Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (William & Mary): Publications

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Reason, Morality, and Hume’s “Active Principles”: Comments on Rachel Cohon’s Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication
Hume Studies 34 (2): 267-276. 2008.

Rachel Cohon's Hume is a moral sensing theorist, who holds both that moral qualities are mind-dependent and that there is such a thing as moral knowledge. He is an anti-rationalist about motivation, arguing that reason alone does not motivate, but allows that both beliefs and passions are motivating. And he is both a descriptive and a normative moral theorist who, despite having resources for putting checks on our sentimentally-based moral evaluations, does end up with a kind of a relativistic a…Read more
Rachel Cohon's Hume is a moral sensing theorist, who holds both that moral qualities are mind-dependent and that there is such a thing as moral knowledge. He is an anti-rationalist about motivation, arguing that reason alone does not motivate, but allows that both beliefs and passions are motivating. And he is both a descriptive and a normative moral theorist who, despite having resources for putting checks on our sentimentally-based moral evaluations, does end up with a kind of a relativistic account of the virtues and vices. Professor Cohon's arguments in Hume's Morality1 are tight and vigorous. Anyone working on these .

Moral Realism and Irrealism Hume: Value Theory Motivation and Will, Misc
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Late modern philosophy: essential readings with commentary (edited book)
with Richard McCarty, Fritz Allhoff, and Anand Vaidya

Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.

Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of late modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought.

17th/18th Century British Philosophy

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Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

Reason, Morality, and Hume’s “Active Principles”: Comments on Rachel Cohon’s Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication Hume Studies 34 (2): 267-276. 2008.

Late modern philosophy: essential readings with commentary (edited book) with Richard McCarty, Fritz Allhoff, and Anand Vaidya Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.

Reason, Morality, and Hume’s “Active Principles”: Comments on Rachel Cohon’s Hume’s Morality: Feeling and Fabrication
Hume Studies 34 (2): 267-276. 2008.

Late modern philosophy: essential readings with commentary (edited book)
with Richard McCarty, Fritz Allhoff, and Anand Vaidya

Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.