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44Book ReviewsJ. David Velleman,. The Possibility of Practical Reason.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. viii+302. $65.00 ; $19.95 (review)Ethics 113 (2): 450-455. 2003.
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44I—David McNaughton and Piers Rawling: Descriptivism, Normativity and the Metaphysics of ReasonsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 77 (1): 23-45. 2003.Simon Blackburn can be seen as challenging those committed to sui generis moral facts to explain the supervenience of the moral on the descriptive. We hold that normative facts in general are sui generis. We also hold that the normative supervenes on the descriptive, and we here endeavour to answer the generalization of Blackburn's challenge. In the course of pursuing this answer, we suggest that Frank Jackson's descriptivism rests on a conception of properties inappropriate to discussions of no…Read more
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32The exchange paradox, finite additivity, and the principle of dominancePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 71 49-76. 2000.
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29Naturalism And Normativity: Reply to McNaughton and RawlingProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (1): 187-203. 2004.McNaughton and Rawling's anti-reductionist intentions are to be welcomed, but are not well served by their continuing adherence to a neo-Humean notion of the 'descriptive'. Their too-willing acceptance of this notion is reflected in a denial of appropriate dialectical weight to considerations about the way 'pattern' disappears from the domain of value when we try to characterize the constituent features of the latter in non-evaluative terms. The need for a satisfactory account of the immanence o…Read more
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28Rationality, Allocation, and Reproduction, Vivian Walsh. Clarendon Press, 1996, x + 304 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 14 (2): 342. 1998.
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28Duty, rationality, and practical reasonsIn Piers Rawling & Alfred R. Mele (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 110--131. 2004.McNaughton and Rawling present a view on which practical reasons are facts, such as the fact that the rubbish bin is full. This is a non-normative fact, but it is a reason for you to do something, namely take the rubbish out. They see rationality as a matter of consistency. And they see duty as neither purely a matter of rationality nor of practical reason: on the one hand, the rational sociopath is immoral; but, on the other, morality does not require that we always act on the weightiest moral …Read more
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23Robust Realisms and RealitiesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 42 (1): 103-114. 1999.
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20The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2018.The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the complex relationship between the field of translation studies and the study of philosophy. The book is divided into four sections covering discussions of canonical philosophers, central themes in translation studies from a philosophical perspective, case studies of how philosophy has been translated and illustrations of new developments. With twenty-nine chapters written by int…Read more
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15Rationality and Dynamic Choice: Foundational Explorations (review)Philosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 390-393. 1996.
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6Davidson's Measurement‐Theoretic AnalogyIn Ernie Lepore & Kurt Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 2013.Donald Davidson is famous for, among other things, his theory of radical interpretation – an account of how it is that we can attribute meanings to people's words, and contents to their mental states, based on an apparent paucity of evidence. This account is infused with ideas from, and applications of, the general theory of measurement, as well as one specific instance of that theory – decision theory. In addition, however, Davidson also applies measurement theory – in the form of his “measurem…Read more
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4Decision Theory and Degree of BeliefIn Stephen P. Turner & Paul A. Roth (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The Theory of von Neumann and Morgenstern Rational Choice Theory Prescription and Description Ramsey's Theory Dutch Books and the Epistemic Objection Savage's Theory What is Preference and Why is it More Basic than Qualitative Probability? Context Freedom and the Transitivity of Preference The Causal Independence of Acts and Events The Constant Act Problem Allais's and Ellsberg's Examples Conclusion.
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1Steven Rappaport, Models and Reality in Economics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (4): 279-281. 2000.
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1Holism about valueIn Vojko Strahovnik, Matjaz Potrc & Mark Norris Lance (eds.), Challenging Moral Particularism, Routledge. pp. 166--184. 2008.
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1IntuitionismIn Hugh LaFollette & Ingmar Persson (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Blackwell. pp. 287-310. 2013.What makes an action morally obligatory, the one that we are morally required to do? Different moral theories give different answers to this question. The simplest answer would be that just one consideration is relevant to the rightness of an action. Act‐consequentialism (which we will refer to as “consequentialism,” unless otherwise indicated) is a popular and influential theory that claims just this. On this view, the only morally relevant consideration is the effect an action will have on the…Read more
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The Logical Status of Conditionalization and its Role in Confirmation CommentaryPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 71 77-94. 2000.
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Psychology and Newtonian MethodologyJournal of Mind and Behavior 16 (1): 35-43. 1995.According to Newton, the goals of natural philosophy comprise quantitative generalizations and causal knowledge, the latter being paramount. Quantitative generalizations are sometimes explanatory, in psychology as elsewhere . However, in psychology, they are not explanatory when the human subject is considered qua bearer of psychological states , but only when she is considered qua physical system. In the former case quantitative generalizations are, rather, to be causally explained. In this sen…Read more
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Benefits, holism, and the aggregation of valueIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Utilitarianism: the aggregation question, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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Vaughn R. McKim and Stephen P. Turner, eds., Causality in Crisis? Statistical Methods and the Search for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (2): 127-129. 1999.
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Akeel Bilgrami, Belief and MeaningInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (2): 353-354. 1995.
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