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  • Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality
    Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.
    Idealism, Thomas Hofweber tells us, is decidedly not in fashion, but in this arresting book, he defends a version of idealism both unusual and unusually strong
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    Twice Two Game the 2 X 2 Game
    with Anatol Rapoport and Melvin J. Guyer
    University of Michigan Press. 1976.
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    Facial Expression of TIPI Personality and CHMP-Tri Psychopathy Traits in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
    with Lindsay Murray and Jade Goddard
    Human Nature 34 (4): 513-538. 2023.
    Honest signalling theory suggests that humans and chimpanzees can extract socially relevant information relating to personality from the faces of their conspecifics. Humans are also able to extract information from chimpanzees’ faces. Here, we examine whether personality characteristics of chimpanzees, including measures of psychopathy, can be discerned based purely on facial morphology in photographs. Twenty-one chimpanzees were given naïve and expert personality ratings on the Ten Item Persona…Read more
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    Being: A Study in Ontology
    Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.
    Peter van Inwagen has been for decades one of the leading ontologists in the world, and reading Being makes it easy to see a reason why this is so. He insists o.
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    Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell
    Philosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 378-380. 2023.
    John McDowell is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers in a number of fields; but, the editors of Reason in Nature argue, the significance of hi.
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    Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
    Philosophical Quarterly 74 (1): 381-385. 2023.
    Analytic Philosophy contains thirty-three short articles and reviews, written for a popular audience; after an introductory essay, ‘Analytic Philosophy and Huma.
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    Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real World
    Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.
    In this brilliantly conceived volume, William Talbott takes aim at the ‘Proof Paradigm’, composed of five erroneous principles, which as he sees it has dominated Western epistemology since the ancient Greeks, and proposes to replace it with a superior alternative, one that involves on his part daring speculation about the metaphysical necessity of the principles of proper reasoning. One may at first glance be inclined to dismiss Talbott's project: Who now adheres to the Proof Paradigm, which, am…Read more
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    Ethics and the Entrepreneur—Combining Values and Business
    Journal of Business Ethics Education 4 117-118. 2007.
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    What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology
    Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4): 1043-1045. 2022.
    Robert M. Adams has written a fairly short book, but into it he has packed a lifetime of rigorous analytic thought, and, what is rarer, deep insight into the nature of things. The book expands and recasts Gifford Lectures that Adams delivered in 1999, as well as other lectures and papers, and though it addresses difficult issues, Adams's clear style, retaining the informality of lectures, considerably eases the task of the reader; and the book is not without an occasional touch of humour, e.g. ‘…Read more
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    Anja Jauernig here addresses with great scholarship and philosophical insight a central issue in the interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason: ‘The project.
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    The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism
    Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4). 2021.
    The Realist Turn: Repositioning Liberalism. By Rasmussen Douglas B., Den Uyl Douglas J..
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    The Perfectionist Turn
    Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 20 (2): 447-451. 2020.
    In The Perfectionist Turn, Den Uyl and Rasmussen argue for an ethics of responsibility and oppose the prevailing ethics of respect. Political philosophy must be “tethered” ontologically, and arguments such as Moore’s open question argument that would, if correct, show that tethering is not possible do not succeed.
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    Morality and Mathematics
    Philosophical Quarterly 72 (3): 780-782. 2022.
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    Misguided Arguments
    Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 20 (1): 95-100. 2020.
    In their book, Equal Is Unfair, Watkins and Brook argue that equality of income and wealth is not needed in order to engage in the creative work required for human flourishing. One can live a successful life even though others have more resources and opportunities. It is contended here that this argument is convincing, but contrary to Watkins and Brook, it does not suffice to rule out all justifications for redistribution.
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    From Intuitions to Anarchism?
    Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 26 (1). 2020.
    When libertarian political philosophy attracted wide public notice in the 1970s, a common view was that the distinctive individual rights advocated in libertarian theory required grounding in a theory of ethics. Recently, this view has come under challenge. It has been argued that resort to such grounding in ethical theory is unneeded. An appeal to common sense intuitions suffices to justify libertarianism. First, a brief account of libertarianism will be presented. Then, some examples of the ol…Read more
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    Objective Imperatives: An Exploration of Kant's Moral Philosophy (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 844-847. 2023.
    Kant is hardly an unappreciated philosopher, but in Objective Imperatives, the eminent Kant scholar Ralph Walker argues persuasively that the strength of Kant's.
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    Book Review (review)
    Journal of Libertarian Studies 11 (1): 129-142. 1994.
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    Is Relativism Dishonest?
    Analysis 39 (4). 1979.
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    Green and dictators revisited
    Analysis 45 (4): 217-219. 1985.
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    Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market
    International Philosophical Quarterly 26 (1): 96-98. 1986.
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    Freedom and Alienation (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 26 (3): 303-305. 1986.