Works by Michael McFall
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- Real character-friends: Aristotelian friendship, living together, and technology.Michael T. McFall -2012 -Ethics and Information Technology 14 (3):221-230.Aristotle’s account of friendship has largely withstood the test of time. Yet there are overlooked elements of his account that, when challenged by apparent threats of current and emerging communication technologies, reveal his account to be remarkably prescient. I evaluate the danger that technological advances in communication pose to the future of friendship by examining and defending Aristotle’s claim that perfect or character-friends must live together. I concede that technologically-mediated communication can aid existing character-friendships, but I argue that character-friendships cannot (...) be created and sustained entirely through technological meditation. I examine text-based technologies, such as Facebook and email, and engage a non-text based technology that poses the greatest threat to my thesis—Skype. I then address philosophical literature on friendship and technology that has emerged in the last decade in Ethics and Information Technology to elucidate and defend my account by contrast. I engage Cocking and Matthews (2000), who argue that friendship cannot be created and sustained entirely through text-based contact, Briggle (2008), who argues that friendship can be created and sustained entirely through text-based contact, and Munn (2012), who argues that friendship cannot be created and entirely sustained through text-based contact but can be created and sustained entirely in immersive virtual worlds. My account discusses a certain kind of friendship, character-friendship, and a certain kind of technology, Skype, that these accounts do not. Examination of these essays helps to demonstrate that character friendship cannot be sustained entirely by technologically-aided communication and that character-friends must live together. (shrink)
- Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment.Michael McFall &Laurence Thomas -2009 - Lexington Books.This book examines the negative power that child maltreatment has on individuals and society ethically and politically, while analyzing the positive power that parental love and healthy families have. To address how best to confront the problem of child maltreatment, it examines several policy options, ultimately defending a policy of licensing parents, while carefully examining the tension between child and adult rights and duties.
- (2 other versions)Divine Hiddenness and Spiritual Autism.Michael T. McFall -2016 -Heythrop Journal 57 (6).
- Can Christians Be Philosophy Professors?Michael T. McFall -2012 -Teaching Philosophy 35 (1):63-81.In The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology, Paul Moser argues that Jesus’s love commands have important implications for how philosophy should be done by Christian philosophers. He calls for a reorientation of the questions that philosophers pursue, requiring that questions lead to agape-oriented ministry. Yet Moser omits discussion of an important duty of philosophers—teaching. Once the duty of teaching is considered, this essay argues that few philosophers could meet Moser’s ideal. Instead of abandoning Moser’s project to reorient philosophy, though, this (...) essay takes it one step further and argues that many, though not all, Christian philosophers should leave academia to become clergy. Examination of these meta-pedagogical issues, including that of Christian calling and vocational choice, transitions to pedagogical speculation of what Moser’s demands might require in the classroom. Moser’s obedience mode of philosophy is then compared with competing models in the advocacy-neutrality classroom debate. (shrink)
- Can We Have a Friend in Jesus?Michael T. McFall -2012 -Philosophia Christi 14 (2):315-334.Many state that they have a friend in Jesus, but close analysis reveals that this claim is difficult to defend. Furthermore, only once does Jesus claim that humans can be friends with him. This essay explores whether humans can be friends with Jesus. In arguing that this is possible, attention is given to what kind of friendship is possible in Aristotle’s taxonomy of utility, pleasure, and character-friendships. None of these describes the kind of friendship possible between humans and Jesus, but (...) holy-friendship (developed from character-friendship) suffices to demonstrate how such friendship is possible. (shrink)
- Family Ethics: Practices for Christians.Michael McFall -2010 -Philosophia Christi 12 (2):489-493.
- Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy.Michael T. McFall -2016 -Philosophia Christi 18 (2):499-502.
- Living Dogma and Marriage.Michael T. McFall -2011 -Philosophia 39 (4):657-672.The decision to get married, as well as choosing whom to marry, is of the utmost importance to most people. This decision consists of many amoral considerations, but an ethical relationship arises when a promise is made, especially a vow that binds for a lifetime and affects oneself, one’s spouse, one’s children, and society. This essay provides an account of ideal romantic marriage, arguing that John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty provides an excellent foundation for constructing such an account. Neither dead (...) dogma nor living truth is a healthy model for marriage, so a hybrid model of marriage, living dogma, is developed. The importance of the marital vow becomes apparent as the living dogma account is revealed, and this examination yields a model for how to decide when and whom to marry. (shrink)
- Prelude to Philosophy: An Introduction for Christians.Michael T. McFall -2014 -Philosophia Christi 16 (1):233-237.
- Redeeming Philosophy: A God-Centered Approach to the Big Questions.Michael T. McFall -2017 -Philosophia Christi 19 (1):231-233.
- The Foundations of Licensing Parents.Michael McFall -2010 - In Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast & Linda Oravecz,The Ethics of the Family. Cambridge Scholars Press.Export citation
Bookmark - The wisdom of the Christian faith.Paul K. Moser &Michael McFall (eds.) -2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.The Wisdom of the Christian Faith joins philosophy and New Testament theology to offer a unique product: an anthology of accessible essays by prominent Christian philosophers on topics of religious and philosophical interest.
- Book Review: Laura M. Hartman,The Christian Consumer: Living Faithfully in a Fragile World. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2013 -Studies in Christian Ethics 26 (2):240-243.
- Eleonore Stump: The God of the Bible and the God of the philosophers: Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 2016, 116 pp, $15.00. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2016 -International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 80 (2):195-198.
- Book Review: The Rest of Life: Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2014 -Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 7 (1):162-164.No categories
- Ben Witherington III, The Rest of Life: Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, and Sex from a Kingdom Perspective. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2014 -Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 7.Export citation Bookmark
- Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate: Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012, 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-01698-8, $27.95 Hb. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2012 -Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (2):275-278.
- Paul M. Gould and Richard Brian Davis, Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2016 -Philosophia Christi 18.Export citation Bookmark
- Julie Hanlon Rubio, Family Ethics: Practices for Christians. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2010 -Philosophia Christi 12.Export citation Bookmark
- John Lippitt, Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2014 -Reviews in Religion and Theology 21.Export citation Bookmark
- Mark Foreman, Prelude to Philosophy: An Introduction for Christians. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2014 -Philosophia Christi 16.Export citation Bookmark
- Norvin Richards, The Ethics of Parenthood: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN-10: 0199731748. £37.50. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2012 -Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (1):135-136.Norvin Richards, The Ethics of Parenthood Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s10677-011-9298-3 Authors Michael McFall, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA Journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Online ISSN 1572-8447 Print ISSN 1386-2820.
- Vern S. Poythress, Redeeming Philosophy: A God-Centered Approach to the Big Questions. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2017 -Philosophia Christi 19.Export citation Bookmark
- Mark Wynn, Renewing the Senses: A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual Life. [REVIEW]Michael McFall -2014 -Reviews in Religion and Theology 21.Export citation Bookmark
- The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus. By Dallas Willard. Pp. xiii, 191, New York, HarperOne, 2015, £16.99. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2018 -Heythrop Journal 59 (3):634-634.
- Paul M. Gould, The Outrageous Idea of the Missional Professor. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2015 -Teaching Philosophy 38 (3):366-369.
- Michael Rota, Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence, and the Abundant Life. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2017 -Teaching Philosophy 40 (1):116-119.
- Michael W. Austin, Wise Stewards: Philosophical Foundations of Christian Parenting. [REVIEW]Michael T. McFall -2012 -Faith and Philosophy 29 (3):368-372.
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