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44Rational Action: Reasons, Causes, and ChoicesDissertation, University of Missouri, St. Louis. 2010.I argue that agents, by exercising their wills, cause action-results and that volitions or willings are uncaused basic actions. I motivate the existence of volitions by highlighting the important role they play in providing an answer to Wittgenstein's famous question, “What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?” That volitions do not have action-results is central to my argument. This has as a consequence that volitions are causally basic acti…Read more
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65God and the grounding of moralityDissertation, University of Iowa. 2018.I argue that, if God exists, moral facts ontologically depend on him. After distinguishing a variety of ways in which moral facts might ontologically depend on God, I focus my attention on the most prominent and most well-developed account of the relationship between God and morality viz., the account developed by Robert Adams in his Finite and Infinite Goods. Adams’ account consists of two parts—an account of deontic moral properties and an account of axiological moral properties. Adams’ accoun…Read more
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27Aristotle on the Organ and Medium of TouchMéthexis 31 (1): 103-121. 2019.Aristotle identifies the eye as the organ of sight, the ear as the organ of hearing, and the nose as the organ of smell. However, rather than identify the flesh as the organ of touch and that particular bit of flesh, the tongue, as the organ of taste, Aristotle makes what he admits to be the surprising claim that the organ of both touch and taste is located further inward (near the heart). The flesh is merely the medium that comes between the sense organ and their respective sense objects. Focus…Read more
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1370Against Wolterstorff's Theistic Attempt to Ground Human RightsJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (1): 127-134. 2017.This article responds to Nicholas Wolterstorff's attempt to ground human rights in the condition of being loved by God.
David Redmond
Northeast Iowa Community College
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Northeast Iowa Community CollegeRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
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Value Theory |
Meta-Ethics |
Divine Goodness |
Philosophy of Religion |
Moral Value |
Divine Command Theories |