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21Tom Cochrane, "The Aesthetic Value of the World." (review)Philosophy in Review 43 (3): 11-13. 2023.
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2Rousseau, Dewey, and DemocracyIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Editor's Prologue Rousseau's Philosophy of Transformative, “Denaturing” Education Dewey.
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43Self-Love and Personal Identity in Hume's TreatiseHume Studies 41 (1): 33-55. 2015.In his Advertisement to the incomplete first edition of the Treatise, Hume justifies his decision to publish the first two Books separately on the grounds that “the subjects of the understanding and passions make a compleat chain of reasoning by themselves”.1 The Advertisement to Book 3 qualifies its predecessor slightly, stating that Book 3 is “in some measure independent of the other two and requires not that the reader shou’d enter into all the abstract reasonings contain’d in them”. Precisel…Read more
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12Art of Environmental Law, Governing with AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (4): 517-520. 2022.Though nearly 400 pages, Benjamin Richardson’s The Art of Environmental Law, Governing with Aesthetics, will not tell you everything you always wanted to know about aesthetics and environmental law but were afraid to ask. What it will give you is a fascinating overview that is remarkably readable despite its considerable length.Richardson’s opening chapter explains that his objective is to show “how insights from aesthetics can enrich the study and understanding of environmental law.” (p. 5) Str…Read more
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7Natural Goodness (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 874-875. 2003.Natural Goodness is an important new book from Phillippa Foot, a central figure in the revival of ethical naturalism and character-based ethics. A longstanding critic of the emotivist and prescriptivist theories that arose following twentieth-century analytic philosophy’s linguistic turn, Foot attacked reigning versions of noncognitivism according to which moral language and judgment made no meaningful claims about moral agents or their actions but were instead misleading expressions of a speake…Read more
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31Social Freedom: The Responsibility View (review)Dialogue 37 (4): 858-859. 1998.How should we define liberty or social freedom? Which obstacles constitute constraints? Is poverty one? By what method of conceptual analysis can a definition of social freedom best be generated? These and related questions form the subject matter of Kristjánsson’s interesting critical review of so-called “responsibility” accounts of social freedom. Together with his critical exegesis of rival views, Kristjánnson explains and defends his own “responsibility view.”
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8Chapter 6 Pragmatic Ethical Science: The 1908 EthicsIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 147-181. 1995.
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8Chapter 2 Dewey's Early IdealismIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 44-62. 1995.
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10A Note on AbbreviationsIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. 1995.From Dewey's Ethical Thought
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13Chapter 5 Years of Transition, 1894-1903In Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 119-146. 1995.
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14Chapter 1 Origins of Dewey's IdealismIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 13-43. 1995.This chapter covers the development of Dewey's philosophy through 1890.
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8Chapter 4 Dewey's Reexamination of Self-realization Ethics, 1891-1894In Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 89-116. 1995.
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18Chapter 7 Toward a Pragmatic CommunitarianismIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 182-218. 1995.
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38Aesthetics of Nature, Constitutive Goods, and Environmental Conservation: A Defense of Moderate Formalist AestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (4): 419-428. 2018.Scientific cognitivists argue formalist aesthetics of nature are (i) inadequate for appreciating the full range of nature’s aesthetic values and (ii) too subjective to be useful for defending nature conservation. I argue that (i) is false because moderate formalists can appreciate nature for its performances, not merely objects and vistas. I argue (ii) is false because moderate formalists can argue that appreciation of beauty (including natural beauty) is a constitutive good of human flourishing…Read more
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18The Practice of Virtue: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Virtue Ethics (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2006.This collection provides readings from five classic thinkers with importantly distinct approaches to virtue theory, along with five new essays from contemporary thinkers that apply virtue theories to the resolution of practical moral problems. Jennifer Welchman's Introduction discusses the history of virtue theory. A short introduction to each reading highlights the distinctive aspects of the view expressed.
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43Dewey's ethical thoughtCornell University Press. 1995.'This book not only revises the interpretation of Dewey's ethics but also has relevance to recent discussions about the possibility of naturalistic, ...
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218Is ecosabotage civil disobedience?Philosophy and Geography 4 (1). 2001.According to current definitions of civil disobedience, drawn from the work of John Rawls and Carl Cohen, eco-saboteurs are not civil disobedients because their disobedience is not a form of address and/or does not appeal to the public's sense of justice or human welfare. But this definition also excludes disobedience by a wide range of groups, from labor activists to hunt saboteurs, either because they are obstructionist or because they address moral concerns other than justice or the public we…Read more
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27Frankenfood, or, Fear and Loathing at the Grocery StoreJournal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999): 141-150. 2007.Genetically modified food crops have been called ‘frankenfoods’ since 1992. Although some might dismiss the phenomena as clever marketing by anti-GM groups, of no philosophic interest, its resonance with the general public suggests otherwise. I argue that examination of the intersection of popular conceptions of monsters, nature, and food at which ‘frankenfood’ stands reveals significant and disturbing trends in our relationship to organic nature of interest to moral and social philosophy and to…Read more
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17Xenografting, species loyalty, and human solidarityJournal of Social Philosophy 34 (2). 2003.This article considers the claims (i) that saving human life through organ transplants from other species would be speciesist, (ii) that none the less it can be defended on grounds of loyalty to our species. I reject loyalty to one's species as a plausible extension of the virtue of loyalty, suggesting that solidarity with one's species is possible and may provide adequate grounds of defense of xenografting.
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101Dewey and McDowell on naturalism, values, and second natureJournal of Speculative Philosophy 22 (1). 2008.
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The Development of John Dewey's Moral EpistemologyDissertation, The Johns Hopkins University. 1991.John Dewey began his career as an absolute idealist, holding that the universe is a construct of an absolute mind in which human minds participate; human ideas are true when they reproduce the absolute's ideas; and human conduct is right when it realizes the absolute's goals for human progress. Twenty years later Dewey had abandoned idealism for instrumentalism, asserting that ideas are instruments for the manipulation of human experience and that conduct is right when it generates a satisfactor…Read more
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