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333Ethical disagreement, ethical objectivism and moral indeterminacyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2): 331-344. 1994.
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7Oxford 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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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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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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305Ethical 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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75Oxford 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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283Moral 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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6Oxford 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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1341Moral 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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134The ethical life: fundamental readings in ethics and moral problems (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Introduction -- Value theory : the nature of the good life -- Epicurus letter to Menoeceus -- John Stuart Mill, Hedonism -- Aldous Huxley, Brave new world -- Robert Nozick, The experience machine -- Richard Taylor, The meaning of life -- Jean Kazez, Necessities -- Normative ethics : theories of right conduct -- J.J.C. Smart, Eextreme and restricted utilitarianism -- Immanuel Kant the good will & the categorical imperative -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan -- Philippa Foot, Natural goodness -- Aristotl…Read more
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17Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Four (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.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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155Can punishment morally educate?Law and Philosophy 10 (2). 1991.Over the past ten years or so, there has been a renewed interest in the moral education theory of punishment. The attractions of the theory are numerous, not least of which is that it offers hopes for a breakthrough in the apparently intractable debate between deterrence theorists and retributivists. Nevertheless, I believe there are severe problems with recent formulations of the theory. First, contemporary educationists all place great emphasis on autonomy, yet fail to show how continued respe…Read more
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6Oxford Studies in Metaethics: The First ten Years, 2006-2015 (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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5Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 8 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.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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147Moral 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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