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18Contrastivism, Relevance Contextualism, and Meta‐SkepticismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 802-810. 2008.
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1Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume I (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
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102The moral significance of gratitude in Kant's ethicsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 49 (4): 295-320. 2011.In this essay, we examine the grounds, nature and content, status, acquisition and role, and justification of gratitude in Kant's ethical system, making use of student notes from Kant's lectures on ethics. We are especially interested in questions about the significance of gratitude in Kant's ethics. We examine Kant's claim that gratitude is a sacred duty, because it cannot be discharged, and explain how this claim is consistent with his insistence that “ought” implies “can.” We argue that for K…Read more
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98Morality without foundations: a defense of ethical contextualismOxford University Press. 1999.In this book Timmons defends a metaethical view that exploits certain contextualist themes in philosophy of language and epistemology. He advances what he calls assertoric non-descriptivism, a view that employs semantic contextualism in giving an account of moral discourse. This view, which like traditional non-descriptivist views stresses the practical, action-guiding function of moral thought and discourse, also allows that moral sentences, as typically used, make genuine assertions. Timmons t…Read more
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138Expressivism and contrary-forming negationPhilosophical Issues 19 (1): 92-112. 2009.No Abstract
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51What's wrong with Paul Moser's intuitionistic foundationalismPhilosophical Studies 56 (2). 1989.
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16The Kantian Mind (edited book)Routledge. 2024.The Kantian Mind is an outstanding guide and reference source to Kant's thought and essential reading for all students and scholars of Kant and contemporary Kantian thought.
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187What Does the Frame Problem Tell us About Moral Normativity?Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (1): 25-51. 2009.Within cognitive science, mental processing is often construed as computation over mental representations—i.e., as the manipulation and transformation of mental representations in accordance with rules of the kind expressible in the form of a computer program. This foundational approach has encountered a long-standing, persistently recalcitrant, problem often called the frame problem; it is sometimes called the relevance problem. In this paper we describe the frame problem and certain of its app…Read more
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54Kant’s Metaphysics of Ethics: Interpretive Essays (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.This is the only book devoted entirely to The Metaphysics of Morals and is not just a landmark in Kant studies but also a significant contribution to contemporary moral and political philosophy.
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98Morality without Moral FactsIn James Lawrence Dreier (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Blackwell. pp. 6--220. 2006.
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Reflections on the "paradox" of supererogationIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Moral Obligation, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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1Moorean Moral PhenomenologyIn Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay (eds.), Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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1Review of Thomas E. Hill: Dignity and practical reason in Kant's moral theory (review)Ethics 104 (2): 398-400. 1994.
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67Moral knowledge?: new readings in moral epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.In Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology, editors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons bring together eleven specially commissioned essays by distinguished moral philosophers exploring the nature and possibility of moral knowledge. Each essay represents a major position within the exciting field of moral epistemology in which a proponent of the position presents and defends his or her view and locates it vis-a-vis competing views. The authors include established philosophers s…Read more
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266Copping out on moral twin earthSynthese 124 (1-2): 139-152. 2000.In "Milk, Honey, and the Good Life on Moral Twin Earth", David Copp explores some ways in which a defender of synthetic moral naturalism might attempt to get around our Moral Twin Earth argument. Copp nicely brings out the force of our argument, not only through his exposition of it, but through his attempt to defeat it, since his efforts, we think, only help to make manifest the deep difficulties the Moral Twin Earth argument poses for the synthetic moral naturalist.
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1236Evil and Imputation in Kant's EthicsIn B. Sharon Byrd, Joachim Hruschka & Jan C. Joerdan (eds.), Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik, Duncker Und Humblot. 1994.An examination of Kant's doctrine of radical evil as set forth in Book I of Religion.
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552Troubles on moral twin earth: Moral queerness revivedSynthese 92 (2). 1992.J. L. Mackie argued that if there were objective moral properties or facts, then the supervenience relation linking the nonmoral to the moral would be metaphysically queer. Moral realists reply that objective supervenience relations are ubiquitous according to contemporary versions of metaphysical naturalism and, hence, that there is nothing especially queer about moral supervenience. In this paper we revive Mackie's challenge to moral realism. We argue: (i) that objective supervenience relation…Read more
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22Ideal Code, Real World (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (1): 240-244. 2004.In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker attempts to breathe new life into rule-consequentialism, a view which, particularly in its utilitarian guise, was intensively explored in the 1950s and 1960s. But as Hooker points out, as the problems with the view compounded, it became generally thought of as a ‘tried and untrue’ approach to moral theory. It is commonly believed for instance that any coherent version of R-C, when fully fleshed out, will be extensionally equivalent to its act-consequentiali…Read more
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13Oxford Studies Normative Ethics, Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2014.OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
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211Nondescriptivist Cognitivism: Framework for a New MetaethicPhilosophical Papers 29 (2): 121-153. 2000.Abstract We propose a metaethical view that combines the cognitivist idea that moral judgments are genuine beliefs and moral utterances express genuine assertions with the idea that such beliefs and utterances are nondescriptive in their overall content. This sort of view has not been recognized among the standard metaethical options because it is generally assumed that all genuine beliefs and assertions must have descriptive content. We challenge this assumption and thereby open up conceptual s…Read more
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6Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
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Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Epistemology |
Normative Ethics |