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1Conviction and open-mindedness: a lesson on political revision from Adam SmithIn Emily Crookston, David Killoren & Jonathan Trerise (eds.), Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents, Routledge. 2016.
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195Hume's and Smith's Partial Sympathies and Impartial StancesJournal of Scottish Philosophy 5 (2): 135-158. 2007.The moral psychology of sympathy is the linchpin of the sentimentalist moral theories of both David Hume and Adam Smith. In this paper, I attempt to diagnose the critical differences between Hume's and Smith's respective accounts of sympathy in order to argue that Smithian sympathy is more properly suited to serve as a basis for impartial moral evaluations and judgments than is Humean sympathy. By way of arguing this claim, I take up the problem of overcoming sympathetic partiality in the constr…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |