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56Moral 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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23Review 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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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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25Practical 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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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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167Moral 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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21Reason in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2): 235-236. 1997.
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23Objectivism 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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34Intuition and Argument in PhilosophyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 24 (2): 125-140. 1984.
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35Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 207-211. 1985.
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21An Introduction to Buddhist PhilosophyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 124-126. 2009.
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69Moral Dilemmas and PrescriptivismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 26 (3). 1989.The purpose of this paper is to establish that, For an important class of moral judgments, The claim that there are moral dilemmas is false. The judgments are the judgments an agent committed to morality makes as the conclusion of deliberation about what, All things considered, He or she morally ought to do in some situation. The argument is that these judgments are prescriptive, In the sense of implying an intention to act, And that it is implausible to think there are dilemmas involving such p…Read more
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11Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics: The View from Eternity (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1): 128-129. 1994.
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2An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 513-518. 2010.
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25Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist ExperienceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 42 (4): 554-556. 2002.
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