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  1. Essays on moral realism.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (ed.) - 1988 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    Introduction The Many Moral Realisms Geoffrey Sayre-McCord I. Introduction Recognizing the startling resurgence in realism, ...
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  2. (1 other version)Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1996 - In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Mark Timmons (eds.), Moral knowledge?: new readings in moral epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press.
    matter of knowing that -- that injustice is wrong, courage is valuable, and care is As a result, what I'll be doing is primarily defending in general -- and due. Such knowledge is embodied in a range of capacities, abilities, and skills..
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  3. Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence In: Sayre-McCord, G. ed.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1988 - In Essays on moral realism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. pp. 256--281.
     
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  4. On Why Hume's “General Point of View” Isn't Ideal–and Shouldn't Be.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1994 - Social Philosophy and Policy 11 (1):202-228.
    It is tempting and not at all uncommon to find the striking—even noble—visage of an Ideal Observer staring out from the center of Hume's moral theory. When Hume claims, for instance, that virtue is “ whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation ,” it is only natural to think that he must have in mind not just any spectator but a spectator who is fully informed and unsullied by prejudice. And when Hume writes (...)
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  5. The many moral realisms.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1986 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (S1):1-22.
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    Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1988 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12 (1):433-457.
  7. Hume and Smith on sympathy, approbation, and moral judgment.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2013 - Social Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2):208-236.
    David Hume and Adam Smith are usually, and understandably, seen as developing very similar sentimentalist accounts of moral thought and practice. As similar as Hume's and Smith's accounts of moral thought are, they differ in telling ways. This essay is an attempt primarily to get clear on the important differences. They are worth identifying and exploring, in part, because of the great extent to which Hume and Smith share not just an overall approach to moral theory but also a conception (...)
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  8. 'Good' on twin earth.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1997 - Philosophical Issues 8:267-292.
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  9. The metaethical problem.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1997 - Ethics 108 (1):55-83.
  10. Deontic logic and the priority of moral theory.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1986 - Noûs 20 (2):179-197.
  11. Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1995 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 20 (1):280-298.
    Appeals to utility permeate Hume's account of morality. He maintains, for which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss" (T. 578-79).
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  12. (1 other version)Moral Realism.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2006 - In David Copp (ed.), The Oxford handbook of ethical theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  13. Being a realist about relativism (in ethics).Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1991 - Philosophical Studies 61 (1-2):155-176.
    How should a moral realist respond to the (seemingly) abundant evidence diversity provides for relativism? Many think there is only one reasonable response: abandon moral realism. Against them, I argue that moral realists can stand their ground in the face of moral diversity without relying on excessively optimistic arguments or unrealistic assumptions. In the process, I defend two theses: (i) that, far from being incompatible with moral realism, many plausible versions of relativism are _versions of moral realism; and (ii) the (...)
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  14. Normative Ethics.R. G. Frey, Brad Hooker, F. M. Kamm, Thomas E. Hill Jr, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, David McNaughton, Jan Narveson, Michael Slote, Alison M. Jaggar & William R. Schroeder - 2000 - In Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. Blackwell.
     
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    Deception and Reasons to Be Moral.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1989 - American Philosophical Quarterly 26 (2):113 - 122.
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    (1 other version)Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2001 - Noûs 35 (s1):502 - 529.
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    Real world theory, complacency, and aspiration.Geoffrey Brennan & Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 178 (7):2365-2384.
    Just how realistic about human nature and real possibilities must a theory of justice, or a moral theory, more generally, be? Lines have been drawn, with some holding that idealizing away from reality is indispensable and others maintaining that utopian thinking is not just useless but irrelevant. In Utopophobia David Estlund defends the value of utopian theory. At his most modest, Estlund claims that it is a legitimate approach, not ruled out of court by anti-idealists on entirely inadequate grounds—merely “by (...)
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    Coherence and Models for Moral Theorizing.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1985 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1-2):170-190.
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  19. Mill's “Proof” of the Principle of Utility: A More than Half-Hearted Defense.Geoffrey Sayre-Mccord - 2001 - Social Philosophy and Policy 18 (2):330.
    How many serious mistakes can a brilliant philosopher make in a single paragraph? Many think that Mill answers this question by example—in the third paragraph of Chapter IV of Utilitarianism. Here is the notorious paragraph: The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the (...)
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    Do normative facts matter... To what is feasible?Geoffrey Brennan & Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2016 - Social Philosophy and Policy 33 (1-2):434-456.
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  21. (2 other versions)Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2008 - Oxford Studies in Metaethics 3:299-320.
     
