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18A Biocentrist Strikes BackEnvironmental Ethics 20 (4): 361-376. 1998.Biocentrists are criticized for being biased in favor of the human species, for basing their view on an ecology that is now widely challenged, and for failing to reasonably distinguish the life that they claim has intrinsic value from the animate and inanimate things that they claim lack intrinsic value. In this paper, I show how biocentrism can be defended against these three criticisms, thus permitting biocentrists to justifiably appropriate the salutation, “Let the life force be with you.”
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18Replies to Stephen Darwall, Richard Miller, David Cummiskey and Joshua GertThe Journal of Ethics 18 (3): 299-323. 2014.IStephen Darwall is one of the few contemporary philosophers who, like myself, claims to have provided a conclusive argument in favor of morality over egoism. As a result, Darwall’s essay on my book,See this issue of The Journal of Ethics.From Rationality to Equality, provides me with the marvelous opportunity to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our different approaches to providing just such a defense of morality, an opportunity for which I am very grateful.Darwall begins with a fairly ac…Read more
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16Controversies in FeminismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide an array of perspectives on issues including: universal values, justice and care, a feminist philosophy of science, and the relationship of biology to social theory
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16Reconciliation Reaffirmed: A Reply to SteversonEnvironmental Values 5 (4). 1996.In this reply to Brian Steverson's objections to my reconciliationist argument, I have clarified the requirements that follow from my principles of environmental justice. I have also clarified the notion of intrinsic value that I am endorsing and the grounds on which my claim of greater intrinsic value for humans rests
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16Responses to Zagzebski and RussellInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1): 153-160. 2023.
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15What is ethics?Polity. 2019.Why be moral? -- Consequentialism -- Nonconsequentialism -- Reconciliation -- Morality and religion.
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14Just War Theory and Nuclear StrategyAnalyse & Kritik 9 (1-2): 155-174. 1987.I defend just war theory against pacifist, conventionalist, collectivist and feminist challenges that have been recently directed against it. I go on to apply just war theory to the use and threat to use nuclear weapons concluding that under present conditions the possession but not the threat to use a limited nuclear force is morally justified.
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14Morality and Social Justice: Point/counterpointRowman & Littlefield. 1995.These original essays by seven leading contemporary political philosophers spanning the political spectrum explore the possibility of achieving agreement in political theory. Each philosopher defends in a principal essay his or her own view of social justice and also comments on two or more of the other essays. The result is a lively exchange that leaves the reader to judge to what degree the contributors achieve agreement or reconciliation.
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13The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in EthicsOup Usa. 2004.This book combines the two most common approaches used to introduce students or general readers to ethics: the historical and the applied. Using these approaches, Sterba examines traditional ethical theories and disagreements, exploring Aristotelian, Kantian, and utilitarian ethics, as well as their contemporary defenders. But rather than focusing on formal aspects of these views, Sterba applies the best practical arguments from each of these perspectives to a variety of moral problems, such as …Read more
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13Some Problems with “Making Justice Practical”Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 4 15-19. 1982.
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13A Response to Jan Narveson: Why Libertarians Are and Are Not Like TurnipsAnalyse & Kritik 37 (1-2): 223-232. 2015.I show how Jan Narveson’s critique fails to unseat my central argument that harm cuts both ways in our assumed idealized conflict situations, such that sometimes the poor harm the rich and sometimes the rich harm the poor. I further show how this supports my overall argument that libertarianism has gone over the brink into the waiting arms of welfare liberals and socialists. I also reject the; other reasons that Narveson provides for not recognizing the welfare rights of distant peoples and futu…Read more
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12How to make people just: a practical reconciliation of alternative conceptions of justiceRowman & Littlefield. 1988.To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com
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11How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free ActionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 53 124-131. 1979.
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11Philosophy: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2004.Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique positionamong introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for asingle-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes bothclassic readings in philosophy and newer articles. Presents, in one volume, canonical and contemporary works inethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, andepistemology. Topics discussed include knowledge, religion, freedom,morality, and the meaning of life. Serves as a comprehensive and compelling introduction tophilo…Read more
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11Review of Amy Mullin, Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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