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    LEGO® Values
    In William Irwin & Roy T. Cook (eds.), LEGO® and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017.
    Playing with LEGO is naturally educational—it supports free play, imagination, and creativity. LEGO is forward‐thinking—it was one of the first toys to promote gender equality. LEGO advertises itself as a lifestyle choice whose values include being part of a team that educates people, that does the right thing, and that prides itself on its wholesomeness. This image is rather different from the reality of LEGO as a for‐profit company. The Greenpeace video undermines the entire ideology behind th…Read more
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    Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, & Cooperation
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 17 (5): 559-562. 2020.
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    Virtue Ethics and the Concept of Action
    Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76 (1): 61-74. 2020.
    This paper explores some parallels between the concept of action as it is deployed in two theoretical projects: constructing a virtue-ethical account of right action; and explaining human actions in causal terms. Although one project is normative and the other non-normative, I argue that they face essentially the same fundamental challenge: both have a difficult time dealing with the familiar fact that persons have the ability to act out of character. For virtue ethics, this fact threatens to un…Read more
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    Suffering and moral responsibility (review)
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2). 2002.
    Book Information Suffering and Moral Responsibility. Suffering and Moral Responsibility Meyerfeld Jamie New York Oxford University Press ix + 237 Hardback £35 By Meyerfeld Jamie. Oxford University Press. New York. Pp. ix + 237. Hardback:£35.
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    Evolutionary debunking of morality: epistemological or metaphysical?
    Philosophical Studies 173 (2): 417-435. 2016.
    It is widely supposed that evolutionary debunking arguments against morality constitute a type of epistemological objection to our moral beliefs. In particular, the debunking force of such arguments is not supposed to depend on the metaphysical claim that moral facts do not exist. In this paper I argue that this standard epistemological construal of EDAs is highly misleading, if not mistaken. Specifically, I argue that the most widely discussed EDAs all make key and controversial metaphysical cl…Read more
  • Medical Student Narratives For Understanding Disease And Social Order In The Third World
    with Rakesh Biswas, Binod Dhakal, Gaurav Dhakal, and J. Nagra
    Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13 (4): 139-142. 2003.
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    Virtue ethics and right action
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3). 2003.
    In this paper I evaluate some recent virtue-ethical accounts of right action [Hursthouse 1999; Slote 2001; Swanton 2001]. I argue that all are vulnerable to what I call the insularity objection : evaluating action requires attention to worldly consequences external to the agent, whereas virtue ethics is primarily concerned with evaluating an agent's inner states. More specifically, I argue that insofar as these accounts are successful in meeting the insularity objection they invite the circulari…Read more
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    Has Industrialization Benefited No One? Climate Change and the Non-Identity Problem
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (4): 747-759. 2014.
    Within the climate justice debate, the ‘beneficiary pays’ principle holds that those who benefit from greenhouse emissions associated with industrialization ought to pay for the costs of mitigating and adapting to their adverse effects. This principle constitutes a claim of inter-generational justice, and it is widely believed that the non-identity problem raises serious difficulties for any such claim. After briefly sketching the rationale behind ‘beneficiary pays,’ this paper offers a new way …Read more
  • 美德伦理学和正确的行动
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 324-339. 2003.
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    Prerogatives without restrictions?
    Philosophical Studies 99 (3): 347-371. 2000.
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    A ‘companions in guilt’ strategy against moral error theory aims to show that the latter proves too much: if sound, it supports an implausible error-theoretic conclusion in other areas such as epistemic or practical reasoning. Christopher Cowie [2016 Cowie, C. 2016. Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94/1: 115–30.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]] has recently produced what…Read more
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    World Poverty and Human Rights
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 449-451. 2003.
    Book Information World Poverty and Human Rights. World Poverty and Human Rights Thomas Pogge Cambridge Polity Press 2002 vii + 284 Paperback US$28, £18 By Thomas Pogge. Polity Press. Cambridge. Pp. vii + 284. Paperback:US$28, £18