Readings
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Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
Thomas Nagel
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Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed
Krister Bykvist
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The Global Justice Reader
Thom Brooks
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Well-Being and Death
Ben Bradley
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The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoisim
Alison Hills
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Ethics: The Fundamentals
Julia Driver
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Origins of Objectivity
Tyler Burge
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Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation
Michael Strevens
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The Case for Contextualism
Keith DeRose
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When Truth Gives Out
Mark Richard
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The Idea of Human Rights
Charles R. Beitz
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting
Richard Holton
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The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
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Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem
Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman
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What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being
Richard Kraut
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Content and Justification
Paul A. Boghossian
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Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
Stephen Yablo
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Normativity
Judith Jarvis Thomson
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How We Get Along
J. David Velleman
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Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity
Christine M. Korsgaard
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Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
Sergio Tenenbaum
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Principled Ethics: Generalism As a Regulative Ideal
Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge
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Killing in War
Jeff McMahan
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Experimental Philosophy
Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols
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Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought
Michael Thompson
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
David J. Chalmers
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Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
David Wiggins
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Disadvantage
Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit
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Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics
Allan Gibbard
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Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame
T. M. Scanlon
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The Philosophy of Philosophy
Timothy Williamson
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A Virtue Epistemology
Ernest Sosa
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Morality without Foundations
Mark Timmons
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Authority and Estrangement
Richard Moran
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Moral Psychology, Volume 1
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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The Reflective Life
Valerie Tiberius
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Moral Literacy
Barbara Herman
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Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction
Dale Jamieson
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On Human Rights
James Griffin
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Experiments in Ethics
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Reasons without Rationalism
Kieran Setiya
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Moral Realism: A Defence
Russ Shafer-Landau
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The Way We Eat
Peter Singer and Jim Mason
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Metaphysical Essays
John Hawthorne
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Knowledge and Practical Interests
Jason Stanley
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10 Moral Paradoxes
Saul Smilansky
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Normativity and the Will
R. Jay Wallace
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Ethics without Principles
Jonathan Dancy
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Neuroethics
Neil Levy
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Ideal Code, Real World
Brad Hooker
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The Nature of Normativity
Ralph Wedgwood
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Structures of Agency: Essays
Michael E. Bratman
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The Second-Person Standpoint
Stephen Darwall
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Ethics and the A Priori
Michael Smith
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The Practice of Value
Joseph Raz
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Weighing Lives
John Broome
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Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm
F. M. Kamm
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Reasons and the Good
Roger Crisp
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July 19, 2010
Grant Opportunities at the Character Project
By S. Matthew Liao
Professor Christian Miller (Wake Forest) and his colleagues have recently been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.
Christian asked me to let you know that $2 million will soon be devoted to three separate funding competitions, one of which will be for philosophers working on topics related to character broadly conceived, including but not limited to the recent work on the empirical adequacy of character traits.
You can learn more about the project here and the funding competitions here. Do feel free to contact Christian at character (at) wfu.edu for more information.
July 7, 2010
JAP Prize
By S. Matthew Liao
The Journal of Applied Philosophy will henceforward award an annual prize of £1,000 to the best article published in the year’s Volume. The first award will be made in respect of Volume 28 (2011). The judgment as to the best article will be made by the editors of the Journal.
The Journal of Applied Philosophy provides a unique forum for philosophical research which seeks to make a constructive contribution to problems of practical concern. Open to the expression of diverse viewpoints, the journal brings critical analysis to these areas and to the identification, justification and discussion of values of universal appeal. The Journal of Applied Philosophy covers a broad spectrum of issues in environment, medicine, science, policy, law, politics, economics and education.
June 7, 2010
Experiment Month
By S. Matthew Liao
The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested in running a study, you can send your study proposal to the Experiment Month staff. Then, if your proposal is selected for inclusion, they will conduct the study online, send you the results and help out with any statistical analysis you may need. All proposals are due Sept. 1.
