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Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’

December 27, 2016

Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …

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MacIntyre on being the heirs of Kuhn and not Kant

July 3, 2014

‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …

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Anthony Kenny on Darwinian Arguments: Evolution, Creation, and Special Creation

May 27, 2014

Creation and Evolution By the time Mill’s Essays were published in 1887, religious believers felt under threat more from evolutionary …

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Kierkegaard on Philosophy and Understanding Life

April 23, 2014

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause — …

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Michael Walzer on the Philosopher and Democracy

April 20, 2014

‘But the truths discovered or worked out by political philosophers can be implemented. They lend themselves readily to legal embodiment. …

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Kierkegaard on Truth and Purpose

April 18, 2014

‘What I really need is to get clear about what I am to do*, not what I must know, except …

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Bernard Williams on Reflectiveness

March 17, 2014

‘There is no route back from reflectiveness. This phenomenon of self-consciousness, together with the institutions and processes that support it, …

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MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality

March 15, 2014

‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …

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MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality

March 12, 2014

‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …

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Quine on Subjecting our Conceptual Scheme to Rational Appraisal

January 2, 2014

W. V. O. Quine, ‘Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis’ (1950), 78–9.

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Faheem A. Hussain has a BA (Hons.) in Arabic and Islamic studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a PGCE in Religious Studies from Roehampton University, and a MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London.

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