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68Life's Values: Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, and MeaningOxford University Press. 2018.Life's Values offers new analyses of the nature of pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning in life. Recognizing how individuals have different priorities, Goldman explains what is of ultimate value in our lives and argues that making our desires rational - relevantly informed of what it's like to satisfy them - maximizes well-being.
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ValueIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. pp. 162. 2011.
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24Social Justice in the Liberal State (review)International Studies in Philosophy 14 (2): 85-87. 1982.
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Taylor on Wolff, Political Obligation and the Justification of the StatePacific Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2): 192. 1974.
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208The moral foundations of professional ethics (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1980.This books examines the fundamental values and principles of conduct in the professions, focusing specifically on four areas: law, politics, medicine and business. One central question unifies its inquiry into the different professions: should the principles for judging the actions of professionals be the same as those used to judge private individuals, or do these professions require special moral principles to guide their conduct. The author considers arguments deriving from the underlying ins…Read more
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9The Moral Foundations of Professional EthicsHastings Center Report 11 (3): 38. 1981.Book reviewed in this article: The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics. By Alan H. Goldman.
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40The expressivist theory of normative judgmentInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (4): 509-523. 1991.No abstract
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11Walton, Kendall. In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence. Oxford University Press, 2015, 295 pp., $29.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2): 203-205. 2016.
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71The Justification of Equal OpportunitySocial Philosophy and Policy 5 (1): 88-103. 1987.As a preliminary to the justification of equal opportunity, we require a few words on the concept. An opportunity is a chance to attain some goal or obtain some benefit. More precisely, it is the lack of some obstacle or obstacles to the attainment of some goal(s) or benefit(s). Opportunities are equal in some specified or understood sense when persons face roughly the same obstacles or obstacles of roughly the same difficulty of some specified or understood sort. In different contexts we might …Read more
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515What we learn about rules from the cider house rulesPhilosophy and Literature 34 (2): 359-372. 2010.In a well known collection of essays, Martha Nussbaum has argued that novels are indispensable in teaching and learning ethics in the right way.1 A large part of such learning consists in developing the capacity to perceive and respond to complex, nuanced situations having numerous morally relevant features deriving from particular relationships and past commitments that combine these context sensitive features in unique and unpredictable ways. Careful attention to detailed, intricate stories wi…Read more
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185The experiential account of aesthetic valueJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (3). 2006.
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124Toward a new theory of punishmentLaw and Philosophy 1 (1). 1982.Criteria for a successful theory of punishment include first, that it specify a reasonable limit to punishments in particular cases, and second, that it allow benefits to outweigh costs in a penal institution.It is argued that traditional utilitarian and retributive theories fail to satisfy both criteria, and that they cannot be coherently combined so as to do so. Retributivism specifies a reasonable limit in its demand that punishment equal crime, but this limit fails to allow benefits to outwe…Read more
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5The Death of Epistemology: A Premature BurialPacific Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2): 203-210. 1981.
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105The aesthetic value of representation in paintingPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 297-310. 1995.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Law |
Value Theory, Miscellaneous |