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90What we owe to each other, T. M. Scanlon, the Belknap press of Harvard university press, 1998, IX + 420 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 16 (2): 333-378. 2000.
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66Sumner on WelfareDialogue 37 (3): 571-. 1998.In this paper I criticize the way Sumner marks the subjective/objective divide and the way he argues for subjective views of well-being.
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62Practical reasons and mistakes of practical rationalityPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 94 (1): 299-321. 2007.
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60Michael J. Zimmerman, The Concept of Moral Obligation:The Concept of Moral ObligationEthics 109 (2): 468-470. 1999.
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55Reply to RobertsonPhilosophical Papers 32 (2): 185-191. 2003.Philosophical Papers Vol.32(2) 2003: 185-191
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53Morality, Normativity, and Society, David Copp. Oxford University Press, 1995, xii + 262 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 14 (2): 349. 1998.
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52Parfit's Case against Subjectivism 1Oxford Studies in Metaethics 6. 2011.Derek Parfit, in On What Matters, argues that all subjective accounts of normative reasons for action are false. This chapter focuses on his “Agony Argument.” The first premise of the Agony Argument is that we necessarily have current reasons to avoid our own future agony. Its second premise is that subjective accounts cannot vindicate this fact. So, the argument concludes, subjective accounts must be rejected. This chapter accepts the first premise of this argument and that it is valid. The mai…Read more
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38From Valuing to Value: A Defense of SubjectivismOxford University Press. 2016.David Sobel defends subjectivism about well-being and reasons for action: the idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about, that something is valuable because it is valued. In these essays Sobel explores the tensions between subjective views of reasons and morality, and concludes that they do not undermine subjectivism.
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21Reach tracking reveals dissociable processes underlying cognitive controlCognition 152 (C): 114-126. 2016.
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21Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.This is the seventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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20Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.This is the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields.
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17Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This is the third volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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16Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory
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15Children’s developing understanding of the relation between variable causal efficacy and mechanistic complexityCognition 129 (3): 494-500. 2013.
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14Growing out of your own mind: Reexamining the development of the self-other difference in the unexpected contents taskCognition 235 (C): 105403. 2023.
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14Reasons for Action (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.What are our reasons for acting? Morality purports to give us these reasons, and so do norms of prudence and the laws of society. The theory of practical reason assesses the authority of these potentially competing claims, and for this reason philosophers with a wide range of interests have converged on the topic of reasons for action. This volume contains eleven essays on practical reason by leading and emerging philosophers. Topics include the differences between practical and theoretical rati…Read more
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14Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 9 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This is Volume 9 of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. It contains papers on democracy, the law, political liberalism, voting, social experimentation, state neutrality, equality and incentives, self-ownership, drugs and prostitution, and Lincoln. Chapters include: “Challenging Democratic Commitments: On Liberal Arguments for Instrumentalism About Democracy” (Daniel Viehoff); “Emotional Abuse and the Law” (Elizabeth Brake); “Practical Political Liberalism” (Caleb Perl); “Beyond the Voting De…Read more
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8Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This is the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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6There's more to consider than knowledge and beliefBehavioral and Brain Sciences 44. 2021.Phillips et al. present a number of arguments for the premise that knowledge is more basic than belief. Although their arguments are coherent and sound, they do not directly address numerous cases in which belief appears to be a developmental precursor to knowledge. I describe several examples, not necessarily as a direct challenge, but rather to better understand their framework.
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5Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory
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4Imaginative processes in children are not particularly imaginativeBehavioral and Brain Sciences 45. 2022.The authors argue that children prefer fictions with imaginary worlds. But evidence from the developmental literature challenges this claim. Children's choices of stories and story events show that they often prefer realism. Further, work on the imagination's relation to counterfactual reasoning suggests that an attraction to unrealistic fiction would undermine the imagination's role in helping children understand reality.
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4Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.This is the second volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. The papers in this volume address a range of central topics and represent cutting edge wo…Read more
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4Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.This is the fifth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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