R. M. Hare
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Nell’articolo di Fanciullacci, dapprima viene esaminata la precomprensione che orienta le analisi della Regola d’oro operate dalla filosofia moderna e dalla filosofia analitica: il confronto con Hobbes, Kant, Sidgwick, Gewirth, Hare e... more
Is/Ought survey article, presupposing a little more logical sophistication that the above paper for Philosophy Now. For the Academia version I have added footnotes referencing the papers in which I argue at length for my more... more
Brief summary and critique of Hare's universal prescriptivism. I contend that Hare's attempt to derive a utilitarian ethic from his prescriptivist meta-ethic (given a non-fanatical set of desires) is a failure. Rather than deriving... more
There are certain 'hard cases' of weakness of will that seem to occur, indeed to be common, but are very difficult to give a non-paradoxical account of. It is just not clear how they are possible. This paper is largely an attempt to get... more
l. There is an antinomy in Hare's thought between Ought-Implies-Can and No-Indicatives-from-Imperatives. It cannot be resolved by drawing a distinction between implication and entailment. 2. Luther resolved this antinomy in the l6th... more
The aim of this thesis is to articulate an actual consent account of legitimate government as appointed by a free association of people, to protect them from harm, with the power to use coercion both to apprehend wrongdoers and to collect... more
I start by arguing that Mackie’s claim that there are no objective values is a nonsensical one. I do this by ‘assembling reminders’ of the correct use of the term ‘values’ and by examining the grammar of moral... more
In Chapter 2 of Escape from Leviathan, Jan Lester defends two hypotheses: that instrumental rationality requires agents to maximise the satisfaction of their wants and that all agents actually meet this requirement. In addition, he argues... more
This is a copy of my (unpublished) doctoral dissertation, which I successfully defended at the University of Toronto in 1990. I wrote it under the supervision of Professors Michael Vertin and Joseph Boyle, of Saint Michael's College and... more
Davidson and Kolnai in different ways emphasise that practical syllogistic reasoning can only tell one that one has a reason to do or not to do something. It cannot adjudicate between conflicting reasons. It can tell one the means to... more
This is the course-book for my 'Themes from Hume' paper, which is largely based on my two edited collections, 'Hume, Motivation and Virtue' (HMV) and 'Hume on Is and Ought' (HIO). It contains most of my papers on Is and Ought, the... more