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    Normative explanations.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1992 - Philosophical Perspectives 6:55-71.
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    PPE as an intellectual enterprise.Geoffrey Brennan & Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2022 - In Chris Melenovsky (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. New York: Routledge.
    We defend and explore the view that bringing philosophy, political science, and economics together in the study of social and political institutions sheds light and banishes shadows in ways that no subset of these three disciplines could possibly accomplish.
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  24. Philosophy, Politics, & Economics.Jonny Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, Michael Munger & Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2015 - Oxford University Press.
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    Hume: Moral Philosophy.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (ed.) - 2006 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of _A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals_ and many of his essays as well. This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, (...)
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    The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1985
  27. Different kinds of kind terms: A reply to Sosa and Kim.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1997 - Philosophical Issues 8:313-323.
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    Treatise of Human Nature and Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning the Principles of Morals.David Hume, L. A. Selby-Bigge, P. H. Nidditch & Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1991
  29. Contemporary contractarian moral theory.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - manuscript
    Contractarianism, as a general approach to moral and political thought, has perspective I offer, however, is not scrupulously historical. I smooth over a good deal of the twists and turns that due care to the historical record would had a long and distinguished history -- its roots are easily traced as far back as..
     
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  30. (1 other version)Desires... and Beliefs... of One's Own.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord & Michael A. Smith - 2014 - In Manuel Vargas & Gideon Yaffe (eds.), Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 129-151.
    On one influential view, a person acts autonomously, doing what she genuinely values, if she acts on a desire that is her own, which is (on this account) a matter of it being appropriately ratified at a higher level. This view faces two problems. It doesn’t generalize, as it should, to an account of when a belief is an agent’s own, and does not let one distinguish between desires (and beliefs) happening to be one's own and their being the ones (...)
     
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    David M. Estlund.Geoffrey Sayre-Mccord - 1988 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (4).
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  32. Functional explanations and reasons as causes.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1989 - Philosophical Perspectives 3:137-164.
    If we assume that a conceptual connection does hold between reasons and action, the arguments for both theses are strikingly simple. In defense of the first thesis, all that need be added is Hume's Principle: between cause and effect only a (logically) contingent relation holds. For given Hume's Principle, and the conceptual connection (which after all is not a contingent one), it follows that no causal connection holds. In defense of the second thesis, all that need be added is one (...)
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    Hume on the Artificial Virtues.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2016 - In Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In the Treatise, Hume offers a detailed account of what he calls the artificial virtues: of justice, of fidelity to promises, and of allegiance to political authority, among others. According to virtually everyone, Hume’s discussion of these artificial virtues—and especially of the conventions on which he argues they depend—is inspired, rich, and subtle. At the same time, also according to virtually everyone, Hume’s discussion is deeply puzzling. Indeed, many have thought the puzzles so deep as to render Hume’s position internally (...)
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  34. Hume's Representation Argument Against Rationalism.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1997 - Manuscrito 20:77.
     
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  35. Leibniz, Materialism, and the Relational Account of Space and Time.Geoffrey Sayre-Mccord - 1984 - Studia Leibnitiana 16:204.
    Leibniz' Verteidigung einer relationalen Auffassung von Raum und Zeit im Briefwechsel mit Clarke nimmt in keiner Weise Bezug auf Monaden. Infolgedessen haben einige Leibniz-Interpreten angenommen, Leibniz' relationale Auffassung von Raum und Zeit könne -wenn man sie hinreichend abstrakt versteht -von seiner außerordentlich mentalistischen Ontologie losgelöst werde. In der Tat hat der Gedanke einer Trennung der beiden Lehren etwas Bestechendes, da die relationale Auffassung plausibler erscheint als Leibniz' Metaphysik der Monaden. Vor allem haben Materialisten sich Leibniz' relationale Auffassung zu eigen gemacht (...)
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  36. Moral skepticism.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2010 - In Sven Bernecker Duncan Pritchard (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology. New York: Routledge. pp. 464.
     
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    On ‘Cooperation’.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord & Geoffrey Brennan - 2018 - Analyse & Kritik 40 (1):107-130.
    The term ‘cooperation’ is widely used in social and political and biological and economic theory. Perhaps for this reason, the term takes on a variety of meanings and it is not always clear in many settings what aspect of an interaction is being described. This paper has the modest aim of sorting through some of this variety of meanings; and exploring, against that background, when and why cooperation might be of value, or be required, or constitute a virtue.
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  38. On the relevance of ignorance to the demands of morality.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 2002 - In Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert’s Moral Theory. Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 51-70.
    In Morality, Bernard Gert argues that the fundamental demands of morality are well articulated by ten distinct, and relatively simple, rules. These rules, he holds, are such that any person, no matter what her circumstances or interests, would be rational in accepting, and guiding her choices by, them. The rules themselves are comfortably familiar (e.g. “Do not kill,” “Do not deceive,” “Keep your promises”) and sit well as intuitively plausible. Yet the rules are not, Gert argues, to be accepted merely (...)
     
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  39. Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert’s Moral Theory.Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (ed.) - 2002 - Rowman and Littlefield.
     
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    The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz. K. Okruhlik, J. Brown. [REVIEW]Geoffrey Sayre-McCord - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (1):173-174.
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