Robert Merrihew Adams
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Merrihew Adams is an American analytic philosopher, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy. Life and career Adams was born on September 8, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught for many years at the University of California, Los Angeles, before moving to Yale University in the early 1990s as the Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics. As chairman, he helped revive the philosophy department after its near-collapse due to personal and scholarly conflicts between analytical and Continental philosophers. Adams retired from Yale in 2004 and taught part-time at the University of Oxford in England, where he was a senior research fellow of Mansfield College. In 2009 he became a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Robert Merrihew Adams's Published Works
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Published Works
- Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity (1979) (354)
- Theories of Actuality (1974) (321)
- A Theory of virtue : excellence in being for the good (2006) (212)
- Page quality: in search of an unbiased web ranking (2005) (165)
- Actualism and thisness (1981) (153)
- Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (1994) (146)
- Enhancing the role of case-oriented peer review to improve quality and safety in radiation oncology: Executive summary (2013) (129)
- Must God Create the Best (1972) (127)
- Finite and infinite goods (1999) (101)
- Burnout in radiation therapists: the predictive value of selected stressors. (2002) (92)
- The challenge of maximizing safety in radiation oncology. (2011) (83)
- Finite and infinite goods - a framework for ethics (2002) (77)
- Time and Thisness (1986) (69)
- Quantitative assessment of workload and stressors in clinical radiation oncology. (2012) (65)
- The Virtue Of Faith And Other Essays In Philosophical Theology (1987) (62)
- The miracle of theism : arguments for and against the existence of God (1986) (61)
- The Virtue of Faith (1984) (57)
- Improving quality of patient care by improving daily practice in radiation oncology. (2012) (46)
- MIDDLE KNOWLEDGE AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS (2008) (45)
- Burnout Among Occupational Therapists (2003) (44)
- Occupational burnout among radiographers, sonographers and radiologists in Australia and New Zealand: Findings from a national survey (2017) (44)
- The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments (1971) (41)
- The impact of selected organizational variables and managerial leadership on radiation therapists' organizational commitment (2009) (41)
- God, Possibility, and Kant (2000) (37)
- The Problem of Evil (1991) (36)
- Plantinga on the Problem of Evil (1985) (32)
- DIVINE COMMAND METAETHICS MODIFIED AGAIN (2016) (32)
- Quantification of the impact of multifaceted initiatives intended to improve operational efficiency and the safety culture: a case study from an academic medical center radiation oncology department. (2014) (31)
- New topographics : photographs of a man-altered landscape (1975) (28)
- Things in Themselves (1997) (27)
- The association between event learning and continuous quality improvement programs and culture of patient safety. (2015) (27)
- An Anti-Molinist Argument (1991) (25)
- Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz (1983) (23)
- Berkeley’s “Notion” of Spiritual Substance (1973) (17)
- Occupational burnout among radiation therapists in Australia: Findings from a mixed methods study. (2017) (17)
- Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981) (16)
- Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981) (16)
- Leibniz's Theories of Contingency (1977) (14)
- The PLUNC 3D treatment planning system: a dynamic alternative to commercially available systems. (2004) (14)
- Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief (2006) (13)
- Should Ethics be More Impersonal? a Critical Notice of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (1989) (13)
- The Concept of Debt in The Shipman’s Tale (2018) (13)
- Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion (1977) (13)
- National study to determine the comfort levels of radiation therapists and medical dosimetrists to report errors. (2013) (12)
- A Prospective Analysis of Radiation Oncologist Compliance With Early Peer Review Recommendations. (2019) (12)
- The new radiation therapy clinical practice: the emerging role of clinical peer review for radiation therapists and medical dosimetrists. (2010) (12)
- Faith and religious knowledge (2005) (11)
- Divine Commands and the Social Nature of Obligation (1987) (11)
- Fostering a culture of interprofessional education for radiation therapy and medical dosimetry students. (2014) (10)
- Utopia : a revised translation, backgrounds, criticism (1992) (10)
- Integrity and Conscience (2022) (10)
- Promoting safety mindfulness: Recommendations for the design and use of simulation-based training in radiation therapy (2018) (10)
- A Culture of Safety? An International Comparison of Radiation Therapists' Error Reporting. (2015) (9)
- Malebranche’s Causal Concepts (2013) (9)
- Improving radiation oncology providers' workload and performance: Can simulation-based training help? (2017) (9)
- Chapter 4. RELIGIOUS ETHICS IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY (1992) (9)
