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91Review of Abigail Levin, The Cost of Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech, and Their Challenge to Liberalism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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78Moral Development and Moral ResponsibilityThe Monist 86 (2): 181-199. 2003.At the end of Section III of “Freedom and Resentment,” just after he has drawn our attention to the reactive attitudes, P. F. Strawson remarks, “The object of these commonplaces is to try to keep before our minds something it is easy to forget when we are engaged in philosophy, especially in our cool, contemporary style, viz., what it is actually like to be involved in ordinary inter-personal relationships, ranging from the most intimate to the most casual.” It is striking, then, that the propon…Read more
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16The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience Thomas Szasz Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, x + 182 pp., $19.95 (review)Dialogue 38 (2): 420-. 1999.
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13Morality is so steeped in the quotidian details of praise and blame, of do’s and don’t’s, and of questions about the justifiability of certain practices it is no wonder that philosophers and psychologists have devoted relatively little effort to investigating what makes moral life possible in the first place. In making this claim, I neither ignore Kant and his intellectual descendants, nor the large literature in developmental moral psychology from Piaget on. My charge has to do with this fact: …Read more
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Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter, eds., Feminist Epistemologies (review)Philosophy in Review 14 155-157. 1994.
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3Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (6): 410-413. 2000.
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207How good is the linguistic analogy?In Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence & Stephen P. Stich (eds.), The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 145--167. 2005.A nativist moral psychology, modeled on the successes of theoretical linguistics, provides the best framework for explaining the acquisition of moral capacities and the diversity of moral judgment across the species. After a brief presentation of a poverty of the moral stimulus argument, this chapter sketches a view according to which a so-called Universal Moral Grammar provides a set of parameterizable principles whose specific values are set by the child's environment, resulting in the acquisi…Read more
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