Julia Driver

University of Texas at Austin
University of St. Andrews
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Philosophy
PhD
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Areas of Interest
Value Theory
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    A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art
    Philosophical 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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    Exploring 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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    Comments on Emotion and Virtue by Gopal Sreenivasan
    Analytic 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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    Manuscript Referees for The Journal of Ethics Volume 9: September 2004–June 2005
    with Justin D’Arms, Anthony Ellis, Francisco Gonzales, George W. Harris, Aleksandar Jokic, Leonard Kahn, Phillip Montague, G. Di Muzio, and Gerald Press
    The Journal of Ethics 9 (3): 581. 2005.
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    From the Editors
    Ethics 134 (1): 1-3. 2023.
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    Virtues 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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    Review: On Virtue Ethics
    Philosophical 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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    The Logic of Real Arguments (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 12 (2): 182-184. 1989.
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    Principles of Reasoning (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 14 (1): 75-76. 1991.
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    Morality, Philosophy, and Practice (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 12 (3): 283-285. 1989.
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    Understanding blame
    Philosophical 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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    From the Editors
    Ethics 131 (1): 1-3. 2020.
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    From the Editors
    Ethics 132 (1): 1-3. 2021.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Steven M. DeLue, Karl W. Schweizer, Margaret J. Osler, Michael Allen Fox, Donald Rutherford, Philip Lawrence, David Olster, Pete Wilcox, Kristian Gerner, Tracey Rowland, Deborah L. Madsen, Karl Newton, Hubert C. Johnson, Dieter A. Binder, Cheng‐Chung Lai, L. M. Stallbaumer, Richard A. Lebrun, Scott McCracken, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Graham Richards, Eckehart Stöve, Paola S. Timiras, Steven Nadler, Angela Elliott, Maryse Bray, William H. Sherman, E. J. Hundert, Anthony Pym, Paul E. Corcoran, Hironori Ito, Mark Charles Fissel, Helen Pringle, Bob Scribner, Elfrieda Dubois, Janine Maltz, Harold Stone, David J. Hall, David A. Warner, John Morrow, Elliott Levine, D. R. Hainsworth, Mark Walker, Richard S. Findler, Edna Hindie Lemay, Jane T. Burton, Fred S. Michael, Emily Michael, Michael Freeman, Pamela J. Clements, Steven Z. Levine, Claire Le Brun, Nancy Hudson‐Rodd, Paul Lawrence Farber, Anton van der Lem, W. W. Speck, John Christian Laursen, Anna Makolkin, John Hope Mason, and B.
    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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    Book reviews (review)
    with David Boucher, John Hope Mason, Anna Makolkin, John Christian Laursen, W. W. Speck, Anton van der Lem, Paul Lawrence Farber, Nancy Hudson‐Rodd, Claire Le Brun, Steven Z. Levine, Pamela J. Clements, Michael Freeman, Emily Michael, Fred S. Michael, Jane T. Burton, Edna Hindie Lemay, Richard S. Findler, Mark Walker, D. R. Hainsworth, Elliott Levine, John Morrow, David A. Warner, David J. Hall, Harold Stone, Janine Maltz, Elfrieda Dubois, Bob Scribner, Helen Pringle, Mark Charles Fissel, Hironori Ito, Paul E. Corcoran, Anthony Pym, E. J. Hundert, William H. Sherman, Maryse Bray, Angela Elliott, Steven Nadler, Paola S. Timiras, Eckehart Stöve, Graham Richards, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Tracey Rowland, Scott McCracken, Richard A. Lebrun, L. M. Stallbaumer, Cheng‐Chung Lai, Dieter A. Binder, Hubert C. Johnson, Karl Newton, Deborah L. Madsen, Kristian Gerner, Pete Wilcox, David Olster, Philip Lawrence, Donald Rutherford, Michael Allen Fox, Margaret J. Osler, Karl W. Schweizer, and DeL
    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
  • Imaginative resistance and psychological necessity
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Objectivism, subjectivism, and relativism in ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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    From the Editors
    Ethics 133 (1): 1-4. 2022.
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    Moral Bookkeeping, Consequentialism, and Carbon Offsets
    In Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea & Leonard Kahn (eds.), Consequentialism and environmental ethics, Routledge. pp. 164-173. 2013.
  • Global utilitarianism
    In Ben Eggleston & Dale E. Miller (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 166--176. 2014.
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    Expertise and Evaluation
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 102 (1): 220-226. 2021.
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    The ‘Consequentialism’ in ‘Epistemic Consequentialism’
    In Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij & Jeff Dunn (eds.), Epistemic Consequentialism, Oxford University Press. pp. 113-22. 2018.
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    Love and Unselfing in Iris Murdoch
    Royal 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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    Editorial: The Review Process
    Ethics 130 (1): 1-4. 2019.
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    How are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
    Philosophical 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
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    From Morality to Virtue
    Noûs 28 (4): 505. 1994.
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    The Metaphysics of Beauty
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (4): 535-536. 2002.