Philosophy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Hausman, Inexact and Separate Science of Economics,” Critical Notice 
  • 'Psychological Study Of Literature Limitations, Possibilities, And Accomplishments' 
  • 20 YEARS OF MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 
  • A Defence of Modus Tollens 
  • A Defense of Modus Ponens 
  • A Dutch book against sleeping beauties who are evidential decision theorists 
  • A Proliferation of Liberties 
  • A Puzzle about Further Facts 
  • A Relativist Alternative to Anti-Realism 
  • A Reply to Lawrence Kohlberg 
  • A Solution to Forrester's Paradox of Gentle Murder 
  • A Theory of Just Market Exchange 
  • A devastating example for the Halfer Rule 
  • A light theory of color 
  • A relational approach to environmental ethics 
  • A relational approach to environmental ethics 
  • Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson 
  • Admirable Immorality and Admirable Imperfection 
  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • Aggregating Moral Preferences 
  • Alternative approaches to research in physical therapy: positivism and phenomenology. 
  • An Argument for Consequentialism 
  • An Argument for Descriptivism 
  • An Empirical Refutation of 'Ought' Implies 'Can' 
  • An externalist teleology 
  • Appraising general equilibrium analysis 
  • Are generic predictions enough? 
  • Aristotle on Necessary Truth and Logical Priority 
  • Asceticism in early Taoist religion 
  • Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism 
  • BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND SCEPTICISM - ETHICS AS SOCIAL ARTEFACT - PHILIPS,M 
  • Bargaining over Beliefs 
  • Barnes, Elizabeth. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 160. $45.00 (cloth). 
  • Basic Knowledge 
  • Begging the question 
  • Book Review 
  • Book Review 
  • Book ReviewRuth Chang, , ed.Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. ix+303. $57.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). 
  • Brain death: new questions and fresh perspectives. 
  • But doctor salanti, bumblebees really do fly 
  • CONFUCIANISM, PRAGMATISM, AND SOCIALLY BENEFICIAL PHILOSOPHY 
  • Can There beA PrioriCausal Models of Natural Selection? 
  • Can a Dualist Adopt Bennett's Strategy? 
  • Can a sum change its parts? 
  • Can rational choice guide us to correct de se beliefs? 
  • Categorical imperatives and moral principles 
  • Causal Exclusion and Overdetermination 
  • Causation and counteifactuals: Lewis’ treatment reconsidered 
  • Causation and recipes: The mixture as before? 
  • Causation, Probability and the Monarchy 
  • Cause by Omission and Norm: Not Watering Plants 
  • Character and consistency: Still more errors 
  • Climate Change is Unjust War: Geoengineering and the Rising Tides of War 
  • Coleridge and Emerson: Prophets of Silence, Prophets of Language 
  • Collective intentionality and cultural development 
  • Commentary on Sayre-Mccord's "being a realist about relativism" 
  • Concrete occurrences vs. explanatory facts: Mackie on the extensionality of causal statements 
  • Confucian Ethics and The Practical Value of Roles 
  • Consciousness and moral responsibility 
  • Conservatism, idealism and cardinality 
  • Conservative value 
  • Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity 
  • Conserving Nature; Preserving Identity 
  • Constructing Content and Delimiting Choice 
  • Constructive Skepticism and Being a Mirror in the Zhuangzi 
  • Constructive skepticism and being a mirror in the Zhuangzi 
  • Contrastive mental causation 
  • Critical Notice 
  • Critical Notice of Genes, Mind and Culture 
  • Critical Notice of Method and Appraisal in Economics 
  • Critical Notice of The Cement of the Universe 
  • Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology 
  • Daoism: A Short Introduction 
  • Deconstructing Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep 
  • Defending information-free genocentrism. 
  • Definition and the Two Stages of Aristotelian Demonstration 
  • Difficulties for the Reconciling and Estranging Projects: Some Symmetries 
  • Distinctness and non-identity 
  • Distributive Justice and Legitimate Expectations 
  • Disunity of virtue 
  • Does the gats undermine democratic control over health? 
