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159Intransitivity and the person-affecting principlePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 769-776. 1999.Philosophy journals and conferences have recently seen several attempts to argue that 'all-things-considered better than' does not obey strict transitivity. This paper focuses on Larry Temkin's argument in "Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox." Although his argument is not aimed just at utilitarians or even consequentialists in general, it is of prticular significance to consequentialists. If 'all-things-considered better than' does not obey transitivity, there may be choice situations …Read more
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46Why Legitimacy Doesn’t Entail Obligation: A Response to WyckoffSouthwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 13-16. 2010.
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80Beastly Violence, or How Kant Screws Everything up Yet AgainSouthwest Philosophy Review 27 (2): 63-66. 2011.
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85Reasons without demands: Rethinking rightnessIn James Lawrence Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Blackwell. pp. 38--54. 2006.
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937Puppies, pigs, and people: Eating meat and marginal casesPhilosophical Perspectives 18 (1). 2004.
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47Great harms from small benefits grow: how death can be outweighed by headachesAnalysis 58 (2): 152-158. 1998.
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87Contractualism and the Ethical Status of AnimalsSouthwest Philosophy Review 17 (1): 137-143. 2000.
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70Animal experimentationIn Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.This article takes the central issue concerning the ethics of animal experimentation to be the moral status of animals. Since most animal experimentation involves treating experimental subjects in ways that would clearly not be morally acceptable if the subjects were human, and since no animal experimentation involves the informed consent of the experimental subject, any attempt to justify such experimentation must include a defense of the claim that the moral status of animals differs significa…Read more
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37Rationality and the sure-thing principleAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (2). 1996.This Article does not have an abstract
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449Killing, abortion, and contraception: A reply to MarquisJournal of Philosophy 87 (5): 268-277. 1990.
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51Death for animalsIn Jens Johansson Fred Feldman Ben Bradley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death, . pp. 465. 2013.
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82Speed Limits, Human Lives, and Convenience: A Reply to RidgePhilosophy and Public Affairs 27 (1): 59-64. 1998.
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90Puppies, Pigs, and Potency: A Response to Galvin and HarrisEthics, Policy and Environment 15 (3). 2012.
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103Contextualism for consequentialistsActa Analytica 20 (2): 80-90. 2005.If, as I have argued elsewhere, consequentialism is not fundamentally concerned with such staples of moral theory as rightness, duty, obligation, moral requirements, goodness (as applied to actions), and harm, what, if anything, does it have to say about such notions? While such notions have no part to play at the deepest level of the theory, they may nonetheless be of practical significance. By way of explanation I provide a linguistic contextualist account of these notions. A contextualist app…Read more
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537“The Scalar Approach to Utilitarianism”In Henry West (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 217--32. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Demandingness Objection Scalar Utilitarianism Wrongness as Blameworthiness Rightness and Goodness as Guides to Action.
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110Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of PersonsSouthwest Philosophy Review 22 (1): 1-15. 2006.
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