Michael
B. Gill, Ph.D. 520.621.7101 gillm[at]email[dot]arizona[dot]edu |
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write about and teach classes on the history of ethics, medical ethics,
and meta-ethics. I've been at the University of Arizona since 2003.
Before that I taught at the College of Charleston and at Purdue University.
I got my PhD from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
in 1995.
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| COURSE INFORMATION: Spring 2008 |
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Book: The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics (Cambridge University Press 2006). Here's an excerpt from the introduction of this book. Below is the really pretty weird allegorical image on the cover; here's a partial explanation of the image.
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Articles on the history of ethics and meta-ethics: "Indeterminacy and Variability in Meta-Ethics," Philosophical Studies 2008. Link. "Meta-ethical Variability, Incoherence, and Error," in Moral Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Morality (volume 2), edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, MIT Press, 2008. "Variability and Moral Phenomenology," Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2008. Link. "Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?" Philosophy Compass 2006. Here's a link to the abstract. (You need to be a subscriber to read the article in its entirety.) "Rationalism, sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth," Hume Studies 2004. Here's a link to the article. "Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Link. "Shaftesbury's two accounts of the reason to be virtuous," Journal of the History of Philosophy 2000. Link. "Hume's progressive view of human nature," Hume Studies 2000. Link. "Relativism and the concept of morality," Journal of Value Inquiry 1999. Link. "The religious rationalism of Benjamin Whichcote," Journal of the History of Philosophy 1999. Link. "On the alleged incompatibility between sentimentalism and moral confidence," History of Philosophy Quarterly 1998. Link. "A philosopher in his closet: reflexivity and justification in Hume's moral theory," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1996 (June): 231-56. [No link, but much of this article appears in chapters 15 and 20 of The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics.] "Fantastick associations and addictive general rules: a fundamental difference between Hutcheson and Hume," Hume Studies 1996 (April): 23-48. [No link, but much of this article appears in chapters 14 and 17 of The British Moralists etc.] "Nature and association in the moral theory of Francis Hutcheson," History of Philosophy Quarterly 1995 (July): 281-301. [No link, but see chapters 13 and 14 of The British Moralists etc.]
"Is a Commitment to Good End-of-Life Care Incompatible with the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide?" Journal of Applied Philosophy. Forthcoming "PICU Prometheus: ethical issues in the treatment of very sick children in pediatric intensive care," Mortality 2005. Link "A moral defense of Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law," Mortality 2005. Link "Presumed consent, informed consent and organ procurement policy," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2004. Link "Paying for kidneys: the case against prohibition," with Robert M. Sade, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2002. Link
Ethics: Theory and Practice (Indianapolis: The College Network Press, 2000). If you want to find out more about this text, look here; I wrote the "Ethics" guide. |
