- Exemplarist Moral Theory: Recent Developments and Replies to Objections
- The Composition of Risk
- Will the Real Closeness Problem Please Stand Up?
- Correction: Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: A Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics
- Contractualist Justifiability and Principles for the General Regulation of Behavior
- Two Guises of the Good in Anscombe
- The Positional Nature of Valuing
- Ethical Taboo in Humorous Play
- Nonhuman Animals and the Scope of Justice
- Why it’s Fine to Offset one’s Carbon Emissions by Paying Others to Pollute Less: A Deontological Account of Risk Imposition
- The Normativity of Rationality: An Imperfect Duty to Be Coherent
- The Guise of the Good: Book Précis
- Stoic Versions of the Guise of the Good
- Comments On: Orsi, Francesco. The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History. New York and London: Routledge, 2023. Chapters 4 and 5
- Nurturing Multidimensional Autonomy: A Confucian-Feminist Approach to Care
- When Moral Pleasure Conflicts with Moral Sorrow
- Relational Egalitarianism and Aesthetic Equality
- Expectable Outcome Deontology – A New Theory of Life’s Meaning
- Matt Lutz and Spencer Case, Is Morality Real? A Debate. New York: Routledge. 260pp. ISBN: 978-1032023878. US $34.95 (Pbk)
- Doxastic Wronging, Disrespectful Belief, & The Moral Over-Demandingness Objection
- Two Varieties of Evil
- Vallier, Kevin. All the Kingdoms of the World: on Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism. New York: Oxford UP 2023. Pp. x, 320. 978-0197611371
- Taking Morality Directly
- The Question of the Existence of Moral Reasons and Two Kinds of Scepticisms
- Review of Amy Olberding: The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 198pp., 9780190880965, US $40.99 (Hb)
- Merit for Political Power: The Normative Basis
- Life, the Universe, and Connectedness
- Gary Chartier, Understanding Friendship: On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022. 246 pages. 978-1-5064-7908-8. US $39.00 (Hb)
- On the Correlation Between Moral Belief and Motivation
- Wisdom, Action, and Knowledge
- Does “Better Than” Have a Common Scale?
- Arguing About Moral Causation
- Natalism, Natality, and the Climate Crisis: An Arendtian Argument against ‘Green’ Anti-Natalism
- An Excellence-Based View of Virtuous Motivation
- Moral Obligations in Conditions of Partial Compliance
- The Muddled Moral Mind
- Honesty and the Truth: Against Subjectivism About Honesty
- The Revival of Virtue Ethics: Critical Remarks on a Commonplace Narrative
- Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust
- Michael Huemer and Daniel Layman, Is Political Authority an Illusion: A Debate. New York: Routledge. 207pp. ISBN: 978-0367347451. US $34.95 (Pbk)
- Neoptolemus and Huck Finn Reconsidered. Alleged Inverse akrasia and the Case for Moral Incapacity
- Derk Pereboom, Wrongdoing & the Human Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. 224pp. ISBN: 978-0198903789. US $25.00 (Pbk)
- Pushed for Being Better: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Nudging
- Non-Normative Behavior and the Virtue of Rebelliousness
- Parental Responsibility and Our Special Relationship with Animal Companions
- Death, Badness, and Well-Being at a Time
- Meaning in Life as the Comprehensive Value. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Morality
- Insult and Injustice in Epistemic Partiality
- Empathy, Motivating Reasons, and Morally Worthy Action
- The Good Life and the Life That’s Good for You: A Response to the Experience Machine
- Just Economy. Rescuing the Camping Trip
- The Authority and Content of Morality: A Dilemma for Constitutivism and a Coherentist Approach to Normativity
- Risky Transplants and Partial Cures: Against the Objectivist View of Moral Obligation
- Enfranchising refugees in a non-ideal world
- Moral Monsters, Significance, and Meaning in Life
- Merit Transference and the Paradox of Merit Inflation
- Collis Tahzib, A Perfectionist Theory of Justice
- The Indispensability Argument for the Doing/Allowing Asymmetry
- Does Dyadic Gratitude Make Sense? The Lived Experience and Conceptual Delineation of Gratitude in Absence of a Benefactor
