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Biography
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston College, 1993S.T.B., Theology, Gregorian University, 1989
M.A., Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 1982
B.A., Political Science, Seattle University, 1978
Courses & Publications
- Marx and Critical Theory
- Philosophy of Religion
- Christian Philosophy
- Existentialism
- Contemporary Neo-Pragmatism
- Ethics
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Later Modern Philosophy
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Publications
Books
Existence and Action (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Reflection Revisited (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999).
Edited Books
Habermas II, 4 vols. Co-edited with D. Rasmussen, London: SAGE, 2009.
The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy. Co-edited with Harry Gensler. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
Ethics: Contemporary Readings . Co-edited with H. Gensler and E. Spurgin. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Critical Theory, 4 vols. Co-edited with D. Rasmussen, London: SAGE, 2004.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Husserl.” In The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 576–579.
“Marx on Nature.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China 9:3 (September 2014): 358–369.
“Critical Theory, Negative Theology, and Transcendence,” in Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion, ed. M. Joy, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2010, pp. 187–220.
“Second Generation Critical Theory.” in History of Continental Philosophy, vol. 8. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp. 227–252.
“Can a Discursive Pragmatism Guarantee Objectivity?” in Philosophy and Social Criticism 33:1 (2007): 113–126.
“Can Strategic Reasoning Alone Account for the Formation of Social Norms?” in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (2005). Pp. 363–372.
“Nietzsche and Habermas and the Critique of Instrumental Reason.” In Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory. Ed. B. Babich. Amherst NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. Pp. 131–146.
“Habermas’s ‘Unconditional Meaning Without God’: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Ultimate Meaning.” in Ultimate Reality and Meaning. 26:2 (2003): 126–149.
“Discourse, Reflection, and Commitment.” in Philosophy and Social Criticism 29:2 (2003): 151–165.
“Pragmatism and a ‘Catholic’ Philosophical Anthropology.” in Catholic Education 6:1 (2002): 71–95.
“Equality and Democratic Societies.” in Philosophy Today 45:5 (2001): 180–190.
“The Role of the Will in Postconventional Personal Identity Formation.” In Jürgen Habermas: SAGE Masters in Social Thought Series. Vol. 4. Ed. J. Swindal and D. Rasmussen. London: SAGE, 2001. Pp. 48–63.
“Ought There Be a Catholic Philosophy?” in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73:3 (1999): 449–475.
“Nietzsche, Critical Theory, and a Theory of Knowledge.” In Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I, Boston Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. Eds. B. Babich and R. Cohen. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999. Pp. 253–264.