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Interests: Adam
Smith, The
Scottish Enlightenment, Alasdair MacIntyre,
Social
and Political Philosophy; History of Philosophy,
Ethical
Theory, Critical Thinking Theory, Philosophy
of Education
Selected Publications:
Books and Edited Volumes:
Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education,
and the Moral Sentiments.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
forthcoming.
Guest Editor, On Second Thought (“The
Philosophy Issue”), North Dakota Humanities
Council, (June, 2010), forthcoming.
Guest Editor, “Symposium on Adam Smith and
Education” The Adam Smith Review, No. 3
(2007): 49 – 158.
On MacIntyre (Wadsworth Philosophers Series).
Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2003.
On Adam Smith (Wadsworth Philosophers Series).
Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001.
Guest Editor, Inquiry: Critical
Thinking Across the Disciplines. Special Issue:
Political Philosophy and Critical Thinking.
Montclair: Institute for Critical Thinking,
vol. 18, no. 1 (Autumn, 1998).
Editor, Academic Inquiry: in Progress.
Vienna:
Institute for Human Sciences
(Institut für die
Wissenschaften vom Menschen), 1995.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“The Two Adams: Ferguson and Smith on Sympathy
and Sentiment,” in Adam Ferguson: A
Reassessment, Philosophy, Politics and Society
edited by Eugene Heath and Vincenze Merolle
(London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, LTD,
2009.): 89 - 106.
“Adam Smith,” entry for the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (15,400 words).
Posted at http://www.iep.utm.edu/.
“Adam Smith’s Ad Hominem: Eighteenth
Century Insight on the role of Character in
Argument,” Proceedings of the Sixth
Conference of the International Society for the
Study of Argumentation (Amsterdam: Sic Sat,
2007): 1461 – 1466.
“Adam Smith’s Philosophy of Education,” The
Adam Smith Review, No. 3 (2007): 51 – 74.
“On the Meaning of the Term ‘Progressive’: A
Philosophical Investigation,” The William
Mitchell Law Review 33:1 (2006), 1-50.
“Sympathy, Difference, and Education: Social
Unity in the Work of Adam Smith,” Economics
and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 2006):
79 – 111.
“Is Money All There Is? Other Aspects of
Life in Adam Smith’s Free Market” North
Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele
Fellowship Tabloid (4 pages with essay and
interview), 2005.
“A Response to Lauren Brubaker”, The Adam
Smith Review, No. 1 (2004), 194 – 196.
“Aliens, Traitors, and Elitists: University
Values and the Faculty,” Thought and Action,
Vol. 19 No. 2 (Summer 2004), 95 - 106.
“Neutrality, Pluralism, and Education: Civic
education as learning about the other,”
Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol.
23, No. 4 (July 2004), 235 – 263.
“Emotion, Context and
Rhetoric: Adam Smith's Informal Argumentation,”
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of
Argumentation, Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003,
1065 – 1070.
“Three Conversations: Teaching Plato in
Introduction to Philosophy,” Teaching
Philosophy, Vol. 26 No. 1 (March 2003), 3 –
20.
“Religion and Justice in the work of Adam
Smith,”
Kontroversen, Zeitschrift für Philosophie,
Wissenschaft und Gesselschaft,
Issue 9 (2000).
“Guest Editor’s Introduction: Critical Thinking
and the Tradition of Political Philosophy — An
Historical Overview,” Inquiry: Critical
Thinking Across the Disciplines vol. 18, no.
1 (Autumn, 1998), 4 - 21.
“Critical Thinking and the Moral Sentiments:
Adam Smith's Moral Psychology and Contemporary
Debate in Critical Thinking and Informal Logic,”
Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the
Disciplines vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1997), 78
- 91.
“Three Types of Critical Thinking About
Religion,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across
the Disciplines vol. 15, no. 3 (Spring
1996), 79 - 88.
“Separating the Inseparable: MacIntyre on Rawls'
Public Reason in a Political Conception of
Justice,” Academic Inquiry: in Progress.
Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom
Menschen, 1995, 16 - 38.
“A Computer Generation of Community and Freedom:
A Reply to David Applefield,” Fin de Siècle
vol. I, no. 1 (September 1995), 62 - 65.
Translator (German to English), Institut für
die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Newsletter 47.
Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences (Institut
für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen),
October/December 1994.
“Self-Correction, Hidden Assumptions and
Cultural Pluralism,” Bulletin of the
International Council for Philosophical Inquiry
with Children (December 1994).
Reviews:
“Review essay: Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of
Propriety by Stephen J. McKenna; Adam
Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and
Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law,
Ethics, and Culture by Jerry Evensky; and
The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature
and Society in the Theory of Moral Sentiments
and Wealth of Nations by Dogan Göçmen,”
British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies,
forthcoming.
“Review Essay: D.D. Raphael’s The Impartial
Spectator: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy by
(Oxford University Press, 2007), Economics
and Philosophy 24:1 (March 2008):
129 - 137.
“The Wealth of Nations and the Morality
of Opulence (Review Essay of Jerry Evansky’s
Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and
Contemporary Perspective on Markets, Law,
Ethics, and Culture)” Research in the History
of Economic Thought and Methodology 25-A
(2007): 61- 69.
“Review: Leonidas Montes: Adam Smith in Context
: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central
Components of His Thought,” The British
Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13:1
(2005), 179 – 183.
“Review: James W. Otteson’s ‘Adam Smith’s
Marketplace of Life,” Mind Vol. 113, No.
449 (January 2004), 202 – 207.
“Review: Knud Haakonssen’s ‘Adam Smith’s Theory
Of Moral Sentiments’,” Journal of Scottish
Philosophy, Vol. 1 No. 2 (Autumn 2003), 181
– 184.
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