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    Patriotism, Morality, and Peace.Stephen Nathanson - 1993 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    'It is rare that a philosopher addresses a topic that is at once of vital interest to non-philosophers and philosophers alike.'-CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE NEWSLETTER.
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  2. In defense of "moderate patriotism".Stephen Nathanson - 1989 - Ethics 99 (3):535-552.
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    The ideal of rationality.Stephen Nathanson - 1985 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press.
  4. Terrorism and the Ethics of War.Stephen Nathanson - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.
    Stephen Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism if we focus on terrorism alone and neglect broader issues about the ethics ...
  5. (1 other version)Does it matter if the death penalty is arbitrarily administered?Stephen Nathanson - 1985 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (2):149-164.
  6. An Eye for an Eye: The Immorality of Punishing by Death.Stephen Nathanson - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    In the second edition of An Eye for an Eye? Stephen Nathanson evaluates arguments for and against the death penalty, and ultimately defends an abolitionist position to the controversial practice, including arguments that show how and why the death penalty is inconsistent with respect for life and a commitment to justice. A timely new postscript and an updated bibliography accompany the volume.
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  7. Terrorism and the Ethics of War.Stephen Nathanson - 2012 - Social Philosophy Today 28:187-198.
    The primary thesis of Terrorism and the Ethics of War is that terrorist acts are always wrong. I begin this paper by describing two views that I criticize in the book The first condemns all terrorism but applies the term in a biased way; the second defends some terrorist acts. I then respond to issues raised by the commentators. I discuss Joan McGregor’s concerns about the definition of terrorism and about how terrorism differs from other forms of violence againstinnocent people. (...)
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  8. Act and Rule Utilitariansim.Stephen Nathanson - 2014 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
     
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    John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the Alleviation of Poverty.Stephen Nathanson - 2012 - Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (2):161-176.
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    Patriotism, War, and the Limits of Permissible Partiality.Stephen Nathanson - 2009 - The Journal of Ethics 13 (4):401-422.
    This paper examines whether patriotism and other forms of group partiality can be justified and what are the moral limits on actions performed to benefit countries and other groups. In particular, I ask whether partiality toward one’s country can justify attacking enemy civilians to achieve victory or other political goals. Using a rule utilitarian approach, I then defend the legitimacy of “moderate” patriotic partiality but argue that noncombatant immunity imposes an absolute constraint on what may be done to promote the (...)
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  11. Utilitarianism, Act and Rule.Stephen Nathanson - 2014 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Act and Rule Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they […].
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    Hume's Second Thoughts on the Self.Stephen Nathanson - 1976 - Hume Studies 2 (1):36-46.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:36. HUME'S SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE SELF* 1_. Although the appendix in which Hume confesses disillusionment with the Treatise theory of personal identity is very puzzling and confusing, there have been few serious attempts to explicate it. Wade L. Robison's recent paper, "Hume on Personal Identity," goes a long way toward making up for this lack, and I concur with much of what Robison says. Nonetheless, I think further (...)
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    Equality, Sufficiency, Decency.Stephen Nathanson - 2005 - Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (9999):367-377.
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    Nonevidential reasons for belief: A Jamesian view.Stephen L. Nathanson - 1982 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42 (4):572-580.
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    Russell's Scientific Mysticism.Stephen Nathanson - 1985 - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 5 (1):14.
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    Fletcher on loyalty and universal morality.Stephen Nathanson - 1993 - Criminal Justice Ethics 12 (1):56-62.
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    Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World.Larry May, Kenneth Henley, Alistair Macleod, Rex Martin, David Duquette, Lucinda Peach, Helen Stacy, William Nelson, Steven Lee, Stephen Nathanson & Jonathan Schonsheck (eds.) - 2005 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept of universal human rights. This collection of essays explores the foundations of universal human rights in four sections devoted to their nature, application, enforcement, and limits, concluding that shared rights help to constitute a universal human community, which supports local customs and separate state sovereignty. The eleven contributors to this volume demonstrate from their very different perspectives how human rights can help to bring moral order to an (...)
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    Abelson's refutation of mind-body identity.Stephen L. Nathanson - 1972 - Philosophical Studies 23 (1-2):116-118.
    R. Abelson argues that the identity theory is false because it is possible to have an infinite number of thoughts (e.G. Of natural numbers) while the number of possible brain states is finite. The refutation fails because it conflates the logical possibility of having infinite thoughts with the actual ability to have them. The latter depends on many contingent facts, One of which may be the number of possible brain states.
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    Claudia Card, Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide.Stephen Nathanson - 2012 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 9 (4):600-602.
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    How (Not) to Think About the Death Penalty.Stephen Nathanson - 1997 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (2):7-10.
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    John Stuart Mill on the Ownership and Use of Land.Stephen Nathanson - 2005 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 12 (2):10-16.
    My aim in this paper is to describe some of John Stuart Mill’s views about property rights in land and some implications he drew for public policy. While Mill defends private ownership of land, he emphasizes the ways in which ownership of land is an anomaly that does not fit neatly into the usual views about private ownership. While most of MiII’s discussion assumes the importance of maximizing the productivity of land, he anticipates contemporary environmentalists by also expressing concerns about (...)
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    Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Role of Moral Reasons in Explaining and Evaluating Political Decision‐Making.Stephen Nathanson - 2008 - Journal of Social Philosophy 22 (2):94-108.
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    Locke's theory of ideas.Stephen Nathanson - 1973 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 11 (1):29.
  24. Locke's Uses of the Theory of Ideas.Stephen Nathanson - 1978 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 59 (3):241.
     
