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5EthicsPhilosophical Quarterly 50 (200): 410-412. 1997.In this engaged and engaging survey Piers Benn examines the major currents of ethical theory, concentrating on sound reasoning about morality. Benn's account offers a qualified defence of Aristotelian virtue theory, while bringing out what is distinctive and valuable in a broad range of approaches, such as those of Kant and the Utilitarians. His examples emphasize the ordinary choices of everyday life - gossip, friendship, honesty, sexual relations, work, and self-realization
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2Introduction: Respecting nature environmental thinking in the light of philosophical theoryIn Timothy D. J. Chappell & Sophie Grace Chappell (eds.), Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-18. 2020.
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1The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdomIn Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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16 how to base ethics on biologyIn Timothy D. J. Chappell & Sophie Grace Chappell (eds.), Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 102-116. 2020.
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Utrum sit una tantum vera enumeratio virtutum moraliumIn Michel Croce & Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (eds.), Connecting Virtues: Advances in Ethics, Epistemology, and Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.
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Reading the o: Theaetetus 170c-171cPhronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 51 (2): 109-139. 2006.
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Inwardness in EthicsIn Silvia Caprioglio Panizza & Mark Hopwood (eds.), Murdochian Mind, Routledge. 2022.I begin with a summary statement of what I call “the Manifesto”, which is a succinct expression of an entire, and extremely influential, ideology of philosophical ethics: the one that I call “systematic moral theory”, and have been writing against for a decade now. My paper is about why Iris Murdoch rejects the Manifesto; and why anyone should. Murdoch quotes with approval Paul Valéry’s “A difficulty is a light; an insuperable difficulty is a sun.” It sounds paradoxical to suggest that philosoph…Read more
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Phenomenal SocialismPhilosophies 9 (3): 63. 2024.Phenomenal socialism says that what we actually, directly, literally perceive is only or primarily instances of high-level phenomenal properties; this paper argues for phenomenal socialism in the weaker, primarily version. Phenomenal socialism is the philosophy of perception that goes with recognitionalism, which is the metaethics that goes with epiphanies. The first part states the recognitionalist manifesto. The second part situates this manifesto relative to some more global concerns, about n…Read more
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Index of namesIn Timothy D. J. Chappell & Sophie Grace Chappell (eds.), Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 193-194. 2020.
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Roles and reasonsIn Tim Dare & Christine Swanton (eds.), Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation, Routledge. 2019.
Areas of Interest
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Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
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