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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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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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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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126Supervenience and moral realismRatio 7 (2): 145-152. 1994.Simon Blackburn has developed an interesting challenge to moral realism based on its alleged inability to account for supervenience relations between the moral and nonmoral. If supervenience holds, then any base property once giving rise to a supervening one must always do so. The realist accepts supervenience, but also (according to Blackburn) accepts the claim that nonmoral base properties do not necessitate the moral ones that supervene on them. This combination is thought deadly, because it …Read more
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6Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 11 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.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 intersections of ethical theory with 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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99Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves ...
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162Three problems for Schroeder’s hypotheticalism (review)Philosophical Studies 157 (3): 435-443. 2012.Three problems for Schroeder’s Humean theory of reasons.
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192Moral rulesEthics 107 (4): 584-611. 1997.The traditional conception of ethical theory sees it as the project of developing a coherent set of rules from which one can infer all determinate moral verdicts. I am not optimistic about the prospects for constructing such a theory. To explain this pessimism, we need to understand what moral rules are and what roles they might play in ethical theory
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303Ethical Theory: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007._Ethical Theory: An Anthology_ is an authoritative collection of key essays by top scholars in the field, addressing core issues including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, as well as traditionally underrepresented topics such as moral knowledge and moral responsibility. Brings together seventy-six classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from classic writing by Hume and Kant to contemporary writing by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, and Judith Jarvis Thomson Guides stu…Read more
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74Oxford Studies in Metaethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves ...
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18Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2007.Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only periodical publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on 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 intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. OSME provides an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint them…Read more
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47Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Iii (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 being done in the field.
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282Moral and theological realism: The explanatory argumentJournal of Moral Philosophy 4 (3): 311-329. 2007.There are striking parallels, largely unexplored in the literature, between skeptical arguments against theism and against moral realism. After sketching four arguments meant to do this double duty, I restrict my attention to an explanatory argument that claims that we have most reason to deny the existence of moral facts (and so, by extrapolation, theistic ones), because such putative facts have no causal-explanatory power. I reject the proposed parity, and offer reasons to think that the poten…Read more
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44Ethical Disagreement, Ethical Objectivism and Moral IndeterminacyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2): 331-344. 1994.
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5Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.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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14Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 9 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.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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1330Moral realism: a defenceOxford University Press. 2003.Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. His central thesis, as well as the many novel supporting arguments used to defend it, will spark much controversy among those concerned with the foundations of ethics.
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