John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of Saint Andrews.

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and author of Faithful Reason (2006), Practical Philosophy (2009), and Reasonable Faith (2010).

John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs.

John Haldane is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His recent publications include An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion and Faithful Reason: Essays Ca

John Haldane Routledge, 224 pages, $39.95, paper In his 2004 book Faithful Reason, John Haldane noted “without qualification” that throughout his training in analytic philosophy he never felt any tension between faith and reason. He went on to add that “my

John Haldane, and others. John Perry University of Oxford Oxford, England Peter Wicks replies: When I suggested that utilitarianism is an ethical theory well suited to the technocratic spirit of our times, I was attempting to identify one of the sourc

John Haldane writes that the debate between realists and antirealists “reflects the broad opposition between ‘progressive liberals’ and ‘social conservatives.’” That way of characterizing the debate is misleading. It is no doubt true that most antirealists ar

John Haldane’s argumentum ad consummationem (“Against Erotic Entitlements,” April): Why shouldn’t it be made into a formally valid syllogism? 1. Determinants of human happiness should be consummated; 2. But sincere sexual attraction and love, whether chosen

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture. This piece is reprinted from the Scotsman with permission. Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First Things via

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture. This piece is reprinted from the February 26 Scotsman with permission. Become a fan of First Things on Facebook, subscribe to First T

John Haldane is professor of philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and author of Faithful Reason (2006), Practical Philosophy (2009), and Reasonable Faith (2010). He was recently appointed chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. His Philosophy Liv

John Haldane, in an essay entitled “Thomistic Ethics in America,” published over a decade ago in the journal Logos, comes to a similar conclusion: “I think the effort to render [facts about human nature] vivid in phenomenological consciousness is best pursued

John Haldane critiques Stephen Hawking in “Philosophy Lives,” the issue’s final essay, arguing that philosophy is far from being dead and is, in fact, reinvigorated by the (unwitting) philosophic claims made by prominent scientists. Haldane’s essay is also ava

John Haldane reads the new volume from Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, Body–Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics. In “The Odyssey of the Odyssey,” the critic Zbigniew Janowski reflects on Edith Hall’s book about the cultural history of Homer.

John Haldane (St. Andrews). Moderating the discussion was Harold Shapiro, Princeton’s president emeritus and the chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission under President Clinton. On any measure, these are among the most prominent voices in contempor

John Haldane, or catching up with David Novak. It was like, well, what we do with the magazine, and my wife pointed out that I could have had much the same experience simply by staying home and reading the back issues of FIRST THINGS. I think she said t

John Haldane, professor of philosophy at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Gifford Lectures go back to a bequest of Adam Lord Gifford in 1887, and lecturers have included luminaries such as William James, Karl Barth, Michael Polanyi, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Alfred No