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331Review of The End of Morality: taking abolitionism seriously, ed. R. Joyce & R. Garner (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1-6. forthcoming.
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316I—Hallvard Lillehammer: Moral Testimony, Moral Virtue, and the Value of AutonomyAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 88 (1): 111-127. 2014.According to some, taking moral testimony is a potentially decent way to exercise one's moral agency. According to others, it amounts to a failure to live up to minimal standards of moral worth. What's the issue? Is it conceptual or empirical? Is it epistemological or moral? Is there a ‘puzzle’ of moral testimony; or are there many, or none? I argue that there is no distinctive puzzle of moral testimony. The question of its legitimacy is as much a moral or political as an epistemological questio…Read more
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298Analytical dispositionalism and practical reasonEthical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (2): 117-133. 1999.The paper examines the plausibility of analytical dispositionalism about practical reason, according to which the following claims are conceptual truths about common sense ethical discourse: i) Ethics: agents have reasons to act in some ways rather than others, and ii) Metaphysical Modesty: there is no such thing as a response independent normative reality. By elucidating two uncontroversial assumptions which are fundamental to the common sense commitment to ethics, I argue that common sense eth…Read more
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257Minding your own business? Understanding indifference as a virtuePhilosophical Perspectives 28 (1): 111-126. 2014.Indifference is sometimes described as a virtue. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically acceptable forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object.
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180Who is my neighbour? Understanding indifference as a vicePhilosophy 89 (4): 559-579. 2014.Indifference is often described as a vice. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically problematic forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object.
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163We Can Believe the Error TheoryEthical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (3): 453-459. 2015.Bart Streumer argues that it is not possible for us to believe the error theory, where by ‘error theory’ he means the claim that our normative beliefs are committed to the existence of normative properties even though such properties do not exist. In this paper, we argue that it is indeed possible to believe the error theory. First, we suggest a critical improvement to Streumer’s argument. As it stands, one crucial premise of that argument—that we cannot have a belief while believing that there …Read more
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149Who cares where you come from? cultivating virtues of indifferenceIn Tabitha Freeman Susanna Graham & Fatemeh Ebtehaj Martin Richards (eds.), Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: families, origins and identities, Cambridge University Press. pp. 97-112. 2014.Book synopsis: Assisted reproduction challenges and reinforces traditional understandings of family, kinship and identity. Sperm, egg and embryo donation and surrogacy raise questions about relatedness for parents, children and others involved in creating and raising a child. How socially, morally or psychologically significant is a genetic link between a donor-conceived child and their donor? What should children born through assisted reproduction be told about their origins? Does it matter if …Read more
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140Autonomy and Mental HealthIn Ben Colburn (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy, Routledge. 2022.
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124Review. From metaphysics to ethics: A defence of conceptual analysisBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1): 169-173. 1999.
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96Ramsey's Legacy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and metaphysics, he created modern decision theory and made substantial contributions to mathematics and economics. In these original essays, written to commemorate the centenary of Ramsey's birth, a distinguished international team of contributors offer fresh pers…Read more
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75Review of Justin Clarke-Doane, Morality & Mathematics (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. forthcoming.
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71Could Morality be a Social Construction?Journal of Value Inquiry 1-14. forthcoming.The aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate some of the most serious objections to the view that morality is a social construction. Among the objections considered are the claims that this view is incoherent; that it over-generates moral truths; that it under-generates moral truths; that it fails to capture the modal status of some moral truths; and that it fails to account for the phenomenology of moral experience. In each case, the objections are found wanting. During the course of the p…Read more
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68The Trolley Problem (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2022.The Trolley Problem is one of the most intensively discussed and controversial puzzles in contemporary moral philosophy. Over the last half-century, it has also become something of a cultural phenomenon, having been the subject of scientific experiments, online polls, television programs, computer games, and several popular books. This volume offers newly written chapters on a range of topics including the formulation of the Trolley Problem and its standard variations; the evaluation of differen…Read more
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66Review of Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defense (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (5). 2004.
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55Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence, written by Jonas Olson (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1): 57-61. 2017._ Source: _Page Count 5
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50Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor (edited book)Routledge. 2002._Real Metaphysics_ brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.
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50Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible HarmJournal of Moral Philosophy 5 (3): 455-457. 2008.
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46On the ethics of naturalism: Sorley and Sidgwick on ethics and evolutionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (6): 1144-1165. 2021.This paper addresses the question of the ethical significance of the theory of evolution in W. R. Sorley’s The Ethics of Naturalism. Sorley’s treatment is compa...
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41Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor (edited book)Routledge. 2002.Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics
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37Jamieson on the ethics of animals and the environmentStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (4): 743-751. 2004.
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35Review of Richard Joyce, Simon Kirchin (eds.), A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (7). 2010.
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34Testimony, Deference and ValueIn Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 458-468. 2021.
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32From genes to eugenicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (4): 589-600. 2001.
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29Moral knowledge. Sarah McGrath. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019, × + 218 pp., £50 Hbk (review)European Journal of Philosophy 28 (4): 1103-1106. 2020.
Hallvard Lillehammer
Birkbeck College, University Of London
Birkbeck, University of London
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Birkbeck College, University Of LondonDepartment Of PhilosophyProfessor
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |