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    Marx and Marxism
    with Lawrence Dallman
    In Martin Kusch (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism, Routledge. pp. 88-96. 2020.
    Many kinds of relativism have been attributed to Karl Marx. We discuss three broad areas of Marx’s thinking: his theories of history, science, and morality. Along the way, we show that Marx is committed to a version of philosophical naturalism that privileges the results of genuine science over alternative ways of understanding the world. This outlook presupposes the possibility of objective knowledge of the world. It follows that Marx is no relativist (at least in the senses we consider). Unlik…Read more
  • Morality critics
    In Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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    Realism, disagreement, and explanation (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107 (3): 803-809. 2023.
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    Marx
    Routledge Philosophers. 2024.
    Karl Marx (1818-1883) was trained as a philosopher and steeped in the thought of Hegel and German idealism, but turned away from philosophy in his mid-twenties towards politics, economics and history. It is for his these subjects Marx is best known and in which his work and ideas shaped the very nature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, Marx's engagement with philosophy runs through most of his work, especially in his philosophy of history and in moral and political philosophy. …Read more
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    Some philosophers associated with the post-Kantian Continental traditions in philosophy (for example, Marx and Nietzsche) think that the etiology of a belief can impugn the epistemic status of that belief, leading us, correctly, to be “suspicious” of it; let us call them “Etiological Critics. Many analytic philosophers, responding to these and related etiological critiques within Anglophone philosophy are unimpressed. These analytic philosophers agree that facts about the etiology of belief migh…Read more
  •  2
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 3 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is a forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence, philosophical foundations of specific areas of law, and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory.
  •  8
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 1 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2011.
    Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence, the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law, the history of legal philosophy, and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory. OSPL will be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historia…Read more
  •  10
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for new philosophical work on law. The essays range widely over general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal to international law), and other philosophical topics relating to legal theory
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 1 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), the philosophical foundations of specific ...
  •  11
    Nietzsche
    In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Denial of Free Will and Moral Responsibility Against the Causality of the Will The Genesis of Action A ‘Persuasive (Re)Definition’ of Free Will References.
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    American Legal Realism
    In Dennis Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Jurisprudential Methodology Legal Indeterminacy Descriptive Theory of Adjudication The Attack on Formalism Normative Theory of Adjudication Other Themes from Realism References.
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    Nietzsche and morality (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2007.
    This volume capitalizes on a growth of interest in Nietzsche's work on morality from two sides -- from scholars of the history of philosophy and from ...
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    Letters to the Editor
    with W. F. Vallicella, Virginia Held, John Davenport, John J. Stuhr, John McCumber, Celia Wolf-Devine, Albert Cinelli, Henry Simoni-Wastila, and Eugene Kelly
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 71 (2). 1997.
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    Dlaczego tolerować religię?
    Principia 66 59-85. 2019.
    The majority of legal systems in Western democracies accord special treatment to religions, e.g. exemptions from generally applicable laws if they conflict with religious convictions. Other beliefs do not usually enjoy such far‑reaching tolerance on the part of the state. The article raises the question of how granting such privilege to religious views can be justified. Arguments of some philosophers (e.g. Thomas Hobbes’) which suggest that an intolerant attitude might sometimes be disadvantageo…Read more
  • The case for Nietzschean moral psychology
    In Brian Leiter & Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and morality, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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    Brian R. Leiter
    Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoria Del Derecho 1 (11). 2017.
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    Oxford studies in philosophy of law volume 4 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2021.
    This volume provides a forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The chapters range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning); the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal law to evidence to international law); the history of legal philosophy; and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory.
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    The naturalized epistemology approach to evidence
    In Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein & Giovanni Tuzet (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law, Oxford University Press. 2021.
    Studying evidence law as part of naturalized epistemology means using the tools and results of the sciences to evaluate evidence rules based on the accuracy of the verdicts they are likely to produce. In this chapter, we introduce the approach and address skeptical concerns about the value of systematic empirical research for evidence scholarship, focusing, in particular, on worries about the external validity of jury simulation studies. Finally, turning to applications, we consider possible ref…Read more
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    The Folk Theory of Well-Being
    with John Bronsteen, Jonathan Masur, and Kevin Tobia
    In Shaun Nichols & Joshua Knobe (eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 5, Oxford University Press. 2024.
    What constitutes a “good” life—not necessarily a morally good life, but a life that is good for the person who lived it? In response to this question of “well-being," philosophers have offered three significant answers: A good life is one in which a person can satisfy their desires (“Desire-Satisfaction” or “Preferentism”), one that includes certain good features (“Objectivism”), or one in which pleasurable states dominate or outweigh painful ones (“Hedonism”). To adjudicate among these competin…Read more
  • Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
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    I defend an inference to the best explanation (IBE) argument for anti-realism about reasons for acting based on the history of intractable disagreement in moral philosophy. The four key premises of the argument are: 1. If there were objective reasons for action, epistemically-well-situated observers would eventually converge upon them after two thousand years; 2. Contemporary philosophers, as the beneficiaries of two thousand years of philosophy, are epistemically well-situated observers; 3. Con…Read more
  • Law and Objectivity
    In Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. 2002.
  • Nietzsche's Theory of the Will
    In Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    Nietzsche and Moral Psychology
    In Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 103-115. 2016.
    A remarkable number of Nietzsche's substantive moral psychological views have been borne out by evidence from the empirical sciences. Moral judgments are products of affects on Nietzsche's view, but the latter are in turn causally dependent upon more fundamental features of the individual. Nietzsche accepts a doctrine of types. The path is short from the acceptance of the Doctrine of Types to the acceptance of epiphenomenalism, as Leiter, and more recently, Riccardi argue. This chapter explains …Read more
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    Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist
    Mind 105 (419): 487-491. 1996.
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    The Death of God and the Death of Morality
    The Monist 102 (3): 386-402. 2019.
    Nietzsche famously proclaimed the “death of God,” but in so doing it was not God’s death that was really notable—Nietzsche assumes that most reflective, modern readers realize that “the belief in the Christian god has become unbelievable” —but the implications of that belief becoming unbelievable, namely, “how much must collapse now that this faith has been undermined,” in particular, “the whole of our European morality”. What is the connection between the death of God and the death of morality?…Read more