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196The Weight of Moral ReasonsOxford Studies in Normative Ethics (Ed. Mark Timmons) 3 35-58. 2013.This paper starts by giving an interpretation of the notorious question "Why be moral?" Then, to answer that question, it develops an account of why some moral reasons -- specifically, the moral reasons that ground moral requirements -- are sufficiently weighty that they outweigh all countervailing reasons for action.
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189Review: Kieran Setiya: Reasons without Rationalism (review)Mind 117 (468): 1130-1135. 2008.This is a review of Kieran Setiya's book, "Reasons without Rationalism" (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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45Value Judgement: Improving Our Ethical Beliefs (review)Philosophical Review 107 (3): 447. 1998.This is a review of James Griffin's book "Value-Judgement: Improving Our Ethical Beliefs".
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142An Inferentialist Conception of the A PrioriOxford Studies in Epistemology 5. 2015.This paper offers an account of the a priori. According to this account, the fundamental notion is not that of a priori knowledge, or even of a priori justified belief, but a notion of an a priori justified inferential disposition. The rationality or justification of such a priori justified inferential dispositions is explained purely by some of the basic cognitive capacities that the thinker possesses, independently of any further experiences or other conscious mental states that the thinker ha…Read more
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352Objective and Subjective 'Ought'In Nate Charlow & Matthew Chrisman (eds.), Deontic Modality, Oxford University Press. pp. 143-168. 2016.This essay offers an account of the truth conditions of sentences involving deontic modals like ‘ought’, designed to capture the difference between objective and subjective kinds of ‘ought’ This account resembles the classical semantics for deontic logic: according to this account, these truths conditions involve a function from the world of evaluation to a domain of worlds (equivalent to a so-called “modal base”), and an ordering of the worlds in such domains; this ordering of the worlds itself…Read more
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51The Nature of Normativity: PrécisPhilosophical Studies 151 (3). 2010.This is a precis of Ralph Wedgwood's book "The Nature of Normativity".
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