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33Live Free or Die (review)Animal Law 17 (1): 243-250. 2010.In On Their Own Terms (Darien, CT: Nectar Bat Press, 2010), Lee Hall articulates a theory that wild animals, due to their autonomous nature, are endowed with rights, but domesticated animals lack rights because they are not autonomous. Hall then argues that the rights of wild animals require that humans let them alone, and that, despite the fact that domestic animals lack rights, humans are required to take care of them because it is humans who brought them into existence. While sympathetic to H…Read more
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44Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire: An Alternative to MoralityPalgrave Macmillan. 2016.This book challenges the widespread assumption that the ethical life and society must be moral in any objective sense. In his previous works, Marks has rejected both the existence of such a morality and the need to maintain verbal, attitudinal, practical, and institutional remnants of belief in it. This book develops these ideas further, with emphasis on constructing a positive alternative. Calling it “desirism”, Marks illustrates what life and the world would be like if we lived in accordance w…Read more
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41Integrating Oriental Philosophy into the Introductory CurriculumTeaching Philosophy 12 (3): 221-233. 1989.
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25A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology, by Mitchell Silver (review)Philosophy Now 62 (62): 38-39. 2007.
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62Veterinarian, Heal Thy Profession!Philosophy Now 85 (85): 47. 2011.In apparent conflict with the popular conception of veterinarians as animals' best friends, the Veterinarian's Oath, as well as its clarifying Principles of Animal Welfare, imply that animal welfare is entirely derivative from human welfare. This article calls for an explicit alignment of the Oath and Principles with the priority of nonhuman animals.
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79Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy (edited book)SUNY Press. 1995.This book broadens the inquiry into emotion to comprehend a comparative cultural outlook. It begins with an overview of recent work in the West, and then proceeds to the main business of scrutinizing various relevant issues from both Asian and comparative perspectives. Original essays by experts in the field. Finally, Robert Solomon comments and summarizes.
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6The difference between motivation and desireIn The Ways of Desire: New Essays in Philosophical Psychology on the Concept of Wanting, Precedent. pp. 133--147. 1986.
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77Moral moments: very short essays on ethicsUniversity Press of America. 2000.Very short essays, including op-ed articles, about ethical situations and issues in everyday life.
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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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50Review of O. H. Green's The Emotions: A Philosophical Theory (review)Ethics 103 (3): 574-576. 1993.
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