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135The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good LifeWiley-Blackwell. 2007._The Weight of Things_ explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'. Looks at the views of philosophers such as Aristotle, the Stoics, Mill, Nietzsche, and Sartre as well as contributions from other traditions, such as Buddhism Incorporates key arguments from contemporary philosophers including Peter Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Nozick, John Finnis, and Susan Wolf Uses examples from biography, literat…Read more
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126Animal husbandry (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 117-118. 2011.Clearly some parental aims get the parent-child relationship started on the wrong foot. It’s not OK to have a child so you’ll later have a tennis partner. It is OK to want responsibility, focus, bonding with a partner, and the pleasures of daily life with children
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71Can counterfactuals save mental causation?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1): 71-90. 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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68Make yer spuds and whatever (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 53 (53): 116-117. 2011.Clearly some parental aims get the parent-child relationship started on the wrong foot. It’s not OK to have a child so you’ll later have a tennis partner. It is OK to want responsibility, focus, bonding with a partner, and the pleasures of daily life with children
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61The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 95 109-112. 2021.
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51The Taste Question in Animal EthicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (4): 661-674. 2017.Advocates of veganism often assume that food enjoyment has little moral weight, because it involves mere taste pleasure. Because of the triviality of taste pleasure, they consider it obvious that harming animals to secure particular tastes is ‘unnecessary’. After discussing the elements of taste, defending the importance of taste, exploring what ‘unnecessary harm’ means, and introducing a number of taste related thought experiments, I argue that harm to animals is not always unnecessary, when wh…Read more
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51We Should Prohibit the Use of Chimpanzees and Other Great Apes in BiomedicalIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--271. 2014.
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46Family tiesThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 79-84. 2011.Clearly some parental aims get the parent-child relationship started on the wrong foot. It’s not OK to have a child so you’ll later have a tennis partner. It is OK to want responsibility, focus, bonding with a partner, and the pleasures of daily life with children
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40Old Age as a Stage of LifeJournal of Applied Philosophy 40 (3): 521-534. 2023.The objective list account of wellbeing is usually taken to say that the same set of goods is relevant to wellbeing for any person, regardless of age. Coupled with reasonable assumptions about how goods are distributed over the lifespan, that leads to a picture of wellbeing as higher in midlife and lower in childhood and old age. I argue that a stage-relativized objective list theory is more plausible, after exploring several ways to understand the concept of a life stage. On the stage-relativiz…Read more
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34Animalkind: What We Owe to AnimalsWiley-Blackwell. 2009.By exploring the ethical differences between humans and animals, _Animalkind_ establishes a middle ground between egalitarianism and outright dismissal of animal rights. A thought-provoking foray into our complex and contradictory relationship with animals Advocates that we owe each animal due respect Offers readers a sensible alternative to extremism by speaking of respect and compassion for animals, not rights Balances philosophical analysis with intriguing facts and engaging tales
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33Book Review: C. Anthony Anderson and Joseph Owens. Propositional attitudes: The role of content in logic, language and mind (review)Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 35 (2): 299-310. 1994.
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