George Munro Professor Emeritus.
BA (Harvard '64), PhD (Cornell '70).
 Interests: Moral and political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of biology, feminism.

Publications

Books

Moral Epistemology Naturalized, edited with Bruce Hunter, Supplementary Volume 26 of The Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2000), 322 pages.

Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, 247 pages.

Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation: Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem, edited with Lanning Sowden, Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press, 1985, 366 pages.

Self-Love and Self-Respect: A Philosophical Study of Egoism, Ottawa: Canadian Library of Philosophy, 1979, 335 pages.

Articles

"The Origin of Moral Reasons" in Johansson, L., Osterberg, J., and Sliwinsky, R., eds., Logic, Ethics, and All That Jazz: Essays in Honour of Jordan Howard Sobel (Uppsala: Department of Philosophy, Upsala University, 2009), Uppsala Philosophical Studies 57: 67-97. 

“How Ecological Should Epistemology Be?” Hypatia 23 (Jan-Mar 2008): 161-9.

“What Is Moral Judgment?” The Journal of Philosophy 103 (July 2007): 321-49.

“The Problem of Moral Judgment” in Susan Sherwin and Peter Schotch, eds., Engaged Philosophy:Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 249-269.

"The Structure of Evolution by Natural Selection" with Jason Robert, Biology and Philosophy 20 (2005): 673-696.

"Why Moore's Open Question Is Open: The Evolution of Moral Supervenience" with Jennifer Woodrow, Journal of Value Inquiry 37 (2003): 353-372.

"Moral Epistemology" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: on-line at http://plato.stanford.edu/ (approximately 15,000 words).

"Feminist Epistemology Naturalized" in Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, eds., Feminist Interpretations of W. V. Quine, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

"The Bias Paradox in Feminist Epistemology" in Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen, eds., Engendering Rationalities, SUNY Press (2001), pp. 195-217.

"Egoism" in Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, eds., Encyclopedia of Ethics, New York: Garland Publishing, 1992, pp. 294-297; second edition, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 446-450.

Critical Notice of David Copp, Morality, Normativity, and Society, in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27 (1997): 423-444.

"Can Biology Make Ethics Objective?" Biology and Philosophy 11 (1996): 21-31.

"The Virtues of Feminist Empiricism", Hypatia 9 (1994): 90-115.

Critical Notice of Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (1993): 299-224.

. "Newcomb (problem de--)" in Andre Jacob, ed., Encyclopedie philosophique universelle, Vol. 2: Les Notions philosophiques (ed., Sylvain Suroux, 1990), Paris: Presses Universitaries de France, 1989, pp. 1747-1748. (French translation of English manuscript provided through the editor.)

"Prisonnier (dilemme du--)" Encyclopedie philosophique universelle, pp. 2041-2042.

"Moral Justification and Freedom", Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988): 192-213.

"Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement", The Philosophical Quarterly 38 (1988): 343-364.

"Socially Generated Moral Justification" in Douglas Odegard, ed., Ethics and Justification, Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1988, pp. 241-255.

"Background for the Uninitiated" in Richmond Campbell and Lanning Sowden, eds., Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation, Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press, 1985, pp. 3-41.

"Sociobiology and the Possibility of Ethical Naturalism" in David Copp and David Zimmerman, eds., Morality, Reason, and Truth, Totowa: Roman and Allenheld, 1985, pp. 270-296.

"God, Evil, and Humanity", Sophia 23 (1984): 21-35.

"Can Inconsistency Be Reasonable?", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (1981): 245-270.

"Novel Confirmation" with Thomas Vinci, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (1983): 315-341.

"Why Are Novel Predictions Important?" with Thomas Vinci, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 63 (1982): 111-121.

Critical Notice of Alex C. Michalos, Foundations of Decision-Making in Canadian Journal of 8. Philosophy 12 (1982): 763-780.

"Replies to MacDonald and Dwyer on Pursuing Happiness", The Personalist 58 (1977): 182-186.

"The Sorites Paradox", Philosophical Studies 26 (1974): 175-191.

"Replies to Mack and Burkholder on Ethical Egoism", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1974): 665-671.

"Action, Purpose, and Consciousness Among the Computers" with Alexander Rosenberg, Philosophy of Science 40 (1973):547-557.

"The Pursuit of Happiness", The Personalist 54 (1973): 325-339.

"A Short Refutation of Ethical Egoism", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1972): 249-259.

Reviews

Cassandra L. Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, and Robert F. Almeder (eds.), Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science in Philosophy of Science 73 (April 2006): 250-252.

Doris Olin, Paradox in University of Toronto Quarterly 74 (2004): 311-312.

Mariam Solomon, Social Empiricism in Dialogue 43 (2004): 615-617.

Jordan Howard Sobel, Puzzles for the Will, in Dialogue 40 (2001): 634-636.

Richard Miller, Fact and Method, in Ethics 100 (1990): 897-898.

Ellery Ells, Rational Decision and Causality, in Dalhousie Review 64 (1984): 608-616.

Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 4 (1984): 81-83.

J. F. M. Hunter, Thinking about Sex and Love, and of Russell Vannoy, Sex Without Love: A Philosophical Exploration, in Dalhousie Review 63 (1983): 186-188.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, in Dalhousie Law Journal 1 (1973): 210-223.

J. C. B. Gosling, Pleasure and Desire: The Case for Hedonism Reviewed, in The Philosophical Review 81 (1972): 116-119.

Max Black, Margins of Precision: Essays in Logic and Language, in Dialogue 10 (1971): 805-810.