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    A private language argument
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1): 109-121. 1986.
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    Wittgenstein on epistemic privacy
    Philosophical Quarterly 31 (123): 97-109. 1981.
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    Singer, Moore, and the Metaphysics of Morals
    Philosophy Research Archives 10 567-571. 1984.
    In this paper, I argue that Marcus G. Singer’s attack on Actual Consequence Utilitarianism, as held by G.E. Moore, is inconclusive. Singer contends that Moore’s view is incoherent because it cannot provide a criterion of moral rightness and wrongness. Singer makes the historical claim that Moore intended his theory to provide such a criterion and the philosophical claim that any moral theory must provide such a criterion.I contend that Singer’s historical claim is false. While Moore uses the ter…Read more
  • Wittgenstein on the Privacy of Sensation
    Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1976.
  •  9
    Singer, Moore, and the Metaphysics of Morals
    Philosophy Research Archives 10 567-571. 1984.
    In this paper, I argue that Marcus G. Singer’s attack on Actual Consequence Utilitarianism, as held by G.E. Moore, is inconclusive. Singer contends that Moore’s view is incoherent because it cannot provide a criterion of moral rightness and wrongness. Singer makes the historical claim that Moore intended his theory to provide such a criterion and the philosophical claim that any moral theory must provide such a criterion.I contend that Singer’s historical claim is false. While Moore uses the ter…Read more
  •  14
    A Private Language Argument
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1): 109-121. 2010.