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3Bridging the gap: Children's developing inferences about objects' labels and insides from causality-at-a-distanceIn B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society., Cognitive Science Society. pp. 64--70. 2008.
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10. Tara Smith, Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith, Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (pp. 394-397) (review)In John Hawthorne (ed.), Ethics, Wiley Periodicals. 2004.
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75Against direction of fit accounts of belief and desireAnalysis 61 (1): 44-53. 2001.The authors argue against direction of fit accounts of the distinction between belief and desire.
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19Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 9 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This is Volume 9 of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. It contains papers on democracy, the law, political liberalism, voting, social experimentation, state neutrality, equality and incentives, self-ownership, drugs and prostitution, and Lincoln. Chapters include: “Challenging Democratic Commitments: On Liberal Arguments for Instrumentalism About Democracy” (Daniel Viehoff); “Emotional Abuse and the Law” (Elizabeth Brake); “Practical Political Liberalism” (Caleb Perl); “Beyond the Voting De…Read more
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21Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.This is the seventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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188A robust hybrid theory of well-beingPhilosophical Studies 178 (9): 2829-2851. 2020.This paper articulates and defends a novel hybrid account of well-being. We will call our view a Robust Hybrid. We call it robust because it grants a broad and not subservient role to both objective and subjective values. In this paper we assume, we think plausibly but without argument, that there is a significant objective component to well-being. Here we clarify what it takes for an account of well-being to have a subjective component. Roughly, we argue, it must allow that favoring attitudes t…Read more
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18Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory
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67Parfit's Case against Subjectivism 1Oxford Studies in Metaethics 6. 2011.Derek Parfit, in On What Matters, argues that all subjective accounts of normative reasons for action are false. This chapter focuses on his “Agony Argument.” The first premise of the Agony Argument is that we necessarily have current reasons to avoid our own future agony. Its second premise is that subjective accounts cannot vindicate this fact. So, the argument concludes, subjective accounts must be rejected. This chapter accepts the first premise of this argument and that it is valid. The mai…Read more
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5Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory
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311The Point of Self-OwnershipIn David Schmidtz & Carmen Pavel (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Freedom, Oup Usa. pp. 124-40. 2016.I examine what the point of self-ownership might best be thought to be.
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1148The Ethics of Eating MeatPhilosophic Exchange 46 (1). 2017.I explore the ethical issues involved in eating meat.
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318How to be a SubjectivistIn Ruth Chang & Kurt Sylvan (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason, Routledge. forthcoming.Subjectivism, desires, reasons, well-being, ethics
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511"Understanding the Demandingness Objection"In Douglas W. Portmore (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.This paper examines possible interpretations of the Demandingness Objection as it is supposed to work against Consequentialist ethical theories.
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143The Case for Stance Dependent ReasonsJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 15 (2). 2019.Many philosophers maintain that neither one’s reasons for action nor well-being are ever grounded in facts about what we desire or favor. Yet our reasons to eat a flavor of ice cream we like rather than one we do not seem an obvious counter-example. I argue that there is no getting around such examples and that therefore a fully stance independent account of the grounding of our reasons is implausible. At least in matters of mere taste our “stance” plays a normative role in grounding reasons.
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4Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.This is the fifth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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5Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, vol. 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.This is the second volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. The papers in this volume address a range of central topics and represent cutting edge wo…Read more
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17Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This is the third volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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47Backing Away from Libertarian Self-OwnershipEthics 123 (1): 32-60. 2012.Libertarian self-ownership views have traditionally maintained that we enjoy very powerful deontological protections against any infringement upon our property. This stringency yields very counter-intuitive results when we consider trivial infringements such as very mildly toxic pollution or trivial risks such having planes fly overhead. Maintaining that other people's rights against all infringements are very powerful threatens to undermine our liberty, as Nozick saw. In this paper I consider t…Read more
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3What we owe to each other, T. M. Scanlon, the Belknap press of Harvard university press, 1998, IX + 420 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 16 (2): 333-378. 2000.
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6Review of mark Schroeder, Slaves of the Passions (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4). 2009.I assess Schroeder's book Slaves of the Passions and isolate some grounds for concerns about the overall position.
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4Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This is the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.
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14Reply to RobertsonPhilosophical Papers 32 (2): 185-191. 2003.Philosophical Papers Vol.32(2) 2003: 185-191
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93Self-Ownership and the Conflation ProblemIn Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, . forthcoming.Libertarian self-ownership views in the tradition of Locke, Nozick, and the left-libertarians have supposed that we enjoy very powerful deontological protections against infringing upon our property. Such a conception makes sense when we are focused on property that is very important to its owner, such as a person’s kidney. However, this stringency of our property rights is harder to credit when we consider more trivial infringements such as very mildly toxic pollution or trivial risks such havi…Read more
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7Sumner on WelfareDialogue 37 (3): 571-. 1998.In this paper I criticize the way Sumner marks the subjective/objective divide and the way he argues for subjective views of well-being.
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97Parfit's Case Against SubjectivismIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6: Volume 6, Oxford University Press. 2011.I argue that Parfit's On What Matters does not make a compelling case against subjective accounts of reasons for action.
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