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31Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D.H. Mellor (edited book)Routledge. 2002.Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics
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96Could Morality be a Social Construction?Journal of Value Inquiry 1-14. forthcoming.The aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate some of the most serious objections to the view that morality is a social construction. Among the objections considered are the claims that this view is incoherent; that it over-generates moral truths; that it under-generates moral truths; that it fails to capture the modal status of some moral truths; and that it fails to account for the phenomenology of moral experience. In each case, the objections are found wanting. During the course of the p…Read more
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168We Can Believe the Error TheoryEthical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (3): 453-459. 2015.Bart Streumer argues that it is not possible for us to believe the error theory, where by ‘error theory’ he means the claim that our normative beliefs are committed to the existence of normative properties even though such properties do not exist. In this paper, we argue that it is indeed possible to believe the error theory. First, we suggest a critical improvement to Streumer’s argument. As it stands, one crucial premise of that argument—that we cannot have a belief while believing that there …Read more
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158Autonomy and Mental HealthIn Ben Colburn (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy, Routledge. 2022.
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15Pragmatist quietism: A meta‐ethical system. By Andrew Sepielli, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022. vi + 231 pp. £55 (Hbk) (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 327-329. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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4A distinction without a difference? Good advice for moral error theoristsIn Bart Streumer (ed.), Irrealism in Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2014.This paper explores the prospects of different forms of moral error theory. It is argued that only a suitably local error theory would make good sense of the fact that it is possible to give and receive genuinely good moral advice.
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Confinement, apathy, indifferenceIn Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.), Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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76The Trolley Problem (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2022.The Trolley Problem is one of the most intensively discussed and controversial puzzles in contemporary moral philosophy. Over the last half-century, it has also become something of a cultural phenomenon, having been the subject of scientific experiments, online polls, television programs, computer games, and several popular books. This volume offers newly written chapters on a range of topics including the formulation of the Trolley Problem and its standard variations; the evaluation of differen…Read more
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27Justin Clarke-Doane, Morality and MathematicsInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1-5. forthcoming.
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37Testimony, Deference and ValueIn Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 458-468. 2021.
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79Review of Justin Clarke-Doane, Morality & Mathematics (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. forthcoming.
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56On the ethics of naturalism: Sorley and Sidgwick on ethics and evolutionBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (6): 1144-1165. 2021.This paper addresses the question of the ethical significance of the theory of evolution in W. R. Sorley’s The Ethics of Naturalism. Sorley’s treatment is compa...
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31Editors’ Introduction: Responsibility, Luck, and a PandemicThe Monist 104 (2): 153-154. 2021.This issue of The Monist was edited in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. As the submissions came in, millions of people across the globe were infecting each other with the coronavirus ‘Covid-19’ in buses and on trains; in bars and in hotels; in airports and hospitals; in homes and universities. During parts of 2020, the presence of this deadly virus made national governments ‘lock down’ their economies and ‘lock up’ their citizens in a manner that has not previously been seen in modern peaceti…Read more
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29Moral knowledge. Sarah McGrath. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019, × + 218 pp., £50 Hbk (review)European Journal of Philosophy 28 (4): 1103-1106. 2020.
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763Moral luck and moral performanceEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (4): 1017-1028. 2020.The aims of this paper are fourfold. The first aim is to characterize two distinct forms of circumstantial moral luck and illustrate how they are implicitly recognized in pre-theoretical moral thought. The second aim is to identify a significant difference between the ways in which these two kinds of circumstantial luck are morally relevant. The third aim is to show how the acceptance of circumstantial moral luck relates to the acceptance of resultant moral luck. The fourth aim is to defuse a le…Read more
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20Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor (edited book)Routledge. 2002._Real Metaphysics_ brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.
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609Autonomy, Consent, and the “Nonideal” CaseJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (3): 297-311. 2020.According to one influential view, requirements to elicit consent for medical interventions and other interactions gain their rationale from the respect we owe to each other as autonomous, or self-governing, rational agents. Yet the popular presumption that consent has a central role to play in legitimate intervention extends beyond the domain of cases where autonomous agency is present to cases where far from fully autonomous agents make choices that, as likely as not, are going to be against t…Read more
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40Ramsey's Legacy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and metaphysics, he created modern decision theory and made substantial contributions to mathematics and economics. In these original essays, written to commemorate the centenary of Ramsey's birth, a distinguished international team of contributors offer fresh pers…Read more
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340Review of The End of Morality: taking abolitionism seriously, ed. R. Joyce & R. Garner (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1-6. forthcoming.
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6Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor, With His Replies. (edited book)Routledge. 2002.Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.
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769Companions in guilt: entailment, analogy, and absorbtionIn Christopher Cowie & Richard Rowland (eds.), Companions in Guilt: Arguments in Metaethics, Routledge. 2019.In this paper, I do three things. First, I say what I mean by a ‘companions in guilt’ argument in meta-ethics. Second, I distinguish between two kinds of argument within this family, which I call ‘arguments by entailment’ and ‘arguments by analogy’. Third, I explore the prospects for companions in guilt arguments by analogy. During the course of this discussion, I identify a distinctive variety of argument, which I call ‘arguments by absorption’. I argue that this variety of argument inherits so…Read more
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223Bart Streumer, Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory About All Normative Judgements: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780198785897. Pp. 223. £45.00 HbkEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (2): 445-447. 2018.
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1161Moral error theoryProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (2). 2004.The paper explores the consequences of adopting a moral error theory targeted at the notion of reasonable convergence. I examine the prospects of two ways of combining acceptance of such a theory with continued acceptance of moral judgements in some form. On the first model, moral judgements are accepted as a pragmatically intelligible fiction. On the second model, moral judgements are made relative to a framework of assumptions with no claim to reasonable convergence on their behalf. I argue th…Read more
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423Facts, Ends, and Normative ReasonsThe Journal of Ethics 14 (1): 17-26. 2010.This paper is about the relationship between two widely accepted and apparently conflicting claims about how we should understand the notion of ‘reason giving’ invoked in theorising about reasons for action. According to the first claim, reasons are given by facts about the situation of agents. According to the second claim, reasons are given by ends. I argue that the apparent conflict between these two claims is less deep than is generally recognised.
Hallvard Lillehammer
Birkbeck College, University Of London
Birkbeck, University of London
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Birkbeck College, University Of LondonDepartment Of PhilosophyProfessor
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |