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Respect Of Utilitarianism: A Response To Regan's 'Receptacles Of Value' Objection, Scott Wilson
Respect Of Utilitarianism: A Response To Regan's 'Receptacles Of Value' Objection, Scott Wilson
Philosophy Faculty Publications
According to Regan, classical utilitarians value individuals in the wrong way: rather than valuing them directly, the utilitarians must value individuals merely as receptacles of what is valuable (i.e. pleasure). I demonstrate that Regan's argument is ineffective. I first show that Regan's argument presupposes a faulty understanding of the nature of hedonism and intrinsic value. I then argue that since pleasures are states of individuals, when a person values a pleasure she thereby values the individual as well.
The Species-Norm Account Of Moral Status, Scott Wilson
The Species-Norm Account Of Moral Status, Scott Wilson
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Many philosophers have argued against Singer’s claim that all animals are equal. However, none of these responses have demonstrated an appreciation of the complexity of his position. The result is that all of these responses focus on one of his arguments in a way that falls victim to another. This paper is a critical examination of a possible response to the full complexity of Singer’s position that derives from the work of Carl Cohen, Kathleen Wilkes, and F. Ramsey. On this response, a being’s moral status depends not on the capacities and abilities she does in fact have, but instead …
The Self-Growth Of Vision And The Self-Repose Of Color: A Heideggerian Meditation On The Studio Paintings Of Jean Koeller, Charles Taylor
The Self-Growth Of Vision And The Self-Repose Of Color: A Heideggerian Meditation On The Studio Paintings Of Jean Koeller, Charles Taylor
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual Edition, David B. Manley, Charles S. Taylor
Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual Edition, David B. Manley, Charles S. Taylor
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The publication of this English-Latin-French edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is quite simply an experiment in electronic scholarship. We decided to make this edition available and to encourage its free distribution for scholarly purposes. The idea behind the experiment is to see how others involved in electronic scholarship might put these texts to use. We have no predetermined ideas of what such use may be when transformed from this origin. The texts have no hypertext annotations except for those used for navigation. We invite others to download this edition and to create their own hypertext annotated editions and …
Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor
Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor
Philosophy Faculty Publications
This essay examines the ideas of one of the central characters in Tom Robbins’ 1977 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/ in relation to the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. It makes no argument for any influence of Nietzsche upon Robbins but rather considers similarities in thought as such.