Book Reviews

 

Review Articles

“Why Live This Way?”, The Times Literary Supplement, 25 June 1999, pp. 9-10.

A review essay discussing eight introductions to ethics.

“Life from the Inside”, Philosophical Books 39 (1998), pp. 91-104.

A review essay discussing Bernard Williams, Making sense of humanity and other philosophical papers 1982-1993 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

“In Search of the Foundations of Rationality”, Philosophical Books 44 (2003), pp. 7-11.

A review essay discussing Robert Audi, The Architecture of Reason (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

“Pyrrhic Pyrrhonism”, The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp. 720-31.

A review essay discussing Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Skepticisms (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

“Describing Rationality”, Philosophical Studies 173 (2016), pp. 3399-3411.

A review essay discussing John Broome, Rationality Through Reasoning (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

Book Reviews

“Michael Freeden, Rights”, The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), pp. 123-124

“C.L. Sheng, A New Approach to Utilitarianism”, The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), p. 275.

“John W. Yolton, A Locke Dictionary”, The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), pp. 581-582.

“Russell Hardin, One for All: The Logic of Collective Action”, Ethics 107 (1997), pp. 361-363.

“R. Jay Wallace, Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments”, Mind 106 (1997), pp. 803-7.

“Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue”, European Journal of Philosophy 6 (1998), pp. 234-8.

“Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin (eds), The Constitution of Good Societies”, Ethics 108 (1998), p. 838.

“Paul Rabinow, French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory”, The New York Times Book Review (1999), p. 34.

“Roger Crisp and Brad Hooker, Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002), pp. 538-540.

“Stephen Darwall, Welfare and Rational Care”, The Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004), pp. 375-8.

“Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/.

“John Broome, Weighing Lives”, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/.

“Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live”, The Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007), pp. 308–311

“Robert Merrihew Adams, A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), pp. 695-6.

“Elijah Milgram, Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory”, Ethics 119 (2009), pp. 581-5.

“David Stove, What’s Wrong with Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (2013), pp. 206-8.

“Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang (eds), Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams”, The Philosophical Quarterly 64 (2014), pp. 520-523.

“Caspar Hare, The Limits of Kindness”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (2014), pp. 791-794.

“Alejandra Mancilla, The Right of Necessity”, Ethics 128 (2017), pp. 260-264.