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Caspar Hare

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Normative Ethics
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    The Limits of Kindness
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
    EthicsMoral Responsibility
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    7 Skepticism and Humility
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 91-98. 2003.
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    Obligations to Merely Statistical People
    Journal of Philosophy 109 (5-6): 378-390. 2012.
    Ethics
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    Contents
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. 2003.
    The Contents of Perception
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    2 Time- Bias and the Metaphysics of Time
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 9-18. 2003.
    Aspects of Time
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    Realism About Tense and Perspective
    Philosophy Compass 5 (9): 760-769. 2010.
    On one view of time past, present and future things exist, but their being past, present or future does not consist in their standing in before‐ and after‐relations to other things. So, for example, the event of the signing of the Magna Carta is past, and its being so does not consist in, or reduce to, its coming before the events of 2010.In this paper I discuss arguments for and against this view and view in its near vicinity, perspectival realism. I suggest that perspectival realism is a bette…Read more
    Temporal Experience, MiscTemporal Expressions