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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
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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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3Pleasure and Reflection in Ross's IntuitionismIn Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations, Oxford University Press Uk. 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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318Can Hooker's rule-consequentialist principle justify Ross's prima facie duties?Mind 106 (424): 751-758. 1997.
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79Why 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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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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2103The 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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96Kant, 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.