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Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.
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8Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6: Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.
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3Oxford Studies in Metaethics 12 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field
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1Moral IndeterminacyDissertation, The University of Arizona. 1992.My dissertation focuses on issues of indeterminacy in ethics and the philosophy of law. My aim is to establish the existence of moral indeterminacy and to show how we can allow some degree of indeterminacy in both ethics and the law without necessarily abandoning objectivist positions that may withstand noncognitivist or legal realist criticisms. ;The dissertation is divided into two parts. In the first, I devote a chapter to each of three sources of moral indeterminacy. The first chapter focuse…Read more
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68Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.The contents of the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics nicely mirror the variety of issues that make this area of philosophy so interesting. The volume opens with Peter Railton's exploration of some central features of normative guidance, the mental states that underwrite it, and its relationship to our reasons for feeling and acting. In the next offering, Terence Cuneo takes up the case against expressivism, arguing that its central account of the nature of moral judgments is badl…Read more
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45Sex selection for social purposes in Israel: quest for the "perfect child" of a particular gender or centuries old prejudice against women?Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (9). 2008.On 9 May 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Health issued guidelines spelling out the conditions under which sex selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis for social purposes is to be permitted in Israel. This article first reviews the available medical methods for sex selection, the preference for children of a specific gender in various societies and the ethical controversies surrounding PGD for medical and social purposes in different countries. It focuses then on the question of whether proc…Read more
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146Moral judgement and moral motivationPhilosophical Quarterly 48 (192): 353-358. 1998.I criticize an important argument of Michael Smith, from his recent book The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994). Smith's argument, if sound, would undermine one form of moral externalism 2013 that which insists that moral judgements only contingently motivate their authors. Smith claims that externalists must view good agents as always prompted by the motive of duty, and that possession of such a motive impugns the goodness of the agent. I argue (i) that externalists do not (ordinarily) nee…Read more
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8Review of Joel Feinberg, Problems at the Root of Law (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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673Evolutionary Debunking, Moral Realism and Moral KnowledgeJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7 (1): 1-38. 2012.This paper reconstructs what I take to be the central evolutionary debunking argument that underlies recent critiques of moral realism. The argument claims that given the extent of evolutionary influence on our moral faculties, and assuming the truth of moral realism, it would be a massive coincidence were our moral faculties reliable ones. Given this coincidence, any presumptive warrant enjoyed by our moral beliefs is defeated. So if moral realism is true, then we can have no warranted moral be…Read more
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62Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; …Read more
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478A defence of categorical reasonsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (1pt2): 189-206. 2009.In this paper I offer two arguments designed to defend the existence of categorical reasons, which I define as those justifying considerations that obtain independently of their relation to an agent's commitments. The first argument is based on certain paradigm cases meant to reveal difficulties for practical instrumentalism—the view, as I define it here, that categorical reasons do not exist, because all reasons must serve the commitments of the agents to whom they apply. The second argument re…Read more
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5Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume I (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.The contents of the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics nicely mirror the variety of issues that make this area of philosophy so interesting. The volume opens with Peter Railton's exploration of some central features of normative guidance, the mental states that underwrite it, and its relationship to our reasons for feeling and acting. In the next offering, Terence Cuneo takes up the case against expressivism, arguing that its central account of the nature of moral judgments is badl…Read more
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87Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.This is a periodical publication devoted to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics and includes study being carried out at the intersections ...
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30Ethics as philosophy : A defense of ethical nonnaturalismIn Terry Horgan & Mark Timmons (eds.), Metaethics After Moore, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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9Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 1 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2006.Devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics. Provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
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6Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field
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215Error Theory and the Possibility of Normative EthicsPhilosophical Issues 15 (1): 107-120. 2005.
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4Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship in the field. Its broad purview includes work at the intersection of ethical theory and metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like t…Read more
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