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13Is Aristotle’s Prime Mover an Efficient Cause by Touching Without Being Touched?In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr, Springer Verlag. pp. 195-211. 2024.For two and a half millennia readers of Aristotle have been struggling to understand just what sort of causation is being attributed to the Prime Unmoved Mover or PM, whether final or efficient, assuming that this supreme being could not be a material cause or even a formal cause of the entire cosmos. Fred Miller entered into this still ongoing debate with a fresh proposal, drawing on an almost incidental remark in GC 1.6.323a25-33 that was later picked up by Philoponus in his commentary on Aris…Read more
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264Moral Realism and the Search for Ideological Truth: A Philosophical-Psychological CollaborationIn Robin Celikates, Sally Haslanger & Jason Stanley (eds.), Analyzing Ideology, Oxford University Press. 2023.Scholars of ideology in social-scientific disciplines, including psychology, sociology, and political science, stand to benefit from taking seriously the philosophical contributions of Professor Peter Railton. This is because Railton provides much-needed conceptual precision—and a rare sense of epistemological and moral clarity—to a topic that is notoriously slippery and prone to relativistic musing and the drawing of false equivalences. In an essay entitled “Morality, Ideology, and Reflection: …Read more
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Theos, Theôria, and Therapeia in Aristotle's Ethical EndingsIn Pierre Destrée & Marco Antônio Zingano (eds.), Theoria: Studies on the Status and Meaning of Contemplation in Aristotle's Ethics, Peeters Press. 2014.
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37The eudemian ethics - Kenny Aristotle: The eudemian ethics. Pp. xxxviii + 195. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2011. Paper, £8.99, us$14.95. Isbn: 978-0-19-958643-1 (review)The Classical Review 64 (1): 73-75. 2014.
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11Rethinking Virtue Ethics, written by Michael WinterJournal of Moral Philosophy 14 (3): 368-371. 2017.
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15The Arguments “from the Sciences” in Aristotle’s Peri Ideon (review)Ancient Philosophy 10 (2): 312-316. 1990.
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25The Arguments “from the Sciences” in Aristotle’s Peri Ideon (review)Ancient Philosophy 10 (2): 312-316. 1990.
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9Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy (review)Environmental Ethics 3 (2): 181-185. 1981.
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16Owen and the ‘Single‐Science’ Argument in the Eudemian EthicsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (2): 207-218. 2001.
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7Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these …Read more
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96Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.In western philosophy today, the three leading approaches to normative ethics are those of Kantian ethics, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. In recent years the debate between Kantian ethicists and virtue ethicists has assumed an especially prominent position. The twelve newly commissioned essays in this volume, by leading scholars in both traditions, explore key aspects of each approach as related to the debate, and identify new common ground but also real and lasting differences between these …Read more
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43Virtue ethics and the social psychology of character: Philosophical lessons from the person-situation debateJournal of Research in Personality 43 253-254. 2009.
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34Ethics, Free Enterprise, and Public Policy (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (2): 445-446. 1982.This collection of 18 papers, most of which were originally presented at a 1976 University of Kansas Symposium, is intended to meet the growing demand for "serious analysis" of a host of "micro-moral" issues, such as corporate bribes to foreign officials, abuses in advertising, conflicts of interest, etc., as well as the "macro-moral" issue of the compatibility of "free enterprise" and "social justice." Six of the 19 authors teach philosophy and they are joined by academic colleagues in business…Read more
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24Owen and the ‘Single-Science’ Argument in the Eudemian EthicsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (2): 207-218. 2001.
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