Ruth Wedgwood

Datos Biográficos

ID1010792
NOMBRERuth Wedgwood
NOMBRESRuth
APELLIDOWedgwood
FIRMAWEDGWOOD R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-1391-2407
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAS170
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1970
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H8

  • Pricean ignorance

    Ruth WedgwoodARTICLEBritish Journal for the History…2025

    Richard Price’s moral epistemology provides a distinctive account, not only of the sources of our moral knowledge, but also of its limits – that is, of the moral truths that we do not and even cannot know. According to this moral epistemology, the fundamental moral truths are necessary rather than contingent; if they are knowable at all, they are knowable a priori. In general, fundamental moral truths are akin to mathematical truths. Specifically…

  • Can our reasons determine what it is rational for us to believe

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2024

  • Ethical Naturalism, Non-Naturalism, and In-Between

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Moral Realism2023

    This chapter explores the issues surrounding ethical “naturalism” and “non-naturalism.” First, it seeks to clarify (a) the fundamental questions on the metaphysical side of metaethics, and (b) the most illuminating way (in this context) of conceiving of what is “natural.” Then the two dominant approaches in this debate are explained—reductive naturalism and primitivist non-naturalism. It is argued that each of these two paradigms is in a way an e…

  • The sources of moral knowledge

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2023

    Does moral knowledge require a special or distinctive epistemology? Or is it enough just to develop a general account of knowledge and justified belief, which can then just be applied to our moral beliefs? Among those theorists who have searched for a special epistemology for moral beliefs, one common idea is that moral knowledge has a distinctive fundamental source. In particular, according to many of these theorists, there are certain special m…

  • The Reasons Aggregation Theorem

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodCHAPTEROxford Studies in Normative…2022

    Often, when one faces a choice between alternative actions, there are reasons both for and against each alternative. On one way of understanding these words, what one “ought to do all things considered (ATC)” is determined by the totality of these reasons. So, these reasons can somehow be “combined” or “aggregated” to yield an ATC verdict on these alternatives. First, in this chapter, various assumptions about this sort of aggregation of reasons …

  • The internalist virtue theory of knowledge

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLESynthese2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 18

  • The Coherence Of Thrasymachus

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodBOOKOxford Studies in Ancient…2018

    This essay gives an interpretation of the character of Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic . Contrary to what recent commentators have claimed, Plato presents Thrasymachus as a horrifying figure, with a dark but coherent view of human life. According to this view, the principal good in life is domination over others: so in every significant interaction, one party is the winner, while the other is the loser. Justice is the vice of foolishly losing ou…

  • Plato’s Theory of Knowledge

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodBOOKVirtue, Happiness, Knowledge2018

    Several contemporary epistemologists have been intrigued by the discussion of the distinction between knowledge and correct opinion in Plato’s Meno (97a–98b); a number of them have suggested that Plato is appealing to the idea that to know a proposition one must be ‘safe from error’ regarding that proposition. In fact, although there is evidence that Plato assumes that knowledge requires something like safety, this passage in the Meno imposes a d…

  • The Unity of Normativity

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph Wedgwood et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Reasons and…2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    What is normativity? It is argued here that normativity is best understood as a property of certain concepts: normative thoughts are those involving these normative concepts; normative statements are statements that express normative thoughts; and normative facts are the facts (if such there be) that make such normative thoughts true. Many philosophers propose that there is a single basic normative concept—perhaps the concept of a reason for an a…

  • Must rational intentions maximize utility

    Open AccessRuth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophical Explorations2017Citada por: 6Referencias: 2

    Suppose that it is rational to choose or intend a course of action if and only if the course of action maximizes some sort of expectation of some sort of value. What sort of value should this definition appeal to? According to an influential neo-Humean view, the answer is “Utility”, where utility is defined as a measure of subjective preference. According to a rival neo-Aristotelian view, the answer is “Choiceworthiness”, where choiceworthiness i…

  • The Value of Rationality

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodBOOKNormativity of Rationality2017Citada por: 11

    Rationality is a central concept for epistemology, ethics, and the study of practical reason. But what sort of concept is it? It is argued here that—contrary to objections that have recently been raised—rationality is a normative concept. In general, normative concepts cannot be explained in terms of the concepts expressed by ‘reasons’ or ‘ought’. Instead, normative concepts are best understood in terms of values . Thus, for a mental state or a p…

  • Being Realistic about Reasons

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2015

    T. M. Scanlon is a towering figure in moral and political philosophy. His three earlier books and his numerous seminal articles, stretching back over 40 years, are well known to everyone who has a serious interest in these subjects. In this new book, based on the Locke Lectures that he gave in Oxford in 2009, he turns his attention to metaethics—that is, to questions about the semantics, philosophical psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology of …

  • Gandalf’s solution to the Newcomb problem

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLESynthese2013Citada por: 7Referencias: 12

  • Justified inference

    Open AccessRuth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodARTICLESynthese2012Citada por: 13Referencias: 12

  • Scanlon on Double Effect

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2011Citada por: 4Referencias: 1

  • Democracies, Human Rights, and Collective Action

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2009

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  • Diotima's Eudaemonism

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodARTICLEPhronesis2009Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    This paper gives a new interpretation of the central section of Plato's Symposium (199d-212a). According to this interpretation, the term "καλóν", as used by Plato here, stands for what many contemporary philosophers call "intrinsic value"; and "love" (ερωζ) is in effect rational motivation, which for Plato consists in the desire to "possess" intrinsically valuable things – that is, according to Plato, to be happy – for as long as possible. An ex…

  • The “Good” and the “Right” Revisited 1

    Open AccessRuth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2009Citada por: 4Referencias: 1

  • The Nature of Normativity

    Ruth Wedgwood, Ralph WedgwoodBOOKThe nature of normativity2007

    This book presents a complete theory about the nature of normative thought, that is, the sort of thought that is concerned with what ought to be the case, or what we ought to do or think. This theory implies a kind of metanormative realism, according to which normative truths or facts are genuinely part of reality. At the same time, the theory aims to provide a substantive account of the nature of these normative facts, and a substantive explanat…

  • Christopher Peacocke’s The Realm of Reason

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2007

  • Education and poverty reduction in Tanzania

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEInternational Journal of…2006Citada por: 16Referencias: 2

  • The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Israeli Security Fence and the Limits of Self-Defense

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEAmerican Journal of International…2005Citada por: 3Referencias: 2

    On December 8, 2003, the International Court of Justice was requested by the United Nations General Assembly to give an advisory opinion on the “legal consequences” of the security fence under construction by Israel in the West Bank, also variously called “security barrier” and “wall.” The General Assembly sought referral to the Court by a vote of 90 states—but another 74 states abstained, and 8 states voted in opposition. Careful consideration o…

  • The Metaethicists’ Mistake 1

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2004Referencias: 9

  • Fighting a War under Its Rules [with Reply]

    Ruth Wedgwood, Kenneth RothARTICLEForeign Affairs2004Citada por: 1

  • The Fall of Saddam Hussein

    Open AccessRuth WedgwoodARTICLEAmerican Journal of International…2003Citada por: 15Referencias: 2

    At long last, the people of Iraq are freed from the brutality of Saddam Hussein. The swift success of the coalition’s military campaign has been followed by predictable difficulties in organizing a hew government, restoring an economy, rebuilding civic society, and quelling violence from remnants of the old regime. But these challenges are kept in scale by recalling a dictator who murdered three hundred thousand fellow citizens. Saddam chose weap…