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Getting It Right in Ethical Experience: John McDowell and Virtue Ethics

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  1. See John McDowell, “Aesthetic Value, Objectivity and the Fabric of the World,” in Mind, Value, and Reality (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998); see also “Values and Secondary Qualities,” in McDowell, 1998 op. cit. and esp. Mind and World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996).

  2. Sabina Lovibond, Ethical Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 25.

  3. John McDowell, “Two Sorts of Naturalism,” in McDowell, Mind, Value, and Reality, p. 170.

  4. Ibid., p. 188.

  5. John McDowell, “Virtue and Reason,” in McDowell, Mind, Value, and Reality, p. 53.

  6. See John McDowell, “Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Robert Heinaman, ed., Aristotle and Moral Realism (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998), p. 211.

  7. McDowell, “Virtue and Reason,” Mind, Value, and Reality, p. 68.

  8. See Amy Lara, “Virtue Theory and Moral Facts,” the Journal of Value Inquiry 42 (2008), p. 343.

  9. Ibid., pp. 55–56.

  10. See John McDowell, “Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle,” in Sabina Lovibond and Stephan G. Williams, eds., op. cit., p. 97.

  11. See Jan Bransen, “On the Incompleteness of McDowell’s Moral Realism,” Topoi 21 (2002).

  12. See David Coop, Morality, Normativity and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 3.

  13. Anne Margaret Baxley, “The Price of Virtue,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007), p. 414.

  14. Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 139.

  15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), § 240.

  16. Iris Murdoch, “Metaphysics and Ethics,” in Maria Antonaccio and William Schweiker, eds., Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1996), p. 243.

  17. I would like to thank several anonymous referees and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their valuable comments and help.

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Christensen, AM.S. Getting It Right in Ethical Experience: John McDowell and Virtue Ethics. J Value Inquiry 43, 493–506 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-009-9191-7

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