Hallvard Lillehammer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 234042 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hallvard Lillehammer |
| NOMBRES | Hallvard |
| APELLIDO | Lillehammer |
| FIRMA | LILLEHAMMER H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3775-1396 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
We Can Believe Quasi-Realism
According to one influential line of thought, quasi-realism is faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, if the quasi-realist project of saying everything the realist wants to say is successful, quasi-realism collapses into realism. On the other hand, if the quasi-realist stops short of saying everything the realist wants to say, quasi-realism fails to realize its explanatory ambitions. In a recent paper, Bart Streumer argues that there is a way for…
Moral Praise and Moral Performance
According to some, luck forms an inevitable part of admirable moral agency. According to others, it is incompatible with a basic principle of moral worth. What's the issue? Is there a ‘problem’ of moral luck; or are there many, or none? With reference to the practice of moral praise, I suggest that there is no single problem of moral luck as traditionally understood. Instead, there is a family of issues regarding the interpretation and assessment…
Could Morality be a Social Construction
Trolleyology and the Anthropology of the Ethical Imagination
It matters what people do. It also matters what people would do in counterfactual circumstances. Perhaps less obviously, it matters what people think or say about what they would do in counterfactual circumstances. In this article, I consider some of the ethical challenges raised by the ethics of thinking about what to do in counterfactual circumstances. In doing so, I connect some of the most influential recent work on thought experiments in mor…
Epiphanies
On the ethics of naturalism
This paper addresses the question of the ethical significance of the theory of evolution in W. R. Sorley’s The Ethics of Naturalism (1st Edition 1885; 2nd Edition 1904). Sorley’s treatment is compared with that of his more influential contemporary, Henry Sidgwick, as well as with other works of the same period. The relevance of Sorley’s treatment for discussions of this topic in contemporary philosophy is explained. In addition, Sorley’s work is …
Moral luck and moral performance
The aims of this paper are fourfold. The first aim is to characterize two distinct forms of circumstantial moral luck and illustrate how they are implicitly recognized in pre‐theoretical moral thought. The second aim is to identify a significant difference between the ways in which these two kinds of circumstantial luck are morally relevant. The third aim is to show how the acceptance of circumstantial moral luck relates to the acceptance of resu…
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
Normative Bedrock
In this book, Joshua Gert puts forward a distinctive and original combination of proposals for how to understand our basic normative concepts, including practical (ir)rationality, practical reasons, and (personal) harm. The broader aim of the book is to ‘demystify’ the normative by explaining how there can be irreducibly normative facts and properties in a world that is also truly described by natural science. Normative Bedrock follows on from Ge…
I—Hallvard Lillehammer
According to some, taking moral testimony is a potentially decent way to exercise one's moral agency. According to others, it amounts to a failure to live up to minimal standards of moral worth. What's the issue? Is it conceptual or empirical? Is it epistemological or moral? Is there a ‘puzzle’ of moral testimony; or are there many, or none? I argue that there is no distinctive puzzle of moral testimony. The question of its legitimacy is as much …
Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue
Indifference is sometimes described as a virtue. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically acceptable forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object
We Can Believe the Error Theory
Who Is My Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice
Indifference is often described as a vice. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically problematic forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object
The Idea of a Normative Reason
Values of Art and the Ethical Question
Journal Article Values of Art and the Ethical Question Get access Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 376–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayn045 Published: 01…
Values and Secondary Qualities
Some arguments for the subjectivity of value are premised on the absence of any reference to values in the objective world as described by the natural sciences. According to these arguments, it is a necessary condition for the existence of objective values that values form part of what John Mackie called ‘the fabric of the world’ (Mackie 1977, 15). On this view, objectivity entails mind independence: the domain of objectivity is a domain of exist…
Companions in Guilt
This is a systematic study of 'companions in guilt' arguments in moral philosophy. Lillehammer distinguishes between two distinct forms of these, which he calls 'arguments by entailment' and 'argument
Davidson on Value and Objectivity
In a series of articles, Donald Davidson has argued that the objectivity of value is entailed by the objectivity of propositional attitude ascriptions. In this paper I explore the scope and limits of Davidson’s argument with particular reference to his claim that there would be convergence among the values of enlightened agents who fully understood one another. I argue that Davidson’s argument supports the convergence claim only if that claim is …
Ramsey’s Legacy
The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and metaphysics, he created modern decision theory and made substantial contributions to mathematics and economics. In these original essays, written to commemorate the centenary of Ramsey's birth, a dis…
Ramsey's Legacy
Who needs bioethicists
Jamieson on the ethics of animals and the environment
Real Metaphysics
Moral Realism, Normative Reasons, and Rational Intelligibility
From Genes to Eugenics
Companions in Guilt
This is a systematic study of 'companions in guilt' arguments in moral philosophy. Lillehammer distinguishes between two distinct forms of these, which he calls 'arguments by entailment' and 'argument
We Can Believe the Error Theory
Who Is My Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice
Indifference is often described as a vice. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically problematic forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object
Values of Art and the Ethical Question
Journal Article Values of Art and the Ethical Question Get access Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 376–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayn045 Published: 01…
Who needs bioethicists
The Doctrine of Internal Reasons
Moral Realism, Normative Reasons, and Rational Intelligibility
The Doctrine of Internal Reasons
From Genes to Eugenics
Moral Realism, Normative Reasons, and Rational Intelligibility
Real Metaphysics
Who needs bioethicists
Jamieson on the ethics of animals and the environment
Ramsey’s Legacy
The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and metaphysics, he created modern decision theory and made substantial contributions to mathematics and economics. In these original essays, written to commemorate the centenary of Ramsey's birth, a dis…
Ramsey's Legacy
Values and Secondary Qualities
Some arguments for the subjectivity of value are premised on the absence of any reference to values in the objective world as described by the natural sciences. According to these arguments, it is a necessary condition for the existence of objective values that values form part of what John Mackie called ‘the fabric of the world’ (Mackie 1977, 15). On this view, objectivity entails mind independence: the domain of objectivity is a domain of exist…
Companions in Guilt
This is a systematic study of 'companions in guilt' arguments in moral philosophy. Lillehammer distinguishes between two distinct forms of these, which he calls 'arguments by entailment' and 'argument
Davidson on Value and Objectivity
In a series of articles, Donald Davidson has argued that the objectivity of value is entailed by the objectivity of propositional attitude ascriptions. In this paper I explore the scope and limits of Davidson’s argument with particular reference to his claim that there would be convergence among the values of enlightened agents who fully understood one another. I argue that Davidson’s argument supports the convergence claim only if that claim is …
Values of Art and the Ethical Question
Journal Article Values of Art and the Ethical Question Get access Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer Hallvard Lillehammer, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 376–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayn045 Published: 01…
The Idea of a Normative Reason
I—Hallvard Lillehammer
According to some, taking moral testimony is a potentially decent way to exercise one's moral agency. According to others, it amounts to a failure to live up to minimal standards of moral worth. What's the issue? Is it conceptual or empirical? Is it epistemological or moral? Is there a ‘puzzle’ of moral testimony; or are there many, or none? I argue that there is no distinctive puzzle of moral testimony. The question of its legitimacy is as much …
Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue
Indifference is sometimes described as a virtue. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically acceptable forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object
We Can Believe the Error Theory
Who Is My Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice
Indifference is often described as a vice. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically problematic forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object
Normative Bedrock
In this book, Joshua Gert puts forward a distinctive and original combination of proposals for how to understand our basic normative concepts, including practical (ir)rationality, practical reasons, and (personal) harm. The broader aim of the book is to ‘demystify’ the normative by explaining how there can be irreducibly normative facts and properties in a world that is also truly described by natural science. Normative Bedrock follows on from Ge…
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
Moral luck and moral performance
The aims of this paper are fourfold. The first aim is to characterize two distinct forms of circumstantial moral luck and illustrate how they are implicitly recognized in pre‐theoretical moral thought. The second aim is to identify a significant difference between the ways in which these two kinds of circumstantial luck are morally relevant. The third aim is to show how the acceptance of circumstantial moral luck relates to the acceptance of resu…
On the ethics of naturalism
This paper addresses the question of the ethical significance of the theory of evolution in W. R. Sorley’s The Ethics of Naturalism (1st Edition 1885; 2nd Edition 1904). Sorley’s treatment is compared with that of his more influential contemporary, Henry Sidgwick, as well as with other works of the same period. The relevance of Sorley’s treatment for discussions of this topic in contemporary philosophy is explained. In addition, Sorley’s work is …
Epiphanies
Could Morality be a Social Construction
Trolleyology and the Anthropology of the Ethical Imagination
It matters what people do. It also matters what people would do in counterfactual circumstances. Perhaps less obviously, it matters what people think or say about what they would do in counterfactual circumstances. In this article, I consider some of the ethical challenges raised by the ethics of thinking about what to do in counterfactual circumstances. In doing so, I connect some of the most influential recent work on thought experiments in mor…
Moral Praise and Moral Performance
According to some, luck forms an inevitable part of admirable moral agency. According to others, it is incompatible with a basic principle of moral worth. What's the issue? Is there a ‘problem’ of moral luck; or are there many, or none? With reference to the practice of moral praise, I suggest that there is no single problem of moral luck as traditionally understood. Instead, there is a family of issues regarding the interpretation and assessment…
Epistemology (17 obras) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (15 obras) · Philosophy (15 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras)