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Papers by Geoff Sayre-McCord

  • “Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason,” in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 299-320.
  • “Moral Semantics and Empirical Enquiry,” in Moral Psychology: the Cognitive Science of Morality, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (MIT Press, 2007).
  • “Coherentism and the Justification of Moral Beliefs,” in Ethical Theory, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau (Blackwell Press, 2007), pp. 123-139.  This is a much shorted version of "Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory."
  • “Metaethics,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Zalta (January 2007), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/
  • "Moral Realism," in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Theory, edited by David Copp (Oxford University Press, 2006).
  •  “Moral Realism,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Zalta (October 2005), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/
  • “On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demand’s of Morality,” in Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 51-70.
  • "In Defense of Reparations: A Reply to Estlund and Gaus" in Legal and Political Philosophy, Social, Political & Legal Philosophy, Vol. 1, edited by Enrique Villanueva (Rodopi: New York, 2002), pp. 371-383.
  • "Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment," in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Philosophical Issues, 11, ed. by Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva (Blackwell: Boston, 2001), pp. 502-529.
  • "Mill's 'Proof' of the Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense," in Social Philosophy & Policy, volume 18, number 2 (Spring 2001), 330-360. 
  • "Contractarianism," in The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory edited by Hugh LaFollette (Blackwell, 1999), pp. 247-267.
  • "Hume's Representation Argument Against Rationalism," Manuscrito 20 (1997), pp. 77-94.
  • "Moral Knowledge," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward Craig (Routledge, 1998).
  • "The Metaethical Problem," Ethics 108 (October 1997), pp. 55-83.
  • "'Good' on Twin Earth," Philosophical Issues, vol. 8 (1997), pp. 267-292.
  • "Different Kinds of Kinds: A Reply to Kim and Sosa," Philosophical Issues, vol. 8 (1997), pp. 313-323.
  • "Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XX (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), pp. 280-298..
  • "Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory," in Moral Knowledge?, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 137-189.
  • "The Fact/Value Distinction," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy edited by Robert Audi (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 260.
  • "Fact/Values," in the Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 165-168.
  • "On Why Hume's 'General Point of View' Isn't Ideal -- and Shouldn't Be," in Social Philosophy & Policy, volume 11, number 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 202-228. 
  • "Coherentism," in The Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing, 1992) edited by Lawrence Becker and Charlotte Becker. To be reprinted in the substantially revised and expanded second edition, forthcoming.
  • "Normative Explanations," Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. VII edited by James Tomberlin (1992), pp. 55-72.
  • "Being A Realist About Relativism (in Ethics)," Philosophical Studies 61 (1991), pp. 155-176.
  • "Functional Explanations and Reasons as Causes," Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. IV edited by James Tomberlin (1989), pp. 137-164.
  • "Deception and Reasons to be Moral," American Philosophical Quarterly (April, 1989), pp. 113-122.
  • "Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence, " Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XII (University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 433-457. 
  • "Deontic Logic and the Priority of Moral Theory," Noûs 20 (1986), pp. 179-197.
  • "The Many Moral Realisms," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1986), Supplement, pp. 1-22.  (An issue devoted to the papers delivered at the Spindel Conference on Moral Realism, October 1985.)
  • "Coherence and Models for Moral Theorizing," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1985), pp. 170-l90.
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