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    Consequentializing and Deontologizing: Clogging the Consequentialist Vacuum"
    Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 3 123-153. 2013.
    That many values can be consequentialized – incorporated into a ranking of states of affairs – is often taken to support the view that apparent alternatives to consequentialism are in fact forms of consequentialism. Such consequentializing arguments take two very different forms. The first is concerned with the relationship between morally right action and states of affairs evaluated evaluator-neutrally, the second with the relationship between what agents ought to do and outcomes evaluated eval…Read more
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    Sellars's ethics: Variations on Kantian themes
    Philosophical Studies 101 (2-3): 291-324. 2000.
    In this essay I attempt to tease out and assess two arguments that pervade Sellars's writings on the practical sphere. The first is an argument that categorical reasonableness must be a part of any adequate account of practical reason. The second argues that, nonetheless, the Kantian's strong connection between morality and practical reasonableness cannot be defended. I argue that the former argument is a powerful and ingenious defense of a role for something more than hypothetical reasonablenes…Read more