Neil Sinclair
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597458 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Sinclair |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Sinclair |
| FIRMA | SINCLAIR N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1088-042X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy
Children's digital and physical worlds are increasingly entwined as they build and manage meaningful connections online. Central to this is digital empathy and responsible online conduct, that is, a digital ethics of care. We focus on 10–11‐year‐old children from a primary school in the UK, exploring how they conceptualise and understand the feelings and behaviours of others. Children interviewed each other in pairs ( N = 18) following school‐bas…
Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. We argue that one advantage of this view is that it explains various putative norms on the formation and revision of aesthetic judgement. We begin by setting out our proposed explananda and a sense in which they can be understood as governing the correct response to putative higher-order evidence in aesthetics. We then summarise some existing discussions of expressivist attempts to …
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…
Reasons Internalism and the Function of Normative Reasons
What is the connection between reasons and motives? According to Reasons Internalism, there is a non-trivial conceptual connection between normative reasons and the possibility of rationally accessing relevant motivation. Reasons Internalism is attractive insofar as it captures the thought that reasons are for reasoning with and repulsive insofar as it fails to generate sufficient critical distance between reasons and motives. Rather than directl…
On the Connection between Normative Reasons and the Possibility of Acting for those Reasons
Kinds of Reasons - Maria Alvarez
Alvarez's bright and breezy book is about action, reasons, motivation and explanation. The heroes are Aristotle, Anscombe and Kenny, the villains Davidson, Michael Smith and other shadowy Humeans. The principal plot is the quest to explode Humean myths about the nature of reasons. As with most explosions, the results are messy. But Alvarez hopes that her complex taxonomy is an accurate reflection of our usage of the concept of a reason. On the wa…
Reasons from Within
Goldman defends here a broadly Humean or internalist theory of normative reasons, according to which a fact's status as a reason is in some sense dependent on the existing motivational states of the agent whose reason it is. According to Goldman, facts constitute reasons for action ‘because they indicate how those actions will tend to satisfy our desires’ (p. 30). More precisely, he defends the following definition of agents' reasons: ‘S has an F…
The Explanationist Argument For Moral Realism
In this paper I argue that the explanationist argument in favour of moral realism fails. According to this argument, the ability of putative moral properties to feature in good explanations provides strong evidence for, or entails, the metaphysical claims of moral realism. Some have rejected this argument by denying that moral explanations are ever good explanations. My criticism is different. I will argue that even if we accept that moral explan…
Free Thinking for Expressivists
This paper elaborates and defends an expressivist account of the claims of mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. In response to objections from Zangwill and Jenkins it is argued that the expressivist ‘internal reading’ of such claims is compatible with their conceptual status and that the only ‘external reading’ available doesn't commit expressivisists to any sort of subjectivism. In the process a ‘commitment-theoretic’ account of…
Expressivism and the Practicality of Moral Convictions
Propositional Clothing and Belief
Moral discourse is propositionally clothed, that is, it exhibits those features - such as the ability of its sentences to intelligibly embed in conditionals and other unasserted contexts - that have been taken by some philosophers to be constitutive of discourses that express propositions. If there is nothing more to a mental state being a belief than it being characteristically expressed by sentences that are propositionally clothed then the ver…
Free Thinking for Expressivists
This paper elaborates and defends an expressivist account of the claims of mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. In response to objections from Zangwill and Jenkins it is argued that the expressivist ‘internal reading’ of such claims is compatible with their conceptual status and that the only ‘external reading’ available doesn't commit expressivisists to any sort of subjectivism. In the process a ‘commitment-theoretic’ account of…
Expressivism and the Practicality of Moral Convictions
On the Connection between Normative Reasons and the Possibility of Acting for those Reasons
The Explanationist Argument For Moral Realism
In this paper I argue that the explanationist argument in favour of moral realism fails. According to this argument, the ability of putative moral properties to feature in good explanations provides strong evidence for, or entails, the metaphysical claims of moral realism. Some have rejected this argument by denying that moral explanations are ever good explanations. My criticism is different. I will argue that even if we accept that moral explan…
Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. We argue that one advantage of this view is that it explains various putative norms on the formation and revision of aesthetic judgement. We begin by setting out our proposed explananda and a sense in which they can be understood as governing the correct response to putative higher-order evidence in aesthetics. We then summarise some existing discussions of expressivist attempts to …
Propositional Clothing and Belief
Moral discourse is propositionally clothed, that is, it exhibits those features - such as the ability of its sentences to intelligibly embed in conditionals and other unasserted contexts - that have been taken by some philosophers to be constitutive of discourses that express propositions. If there is nothing more to a mental state being a belief than it being characteristically expressed by sentences that are propositionally clothed then the ver…
Expressivism and the Practicality of Moral Convictions
Propositional Clothing and Belief
Moral discourse is propositionally clothed, that is, it exhibits those features - such as the ability of its sentences to intelligibly embed in conditionals and other unasserted contexts - that have been taken by some philosophers to be constitutive of discourses that express propositions. If there is nothing more to a mental state being a belief than it being characteristically expressed by sentences that are propositionally clothed then the ver…
Free Thinking for Expressivists
This paper elaborates and defends an expressivist account of the claims of mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. In response to objections from Zangwill and Jenkins it is argued that the expressivist ‘internal reading’ of such claims is compatible with their conceptual status and that the only ‘external reading’ available doesn't commit expressivisists to any sort of subjectivism. In the process a ‘commitment-theoretic’ account of…
Kinds of Reasons - Maria Alvarez
Alvarez's bright and breezy book is about action, reasons, motivation and explanation. The heroes are Aristotle, Anscombe and Kenny, the villains Davidson, Michael Smith and other shadowy Humeans. The principal plot is the quest to explode Humean myths about the nature of reasons. As with most explosions, the results are messy. But Alvarez hopes that her complex taxonomy is an accurate reflection of our usage of the concept of a reason. On the wa…
Reasons from Within
Goldman defends here a broadly Humean or internalist theory of normative reasons, according to which a fact's status as a reason is in some sense dependent on the existing motivational states of the agent whose reason it is. According to Goldman, facts constitute reasons for action ‘because they indicate how those actions will tend to satisfy our desires’ (p. 30). More precisely, he defends the following definition of agents' reasons: ‘S has an F…
The Explanationist Argument For Moral Realism
In this paper I argue that the explanationist argument in favour of moral realism fails. According to this argument, the ability of putative moral properties to feature in good explanations provides strong evidence for, or entails, the metaphysical claims of moral realism. Some have rejected this argument by denying that moral explanations are ever good explanations. My criticism is different. I will argue that even if we accept that moral explan…
On the Connection between Normative Reasons and the Possibility of Acting for those Reasons
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…
Reasons Internalism and the Function of Normative Reasons
What is the connection between reasons and motives? According to Reasons Internalism, there is a non-trivial conceptual connection between normative reasons and the possibility of rationally accessing relevant motivation. Reasons Internalism is attractive insofar as it captures the thought that reasons are for reasoning with and repulsive insofar as it fails to generate sufficient critical distance between reasons and motives. Rather than directl…
Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism
In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. We argue that one advantage of this view is that it explains various putative norms on the formation and revision of aesthetic judgement. We begin by setting out our proposed explananda and a sense in which they can be understood as governing the correct response to putative higher-order evidence in aesthetics. We then summarise some existing discussions of expressivist attempts to …
Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy
Children's digital and physical worlds are increasingly entwined as they build and manage meaningful connections online. Central to this is digital empathy and responsible online conduct, that is, a digital ethics of care. We focus on 10–11‐year‐old children from a primary school in the UK, exploring how they conceptualise and understand the feelings and behaviours of others. Children interviewed each other in pairs ( N = 18) following school‐bas…
Epistemology (11 obras) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Free Will and Agency (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 obras) · Internalism and externalism (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)