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17Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.For close to forty years now T.M. Scanlon has been one of the most important contributors to moral and political philosophy in the Anglo-American world. Through both his writing and his teaching, he has played a central role in shaping the questions with which research in moral and political philosophy now grapples. Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a …Read more
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150Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Reasons and Recognition brings together fourteen new papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, ...
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6Replies to Symposiasts on The View from HerePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (3): 792-805. 2016.
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8Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life, by Jonathan LearMind. forthcoming.We just lived through a global pandemic, and we are entering a period in which the alarming impacts of anthropogenic climate change are becoming increasingly ha.
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21Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas, by Axel HonnethMind 132 (525): 259-269. 2023.Axel Honneth has done more than any other philosopher to develop and explore the significance of recognition to our social relations. On the broadly Hegelian ap.
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44Freedom and responsibilityPhilosophical Review 109 (4): 592-595. 2000.It is not a new thought that an adequate understanding of freedom and responsibility might require us to distinguish between the theoretical and practical points of view. This distinction is at the heart of the Kantian approach to moral philosophy. But while the Kantian strategy is deeply suggestive, it has proved difficult to work out the idea that freedom and responsibility are artifacts of the practical standpoint. Hilary Bok’s book Freedom and Responsibility provides a new interpretation and…Read more
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14Comment on Kwong-loi Shun, ‘Anger, Compassion, and the Distinction between First and Third Person’Australasian Philosophical Review 5 (4): 374-382. 2021.A critical discussion of Kwong-loi Shun’s account of anger as a response to situations rather than agents. The paper draws on a relational interpretation of the moral domain to argue that it makes a normative difference to one’s moral emotions whether one was the immediate victim of wrongful conduct, or merely a third-party observer of such conduct. Those who have been wronged by immoral actions have warrant for a kind of angry resentment that does not carry over to third parties. The paper also…Read more
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40Mattering, value, and our obligations to the animalsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 105 (1): 236-241. 2022.
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Review (review)History and Theory 28 326-348. 1989.After Virtue. A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre
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13Humanity as an object of attachmentInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 64 (7): 686-698. 2021.ABSTRACT In Why Worry about Future Generations?, Samuel Scheffler argues that we typically love humanity, and that this attachment gives us reasons to care about future generations. The paper explores this idea with an eye to understanding better the sense in which humanity is an object of attachment. The paper argues that the humanity we love should be understood in an enriched rather than a reductively biological sense, as a species that has historically sustained a complex set of cultural and…Read more
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48Recognition and the moral nexusEuropean Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 634-645. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 634-645, September 2021.
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32Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical ReflectionsLaw and Philosophy 18 (6): 621-654. 1999.
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55The Moral NexusPrinceton University Press. 2019.The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality—namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent comply with these demands. Interpersonal morality, so conceived, is the domain of what we owe to each other, insofar as we are each persons with equal moral standing. The book offers an interp…Read more
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57Margaret Gilbert: Rights and Demands: A Foundational InquiryJournal of Philosophy 117 (1): 55-59. 2020.
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136Trust, anger, resentment, forgiveness: On blame and its reasonsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 27 (3): 537-551. 2019.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical ReflectionsIn Gary Watson (ed.), Free Will, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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21The Ethics of Social Research: Surveys and ExperimentsHastings Center Report 13 (2): 44. 1983.Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Issues in Social Research. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Ruth R. Faden, R. Jay Wallace, Jr., and LeRoy Walters. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xii + 436 pp. $25.00 (hardcover); $8.95 (paper). Ethics of Human Subject Research. Edited by Allan J. Kimmel, Jr. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1981. 106 pp. $6.95 (paper). Social Research Ethics. Edited by Martin Bulmer. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982. xiv + 284 pp. $39.50 (hardcover); $14.50 (pape…Read more
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194An Anti-Philosophy of the Emotions? (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 469-477. 2000.Philosophical work on the emotions can take a variety of forms, among which the following three are perhaps most common. There are, first, studies that attempt to analyse the nature of emotions in general, identifying the features that distinguish them from psychological states of other kinds, and their connections with such phenomena as rationality, perception, experience, memory, action, and the like. Second, there are works that focus on particular emotions or classes of emotion, such as guil…Read more
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42Moralische Gründe: Aus der Sicht des HandelndenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 55 (1). 2001.In den heutigen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften herrscht eine Vorstellung von Handlungsgründen, die von dem englischen Moralphilosophen Bernard Williams als „Internalismus„ bezeichnet worden ist. Dieser Vorstellung zufolge hängt die Beantwortung der Frage, was eine gegebene Person P Grund hat zu tun, letztendlich von P’s Motivationsprofil ab, insbesondere von P’s Wünschen und Dispositionen; normative Handlungsgründe sind demnach als subjektiv bedingt zu verstehen. Mein Anliegen in diesem Aufsa…Read more
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148Reasons, Values and Agent‐RelativityDialectica 64 (4): 503-528. 2010.According to T. M. Scanlon's buck‐passing account, the normative realm of reasons is in some sense prior to the domain of value. Intrinsic value is not itself a property that provides us with reasons; rather, to be good is to have some other reason‐giving property, so that facts about intrinsic value amount to facts about how we have reason to act and to respond. The paper offers an interpretation and defense of this approach to the relation between reasons and values. I start by acknowledging t…Read more
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191Précis of Responsibility and the Moral SentimentsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 680-681. 2002.Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments offers an account of moral responsibility. It addresses the question: what are the forms of capacity or ability that render us morally accountable for the things we do? A traditional answer has it that the conditions of moral responsibility include freedom of the will, where this in turn involves the availability of robust alternative possibilities. I reject this answer, arguing that the conditions of moral responsibility do not include any condition of al…Read more
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