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Volume I

Issue 1

The Myth of Instrumental Rationality

by Joseph Raz

The paper distinguishes between instrumental reasons and instrumental rationality. It argues that instrumental reasons are not reasons to take the...

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April, 2005

"The Government Beguiled Me": The Entrapment Defense and the Problem of Private Entrapment

by Gideon Yaffe

Defendants who are being tried for accepting a temptation issued by the government sometimes employ the entrapment defense. Acquittal of some of...

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April, 2005

Two Approaches to Instrumental Rationality and Belief Consistency

by John Brunero

R. Jay Wallace argues that the normativity of instrumental rationality can be traced to the independent rational requirement to hold consistent...

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April, 2005

Volume I

Issue 2

The Good, the Bad, and the Blameworthy

by Neil Levy

Accounts of moral responsibility can be divided into those that claim that attributability of an act, omission, or attitude to an agent is sufficient...

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June, 2005

Essentially Comparative Concepts

by Jonathan Dancy

This paper examines Larry Temkin’s notion of an ‘essentially comparative’ concept and the uses to which he puts it. It is suggested that this notion...

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June, 2005

Is Gibbard a Realist?

by Laura Schroeter and Francois Schroeter

In Thinking How to Live, Allan Gibbard claims that expressivists can vindicate realism about moral discourse. This paper argues that Gibbard’s...

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August, 2005

Volume I

Issue 3

Cudworth and Normative Explanations

by Mark Schroeder

Moral theories usually aspire to be explanatory – to tell us why something is wrong, why it is good, or why you ought to do it. So it is worth...

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October, 2005

First Force

by William A. Edmundson

The state’s very existence seems morally problematic: there may be a justification, but there had better be. A vivid way of putting this is to say...

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November, 2005

Explaining Reasons: Where Does the Buck Stop?

by Ulrike Heuer

The buck-passing account of values offers an explanation of the close relation of values and reasons for action: of why it is that the question...

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March, 2006

Volume II

Issue 1

Strict Liability and the Mitigation of Moral Luck

by Greg Keating

The general problem of moral luck—that responsibility is profoundly affected by factors beyond the control of the person held responsible—is often...

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August, 2006

Egalitarian Justice and Innocent Choice

by Nir Eyal

In its standard formulation, luck-egalitarianism is false. Disadvantages that result from free choice to take a risk can constitute egalitarian...

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January, 2007

A Unified Moral Terrain?

by Stephen Everson

In his book What We Owe to Each Other, Thomas Scanlon proposes what he calls a ‘contractualist’ explanation of what he describes as ‘a central part...

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July, 2007

Volume II

Issue 2

Well-Being and Virtue

by Dan Haybron

Perfectionist views of well-being maintain that well-being ultimately consists, at least partly, in excellence or virtue. This paper argues that such...

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August, 2007