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80A planet by any other name: An exercise in astro-metaphysicsThink 5 (14): 103-106. 2007.Joel Marks discusses the philosophical aspects of a question recently in the news: is Pluto a planet, or not?
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63Activism as Integrity (review)Philosophy Now (67): 44-45. 2008.Review of Lee Hall's book, Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror. Ostensibly about tactics in the animal rights movement, the book is in fact a manifesto for thinking about nonhuman animals in a wholly different way from what we have become accustomed to. The review focuses on the welfare/rights debate in the animal movement.
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61Accept No Substitutes: The Ethics of AlternativesHastings Center Report 42 (s1). 2012.It is common to argue that animal experimentation is justified by its essential contribution to the advancement of medical science. But note that this argument actually contains two premises: an empirical claim that animal experimentation is essential to the advancement of medical science and an ethical claim that if research is essential to the advancement of medical science, then it is justified. Both claims are open to challenge, but in the logic of the case, only one of them needs to be show…Read more
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114The Ways of Desire: New Essays in Philosophical Psychology on the Concept of Wanting (edited book)Transaction Publishers. 1986.Collection of original essays on the theory of desire by Robert Audi, Annette Baier, Wayne Davis, Ronald de Sousa, Robert Gordon, O.H. Green, Joel Marks, Dennis Stampe, Mitchell Staude, Michael Stocker, and C.C.W. Taylor.
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103Ought Implies Kant: A Reply to the Consequentialist CritiqueLexington Books. 2009.Ought Implies Kant defends Kantianism via a critical examination of consequentialism. The latter is shown to be untenable on epistemic grounds; meanwhile, the charge that Kantianism is really consequentialism in disguise is refuted. The book also presents a novel interpretation of Kantianism as according direct duties owed to other animals.
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