- The Promise and Burden of Peer Review in Radiation Oncology. (2016) (8)
- THISNESS AND EVENTS (2009) (8)
- Autonomy and theological ethics (1979) (8)
- The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists (2007) (8)
- Scanlon's Contractualism: Critical Notice of T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (2001) (7)
- The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background (2009) (7)
- Application of human factors analysis and classification system model to event analysis in radiation oncology. (2015) (7)
- Quality Assurance in Clinical Radiation Therapy: A Quantitative Assessment of the Utility of Peer Review in a Multi-physician Academic Practice (2009) (7)
- Love and the Problem of Evil (2006) (6)
- The Concept of a Divine Command (1996) (6)
- Response to Carriero, Mugnai, and Garber (1996) (6)
- Predication, Truth and Transworld Identity in Leibniz (1985) (5)
- Assessing the Quality of the A3 Thinking Tool for Problem Solving (2017) (4)
- Common Projects and Moral Virtue (1988) (4)
- Schleiermacher on Evil (1996) (4)
- Ethics: Systematic Theology, Volume I (1990) (4)
- MORAL HORROR AND THE SACRED (2016) (4)
- The Knight of Faith (1990) (4)
- Quantitative Assessment of Workload and Stressors in Clinical Radiation Oncology: A Step toward Improving Patient Safety (2011) (4)
- Justice, Happiness, and Perfection in Leibniz’s City of God1 (2014) (3)
- Anti-Consequentialism and the Transcendence of the Good (2003) (3)
- Impact of Simulation-Based Training on Radiation Therapists’ Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance (2020) (3)
- Review: Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (2002) (3)
- The Willingness of Dosimetrists and Radiation Therapists to Challenge Physicians as a Means of Assuring Patient Safety: Results of a Pilot Program (2010) (3)
- Impact of Workspace Design on Radiation Therapist Technicians' Physical Stressors, Mental Workload, Situation Awareness and Performance. (2020) (3)
- The future of medical dosimetry. (2015) (3)
- Creating a Culture of Safety Within an Institution: Walking the Walk. (2016) (2)
- Religious Disagreements and Doxastic Practices@@@Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience. (1994) (2)
- Comments on Intelligent Virtue: Moral Education, Aspiration, and Altruism (2015) (2)
- Do the Virtues All Imply Each Other (2006) (2)
- Application of "A3 thinking" to operational improvements in radiation oncology (2014) (2)
- Reply to Kvanvig (1989) (2)
- The silence of God in the thought of martin buber (2003) (2)
- Ecotopia : the second ICP triennial of photography and video (2006) (2)
- Leibniz’s Conception of Religion (2000) (2)
- Consciousness, Physicalism, and Panpsychism (2013) (2)
- A theory of virtue: response to critics (2010) (2)
- Sea change : the seascape in contemporary photography (1998) (1)
- If meaningfulness is not always fulfilling , why then does it matter ? (2014) (1)
- Reading the Silences,Questioning the Terms: A Response to the Focus on Eighteenth-Century Ethics (2000) (1)
- Odyssey : the photographs of Linda Connor (2008) (1)
- Voluntarism and the Shape of a History (2004) (1)
- Continuity and Development of Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Body: A Response to Daniel Garber’s Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2010) (1)
- Is the Doctrine of Atonement a Mistake (1997) (1)
- I—Robert Merrihew Adams: Conflict (2009) (1)
- WELL-BEING AND EXCELLENCE (2007) (1)
- Philosophical Themes in Schleiermacher’s Christology (2011) (1)
- Sleigh's Leibniz & Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence (1997) (1)
- Thisness and time travel (1997) (1)
- Nestorius and Nestorianism (2021) (1)
- Berkeley and Epistemology (1987) (1)
- Multipronged Quality Initiatives in Radiation Oncology: Feasibility, Staff Satisfaction, and Initial Outcomes (2012) (1)
- Speaking Up: An International Comparison of the Willingness of Radiation Therapists to Report Errors in Clinical Practice (2014) (1)
- DOSE: Dosimetry Online Supplemental Education (2015) (1)
- WE-G-BRA-01: Development of a Web-Based Dosimetry Training Tool for Therapy and Dosimetry Education. (2012) (1)
- Assessment of Radiation Therapy Technologists’ Workload and Situation Awareness: Monitoring 2 Versus 3 Collocated Display Monitors (2020) (1)
- Response to Editorial in the JRP by Robson, Clark and White 2014 patient safety: the journey towards safer radiotherapy (2014) (1)
- Daniel Garber, Leibniz, and Early Modern Philosophy (2019) (0)
- Plural and Integrated Virtue (2006) (0)
- Citigroup Photography Prize : in association with the Photographers' Gallery (2004) (0)
- An Existentialist Critique of Molinism (2009) (0)
- Brandon Look (2007) (0)
- An Existentialist Critique of Molinism (2009) (0)
- The philosophical basis of nursing. (1986) (0)
- III. MIDDLE KNOWLEDGE AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL (2008) (0)
- Books Received (1963) (0)
- READING THE SILENCES, QUESTIONING (2016) (0)
- Burke, B. David, 14 Butler, Joseph, 156 Buytendijk, FJJ, 15 Byron, Lord, 290 Calhoun, Cheshire, 3, 8, 12, 13,114 (1995) (0)
- Primitive and Derivative Forces (1999) (0)
- Effect of Neurofeedback and Simulation-based Training Interventions on Radiation Therapy Therapists’ (RTTs) Mental Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance (2020) (0)
