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83Ethical Issues in Designing Interventions for Behavioural ChangeProceedings of Design Research Society 2018, Volume 1. 2018.This paper reflects on fundamental ethical issues concerning designing for behavioural change, in order to raise questions about the factors that should be considered by design practitioners when developing interventions. It draws on existing literature on philosophical ethics, moral psychology and design. It proposes a list of ethical questions and considerations to be made throughout the design process. A case study addressing behavioural changes in antibiotics prescriptions (for Urinary Tract…Read more
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76The Naturalistic Fallacy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.At the turn of the twentieth century, G.E. Moore contemptuously dismissed most previous 'ethical systems' for committing the 'Naturalistic Fallacy'. This fallacy – which has been variously understood, but has almost always been seen as something to avoid – was perhaps the greatest structuring force on subsequent ethical theorising. To a large extent, to understand the Fallacy is to understand contemporary ethics. This volume aims to provide that understanding. Its thematic chapters – written by …Read more
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71Review: Hume, Reason, and Morality: A Legacy of Contradiction (review)Mind 116 (463): 733-736. 2007.Review.
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65Ethical Subjectivism and ExpressivismCambridge University Press. 2020.Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. These views cook with the same ingredients – the natural world, and our reactions to it – and have similar attractions. This Element assesses each of them by considering whether they can accommodate three central features of moral practice: the practicality of moral judgements, the phenomenon of moral disagreement, and the mind-independence of some mo…Read more
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61Speech and Morality (review)Analysis 77 (3): 643-648. 2017.Nicholas Sturgeon memorably asked: ‘What difference does it make whether moral realism is true?’ His question was prompted by the rise of the metaethical upstart quasi-realism, which urges that an expressivist account of moral discourse is compatible with most, if not all, of its important contours. In his invigorating new book, Cuneo offers a startling new answer to Sturgeon’s question.1 If moral realism were not true, Cuneo argues, we would not be able to speak. But since we evidently can spea…Read more
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61"Moral Skepticism: New Essays" ed. Diego E. Machuca (Routledge 2018) (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9 (2): 1-7. 2019.
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46Review of "Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity" G. Marchetti and S. Marchetti (eds.) (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017. 2017.
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45Review of Shaun Nichols, Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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39Moral Skepticism: New Essays, edited by Diego E. MachucaInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9 (2): 173-178. 2019.
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38Many philosophers argue that the face-value of moral practice provides presumptive support to moral realism. This paper analyses such arguments into three steps. Moral practice has a certain face-value, only realism can vindicate this face value, and the face-value needs vindicating. Two potential problems with such arguments are discussed. The first is taking the relevant face-value to involve explicitly realist commitments; the second is underestimating the power of non-realist strategies to v…Read more
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19Belief Pills and the Possibility of Moral EpistemologyOxford Studies in Metaethics 13. 2017.This chapter argues that evolutionary debunking arguments are dialectically ineffective. Such arguments rely on the premise that moral judgements can be given evolutionary explanations which do not invoke their truth. The challenge for the debunker is to bridge the gap between this premise and the conclusion that moral judgements are unjustified. After discussing older attempts to bridge this gap, this chapter focuses on Joyce’s recent attempt, which claims that ‘we do not have a believable acco…Read more
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1Introduction: Explanation in Ethics and MathematicsIn Uri D. Leibowitz & Neil Sinclair (eds.), Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.Are moral properties intellectually indispensable, and, if so, what consequences does this have for our understanding of their nature, and of our talk and knowledge of them? Are mathematical objects intellectually indispensable, and, if so, what consequences does this have for our understanding of their nature, and of our talk and knowledge of them? What similarities are there, if any, in the answers to the first two questions? Can comparison of the two cases shed light on which answers are most…Read more
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