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7Virtue and Flourishing in Our Interpersonal RelationshipsPhilosophic Exchange 42 (1). 2011.The eudaimonistic thesis claims that being virtuous is a necessary aspect of the development of some important kind of happiness. To be true, it must be the case that virtue is associated with a kind of happiness that is clearly recognizable as something that we want, that we can appreciate as a good state for us to be in, that we can identify as a state of our own well-being. So here is the empirical question: in our ordinary experiences, is it the case that virtue is necessary to developing th…Read more
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3Review: Christian B. Miller, Character and Moral Psychology (review)Ethics 126 (2): 521-525. 2016.
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1Just war theory, legitimate authority, and the "war" on terrorIn Timothy Shanahan (ed.), Philosophy 9/11: Thinking About the War on Terrorism, Open Court. 2005.
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1Review: Christian B. Miller, Character and Moral Psychology (review)Ethics 126 (2): 521-525. 2016.
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Making Sense of the Sense of Duty: A Humean Theory of Moral MotivationDissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2003.Utilitarian and deontological moral theories are often accused of failing to develop a convincing account of an agent's moral psychology, and so failing to provide an adequate theory of moral motivation that sustains their conception of morality as involving generally overriding moral duties. As a result of this apparent conflict between an agent's psychology and the demands of morality, many suggest making dramatic revisions to our conception of morality. I argue here that a more promising resp…Read more
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Hume's moral philosophy and psychologyIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |