Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

Education and career

Philosophical work

Publications

Selected articles

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

  Edited volumes

• Essays on Moral Realism
• Hume: Moral Philosophy