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Nietzsche and the Critique of Morality: Philosophical Naturalism in Nietzsche's Theory of ValueDissertation, University of Michigan. 1995.In Chapters I-III, I argue that Nietzsche is a critic of "morality" in the sense of any system of values that has one or both of the following features: it presupposes the truth of certain descriptive claims about human agency, in the sense that for the evaluative categories to be intelligibly applied to persons these claims must be true ; it favors the interests of the "lowest" at the expense of the "highest" men, the embodiments of human excellence. I illustrate, in particular, how this latter…Read more
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Llewellyn, Karl Nickerson (1893-1962)In N. J. Smelser & B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, . pp. 13--8999. 2001.
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Realism and moralism in political thoughtIn Angela Condello & Tiziana Andina (eds.), Post-Truth, Philosophy and Law, Routledge. 2019.
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Nietzsche's Theory of the WillIn Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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I confess to uncertainty about whether Professor Hoekema's reply http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/10/hoekema=leiter.html) to my comments on his review of Wilshire http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/10/leiter=hoekema.html) is just careless or intentionally dishonest. It is plainly quite misleading.
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Nietzsche and the Morality CriticsIn John Richardson & Brian Leiter (eds.), Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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Law and objectivityIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 969--89. 2002.
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The topic this semester will be “methodology,” with special (but not exclusive) reference to the recent, voluminous literature on this topic in legal philosophy. There are two central questions: (1) Is there a distinctive method of philosophical inquiry? (2) What is the relationship between philosophical methods and the methods (and results) of the empirical sciences (broadly construed)?
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University of ChicagoRegular Faculty
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
19th Century Philosophy |