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  25. Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth's "Floating Opera".Stephen Nathanson - 1982 - Analecta Husserliana 12:137.
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    On Deciding Whether a Nation Deserves Our Loyalty.Stephen Nathanson - 1990 - Public Affairs Quarterly 4 (3):287-298.
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    ‘Partiality’, by Keller, Simon: Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. vii-x + 163, $35 (US dollars) [hardback].Stephen Nathanson - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3):593-596.
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    Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy.Stephen Nathanson (ed.) - 2004 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of _Principles of Political Economy_, Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of Mill's views on many important topics: socialism, population, the status of women, the cultural bases of economic productivity, the causes and possible cures of poverty, the nature of property rights, taxation, and the legitimate functions of government. Nathanson cuts through the dated and less relevant sections of this large work and includes significant material omitted in (...)
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    Scepticism and concept possession.Stephen Nathanson - 1974 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2):215-223.
    This is an attempt to clarify the ways in which traditional empiricist theories of mind lend support to sceptical doubts about physical objects. I argue that a crucial role is played by the assumption that having a concept consists of being able to recognize instances of that concept. I further argue that this view of concept possession is false so that any sceptical view based on empiricist assumptions about the mind is unwarranted.
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    Is Terrorism, or War, Ever Justified? Comment on Nathanson’s Terrorism and the Ethics of War.Stephen Nathanson - 2012 - Social Philosophy Today 28:177-185.
    Nathanson asks how we can properly understand terrorism such that it is (a) always unjustified, and (b) does not thereby preclude justified warfare. By means of a novel ruleutilitarian argument bolstering the inviolability of noncombatants, he hopes to have crafted such an understanding. While praising Nathanson’s rigor and originality, this paper questions the moral-theoretic completeness of his procedure, and then raises challenges from two directions: (1) an argument for the justifiability of terrorism in certain circumstances, and (2) an argument against (...)
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    The ideal of rationality: a defense, within reason.Stephen Nathanson - 1994 - Chicago: Open Court.
    The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationally is to 'act for the best', a theory Nathanson characterizes as "critical pluralism". Among present-day thinkers whose ideas are scrutinized are Richard Brandt, Bernard Gert, Gilbert Harman, John Kekes, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, and (...)
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    The Limits of Loyalty.Stephen Nathanson - 2009 - Social Theory and Practice 35 (1):155-163.
  33. The Plight of the Siamese Twin: Mind, Body, and Value in John Barth's "Petition".Stephen Nathanson - 1990 - Analecta Husserliana 28:461.
     
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    Facing Evil (review).Stephen Nathanson - 1991 - Philosophy and Literature 15 (2):361-362.
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    Rationality, by Harold I. Brown. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1991 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2):448-451.
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    [Book review] economic justice. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1999 - Social Theory and Practice 25 (2):337-343.
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    A Justification of Rationality. [REVIEW]Stephen L. Nathanson - 1979 - International Philosophical Quarterly 19 (2):227-236.
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    Book ReviewsVirginia Held,. How Terrorism Is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence.New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. vii+205. $45.00. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 2009 - Ethics 119 (2):362-367.
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    (1 other version)Book ReviewsGeorge Kateb,. Patriotism and Other Mistakes.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xxxv+422. $35.00. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 2007 - Ethics 117 (4):769-773.
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    Book Review:Capital Punishment and the American Agenda. Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins; Moral Theory and Capital Punishment. Tom Sorrell. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1989 - Ethics 99 (4):964-966.
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    Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The ethics of assistance: Morality and the distant needy (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2004), pp. XI + 292. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 2007 - Utilitas 19 (2):264-266.
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  42. E. M. Adams. "Philosophy and the modern mind". [REVIEW]Stephen L. Nathanson - 1978 - Metaphilosophy 9:72.
     
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  43. Gilbert Harman, "The nature of morality: an introduction to ethics". [REVIEW]Stephen L. Nathanson - 1980 - Metaphilosophy 11:96.
     
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  44. James C. S. Wernham, "James's Will-to-Believe Doctrine: A Heretical View". [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1988 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 24 (3):423.
     
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    Reason, Truth and History. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1983 - International Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2):211-215.
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    The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1985 - International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (4):431-432.
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    What Is and What Ought to Be Done. [REVIEW]Stephen Nathanson - 1982 - International Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3):211-212.