{"id":14,"date":"2022-11-08T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:04:36","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review of Michael Gorman (2024) <em>Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics<\/em>. <em>Dialectica<\/em> 78.2 (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-pdcnet-org.proxy.library.nd.edu\/acpaproc\/content\/acpaproc_2022_0096_0253_0268\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www-pdcnet-org.proxy.library.nd.edu\/acpaproc\/content\/acpaproc_2022_0096_0253_0268\">&#8216;Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre&#8217;s <em>Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity<\/em>.&#8217; <em>Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association<\/em> 95 (2022).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This paper is part of an ongoing project to understand the ways in which Aristotelian eudaimonism might account for the phenomenon of human love.  I argue that MacIntyre is incorrect to assert that expressivist metaethics invalidates NeoAristotelian first-order moral theory, and that certain moral transformations can best be explained from within an expressivist framework in which moral claims bottom out in what an agent loves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.nd.edu\/10.2307\/j.ctv1q26pp2.17\">&#8216;Joy, Truth, and the Search for God in St. Augustine&#8217;s <em>Confessions X<\/em>.&#8217; <em>Studia Patristica<\/em> 103:183-194 (2021).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">In this paper, I argue that Book X of Augustine&#8217;s <em>Confessions<\/em> presents an answer to Meno&#8217;s paradox as applied to the search for God.  I show how memories of joy and truth are sufficient to target a successful search for God and to recognize God once he has been found &#8211; cases of concupiscence and self-deception notwithstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Michael Gorman (2024) Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics. Dialectica 78.2 (2024). &#8216;Are NeoAristotelianism and Expressivism Incompatible? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre&#8217;s Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.&#8217; Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 95 (2022). This paper is part of an ongoing project to understand the ways in which Aristotelian eudaimonism might account for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/publications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4409,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/samuel-pell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}