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The Nomic Role Account of Carving Reality at the Joints
(Springer Verlag, 1998)
Natural properties are those that carve reality at the joints. The notion of carving reality at the joints, however, is somewhat obscure. It is sometimes understood in terms of making for similarity, sometimes in terms of ...
The Vicissitudes of Common-Sense Virtue Ethics, Part II: The Heuristic Use of Common Sense
(Kluwer, 1998)
In the first part of this study, I compared the ways in which Aristotle and Michael Slote utilize common sense, meaning the opinions and intuitions of the majority of people or some reference group among them. Both ...
Deflationism and the Normativity of Truth
(1998)
Deflationist theories of truth, some critics have argued, fail to account for the normativity of truth. This is one of the more promising, if also more elusive, objections to deflationism. Here I will consider and answer ...
Left-Libertarian Theories of Justice
(Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1999)
Libertarian theories of justice hold that agents, at least initially, own themselves fully, and thus owe no service to others, except through voluntary action. The most familiar libertarian theories (e.g., Nozick [1974]) ...
The Vicissitudes of Common-Sense Virtue Ethics, Part I: From Aristotle to Slote
(Kluwer, 1998)
In a treatise on methods of applied ethics, Abraham Edel, Elizabeth Flower, and Finbarr O'Connor distinguish between three traditional families of terms, “the family of right and wrong, duty and moral law, rights and ...
Critical Notice of G.A. Cohen's Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality.
(University of Calgary Press, 1998)
G.A. Cohen's book brings together and elaborates on articles that he has written on self-ownership, on Marx's theory of exploitation, and on the future of socialism. Although seven of the eleven chapters have been previously ...
Response-Dependence, Rigidification, and Objectivity
(Springer Verlag, 1996)
A response-dependent account of a given attribute, such as redness or wrongness, identifies the attribute with the disposition to produce specified sorts of response in specified sorts of being under specified conditions. ...
Infinite Utility and Temporal Neutrality
(Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Suppose that time is infinitely long towards the future, and that each feasible action produces a finite amount of utility at each time. Then, under appropriate conditions, each action produces an infinite amount of ...