- Rights and Practical Reasoning: A Practical View on the Specificationism vs Generalism Debate
- Taking Embodiment Seriously in Ethics and Political Philosophy
- Person-Creating and Filial Piety
- Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues Edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer
- Hans Maes and Katrien Schaubroeck (eds.) Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration. London: Routledge, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-367-20438-9, £130 (hbk); 978-0-367-20439-6, £34.99 (pbk), £35.99 (ebk)
- Absolute Goodness Defended
- The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle
- Is Biocentrism Dead? Two Live Problems for Life-Centered Ethics
- Work Relationships and Autonomy
- On the Adequacy of Action Guidance in Virtue Ethics
- Benatar and Metz on Cosmic Meaning and Anti-natalism
- The Axiology of Pain and Pleasure
- Benevolence Toward Efforts
- Anthropocentrism and Loving Nature
- Wholesale moral error for naturalists
- Not Justice: Prison as a Moral Failure
- Morality Fiction and Ethical Escapism
- The Invention and Re-invention of Meta-ethics
- How to Derive Norms from Generics: A Gap in Neo-Aristotelian Metaethics
- Epiphanies and Moral Creativity
- Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander
- Soft Libertarianism and Quantum Randomizers
- Group Gratitude: A Taxonomy
- Innocentism: Preferring the Innocent Over the Culpable
- An Argument Against Treating Non-Human Animal Bodies as Commodities
- Having a Sense of Humor as a Virtue
- Reconciling the Deprivation Account with the Final Badness of Death
- What is the Role of Partial Compliance in Moral Theory?
- Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense
- Protasi Sara, The Philosophy of Envy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781009007023, $ 87, hbk
- Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics
- Consent and the Mere Means Principle
- Vice and Impoverishment: Two Perfectionist Bads
- Courage in Aristotle’s Theory of the Good
- Inferences and the Right to Privacy
- Walter Horn, Democratic Theory Naturalized: The Foundations of Distilled Populism. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781793624956, $105, hbk
- Book Review: Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser, Outsourcing Duty: the Moral Exploitation of the american soldier (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) June 14, 2022
- Non-conscious Entities Cannot Have Well-Being
- Review of The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson
- Matthew Strohl, Why it’s OK to Love Bad Movies. New York, Routledge, 2022. ISBN: 0367407655. Paperback $24.95
- Vices in Gaming: Virtue Ethics and Endorsement View
- Making Sense of Extended Affirmative Action: Review of Making Sense of Affirmative Action by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
- Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 9780367343873, £17.99, Pbk
- Causal Stability in Moral Contexts
- David Benatarʼs Argument from Asymmetry: A Qualified Defence
- Admiration, Affectivity, and Value: Critical Remarks on Exemplarity
- The Diagnostic Value of Freedom
- My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-Natalism
- Does the Lack of Cosmic Meaning Make Our Lives Bad?
- Is Confucian Political Meritocracy a Viable Alternative to Democracy? A Critical Engagement with Tongdong Bai
- The Phronimos as a moral exemplar: two internal objections and a proposed solution
- The Trolley Problem and Intuitional Evidence
- Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism
- Specifying Contractualism: How to Reason About What We Owe to Each Other
- Shu-Considerateness and Ren-Humaneness: The Confucian Silver Rule and Golden Rule
- Partial Relationships and Epistemic Injustice
- Nancy S. Jecker, Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-094907-5, $40, Hbk
- David Boonin: Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780198842101, $65.00, HbK
- Must Pessimists Be Suicidal?
- Institutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic
- Can desire-satisfaction alienate our good?
- Being Sure and Living Well: How Security Affects Human Flourishing
- The Normative, the Practical, and the Deliberatively Indispensable
- Narrative Explanations of Action. Narrative Identity with Minimal Requirements
- Persons vs. supra-persons and the undermining of individual interests
- Enough Suffering: Thoughts on Suffering and Virtue
- On an Alleged Refutation of Ethical Egoism
- “How Good is Suffering?: Commentary on Michael S. Brady, Suffering and Virtue”
- Moral Luck and Unfair Blame
- Response to Commentators on Suffering and Virtue
- Experiencing the Conflict: The Rationality of Ambivalence
- The Freedom To Do As We Please: A Strong Value Pluralist Conceptualization of Negative Freedom
- Precis of Suffering and Virtue
- Brady on Suffering and Virtue
- Error Theories and Bare-Difference Methodology: A Reply to Kopeikin
- Mid-Libertarianism and the Utilitarian Proviso
- Andrius Galisanka: John Rawls: The Path to A Theory of Justice
- The Value of Being a Child: An Intuitive Case for a Development View
- Eric J. Silverman, The Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019), 165 pages. ISBN: 978-1-7936-0883-3. Hardback: $90.00
- The Ethical Import of Grief
- Fellow Strangers: Physical Distance and Evaluations of Blameworthiness
- Kant and the trolley
- Character: A Persistently Developmental Account
- Justice and Exploitation in Cohen’s Account of Socialism
- Knowledge of Moral Incapacity
- William Glod: Why It’s OK to Make Bad Choices
- The Separateness of Persons: Defending the Rawlsian Institutional Approach to Distributive Justice
- ‘Let No-One Ignorant of Geometry…’: Mathematical Parallels for Understanding the Objectivity of Ethics
- On the Practicality of Virtue Ethics
- Arthur M. Diamond, Jr., Openness to Creative Destruction Sustaining Innovative Dynamism . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019
- The Unity of Virtue and Goodness
- Reply to: Amichai Amit, Ikbal Bozkaya, S. Stewart Braun, Kristina Gehrman, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Sharpe, Will Small, Matthew Stichter, Denise Vigani, Tiger Zheng
- An Individualist Theory of Meaning
- Agent-Relativity and the Status of Deontological Restrictions
- Soft Libertarianism and the Value of Incompatibilist Control
- Confucius as an Exemplar of Intellectual Humility
- A Modest Dilemma: Can the Virtue of Modesty Coexist with the Developmental Account of Virtue?
- Virtues as Skills, and The Virtues of Self-Regulation
- Famine, Action, and the Normative
- Blame, Harm, and Motivational Value
- Virtue and Embodied Skill: Refining the Virtue-Skill Analogy
- Is the Life of a Mediocre Philosopher Better Than the Life of an Excellent Cobbler? Aristotle on the Value of Activity in Nicomachean Ethics x.4-8
- Between too Intellectualist and not Intellectualist Enough: Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises and Annas’ Virtues as Skills
- The Intelligence of Virtue and Skill
- The Importance of Eudaimonia for Action-guiding Virtue Ethics
- Amnesties and Forgiveness
- Duties and Demandingness, Individual and Collective
- Correction to: John Schwenkler, Anscombe’s Intention: A Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN978-0-19-005203-4, $24.95, Pbk
- Risk and Blameworthiness by Degree
- The Unfairness Objection to the Practice of Collective Moral Responsibility
- Should We Reset? A Review of Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret’s ‘COVID-19: The Great Reset’
- Is Procreation Special?
- Can There Be an Existentialist Virtue Ethics?
- A Relational Approach to Rationing in a Time of Pandemic
- John Schwenkler, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook : A Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-005203-4, $24.95, Pbk
- What Does Pricelessness Mean?
- Aristotle on Actual Virtue and Ordinary People
- How Privacy Rights Engender Direct Doxastic Duties
- Metaphysical Egoism and Personal Identity
- Introducing the Virtue of Good Timing and Some Surprising Functions of Practical Reason
- Amnesty and False Beliefs
- Virtue Ethics Must be Self-Effacing to be Normatively Significant
- What’s Wrong with Speciesism
- Afro-communitarianism or Cosmopolitanism
- Trust, Truthfulness and Distrust: An Exposition with Confucian Insight
- Meaning in Life and Self-Cultivation
- Abortion Is Neither Right Nor Wrong
- Focusing on the Gap: A Better Approach to the Ethics of Humor
- Normativity and Radical Disadvantage in Bernard Williams’ Realist Theory of Legitimacy
- High-Fidelity Experiments, Situationism, and the Measurement of Virtue
- Julia Maskivker, The Duty to Vote , New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780190066062, $39.95 Hbk.
- “A New Philosophical Movement from the Twentieth Century and one of its Founders,” Book review of A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader (2020)
- Positive and Negative Moral Incompetence
- J.D. Velleman, On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy (with illustrations by Emily C. Bernstein). Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-691-20095-8, $12.95, Hbk
- Introduction to Special Forum on “Politics and Virtue”
- Daniel Halliday and John Thrasher, The Ethics of Capitalism: An Introduction . New York, United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780190096212, $29.95, Pbk.
