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1Conspiracy Theories, Deplorables, and Defectibility: A Reply to Patrick StokesIn Matthew R. X. Dentith (ed.), Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously, Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 203-215. 2018.Patrick Stokes has argued that although many conspiracy theories are true, we should reject the policy of particularism (that is, the policy of investigating conspiracy theories if they are plausible and believing them if that is what the evidence suggests) and should instead adopt a policy of principled skepticism, subjecting conspiracy theories – or at least the kinds of theories that are generally derided as such – to much higher epistemic standards than their non-conspiratorial rivals, and …Read more
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No-ought-from-is, the naturalistic fallacy and the fact/value distinction: the history of a mistakeIn Neil Sinclair (ed.), The Naturalistic Fallacy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Desiring to Desire: Russell, Lewis, and G. E. MooreIn Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay (eds.), Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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LOVIBOND, S.: "Realism and Imagination in Ethics" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (n/a): 315. 1984.
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Hume on Is and OughtIn Lorne Falkenstein (ed.), Hume and the Contemporary 'Common Sense' Critique of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.Hume contends that you can’t get an ought from an is. Searle professed to prove otherwise, deriving a conclusion about obligations from premises about promises. Since can’t derive a substantive ought from an is by logic alone, Searle is best construed as claiming that there are analytic bridge principles linking premises about promises to conclusions about obligations. But we can no more derive a moral obligation to pay up from the fact that a promise has been made than we can derive a duty to f…Read more
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Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Social Science |
20th Century Philosophy |
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