males, provide evidence for common ancestors called mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam. The aim of this paper is to expound upon the Judeo-Christian and western scientific images (...)
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    Kuhn’s Notion of Theory Choice and the Dual-Process Theory of Cognition.James A. Marcum - 2013 - Philosophy Study 3 (5).
    In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn claimed that theory choice is a conversion experience and depends upon the personality or psychology of the individual scientist making the choice. Critics charged Kuhn with an irrational and a relativistic position concerning theory choice, arguing he advocated a subjective instead of an objective approach to how scientists choose one theory over another and thereby undercut epistemic accounts for the generation of scientific knowledge. In response to critics Kuhn insisted that his approach, although (...)
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    The Importance of Unity and Intelligibility.James A. Harold - 2007 - Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 10 (2):38-56.
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  36. The Love of Truth: Every Truth and in Every Thing: Festschrift in Honor of Josef Seifert.James A. Harold - 2010 - IAP Press.
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    Kant’s Critique of the Golden Rule.James A. Gould - 1983 - New Scholasticism 57 (1):115-122.
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    Contributions to Asian Studies. Vol. 9: Population, Land and Structural Change in Sri Lanka and Thailand.James A. Hafner & James Brow - 1979 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (3):507.
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    Reflecting subjects: passion, sympathy, and society.James A. Harris - 2016 - Intellectual History Review 26 (2):309-311.
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    Rationality Within Modern Psychological Theory: Integrating Philosophy and Empirical Science.James A. Harold - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Rationality within Modern Psychological Theory examines the rational and irrational dimensions of human nature and of the psyche and logos through the lenses of classical philosophy and modern psychology.
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    Thomas Reid.James A. Harris - 2011 - The Philosophers' Magazine 55:97-99.
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    Life in light of death.James A. Lindsay - 2016 - Durham, North Carolina: Pitchstone Publishing.
    Life is short, and it can be sweet. Contemplating death is looking into a mirror that allows us to see these simple facts clearly, as if for the first time. We have every reason to believe that we have but one life to live--and no good reasons to believe otherwise--and death marks the termination of each life. Examining this reality opens doors to understanding ourselves, each other, connection, love, and life itself in an entirely new way. Life in Light of (...)
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    Renewing Liberalism.James A. Sherman - 2016 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a (...)
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    Fredrik Svenaeus: Phenomenological bioethics: medical technologies, human suffering, and the meaning of being alive: Routledge, New York, 2018, xiv + 161 pp, $42.95 , ISBN: 978-1-138-62996-7.James A. Marcum - 2018 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39 (2):165-169.
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    Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. Hal Hellman.James A. Marcum - 2001 - Isis 92 (1):143-144.
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    Philosophy of Science: The Historical Background. Joseph J. Kockelmans.James A. Marcum - 2000 - Isis 91 (4):838-838.
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    Self-Generation: Biology, Philosophy, and Literature around 1800. Helmut Mueller-Sievers.James A. Marcum - 1998 - Isis 89 (1):136-137.
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    Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism and Systems Biology.James A. Marcum - 2008 - Chromatikon 4:143-152.
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  49. Varieties of idealism : an introduction.James A. Good - 2019 - In Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler, James A. Good & John R. Shook (eds.), The real Metaphysical Club: the philosophers, their debates, and selected writings from 1870 to 1885. Albany: SUNY Press, State University of New York.
     
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  50. Hume and the common sense philosophers.James A. Harris - 2018 - In Charles Bradford Bow (ed.), Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment. [Oxford, United Kingdom]: Oxford University Press.
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