For further information, see the Experiment Month website: http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/XM/
May 19, 2010
Memorials for Jerry Cohen in June
By Mike Otsuka
Myles Burnyeat, John Roemer, T. M. Scanlon, and Philippe Van Parijs will be speaking at a memorial for Jerry Cohen on Saturday, June 19, at 2.15 pm, in the Codrington Library of All Souls College, Oxford. There will also be a reception in Jerry’s memory at the UCL Philosophy Department on Thursday, June 17, at 5 pm.
April 20, 2010
Welcome Japa Pallikkathayil!
By S. Matthew Liao
It’s a great pleasure to welcome Professor Japa Pallikkathayil as a Contributor on Ethics Etc. Japa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. Her research focuses on the relationship between moral and political philosophy, and her recent work develops an account of the moral norms governing the use of coercion in interpersonal interactions, and explores the implications of that account for justifying the state’s use of coercion. Japa also has interests in Kant’s political philosophy, the ethics of information, and bioethics, and she has a forthcoming paper in Ethics. Welcome aboard, Japa!
March 23, 2010
Welcome Matthew Silverstein!
By S. Matthew Liao
We are very pleased that Professor Matthew Silverstein has joined us as a Contributor. Matty is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is interested in the foundations of ethics—the question of what, if anything, we can we say on behalf of our most basic ethical commitments? His secondary philosophical interests include the philosophy of action, political philosophy, early modern philosophy, and the history of ethics. He is the author of In Defense of Happiness: A Response to the Experience Machine, published in Social Theory and Practice. Welcome aboard, Matty!
March 14, 2010
Welcome Matthew Smith!
By S. Matthew Liao
It’s a great pleasure to announce that Matthew Smith, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University, has joined us as a Contributor. Matt’s research focuses on moral and political philosophy. He is particularly interested in approaching moral and political questions from the perspective of practical agency embedded in a social world, and has forthcoming and published papers in Philosophers’ Imprint, Noûs, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. Welcome, Matt!
March 9, 2010
Ethics Course Survey
By S. Matthew Liao
Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College, Atlanta) asked me to post the following:
I have created a survey to try to identify which topics are most commonly addressed in introductory ethics courses that have a contemporary moral issues or problems component. If (and only if) you teach a course that focuses on practical issues (with little to no discussion of moral theory) or has a mix of theory and problems (either a unit on theory and then problems or a mix of theory and problems throughout), please fill out this survey below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ethics-course-survey
Results will be posted here:
https://sites.google.com/site/nobisphilosophy/ethics-course-survey
March 6, 2010
Welcome Laura Franklin-Hall!
By S. Matthew Liao
We are very pleased that Professor Laura Franklin-Hall has joined us as a Contributor. Laura is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University, and specializes in the philosophy of biology. She has published numerous articles in Philosophy of Science and also has an active interest in the implications of evolutionary theories for metaethics. Welcome aboard, Laura!
February 22, 2010
Open House for NYU’s Master’s Program in Bioethics
By S. Matthew Liao
Readers may know that I’ve recently taken up an associate professorship in the Center for Bioethics with an affiliation in the philosophy department at NYU. The Center runs a Master’s Program in Bioethics and is holding an open house on
Thursday, March 4, 2010
5:30-7:30 PM
285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor
(Between Waverly and Washington Pl.)
New York, NY 10003
If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Bioethics, this will be a good opportunity to meet with the faculty and students and discuss the range of Program options and career benefits. Food and refreshments will be served.
February 19, 2010
Over 4 Million Hits for Ethics Etc!
By S. Matthew Liao
Readers of this blog might be interested to learn that Ethics Etc has had over 4 million hits (4,141,340 to be exact) with over 2 million pages read (2,334,935 to be exact) since it started in May 2007. Currently, the blog is averaging about 5400 hits per day. Thanks to everyone who has been visiting this blog!
