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71Closet dualism and mental causationCanadian Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 161-181. 1998.Serious doubts about nonreductive materialism — the orthodoxy of the past two decades in philosophy of mind — have been long overdue. Jaegwon Kim has done perhaps the most to articulate the metaphysical problems that the new breed of materialists must confront in reconciling their physicalism with their commitment to the autonomy of the mental. Although the difficulties confronting supervenience, multiple-realizability, and mental causation have been recurring themes in his work, only mental cau…Read more
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185Nietzsche's metaethics: Against the privilege ReadingsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 8 (3). 2000.
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2Naturalism and naturalized jurisprudenceIn Brian Bix (ed.), Analyzing Law: New Essays in Legal Theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 79. 1998.
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37The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for ScepticismOxford Journal of Legal Studies 31 (4): 663-677. 2011.Legal philosophers have been preoccupied with specifying the differences between two systems of normative guidance that are omnipresent in all modern human societies: law and morality. Positivists propose a solution to this ‘Demarcation Problem’ according to which the legal validity of a norm cannot depend on its being morally valid, either in all or at least some possible legal systems. The proposed analysis purports to specify the essential and necessary features of law in virtue of which this…Read more
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136The case for Nietzschean moral psychologyIn Brian Leiter & Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and morality, Oxford University Press. 2007.Contemporary moral psychology has been dominated by two broad traditions, one usually associated with Aristotle, the other with Kant. The broadly Aristotelian approach emphasizes the role of childhood upbringing in the development of good moral character, and the role of such character in ethical behavior. The broadly Kantian approach emphasizes the role of freely chosen conscious moral principles in ethical behavior. We review a growing body of experimental evidence that suggests that both of t…Read more
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Morality criticsIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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20Review of David Hoekema, Hoekema's Review of Wilshire (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (10). 2002.
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Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
19th Century Philosophy |