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83Tortured KnowledgeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2): 315-333. 2009.The use of torture for interrogational purposes is frequently justified by a ‘ticking-bomb’ case, claiming that serious harms will come to a large group of people if a suspect is not tortured for the location of the bomb. In this paper, I will argue that an important recent defense of interrogational torture (Seumas Miller’s) faces several practical and epistemological problems. In this paper, I argue that these epistemological problems lead to the failure of Miller’s argument. I also argue that…Read more
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37Review of “The Right In the Good: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value” (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (1): 19. 2007.
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30I will argue that virtue ethics, because of its emphasis on the character and motives of the agent, is able to help guide action and, in fact, is far better equipped to explain the moral responses in the gray area than utilitarianism. I divide this essay into four sections. In the first, I avoid having to answer the troublesome question about when a set of cells becomes a person by applying a tactic first used by R. A Hare. Second, using two hypothetical cases, I suggest that Hare's utilitarian …Read more
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12Review of “Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality” (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (2): 8. 2007.
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11"Review of" Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy" (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 19. 2008.
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10Review of "Rethinking The Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning" (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (2): 595-604. 2012.
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9"Review of" Ethics and Humanity: Themes From the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover" (review)Essays in Philosophy 12 (1): 11. 2011.
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7Tortured KnowledgeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 23 (2): 315-333. 2009.The use of torture for interrogational purposes is frequently justified by a ‘ticking-bomb’ case, claiming that serious harms will come to a large group of people if a suspect is not tortured for the location of the bomb. In this paper, I will argue that an important recent defense of interrogational torture (Seumas Miller’s) faces several practical and epistemological problems. In this paper, I argue that these epistemological problems lead to the failure of Miller’s argument. I also argue that…Read more
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4Review of Ethics and Humanity: Themes From the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover, ed. N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen, and Jeff McMahan (review)Essays in Philosophy 12 (1): 163-168. 2011.
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3Review of Ethics Without Ontology, by Hilary Putnam (review)Essays in Philosophy 7 (2): 252-259. 2006.
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1Review of Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, by David Wiggins (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (2): 332-337. 2007.
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1Review of Rethinking The Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning, by Larry Temkin (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (2): 595-604. 2012.
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1Review of Ethics and International Relations, Second edition, by Gordon Graham (review)Essays in Philosophy 10 (1): 123-126. 2009.
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1Review of The Right In the Good: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, by Robert Audi (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (1): 231-239. 2007.
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Review of Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, by John Rawls, ed. Samuel Freeman (review)Essays in Philosophy 9 (1): 192-195. 2008.
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