Cambridge University
Faculty of Philosophy
PhD, 1984
Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics
20th Century Philosophy
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    Student Relativism
    Teaching Philosophy 9 (3): 193-205. 1986.
    In this paper I offer an analysis of, and suggest some methods for dealing with, a quite particular and peculiar problem in teaching philosophy. It is, perhaps,not a problem essential to the discipline or to its teaching, but it is nevertheless one of the most serious, pervasive, and frustrating problems confronting mostphilosophy teachers today. I speak of the problem of student relativism-or, SR for short.
  • Rush Rhees, Moral Questions (review)
    Philosophy in Review 20 374-375. 2000.
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    For the Good of Mankind
    Teaching Ethics 3 (2): 89-91. 2003.
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    Social Practices (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 52 (1): 174-175. 1998.
    Schatzki’s Wittgensteinian approach is one that takes its inspiration from a reading of Wittgenstein, not one that stays close to Wittgenstein’s words and writings. Schatzki quotes Wittgenstein from the preface to the Philosophical Investigations: “I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own”. Schatzki is one who is stimulated by Wittgenstein to thoughts of his own, mainly concerning practice theory, es…Read more
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    Ethical emotivism
    Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1987.
    I THE THEORY OF VALUE AND THE RISE OF ETHICAL EMOTIVISM i. The standard account Historical accounts of recent moral philosophy present the subject as going ...
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    Received opinion and utilitarianism
    Journal of Value Inquiry 35 (1): 13-25. 2001.
  • FH Low-Beer, Questions of Judgment: Determining What's Right Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 16 (2): 114-115. 1996.
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    Rush Rhees, Moral Questions Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 20 (5): 374-375. 2000.
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    Wittgenstein's Lectures on Religious Belief
    Philosophical Investigations 37 (1): 18-36. 2013.
    In this article, I want to do two things. The first is to conduct a sympathetic yet critical review of some of the salient features of the ideas in the notes that have come to us from Wittgenstein's Lectures on Religious Belief. This requires close reading, analysis and critique. The second, which comes out of the first, is to give some indication of Wittgenstein's failure to apply to his thinking about religious and moral matters some of the insights that he had already achieved as his philosop…Read more
  • F.H. Low-beer, Questions Of Judgment: Determining What's Right (review)
    Philosophy in Review 16 114-115. 1996.