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Don Loeb

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My research focuses on metaethical issues such as the debate over moral realism, the methodology of moral reasoning, the function of moral language, and the nature of the good. I regularly teach a seminar on contemporary approaches to these issues, as well as courses in jurisprudence and political philosophy, and a problems-oriented introductory class (with an emphasis on ethics, philosophy of religion and epistemology).

Since 2003, I have been director of the John Dewey Honors Program in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences.  For several years I have taught introductory classes in the program, including “Skepticism: Moral, Theological, and Global” and “Contemporary Moral Problems”.

With Alan Wertheimer of Political Science, I am the author of a new, two semester course, “Making Ethical Choices: Personal, Public, and Professional,” which will be taken by all first year students in UVM’s Honors College, beginning in the fall of 2004.  In conjunction with this course, Professor Wertheimer and I will also lead a faculty summer seminar on some of the same material in August of 2004

Recent publications:

• "Reply to Gill and Sayre-McCord", Forthcoming in W. Sinnott Armstrong, ed., Ethics and Cognitive Science
  

• "The Argument from Moral Experience",  Forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
  

• "Reply to Gerd Gigarenzer",  (with Julia Driver), Forthcoming in W. Sinnot Armstrong, ed., Ethics and Cognitive Science
  

• “Moral Incoherentism: How to Pull a Metaphysical Rabbit Out of a Semantic Hat” (Forthcoming in The Psychology and Biology of Morality, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed.)

• "Moral Explanations of Moral Beliefs," Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

• "Gastronomic Realism--A Cautionary Tale" [PDF] The Journal Of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2003

• "Moral Realism and the Argument from Disagreement," Philosophical  Studies, Vol. 90, No 3, June 1998

• "Must a Moral Irrealist be a Pragmatist?," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, April, 1996

• "Generality and Moral Justification," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LVI, No. I, March, 1996

• "Full-Information Accounts of Individual Good," Social Theory and Practice Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, 1995; reprinted in George Sher, ed., Moral Philosophy: Selected Readings, 2nd ed.

 
Book Reviews:

•             Ethical Norms, Particular Cases, by James Wallace, The Philosophical Review, Vol.111, No. 1 (January, 2002)
  

•            The Tanner Lectures in Human Values 17, Grethe Peterson, ed., Ethics, Vol. 112, No. 1   (October, 2001)

•            Common Values, by Sisella Bok, Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 4, July, 1997

Appellate Brief:                

•            Vacco v. Quill (Assisted Suicide)         U.S. Supreme Court,    November, 1996 

Works in progress include:

"What Possible use could a Moral Irrealist Have for Moral Reasoning?"/ "Why Should I Care What I Value?" (Delivered as lectures; in prep. for Oxford Studies in Metaethics)

Moral Irrealism  (Book Manuscript)

Address:

Don Loeb
Philosophy Department
The University of Vermont
70 S. Williams St., Room. 201
Burlington, VT  05401

 Phone Numbers:

(w)    (802) 656-3138
(w-front desk) (802) 656-4042
(fax)  (802) 656-3133
(h)     (802) 862-1290

E-mail address: dloeb@zoo.uvm.edu

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