PHIL 202: Ethics Core Course
Winter 2004; David O. Brink
Topic: Practical Reason
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• Anscombe, Elizabeth.  Intention (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957).
• Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.
• Aristotle.  De Anima.
• Arneson, Richard. “Human Flourishing versus Desire Satisfaction” Social Philosophy & Policy 16 (1999): 113-42.
• Axelrod, Robert.  The Evolution of Cooperation (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
• Brandt, Richard. A Theory of the Right and the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
• Brink, David.  “The Significance of Desire” [ms.].
• Brink, David. “Prudence and Authenticity: Intrapersonal Conflicts of Value” Philosophical Review 113 (2004).
• Brink, David.  Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T.H. Green (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003).
• Brink, David.  "Self-love and Altruism" Social Philosophy & Policy 14 (1997): 122-57.
• Brink, David.  "Kantian Rationalism: Inescapability, Authority, and Supremacy" in Ethics and Practical Reason, ed. G. Cullity and B. Gaut (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
• Brink, David.  "Moral Motivation" Ethics 107 (1997): 4-32.
• Brink, David.  "Rational Egoism and the Separateness of Persons" in Reading Parfit, ed. J. Dancy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
• Cohon, Rachel.  “Are External Reasons Impossible?” Ethics 96 (1986): 545-56.
• Darwall, Stephen. “Because I Want It” Social Philosophy & Policy 18 (2001): 12-53.
• Darwall, Stephen.  “Self-Interest and Self-Concern” Social Philosophy & Policy 14 (1997): 158-78.
• Darwall, Stephen.  Impartial Reason (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).
• Darwall, S., Gibbard, A., and Railton, P.  Moral Discourse and Practice (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
• Darwall, S., Gibbard, A., and Railton, P.  “Toward Fin de Siecle Ethics: Some Trends” Philosophical Review 101 (1992): 115-89.
• Firth, Roderick.  “Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer Theory” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 12 (1952): 317-45.
• Foot, Philippa.  Natural Goodness (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
• Foot, Philippa.  “Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 15 (1995): 1-14.
• Foot, Philippa.  “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives” in Virtues and Vices (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).
• Gauthier, David.  Morals by Agreement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
• Gibbard, Allan.  Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Green, T.H.  Prolegomena to Ethics [1883], ed. D. Brink (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).
• Griffin, James.  Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement, and Moral Importance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986).
• Harman, Gilbert. “Moral Relativism Defended” Philosophical Review 85 (1975): 3-22.
• Hobbes, Thomas.  Leviathan [1651].
• Humberstone, I.L.  “Directions of Fit” Mind 101 (1992): 59-83.
• Hume, David.  An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals [1751], ed. P. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).
• Hume, David.  A Treatise of Human Nature [1739], ed. P. Nidditch (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1978).
• Hurka, Thomas.  Virtue, Vice, and Value (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002).
• Hurka, Thomas.  Perfectionism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).
• Kant, Immanuel.  Critique of Practical Reason [1788]
• Kant, Immanuel.  Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals [1785]
• Kitcher, Philip.  “Essence and Perfection” Ethics 109 (1999): 59-83.
• Korsgaard, Christine.  The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• Korsgaard, Christine.  “Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency” A Kantian Response to Parfit” reprinted in Creating the Kingdom of Ends (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• Korsgaard, Christine.  “Skepticism about Practical Reason” reprinted in Creating the Kingdom of Ends.
• Kraut, Richard.  "Desire and the Human Good" Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (1994): 39-54.
• Kraut, Richard.  “Two Conceptions of Happiness” Philosophical Review 88 (1979): 167-97.
• Lewis, David.  “Dispositional Theories of Value” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary volume (1989): 113-37.
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura.
• McDowell, John.  “Values and Secondary Qualities” in Morality and Objectivity, ed. T. Honderich (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985).
• McDowell, John.  “Virtue and Reason” The Monist 62 (1979): 331-50.
• Mill, J.S.  Utilitarianism [1861].
• Mitsis, Phillip.  “Epicurus on Death and the Duration of Life” Proceedings of the Tenth Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (1989).
• Nagel, Thomas.  The View from Nowhere (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Nagel, Thomas.  “Death” reprinted in Mortal Questions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
• Nagel, Thomas.  The Possibility of Altruism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
• Moore, G.E.  Principia Ethica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903).
• Parfit, Derek.  “Reasons, Goodness, and Morality” [ms.].
• Parfit, Derek.  Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
• Plato.  Republic.
• Plato.  Gorgias.
• Railton, Peter.  Facts, Values, and Norms (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Railton, Peter.  “Facts and Values” Philosophical Topics 14 (1986): 5-31.
• Rawls, John.  A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).
• Regan, Donald.  “The Value of Rational Nature” Ethics 112 (2002): 267-91.
• Rosati, Connie.  "Internalism and the Good for a Person" Ethics 106 (1996): 297-306.
• Rosati, Connie.  “Naturalism, Normativity, and the Open Question Argument” Nous 29 (1995): 46-70.
• Rosati, Connie.  “Persons, Perspectives, and Full Information Theories of the Good” Ethics 105 (1995): 296-325.
• Scanlon, T.M.  What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
• Sidgwick, Henry.  The Methods of Ethics [1874], 7th ed. (London: Macmillan, 1907).
• Smith, Michael. The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).
• Sobel, David.  “Full Information Accounts of the Good” Ethics 104 (1994): 784-810.
• Stampe, Dennis.  “The Authority of Desire” Philosophical Review 96 (1987): 335-81.
• Stevenson, C.L.  “The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms” reprinted in Facts and Values (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
• Sturgeon, Nicholas.  “Brandt’s Moral Empiricism” Philosophical Review 91 (1982): 389-422.
• Sturgeon. Nicholas.  “Altruism, Solipsism, and the Objectivity of Reasons” Philosophical Review 83 (1974): 374-402.
• Sumner, Wayne.  Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
• Tiffany, Evan.  “The Unity of Reason” [ms].
• Tiffany, Evan.  “Alienation and Internal Reasons for Action” Social Theory and Practice 29 (2003): 387-418.
• Velleman, David.  “The Guise of the Good” Nous 26 (1992): 3-26.
• Wiggins, David.  “A Sensible Subjectivism?” reprinted in Needs, Value, and Truth (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987).
• Williams, Bernard. “Internal and External Reasons” reprinted in Moral Luck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
• Williams, Bernard.  “Persons, Character, and Morality” reprinted in Moral Luck.
• Williams, Bernard.  “A Critique of Uitilitarianism” in A. Sen and B. Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).