- Human Capabilities and the Ethics of Debt
- The Aesthetic Achievement and Cognitive Value of Empathy for Rough Heroes
- Utilitarianism and Heuristics
- The Intrinsic Value of Liberty for Non-Human Animals
- No Authority Problem for Normative Non-Naturalism
- Talking about Good Deeds: Elaborative Discourse and Moral Virtue
- Contractualism and absolutism
- A Virtue Politics for Liberal Democracy
- The Virtues of Reactive Attitudes
- Two-Level Luck Egalitarianism: Reconciling Rights, Respect, and Responsibility
- Altruistic Eudaimonism and the Self-Absorption Objection
- Species of Pluralism in Political Philosophy
- Herb Childress. The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission
- How Valuable Is It?
- Jonathan Gilmore: Apt Imaginings, Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind
- Doxing Racists
- Act-Consequentialism and the Problem of Causal Impotence
- Christopher Woodard: Taking Utilitarianism Seriously
- From (Apparently) Feeling to Being Grateful
- Pleasure in Others’ Misfortune: Three Distinct Types of Schadenfreude Found in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy
- Manners as Desire Management
- Reasonable Pluralism about Desert-Presupposing Moral Responsibility: A Conditional Defense
- Grief, Love, and Buddhist Resilience
- The Value of Malevolent Creativity
- Two Underappreciated Reasons to Value Political Tradition
- Shannon Vallor, Technology and the Virtues, A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0190905286, $42.95, Hbk
- The Value in Procreation: A Pro-tanto Case for a Limited and Conditional Right to Procreate
- The Distinctiveness of Whistleblowing
- Provisional Sufficientarianism: Distributive Feasibility in Non-ideal Theory
- Speciesism, Prejudice, and Epistemic Peer Disagreement
- Buddhist Error Theory
- Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Helen Bradley, and Paul Noordhof, eds., Art and Belief (Oxford, UL: Oxford University Press, 2017). (Hardcover, $59.54, ISBN-13: 978-0198805403, 272 pp. Kindle, $68.40, ASIN: B076KP2TS2, 266 pp.)
- Deontic Constraints are Maximizing Rules
- Bare-Difference Methodology and a Problematic Separability Principle
- Why Monogamy is Morally Permissible: A Defense of Some Common Justifications for Monogamy
- The Virtue of Encompassing the Contrary
- Theoretical Wisdom
- Agency’s Constitutive Normativity: An Elucidation
- On the Alleged Laziness of Moral Realists
- Narratives of Adversity and Wisdom in Ancient Ethical and Spiritual Texts
- Two Arguments for the Badness and Meaninglessness of Life
- The Motivation of the Moral Saint
- Are Institutions Created by Collective Acceptance?
- Cora Diamond, Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics
- Adversity, Conflict, Wisdom
- A Process Model of Wisdom from Adversity
- Does Adversity Make Us Wiser Than Before? Addressing a Foundational Question Through Interdisciplinary Engagement
- Why Suffering Is Essential to Wisdom
- Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility: The Migrant’s-Eye View of the World , Alex Sager (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 103 pp.
- Christopher Prendergast , Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been , London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. ISBN: 978-1350090088, $88 Hbk.
- Correlativity and the Case Against a Common Presumption About the Structure of Rights
- Sophisticated Alienation
- Moral Blameworthiness, Quality of Will, and Akratic Action
- David C. Rose, Why Culture Matters Most
- Scanlon’s Theories of Blame
- Moral Perception Beyond Supervenience: Iris Murdoch’s Radical Perspective
- A Consideration of Carroll’s Content Theory
- The Early Confucian Worry about Yuan (Resentment)
- Empathy, Power, and Social Difference
- Value Pluralism vs Realism in the Political Thought of Bernard Williams
- How Deontologists Can Be Moderate (and Why They Should Be)
- Organic Unities and Conditionalism About Final Value
- Perfectionism as a Proxy for Wisdom: A Review of Longitudinal Studies of Adversity and Perfectionism
- Iddo Landau: finding meaning in an imperfect world
- A Theory of Just Market Exchange
- Solving the Conundrum of African Philosophy Through Personhood: The Individual or Community?
- Perfectionism and the Repugnant Conclusion
- Embarrassment
- Is Animal Suffering Evil? A Thomistic Perspective
- Hedonism and the Good Life
- Metaethical Agnosticism: Practical Reasons for Acting When Agnostic About the Existence of Moral Reasons
- Alex Rosenberg, How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
- Virtues for the Imperfect
- Wisdom, Suffering, and Humility
- Morality and Morbidity: Semantics and the Moral Status of Macabre Fascination
- The Individual in Pursuit of the Individual ; A Murdochian Account of Moral Perception
- Wellbeing and Happiness
- From Factitious to Veridical Attribution of Virtue: How Wang Yangming Can Do a Better Job than Alfano in Facilitating Virtue Acquisition
- When Forgiveness Comes Easy
- Daoist Metaethics
- Mike W. Martin, Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues
- Fighting Pleasure: Plato and the Expansive View of Courage
- Keith Dowding, Power, Luck and Freedom: Collected Essays
- Animal Suffering and Moral Salience: A Defense of Kant’s Indirect View
- Brett Bowden, The Strange Persistence of Universal History in Political Thought
- Is Monogamy Morally Permissible?
- More on the MORE Life Experience Model: What We Have Learned (So Far)
- Constructivism and the Problem of Normative Indeterminacy
- Exchanging for Reasons, Right and Wrong
- Growth through Adversity: Exploring Associations between Internal Strengths, Posttraumatic Growth, and Wisdom
- Iddo Landau, Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780190657666, $25, Hbk
- Bad Art and Good Taste
- Mackie’s Conceptual Reform Moral Error Theory
- Is Practical Knowledge Prior to Theoretical Knowledge in Action? Reflecting on Anscombe’s Institutional Transparency
- Emotions and the Dynamics of Reasons
- Potentiality, Natural Normativity and Practical Reason
- Introduction: Natural Normativity and the Normativity of Human Action
- Transcendental Aristotelianism: Can the “Fresh Start” of Ethics Find a Happy End?
- From Virtue Epistemology to Virtue Aesthetics
- Aquinas’s Four Orders, Normativity, and Human Nature
- The Limits of Aristotelian Naturalism
- Phronesis as Ethical Expertise: Naturalism of Second Nature and the Unity of Virtue
- Kant’s Phenomenology of Humiliation
- Jessica Flanigan, Pharmaceutical Freedom: Why Patients Have a Right to Self – Medicate . Oxford University Press 2017. 263 pp. $39.95. (Hardback ISBN 978-0190684549)
- Christopher Freiman, Unequivocal Justice. New York, Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9-781-13862822-9, $140, Hbk
- Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education
- No Hands, No Paradox
- Intentions, Motives and Supererogation
- Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought. Princeton, United States: Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780691177014, $29.95, Hbk
- Bhishma’s Boon: Reflections on the Complexity of Immortality
- Dismantling the Asymmetry Argument
- Moral Realism and the Incompletability of Morality
- Should We Relinquish or Distribute the Benefits of Injustice?
- Categorical Desires and the Badness of Animal Death
- Markets with Some Limits
- The Ineliminability of the Idea of Progress
- How Not to Critique the Critique of Progress: A Reply to Payrow Shabani
- Not Really a Market Without Limits
- Person to Person: A Note on the Ethics of Commodification
- Wanted: Positive Arguments for Markets
- Swanton, Christine. The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche . Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell. 2015
- Objections to Euvoluntary Exchange Do Not Have “Standing”: Extending Markets Without Limits
- Book Review: Jason Brennan, Against Democracy . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016, ix + 288 pp, ISBN 9780691162607 $29.95
- Metaphysics for Responsibility to Nature
- Deontologists Can Be Moderate
- Human Rights, Global Justice, or Historical Responsibility? Three Potential Appeals
- The Resuscitation of Normative Privacy
- Two Ways to Frustrate a Desire
- Moral Realism, Fundamental Moral Disagreement, and Moral Reliability
- Kant’s Ground-Thesis. On Dignity and Value in the Groundwork
- Is Pleasure Merely An Instrumental Good? Reply to Pianalto