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92Railton on normativity (review)Philosophical Studies 126 (3): 463-479. 2005.This is a critical discussion of Part III of Peter Railton's recent book Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays Toward a Morality of Consequence (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
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884Is Civil Marriage Illiberal?In Elizabeth Brake (ed.), After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships, Oxford University Press. 2016.This paper defends the institution of civil marriage against the objection that it is inconsistent with political liberalism, and so should be either totally abolished or else transformed virtually beyond recognition.
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155The price of non-reductive moral realismEthical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (3): 199-215. 1999.Non-reductive moral realism is the view that there are moral properties which cannot be reduced to natural properties. If moral properties exist, it is plausible that they strongly supervene on non-moral properties- more specifically, on mental, social, and biological properties. There may also be good reasons for thinking that moral properties are irreducible. However, strong supervenience and irreducibility seem incompatible. Strong supervenience entails that there is an enormous number of mod…Read more
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179Practical reasoning as figuring out what is best: Against constructivismTopoi 21 (1-2): 139-152. 2002.
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163The nature and value of knowledge: Three investigations, by Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, and Adrian Haddock (review)Analysis 72 (1): 187-189. 2012.This is a review of "The nature and value of knowlege: Three investigations", by Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, and Adrian Haddock (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011).
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269Instrumental rationalityOxford Studies in Metaethics 6 280-309. 2011.Is there any distinctive aspect of rationality that deserves the label of “instrumental rationality”? Recently, Joseph Raz (2005) has argued that instrumental rationality is a “myth”. In this essay, I shall give some qualified support to Raz’s position: as I shall argue, many philosophers have indeed been seduced by certain myths about instrumental rationality. Nonetheless, Raz’s conclusion is too strong. Instrumental rationality is not itself a myth: there really is a distinctive aspect of rati…Read more
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