Faculty with interests in these “value” areas of philosophy, from either a contemporary or a historical perspective, or both, include:
Ethics
Abramson, Kate. 2026. “The Forensic Notion of the Self and the Sensible Knave” in British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Themes from Kenneth Winkler, edited by B. Ehli and M. Lesinger, Routledge.
Abramson, Kate. 2016. “Character as a Mode of Evaluation”, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics v. 6., edited by M. Timmons, Oxford University Press: 56-76.
Abramson, Kate. 2015. “What’s so ‘Natural’ about Hume’s Natural Virtues?” in The Cambridge Critical Guide to Hume’s Treatise, edited by Donald Ainslie & Anne Marie Butler, Cambridge University Press: 333-368.
Abramson, Kate. 2013. “Affective Conflict and virtue: Hume’s answer to Aristotle,” The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics, edited by Jon Millar, Cambridge University Press: 222-243.
Abramson, Kate & Leite, Adam. 2011. “Love as a Reactive Attitude”, Philosophical Quarterly v.61.n245: 673-699. Winner of the annual Philosophical Quarterly international essay prize competition.
Adams, Matthew, and Ross Mittiga. Forthcoming. "Material Scarcity and Scalar Justice." Philosophical Studies.
Adams, Matthew. 2019. "An Ideology Critique of Nonideal Methodology." European Journal of Political Theory.
Adams, Matthew. 2018. "The Aesthetic Value of Local Food." The Monist 101 (3): 324-339.
Leite, Adam & Abramson, Kate. 2024. “Love, Value, and Reasons," in Chris Grau and Aaron Smuts, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love, Oxford University Press, 99-117.
Leite, Adam & Abramson, Kate. 2021. “Self-Love and Self-Acceptance,” in Gatzia, D. and Brogaard, B. The Philosophy and Psychology of Ambivalence, Routledge.
Leite, Adam. 2016. "Second-Personal Desire." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2 (4): 597-616
Philosophy of Law
Adams, Matthew. 2019. "Plato's Theory of Punishment and Penal Code in the Laws." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (1): 1-14.
Political and Social Philosophy
Abramson, Kate & Leite, Adam. 2019. “Empathy without Sharing: Empathetic Responsiveness in Psychoanalysis and Politics” Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy, edited by in D. Matravers and A. Waldow, Routledge: 144-166.
Adams, Matthew. “An Ideology Critique of Nonideal Methodology,” The European Journal of Political Theory, forth: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474885119858727
Aesthetics
Adams, Matthew. 2018. "The Aesthetic Value of Local Food." The Monist 101 (3): 324-339.
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