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119“There’s No Room in the Worksheet” and Other Fallacies about Professional Ethics in the CurriculumTeaching Ethics 4 (2): 77-88. 2004.Despite the apparently universal recognition of a pervasive "success at any cost" amorality in the professional and business world, and the need to do something about it, attempts to establish a campus-wide professional ethics curriculum continue to encounter resistance at many colleges and universities. The main stumbling block seems to be a purely practical one: How do you fit a course on professional ethics into academic worksheets that are already over-crowded with essential technical course…Read more
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241A theory of emotionPhilosophical Studies 42 (1): 227-242. 1982.I argue that emotions are belief/desire sets characterized by strong desire.
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64Review of O. H. Green's The Emotions: A Philosophical Theory (review)Ethics 103 (3): 574-576. 1993.
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45Rats and Rationality and othersBioethics Forum. 2007.Various commentaries on the use of animals in biomedical research and related.
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132Ethics without morals: in defence of amoralityRoutledge. 2013.A defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, this book takes both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. It advocates instead replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is no…Read more
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108Animal Abolitionism Meets Moral Abolitionism: Cutting the Gordian Knot of Applied EthicsJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 10 (4): 1-11. 2013.The use of other animals for human purposes is as contentious an issue as one is likely to find in ethics. And this is so not only because there are both passionate defenders and opponents of such use, but also because even among the latter there are adamant and diametric differences about the bases of their opposition. In both disputes, the approach taken tends to be that of applied ethics, by which a position on the issue is derived from a fundamental moral commitment. This commitment in turn …Read more
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