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37Ethical Theories and Controversial IntuitionsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (3): 318-345. 2023.We have controversial intuitions about the rightness of retributive punishment, keeping promises for its own sake, and pushing the heavy man off of the bridge in the footbridge trolley case. How do these intuitions relate to ethical theories? Should ethical theories aim to fit with and explain them? Or are only uncontroversial intuitions relevant to explanatory ethical theorising? I argue against several views that we might hold about the relationship between controversial intuitions and ethical…Read more
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33Correction to: Guest Editors’ Introduction: De-moralizing EthicsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 1-1. forthcoming.
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28Moral DisagreementRoutledge. 2020.Widespread moral disagreement raises ethical, epistemological, political, and metaethical questions. Is the best explanation of our widespread moral disagreements that there are no objective moral facts and that moral relativism is correct? Or should we think that just as there is widespread disagreement about whether we have free will but there is still an objective fact about whether we have it, similarly, moral disagreement has no bearing on whether morality is objective? More practically, is…Read more
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23Christopher Cowie, Morality and Epistemic Judgement: The Argument from AnalogyEthics 132 (2): 526-532. 2021.
University of Reading
PhD, 2014
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Epistemic Normativity |