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20The Art of Judgement, Howard Caygill, Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1989Hegel Bulletin 11 (1-2): 71-83. 1990.
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57Necessarily Coextensive Predicates and ReductionInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (4): 282-299. 2018._ Source: _Page Count 18 Bart Streumer argues that all normative properties are descriptive properties. His first argument is based on the principle that necessarily coextensive predicates ascribe the same property, and the claim that there is a descriptive predicate that is necessarily coextensive with normative predicates. From this Streumer concludes that normative properties are identical with descriptive properties. I argue that, even if we accept, this conclusion does not follow. Normative…Read more
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60Necessarily Coextensive Predicates and ReductionBrill. 2018._ Source: _Page Count 18 Bart Streumer argues that all normative properties are descriptive properties. His first argument is based on the principle that necessarily coextensive predicates ascribe the same property, and the claim that there is a descriptive predicate that is necessarily coextensive with normative predicates. From this Streumer concludes that normative properties are identical with descriptive properties. I argue that, even if we accept, this conclusion does not follow. Normative…Read more
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61Recalcitrant PluralismRatio 24 (4): 364-383. 2011.In this paper I argue that the best form of deontology is one understood in terms of prima facie duties. I outline how these duties are to be understood and show how they offer a plausible and elegant connection between the reason why we ought to do certain acts, the normative reasons we have to do these acts, the reason why moral agents will do them, and the reasons certain people have to resent someone who does not do them. I then argue that this form of deontology makes it harder to unify a p…Read more
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28On What We Owe to Each Other (edited book)Blackwell. 2004.In "On What We Owe to Each Other," five leading moral philosophers assess various aspects of Scanlon's moral theory as laid out in this seminal work.
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12Ludwig Siep, Praktische Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus, Suhrkanp: Frankfurt, 1992, pp 348, Pb DM24Hegel Bulletin 17 (2): 50-52. 1996.
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16Scanlon, permissions, and redundancy: response to McNaughton and RawlingAnalysis 63 (4): 332-337. 2003.
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34Moral Motivation in KantIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: The Right and the Good in Kant Clarifying the Negative Thesis Clarifying the Positive Thesis Why Motives of Inclination Lack Moral Worth The Right Sort of Reasons An Alternative Account of Acting from Duty Kant's Critics.
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31A Review of Bernard Gert’s Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (review)Teaching Ethics 7 (1): 57-61. 2006.
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1The Future of Reason: Kant's Conception of the Finitude of ThinkingDissertation, University of Essex (United Kingdom). 1990.Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires signed TDF. ;Kant's fundamental problematic is the articulation of a finite rationality. The central problematic of the finitude of reason is how to think of a manner of thinking which is appropriate to a finite being. The relevant aspect of the finitude of a finite being is its temporality: a finite being is a temporal historical being. A finite rationality will, therefore, be a manner of thinking appropriate to this temporali…Read more
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87Roger Crisp distinguishes a positive and a negative aspect of the buck-passing account of goodness (BPA), and argues that the positive account should be dropped in order to avoid certain problems, in particular, that it implies eliminativism about value. This eliminativism involves what I call an ontological claim, the claim that there is no real property of goodness, and an error theory, the claim that all value talk is false. I argue first that the positive aspect of the BPA is necessary to ex…Read more
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45I defend the buck-passing account of value from Dancy's critique.
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ProfessorIn Landau Russ Shafer (ed.), Oxford Studes in Meta Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 28-44. 2016.
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54Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.Ethical Intuitionism was the dominant moral theory in Britain for much of the 18th, 19th and the first third of the twentieth century. However, during the middle decades of the twentieth century ethical intuitionism came to be regarded as utterly untenable. It was thought to be either empty, or metaphysically and epistemologically extravagant, or both. This hostility led to a neglect of the central intuitionist texts, and encouraged the growth of a caricature of intuitionism that could easily be…Read more
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80In Moniker Betzler, Kant ’s Virtue Ethics,
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84The Right and the Good (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2002.The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition with a substantial introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross. Ross's book is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and Stratton-Lake provides the context for a proper understa…Read more
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51Rational intuitionismIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 337-357. 2013.In this paper I give a critical overview of the views of the main Rational Intuitionists from 18th to 20th century.
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38Eliminativism about Derivative Prima Facie DutiesIn Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative duty: British moral philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford University Press. 2011.Ross divides prima facie duties into derivative and foundational ones, but seems to understand the notion of a derivative prima facie duty in two very different ways. Sometimes he understands them in a non-eliminativist way. According to this understanding, basic prima facie duties ground distinct derivative ones. According to the eliminativist understanding, basic duties do not ground distinct derivative duties, but replace them. On the eliminativist view, discovering that a prima facie duty is…Read more