...Robert Shaver Sidgwick gives various tests for highest certainty. When he applies these tests to commonsense morality, he finds nothing of highest certainty. In contrast, when he applies these tests to his own axioms, he finds these axioms to have highest certainty. The axioms culminate...

...Robert Shaver THREE METHODS OF ETHICS: A DEBATE. By Marcia W. Baron, Philip Pettit, and Michael Slote. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Pp. vi, 285. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REE!EWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (January 2000) THREE...

...Roger Crisp RATIONAL EGOISM: A SELECTIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY. By Robert Shaver. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xii, 162. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) RATIONAL EWISM...

... Feelings: Emotion, Addiction and Human Behavior, reviewed by Louis C. Charland 108 Robert Shaver, Rational Egoism: A Selective and Critical History, reviewed by Roger Crisp 111 Gary Gutting, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, reviewed by Thomas McCarthy 114 Rae...