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Book review (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 40 (4): 485-488. 2006.
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Christine M. Korsgaard, the constitution of agency (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (2): 235-236. 2010.
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Review: On What Matters (review)Metapsychology Online Reviews 16. 2012.
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Review of Heidi M. Ravven, The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will: New York: The New Press, 2013 (review)Neuroethics 7 (2): 251-252. 2013.The Self Beyond Itself is a defense of an incompatibilist, hard determinist view of free will. Free will is here defined in a very strong sense, as the existence of actions that do not result from any causes other than the agent herself. The question of how to define free will, especially whether it consists in the ability to do otherwise, and what the ability to do otherwise amounts to, is not given much consideration in this book.Ravven frames her work in a broad historical context. The kind o…Read more
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Peter Singer , Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 38 (2): 80-82. 2018.
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Worlds of truth: A philosophy of knowledge by Israel Scheffler (review)Analysis 70 (2): 383-385. 2010.
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Metafizički minimalizamProlegomena 10 (1): 39-52. 2011.Properties and facts play a central role within metaphysics, yet there is no widely accepted account of what constitutes a property or a fact. Traditional conceptions of these metaphysical notions raise serious philosophical puzzles, making the existence of each seem dubious. Drawing on the minimalist theory of truth, I argue in favor of a minimalist conception of properties and facts. A minimalist theory of properties and facts explains these matters in terms of the acceptance of trivial schema…Read more
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Metaphysical MinimalismProlegomena 10 (1): 39-52. 2011.Properties and facts play a central role within metaphysics, yet there is no widely accepted account of what constitutes a property or a fact. Traditional conceptions of these metaphysical notions raise serious philosophical puzzles, making the existence of each seem dubious. Drawing on the minimalist theory of truth, I argue in favor of a minimalist conception of properties and facts. A minimalist theory of properties and facts explains these matters in terms of the acceptance of trivial schema…Read more
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Minimalism and ExpressivismEthics in Progress 3 9-30. 2012.There has been a great deal of discussion in the recent philosophical literature of the relationship between the minimalist theory of truth and the expressivist metaethical theory. One group of philosophers contends that minimalism and expressivism are compatible, the other group contends that such theories are incompatible. Following Simon Blackburn (manuscript), I will call the former position ‘compatibilism’ and the latter position ‘incompatiblism.’ Even those compatibilist philosophers who h…Read more
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Why Language ExistsCroatian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1): 1-12. 2012.There are words. There are sentences. There are languages. Commonsense linguistic realism is the conjunction of the three preceding claims. Linguists and philosophers including Noam Chomsky (1986, 2000), Georges Rey (2006, 2008), and Barry C. Smith (2006) have presented skeptical doubts regarding the existence of linguistic entities. These doubts provide no good reason to deny commonsense linguistic realism. Some skeptical doubts are in fact not directed at the metaphysical thesis of commonsense…Read more
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New Waves in Metaethics By Michael Brady * New Waves in Truth By Cory D. Wright and Nikolaj J.L.L. Pedersen (review)Analysis 73 (2): 400-402. 2013.
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Cooperation and Its Evolution (review)Philosophical Psychology 28 (8): 1253-1255. 2015.
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Wittgenstein and the Methodology of SemanticsIn Ranjan Kumar Panda (ed.), Language, Mind and Reality: A Reflection on Philosophical Thoughts of R. C. Pradhan, Overseas Press. 2015.R.C. Pradhan claims in Language, Reality, and Transcendence that, in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, “[i]n no case is Wittgenstein interested in the empirical facts regarding language, as for him philosophy does not undertake any scientific study of language” (Pradhan 2009, xiv). I consider Ludwig Wittgenstein’s purportedly anti-scientific and anti-empirical approach to language in light of advances by philosophers and linguists in the latte…Read more
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Beyond Objectivism and SubjectivismIn Piotr Makowski, Mateusz Bonecki & Krzysztof Nowak-Posadzy (eds.), Praxiology and the Reasons for Action, Transaction Publishers. 2015.Subjectivism about reasons is the view that a person has a reason to perform act A if she has some motivation to do A, or would have motivation to do A in certain circumstances. In On What Matters, Derek Parfit presents a series of arguments against subjectivism about reasons. In Parfit’s view, if subjectivism were true, nothing would actually matter. Parfit contends that there are only two positions regarding reasons: objectivism and subjectivism. I will argue for an inclusive position on reaso…Read more
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Marcus Arvan. Rightness as Fairness: A Moral and Political Theory. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 37 (2): 44-46. 2017.
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Synchronous Online Philosophy Courses: An Experiment in ProgressAPA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 18 (1): 37-40. 2018.There are two main ways to teach a course online: synchronously or asynchronously. In an asynchronous course, students can log on at their convenience and do the course work. In a synchronous course, there is a requirement that all students be online at specific times, to allow for a shared course environment. In this article, the author discusses the strengths and weaknesses of synchronous online learning for the teaching of undergraduate philosophy courses. The author discusses specific strate…Read more
The City University Of New York Graduate Center
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
APA Central Division
Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
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Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Linguistics |
Theories of Truth |
Deflationism about Truth |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Machine Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Teaching Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |