Professor Garrett Cullity

  • Publications

    This list is organized under the eight main topics on which I have written. Since the topics are connected, some pieces are listed under more than one heading. Links to most of the journal articles and book chapters are at the bottom of the page.

    Practical Reasons and Rationality

    Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), "Introduction", pp.1-27. 
    "Practical Theory", in Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp.101-124. 
    "Decisions, Reasons and Rationality", Ethics 119 (2008), pp.57-95. 
    "The Context-Undermining of Practical Reasons", Ethics 124 (2013), pp.1-27. 
    "Weighing Reasons", forthcoming in Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity.

    "Moral Reasons" and Their Content

    "Particularism and Presumptive Reasons", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume) 76 (2002), pp.169-90.
    "Sympathy, Discernment, and Reasons", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004), pp.37-62. 
    "The Moral, the Personal and the Political", in Igor Primoratz (ed.), Politics and Morality (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp.54-75.
    “Demandingness and Arguments from Presupposition”, in Timothy Chappell (ed.), The Problem of Moral Demandingness: New Philosophical Essays (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp.8-34.
    "The Context-Undermining of Practical Reasons”, Ethics 124 (2013), pp.1-27.

    Value and Fittingness

    "Neutral and Relative Value", forthcoming in Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory.

    Beneficence and Aid

    The Moral Demands of Affluence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).
    "International Aid and the Scope of Kindness", Ethics 105 (1994), pp.99-127.
    "Moral Character and the Iteration Problem", Utilitas 7 (1995), pp.280-289.
    "The Life-Saving Analogy", in William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette (eds), World Hunger and Moral Obligation, 2nd edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996), pp.51-69.
    "Pooled Beneficence", in Michael J. Almeida (ed.), Imperceptible Harms and Benefits (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000), pp.9-42.
    "Asking Too Much", The Monist 86 (2003), pp.402-18.
    "Beneficence, Rights and Citizenship", Australian Journal of Human Rights 9 (2003), pp.85-105, Special Issue on "The Rights of Strangers".
         Reprinted as "Fremde in Not: Wohltätigkeit, Rechte und Staatsbürgerschaft", in Barbara
         Bleisch and Peter Schaber (eds), Weltarmut und Ethik (Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2007),
         pp.53-75.
    "Beneficence", in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (eds), Principles of Health Care Ethics, second edition (London: Wiley, 2007), pp.19-26. 
    "Demandingness and Arguments from Presupposition", in Timothy Chappell (ed.), The Problem of Moral Demandingness: New Philosophical Essays (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp.8-34. 
    "Compromised Humanitarianism", in Keith Horton and Chris Roche (eds), Ethical Questions and International NGOs: An Exchange between Philosophers and NGOs (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010), pp.157-73.
    "Aid", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
    "Charity", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

    Moral Theory and Anti-Theory

    "Practical Theory", in Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp.101-124. 
    "Virtue Ethics, Theory, and Warrant", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1999), pp.277-94, BSET Special Issue.
    "International Aid and the Scope of Kindness", Ethics 105 (1994), pp.99-127.

    Moral Virtues and "Virtue Ethics"

    "Moral Character and the Iteration Problem", Utilitas 7 (1995), pp.280-289.
    "Aretaic Cognitivism", American Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1995), pp.395-406.
    "Virtue Ethics, Theory, and Warrant", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1999), pp.277-94, BSET Special Issue.

    Moral Epistemology

    "Aretaic Cognitivism", American Philosophical Quarterly 32 (1995), pp.395-406.
    "Virtue Ethics, Theory, and Warrant", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1999), pp.277-94, BSET Special Issue.
    "As You Were? Moral Philosophy and the Aetiology of Moral Experience", Philosophical Explorations 9 (2006), pp.117-32, Special Issue on "Empirical Research and the Nature of Moral Judgment".
    "Pyrrhic Pyrrhonism", The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp.720-31.
    "Moral Judgement", in Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).

    Cooperation and Public Goods

    "Moral Free Riding", Philosophy and Public Affairs 24 (1995), pp.3-34.
    "Public Goods and Fairness", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), pp.1-21.
    "Public Goods", in Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (eds), Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition (New York: Routledge, 2001), Vol.III, pp.1413-16.
    "Free Riding", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
    "Impartiality", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

    Other Topics

    Garrett Cullity and Philip Gerrans, "Agency and Policy", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (2004), pp.315-25.
    "Equality and Globalization", in Keith Horton and Haig Patapan (eds), Globalisation and Equality (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.6-22.

    Critical Notices

    "Life from the Inside", Philosophical Books 39 (1998), pp.91-104.
         Critical notice of Bernard Williams, Making sense of humanity and other philosophical
         papers 1982-1993 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
    "In Search of the Foundations of Rationality", Philosophical Books 44 (2003), pp.7-11.
         Critical notice of Robert Audi, The Architecture of Reason (New York: Oxford University  
         Press, 2001)
    "Pyrrhic Pyrrhonism", The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), pp.720-31.
         Critical notice of Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Skepticisms (New York: Oxford University
         Press, 2006)

    Encyclopedia Articles

    "Moral Judgement", in Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).
    "Public Goods", in Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (eds), Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition (New York: Routledge, 2001), Vol.III, pp.1413-16.
    "Bernard Williams", in Stuart Brown (ed.), Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005), Vol.2, pp.1132-1138.
    "Beneficence", in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (eds), Principles of Health Care Ethics, second edition (London: Wiley, 2007), pp.19-26.
    "Aid", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
    "Charity", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
    "Free Riding", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).
    "Impartiality", in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013).

    Book Reviews

    "Michael Freeden, Rights", The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), pp.123-124.
    "C.L. Sheng, A New Approach to Utilitarianism", The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), p.275.
    "John W. Yolton, A Locke Dictionary", The Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), pp.581-582.
    "Russell Hardin, One for All: The Logic of Collective Action", Ethics 107 (1997), pp.361-363.
    "R. Jay Wallace, Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments", Mind 106 (1997), pp.803-7.
    "Nancy Sherman, Making a Necessity of Virtue", European Journal of Philosophy 6 (1998), pp.234-8.
    "Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin (eds), The Constitution of Good Societies", Ethics 108 (1998), p.838.
    "Why Live This Way?", The Times Literary Supplement, 25 June 1999, pp.9-10.
    "Paul Rabinow, French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory", The New York Times Book Review (1999), p.34.
    "Roger Crisp and Brad Hooker, Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002), pp.538-540.
    "Stephen Darwall, Welfare and Rational Care", The Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004), pp.375-8.
    "Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.), The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/.
    "John Broome, Weighing Lives", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, http://ndpr.nd.edu/.
    "Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live", The Philosophical Quarterly (2007).
    "Robert Merrihew Adams, A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), pp.695-6. 
    "Elijah Millgram, Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory", Ethics 119 (2009), pp.581-5. 
    "David Stove, What's Wrong with Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (2013), pp.206-8. 
    "Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang (eds), Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams", The Philosophical Quarterly (2014). 
    "Caspar Hare, The Limits of Kindness", forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2014).

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