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14Reid's Moral PhilosophyIn Terence Cuneo Rene van Woudenberg (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, Cambridge University Press. pp. 243. 2004.
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55Thomas Reid: Context, Influence, Significance (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4): 547-548. 2005.
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22Review of Gideon Yaffe, Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (2). 2005.
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638Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.A substantial collection of seminal articles, Foundations of Ethics covers all of the major issues in metaethics. Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophy of language. Provides an unparalleled offering of primary sources and expert commentary for students of ethical theory. Includes seminal essays by ethicists such as G.E. Moore, Simon Blackburn, Gilbert Harman, Christine Korsgaard, Michael Smith, Bernard Williams, J…Read more
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90“Saying what we Mean: An Argument against ExpressivismOxford Studies in Metaethics 1 35-71. 2006.
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74Signs of value: Reid on the evidential role of feelings in moral judgementBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (1). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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158Moral facts as configuring causesPacific Philosophical Quarterly 87 (2). 2006.The overarching aim of this essay is to argue that moral realists should be "causalists" or claim that moral facts of certain kinds are causally efficacious. To this end, I engage in two tasks. The first is to develop an account of the sense in which moral facts of certain kinds are causally efficacious. After having sketched the concept of what I call a "configuring" cause, I contend that the exercise of the moral virtues is plausibly viewed as a configuring cause. The second is to show that th…Read more
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318The normative web: an argument for moral realismOxford University Press. 2007.Moral realism of a paradigmatic sort -- Defending the parallel -- The parity premise -- Epistemic nihilism -- Epistemic expressivism : traditional views -- Epistemic expressivism : nontraditional views -- Epistemic reductionism -- Three objections to the core argument.
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360Recent Faces of Moral NonnaturalismPhilosophy Compass 2 (6): 850-879. 2007.Despite having occupied a peripheral position in contemporary metaethics, moral nonnaturalism has recently experienced a revival of sorts. But what is moral nonnaturalism? And what is there to be said in favor of it? In this article, I address these two questions. In the first place, I offer an account of what moral nonnaturalism is. According to the view I propose, nonnaturalism is better viewed not as a position, but as a theoretical stance. And, second, I critically engage with three recent a…Read more
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107Intuitionism's burden: Thomas Reid on the problem of moral motivationJournal of Scottish Philosophy 6 (1): 21-44. 2008.Hume bequeathed to rational intuitionists a problem concerning moral judgment and the will – a problem of sufficient severity that it is still cited as one of the major reasons why intuitionism is untenable.1 Stated in general terms, the problem concerns how an intuitionist moral theory can account for the intimate connection between moral judgment and moral motivation. One reason that this is still considered to be a problem for intuitionists is that it is widely assumed that the early intuitio…Read more
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3Moral Realism, QuasiRealism, and SkepticismIn John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. pp. 176. 2008.
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Duty, Goodness, and God in Thomas Reid's Moral PhilosophyIn Sabine Roeser (ed.), Reid on Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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122Themes from G.e. Moore: New essays in epistemology and ethics • by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary SeayAnalysis 69 (1): 167-169. 2009.G.E. Moore's philosophical legacy is ambiguous. On the one hand, Moore has a special place in the hearts of many contemporary analytic philosophers. He is, after all, one of the fathers of the movement, his broadly commonsensical methodology informing how many contemporary analytic philosophers practise their craft. On the other hand, many contemporary philosophers keep Moore's own substantive positions at arm's distance. According to many epistemologists, one can find no finer example of how to…Read more
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9Inquiring About God: Volume 1, Selected Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is timeless, simple, a…Read more
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5Practices of Belief: Volume 2, Selected Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Practices of Belief, the second volume of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers, brings together his essays on epistemology from 1983 to 2008. It includes not only the essays which first presented 'Reformed epistemology' to the philosophical world, but also Wolterstorff's latest work on the topic of entitled belief and its intersection with religious belief. The volume presents five new essays and a retrospective essay that chronicles the changes in the course of philosophy over the last fift…Read more
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62If These Walls Could Only SpeakFaith and Philosophy 27 (2): 123-141. 2010.This essay is in the philosophy of Christian liturgy. Specifically, it explores the liturgical practice, at home in the Eastern Orthodox Church, of venerating icons, asking: What is it about the liturgical role of icons that would make behavior such as touching and kissing them appropriate? After arguing that the standard answers to this question offered by Western and Eastern Christians are inadequate, I develop an account according to which the icons are instruments of divine action. More exac…Read more
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29Reid on the first principles of moralsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (S1): 102-121. 2011.What role do the first principles of morals play in Reid's moral theory? Reid has an official line regarding their role, which identifies these principles as foundational propositions that evidentially ground other moral propositions. I claim that, by Reid's own lights, this line of thought is mistaken. There is, however, another line of thought in Reid, one which identifies the first principles of morals as constitutive of moral thought. I explore this interpretation, arguing that it is a fruit…Read more
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33Reidian Metaethics: Part IIPhilosophy Compass 6 (5): 341-349. 2011.Does moral realism deserve to be the default metaethical position? The issue is contested. While many realists have maintained that theirs is the view to beat, others contend that realists have offered no satisfactory argument for this position. In this essay and its companion, ‘Reidian Metaethics, Part I’, I maintain that Thomas Reid’s moral epistemology can help us make headway on the issue. Reid, I claim, offers an interesting line of argument, that when conjoined with some other assumptions,…Read more
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69Reidian Metaethics: Part IPhilosophy Compass 6 (5): 333-340. 2011.Does moral realism deserve to be the default metaethical position? The issue is contested. While many realists have maintained that theirs is the view to beat, others contend that realists have offered no satisfactory argument for this position. In this essay and its companion, ‘Reidian Metaethics, Part II’, I maintain that Thomas Reid’s moral epistemology can help us make headway on the issue. Reid, I claim, offers an interesting line of argument, that when conjoined with some other assumptions…Read more
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56A Puzzle Regarding Reid's Theory of MotivesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (5): 963-981. 2011.In Essays on the Active Powers, Thomas Reid offers two different accounts of motives. According to the first, motives are the ends for which we act. According to the second, they are mental states, such as desires, that incite us to action. These two accounts, I claim, do not fit comfortably with Reid's agent causal account of human action. My project in this article is to explain why and then to propose a strategy for reconciling these two accounts with Reid's views about action
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3The myth of moral fictionalismIn Michael Brady (ed.), New Waves in Metaethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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114Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism, by David EnochMind 121 (484): 1059-1064. 2012.
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11Understanding Liberal Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.This volume presents influential work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection between political philosophy and religion, alongside nine new essays on the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. These novel essays offer an attractive alternative to the public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls.
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40Why Political Liberalism? On John Rawls’s Political Turn, by Paul Weithman (review)Faith and Philosophy 30 (3): 357-361. 2013.
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