GEOFFREY SAYRE-MCCORD Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor and Department Chair

Geoff Sayre-McCord has published articles on moral theory, epistemology, and modern philosophy, and has edited Essays on Moral Realism and Hume: Moral Philosophy. He is currently working on metaethics, moral theory, and epistemology. Some publications include: "Coherence and Models for Moral Theorizing," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1985); "Deontic Logic and the Priority of Moral Theory," Noûs (1986); "The Many Moral Realisms," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Conference Supplement, (1986); "Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence," Midwest Studies (1988); "Deception and Reasons to be Moral," American Philosophical Quarterly, (1989); "Functional Explanations and Reasons as Causes," Philosophical Perspectives (1990); "Being a Realist about Relativism," Philosophical Studies (1991); "Normative Explanations," Philosophical Perspectives (1992); "On Why Hume's General Point of View Isn't Ideal -- and Shouldn't Be," Social Philosophy and Policy (1994); "Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory," in Moral Knowledge?, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong and Timmons (1996); "Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics," Midwest Studies (1996); "Hume's Representation Argument Against Rationalism," Manuscrito (1997); "The Meta-Ethical Problem," Ethics (1997); "'Good' on Twin Earth," Philosophical Issues (1997); "Contractarianism," Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (1999); "Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations," Philosophical Issues (2001); "Mill's 'Proof': A More than Half-Hearted Defense," Social Philosophy and Policy (2001); "On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality," Rationality, Rules, and Ideals, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2002); "Moral Realism," Oxford Handbook of Moral Theory, ed. by Copp (2006); “Coherentism and the Justification of Moral Beliefs,” in Ethical Theory, ed. by Shafer-Landau (2007); "Moral Semantics and Empirical Enquiry," Moral Psychology, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2007); "Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason," Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed. by Shafer-Landau (2007). [Complete CV]

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