University of Pittsburgh
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1972
CV
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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    Reparations for American Chattel Slavery
    The Philosopher 111. 2023.
    An analysis of the case for reparations for American chattel slavery.
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    Deontology (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.
    _ Deontology_ brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on ethics, presenting canonical essays on core questions in moral philosophy. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory. With a helpful introduction by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in deontological moral theory. Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources. Includes classic excerpts by key figures such Kant, Richard Price and W…Read more
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    The Wages of Contempt
    Emotion Review 15 (3): 168-177. 2023.
    This article analyzes the wages (costs) of contempt. It argues that the social and political division and dysfunction caused by contempt and imagined content undermines political discussion and creates terrible costs for contemned and contemner in the burdens of shame and guilt they must bear.
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    Theories of Ethics
    In R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Blackwell. 2005.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Case Ethics Normative Ethical Theory Meta‐ethics Contractarianism/Contractualism Consequentialism Deontology Virtue Theory.
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    Ought, Reasons, and Morality
    Journal of Philosophy 86 (4): 208-214. 1989.
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    On Margaret Gilbert's Rights and Demands
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 106 (2): 499-504. 2023.
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    The Moral Problem
    Philosophical Quarterly 46 (185): 508-515. 1996.
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    Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-1981) was a Danish philosopher and theologian of profound significance who deserves to be much better known among anglophone philosoph.
  • But it would be wrong"
    In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Moral obligation, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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    Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant
    Cambridge University Press. 2023.
    A panoramic book by a leading moral philosopher with significant things to say about developments in modern moral philosophy.
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    Hutcheson in the History of Rights
    Journal of Scottish Philosophy 20 (2): 85-101. 2022.
    Francis Hutcheson's An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, published in 1725, arguably contains the first broadly utilitarian theory of rights ever formulated. In this essay, I argue that, despite its subtlety, there are crucial lacunae in Hutcheson's theory. One of the most important, which Mill seeks to repair, is that his theory of rights lacks a conceptually necessary companion, namely, a corollary account of obligation. Hutcheson has no theory of fully deontic oblig…Read more
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    Introduction
    Law and Philosophy 14. 1995.
    Peer Reviewed.
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    Recognition, second‐personal authority, and nonideal theory
    European Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 562-574. 2021.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 562-574, September 2021.
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    Reply to Honneth
    European Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 592-596. 2021.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 592-596, September 2021.
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    PLACE: PRESENCE AS SECOND-PERSONAL SPACE
    Journal of Ethical Reflections 1 (4): 7-16. 2021.
    The concept of place is ultimately a matter of ethical significance—of where something fits in a nexus or structure of meaning. Often this meaning is quite personal, involving a sense of presence we associate with a place. This essay investigates this connection through a study of Wordsworth’s poem, “Tintern Abbey.” It argues that the notion of a presence-infused place is ultimately that of a second-personal space. Presence is a matter of second-personal openness. Therefore, when presence i…Read more
  • Moral Obligation and Accountability
    In Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Ii, Clarendon Press. 2007.
  • Having Reasons (review)
    Philosophical Review 97 (1): 111-114. 1988.
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    Smith über die Gleichheit der Würde und den Standpunkt der 2. Person
    In Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. pp. 178-189. 2005.
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    From Morality to Virtue and Back?
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 695-701. 1994.
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    An adequate moral psychology of obligation must bear in mind that although the “sense of obligation” is psychological, what it is a sense of, moral obligation itself, is not. It is irreducibly normative. I argue, therefore, that the “we” whose demands the sense of obligation presupposes must be an ideal rather than an actual “we.”
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    Harm to Others
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (4): 691-694. 1987.
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    Morality, Authority, and Law
    Oxford University Press UK. 2013.
    Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the Second-Person Standpoint --an argument which advances an analysis of central moral concepts as irreducibly second personal in the sense of entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He illustrates the power of the second-personal framework to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Section I concerns morality: for example, its distinctiveness among normative concepts, th…Read more
  • How should ethics relate to (the rest of ) philosophy?
    In Terry Horgan & Mark Timmons (eds.), Metaethics After Moore, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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    III-Moral Obligation: Form and Substance
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1): 31-46. 2010.
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    “Second-personal morality” and morality
    Philosophical Psychology 31 (5): 804-816. 2018.