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7Buddhist Understandings of Well-BeingIn Guy Fletcher (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being, Routledge. pp. 70-80. 2015.
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142Practical Identities and Autonomy: Korsgaard’s Reformation of Kant’s Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 546-570. 2002.Kant has long been taxed with an inability to explain the detailed normative content of our lives by making universalizability the sole arbiter of our values. Korsgaard addresses one form of this critique by defending a Kantian theory amended by a seemingly attractive conception of practical identities. Identities are dependent on the contingent circumstances of each person's world. Hence, obligations issuing from them differ from Kantian moral obligations in not applying to all persons. Still, …Read more
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37Integrity in the corporation: The plight of corporate product advocates (review)Journal of Business Ethics 3 (1). 1984.The integrity of corporate product advocates (advertisers and salespersons) is questionable for the same reason the integrity of lawyers is questionable. In both cases the requirements of a professional role inevitably lead to forms of deception. However, the integrity of lawyers has been taken to be a more serious issue than the integrity of product advocates. I consider why this is so, and I conclude that we should pay more attention to the integrity issue in the corporate case. In addition, I…Read more
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43Virtue and NatureSocial Philosophy and Policy 25 (1): 28-55. 2008.The Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism of Philippa Foot and Rosalind Hursthouse purports to establish a naturalistic criterion for the virtues. Specifically, by developing a parallel between the natural ends of nonhuman animals and the natural ends of human beings, they argue that character traits are justified as virtues by the extent to which they promote and do not inhibit natural ends such as self-preservation, reproduction, and the well-being of one’s social group. I argue that the approac…Read more
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77The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism By Carol Rovane (review)Analysis 75 (2): 333-335. 2015.
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133A priori refutations of disagreement arguments against moral objectivity: Why experience matters (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 38 (2): 141-157. 2004.
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62Moral Virtue and the Epistemology of DisagreementPhilosophical Topics 38 (2): 39-57. 2010.The paper is a defense of the thesis that there are situations in which morally virtuous persons who are epistemic peers may disagree about what to do without either person being rationally required to change his or her judgment (a version of the Steadfast position in the epistemology of disagreement debate). The argument is based in part on similarities between decisions of virtuous agents and other practical decisions such as a baseball manager’s decision to change pitchers during a game. In b…Read more
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4Kant’s Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (3): 363-369. 2001.
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3The Value of Humanity in Kant’s Moral Theory—Richard Dean (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1): 107-109. 2008.
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27Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2014.The first book of its kind, Buddhist Moral Philosophy: An Introduction introduces the reader to contemporary philosophical interpretations and analyses of Buddhist ethics. It begins with a survey of traditional Buddhist ethical thought and practice, mainly in the Pali Canon and early Mahāyāna schools, and an account of the emergence of Buddhist moral philosophy as a distinct discipline in the modern world. It then examines recent debates about karma, rebirth and nirvana, well-being, normative et…Read more
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24Review of Samuel J. Kerstein, Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (11). 2002.
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1Why the Buddha Did Not Discuss "The Problem of Free Will and Determinism"In Rick Repetti (ed.), Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?, Routledge / Francis & Taylor. pp. 11-21. 2016.I argue that the Buddha did not discuss the free will and determinism problem because he only considered issues relating to overcoming suffering and his teaching about this did not raise the problem. As represented in the Nikāyas, the heart of his teaching was an empirically based account of the causes of suffering and how to modify these to end suffering. It was primarily a practical teaching about how to achieve this goal, more a craft knowledge than a philosophical theory of causality. Simila…Read more
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26Practical Identities and Autonomy: Korsgaard's Reformation of Kan's Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 546-570. 2002.Kant has long been taxed with an inability to explain the detailed normative content of our lives by making universalizability the sole arbiter of our values. Korsgaard addresses one form of this critique by defending a Kantian theory amended by a seemingly attractive conception of practical identities. Identities are dependent on the contingent circumstances of each person's world. Hence, obligations issuing from them differ from Kantian moral obligations in not applying to all persons. Still, …Read more
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169Moral dilemmas (edited book)Oxford Uiversity Press. 1987.The essays in this volume illuminate a central topic in ethical theory: moral dilemmas. Some contemporary philosophers dispute the traditional view that a true moral dilemma -- a situation in which a person has two irreconcilable moral duties -- cannot exist. This collection provides the historical background to the ongoing debate with selections from Kant, Mill, Bradley, and Ross. The best recent work on the question is represented in essays by Donagan, Foot, Hare, Marcus, Nagel, van Fraassen, …Read more
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2Introduction. The Debate on Moral DilemmasIn Christopher W. Gowans (ed.), Moral dilemmas, Oxford Uiversity Press. pp. 3--33. 1987.
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23Reason in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2): 235-236. 1997.
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17Objectivism and Realism in the Sciences and MoralityProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 59 (n/a): 308-318. 1985.
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2UniversalizabilityIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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20Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 207-211. 1985.
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