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Situation ethicsIn Audi Robert (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 738. 1995.
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33Social Trust and Human Communities (review)Dialogue 39 (1): 173-. 2000.In her many articles on the subject, Trudy Govier has made a substantial contribution to the recent philosophical literature on trust—not only to the discussion kindled by Annette Baier's provocative article "Trust and Anti-Trust", but to the larger, much older, low-intensity discussion among social scientists and philosophers about the relation between trust and effective government, stable social relationships, and psychological health. This book is devoted to the varieties and uses of trust i…Read more
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21The Encyclopedia of Ethics (edited book)Garland Publishing. 1992.The editors, working with a team of 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics, have revised, expanded and updated this classic encyclopedia. Along with the addition of 150 new entries, all of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features. New entries include * Cheating * Dirty hands * Gay ethics * Holocaust *…Read more
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146Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public PolicyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled? Over fifty million Americans, from neonates to the fragile elderly, are disabled. Some people say they have the right to full social participation, while others repudiate such claims as delusive or dangerous. In this compelling book, three experts in ethics, medicine, and the law address pressing disability questions in bioethics and public policy. Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald test i…Read more
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Individual rightsIn Tom Regan & Donald VanDeVeer (eds.), And Justice for All: New Introductory Essays in Ethics and Public Policy, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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29Against the supposed difference between historical and end-state theoriesPhilosophical Studies 41 (2). 1982.
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25Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (review)Ethics 109 (3): 651-656. 1999.
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62Human health and stoic moral normsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (2). 2003.For the philosophy of medicine, there are two things of interest about the stoic account of moral norms, quite apart from whether the rest of stoic ethical theory is compelling. One is the stoic version of naturalism: its account of practical reasoning, its solution to the is/ought problem, and its contention that norms for creating, sustaining, or restoring human health are tantamount to moral norms. The other is the stoic account of human agency: its description of the intimate connections bet…Read more
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28Unity, coincidence, and conflict in the virtuesPhilosophia 20 (1-2): 127-143. 1990.This paper argues for an ordinal account of the unity of the virtues in the following way: (1) by showing the importance of a neglected class of questions about coherence - questions referred to here as coincidence problems; (2) by organizing conventional accounts of the unity of the virtues in a perspicuous way, and showing that they fail to solve coincidence problems; and (3) by describing the sorts of ordinal accounts that are available, sketching the outlines of one organized around practica…Read more
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253The finality of moral judgments: A reply to mrs. FootPhilosophical Review 82 (3): 364-370. 1973.
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21Rethinking Democracy, by Carol C. Gould (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 444-448. 1991.
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5Welfare Rights and Duties of Charity: Rights and Duties (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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28Knowledge as Doubly Anchored True BeliefPhilosophy Research Archives 8 223-241. 1982.Some ambiguities in the verb ‘to know’ are analyzed, and it is argued that “undefeatably justified true belief” is the meaning of most philosophical interest with respect to specifying truth conditions for ‘S knows that p’. Two general conditions for an adequate definition of ‘S knows that p’ are discussed. Then a proposal for a quasi-causal theory of knowledge is introduced and defended
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15Book Review:Law and Logic: A Critical Account of Legal Argument. Joseph Horovitz (review)Ethics 84 (1): 89-. 1973.
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276Criminal attempt and the theory of the law of crimesPhilosophy and Public Affairs 3 (3): 262-294. 1974.
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Social contractIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 2--1170. 1992.
Lawrence C. Becker
(1939 - 2018)
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |