...Martino Traxler ON MORAL CONSIDERABILITY: AN ESSAY ON WHO MORALLY MATTERS. By Mark H. Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 189. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVlEWS cant and distinctive contribution to the ongoing debate about freedom and responsibility...

...Don Garrett MIND AND MORALITY: AN EXAMINATION OF HUME'S MORAL PSYCHOLOGY. By John Bricke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 263. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS Finnis, John, Joseph Boyle, and Germain Grisez. 1987. Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and...

...Natalie Brender KANT'S CONCEPTION OF MORAL CHARACTER: THE “CRITICAL” LINK OF MORALITY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT. By G. Felicitas Munzel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 377. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS political liberty for both authors, one we...

...Tommie Shelby Lawrence Blum, “I'm not a Racist, but...”: The Moral Quandary of Race. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. vii, 259. Cornell University 2003 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 1 (January 2003) Lawrence Blum, “I’m not a Racist, but The...

...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 variables in...

...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. In Moral...

...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: Cambridge University Press...

...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. xix + 411 pp.; xxii + 479 pp...

...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...

...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 a...

...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 University Press, 2009. ix þ178 pp...

...Dana Nelkin Scanlon T. M. , Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2008 . xii +247 pp . © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 References Hanser Matthew . 2005 . “ Permissibility and Practical Inference...

...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 Companion to Ancient Scepticism...

...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, to be...

...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, Vol. 109, No. 2 (April 2000...

...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 of...

...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 is dense with...

...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 time. (Eric...

...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, rational person...

...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 of moral...