David Copp
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NORMATIVE ETHICS

My papers in normative ethics are listed below, in reverse chronological order.  If a PDF of a paper is password protected, the password is "copp".  Those interested in my publications in normative ethics might also be interested in papers I have listed on other pages.
  • My essays on collective entities and morality are to be found here.
  • My papers on topics in applied ethics can be found here.
  • My papers on moral responsibility, the principle of alternate possibilities, and the Maxim that ought implies can, are to be found listed among my papers in Meta-Ethics, here.
  • Some of my papers in political philosophy, such as essays on justice, could also be viewed as concerned with normative ethics.  These papers are here.

2012:  “Experiments, Intuitions, and Methodology in Moral and Political Theory,” in Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Meta-Ethics, vol. 8 (Oxford:  Oxford University Press).
2009:  “Is Society-Centered Moral Theory a Contemporary Version of Natural Law Theory?” Dialogue, 48, pp. 19-36.
2006:  “Introduction:  Metaethics and Normative Ethics”, in David Copp, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (New York:  Oxford University Press), pp. 3-35.
2004:  “Morality and Virtue:  An Assessment of Some Recent Work in Virtue Ethics”, Ethics, 114, pp. 514-554.  Co-authored with David Sobel.
2000:  Review of What We Owe to Each Other, by T.M. Scanlon, in Economics and Philosophy, 16, pp. 368-372.  Co-authored with David Sobel.
1996:  Review of Balance and Refinement: Beyond Coherence Methods of Moral Inquiry by Michael R. DePaul, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 56, pp. 959-962.
1993:  “Quinn on Double Effect: The Problem of ‘Closeness’”, with John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Ethics, 103, pp. 707-725.
1990:  "Contractarianism and Moral Skepticism", in Peter Vallentyne, ed., Contractarianism and Rational Choice:  Essays on Gauthier (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press), pp. 196-228.
1989:  "Consequentialist Rights:  L.W. Sumner's The Moral Foundation of Rights", Dialogue, 28, pp 131-148.
1984:  "Considered Judgments and Moral Justification:  Conservatism in Moral Theory", in David Copp and David Zimmerman, eds., Morality, Reason and Truth (Totowa, N.J.:  Rowman and Allanheld),  pp 141-168.
1983:  Review of Utilitarianism and Cooperation, by Donald H. Regan, in The Philosophical Review, 92, pp 617- 622.
1979:  "The Iterated-Utilitarianism of J.S. Mill", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume V, pp 75-98.
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