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Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

Role
  
Philosopher



Born
  
December 10, 1956 (age 67) (
1956-12-10
)
Boston, Massachusetts

Occupation
  
philosopher, professor, author

Employer
  
University of North Carolina

Website
  
http://philosophy.unc.edu/sayre-mccord.htm

Residence
  
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Books
  
Treatise of Human Nature and Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning the Principles of Morals

Education
  
University of Pittsburgh, Oberlin College

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Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (né McCord, born December 10, 1956) is a philosopher who works in moral theory, meta-ethics, the history of ethics, and epistemology. He has written extensively in these areas. He is known especially for his work on moral realism and on David Hume's moral theory. He has also written on contractualism. His Essays on Moral Realism is widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses on meta-ethics and he was, for five years, a co-editor of the journal Noûs. Sayre-McCord received his BA from Oberlin College and his PhD (under the direction of David Gauthier) from the University of Pittsburgh. The recipient of several university-wide teaching awards, Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at the University of North Carolina, where he has taught since 1985.

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Some articles

  • "Coherence and Models for Moral Theorizing," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1985)
  • "Deontic Logic and the Priority of Moral Theory," Noûs (1986)
  • "The Many Moral Realisms," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Conference Supplement, (1986)
  • "Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence," Midwest Studies (1988)
  • "Deception and Reasons to be Moral," American Philosophical Quarterly, (1989)
  • "Functional Explanations and Reasons as Causes," Philosophical Perspectives (1990)
  • "Being a Realist about Relativism," Philosophical Studies (1991)
  • "Normative Explanations," Philosophical Perspectives (1992)
  • "On Why Hume's General Point of View Isn't Ideal -- and Shouldn't Be," Social Philosophy and Policy (1994)
  • "Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory," in Moral Knowledge?, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong and Timmons (1996)
  • "Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics," Midwest Studies (1996)
  • "Hume's Representation Argument Against Rationalism," Manuscrito (1997)
  • "The Meta-Ethical Problem," Ethics (1997)
  • "'Good' on Twin Earth," Philosophical Issues (1997)
  • "Contractarianism," Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (1999)
  • "Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations," Philosophical Issues (2001)
  • "Mill's 'Proof': A More than Half-Hearted Defense," Social Philosophy and Policy (2001)
  • "On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality," Rationality, Rules, and Ideals, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2002)
  • "Moral Realism," Oxford Handbook of Moral Theory, ed. by Copp (2006)
  • "Moral Semantics and Empirical Enquiry," Moral Psychology, ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2008)
  • "Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason," Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed. by Shafer-Landau (2008)
  • "Sentiments and Spectators: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Judgment," The Philosophy of Adam Smith, ed. by Brown and Fleischacker (2010)

    • Edited volumes

  • Essays on Moral Realism (Cornell University Press, 1988)
  • Hume: Moral Philosophy (Hackett Publishing, 2006)

    • References

    Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Wikipedia
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