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881Naturalism and PrescriptivitySocial 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
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98Homo ProspectusOxford 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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162Moral factualismIn James Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 6--201. 2008.
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78Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Response to Bantz and MacLeanPSA: 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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9On the hypothetical and non-hypothetical in reasoning about belief and actionIn Garrett Cullity & Berys Gaut (eds.), Ethics and practical reason, Oxford University Press. pp. 53--79. 1997.
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95Kant rencontre Aristote là où la raison rencontre l'appétitPhilosophiques 28 (1): 47-67. 2001.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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183The Critical Project Today (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85 (1): 201-209. 2012.
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149Explanation and metaphysical controversyIn Philip Kitcher & Wesley C. Salmon (eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science Vol. XIII: Scientific Explanation, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 220--252. 1989.
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