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18Right on the money (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 65 125-126. 2014.Review of 'How much is enough?' by Robert and Edward Skidelsky
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72Interactive MeditationsTeaching Philosophy 25 (1): 41-52. 2002.This essay provides a number of interactive group activities that promote discussion of Descartes’ “Meditations” and “Discourse on Method”. The activities are suitable for small discussion groups (four of five students in each group) and supply students with well defined tasks rather than general questions. The activities consider a numerous topics in Descartes work, including (for example) how to defend the idea that reason should be the supreme epistemic authority, how Descartes distinguishes …Read more
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38The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad HabitsPrinceton University PressThe book contains chapters on rudeness, gossiping, snobbery, humour, and respect for beliefs.
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89The little thingsThe Philosophers' Magazine 26 20-21. 2004.This article argues that the supposedly small moral issues in everyday life are worthy of philosophical attention since they reveal much about character, values, and the complexity of moral judgements.
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43The Contemporary Relevance of Socrates' question to EuthyphroThink 2 (5): 69-72. 2003.Emrys Westacott explains one of the most famous and ubiquitous of all philosophical dilemmas
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48RelativismPhilosophy Now. 2001.An allegorical elucidation of cognitive relativism which compares our criteria for judging a belief rational or true to recipes for making bread.
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92Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?Philosophy Now 79 6-9. 2010.The article examines how surveillance may on the one hand discourage us from doing wrong while at the same time making us less moral in another sense, since it encourages us to avoid wrongdoing purely out of self-interest.
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16The Placebo EffectPhilosophy Now 55 50-54. 2006.A humorous short story about a company that tries marketing a placebo as a more expensive drug on the grounds that doing this will both maximize their profits and benefit the greatest number, since research shows the placebo to be highly effective if marketed as something else
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Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
| Applied Ethics |
| 19th Century Philosophy |
| Philosophy, General Works |