Terence Cuneo

To this point, most of my research has clustered around two main areas: metaethics and history of early modern philosophy, especially Thomas Reid's thought. As for metaethics, I've published articles on issues of moral epistemology, moral explanation, moral motivation, response-dependent concepts, and expressivism, among others.  I've also co-edited Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology with Russ Shafer-Landau (Blackwell, 2007), as well as authored a manuscript on moral realism entitled "The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism" (Oxford, 2007). As for history of modern philosophy, I've co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (Cambridge, 2004) and am slowly plugging away at a book on Reid's ethical theory.  My interests in early modern, however, lie not simply in Reid's thought, but also extend to British moral philosophy in general (e.g., Price, Hume, Hutcheson, Butler), action theory, and epistemology.

Some representative publications are:

The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism. Oxford University Press, 2007

Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology, editor with Russ Shafer-Landau. Blackwell, 2007

Religion in the Liberal Polity, editor. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid, editor with René van Woudenberg. Cambridge University Press, 2004

"Moral Realism, Quasi-realism, and Skepticism." In J. Greco, The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming

"Religion and Politics" (with Christopher Eberle). In Edward Zalta, ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming.

"Moral Facts as Configuring Causes." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly/ 87, 2006: 141-62

"Signs of Value: Reid on the Evidential Role of Feelings in Moral Judgment." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11, 2006: 69-91

"Saying What We Mean: An Argument against Expressivism." Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2006: 35-71

"Reidian Moral Perception." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33, 2003: 229-258

"Reconciling Realism with Humeanism." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80, 2002: 465-86

"Are Moral Qualities Response-Dependent?" Noûs 35, 2001: 569-91

"An Externalist Solution to 'The Moral Problem.'" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59, 1999: 359-80