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Reasons have recently occupied the centre of the theory of value. Some writers, such as Tim Scanlonthink that they are not only central, but exhaust the topic, since everything important that we want to say about the good or the valuable, or the obligatory and the required, can be phrased in terms of reason. An action is good to perform if the reasons in favour of performing it are stronger than those in favour of doing anything else or doing nothing. An action is the right thing to do, or ought…Read more
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Pragmatism: all or some or all and some?In Cheryl Misak & Huw Price (eds.), The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century, Oup/ba. 2016.
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In een reactie op Scrutons beweringen over de teloorgegane waarden van religie stelt Blackburn dat het heilige ook kan bestaan zonder transcendente onderbouwing. Hij vraagt zich in een filosofische beschouwing af of religieuze gebruiken wel zoveel verschillen van de vele andere voortbrengselen van de menselijke geest.
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Hume's Dialogues: Cautious, Artful and FunnyIn Kenneth Williford (ed.), Hume's _Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion_: A Philosophical Apparaisal, Routledge. 2023.
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Wittgenstein and MinimalismIn B. Garrett & K. Mulligan (eds.), Themes From Wittgenstein, Anu Working Papers in Philosophy 4. pp. 1--14. 1993.
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Judgment, reasons and feelingsIn Brian Andrew Ball & Christoph Schuringa (eds.), The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2019.
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Analysis, description and the a priori?In Ian Ravenscroft (ed.), Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Showing us how it isIn Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.), Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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Hume, Morality, and SkepticismIn Lorne Falkenstein (ed.), Hume and the Contemporary 'Common Sense' Critique of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.This paper defends Hume against contemporary attacks both on his theory of the explanation of action and on his “sentimentalist” account of the nature of morality. It argues that Hume is not committed to untoward claims either about causation or explanation and that his account of morality withstands the assaults made on it by rationalists and intuitionists.
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Truth, Beauty and GoodnessIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 5, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Human nature and science : a cautionary essayIn Frans B. M. De Waal, Patricia Smith Churchland, Telmo Pievani & Stefano Parmigiani (eds.), Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience, Brill. 2014.
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IndexIn Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, Princeton University Press. pp. 203-210. 2014.
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Wahrheit, Realismus und TheorienregulationIn Marcus Willaschek (ed.), Realismus, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag. pp. 2143--177. 2000.
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Ethics, religion, scienceIn John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. 2010.
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Some remarks about minimalismIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillDistinguished Research Professor (Part-time)
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland