J S Haldane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J S Haldane |
| GIVEN NAMES | J S |
| FAMILY NAME | Haldane |
| SIGNATURE | HALDANE J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6535-8674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1884 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catholic, apostolic, and orthodox
Commentary on the election of Pope Leo XIV has been framed in terms drawn from political and cultural oppositions: conservative vs liberal, traditionalist vs progressive, made vivid by the 2024 film Conclave based on Robert Harris’s 2016 novel. Part of my concern is to urge rejection of these as general terms of analysis of Catholicism, or at least to circumscribe their applications to matters inessential to Catholic faith and morals per se . In …
Aquinas, Perception, and the Question of Realism
Recent years have seen increased interest in Aquinas’s account of perception, its connection to other aspects of his thought and its relation to other theories, such as Kantian and empiricist ones. The present essay begins by discussing contributions to the understanding of Thomas’s position advanced by David Hamlyn and Anthony Lisska and later engages with Aquinas’s writings directly. It poses the question, ‘What sort of a theory does Aquinas of…
Minogue and the End of Conservatism
The heyday of conservative intellectual activity in Britain lay between the appearance in 1978 of Conservative Essays edited by Maurice Cowling and the publication in 1996 of Conservative Realism: New Essays in Conservatism edited by Kenneth Minogue. For the most part, these collections represent two understandings of conservatism: the first more oriented towards cultural and social traditionalism, the second directed to the critique of leftist i…
Challenges and Opportunities Surrounding Catholic Education
Catholic education faces a number of serious challenges including cultural and political disrespect for, and hostility towards religion in general and Catholicism in particular, and lack of knowledge of, and commitment to, Catholic beliefs and values among Catholic educational administrators, school managers, teachers, and other staff, as well as the diminishing percentage of even nominally Catholic staff. I set these matters within the context o…
A Philosopher of singular style and multiple modes
Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most gifted and productive philosophers of the decades following the Second World War. Her writings present challenges to readers: some of them are very difficult to comprehend while others seem philosophically-minded yet situated outside of philosophy as such. There are also the issues of whether she had a philosophical method and of the influence of Wittgenstein on the manner of her approach. A summary and esti…
Identifying privative causes
Causation by and of absences, omissions or privations, seems to be implied by common styles of description and explanation. Allowing that absences are actuality-dependent, one may yet maintain that they are ineliminable. Against the idea of privative causes stand the objections that there is no principled way to individuate them, or that any account of their identity is objectionally normative. Here I respond to these objections and provide an ac…
Is Every Action Morally Significant
One form of scepticism about the possibility of moral theory does not deny that there is something describable as ‘the conduct of life’, but it argues that there is no special ethical account to be given of this since conduct has no identifiably moral dimension. Here I explore the possibility that the problem of identifying distinctively moral aspects of action is explained by the thesis that the moral is ubiquitous; that every human action is – …
On the very idea of spiritual values
John McLean by Ian Collins
Practical Philosophy
Anish Kapoor
Painting at the Edge of the World and the Watercolours of Tony Foster
Scotland's Gift
Appreciation of the Scottish contribution to philosophy and theology is particularly marked in North America, especially among those in Reformed traditions, on account of the influence of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish thinkers. The Scottish view of the importance of intellectual reflection on fundamental questions concerning the nature of humanity and its place within the cosmos is represented also by the lecture series established …
Art Theory
Edwin La Dell and the Art of Popular Printmaking
Aquinas on Human Ensoulment, Abortion and the Value of Life
Although there is a significant number of books and essays in which Aquinas's thought is examined in some detail, there are still many aspects of his writings that remain unknown to those outside the field of Thomistic studies; or which are generally misunderstood. An example is Aquinas's account of the origins of individual human life. This is the subject of a chapter in a recent book by Robert Pasnau on Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature (Cambridge…
On the very idea of spiritual values
There is another reason why academic philosophers might not think to explore the subject. For ‘spirituality’ smacks of religion, and not of the interesting metaphysical aspects that form the subject-matter of natural theology, but of those devotional and pietistic preoccupations that are felt to belong to the affective domain, if not to the sphere of irrationality. Occasionally a passing philosopher will, so to speak, stop at the church door and …
Transforming Nature
Essay by Paul Moorhouse Richard Long: Walking the Line Essay by Paul Moorhouse Richard Long: A Moving World Essay by Mel Gooding Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape
Applied Ethics
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Applied Ethics? The Rise of Applied Ethics A Neglected Precedent The Future of the Subject
Philosophy and Public Affairs
This collection of essays derives from a conference sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Centre of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews. It brings together a number of prominent academics from the fields of philosophy and political theory along with politicians and social commentators. The subjects covered include liberalism, education, welfare policy, religion, art and culture, and cloning. The mix of c…
The Individual, The State, and The Common Good
Let me begin with what should be a reassuring thought, and one that may serve as a corrective to presumptions that sometimes characterize political philosophy. The possibility, which Aquinas and Madison are both concerned with, of wise and virtuous political deliberation resulting in beneficial and stable civil order, no more depends upon possession of aphilosophical theory of the state and of the virtues proper to it, than does the possibility o…
Return to the crossroads
Writing a little over a decade ago of developments in educational philosophy, R. F. Dearden remarked on the dearth of alternative approaches to that of conceptual analysis which predominated, at least in Anglophone cultures, at that time. One possible avenue of enquiry which he identified as conspicuously absent in this respect was the development of a distinctively Catholic approach to problems of educational philosophy, observing that a work of…
Aquinas and the Active Intellect
Anyone who comes to read some of Aquinas' works and at the same time looks around for modern discussions of them will be struck by two things: first, the greater part of the latter is the product of American and European Catholic neo-scholasticism; and second, that, with a few distinguished exceptions,1 what is contributed by writers of the analytical tradition is often a blend of uninformed generalizations and some suspicion that what Aquinas pr…
