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| Author | Title | Category | Date |
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| Alexis Burgess | Coping with Contradiction: A Case Study in Conceptual Ethics The last ten years witnessed a revival of Tarski's stillborn thought that the semantic paradoxes point up some defect in our ordinary semantic notions. The present article probes the under-theorized "practical" consequences of accepting some such inconsistency theory. Should we revise our concept of truth in light of its shortcomings, or can we legitimately continue to use it with its standing content? Presumably there are no categorical imperatives here; the answer may well depend on our ... |
Manuscript | 3/29/12 |
| Alexis Burgess | Notice of Saul Kripke, edited by Alan Berger forthcoming in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |
Publication | 3/29/12 |
| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain | A Problem for Ambitious Metanormative Constructivism Corrected Proof Forthcoming in Constructivism in Practical Philosophy, edited by J. Lenman and Y. Shemmer, 180-194. Oxford: Oxford University Press. We can distinguish between ambitious metanormative constructivism and a variety of other constructivist projects in ethics and metaethics. Ambitious metanormative constructivism is the project of either developing a type of new metanormative theory, worthy of the label “constructivism”, that is distinct from the existing types of metaethical, or... |
Manuscript | 3/29/12 |
| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain | Metaethics and Its Discontents: A Case Study of Kosgaard Co-authored with Nishi Shah. Version 2.7 To appear in Moral Constructivism: For and Against, edited by Carla Bagnoli. Cambridge University Press. The maturing of metaethics has been accompanied by widespread, but relatively unarticulated, discontent that mainstream metaethics is fundamentally on the wrong track. The malcontents we have in mind do not simply champion a competitor to the likes of noncognitivism or realism; they disapprove of the supposed presuppositions of the existing debate. Their aim is not to... |
Manuscript | 3/29/12 |
| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain | Metaethics and Nihilism in Reginster's The Affirmation of Life Proof Forthcoming in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43, no. 1. It is not a simple matter to determine either what Nietzsche means by ‘nihilism’ or what he thinks we should do about it. To start with, there seem to be many different nihilisms discussed in different places in Nietzsche’s writings. Furthermore, though he seems at times to accept positions we might be inclined to think of as nihilistic, he also presents himself as showing us, or at least some of us, a path beyond nihilism. ... |
Manuscript | 3/16/12 |
| Nadeem J. Z. Hussain | Nietzsche and Non-Cognitivism Copy-edited version Forthcoming in Nietzsche, Naturalism & Normativity, edited by Simon Robertson and Christopher Janaway. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Though Nietzsche traditionally often used to be interpreted as a nihilist, a range of possible metaethical interpretations, including varieties of realism, subjectivism and fictionalism, have emerged in the secondary literature. Recently the possibility that Nietzsche is a non-cognitivist has been broached. If one sees Hume as a central non-cognitivist figure,... |
Manuscript | 2/9/12 |
| Anna-Sara Malmgren | Review of "Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology" by Sanford C. Goldberg, OUP. Forthcoming in Mind. |
Publication | 2/9/12 |
| Allen Wood | Kant on Practical Reason Here I attempt to explicate the account of practical reason presented by Kant in the Groundwork, and to relate it critically to some contemporary conceptions of practical reason. |
None | 1/24/12 |
| Allen Wood | Humanity as End In Itself: Comments on Derek Parfit, On What Matters, Volume 1 Includes a critique of the use of 'trolley problems' in moral philosophy. |
None | 1/22/12 |
| Allen Wood | Kant and Agent-Oriented Ethics A critical discussion of virtue ethics and the relation of Kant's moral philosophy to it |
None | 1/22/12 |