December 8, 2009
Ethics in Philosophical Perspectives
By S. Matthew Liao
The current issue of Philosophical Perspectives is devoted to ethics, and judging from the titles, looks to have quite a number of very interesting papers. Do check them out!
November 29, 2009
Chalmers’ and Bourget’s Philosophical Surveys
By S. Matthew Liao
David Chalmers and David Bourget are conducting a Philosophical Survey on philosophers’ views on philosophical issues, and a Philosophical Metasurvey in which respondents predict the results of the Philosophical Survey. They’ve extended the deadline to Tuesday December 3. Do take the survey if you are interested.
November 29, 2009
Ethics Etc Goes Mobile
By S. Matthew Liao
This weekend I upgraded the engine running Ethics Etc. The site was working fine, but I wanted to take advantage of some features that are better supported by a new engine. A number of these features are security features, so they should be imperceptible. But one feature that might be of interest is that Ethics Etc now has a mobile version, consisting of primarily the posts! This should make accessing and reading Ethics Etc on your iPhone, Blackberry, etc., easier. Owing to the upgrade, there may be some glitches generally. If you do find some, please do let me know. Thanks!
November 26, 2009
Welcome David Owens!
By S. Matthew Liao
We are very pleased that Dr. David Owens has joined us as a Contributor. David is a Reader at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively in metaphysics and epistemology, and more recently, he has turned his attention towards ethics. David has published a number of papers on promissory obligation, published in Mind, Philosophical Review, etc., and he has also written on lying, and on the nature of obligation. Welcome aboard, David!
November 17, 2009
Haslanger’s Survey on Publishing in Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao
Professor Sally Haslanger (MIT) is conducting a survey on publishing in philosophy. All professional philosophers are invited to participate. It should take about 10 minutes. It will be useful to have your CV handy as you complete the survey. You can find the survey here.
If all goes well, Professor Haslanger will to report on the results at the December APA in the symposium on philosophy publishing (Wednesday December 30th, 11:15-1:15).
November 14, 2009
Continuum Ethics book series
By Thom Brooks
Continuum Ethics
A series of books exploring key topics in contemporary ethics and moral philosophy.
Continuum Ethics presents a series of books that will bridge the gap between new research work and undergraduate textbooks. They will provide close examination of key concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Aimed largely at upper-level undergraduates and research students, they will also appeal to researchers in the field. Authors will be expected to combine philosophical sophistication with an accessible style that can engage the educated reader.
November 14, 2009
Global Justice and Human Rights book series
By Thom Brooks
Announcing two new book series with Edinburgh University Press:
STUDIES IN GLOBAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Series Editor: Thom Brooks
“Global justice and human rights” is perhaps the hottest topic today. Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights is a new book series published by Edinburgh University Press. The series aims to publish groundbreaking work in this increasingly popular field. This series will publish leading monographs and edited collections on key topics in the area of global justice and human rights that will be of broad interest to theorists working in politics, international relations, philosophy, and related disciplines.
August 27, 2009
The Experimental Philosophy Page
By S. Matthew Liao
Readers might be interested in the Experimental Philosophy Page, which has over 100 papers covering causation, consciousness, folk psychology, intentional action, metaphilosophy and other areas of research, and which looks to be a very helpful resource. All entries have citations and links, and many also have excerpts or abstracts and links to the authors’ academic web page.
The site is set up such that anyone can edit and update the page, e.g., by adding a paper that isn’t yet included. In fact, the site will only continue to be useful if a decent number of people chip in and add to/update it. So if you have done research in this area, do chime in.
August 4, 2009
Welcome Melinda Roberts!
By S. Matthew Liao
A very warm welcome to Professor Melinda Roberts, who joins us as a Contributor. Melinda is a professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey. Her main research areas include obligations in respect of future persons, the nonidentity problem, procreative ethics, law and ethics and consequentialism. She is also interested in expected value and such issues as the two-envelope problem. Melinda is currently completing a manuscript called Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons: Finding Middle Ground in “Hard Cases.” Welcome aboard, Melinda!
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