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17Three. Love’s Blindness : Love’s Friendly EyeIn Love's Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 46-73. 2011.
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17"Review of" The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover" (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (1): 25. 2012.
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138Friendship without partiality?Ratio 13 (1). 2000.Consequentialism involves a kind of strong impartiality which seems incompatible with the sort of partiality manifested in friendships. Consequentialists such as Kagan respond that friendship does not, in fact, require partiality. Against this, I argue that friendship cannot exist without expressions of personal feeling, and that such expressions necessarily involve a kind of partiality. Because her every action is determined by the goal of maximizing the impersonal good, a consequentialist cann…Read more
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159Why Is Instrumental Rationality Rational?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (2). 2005.It is relatively common for philosophers to doubt whether we have any reason to act as morality requires. But it is very difficult to find philosophers who are willing to doubt, in a similar way, the idea that we have reason to act as instrumental rationality requires; reason, that is, to take effective steps toward attaining the ends we have accepted as our own. The inference from the fact that a certain action is an effective means of satisfying an agent’s ends to the conclusion that that agen…Read more
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33One. “Something In Between”: On the Nature of LoveIn Love's Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-27. 2011.
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39John Gibson, ed., The Philosophy of PoetryEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 53 (1): 100-110. 2016.A review of John Gibson´s The Philosophy of Poetry.
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53Friendship and Agent-Relative MoralityRoutledge. 2001.First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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71Goldstick on the 'Two Hats' ProblemUtilitas 15 (3): 369. 2003.The indirect-strategy consequentialist recommends that the consequentialist agent develop certain non-consequentialist feelings and dispositions. It is difficult to see, however, how such an agent could knowingly do this, given her moral beliefs. Goldstick has argued that the problem is not particular to consequentialism; deontologists, too, are obliged to admit the possibility of mental divisions of this sort. I argue, however, that the type of mental division to which the deontologist is commi…Read more
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199The Psychology of ExclusivityLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 3 (1). 2008.Friendship and romantic love are, by their very nature, exclusive relationships. This paper sug- gests that we can better understand the nature of the exclusivity in question by understanding what is wrong with the view of practical reasoning I call the Comprehensive Surveyor View. The CSV claims that practical reasoning, in order to be rational, must be a process of choosing the best available alternative from a perspective that is as detached and objective as possible. But this view, while it …Read more
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103Meaningless Happiness and Meaningful SufferingSouthern Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 333-347. 2004.
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11Afterword: Between the Universal and the ParticularIn Love's Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 169-172. 2011.
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70“This Endless Space between the Words”: The Limits of Love in Spike Jonze'sHerMidwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1): 120-143. 2015.
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Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
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