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12Comments on Two of Depaul’s PuzzlesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3): 636-639. 2002.I’m not sure one even needs to think a state of affairs is true for us to take attitudinal pleasure in it. We surely take pleasure in imagining states of affairs. In such a case, we are well aware that the state of affairs that is the object of our enjoyment does not obtain. What is the proper account of the pleasure we take from imagining? I am fairly sure this is not a type of sensory pleasure. Would it make sense to say that what S is attitudinally pleased by is the state of affairs consistin…Read more
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4Ugly Analyses and ValueIn Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic value, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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105Supervenience and moral dependencePhilosophical Studies 51 (3). 1987.One aim philosophers have in constructing moral theories is to identify the natural or non-Moral characteristics that make actions right or obligatory, Things good, Or persons virtuous. Yet we have no clear understanding of what it is for certain of a thing's non-Moral properties to be responsible for its moral properties. Given the recent interest in the concept of supervenience one might think that the dependence of moral on natural properties could be explained in terms of it. Unfortunately, …Read more
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42Brink's Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 731-735. 1993.
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CoherentismIn Audi Robert (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 1995.
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42The highest moral knowledge and the truth behind internalismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 29 (S1): 137-160. 1991.
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122Pyrrhonian moral skepticism and the problem of the criterionPhilosophical Issues 19 (1): 38-56. 2009.No Abstract
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81Intuitions in moral inquiryIn David Copp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 595--623. 2006.This chapter begins with a weak understanding of intuitions as beliefs that do not result from more familiar sources, but that the person currently holds simply because the proposition believed seems true to the person upon due consideration. Nearly all moral inquiry makes significant use of moral intuitions. Reflective equilibrium is perhaps the most sophisticated intuitionistic approach to moral inquiry. It modifies the usual understanding of reflective equilibrium by arguing that inquirers mu…Read more
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94Balance and Refinement: Beyond Coherence Methods of Moral InquiryRoutledge. 1993.We all have moral beliefs. But what if one beleif conflicts with another? DePaul argues that we have to make our beliefs cohere, but that the current coherence methods are seriously flawed. It is not just the arguments that need to be considered in moral enquiry. DePaul asserts that the ability to make sensitive moral judgements is vital to any philosophical inquiry into morality. The inquirer must consider how her life experiences and experiences with literature, film and theatre have influence…Read more
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1Wiggins, D. "Needs Values, Truth: Essays in the Philosophy of Value" (review)Mind 99 (n/a): 619. 1990.
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72Sosa, Certainty and the Problem of the CriterionPhilosophical Papers 40 (3): 287-304. 2011.Abstract In Reflective Knowledge, Ernest Sosa continues his detailed and intriguing defense of his two level account of knowledge that recognizes both animal and reflective knowledge. The latter more impressive type of knowledge requires a coherent positive epistemic perspective defending the reliability of a source of belief. Viewing Sosa's discussion from the through the lens provided by R.M. Chisholm's treatments of the problem of the criterion, I worry that Sosa's approach is too far in the …Read more
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17Moral Realism and the Foundations of EthicsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 731-735. 1993.
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600Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide, how they are supposed to lead us to the truth, and why we should treat them as important. In addition, recent psychological research seems to pose serious challenges to traditional intuition-driven phi…Read more
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37The Rationality of Belief in GodReligious Studies 17 (3). 1981.The major purpose of Hans Kung's SOO-page book entitled Does God Exist? is to show that belief in the Christian God is rationally justifiable. Given the title, purpose and size of the book, I was surprised by many of the things the book does not contain. It gives little attention and offers no solution to the problem of evil; it deals briefly with the traditional proofs for God, devoting at most one page each to the cosmological, teleological, ontological and moral arguments; and it contains no …Read more
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263Intellectual virtue: perspectives from ethics and epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working on either side of the …Read more
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