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26Giotto in Padua: A New Geography of the Human SoulThe Journal of Ethics 9 (3-4): 551-572. 2005.In the Arena Chapel in Padua, Giotto painted seven allegorical representations of virtues and seven allegorical representations of vices. This article probes the sources for the list of virtues and the list of vices. The ensemble of virtues can be located in St. Thomas Aquinas; the ensemble of the vices, however, is original. The result is a new account of vices that displaces the odler account of the “seven deadly sins.”.
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12The Morality of Defensive War edited by Cécile Fabre & Seth Lazar 2014 Oxford, Oxford University Press272 pp., £35.00 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 32 (1): 111-113. 2015.
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15Divine Omniscience and Human PrivacyPhilosophy Research Archives 10 383-391. 1984.This paper argues that there is a conflict between divine omniscience and the human right to privacy. The right to privacy derives from the right to moral autonomy, which human persons possess even against a divine being. It follows that if God exists and persists in knowing all things, his knowledge is a non-justifiable violation of a human right. On the other hand, if God exists and restricts his knowing in deference to human privacy, it follows that he cannot fulfill the traditional function …Read more
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28Extraordinary Evil or Common Malevolence? Evaluating the Jewish HolocaustJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (2): 167-181. 1986.This essay considers and rejects the hypothesis of Fackenheim, Wiesel and others that the Jewish Holocaust contains some qualitatively or quantitatively distinct moral evil. The Holocaust was not qualitatively distinct because the intentions and vices of the mass murderer are qualitatively indistinguishable from the intentions and vices of the common murderer. The Holocaust was not quantitatively distinct either because the sum of the evils of the Holocaust is quantitatively indistinguishable fr…Read more
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31Peter Hylton, "Russell, Idealism, and the Rise of Analytic Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 149. 1992.
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71Killing in war – by Jeff McMahanJournal of Applied Philosophy 27 (2): 212-215. 2010.No Abstract
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21Fame as a Value ConceptPhilosophy Research Archives 12 541-551. 1986.This essay distinguishes personal from generic fame and accurate from inaccurate fame, and claims that only accurate personal fame could possess intrinsic value. Nevertheless, three common arguments why accurate personal fame might possess intrinsic value are shown to be unsound. After rejecting two Aristotelian arguments to the effect that no sort of fame possesses value, the author suggests that fame is valueless if one assumes a modern axiology in which the good life consists of self-regulati…Read more
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10The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 1 (review)Metaphilosophy 15 (3-4): 282-288. 1984.
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14Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNYIn Peter Singer (ed.), Ethics, Oxford University Press. 1994.
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43Reflections on Cavell's ontology of filmJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2): 271-273. 1973.
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9Moral Philosophy and Nuclear Deterrence [review of Anthony Kenny, The Logic of Deterrence ]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 6 (1): 85. 1986.