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24Friendship 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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214The 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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104Meaningless 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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49“Like a Picture or a Bump on the Head”: Vision, Cognition, and the Language of PoetryMidwest Studies in Philosophy 33 (1): 131-158. 2009.No Abstract
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50Beauty, evil, andPhilosophy and Literature 28 (1): 23-40. 2004.: Can literature provide moral insight? Or can literary works do nothing more than reflect the moral views that readers bring to them? We argue that literary works can provide genuine moral insight by discussing one that does. Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient challenges two key assumptions about moral evil: that evil necessarily involves active malevolence, and that evil and aesthetic beauty are mutually exclusive. These assumptions play foundational roles both in everyday moral thinking, …Read more
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |