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    The Reasons of Love
    Philosophia Christi 8 (1): 190-194. 2006.
  •  3
    The Reasons of Love (review)
    Philosophia Christi 8 (1): 190-194. 2006.
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    In a Fitter Direction: Moving Beyond the Direction of Fit Picture of Belief and Desire
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11 (5): 563-571. 2008.
    Those working within the tradition of Humean psychology tend to mark a clear distinction between beliefs and desires. One prominent way of elucidating this distinction is to describe them as having different “directions of fit” with respect to the world. After first giving a brief overview of the various attempts to carry out this strategy along with their flaws, I argue that the direction of fit metaphor is misleading and ought to be abandoned. It fails to take into account the actual complexit…Read more
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    Euthyphro, the Good, and the Right
    Philosophia Christi 11 (1): 149-159. 2009.
    The Euthyphro dilemma is widely deployed as an argument against theistic accounts of ethics. The argument proceeds by trying to derive strongly counterintuitive implications from the view that God is the source of morality. I argue here that a general crudeness with which both the dilemma and its theistic targets are described accounts for the seeming force of the argument. Proper attention to details, among them the distinction between the good and the right, reveals that a nuanced theism is qu…Read more
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    Aristotle’s Aesthetic Ethics
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 (2): 319-339. 2006.
    It is sometimes asked whether virtue ethics can be assimilated by Kantianism or utilitarianism, or if it is a distinct position. A look atAristotle’s ethics shows that it certanly can be distinct. In particular, Aristotle presents us with an ethics of aesthetics in contrast to themore standard ethics of cognition: A virtuous agent identifies the right actions by their aesthetic qualities. Moreover, the agent’s concernwith her own aesthetic character gives us a key to the important role the emoti…Read more