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54Happiness is an EmotionThe Journal of Ethics 21 (1): 1-16. 2017.Accounts of happiness in the philosophical literature see it as either a judgment of satisfaction with one’s life or as a balance of positive over negative feelings or emotional states. There are sound objections to both types of account, although each captures part of what happiness is. Seeing it as an emotion allows us to incorporate both features of the accounts thought to be incompatible. Emotions are analyzed as multicomponent states including judgments, feelings, physical symptoms, and beh…Read more
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41Philosophy and the novelOxford University Press. 2013.Part I. Philosophy of novels. 1. Introduction: philosophical content and literary value -- 2. Interpreting novels -- 3. The sun also rises: incompatible interpretations -- 4. The appeal of the mystery -- Part II. Philosophy in novels. 5. Moral development in Pride and prejudice -- 6. Huckleberry Finn and moral motivation -- 7. What we learn about rules from The cider house rules -- 8. Nostromo and the fragility of the self.
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51Empirical KnowledgeUniversity of California Press. 1988.This remarkably clear and comprehensive account of empirical knowledge will be valuable to all students of epistemology and philosophy. The author begins from an explanationist analysis of knowing—a belief counts as knowledge if, and only if, its truth enters into the best explanation for its being held. Defending common sense and scientific realism within the explanationist framework, Alan Goldman provides a new foundational approach to justification. The view that emerges is broadly empiricist…Read more
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38Learning from booksForum for European Philosophy Blog. 2015.Alan H. Goldman on the philosophical value of the novel.
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3Henry Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and US Foreign Policy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 1 (1): 41-45. 1981.
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54Epistemological foundations: Can experiences justify beliefs?American Philosophical Quarterly 41 (4): 273-285. 2004.None
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38Epistemology and the psychology of perceptionAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1): 43-51. 1981.
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9Can a Utilitarian’s Support of Nonutilitarian Rules Vindicate Utilitarianism?Social Theory and Practice 4 (3): 333-345. 1977.
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78Desire Based Reasons and Reasons for DesiresSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (3): 469-488. 2006.
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362Business ethics: Profits, utilities, and moral rightsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 9 (3): 260-286. 1980.
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36Epistemic Foundationalism and the Replaceability of Ordinary LanguageJournal of Philosophy 79 (3): 136-154. 1982.
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485Aesthetic qualities and aesthetic valueJournal of Philosophy 87 (1): 23-37. 1990.To say that an object is beautiful or ugly is seemingly to refer to a property of the object. But it is also to express a positive or negative response to it, a set of aesthetic values, and to suggest that others ought to respond in the same way. Such judg- ments are descriptive, expressive, and normative or prescriptive at once. These multiple features are captured well by Humean accounts that analyze the judgments as ascribing relational properties. To say that an object is beautiful is to say…Read more
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Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
Value Theory, Miscellaneous |