Dr. John J. Davenport
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Fordham University212-636-7928
Email: Davenport@Fordham.EduResearch Topics Page
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Page Summary. This page contains a thematically grouped list of links to my published papers, some recent conference presentations, articles in progress, and older papers in draft to help explain the work I've done in several areas of Philosophy. Please see my Personal Pages for a chronologically ordered list of publications, including a description of my books. Or for a list without links, see my Curriculum Vitae . For my courses and links to syllabi, see my Academic Pages. |
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on moral psychology (also see the section on Kierkegaard below) "Narrative Unity, Autonomy, and Ethical Earnestness: A Response to John Lippitt;" [now under consideration as a book manuscript; the version linked here is from Feb.2010]. Existential Autonomy and Authenticity. This is my next book project, based on the second half of my dissertation, articles on free will, and other conference presentations. [In progress; three chapters done; three others in partial draft]. Identification and Bad Faith: Combining Frankfurtian and Sartrean Insights. Online draft; some of this material will form part of a chapter in my autonomy-book. "Norm-Guided Autonomous Agency Without Prior Cares," presented at the Conference on Norms and Persons: Freedom, Commitment, and the Self, University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany, July 29-31, 2008). "Frankfurt on BS, Sincerity, and Love: A Comparison With Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre," forthcoming in Living Reasonably, Loving Well: Conversing with Frankfurt and Kierkegaard, eds. Myron Penner and Søren Landkildehus. Under consideration for publication in 2009. "An Existential Analysis of Inauthenticity: Frankfurt on BS and Wantonness, Kierkegaard on Aestheticism and Idle Talk: Powerpoint of talk given at the College of Charleston (Feb. 2008) Review of Normativity and the Will, by R.J. Wallace in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online since Dec. 2007 at http://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews.cfm). "The Binding Value of Earnest Emotional Valuation," International Journal of Decision Ethics 2 no.1 (Fall 2006): 107-23. A Philosophical Critique of Psychological Personality-Type Theories: Myers-Briggs, Esyenck, and Jung Online draft.. Moral Theory (also see Political Philosophy section below) and Theory of Reason "Deontology and Alan Donagan’s Problem of Exception-Rules," Analysis 55 no.4 (October, 1995), 261-70. Review Essay on Natural Law and Practical Rationality, by Mark Murphy, in International Philosophical Quarterly 43 no.2 (June 2003): 229-39. Review of Virtue Epistemology, ed. Linda Zagzebski and Abrol Fairweather, in International Philosophical Quarterly 42 no.3 (summer 2002): 401-4. Review Essay on Tradition(s), by Stephen Watson, in The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America (December 2000): 65-82. "Moral Issues Regarding Social Security." Developed for a forum at Fordham University (2005) "Does the Good End Justify an Evil Means? Problems with Utilitarianism," South Orange-Maplewood Adult School (Nov. 3, 2003). A Presentation on Torture for the Fordham Student Chapter of Amnesty International (2000) |
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Articles on Free Will and the Conditions of Moral Responsibility "Augustine on Liberty of the Higher-Order Will: Answers to Hunt and Stump," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (forthcoming, November, 2008). "Aquinas’s Teleological Libertarianism," in Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue, ed. Matthew Pugh (Ashgate Press, 2007). "The Deliberative Relevance of Refraining from Deciding: A Response to McKenna and Pereboom," Acta Analytica 21 no.4 (Fall 2006): 62-88. "Liberty of the Higher-Order Will: Frankfurt and Augustine," Faith and Philosophy 19 no.4 (October 2002): 437-61. "Fischer and Ravizza on Moral Sanity and Weakness of Will," The Journal of Ethics 6 (2002): 235-59. Review of Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility, by Fischer and Ravizza, in Faith and Philosophy 17 no.3 (July 2000): 384-95. An Existentialist Critique of Molinism. Online draft of large manuscript critiquing Molinist versions of leeway-liberty and defending a moving block version of reality, contra Plantinga on "alpha." |
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on Political Philosophy
Global Governance and Just War theory "Just War, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Need for a Federation of Democracies," forthcoming in The Journal of Religious Ethics (fall 2010 or spring 2011).For
a Federation of Democracies, Ethics and International Affairs
23.1 (spring 2009): Roundtable: "Can Democracies Go It Alone?" (online
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http://www.cceia.org/resources/journal/23_1/roundtable/006) "A Democratic Federation is Both Feasible and Just: A Response to Habermas and to his Postmodern Critics," delivered at the Critical Theory Roundtable (Fordham University, Sept. 2008). "Just War Theory Requires a New Federation of Democratic Nations," Fordham International Law Journal 28 no.3 (Feb.2005): 763-85. On this topic, also see my Executive Summary of the proposal. "Global Justice: The Need for a Federation of Democracies." Powerpoint developed for classes at Fordham University (2005) Just War, Humanitarian Intervention, and a Federation of Democracies. Original draft of full paper that has since been split into three articles.
