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Caspar Hare

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
    Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Normative Ethics
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  •  108
    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
  •  249
    Self-Bias, Time-Bias, and the Metaphysics of Self and Time
    Journal of Philosophy 104 (7): 350-373. 2007.
    This is about the metaphysics of the self and ethical egoism. It can serve as a preview for my manuscript-in-progress below.
    Value Theory, Miscellaneous
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    Obligation and Regret When There is No Fact of the Matter About What Would Have Happened if You Had not Done What You Did
    Noûs 45 (1). 2011.
    It is natural to distinguish between objective and subjective senses of
    Usability of Consequentialism
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    Bradley , Ben . Well-Being and Death . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $60.00 (cloth) (review)
    Ethics 121 (4): 797-799. 2011.
    Value Theory, Miscellaneous
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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.
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    Rationality and the distant needy
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2). 2007.
    This is my argument for the claim that morality is very demanding indeed. In a nutshell: being consistent is harder than you think.
    Distributive JusticeRationalityEthicsGlobal Justice
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