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119Why Richard Brandt does not need cognitive psychotherapy, and other glad news about idealized preference theories in meta-ethicsJournal of Value Inquiry 37 (3): 373-394. 2003.
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26Survey article: The perils of value-ladenness in politics, science and philosophyJournal of Political Philosophy 9 (2). 2001.
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26Thinking with Your Hypothalamus: Reflections on a Cognitive Role for the Reactive EmotionsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 521-541. 2001.In “Freedom and Resentment,” P. F. Strawson argues that the “profound opposition” between the objective and reactive stances is quite compatible with our rationally retaining the latter as important elements in a recognizably human life. Unless he can establish this, he has no hope of establishing his version of compatibilism in the free will debate. But, because objectivity is associated so intimately with the rationally conducted explanation of action, it is not clear how the opposition of the…Read more
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23Sour Grapes, Self-Abnegation and Character BuildingThe Monist 86 (2): 220-241. 2003.We usually withhold attributions of moral responsibility when a person acts on preferences that are induced without her consent by other people by means of conditioning, post-hypnotic suggestion, neurological fiddling and similar techniques. However, this is not generally the case when a person induces preferences in herself by the process of character building. However, the distinction between non-responsibility and responsibility for preferences does not map neatly onto the distinction between…Read more
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24The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity DefenseHastings Center Report 15 (1): 43. 1985.Book reviewed in this article: Madness and the Criminal Law. By Norval Morris. The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense. By William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross.
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16Hierarchical motivation and the freedom of the willPacific Philosophical Quarterly 62 (4): 354-68. 1981.
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57Making Do: Troubling Stoic Tendencies in an Otherwise Compelling Theory of AutonomyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 25-53. 2000.Nothing can kill a promising research program in ethics more quickly than a plausible argument to the effect that it is committed to a morally repellent consequence. It is especially troubling when a theory one favors is jeopardized in this way. I have this worry about Harry Frankfurt's theory of free will, autonomous agency and moral responsibility, for there is a very plausible argument to the effect that aspects of his view commit him to a version of the late Stoic thesis that acting freely i…Read more
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92Reasons-responsiveness and ownership-of-agency: Fischer and Ravizza's historicist theory of responsibility (review)The Journal of Ethics 6 (3): 199-234. 2002.No one has done more than John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza to advance our understanding of the important dispute in the theory of responsibility between structuralists and historicists. This makes it all the more important to take the measure of Responsibility and Control, their most recent contribution to the historicist side of the discussion. In this paper I examine some novel features of their most recent version of responsiblity-historicism, especially their new notions of "moderate rea…Read more
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56More on coercive wage offers: A reply to AlexanderPhilosophy and Public Affairs 12 (2): 165-171. 1983.
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34All the way: Substantive source-historicism for semi-compatibilistsPhilosophical Books 47 (3): 222-234. 2006.
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49Born yesterday: Personal autonomy for agents without a pastMidwest Studies in Philosophy 23 (1). 1999.
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29Review of David Copp and David Zimmerman: Morality, reason, and truth: new essays on the foundations of ethics (review)Ethics 96 (4): 878-880. 1986.
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66Morality, reason, and truth: new essays on the foundations of ethics (edited book)Rowman & Allanheld. 1984.The thirteen papers...address various dimensions of the complex relationship between morality and rationality. Most of the papers are new and they are generally at the cutting edge of current research. The collection is a substantial and important contribution to metaethics.