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Common Themes from Sidgwick to EwingIn Underivative duty: British moral philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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12The Well-Rounded LifeJournal of Philosophy 84 (12): 727-46. 1987.This paper discusses the idea, which arises within perfectionist theories of the good, that there can be special value in a well-rounded life, one that contains a balance of different intrinsic goods, e.g. knowledge and achievement, rather than specializing narrowly on just one. It uses the economists' device of indifference graphs to 1) formulate the view the well-roundedness is other things equal a good, and 2) to combine that view with empirical theses about the (at times) instrumental benefi…Read more
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6On Judged SportsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 42 (3): 317-325. 2015.Whereas Bernard Suits argued that judged sports such as diving and figure skating are aesthetic performances rather than games, I argue that they’re simultaneously performances and games. Moreover, their two aspects are connected, since their prelusory goal is to dive or skate beautifully and the requirement to do somersaults or triple jumps makes achieving that goal more difficult. This analysis is similar to one given by Scott Kretchmar, but by locating these sports’ aesthetic side in their go…Read more
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19Two kinds of organic unityThe Journal of Ethics 2 (4): 299-320. 1998.This paper distinguishes two interpretations of G. E. Moore''s principle of organic unities, which says that the intrinsic value of a whole need not equal the sum of the intrinsic values its parts would have outside it. A holistic interpretation, which was Moore''s own, says that parts retain their values when they enter a whole but that there can be an additional value in the whole as a whole that must be added to them. The conditionality interpretation, which has been defended by Korsgaard, sa…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |