...Connie S. Rosati Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence . Oxford: Clarendon, 2003. v + 322 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003...

...Tristram McPherson Mark Eli Kalderon, Moral Fictionalism . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 193 pp. Cornell University 2008 xxx pr08-004 June 10, 2008 10:56 BOOK REVIEWS Mark Eli Kalderon, Moral Fictionalism...

...Anja Jauernig Bruxvoort Lipscomb Benjamin J. and Krueger James , eds., Kant's Moral Metaphysics . Berlin : Walter de Gruyter , 2010 . vii+334 pp. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 This volume is a collection of eleven essays, nine of which are published for the first...

...Alison McIntyre RESPONSIBILITY AND CONTROL: A THEORY OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. By John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, S. J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 277. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REKEWS The Philosophical Review...

...Matthew Stuart LoLordo Antonia , Locke's Moral Man . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 145 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 In this short but rich book, Antonia LoLordo explores Locke's account of moral agency. For Locke, to be a “moral man” is to be a free...

...Benjamin S. Yost Sensen Oliver , ed., Kant on Moral Autonomy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xii +301 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Autonomy plays an essential role in Kant's practical philosophy. In metaethical contexts, it grounds the authority...

...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification...

...Susan Sauvé Meyer Echeñique Javier Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . viii +209 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Does Aristotle have a conception of moral responsibility? A prominent feature of his treatment...

... disagreements about how to pursue those ends. This essay defends the claim that, in certain circumstances of reasonable disagreement, proper care for a friend as a practical and moral agent requires allowing your friend's judgment to decide what you are to do, even when you disagree with that judgment (and even...

...Alex Madva Fedyk Mark , The Social Turn in Moral Psychology . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press , 2017 . x + 246 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Mark Fedyk argues persuasively for both the importance and the perils of interdisciplinarity in studies of ethical life. The book...

... are often morally hamstrung for biological reasons. Those conceived in the summer by an aging father, for example, should expect a lifelong struggle against vice, since southern winds tend to introduce too much feminizing moisture into the residues in a mother's womb and because old men's semen is too cool...

...Peter B. M. Vranas John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 272. Cornell University 2004 Darley, J. M., and C. D. Batson. 1973 . “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional...

...Jyl Gentzler Cornell University 2005 Adam, James. 1963 . The Republic of Plato , 2d ed., vol. 2 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963. Annas, Julia. 1982 . Plato's Myths of Judgment. Phronesis 27 : 119 -43. ____. 2001 . Moral Knowledge as Practical Knowledge...

...Andrew Chignell A. W. Moore, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy . New York: Routledge, 2003. xx + 249 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms. Cambridge...

...John Martin Fischer The Frankfurt cases have been thought by some philosophers to show that moral responsibility does not require genuine metaphysical access to alternative possibilities. But various philosophers have rejected this putative “lesson” of the cases, and they have put forward...

...Mark Schroeder Slote Michael , Moral Sentimentalism . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 . ix + 184 pp. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Alfred R. Mele, Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will. New York: Oxford...

... 2011 by Cornell University 2011 Scanlon T. M. , Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2008 . xii +247 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Richard Bett, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient...

...Nomy Arpaly Korsgaard Christine , The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2008 . x + 345 pp . © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Richard Bett, ed. The Cambridge...

...Joshua Gert Julia Markovits has recently argued for what she calls the ‘Coincident Reasons Thesis’: the thesis that one’s action is morally worthy if and only if one’s motivating reasons for acting mirror, in content and strength, the reasons that explain why the action ought, morally...

...Emily Fletcher Kamtekar Rachana , Plato's Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . x + 231 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 Rachana Kamtekar's excellent book challenges standard...