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28Tom 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, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Editor's Prologue Rousseau's Philosophy of Transformative, “Denaturing” Education Dewey.
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44Self-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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16Social 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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10Chapter 2 Dewey's Early IdealismIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 44-62. 1995.
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11A Note on AbbreviationsIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. 1995.From Dewey's Ethical Thought
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15Chapter 5 Years of Transition, 1894-1903In Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 119-146. 1995.
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15Chapter 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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9Chapter 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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20Chapter 7 Toward a Pragmatic CommunitarianismIn Dewey's ethical thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 182-218. 1995.
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42Aesthetics 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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44Dewey'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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20From Absolute Idealism to Instrumentalism: The Problem of Dewey's Early PhilosophyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 25 (4). 1989.
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22‘Attack of the Hybrid Swarm?’Ethics, Policy and Environment 18 (3): 252-255. 2015.Rohwer and Marris’s exploration of grounds for a prima facie duty to preserve the genetic integrity of wild species makes two important contributions to the environmental ethics literature. While n...
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5Social Freedom: The Responsibility ViewKristján Kristjánsson New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xi + 221 pp., $49.95 (review)Dialogue 37 (4): 858-860. 1998.
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1Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking, Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (review)Philosophy in Review 24 217-219. 2004.
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