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359We Have No Positive Epistemic DutiesMind 119 (473): 83-102. 2010.In ethics, it is commonly supposed that we have both positive duties and negative duties, things we ought to do and things we ought not to do. Given the many parallels between ethics and epistemology, we might suppose that the same is true in epistemology, and that we have both positive epistemic duties and negative epistemic duties. I argue that this is false; that is, that we have negative epistemic duties, but no positive ones. There are things that we ought not to believe, but there is nothi…Read more
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12An Aristotelian Business Ethics?Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (1): 89-104. 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 of long…Read more
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31Review of Timothy Chappell, Ethics and Experience: Life Beyond Moral Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (12). 2009.
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