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13Review: Frances Snare,The Nature of Moral Thinking (review)Philosophical Books 35 (1): 78-80. 1994.
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58An aristotelian business ethics?Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1). 1998.Elaine Sternberg's Just Business is one of the first book-length Aristotelian treatments of business ethics. It is Aristotelian in the sense that Sternberg begins by defining the nature of business in order to identify its end, and, thence, normative principles to regulate it. According to Sternberg, the nature of business is 'the selling of goods or services in order to maximise long-term owner value', therefore all business behaviour must be evaluated with reference to the maximisation o…Read more
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39Review: Sabina Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Harvard, 2002) (review)Mind 113 (449): 189-192. 2004.
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121Non-contradiction: Oh Yeah and So What?Think 12 (34): 87-91. 2013.The logical Law of Non-contradiction – that a proposition cannot be both true and false – enjoys a special, perhaps uniquely privileged, status in philosophy. Most philosophers think that finding a contradiction – the assertion of both P and not-P – in one's reasoning is the best possible evidence that something has gone wrong, the ultimate refutation of a position. But why should this be so? What reason do we have to believe it? In this paper, I address these questions.
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