"Religion in the Public Sphere: How Deliberative Democracy offers a Middle Road," in Rethinking Secularization: Philosophy and the Prophecy of a Secular Age, ed. Gary Gabor and Herbert De Vriese (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009): 289-325. Review of Religion in the Liberal Polity, ed. Terence Cuneo, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (online since summer 2005 at http://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews.cfm).
"Lincoln, Slavery, and Race: An Analysis of Lincoln's Changing Views" Powerpoint presented at Columbia High School (South Orange-Maplewood NJ school district) Feb. 2009 for Lincoln's 200th birthday. "Deontology and the Antinomy of Libertarianism: A Response to James Sterba," in Rending and Renewing the Social Order, Social Philosophy Today series, Vol. 12, ed. Yeager Hudson (Edwin Mellen Press, December 1996): 177-218. Review of Marx, Hayek, and Utopia, by Chris Sciabarra, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 16 no.2 (April, 1996). Rawls's Priority of Liberty and Difference Principles: A Deliberative-Democratic Critique. Online draft. Democracy Beyond Nationalism: Transnational Identity and Universalism in the Political Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Online draft. Habermas's Democratic Balance Between Rights and Popular Sovereignty: A Response to Charles Larmore. Online draft. |
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on Kierkegaard, Existentialism, and Continental Ethics The New Trilogy on Existential Faith "Kierkegaard’s Postscript in Light of Fear and Trembling," Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia (Dec. 2008) 64 nos 2-4: 879-908. "What Kierkegaardian Faith Adds to Alterity Ethics: How Levinas and Derrida Miss the Eschatological Dimension," in Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion, ed. J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood (Indiana University Press, Oct. 2008): 169-198.
"Faith as Eschatological Trust in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling,"
in Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard, ed. Edward Mooney
(Indiana University Press, July 2008): 196 - 233 (and notes). The Will, Ethics, and Selfhood "Life-Narrative and Death as the End of Freedom: Kierkegaard on Anticipatory Resoluteness," forthcoming in Kierkegaard and Death, ed. Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben (Indiana University Press, 2011)."Frankfurt on BS, Sincerity, and Love: A Comparison With Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre," forthcoming in Living Reasonably, Loving Well: Conversing with Frankfurt and Kierkegaard, eds. Myron Penner and Søren Landkildehus. Under consideration for publication in 2011. "An Existential Analysis of Inauthenticity: Frankfurt on BS and Wantonness, Kierkegaard on Aestheticism and Idle Talk: Presented at the College of Charleston (Feb. 2008) "Kierkegaard, Anxiety, and the Will," Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, Vol. 6, ed. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Hermann Deuser, and Jon Stewart (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, fall 2001): 158-81. "Towards an Existential Virtue Ethics: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre," new in Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (Open Court Publishing Co., 2001): 265-324. "Entangled Freedom: Ethical Authority, Original Sin, and Choice in Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety," Kierkegaardiana 21 (2001): 131-51. "The Ethical and Religious Significance of Taciturnus’s Letter in Kierkegaard’s Stages on Life’s Way," in the International Kierkegaard Commentary 11: Stages on Life’s Way, ed. Robert Perkins (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, November 2000): 213-44. "Piety, MacIntyre, and Kierkegaardian Choice: A Reply to Professor Ballard," Faith and Philosophy 15 no.3 (July 1998): 487-501. "The Meaning of Kierkegaard’s Choice Between the Aesthetic and the Ethical," Southwest Philosophy Review 11 no.2 (August, 1995): 73-108. Revised /reprinted in Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 2001): 75-112. Kierkegaard, Levinas, Heidegger, and Continental Ethics "Westphal's Kierkegaardian Appreciation of Levinas: Some Doubts," presented at the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, meeting concurrently with SPEP (Oct. 29, 2009). "My Schindler’s List: A Personal Kierkegaardian Reflection," Religious Humanism 34 nos. 2 and 3 (summer/fall 2001): 13-23. "Levinas’s Agapeistic Metaphysics of Morals: Absolute Passivity and the Other as Eschatological Hierophany," Journal of Religious Ethics 26 no.2 (Fall 1998): 331-66. "A Phenomenology of the Profane: Heidegger, Blumenberg, and the Structure of the ‘Chthonic,’" The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology 30 no.2 (May, 1999): 183-207. "Dwelling in Tolkien and Heidegger." Powerpoint developed for Fantasy and Philosophy course at Fordham University (2006) |
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Articles in Philosophy of Religion
"Eschatological Ultimacy and the Best Possible Hereafter," Ultimate Reality and Meaning 25 (2002): 36-67. "The Essence of Eschatology: A Modal Interpretation," Ultimate Reality and Meaning, 19 no.3 (September, 1996): 206-39. |
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Philosophy of History "A Phenomenology of the Profane: Heidegger, Blumenberg, and the Structure of the ‘Chthonic,’" The Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology 30 no.2 (May, 1999): 183-207. A Heideggerian Critique of Hans Blumenberg's Work on Myth. Online draft of book-length manuscript. Phenomenology and the Mind-World Relation An Interpretation of Kant's "Refutation of Idealism"
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Last updated July 31, 2010. Comments: Davenport@Fordham.edu