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Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth's "Floating Opera"Analecta Husserliana 12 (n/a): 137. 1982.
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35How (Not) to Think About the Death PenaltyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2): 7-10. 1997.
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491Utilitarianism, Act and RuleInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2014.Act and Rule Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they […].
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44Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 177-185. 2012.Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of…Read more
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65Patriotism, War, and the Limits of Permissible PartialityThe Journal of Ethics 13 (4): 401-422. 2009.This paper examines whether patriotism and other forms of group partiality can be justified and what are the moral limits on actions performed to benefit countries and other groups. In particular, I ask whether partiality toward one’s country can justify attacking enemy civilians to achieve victory or other political goals. Using a rule utilitarian approach, I then defend the legitimacy of “moderate” patriotic partiality but argue that noncombatant immunity imposes an absolute constraint on what…Read more
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58John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of PovertyJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (2): 161-176. 2012.
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54George Kateb, Patriotism and Other Mistakes:Patriotism and Other MistakesEthics 117 (4): 769-773. 2007.
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57Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The ethics of assistance: Morality and the distant needy (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2004), pp. XI + 292 (review)Utilitas 19 (2): 264-266. 2007.
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25Scepticism and concept possessionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2): 215-223. 1974.This is an attempt to clarify the ways in which traditional empiricist theories of mind lend support to sceptical doubts about physical objects. I argue that a crucial role is played by the assumption that having a concept consists of being able to recognize instances of that concept. I further argue that this view of concept possession is false so that any sceptical view based on empiricist assumptions about the mind is unwarranted
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10What Is and What Ought to Be Done (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3): 211-212. 1982.
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30Claudia Card, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, GenocideJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (4): 600-602. 2012.
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22Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of WarSocial Philosophy Today 28 177-185. 2012.Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of…Read more
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18Rationality, by Harold I. Brown (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 448-451. 1991.
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The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth's "Petition"Analecta Husserliana 28 (n/a): 461. 1990.
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26‘Partiality’, by Keller, Simon: Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. vii-x + 163, $35 (US dollars) [hardback]Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3): 593-596. 2014.
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James C. S. Wernham, "James's Will-to-Believe Doctrine: A Heretical View" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (3): 423. 1988.
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