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43Has Anyone Ever Been a Non-Intuitionist?In Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative duty: British moral philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford University Press. pp. 87-105. 2011.
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37From intuitionism to emotivismIn Thomas Baldwin (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945, . pp. 693-703. 2003.
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170Enticing ReasonsIn R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler & Michael Smith (eds.), Reason and Value: Themes From the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Clarendon Press. pp. 91-118. 2004.
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479Ethics without principlesOxford University Press. 2004.In this much-anticipated book, Jonathan Dancy offers the only available full-scale treatment of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. Dancy now presents particularism as the view that the possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequate supply of principles. He grounds this claim on a form of reasons-holism, holding that what is a reason in one case need not be any reason in another, and maintaining that moral reas…Read more
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13Essentially Comparative ConceptsJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 1 (2): 1-16. 2005.This paper examines Larry Temkin’s notion of an ‘essentially comparative’ concept and the uses to which he puts it. It is suggested that this notion is a conflation of two distinct notions which need not go together. This leads to a critical examination of Temkin’s arguments that certain central ethical concepts are essentially comparative. These arguments are often found wanting, as is Temkin’s treatment of the Person Affecting View
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174Defending the RightJournal of Moral Philosophy 4 (1): 85-98. 2007.In this paper I consider what might be my best response to various difficulties and challenges that emerged at a conference held at the University of Kent in December 2004, the contributions to which are given in the same volume. I comment on Crisp's distinction between ultimate and non-ultimate reasons, and reply to McKeever and Ridge on default reasons, and to Norman on the idea of a reason for action. I don't here consider what other particularists might want to say; I certainly don't think t…Read more
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61Discussion on the importance of making things rightRatio 17 (2): 229-237. 2004.Critical notice of 'From metaphysics to ethics' by Frank Jackson.
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28Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions: A Reconstruction Based on His Theory of Meaning (review)Philosophical Review 99 (1): 111. 1990.
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66Berkeley, an introductionBlackwell. 1987.This new introduction to the main themes of Berkeley′s philosophy assumes no previous knowlege of philosophy and will be accessible to first-year students and to the interested general reader. It also offers and defends its own interpretation of Berkeley′ position. Jonathan Dancy argues that we understand Berkeley′s idealism best if we take seriously his claim that realism (the view that material things have an existence independent of the mind) derives from a mistaken use of abstraction. Stress…Read more
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245Berkeley's active selfEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1 (1): 5-20. 2005.The Author considers the strengths and weaknesses of Berkeley’s account of what he calls indifferently the soul, mind, spirit or self. Such an account deserves far more credit than he has standardly been awarded for a significantly modern position, most of which has mistakenly been credited to Schopenhauer. The Aauthor relates Berkeley’s views to those recently expressed by Bill Brewer and attempts to isolate the crucial difference between Berkeley and Schopenhauer.
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64Argues against G. E. Moore’s conception of organic unities, attempting to replace it with a conception more amenable to particularism. Considers the possibility of a form of default value acceptable to particularism. Ends by contrasting the views expressed here with those of Kagan.
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24Acting in the Light of the AppearancesIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), McDowell and His Critics, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: I II III IV V VI VII.
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17A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.This new edition of Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge has been designed especially for the student reader. It also includes the four letters between George Berkeley and Samuel Johnson, written in 1729-30. The text is supplemented by a comprehensive introduction, an analysis of the text, a glossary, detailed notes, and a full bibliography with guidance on further reading. Published alongside Berkeley's other masterpiece, the Three Dialogues this new edition aims to give the reader a thorou…Read more
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20Action in moral metaphysicsIn Constantine Sandis (ed.), New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 398-417. 2008.