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11The Highest Moral Knowledge And InternalismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 29 (Supplement): 161-165. 1991.
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1Minimal intuitionIn Michael Raymond DePaul & William M. Ramsey (eds.), Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.
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167Review essay on Jonathan Kvanvig's the value of knowledge and the pursuit of understandingPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2). 2007.
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68A half dozen puzzles regarding intrinsic attitudinal hedonismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3): 629-635. 2002.I’m not sure one even needs to think a state of affairs is true for us to take attitudinal pleasure in it. We surely take pleasure in imagining states of affairs. In such a case, we are well aware that the state of affairs that is the object of our enjoyment does not obtain. What is the proper account of the pleasure we take from imagining? I am fairly sure this is not a type of sensory pleasure. Would it make sense to say that what S is attitudinally pleased by is the state of affairs consistin…Read more
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Pyrrhonian moral skepticism and the problem of the criterionIn Ernest Sosa & Enrique Villanueva (eds.), Metaethics, Wiley Periodicals. 2009.
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14Selected papers in honor of William P. Alston (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2016.William P. Alston was the founding editor of the Philosophy Research Archives and a president of the American Philosophical Association. This special volume was prepared in honor and recognition of Alston's many contributions to philosophy as author, editor, teacher, and mentor. Publication of this volume was made possible by his colleagues and the philosophy department at Syracuse University.
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16Phenomenal Conservatism and Self‐DefeatPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (1): 205-212. 2008.
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127Phenomenal conservatism and self-defeat (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (1): 205-212. 2008.No Abstract
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46Linguistics is Not a Good Model for PhilosophySouthern Journal of Philosophy 38 (S1): 113-120. 2000.
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34Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 731-735. 1993.
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141The Problem of the Criterion and Coherence Methods in EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (1). 1988.One merit claimed for john rawls's coherence method, Wide reflective equilibrium, Is that it transcends the traditional two tiered approach to moral inquiry according to which one must choose as one's starting points either particular moral judgments or general moral principles. The two tiered conception of philosophical method is not limited to ethics. The most detailed exposition of the conception can be found in r m chisholm's various discussions of the problem of the criterion. While chishol…Read more
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Intuitionism, Reliability and Reflective EquilibriumDissertation, Brown University. 1983.I seek to defend coherentist methods of theory construction in normative ethics, specifically J. Rawls' method of reflective equilibrium, on the basis of a naturalistic theory of epistemic justification. The dissertation consists of four chapters. The first chapter is essentially a taxonomic discussion of approaches which might be taken towards the construction of theories of such epistemological notions as justification, knowledge or rational belief and such moral notions as right action or jus…Read more
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29Agent Centeredness, Agent Neutrality, Disagreement, and Truth ConducivenessIn Chris Tucker (ed.), Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 202. 2013.
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1Methodological issues. Reflective equilibriumIn Christian Miller (ed.), Continuum Companion to Ethics, Continuum. 2011.
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26Does an Ugly Analysis Entail that the Target of the Analysis Lacks Value?In Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemic Value, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 112--38. 2009.
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49Do Heuristics Provide a Good Model for Moral Intuition or Moral Perception?Modern Schoolman 86 (3-4): 349-362. 2009.
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7PrefaceIn Michael Raymond DePaul & William M. Ramsey (eds.), Rethinking Intuition: The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.
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38The Rationality of Belief in GodReligious Studies 17 (3). 1981.The major purpose of Hans Kung's SOO-page book entitled Does God Exist? is to show that belief in the Christian God is rationally justifiable. Given the title, purpose and size of the book, I was surprised by many of the things the book does not contain. It gives little attention and offers no solution to the problem of evil; it deals briefly with the traditional proofs for God, devoting at most one page each to the cosmological, teleological, ontological and moral arguments; and it contains no …Read more
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282Intellectual virtue: perspectives from ethics and epistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.The idea of a virtue has traditionally been important in ethics, but only recently has gained attention as an idea that can explain how we ought to form beliefs as well as how we ought to act. Moral philosophers and epistemologists have different approaches to the idea of intellectual virtue; here, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski bring work from both fields together for the first time to address all of the important issues. It will be required reading for anyone working on either side of the …Read more
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17Moral statusesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (4). 1988.This Article does not have an abstract
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68Argument and Perception: The Role of Literature in Moral InquiryJournal of Philosophy 85 (10): 552-565. 1988.
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27The Rationality of Belief in God: MICHAEL R. DEPAULReligious Studies 17 (3): 343-356. 1981.In the introduction to his account of the debate concerning religion between Cleanthes, Philo and Demea, Pamphilus remarks that ‘reasonable men may be allowed to differ where no one can reasonably be positive’. Pamphilus goes on to suggest that natural theology is an area that abounds with issues about which ‘no one can reasonably be positive’. Assuming that the beliefs of reasonable men are themselves reasonable, Pamphilus can be interpreted as holding that If no one is reasonably positive that…Read more
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21Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.The contributions in this volume make an important effort to resurrect a rather old fashioned form of foundationalism. They defend the position that there are some beliefs that are justified, and are not themselves justified by any further beliefs. This epistemic foundationalism has been the subject of rigorous attack by a wide range of theorists in recent years, leading to the impression that foundationalism is a thing of the past. DePaul argues that it is precisely the volume and virulence of …Read more
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102Liberal exclusions and foundationalismEthical Theory and Moral Practice 1 (1): 103-120. 1998.Certain versions of liberalism exclude from public political discussions the reasons some citizens regard as most fundamental, reasons having to do with their deepest religious, philosophical, moral or political views. This liberal exclusion of deep and deeply held reasons from political discussions has been controversial. In this article I will point out a way in which the discussion seems to presuppose a foundationalist conception of human reasoning. This is rather surprising, inasmuch as one …Read more
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