•  7
    Comments on Glasgow, The Solace
    Journal of Philosophical Research 48 275-282. 2023.
    In his book, The Solace: Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life, Joshua Glasgow recounts his thoughts as he tried to prepare for a conversation about death with his dying mother, whom he hoped to comfort. After rejecting certain possible sources of solace, he argues that our passing away itself has value, which it derives from the meaningfulness of our lives as a whole, and this value can provide the comfort we may seek. I raise a number of difficulties for and questions about Glasgow…Read more
  •  73
    From the Editors
    Ethics 134 (1): 1-3. 2023.
  •  3
    From the Editors
    with Mitchell Berman, Scott Hershovitz, and Scott Shapiro
    Legal Theory 29 (1): 1-1. 2023.
  •  23
    From the Editors
    Ethics 133 (1): 1-4. 2022.
  •  29
    From the Editors
    Ethics 132 (1): 1-3. 2021.
  •  28
    From the Editors
    Ethics 131 (1): 1-3. 2020.
  •  12
    Darwall on Welfare and Rational Care
    Philosophical Studies 130 (3): 619-635. 2006.
  •  3
    From the Editors
    with Mitchell Berman, Scott Hershovitz, and Scott Shapiro
    Legal Theory 28 (1): 1-2. 2022.
  • Objectivism and relational good
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Objectivism, subjectivism, and relativism in ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
  • Relational good and the multiplicity problem
    In Ernest Sosa & Enrique Villanueva (eds.), Metaethics, Wiley Periodicals. 2009.
  • Oxford Handbook of Meta-Ethics (edited book)
    with David Copp
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  • The Oxford Handbook of Metaethics (edited book)
    with David Copp
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  •  90
    Preference-Formation and Personal Good
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 59 33-64. 2006.
    As persons, beings with a capacity for autonomy, we face a certain practical task in living out our lives. At any given period we find ourselves with many desires or preferences, yet we have limited resources, and so we cannot satisfy them all. Our limited resources include insufficient economic means, of course; few of us have either the funds or the material provisions to obtain or pursue all that we might like. More significantly, though, we are limited to a single life and one of finite dura…Read more
  •  3
    The Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  •  23
    Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence (review)
    Philosophical Review 115 (4): 536-539. 2006.
  •  435
    The Normative Significance of Temporal Well-Being
    Res Philosophica 98 (1): 125-139. 2021.
  •  10
    Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence (review)
    Philosophical Review 115 (4): 536-539. 2006.
  •  11
    From the Editors
    with Mitchell Berman, Scott Hershovitz, and Scott Shapiro
    Legal Theory 26 (1): 1-2. 2020.
  •  72
    Agents and “Shmagents”: An Essay on Agency and Normativity
    Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11. 2016.
    The idea that normativity and agency are importantly connected goes back at least as far as Kant. But it has recently become associated with a view called “constitutivism.” Perhaps the best-known critique of constitutivism appears in David Enoch’s article, “Agency, Shmagency,” which is the focus of this chapter. His critique of my article, “Agency and the Open Question Argument,” is briefly addressed, explaining why, contrary to his claims, I do not therein defend a form of constitutivism. It is…Read more
  •  40
    Ethics, Evil, and Fiction
    Philosophical Review 108 (3): 439. 1999.
    In this engagingly written book, Colin McGinn advances a number of related theses, most prominent among them, that moral philosophy is in need of new methodologies in order to get at neglected questions about moral character. The methodology McGinn urges involves drawing upon literature for its deep and intricate portrayals of ethical themes. This would seem a natural approach given McGinn’s substantive views about ethics. He contends that our ethical knowledge is aesthetically mediated ; he spe…Read more
  •  163
    Editorial: The Review Process
    Ethics 130 (1): 1-4. 2019.
  •  8
    From the editors
    with Larry Alexander, Mitchell Berman, and Scott Shapiro
    Legal Theory 25 (1): 1-2. 2019.
  •  2
    From the editors
    with Larry Alexander, Mitchell Berman, and Scott Shapiro
    Legal Theory 24 (1): 1-2. 2018.
  •  19
    XV—Self‐Interest and Self‐Sacrifice
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (1pt3): 311-325. 2009.
    Stephen Darwall has recently suggested that theories which identify a person's good with her own ranking of concerns do not properly delimit the ‘scope’ of welfare, making self‐sacrifice conceptually impossible. But whether a theory of welfare makes self‐sacrifice impossible depends on what self‐sacrifice is. I offer an alternative analysis to Overvold's, explaining why self‐interest and self‐sacrifice need not be opposed, and so why the problems of delimiting the scope of welfare and of allowin…Read more
  • Self-Invention and the Good
    Dissertation, University of Michigan. 1989.
    In the past fifteen years, ethical theory construction has come under attack from a number of directions. I aim to provide a deeper foundation for these critiques by examining recent efforts to define "good" as a part of theory construction in ethics. I argue that the reforming definitions of "good" offered by John Rawls, Richard Brandt, and most recently, Peter Railton, deprive us of the ability to raise the questions that we as human agents want to be able to raise about what to desire. More g…Read more
  •  169
    Moral Realism: A Defence
    Philosophical Review 115 (4): 536-539. 2006.
    Book Information Moral Realism: A Defence. Moral Realism:\nA Defence Russ Shafer-Landau , Oxford : Clarendon Press ,\n2003 , x + 322 , {Â}\textsterling35 ( cloth ) By Russ\nShafer-Landau. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. x + 322.\n{Â}\textsterling35 (cloth:)
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    Mind-Dependence and Moral Realism
    In Tristram McPherson & David Plunkett (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, Routledge. pp. 355-370. 2017.