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42A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and ArtPhilosophical Review 134 (2): 209-212. 2025.A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art is an expert and deeply interesting exploration of the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s theory of beauty. Shaftesbury was an impressive figure, highly influential in his day, though eclipsed by later writers such as David Hume. Gill has done an excellent job of drawing out Shaftesbury’s views—looking not only at his publications but also at other manuscript materials such as Shaftesbury’s correspondence and diaries. I found Gill’s book in…Read more
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8Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of fifty-two readings on ethical theory and contemporary moral issues. He has carefully edited all the articles to ensure that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts--Challenges to Morality, Moral Theories, and Moral Problems--providing instructors w…Read more
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2Love, morality, and alienationIn Christopher Grau & Aaron Smuts (eds.), "Introduction" for the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love, Oxford University Press. 2024.
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47Comments on Emotion and Virtue by Gopal SreenivasanAnalytic Philosophy. forthcoming.This essay provides a critical discussion of Gopal Sreenivasan's integral account of virtue in his book Emotion and Virtue. This discussion focuses on his account of the paradigm virtue of compassion, arguing that the view does not have most of the advantages Sreenivasan suggests it has when compared to competing models of virtue.
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67Manuscript Referees for The Journal of Ethics Volume 9: September 2004–June 2005The Journal of Ethics 9 (3): 581. 2005.
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1Love, morality, and alienationIn Christopher Grau & Aaron Smuts (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love. 2024.
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88Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory (review)Utilitas 9 (3): 366-367. 1997.This volume of essays in honour of Philippa Foot constitutes a high quality Festschrift. There is no doubt that Philippa Foot's career is worthy of such a volume. She is one of the most influential philosophers of the past few decades and her work has given rise to, and seeded, much debate in contemporary moral philosophy. She has written on a wide variety of topics — virtue ethics, the doctrine of double effect, naturalism, and practical reasoning. The essays in this volume touch on all of thes…Read more
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336Review: On Virtue EthicsPhilosophical Review 111 (1): 122. 2002.Rosalind Hursthouse has written an excellent book, in which she develops a neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics that she sees as avoiding some of the major criticisms leveled against virtue ethics in general, and against Aristotle's brand of virtue ethics in particular.
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112Understanding blamePhilosophical Studies 181 (4): 921-927. 2024.Elinor Mason has provided an account of blame and blameworthiness that is pluralistic. There are, broadly speaking, three ways in which we aptly blame -- and ordinary sense, directed at those with poor quality of the will, and then a detached sense and an extended sense, in which blame is aptly directed towards those without poor quality of the will as it is normally understood. In this essay I explore and critically discuss Mason's account. While I argue that she has identified interesting aspe…Read more
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31Book reviews (review)The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
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27Book reviews (review)The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
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Imaginative resistance and psychological necessityIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Objectivism, subjectivism, and relativism in ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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Ch. 25. Normative ethical theory in the twentieth centuryIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Meta-cognition, mind-reading, and Humean moral agencyIn Justin D'Arms Daniel Jacobson (ed.), Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Essays on the New Science of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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2Moral Bookkeeping, Consequentialism, and Carbon OffsetsIn Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea & Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and environmental ethics, Routledge. pp. 164-173. 2013.
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Global utilitarianismIn Ben Eggleston & Dale E. Miller (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 166--176. 2014.
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1The ‘Consequentialism’ in ‘Epistemic Consequentialism’In Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij & Jeff Dunn (eds.), Epistemic Consequentialism, Oxford University Press. pp. 113-22. 2018.
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203Love and Unselfing in Iris MurdochRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 87 169-180. 2020.Iris Murdoch believes that unselfing is required for virtue, as it takes us out of our egoistic preoccupations, and connects us to the Good in the world. Love is a form of unselfing, illustrating how close attention to another, and the way they really are, again, takes us out of a narrow focus on the self. Though this view of love runs counter to a view that those in love often overlook flaws in their loved ones, or at least down-play them, I argue that it is compatible with Murdoch's view that …Read more
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129How are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self-InterestPhilosophical Review 106 (1): 125. 1997.Peter Singer is well known as an ethicist who has contributed much to current debates in ethics and public policy. He has published on topics ranging from vegetarianism to famine relief to bioethics, always with something interesting to say, and often with something provocative as well. How Are We to Live? adds to Singer’s work in the area of applied, or practical, ethics. This book is not as deeply challenging as some of Singer’s earlier work. However, it is not intended for an audience compose…Read more
Julia Driver
University of Texas at Austin
University of St. Andrews
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University of St. AndrewsCEPPAResearcher
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |