Mind 109 (2000), 275-281: “The relevance of metaphysics to bioethics: a response to Earl Conee” (... more Mind 109 (2000), 275-281: “The relevance of metaphysics to bioethics: a response to Earl Conee” (with a Reply by Earl Conee)
Plato’s Sophist
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Edited by Aleš Havlíček ... more Plato’s Sophist Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense Edited by Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík prague 2011
Journal of Moral Philosophy 2013. The argument of the paper is restated more fully in Knowing Wha... more Journal of Moral Philosophy 2013. The argument of the paper is restated more fully in Knowing What To Do Chapter 10.
“Murdoch’s Platonistic virtue ethics”, in a special edition of Ethics and Politics, edd. Riccardo... more “Murdoch’s Platonistic virtue ethics”, in a special edition of Ethics and Politics, edd. Riccardo Fanciullaci and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, online at www.units.it/etica
"Internal reasons and the heart’s desire”, in Alejandro Vigo and Ana Marta González, edd., Racion... more "Internal reasons and the heart’s desire”, in Alejandro Vigo and Ana Marta González, edd., Racionalidad Práctica (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag 2010). (Translated into Spanish as “Razones internas y los deséos del corazón”.)
“Eudaimonia, happiness, and the redemption of unhappiness”, Philosophical Topics special issue, e... more “Eudaimonia, happiness, and the redemption of unhappiness”, Philosophical Topics special issue, edd. Edoardo Zamuner and Timothy O’Leary, 41.1 (2013), 27-42.
Main claims: (1) To think well about the very various varieties of happiness and related states/ concepts we need to think too about the very various varieties of unhappiness; (2) Aristotle's eudaimonia is not happiness, so (3) Aristotle is not a eudaimonist; (4) there is an analogue for happiness of the 'moral weightlifting' problem--happiness *for me* cannot just be the happiness of the ideal phronimos, it needs to be a happiness that fits my frailties, so (5) happiness for me has to be something that redeems my unhappiness.
“Intuition, system, and the ‘paradox’ of deontology”, in L.Jost and J.Wuerth, edd., Perfecting V... more “Intuition, system, and the ‘paradox’ of deontology”, in L.Jost and J.Wuerth, edd., Perfecting Virtue, Cambridge UP 2010.
A reworking of this material appears in Knowing What To Do, Chapter 3.
“Heneka tou kalou”, in Julia Peters, ed., Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Routle... more “Heneka tou kalou”, in Julia Peters, ed., Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Routledge. 2013.
Knowing What To Do Chapter 7 is a reworking of this material.
Mind 109 (2000), 275-281: “The relevance of metaphysics to bioethics: a response to Earl Conee” (... more Mind 109 (2000), 275-281: “The relevance of metaphysics to bioethics: a response to Earl Conee” (with a Reply by Earl Conee)
Plato’s Sophist
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Edited by Aleš Havlíček ... more Plato’s Sophist Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense Edited by Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík prague 2011
Journal of Moral Philosophy 2013. The argument of the paper is restated more fully in Knowing Wha... more Journal of Moral Philosophy 2013. The argument of the paper is restated more fully in Knowing What To Do Chapter 10.
“Murdoch’s Platonistic virtue ethics”, in a special edition of Ethics and Politics, edd. Riccardo... more “Murdoch’s Platonistic virtue ethics”, in a special edition of Ethics and Politics, edd. Riccardo Fanciullaci and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, online at www.units.it/etica
"Internal reasons and the heart’s desire”, in Alejandro Vigo and Ana Marta González, edd., Racion... more "Internal reasons and the heart’s desire”, in Alejandro Vigo and Ana Marta González, edd., Racionalidad Práctica (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag 2010). (Translated into Spanish as “Razones internas y los deséos del corazón”.)
“Eudaimonia, happiness, and the redemption of unhappiness”, Philosophical Topics special issue, e... more “Eudaimonia, happiness, and the redemption of unhappiness”, Philosophical Topics special issue, edd. Edoardo Zamuner and Timothy O’Leary, 41.1 (2013), 27-42.
