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    Naturalism and Prescriptivity
    Social Philosophy and Policy 7 (1): 151. 1989.
    Statements about a person's good slip into and out of our ordinary discourse about the world with nary a ripple. Such statements are objects of belief and assertion, they obey the rules of logic, and they are often defended by evidence and argument. They even participate in common-sense explanations, as when we say of some person that he has been less subject to wild swings of enthusiasm and disappointment now that, with experience, he has gained a clearer idea of what is good for him. Statement…Read more
  •  98
    Homo Prospectus
    with Martin E. P. Seligman, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sekhar Sripada
    Oxford University Press. 2016.
    NINE Morality and Prospection -- TEN Prospection Gone Awry: Depression -- ELEVEN Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left -- Afterword -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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    Moral factualism
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    Facts, Values, and Norms
    Philosophical Studies 126 (3): 433-448. 2005.
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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
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    Review: Reply to Ben Eggleston (review)
    Philosophical Studies 126 (3). 2005.
    Peer Reviewed.
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    Subject‐ive and objective
    Ratio 8 (3): 259-276. 1995.
    Peer Reviewed.
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    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
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    The Critical Project Today (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (1): 201-209. 2012.
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    Reply to John Skorupski
    Utilitas 20 (2): 230-242. 2008.
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    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.