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    Moralism: A Study of a Vice.Craig Taylor - 2011 - Routledge.
    Moralism involves the distortion of moral thought, the distortion of reflection and judgement. It is a vice, and one to which many - from the philosopher to the media pundit to the politician - are highly susceptible. This book examines the nature of moralism in specific moral judgements and the ways in which moral philosophy and theories about morality can themselves become skewed by this vice. This book ranges across a wide range of topics: the problem of the demandingness of (...)
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    Moral Difference and Moral Differences.Craig Taylor - 2023 - Sophia 62 (4):619-630.
    The idea that human beings have a distinct moral worth—a moral significance over and above any moral worth, such as that may be, possessed by other animals—has a long history and has traditionally been taken for granted by philosophers and theologians. However, in a variety of quarters in recent philosophy, this idea has come into disrepute, seeming to indicate a mere prejudice in favour of our own species. For example, Peter Singer has argued that such a position is mere speciesism, (...)
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    Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond.Andrew Gleeson & Craig Taylor - 2019 - New York: Routledge.
    This unique collection of essays has two main purposes. The first is to honour the pioneering work of Cora Diamond, one of the most important living moral philosophers and certainly the most important working in the tradition inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second is to develop and deepen a picture of moral philosophy by carrying out new work in what Diamond has called the realistic spirit. The contributors in this book advance a first-order moral attitude that pays close attention to (...)
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    Moral Incapacity.Craig Taylor - 1995 - Philosophy 70 (272):273 - 285.
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    Fact and Value.Craig Taylor - 2019 - In Nora Hämäläinen & Gillian Dooley (eds.), Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Springer Verlag. pp. 67-78.
    For Murdoch the importance of the fact–value dichotomy is not to suggest that value is not real. Rather this separation is required in order to keep value pure and untainted with empirical facts. Here Murdoch focuses Kant and Wittgenstein, notably the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus. For both, value appears as an intimation of ‘something higher’. And it is here that Murdoch sees the deeper problem with various forms of the fact–value dichotomy: that in our explanations of human life the essential (...)
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    (1 other version)Moral incapacity and huckleberry Finn.Craig Taylor - 2001 - Ratio 14 (1):56–67.
    Bernard Williams distinguishes moral incapacities – incapacities that are themselves an expression of the moral life – from mere psychological ones in terms of deliberation. Against Williams I claim there are examples of such moral incapacity where no possible deliberation is involved – that an agent's incapacity may be a primitive feature or fact about their life. However Michael Clark argues that my claim here leaves the distinction between moral and psychological incapacity unexplained, and that an adequate understanding of the (...)
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    Literature and Moral Thought.Craig Taylor - 2014 - British Journal of Aesthetics 54 (3):285-298.
    I will consider what literature might add to moral thought and understanding as distinct from moral philosophy as it is commonly understood. My argument turns on a distinction between two conceptions of moral thought. One in which the point of moral thought is that it should issue in moral judgement leading to action; the other in which it is concerned also with what Iris Murdoch calls ‘the texture of a man’s being or the nature of his personal vision’. Drawing on (...)
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    Moralism and morally accountable beings.Craig Taylor - 2005 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2):153–160.
    abstract In this paper I consider the nature of the purported vice of moralism by examining two examples that, I suggest, exemplify this vice: the first from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; the second from David Owen's account of his experience as European negotiator between the warring parties in the former Yugoslavia. I argue that in different ways both these examples show the kind of human weakness or failure that is involved in the most extreme version of moralism, a weakness (...)
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    Anscombe on the shallowness of consequentialism.Craig Taylor - forthcoming - European Journal of Philosophy.
    This paper is divided into two parts. In the first I outline and defend Elizabeth Anscombe's claim that consequentialism is a shallow philosophy by considering how two contemporary consequentialists reach opposing but equally outlandish moral conclusions on a matter as fundamental as whether it is good or bad that the human race continues. In the second I argue that in order to show what is wrong with the consequentialist arguments presented in part one, we need to deploy a wider range (...)
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    Huck Finn, Moral Reasons and Sympathy.Craig Taylor - 2012 - Philosophy 87 (4):583-593.
    In his influential paper 'The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn', Jonathan Bennett suggests that Huck's failure to turn in the runaway slave Jim as his conscience — a conscience distorted by racism — tells him he ought to is not merely right but also praiseworthy. James Montmarquet however argues against what he sees here as Bennett's 'anti-intellectualism' in moral psychology that insofar as Huck lacks and so fails to act on the moral belief that he should help Jim his action is (...)
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    Moral cognitivism and character.Craig Taylor - 2005 - Philosophical Investigations 28 (3):253–272.
    It may seem to follow from Peter Winch's claim in ‘The Universalizability of Moral Judgements’ that a certain class of first‐person moral judgments are not universalizable that such judgments cannot be given a cognitivist interpretation. But Winch's argument does not involve the denial of moral cognitivism and in this paper I show how such judgements may be cognitively determined yet not universalizable. Drawing on an example from James Joyce's The Dead, I suggest that in the kind of situation Winch envisages (...)
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    Sympathy: a philosophical analysis.Craig Taylor - 2002 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature. This book presents a fundamental challenge to this view. Specifically, it argues that sympathy, understood as an immediate and unthinking response to another's suffering, plays a constitutive role in our conception of what it is to be human, and specifically in that conception of human life on which anything we might call a moral life depends.
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    Hume and the Enlightenment.Craig Taylor & Stephen Buckle (eds.) - 2011 - Pickering & Chatto Publishing.
    While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment.
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    Art and moralism.Craig Duncan Taylor - 2009 - Philosophy 84 (3):341-353.
    Mrs. Digby told me that when she lived in London with her sister, Mrs. Brooke, they were every now and then honoured by the visits of Dr. Johnson. He called on them one day soon after the publication of his immortal dictionary. The two ladies paid him due compliments on the occasion. Amongst other topics of praise they very much commended the omission of all naughty words. 'What! my dears! then you have been looking for them?' said the moralist. The (...)
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  15. Aristotle on Perfect Friendship.Craig Duncan Taylor - unknown
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    A sense for humanity: the ethical thought of Raimond Gaita.Craig Taylor & Melinda Kathleen Graefe (eds.) - 2014 - Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
    The essays in this collection examine the influence of Gaita's ethical thought in a broad sense, beyond academic philosophy, especially within Australian society and culture where it has been most significant. Through his various works, including his acclaimed biography, Romulus: My Father, Gaita's ethical thought has had a considerable impact on the intellectual and cultural life of Australia.
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    Impartial Morality and Practical Deliberation as First‐Personal.Craig Taylor - 2018 - Metaphilosophy 49 (4):459-473.
    Bernard Williams questioned whether impartial morality “can allow for the importance of individual character and personal relations in moral experience.” Underlying his position is a distinction between factual and practical deliberation. While factual deliberation is about the world and brings in a standpoint that is impartial, practical deliberation is, he claims, radically first‐personal; it “involves an I that [is] intimately the I of my desires.” While it may be thought that Williams's claim implies an unpalatable Humean subjectivism, the present article (...)
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  18. Introduction to Special Issue: Global Justice and Global Prosperity.Craig Taylor - 2006 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 8 (1).
     
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    Literature, Moral Reflection and Ambiguity.Craig Taylor - 2011 - Philosophy 86 (1):75-93.
    While a number of philosophers have argued recently that it is through our emotional response to certain literary works that we might achieve particular moral understanding, what has not been discussed in detail in this connection are works which generate conflicting responses in the reader; which is to say literary works in which there is significant element of ambiguity. Consider Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. I argue that in making sense of our potentially conflicting responses to this novel, and specifically (...)
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  20. Morality and the Role-Differentiated Behaviour of Lawyers.Craig Taylor - 2004 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 6 (1).
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    Moral thought outside moral theory.Craig Taylor - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
    This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral phenomena that it is supposed to explain. It presents clear examples of moral thought outside moral theorising through literature and Wittgenstein's later philosophy. The book's precise target is moral theory understood as a theory of right action. The author begins by arguing against the assumption central to moral theory that moral judgments are universalizable; that what it is (...)
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    What Maisie Knew: Moral Imagination and Two Conceptions of Moral Thought.Craig Taylor - 2017 - SATS 18 (2):141-157.
    According to a widely held view, moral thought essentially involves the survey of an array of independently specifiable morally relevant facts, on the basis of which an agent is to reach a judgment about how anybody in that situation ought to act. I argue, drawing on Henry James’s.
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    Winch on moral dilemmas and moral modality.Craig Taylor - 2006 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 49 (2):148 – 157.
    Peter Winch's famous argument in "The Universalizability of Moral Judgments" that moral judgments are not always universalizable is widely thought to involve an essentially sceptical claim about the limitations of moral theories and moral theorising more generally. In this paper I argue that responses to Winch have generally missed the central positive idea upon which Winch's argument is founded: that what is right for a particular agent to do in a given situation may depend on what is and is not (...)
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  24. A Knight's Own Book Of Chivalry. [REVIEW]Craig Taylor - 2006 - The Medieval Review 4.
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    Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield. [REVIEW]Craig Taylor - 2012 - Speculum 87 (3):884-885.
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  26. Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275 - c.1525. [REVIEW]Craig Taylor - 2000 - The Medieval Review 9.
     
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    Juliet Barker, Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, 1417–1450. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 485. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-06560-4. [REVIEW]Craig Taylor - 2014 - Speculum 89 (2):441-442.
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