  • Does yoga induce metaphysical hallucinations? Interdisciplinarity at the edge: Comments on Evan Thompson's waking, dreaming, being 
  • Duties and Demandingness, Individual and Collective 
  • Duties and Their Direction 
  • EVENT AND EVOLUTION 
  • Economics Is Too Important to be Left to the Rhetoricians 
  • Editors' introduction 
  • Embryo research revisited. 
  • Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation 
  • Emotions, Reasons, and Epistemology 
  • Equal opportunity and genetic intervention. 
  • Errors about errors: Virtues theory and trait attribution 
  • Evidentialism and belief polarization 
  • Experience and Foundationalism in Audi's The Architecture of Reason 
  • Experience and Foundationalism in Audi’s The Architecture of Reason 
  • Exploitation, Alienation, and Injustice 
  • Expressivism and Embedding 
  • Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons: A New Account 
  • Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, & Philosophy 
  • Fitness 
  • Fitness in Fact and Fiction 
  • For goodness' sake 
  • Foundations for Moral Relativism, by J. David Velleman. 
  • Foundations of neuroeconomics: from philosophy to practice. 
  • Four Types of Nineteenth-Century Poetic 
  • Frankfurt School and China: Questions of Culture, Aesthetics and Alternative Modernity in Western Marxism and Chinese Marxism 
  • Freedom and purpose in biology. 
  • From 'is' to 'ought' in moral epistemology 
  • From Nuremburg to Kosovo: The morality of illegal international legal reform 
  • From knowledge-based programs to graded belief-based programs, part I: On-line reasoning 
  • Fusion confusion 
  • Genic Selection and Biological Instrumentalism 
  • Genie Selection, Molecular Biology and Biological Instrumentalism 
  • Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction 
  • HAN FEI ZI'S PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY: HUMAN NATURE, SCARCITY, AND THE NEO-DARWINIAN CONSENSUS 
  • Han fei zi’s philosophical psychology: Human nature, scarcity, and the Neo-Darwinian consensus 
  • Hands invisible and intangible 
  • Hayek's scientific subjectivism 
  • Hermeneutic Circle-Vicious or Victorious 
  • Hospitals as interpretation systems. 
  • How I think I learned to think theologically 
  • How strong is this obligation? An argument for consequentialism from concomitant variation 
  • How to avoid deviance (in logic) 
  • Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual. 
  • Human nature and enhancement. 
  • Idealizing Reduction: The Microfoundations of Macroeconomics 
  • Identifying with nature in early Daoism 
  • Identifying with nature in early Daoism 
  • Identity, Gender, and Strong Evaluation 
  • If Economics Isn’t Science, What Is It? 
  • Institutional structures and idealism of character 
  • Institutionalizing the just war 
  • Interpretation and reason 
  • Intuition as a Capacity for a Priori Knowledge 
  • Is Oneness an Over-belief? 
  • Is belief evaluation truth sensitive? A reply to Turri 
  • Is lewis's 'genuine modal realism' magical too? 
  • Is memory for remembering? Recollection as a form of episodic hypothetical thinking 
  • Is the Theory of Natural Selection a Statistical Theory? 
  • Jane Addams as experimental philosopher 
  • Joint attention to mental content and the social origin of reasoning 
  • Justice and Charity 
  • Justice as Reciprocity versus Subject-Centered Justice 
  • Justice, Care, and Gender: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Debate Revisited 
  • Lakatosian consolations for economics 
  • Laws, damn laws, and ceteris paribus clauses 
  • Leibniz’s Theory of Relations 
  • Leighton's theory of sentiments: explorations and speculations on barriers to interpersonal forgiveness. 
  • Liberal Justice, Future People, and Natural Resource Conservation 
  • MIXED-UP META-ETHICS 
  • MORAL EXPERIENCE AND JUSTIFICATION 
  • Mackie and Shoemaker on Dispositions and Properties 
  • Making a case when theory is unfalsifiable: Friedman’s monetary history 
  • Making mechanism interesting 
  • Malcolm and the fallacy of behaviorism 
  • Marx as Kierkegaard 
  • Marx, Morality, and History: An Assessment of Recent Analytical Work on Marx 
  • Materialism and Evolution: A Reconsideration 
  • Matter, Life and Other Variations 
  • Matter, Life, and Other Variations 
  • Measuring religiousness in health research: review and critique. 
  • Medical ethics in the primary care setting. 
  • Medical paternalism. 
  • Methodology, Theory and the Philosophy of Science 
  • Moderate Classy Pyrrhonian Moral Scepticism 
  • Moderate classy pyrrhonian moral scepticism 
  • Moral Dilemmas and Incomparability 
  • Moral Dilemmas and ‘Ought and Ought Not’ 
  • Moral Imagination 
  • Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character 
  • Moral Realism and Social Science 
  • Moral Realisms and Moral Dilemmas 
  • Moral Reasons: Internal and External 
  • Moral Status and Human Enhancement 
  • Moral contagion and logical persuasion in the Mozi 
  • Moral contagion and logical persuasion in the Mozi 1 
  • Moral foundations vignettes: a standardized stimulus database of scenarios based on moral foundations theory. 
  • Moral reasons: Internal and external 
  • Morality and Action 
  • Multiplex vs. multiples selves: Distinguishing dissociative disorders 
  • Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations 
  • Naturalistic Epistemology for Eliminative Materialists 
  • Newton and descartes: Theology and natural philosophy 
  • Newton and the reality of force 
  • ON MORAL REALISM WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS 
  • Of G. Fine, On Ideas: Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Forms (Oxford 1993) 
  • On Kim’s Account of Events and Event Identity 
  • On Stackelberg mixed strategies 
  • On multiple realization and the special sciences 
  • Perceptual Presentations and Biological Functions: A Comment on Matthen 
  • Philosophic perspectives on access to health care: distributive justice in health care. 
  • Plato and Aristotle on Negative Predication and Semantic Fragmentation 
  • Political Legitimacy and Democracy 
  • Political Liberalism and Social Epistemology 
  • Practical conservatism 
  • Practice-Centered Pluralism and a Disjunctive Theory of Art 
  • Pragmatism and structuralism in occupational therapy: the long conversation. 
  • Pragmatism, Ethics, and Correspondence Truth: Response to Gibson and Quine 
  • Private and public preferences 
  • Promising's Neglected Siblings: Oaths, Vows, and Promissory Obligation 
  • Proper Hoc, Ergo Post Hoc 
  • Protagoras Among the Physicists 
  • Précis of moral scepticisms 
  • Quinean Ethics 
  • Rationalizing our Way into Moral Progress 
  • Rawls's Law of Peoples: Rules for a Vanished Westphalian World 
  • Recognitional Legitimacy and the State System 
  • Rejoinder to Puccetti 
  • Relational and Autonomous Selves 
  • Relational and autonomous selves 
  • Replies to Hough, Baumann and Blaauw 
  • Replies to copp, timmons, and railton 
  • Reply to Mr. Aranyosi 
  • Responsibility and the brain sciences 
  • Responsibility for forgetting 
  • Responsibility in cases of multiple personality disorder 
  • Restrictive Consequentialism 
  • Review essay on Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams 
  • Review of Fieldwork in Familiar Places by Michele Moody-Adams 
  • Review of Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics by Donald N. McCloskey 
  • Review of Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character by Lawrence Thomas 
  • Review of M. Otsuka, Libertarianism without inequality 
  • Review of Paul Hernandi, *Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification* 
  • Review of Quandaries and Virtues: Against Reductivism in Ethics by Edmund Pincoffs 
  • Review of Richard Garner’s Beyond Morality 
  • Review of S. Nichols, Sentimental rules: On the natural foundations of Moral judgment 
  • Review of Yi-Ping Ong, The Art of Being. Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy 
  • Review: The Architecture of Matter 
  • Revisability and Rational Choice 
  • Revolutionary Motivation and Rationality 
  • Rhetoric is Not Important Enough for Economists to Bother About 
  • Ricardian inference: Charles S. Peirce, economics, and scientific method 
  • Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate. 
  • Rosenberg’s “lakatosian consolations for economists” Comment 
  • Rousseau's theory of value and the case of women 
  • Rule-governed institutions versus act-consequentialism: A rejoinder to Naticchia 
  • Scientific innovation and the limits of social scientific prediction 
  • Scriven on human unpredictability 
  • Self-determination, revolution, and intervention 
  • Social welfare and individual responsibility 
  • Socratic Virtue as the Parts of Itself 
  • Solving the circularity problem for functions 
  • Solving the circularity problem for functions: A response to Nanay 
  • Some problems for Gibbard's norm-expressivism 
  • Some varieties of particularism 
  • Space and motion in nature and Scripture: Galileo, Descartes, Newton. 
