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317Can Hooker's rule-consequentialist principle justify Ross's prima facie duties?Mind 106 (424): 751-758. 1997.
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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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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.
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18Ethical choiceIn John Shand (ed.), Central Issues of Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 219-230. 2009.
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Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman and Christine Korsgaard , Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John RawlsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (3): 468. 1998.
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193Scanlon, permissions, and redundancy: Response to McNaughton and RawlingAnalysis 63 (4). 2003.According to one formulation of Scanlon’s contractualist principle, certain acts are wrong if they are permitted by principles that are reasonably rejectable because they permit such acts. According to the redundancy objection, if a principle is reasonably rejectable because it permits actions which have feature F, such actions are wrong simply in virtue of having F and not because their having F makes principles permitting them reasonably rejectable. Consequently Scanlon’s contractualist princi…Read more
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186Kant, Duty and Moral WorthRoutledge. 2000._Kant, Duty and Moral Worth _is a fascinating and original examination of Kant's account of moral worth. The complex debate at the heart of Kant's philosophy is over whether Kant said moral actions have worth only if they are carried out from duty, or whether actions carried out from mixed motives can be good. Philip Stratton-Lake offers a unique account of acting from duty, which utilizes the distinction between primary and secondary motives. He maintains that the moral law should not be unders…Read more
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H Caygill's The Art Of Judgement (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 21 71-83. 1990.
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67Creating the Kingdom of Ends. By Christine Korsgaard. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-49644-6 £37.50, 0-521-49962-3 £13.95 (review)Kantian Review 1 177-185. 1997.
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78Why externalism is not a problem for ethical intuitionistsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1). 1999.Ethical intuitionists are often criticised on the ground that their view makes it possible for an agent to believe that she ought to ? whilst lacking any motive to ?-that is, on the ground that it involves, or implies a form of externalism. I begin by distinguishing this form of externalism (what I call 'belief externalism') from two other forms of ethical externalism-moral externalism, and reasons externalism. I then consider various reasons why one might think that ethical intuitionism is defe…Read more
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2483Intuition, self-evidence, and understandingIn Russ Shafer Landau (ed.), Oxford Studes in Meta Ethics, Oup. pp. 28-44. 2016.Here I criticise Audi's account of self-evidece. I deny that understanding of a proposition can justify belief in it and offfer an account of intuition that can take the place of understanding in an account of self-evidence.
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22Review of Bernard Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (6). 2005.
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33Moral Motivation in KantIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, 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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61A Review of Bernard Gert’s Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (review)Teaching Ethics 7 (1): 57-61. 2006.
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2051The buck-passing account of value involves a positive and a negative claim. The positive claim is that to be good is to have reasons for a pro-attitude. The negative claim is that goodness itself is not a reason for a pro-attitude. Unlike Scanlon, Parfit rejects the negative claim. He maintains that goodness is reason-providing, but that the reason provided is not an additional reason, additional, that is, to the reason provided by the good-making property. I consider various ways in which this …Read more
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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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ProfessorIn Russ Shafer Landau (ed.), Oxford Studes in Meta Ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 28-44. 2016.
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129Here 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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62Ethical 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