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61On 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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19IntroductionIn Philip John Stratton-Lake (ed.), On What We Owe to Each Other, Blackwell. pp. 1-17. 2002.
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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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22Scanlon, permissions, and redundancy: response to McNaughton and RawlingAnalysis 63 (4): 332-337. 2003.
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154Roger 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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60I defend the buck-passing account of value from Dancy's critique.
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130Here I argue that the best form of deontology is an ethic of prima facie duties, and that this form of deontology is especially resistant to any form of reduction to a single principle.
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ProfessorIn Russ Shafer Landau (ed.), Oxford Studes in Meta Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 28-44. 2016.
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63Ethical 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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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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80In Moniker Betzler, Kant ’s Virtue Ethics,
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50Rational intuitionismIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 337-357. 2012.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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37Eliminativism 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
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3Pleasure and Reflection in Ross's IntuitionismIn Phillip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations, Oxford University Press. pp. 113-36. 2002.
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49Kant and Contemporary EthicsKantian Review 2 1-13. 1998.It is difficult to exaggerate the extent to which Kant has influenced contemporary ethics. Whether or not one is sympathetic to his moral theory, one cannot ignore it, or the various ethical theories which draw their inspiration from it. Debates which have centred on Kantian themes include debates about whether moral requirements are categorical imperatives, whether they have an overriding authority, whether the various moral judgements we make can be codified, the role of duty in moral motivati…Read more
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80The 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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318Can Hooker's rule-consequentialist principle justify Ross's prima facie duties?Mind 106 (424): 751-758. 1997.
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30Review of Brian Hutchinson, G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (9). 2002.
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L Siep's Praktische Philosophie Im Deutschen Idealismus (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 50-52. 1996.