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The role of metaphysics, common-sense, and interpretations of classical Greek philosophy in Sidgwick's utilitarianism and Whitehead's virtue ethics.
(2000)
Whitehead's metaphysical and ethical arguments accomplish two related goals. The first is a criticism of modern ethical theory---the Utilitarian views of Sidgwick and Mill and the Theistic Intuitionism of the Cambridge ...
Minds, causes and the exclusion argument.
(2000)
The premise that leads to the problem for Nonreductive Physicalism is the Exclusion Principle itself. The Exclusion Principle, naively conceived, is false. The naive Exclusion Principle excludes as causally irrelevant ...
An essentialist theory of modality.
(2000)
Knowing what is necessary or possible requires that one know the essences of natural kinds, which is the real goal of science. We can formulate hypotheses concerning kinds and their essences, and test them for their ...
Self-knowledge and moral virtue.
(2000)
The claim that virtue requires self-knowledge may seem banal, but it has been challenged by recent claims that certain virtues, such as modesty, require ignorance of self and that self-deceived persons are both happier and ...