Main claims: (1) To think well about the very various varieties of happiness and related states/ concepts we need to think too about the very various varieties of unhappiness; (2) Aristotle's eudaimonia is not happiness, so (3) Aristotle is not a eudaimonist; (4) there is an analogue for happiness of the 'moral weightlifting' problem--happiness *for me* cannot just be the happiness of the ideal phronimos, it needs to be a happiness that fits my frailties, so (5) happiness for me has to be something that redeems my unhappiness.
“Intuition, system, and the ‘paradox’ of deontology”, in L.Jost and J.Wuerth, edd., Perfecting V... more “Intuition, system, and the ‘paradox’ of deontology”, in L.Jost and J.Wuerth, edd., Perfecting Virtue, Cambridge UP 2010.
A reworking of this material appears in Knowing What To Do, Chapter 3.
“Heneka tou kalou”, in Julia Peters, ed., Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Routle... more “Heneka tou kalou”, in Julia Peters, ed., Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Routledge. 2013.
Knowing What To Do Chapter 7 is a reworking of this material.
Abstract Ethics and Experience presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the ... more Abstract Ethics and Experience presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates:How is life to be lived? An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single ...
Abstract How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the p... more Abstract How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and starving in the rest of the world, or in response to environmental crises? Is it wrong to put your friends and family first? And what do the answers to these questions tell ...
... Positing this pair of basic attitudes to goods enables us to do better than the consequen-tia... more ... Positing this pair of basic attitudes to goods enables us to do better than the consequen-tialists, with their single basic attitude of promotion, in dealing with certain technical problems in moral theory, such as the paradox of deontology. ...
... Aristotle and Augustine on freedom: Two theories of freedom, voluntary action, and akrasia. P... more ... Aristotle and Augustine on freedom: Two theories of freedom, voluntary action, and akrasia. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Chappell, TDJ. PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press (New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1995. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0312124678 ). ...
In Sophie-Grace Chappell, ed., Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics (OUP).
The paper i... more In Sophie-Grace Chappell, ed., Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics (OUP).
The paper is close in content to Knowing What To Do Chapter 10; it was in fact written before I wrote (the rest of) KWTD.
"Why we shouldn’t get too excited about the is–ought gap”, in Philosophy Now 2014.
It's a popu... more "Why we shouldn’t get too excited about the is–ought gap”, in Philosophy Now 2014.
It's a popular piece and I don't particularly claim it's highly original--the debt to Francis Snare, and also to Arthur Prior and Elizabeth Anscombe, is obvious. I do think it's more or less right, though.
Script for a talk at the High School of Dundee, 26.2.15. Seems to me I have over-prepared this on... more Script for a talk at the High School of Dundee, 26.2.15. Seems to me I have over-prepared this one... but never mind, it's been fun to write. One should keep one's moves in good working order; it's been a while since I ran the steamroller over consequentialism.
Not exactly a talk, but a sort of short op-ed piece in response to Tal Brewer in The Hedgehog Rev... more Not exactly a talk, but a sort of short op-ed piece in response to Tal Brewer in The Hedgehog Review 2012
This was a talk I was touring in 2011/12; I gave it as a Dessert Talk to Magdalen College undergr... more This was a talk I was touring in 2011/12; I gave it as a Dessert Talk to Magdalen College undergraduates in February 2011, and also at a MacIntyre conference at London Metropolitan University.
Much of the material is closely related (backwards) to "How to get out of our heads", Bradley Studies 2001, and (forwards) to Knowing What To Do Chapter 2. This is why it's not published in its own right.
A talk given in my church in Dundee a while back. The theology is probably not entirely accurate,... more A talk given in my church in Dundee a while back. The theology is probably not entirely accurate, but its heart is in the right place :-)
Talk given in Mexico City in October 2011. The paper on which this is based is a 44-page mash-up ... more Talk given in Mexico City in October 2011. The paper on which this is based is a 44-page mash-up of prototypes of Varieties Of Knowledge and Theism In Historical Perspective and Personal Knowledge. Nothing in it that is good is not also in those papers. And it's a rambling bumbling jumble. So I will spare my readers and not upload it. Unless of course they specifically ask me to :-)
Handout to a paper I gave to the Philosophy Seminar in Durham in November 2012. The relation to t... more Handout to a paper I gave to the Philosophy Seminar in Durham in November 2012. The relation to the paper "virtue ethics and rules" is obvious.
Handout to a talk I gave to a philosophy of education conference in Dundee, November 2013. The ta... more Handout to a talk I gave to a philosophy of education conference in Dundee, November 2013. The talk is based on the Protagoras article I contributed to the Scaltsas festschrift.
this is the handout (and the argumentative substance) of a talk I gave in St Andrews in April 201... more this is the handout (and the argumentative substance) of a talk I gave in St Andrews in April 2013, as part of a day-conference on New Natural Law organised by John Haldane and the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs. It is I suppose my final farewell to New Natural Law.
One crucial question for the Natural Law Theory of ethics that has been advocated by Joseph Boyle... more One crucial question for the Natural Law Theory of ethics that has been advocated by Joseph Boyle over the course of his distinguished career is: Exactly what is to count as (minimal) respect for a good or value? Under what circumstances do we fail to reach the ...
“Truth and spin”, Journal of Management Ethics 2008. Based on a talk I gave to public-relations p... more “Truth and spin”, Journal of Management Ethics 2008. Based on a talk I gave to public-relations professionals in autumn 2007.
New Blackfriars 1992: A dialogue on lying, equivocation, and deception. My very first publication... more New Blackfriars 1992: A dialogue on lying, equivocation, and deception. My very first publication other than my thesis.
“Impartial benevolence and partial love” (pp70-85)
in The Problem of Demandingness Moral Demand... more “Impartial benevolence and partial love” (pp70-85) in The Problem of Demandingness Moral Demandingness: New Essays. Edited collection of 12 thematically linked essays. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2009.
The argument of the paper is restated in Knowing What To Do Chapter 4.
"The future-personal perspective”, in Philosophy and Public Issues special issue on Tim Mulgan’s ... more "The future-personal perspective”, in Philosophy and Public Issues special issue on Tim Mulgan’s Moral and Political Philosophy, ed. Gianfranco Pellegrino, online at
Philosophical News 5 November 2012, 58-66. Plenty of overlap with "The Future-Person Perspective"... more Philosophical News 5 November 2012, 58-66. Plenty of overlap with "The Future-Person Perspective". Also with one of my book reviews.
A paper given at Patrick Riordan's Values in Public Life conference in London in 2006, and publis... more A paper given at Patrick Riordan's Values in Public Life conference in London in 2006, and published in Riordan, ed, Values in Public Life (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007), pp.77-95
I am unclear how this paper relates to my paper in ETMP 2007, "Integrity and demandingness". It i... more I am unclear how this paper relates to my paper in ETMP 2007, "Integrity and demandingness". It is probably a later draft than that paper. It seems not to have been published. It may be worth presenting in its own right. Or not.
In Time and Ethics, ed. Heather Dyke (Kluwer, 2003), 189-207: “Persons in time: metaphysics and e... more In Time and Ethics, ed. Heather Dyke (Kluwer, 2003), 189-207: “Persons in time: metaphysics and ethics”.
“Grace”, forthcoming 2015 in Miroslaw Szatkowski, ed., Analytically Oriented Thomism, publication... more “Grace”, forthcoming 2015 in Miroslaw Szatkowski, ed., Analytically Oriented Thomism, publication details tbc.
Based on a talk I gave in Warsaw in October 2014.
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62/3 (1994), 869-884: "Explaining the Inexplicable: A... more Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62/3 (1994), 869-884: "Explaining the Inexplicable: Augustine on the Fall".
This is more or less the same text as the final chapter of my 1995 book Aristotle and Augustine of Freedom of Action.
Augustine's Ethics. In the Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. E.Stump, 2nd edition, 2014.
R... more Augustine's Ethics. In the Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. E.Stump, 2nd edition, 2014.
Faith and Philosophy 19.3 (July 2002) 373-378: Critical study of Robert Adams, Finite and Infini... more Faith and Philosophy 19.3 (July 2002) 373-378: Critical study of Robert Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods.
Critical study of Jonathan Kvanvig, The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding. Fait... more Critical study of Jonathan Kvanvig, The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding. Faith and Philosophy. 24 (4): 475-479 (2007).
“Critical notice of Annette Baier, Reflections on how we live”, in European Journal of Philosophy... more “Critical notice of Annette Baier, Reflections on how we live”, in European Journal of Philosophy 2012.
In A Companion to Epistemology, edd. D.Pritchard and S.Bernecker, 2011 (Blackwell’s), “Plato’s ep... more In A Companion to Epistemology, edd. D.Pritchard and S.Bernecker, 2011 (Blackwell’s), “Plato’s epistemology”.
In C.Emlyn-Hughes, ed., Myth In The Greek And Roman World (A330). Open University Press 2009.
... more In C.Emlyn-Hughes, ed., Myth In The Greek And Roman World (A330). Open University Press 2009.
Open University Teaching Text for A333 (Key Questions in Philosophy). Text accessible to OU stude... more Open University Teaching Text for A333 (Key Questions in Philosophy). Text accessible to OU students only till 2024. Unless you find a copy lying around :-)
Open University Teaching Text for A222 (Exploring Philosophy). Text accessible to OU students onl... more Open University Teaching Text for A222 (Exploring Philosophy). Text accessible to OU students only till 2021. Unless you find a copy lying around :-)
Presented at a political philosophy symposium organised in honour of Professor Tim O'Hagan on the... more Presented at a political philosophy symposium organised in honour of Professor Tim O'Hagan on the occasion of his retirement, at UEA in September 2010.
Unpublished because plans to publish from this symposium fell through. (I'd actually forgotten I'd written it.)
Completed and corrected version uploaded 11.02.15. New postscript added 17.02.15.
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Edited by Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík
prague 2011
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Also at http://www.open.ac.uk/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/files/Aeschylus-Prometheus-Vinctus.pdf
Main claims: (1) To think well about the very various varieties of happiness and related states/ concepts we need to think too about the very various varieties of unhappiness; (2) Aristotle's eudaimonia is not happiness, so (3) Aristotle is not a eudaimonist; (4) there is an analogue for happiness of the 'moral weightlifting' problem--happiness *for me* cannot just be the happiness of the ideal phronimos, it needs to be a happiness that fits my frailties, so (5) happiness for me has to be something that redeems my unhappiness.
A reworking of this material appears in Knowing What To Do, Chapter 3.
Knowing What To Do Chapter 7 is a reworking of this material.
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Edited by Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík
prague 2011
http://www.open.ac.uk/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/files/eumenides-definitive.pdf
Also at http://www.open.ac.uk/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/files/Aeschylus-Prometheus-Vinctus.pdf
Main claims: (1) To think well about the very various varieties of happiness and related states/ concepts we need to think too about the very various varieties of unhappiness; (2) Aristotle's eudaimonia is not happiness, so (3) Aristotle is not a eudaimonist; (4) there is an analogue for happiness of the 'moral weightlifting' problem--happiness *for me* cannot just be the happiness of the ideal phronimos, it needs to be a happiness that fits my frailties, so (5) happiness for me has to be something that redeems my unhappiness.
A reworking of this material appears in Knowing What To Do, Chapter 3.
Knowing What To Do Chapter 7 is a reworking of this material.
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The paper is close in content to Knowing What To Do Chapter 10; it was in fact written before I wrote (the rest of) KWTD.
It's a popular piece and I don't particularly claim it's highly original--the debt to Francis Snare, and also to Arthur Prior and Elizabeth Anscombe, is obvious. I do think it's more or less right, though.
Much of the material is closely related (backwards) to "How to get out of our heads", Bradley Studies 2001, and (forwards) to Knowing What To Do Chapter 2. This is why it's not published in its own right.
It is I suppose my final farewell to New Natural Law.
in The Problem of Demandingness Moral Demandingness: New Essays. Edited collection of 12 thematically linked essays. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2009.
The argument of the paper is restated in Knowing What To Do Chapter 4.
http://fqp.luiss.it/category/numero/2014-4-2/
This began as the notes to a talk I gave April 2012 in St Andrews, as a contribution to a workshop on Tim Mulgan, Ethics for a Broken World.
Based on a talk I gave in Warsaw in October 2014.
This is more or less the same text as the final chapter of my 1995 book Aristotle and Augustine of Freedom of Action.
Reloaded with slight corrections, 14.2.15.
Block 4, Textual Sources 2: Secondary Source 4.3, pg. 249-59.
Unpublished because plans to publish from this symposium fell through. (I'd actually forgotten I'd written it.)
Completed and corrected version uploaded 11.02.15. New postscript added 17.02.15.