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33Book Review:A Discourse on Property: John Locke and His Adversaries. James A. Tully (review)Ethics 92 (2): 361-. 1982.
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29Against the supposed difference between historical and end-state theoriesPhilosophical Studies 41 (2). 1982.
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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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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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25Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy:Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (review)Ethics 109 (3): 651-656. 1999.
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25Habilitation, Health, and Agency: a Framework for Basic JusticeOxford University Press. 2012.This book argues for adopting a new account of the circumstances of justice ("the habilitation framework") for philosophical theories of basic justice. It proposes a concept of basic health as a metric for such theories, and healthy agency as a target for them. It does not, however, propose a specific distributive rule or set of distributive principles. Nor does it propose a specific type of theory to pursue (e.g., utilitarian, contractarian, etc.). The book is thus meant to be largely theory-in…Read more
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24Review of Peter Birks: An Introduction to the Law of Restitution (review)Ethics 98 (2): 397-398. 1988.
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24White, Morton: What Is and What Ought to Be Done (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (4): 954-956. 1983.
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22A rejoinder to O'ConnorMind 84 (333): 95. 1975.Continuation of the discussion of the author's paper "Foreknowledge and Predestination." Mind 81 (1972): 138-41.
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22The 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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21Rethinking Democracy, by Carol C. Gould (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 444-448. 1991.
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19Review of John M. Rist, Real Ethics: Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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17A history of Western ethics (edited book)Routledge. 2003.This is a newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics, a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition. Written by eleven distinguished scholars, and including a glossary of key terms, this book is an essential reference for students and general readers alike.
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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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12A New StoicismPrinceton University Press. 1999.Philosopher Lawrence Becker applies modern knowledge and psychology to the ancient stoic ethic system. In keeping with the ancients, Becker argues that virtue, not happiness, is the proper end of all activity. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic as a grave and emotionally detached figure, proposing instead, that stoic discipline is the very foundation not only of strength, but also of joy.
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11Appendix. A Calculus for Normative LogicIn A New Stoicism, Princeton University Press. pp. 193-224. 1998.
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11A New StoicismPrinceton University Press. 1999.What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based on contempora…Read more
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10Review of Joseph Horovitz: Law and Logic: A Critical Account of Legal Argument (review)Ethics 84 (1): 89-92. 1973.
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10Review of James Tully: A discourse on property: John Locke and his adversaries (review)Ethics 92 (2): 361-362. 1982.
Lawrence C. Becker
(1939 - 2018)
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |