University of Arizona
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1990
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory
Areas of Interest
Value Theory
  •  2
    The Endless Story
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Animal Conundrum Innovations, Alliances Public Activism Personal Change.
  • Index
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
  • Front Matter
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents.
  • Acknowledgments
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
  •  2
    Vanishing Animals
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Why Species Matter Man Is the Measure Mild versus Wild Culture Clash.
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    Science and Survival
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Vaccine Hunting Horrible Harry Into the Lab Necessary Questions.
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    Caveman Ethics
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The “Ur” Problem Respect Carnivores and Cannibals The Social Contract The Mini‐Beasts Compassion.
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    The Lives of Animals
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Pride and Prejudice People and Chickens Weighing Lives Animal Lives A Painful Question People and People Choosing Equality.
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    Going, Going, Wrong
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Hunter, Herder, Farmer Losing Our Balance Animal Farm Creating and Destroying How Now Meat is not Green.
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    Dumb Brutes?
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Human, All Too Human Thinking Self and Other Locked in the Present? Human Morality Animal Morality? What Else?
  •  2
    The Order of Things
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Ecce Homo The Great Chain of Being The Absent Soul The Tree of Life The Kind that Counts.
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    Animal Consciousness
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Question Mind and Brain What It Does Global Availability The Grey Area What It's Like.
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    The Myth of Consent
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Animal Spirits Divine Consent Let's Make a Deal.
  • Annotated Sources
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
  •  2
    Part Introduction
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), Animalkind, Blackwell. 2010.
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    Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
    The Philosophers' Magazine 99 80-81. 2023.
  • Welcome to Marfa
    The Philosophers' Magazine 61 111-112. 2013.
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    Old Age as a Stage of Life
    Journal 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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    What We Owe The Future (review)
    The Philosophers' Magazine 98 106-109. 2022.
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    Cook on Medium Heat
    The Philosophers' Magazine 97 104-106. 2022.
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    The Agony of Ukraine
    The Philosophers' Magazine 96 104-106. 2022.
  •  4
    Hearing Philosophy
    The Philosophers' Magazine 95 106-108. 2021.
  • Back to School
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 104-105. 2021.
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    Introduction
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 70-71. 2021.
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    Alex Guerrero, Off The Beaten Track
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 6-13. 2021.
  • Editorial
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 5-5. 2021.
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    West of Everything
    The Philosophers' Magazine 93 110-111. 2021.
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    Persistent Anosmia
    The Philosophers' Magazine 92 108-109. 2021.
    John Stuart Mill famously maintained that “animal pleasures” – like enjoying good smells and tastes – are lower quality than the pleasures tied to higher cognition, like the pleasure of enjoying an opera or understanding a mathematical proof. This downgrading is particularly common in the ethical literature about eating animals. Peter Singer, James Rachels, Gary Francione, Alastair Norcross and dozens of other ethicists make quick work of defending vegetarianism by presuming that “gustatory plea…Read more
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    (Don’t) Get Well Soon
    The Philosophers' Magazine 91 106-107. 2020.