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    Rossian Deontology
    In Michael Hemmingsen (ed.), Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, Suny Press. pp. 255-270. 2024.
    An accessible introduction to the moral philosophy of William David Ross.
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    Recalcitrant Pluralism
    In Brad Hooker (ed.), Developing Deontology, Wiley. 2011.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Moral foundationalism Deontic Reasons Moral reasons and moral motivation Being wronged and reasons to resent Moral reasons and recalcitrant pluralism Expanding the good Family relations The son's motive.
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    Marcel
    In Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.
    Marcel was probably the first modern, French existentialist. Nevertheless, outside of France he is the least well known. His account of human existence is distinctive in that it gives a central place to hope. His account of hope draws on many other notions in his philosophy, such as participation, the “I‐thou” relation, availability, and having, and is hence largely unintelligible unless these concepts are understood. So although we shall come to focus on his account of hope it will be helpful f…Read more
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    Derivative deprivation and the wrong of abortion
    Bioethics 35 (3): 277-283. 2021.
    In his ‘The Identity Objection to the future‐like‐ours argument’ (Bioethics, 2019, 33: 287–293), Brill argues that Marquis's 'future of value' account of the wrong of abortion is still vulnerable to the identity objection—the claim that the foetus and the later person are not numerically identical, so the later person's valuable experiences are not the foetus's future experiences—even if it is conceded that the future organism, as well as the person, has experiences. This is because the organism…Read more
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    Scanlon's contractualism and the redundancy objection
    Analysis 63 (277): 70-76. 2003.
    Ebbhinghaus, H., J. Flum, and W. Thomas. 1984. Mathematical Logic. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag. Forster, T. Typescript. The significance of Yablo’s paradox without self-reference. Available from http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk. Gold, M. 1965. Limiting recursion. Journal of Symbolic Logic 30: 28–47. Karp, C. 1964. Languages with Expressions of Infinite Length. Amsterdam.
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    Scanlon versus Moore on goodness
    In T. Horgan & M. Timmons (eds.), Metaethics after Moore, Oxford University Press. pp. 149-168. 2006.
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    Intuition, Self-Evidence, and Understanding
    Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11. 2016.
    According to ethical intuitionists, basic moral propositions are self-evident. Robert Audi has made significant progress articulating and defending this view, claiming that an adequate understanding of a self-evident proposition justifies rather than compels belief. It is argued here that understanding a proposition cannot justify belief in it, and that intuition, suitably understood, provides the right sort of justification. An alternative account is offered of self-evidence based on intuition …Read more
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    Necessarily Coextensive Predicates and Reduction
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (4): 282-299. 2018.
    _ Source: _Page Count 18 Bart Streumer argues that all normative properties are descriptive properties. His first argument is based on the principle that necessarily coextensive predicates ascribe the same property, and the claim that there is a descriptive predicate that is necessarily coextensive with normative predicates. From this Streumer concludes that normative properties are identical with descriptive properties. I argue that, even if we accept, this conclusion does not follow. Normative…Read more
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    _ Source: _Page Count 18 Bart Streumer argues that all normative properties are descriptive properties. His first argument is based on the principle that necessarily coextensive predicates ascribe the same property, and the claim that there is a descriptive predicate that is necessarily coextensive with normative predicates. From this Streumer concludes that normative properties are identical with descriptive properties. I argue that, even if we accept, this conclusion does not follow. Normative…Read more
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    Recalcitrant Pluralism
    Ratio 24 (4): 364-383. 2011.
    In this paper I argue that the best form of deontology is one understood in terms of prima facie duties. I outline how these duties are to be understood and show how they offer a plausible and elegant connection between the reason why we ought to do certain acts, the normative reasons we have to do these acts, the reason why moral agents will do them, and the reasons certain people have to resent someone who does not do them. I then argue that this form of deontology makes it harder to unify a p…Read more
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    On What We Owe to Each Other (edited book)
    Blackwell. 2004.
    In "On What We Owe to Each Other," five leading moral philosophers assess various aspects of Scanlon's moral theory as laid out in this seminal work.
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    Introduction
    In Philip John Stratton-Lake (ed.), On What We Owe to Each Other, Blackwell. pp. 1-17. 2002.
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    In Defence of the Abstract
    Hegel Bulletin 17 (1): 42-53. 1996.
  • Kant’s Theory of Freedom (review)
    Radical Philosophy 59. 1991.
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    Intuitionism
    In John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. 2010.
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    Ross divides prima facie duties into derivative and foundational ones, but seems to understand the notion of a derivative prima facie duty in two very different ways. Sometimes he understands them in a non-eliminativist way. According to this understanding, basic prima facie duties ground distinct derivative ones. According to the eliminativist understanding, basic duties do not ground distinct derivative duties, but replace them. On the eliminativist view, discovering that a prima facie duty is…Read more
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    Recent work on Kant's ethics
    Philosophical Books 40 (4): 209-218. 1999.
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    Pleasure and Reflection in Ross's Intuitionism
    In Phillip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations, Oxford University Press. pp. 113-36. 2002.
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    Kant and Contemporary Ethics
    Kantian Review 2 1-13. 1998.
    It is difficult to exaggerate the extent to which Kant has influenced contemporary ethics. Whether or not one is sympathetic to his moral theory, one cannot ignore it, or the various ethical theories which draw their inspiration from it. Debates which have centred on Kantian themes include debates about whether moral requirements are categorical imperatives, whether they have an overriding authority, whether the various moral judgements we make can be codified, the role of duty in moral motivati…Read more
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    Formulating Categorical Imperatives
    Kant Studien 84 (3): 317-340. 1993.
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    The Right and the Good (edited book)
    Clarendon Press. 2002.
    The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition with a substantial introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake, a leading expert on Ross. Ross's book is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Intuitionism is now enjoying a considerable revival, and Stratton-Lake provides the context for a proper understa…Read more
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  • L Siep's Praktische Philosophie Im Deutschen Idealismus (review)
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 50-52. 1996.