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28Compunction, Second-Personal Morality, and Moral ReasonsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (3): 719-733. 2018.In The Second-Person Standpoint and subsequent essays, Stephen Darwall develops an account of morality that is “second-personal” in virtue of holding that what we are morally obligated to do is what others can legitimately demand that we do, i.e., what they can hold us accountable for doing through moral reactive attitudes like blame. Similarly, what it would be wrong for us to do is what others can legitimately demand that we abstain from doing. As part of this account, Darwall argues for the p…Read more
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18Moral Theory and Climate Change: Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet (edited book)Routledge. 2020.Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two preliminary chapters--an up-to-date synopsis of climate science and an overview of the ethical issues raised by…Read more
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18A Companion to Mill (edited book)John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 2016.This Companion offers a state-of-the-art survey of the work of John Stuart Mill – one which covers the historical influences on Mill, his theoretical, moral and social philosophy, as well as his relation to contemporary movements. Its contributors include both senior scholars with established expertise in Mill’s thought and new emerging interpreters. Each essay acts as a ‘go-to’ resource for those seeking to understand an aspect of Mill’s thought or to familiarise themselves with the contours of…Read more
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18The Place of “The Liberty of Thought and Discussion” in On LibertyUtilitas 33 (2): 133-149. 2021.I consider whether Mill intends for us to see the arguments that constitute his defense of the “Liberty of Thought and Discussion” in chapter 2 ofOn Libertyas a part of his larger case for the “harm” or “liberty” principle (LP). Several commentators depict this chapter as a digression that interrupts the flow between his introduction of this principle in the first chapter and his exposition and defense of it in the final three. I will argue instead for a reading ofOn Libertyon which chapter 2 is…Read more
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12Mill’s Conception of Pleasure: Meeting West in the MiddleSouthwest Philosophy Review 31 (1): 157-166. 2015.
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11“We May Stand Aloof”: Mill’s Natural PenaltiesJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (3): 453-473. 2022.ARRAY
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9Mill on the FamilyIn Christopher Macleod & Dale E. Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 2016.In my book J. S. Mill: Moral, Social and Political Thought I explained the absence of a standalone chapter on women's rights by explaining that for Mill no special explanation of why women should have the right to vote, work in the careers of their choice, etc., was needed; they should have these rights for the same reasons as men. The real lacuna, I admitted, was the absence of a chapter on Mill's views on marriage and the family. This chapter remedies that deficiency.
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6Terminating Employees for Their Political SpeechBusiness and Society Review 109 (2): 225-243. 2004.
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5Axiological Actualism and the Converse IntuitionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (1): 123-125. 2003.In 'Axiological Actualism' Josh Parsons argues that 'axiological actualism', which is 'the doctrine that ethical theory should refrain from assigning levels of welfare, or preference orderings, or anything of the sort to merely possible people', lends plausibility to 'the converse intuition'. This is the proposition that 'the welfare a person would have, were they actual, can give us a reason not to bring that person into existence'. I show that Parsons's argument delivers less than he promises.…Read more
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58 Hooker's Use and Abuse of Reflective EquilibriumIn Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, D. W. Haslett, Shelly Kagan, Sanford S. Levy, David Lyons, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William H. Shaw, Michael Smith & Alan Thomas (eds.), Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 156-178. 2000.
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4Mill's Theory of SanctionsIn Henry West (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Definitions The External Sanctions The Internal Sanction Conclusion.
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3Mill's Division of MoralityIn Leonard Kahn (ed.), Mill on Justice, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 70. 2012.
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2John Skorupski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Mill Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (6): 447-451. 1999.
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Public Spirit and Liberal Democracy: John Stuart Mill's Civic LiberalismDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1999.The civic republican tradition in political thought includes Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Alexis de Tocqueville. The belief that it is imperative that citizens participate actively and disinterestedly in public affairs, i.e., that they possess "civic virtue" or "public spirit" is a prominent family resemblance between its members. Civic republican thought has undergone a recent resurgence, and one consequence is that political philosophers and other theorists have begun to ask…Read more
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Reluctant Florists, Same-Sex Weddings, and Mill’s Doctrine of LibertyPublic Affairs Quarterly 30 (4): 287-311. 2016.
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IntroductionIn Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller & David Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. pp. 3-18. 2011.
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John Skorupski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Mill (review)Philosophy in Review 19 447-451. 1999.
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