Putnam on Intentionality
Logical Necessity and Other Essays
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Logical Necessity and Other Essays. By I. G. Mcfetridge, ed. John Haldane and Roger Scruton. (London: Aristotelian Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 240. Price £24.00.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 164, July 1991, Pages 352–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220039 Published: 0…
Is Every Action Morally Significant
One form of scepticism about the possibility of moral theory does not deny that there is something describable as ‘the conduct of life’, but it argues that there is no special ethical account to be given of this since conduct has no identifiably moral dimension. Here I explore the possibility that the problem of identifying distinctively moral aspects of action is explained by the thesis that the moral is ubiquitous; that every human action is – …
Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Education[1]
Journal Article Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Education Get access John Haldane John Haldane Correspondence: John Haldane, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 23, Issue 2, December 1989, Pages 171–183, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00205.x Published: 30 May 2006
Ii.—life and Mechanism 1
II.—LIFE AND MECHANISM1 Get access J. S. HALDANE J. S. HALDANE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume os-IX, Issue 33, 1 January 1884, Pages 27–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/os-IX.33.27 Published: 01 January 1884
A Hand-Book to the History of Philosophy
Mechanism, Life and Personality
Religious Education in a Pluralist Society
Theology after Wittgenstein
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Theology after Wittgenstein, By Fergus Kerr (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. xii + 202. Price £22.50.) John Haldane John Haldane University of Pittsburgh/University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 151, April 1988, Pages 259–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219932 Published: 01 April 1988
Voluntarism and realism in medieval ethics.
In contrast to other articles in this series on the history of moral philosophy the present essay is not devoted to expounding the views of a single author, or to examining a particular moral theory. Instead it discusses an important dispute between two medieval accounts of the relation between theological and moral propositions. In addition to its historical interest this debate is important both because it connects earlier and later ethical tho…
The Scottish Phenomenology Society
Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Education[1]
Journal Article Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Education Get access John Haldane John Haldane Correspondence: John Haldane, Department of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 23, Issue 2, December 1989, Pages 171–183, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00205.x Published: 30 May 2006
Logical Necessity and Other Essays
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Logical Necessity and Other Essays. By I. G. Mcfetridge, ed. John Haldane and Roger Scruton. (London: Aristotelian Society, 1990. Pp. viii + 240. Price £24.00.) Edward Craig Edward Craig Churchill College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 164, July 1991, Pages 352–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220039 Published: 0…
Aquinas and the Active Intellect
Anyone who comes to read some of Aquinas' works and at the same time looks around for modern discussions of them will be struck by two things: first, the greater part of the latter is the product of American and European Catholic neo-scholasticism; and second, that, with a few distinguished exceptions,1 what is contributed by writers of the analytical tradition is often a blend of uninformed generalizations and some suspicion that what Aquinas pr…
Putnam on Intentionality
Return to the crossroads
Writing a little over a decade ago of developments in educational philosophy, R. F. Dearden remarked on the dearth of alternative approaches to that of conceptual analysis which predominated, at least in Anglophone cultures, at that time. One possible avenue of enquiry which he identified as conspicuously absent in this respect was the development of a distinctively Catholic approach to problems of educational philosophy, observing that a work of…
The Individual, The State, and The Common Good
Let me begin with what should be a reassuring thought, and one that may serve as a corrective to presumptions that sometimes characterize political philosophy. The possibility, which Aquinas and Madison are both concerned with, of wise and virtuous political deliberation resulting in beneficial and stable civil order, no more depends upon possession of aphilosophical theory of the state and of the virtues proper to it, than does the possibility o…
Philosophy and Public Affairs
This collection of essays derives from a conference sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Centre of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews. It brings together a number of prominent academics from the fields of philosophy and political theory along with politicians and social commentators. The subjects covered include liberalism, education, welfare policy, religion, art and culture, and cloning. The mix of c…
Applied Ethics
This chapter contains sections titled: What is Applied Ethics? The Rise of Applied Ethics A Neglected Precedent The Future of the Subject
Aquinas on Human Ensoulment, Abortion and the Value of Life
Although there is a significant number of books and essays in which Aquinas's thought is examined in some detail, there are still many aspects of his writings that remain unknown to those outside the field of Thomistic studies; or which are generally misunderstood. An example is Aquinas's account of the origins of individual human life. This is the subject of a chapter in a recent book by Robert Pasnau on Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature (Cambridge…
On the very idea of spiritual values
There is another reason why academic philosophers might not think to explore the subject. For ‘spirituality’ smacks of religion, and not of the interesting metaphysical aspects that form the subject-matter of natural theology, but of those devotional and pietistic preoccupations that are felt to belong to the affective domain, if not to the sphere of irrationality. Occasionally a passing philosopher will, so to speak, stop at the church door and …
Transforming Nature
Essay by Paul Moorhouse Richard Long: Walking the Line Essay by Paul Moorhouse Richard Long: A Moving World Essay by Mel Gooding Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape
Edwin La Dell and the Art of Popular Printmaking
Art Theory
Scotland's Gift
Appreciation of the Scottish contribution to philosophy and theology is particularly marked in North America, especially among those in Reformed traditions, on account of the influence of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish thinkers. The Scottish view of the importance of intellectual reflection on fundamental questions concerning the nature of humanity and its place within the cosmos is represented also by the lecture series established …
Practical Philosophy
Anish Kapoor
Painting at the Edge of the World and the Watercolours of Tony Foster
On the very idea of spiritual values
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