- Psychoneuroimmunology edited by Robert Ader, Academic Press, 1981. £39.00/159.00 (xxiii + 061 pages) ISBN 012 043 780 5. (1982) (0)
- Religion after Babel (1993) (0)
- The Logic of Counterfactual Nonidentity (1999) (0)
- Virtue and its Benefits (2006) (0)
- Bulwer-Lyt ton and the Rhetor ical Design of Trollope's Orley Fa rm (2009) (0)
- Comments on Intelligent Virtue: Moral Education, Aspiration, and Altruism (2015) (0)
- Anticipation and Consummation (1963) (0)
- A Philosophical Autobiography (2009) (0)
- Existence and Essence (1999) (0)
- Our lives and our children : photographs taken near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant (1983) (0)
- This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast (2011) (0)
- Ethology and nonverbal communication in mental health: Edited by S. A. Carson and E. D. Carson. Elmsford Park, New York: Pergamon Press, 1980, 290 pp., $48.00 (1982) (0)
- How Can I Give You up, O Ephraim?: (2006) (0)
- Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla (2018) (0)
- No-Fault Responsibility for Outcomes (2014) (0)
- The Knowledge of Things Hoped for: The Sense of Theological Discourse, by Robert W. Jenson. 243 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1969. $5.75 (1969) (0)
- Talk Abstracts (2009) (0)
- Moral Frailty and Moral Luck (2006) (0)
- Personalized Injury Reduction Strategies in Sports Medicine: Lessons Learned from Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment: A Clinical Commentary (2023) (0)
- Enhancing patient safety mindfulness and promoting a safety culture in radiation oncology through the use of an event learning system (ELS) (2015) (0)
- Turning back : a photographic journal of re-exploration (2005) (0)
- Saint Anthony and the Snicker (1964) (0)
- A quantitative assessment of the utility of safety barriers (2015) (0)
- Close at hand (2008) (0)
- Gallery Editors' Note (2011) (0)
- Impact of Simulation-based Training and Neurofeedback Interventions on Radiation Technologists Workload, Situation Awareness, and Performance. (2020) (0)
- tives, is to show, by a tiresome profusion of examples, that the application of the test of utility to sorts of motive yields no results, because "there is no sort of motive but may give birth to any sort (2016) (0)
- Predicting Radiation Therapy Technicians’ Performance using Physical Stressors, Mental Workload and Situation Awareness (2020) (0)
- Reply: Cobb on Ultimate Reality (1989) (0)
- Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages.The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington.Paraconsistent Logic: Essays on the Inconsistent.Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters.Miscellaneous Writings.Freedom.Freedom, Rights and Pornography.The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart.Understanding War.Th (1991) (0)
- The Root of Possibility (1999) (0)
- Précis of Finite and Infinite Goods1 (2002) (0)
- The negative impact of prior reprimand on radiation therapists' and dosimetrists' comfort in reporting errors: Results from a national survey of more than 500 respondents. (2012) (0)
- Wickedness and Vices (2006) (0)
- Quality Assurance in Clinical Radiation Therapy: A Qualitative Assessment of the Impact of Physician Attendance on the Number/Nature of Peer Review-defined Changes to Planned Cases (2012) (0)
- CHARLOTTE ALINGTON BARNARD (1966) (0)
- Transparency and Opaqueness (1974) (0)
- A theory of virtue: introductory remarks (2010) (0)
- No escaping evasion (1975) (0)
- Assessing Communication Barriers to Reporting Errors in Radiation Oncology: Results of a National Survey of Medical Dosimetrists (2011) (0)
- Quantification of the impact of multifaceted improvements in patient safety culture: A case study from academic medical center radiation oncology department. (2012) (0)
- Tackling Divisions and Inequalities (2002) (0)
- Presumption of Possibility (1999) (0)
- Circumstantial conscience? (2018) (0)
- Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (2009) (0)
- The Metaphysics of Counterfactual Nonidentity (1999) (0)
- A shrill chill (1974) (0)
- The stringency of portal film approval: An in-house retrospective analysis of regular versus cross-coverage variances in radiation oncology (2015) (0)
- Cyril Connolly and the Man of Letters (2016) (0)
- Critical Crossroads@@@Seeing through Everything: English Writers 1918-1940@@@Afterjoyce: Studies in Fiction after "Ulysses"@@@The Mysteries of Identity: A Theme in Modern Literature@@@Personality and Impersonality: Lawrence, Woolf and Mann@@@The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the T (1980) (0)
- Divine Motivation Theory. LINDA ZAGZEBSKI. Cambridge. (2006) (0)
- Dose and Image Quality Optimization in Medical Imaging; By: Hogg P and Lanca L, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-907842-60-3 (2015) (0)
- Alter Egos and Their Names 531 * I Have Benefited in the Writing of This Paper from Conversations with Alter Egos and Their Names (2005) (0)
- THE MANUSCRIPT OF JAMES JOYCE'S PLAY (2016) (0)
- Can Virtue Be Taught (2006) (0)
- Book Review:Fable's End: Completeness and Closure in Rhetorical Fiction David H. Richter (1978) (0)
- Form and Matter in Leibniz's Middle Years (1999) (0)
- Celine: A Biography (review) (1994) (0)
- Ariosto: Less Is More (2016) (0)
- Leibniz's Phenomenalism (1999) (0)
- The Ens Perfectissimum (1999) (0)
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