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    Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Response to Bantz and MacLean
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982 261-271. 1982.
    Although the standard theory and actual practice of cost-benefit analysis are seriously defective, the general idea of making social policy in accord with an aggregative, maximizing, consequentialist criterion is a sensible one. Therefore it is argued, against Bantz, that interpersonal utility comparisons can be meaningful, and, against both Bantz and MacLean, that quantitative overall assessments of expected value provide a presumptively rational basis for social choice. However, it does not fo…Read more
  •  199
    Subject‐ive and objective
    Ratio 8 (3): 259-276. 1995.
    Peer Reviewed.
  •  183
    The Critical Project Today (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (1): 201-209. 2012.
  •  95
    Nous pouvons tous, je crois, reconnaître la justesse de la thèse d'Aristote à l'effet que le véritable raisonnement pratique a pour résultat non pas une simple croyance à propos du caractère désirable, ou même du caractère obligatoire, d'un acte, mais plutôt l'initiation effective d'une action. Cette thèse donne lieu à une énigme : comment la délibération, archétypiquement une inférence propositionnelle rationnelle , peut-elle logiquement aboutir à un acte ? L'action présuppose la motivation, ma…Read more
  •  228
    Reply to John Skorupski
    Utilitas 20 (2): 230-242. 2008.
  •  122
    A priori rules: Wittgenstein on the normativity of logic
    In Paul Boghossian & Christopher Peacocke (eds.), New Essays on the A Priori, Oxford University Press. pp. 170--96. 2000.
  •  3
    Morality, ideology, and reflection, or the duck sits yet
    In Edward Harcourt (ed.), Morality, reflection, and ideology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
  •  585
    Intuition—spontaneous, nondeliberative assessment—has long been indispensable in theoretical and practical philosophy alike. Recent research by psychologists and experimental philosophers has challenged our understanding of the nature and authority of moral intuitions by tracing them to “fast,” “automatic,” “button-pushing” responses of the affective system. This view of the affective system contrasts with a growing body of research in affective neuroscience which suggests that it is instead a f…Read more
  •  10
    How to Engage Reason: The Problem of Regress
    In R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler & Michael Smith (eds.), Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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    Review: Reply to Ralph Wedgwood (review)
    Philosophical Studies 126 (3). 2005.
    Peer Reviewed.
  •  437
    Coping with moral uncertainty (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 794-801. 2008.
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