  • Spreading the Word 
  • Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton 
  • Symposium on the Coase Theorem: Legal Fiction: The Place of the Coase Theorem in Law and Economics 
  • Taoism and the Problem of Equal Respect 
  • Terms of experience and theory: A rejoinder to Körner 
  • The Disunity of Morality and Why it Matters to Philosophy 
  • The Extensionality of Causal Contexts 
  • The Fetishism of Democracy: A Reply to Professor Gould 
  • The Impartial Spectator Goes to Washington: Towards a Smithian Theory of Electoral Politics 
  • The Logic of Electoral Preference 
  • The Malaise of Modernity.Charles Taylor 
  • The Marxian Critique Of justice and Rights 
  • The Needs of Thought and the Affirmation of Life 
  • The Ontological Status of Shocks and Trends in Macroeconomics 
  • The Place of Cleanth Brooks 
  • The Puzzle of Economic Modeling 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China. Edited by Kenneth J. Hammond and Jeffrey L. Richey 
  • The Structure of Biological Science. 
  • The Structure of Justification 
  • The Truth of Performatives 
  • The Unity of Virtue and the Object of Socratic Inquiry 
  • The economy of privacy: Institutional design in the economy of esteem 
  • The egalitarianism of human rights 
  • The ethics of incentives: Historical origins and contemporary understandings 
  • The ethics of revolution and its implications for the ethics of intervention 
  • The hidden economy of esteem 
  • The limits of evolutionary explanations of morality and their implications for moral progress 
  • The logic of causal inference: Econometrics and the Conditional Analysis of Causation 
  • The logic of electoral preference: Response to Saraydar and Hudelson 
  • The predictable irrationality of righteous minds, and the work of ethicists. 
  • The species category as a scientific kind 
  • The virtues of vagueness in the languages of science 
  • Theories of Secession 
  • Theory and experiment in evolutionary biology 
  • Toward a Smithian Theory of Electoral Behavior 
  • Toward a Theory of Secession 
  • Toward a naturalistic theory of moral progress 
  • Transformative Treatments 
  • Twenty Years of Moral Epistemology: A Bibliography 
  • Two Distinct Moral Mechanisms for Ascribing and Denying Intentionality 
  • Two hypotheses about primate cognition 
  • Understanding alien morals 
  • Universalism versus Love with Distinctions: An Ancient Debate Revived 
  • Universalism versus love with distinctions: An ancient debate revived 
  • Value judgment: Improving our ethical beliefs 
  • Virtue and Ignorance 
  • Virtue, Sex, and Gender: Some Philosophical Reflections on the Moral Psychology Debate 
  • Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (review) 
  • Weintraub’s aims: A Brief Rejoinder 
  • Well-Being, Time, and Dementia 
  • What is the general will? 
  • What's in a contrast class? 
  • What’s Wrong with Joyguzzling? 
  • Where are virtues? 
  • Who/se we are: baptism as personhood. 
  • Wittgenstein's Ethical Nonnaturalism: An Interpretation of Tractatus 6.41-47 and the 'Lecture on Ethics' 
  • You can't lose what you ain't never had: A reply to Marquis on abortion 
  • You ought to be ashamed of yourself (when you violate an imperfect moral obligation) 
  • `Ought' Conversationally Implies `Can' 
  • ‘Ought to have’ and ‘could have 
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  • Fischer, Julien, Student, Literature
  • Gillespie, Michael A., Professor of Political Science, Philosophy
  • Grosz, Elizabeth, Professor Emerita of Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
  • Hogan, Brigid L. M., George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology
  • Kadivar, Mohsen, Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies
  • Lim, Daniel, Associate Professor of Philosophy at DKU Faculty, DKU Faculty
  • Lin, Qiu, Student, Philosophy
  • McShea, Daniel W., Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • McWilliams, Emily, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan Unievrsity, DKU Faculty
  • Moi, Toril, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Literature, English
  • Namazi, Rasoul, Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
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  • Wong, David B., Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Trinity College Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Duke Science & Society