The latest ethics alert can be found below the fold.
Publicly Available:
David Enoch
Agency,
Shmagency: Why Normativity Won’t Come from What Is Constitutive of Action
Philosophical Review 2006; 115(2):
169-198; DOI:10.1215/00318108-2005-014
[References]
Journal
of Ethics & Social Philosophy
“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
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Jennifer Lynn
Wright, Asymmetries in Folk Judgments of Responsibility and Intentional
Action.
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2006-08-23 : View this Review
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Reviews
Catriona McKinnon, Toleration: A Critical Introduction,
Routledge, 2006, 218pp., $31.95 (pbk), ISBN 0415322901.
Reviewed by Duncan Ivison
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2006-08-22 : View this Review
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Ingmar Persson, The Retreat of Reason: A Dilemma in the Philosophy
of Life, Oxford University Press, 2005, 494pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN
0199276900.
Reviewed by Jonas Olson
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2006-08-21 : View this Review
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Reviews
Simona Giordano, Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and
Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa,
Oxford University Press, 2005, 297pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 0199269742.
Reviewed by Lisa Heldke
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Available by Subscription Only:
Ethics, Volume 116 (July 2006), Number
4. This issue contains:
Paradoxes
of Abortion and Prenatal Injury
by Jeff McMahan
Full Text PDF (106 kB) PostScript
The
Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics
by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord
Full Text PDF (121 kB) PostScript
Does
Consequentialism Make Too Many Demands, or None at All?
by Paul E. Hurley
Full Text PDF (121 kB) PostScript
Moral
Generalism: Enjoy in Moderation
by Pekka Väyrynen
Full Text PDF (161 kB) PostScript
Rejecting
Ethical Deflationism
by Jacob Ross
Full Text PDF (134 kB) PostScript
Book Reviews 769 Anne L.
Alstott, No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes
Parents
Reviewed by Axel P. Gosseries
Full Text PDF (38 kB) PostScript 773 Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of
Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
Reviewed by Eric MacGilvray
Full Text PDF (36 kB) PostScript 776 Ken Binmore, Natural Justice
Reviewed by Gerry Mackie
Full Text PDF (40 kB) PostScript 781 David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion
Reviewed by Ann E. Cudd
Full Text PDF (37 kB) PostScript 785 Joshua Gert, Brute Rationality
Reviewed by Terence Cuneo
Full Text PDF (36 kB) PostScript 789 R. Kevin Hill, Nietzsche’s
Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought
Reviewed by Ariela Tubert
Full Text PDF (34 kB) PostScript 792 George Klosko, Political Obligations
Reviewed by Govert den Hartogh
Full Text PDF (38 kB) PostScript 796 Eric MacGilvray, Reconstructing
Public Reason
Reviewed by J. Donald Moon
Full Text PDF (34 kB) PostScript 800 Shaun Nichols, Sentimental Rules:
On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment
Reviewed by Gopal Sreenivasan
Full Text PDF (43 kB) PostScript 805 Joseph Raz, The Practice of Value
Reviewed by William J. FitzPatrick
Full Text PDF (39 kB) PostScript 809 L. W. Sumner, The Hateful and the
Obscene
Reviewed by Larry Alexander
Full Text PDF (40 kB) PostScript 813 Lucas Swaine, The Liberal
Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism
Reviewed by Christopher J. Eberle
Full Text PDF (46 kB) PostScript 820 Notes on Contributors
Full Text PDF (20 kB) PostScript 825 Index to Volume 116
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Volume 9
Number 3/September 2006 of Philosophical
Explorations is now available on the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk. This issue contains:
Hamid
Vahid, Conceivability and possibility: Chalmers on modal epistemology
Demian
Whiting, Standing up for an affective account of emotion
Giovanni
Boniolo and Gabriele De Anna, The four faces of omission: Ontology, terminology,
epistemology, and ethics
Edmund
Henden, The role of all things considered judgements in practical
deliberation
Jack M.
C. Kwong, Why concepts can’t be theories
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Egalitarianism: An Interpretation and Defense</a>. forthcoming in
<i>Philosophical Topics</i>.