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218Naturalistic arguments for ethical hedonismAn Introduction to Utilitarianism. 2022.This essay presents two arguments for ethical hedonism, each defending it on naturalistic grounds. This abstract lists the three premises of each argument. First is the Reliability Argument. [R1] The reliability of a process is the probability that beliefs it generates are true. [R2] Phenomenal introspection is reliable in generating belief that pleasure is good. [R3] No other processes are independently reliable in generating moral belief. ∴ [%PIG] Pleasure is probably the only good thing. S…Read more
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208Zarathustra’s Moral PsychologyIn Keith Ansell-Pearson & Paul S. Loeb (eds.), Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 148-167. 2022.In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche presents passion as constituting human agency. He encountered this Humean view in Schopenhauer, and recognized its explanatory advantages over Platonic and Kantian rationalism. Zarathustra's poetic speeches anticipate and address contemporary objections to the view that passion constitutes agency. "On the Despisers of the Body" explains why understanding the self as constituted by passion provides better explanations of reasoning, value judgment, and the unit…Read more
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194Whether nature is valuable on its own (intrinsic values) or because of the benefits it provides to humans (instrumental values) has been a long-standing debate. The concept of relational values has been proposed as a solution to this supposed dichotomy, but the empirical validation of its intuitiveness remains limited. We experimentally assessed whether intrinsic/relational values of sentient beings/non-sentient beings/ecosystems better explain people’s sense of moral duty towards global nature …Read more
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192Nietzsche and morality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.This volume capitalizes on a growth of interest in Nietzsche's work on morality from two sides -- from scholars of the history of philosophy and from ...
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157Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong, by David Edmonds: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, xvii + 220, US$19.95 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (4): 818-819. 2014.
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81Review of Robert Pippin, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (9). 2010.
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63Review of James Luchte (ed.), Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4). 2009.
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53Sneddon , Andrew . Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. 282 (review)Ethics 122 (4): 824-829. 2012.
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52Review of Gemes and Richardson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2014. 2014.
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43Humean Nature: How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and FeelingOxford University Press. 2017.This book defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object. It makes thoughts of its object pleasant. It focuses attention on its object. Its effects are amplified by vivid representations of its object. These aspects of desire explain why motivation usually accompanies moral belief, how intentions shape our plans, how we exercise willpower, what human selves are, how action can express emotion…Read more
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41Précis of "Humean Nature. How Desire Explains Action, Thought, and Feeling"Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 9 (1): 57-66. 2018.
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26Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 216-218. 2014.
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IntroductionIn Brian Leiter & Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and morality, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Desire |
Moral Realism and Irrealism |