Philosophical doubts about moral responsibility have typically been rooted in worries about
free agency in the face of causal determinism, culminating in familiar metaphysical …

What implications, if any, does evolutionary biology have for metaethics? Many believe that
our evolutionary background supports a deflationary metaethics, providing a basis at least …

Christine Korsgaard has put forward a sustained critique of ethical realism as part of a larger
argument for reconceiving the nature of practical philosophy itself. 1 What turns out to be …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 S tudies in P hilosophy Edited by Robert Nozick Pellegrino University
Professor at Harvard University AG arland S eries Page 3 Page 4 Teleology and the Norms of …

Most of us agree that there were probably evolutionary influences on the moral belief-
forming dispositions of our Pleistocene ancestors. Some have argued, however, that this …

When is someone to blame for an action performed in ignorance of the fact that it should not
have been done, and why? Suppose Alyssa gives her patient a treatment that does more …

There is perhaps no more widely shared conviction in contemporary metaethics, even
among those who hold otherwise divergent views, than that practical normativity must be …

Ethical non-naturalism, as I shall understand it, is the view that there are real ethical
properties and facts that are not among the natural properties and facts of the world. This is …

The distinction between harm that is intended as a means or end, and harm that is merely a
foreseen side-effect of one's action, is widely cited as a significant factor in a variety of …

We have investigated whether jejunal hyperacidity leads to bile acid precipitation and thus
limits lipid solubilisation in patients with pancreatic steatorrhoea. Jejunal contents from 12 …