Elijah Millgram
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elijah Millgram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elijah |
| FAMILY NAME | Millgram |
| SIGNATURE | MILLGRAM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?
Coverage Shortfalls at the Library of Agency
In his “Games and the Art of Agency,” C. Thi Nguyen makes an intriguing and very plausible suggestion: games, or at any rate a great many of them, are artworks whose medium is, roughly, how one goes about doing what one does. In assigning an objective, laying down the constraints under which it has to be achieved, and specifying the terrain on which it will be played out, a game sculpts the decision-making processes of its players, the ways they …
Practical Nihilism
Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there is no such thing as practical rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do. While other philosophers have defended a theoretically oriented version of the thesis, usually called “error theory”, a case is made for a fully practical version of it: that we are so bad at figuring out what to do that we do not really know what doing it right would so much as look like. In particular, muc…
Varieties of Practical Reasoning
Practical reasoning is the study of how to figure out what to do. It is of particular importance to ethics. Indeed, new developments in practical reasoning promise to break through long-standing ethical and moral dilemmas. Practical reasoning also has consequences for philosophy of mind, value theory, and the social sciences. This anthology provides an overview of this important area of philosophy.Over the past two decades the field of practical …
Ismael’s Anscombian and Dennettian Selves
The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education
This article examines moral skepticism and the possible attendant limits of moral education. It describes attempts at teaching moral commitment and presents materials from a recent account of moral standing to assemble an explanation for skepticism's tenacity. It discusses Robert Nozick's treatment of moral standing and suggests that neither theory nor education will in the end do what so many philosophers have assumed they could, that is, anchor…
Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is deservedly part of the ethical canon, but it is also enormously and insistently absent-minded. I'm going to first present, as a textual puzzle, a handful of forgetful moments in the first two Essays of the Genealogy. To address the puzzle, I will take up a familiar idea, that the Genealogy is both a subversive account of ethics and of what it is to be an intellectual. I will describe a strategy for reading the t…
The Empirical Stance
Book Review| July 01 2006 The Empirical Stance Bas van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. xix + 282 pp. Elijah Millgram Elijah Millgram Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 404–408. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Ethics Done Right
Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike…
IX-On Being Bored Out of Your Mind
The contemporary philosophical debate over practical reasoning—over how one ought to figure out what to do—has been almost entirely focused on whether there is more to it than means-ends reasoning. But a prior and very difficult question has to do with why instrumental deliberation is so important an aspect of our cognitive life (regardless of whether there is anything else). I consider an answer broached by Harry Frankfurt, that having ends is t…
Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will
Research Article| October 01 2003 Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will? Elijah Millgram Elijah Millgram Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 525–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-4-525 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Elijah Millgram; Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to…
Coherence
Soulevant le probleme de la justification du jugement de coherence et du prix a payer en ce qui concerne sa relation a la realite, l'A. examine la notion comparative de coherence dans le domaine de l'interet, a travers l'analyse des contraintes du choix developpee par P. Thagard et K. Verbeurgt. Mesurant la complexite de l'applicabilite du concept de coherence (usability), l'A. propose une solution approximative du probleme pratique et philosophi…
What's the Use of Utility
Practical Induction
Deliberative coherence
An Apprentice Argument
Aristotle on Making Other Selves
There is still a relative paucity of discussion of the views on friendship that Aristotle presents in the Nicomachean Ethics , although some recent work may indicate a new trend. One suspects that this paucity reflects a belief that those views are not very interesting; if true, this witnesses to an unfortunate underestimation of Aristotle's account. This account is in fact quite surprising, for – I shall argue – Aristotle believes that one makes…
What's the Use of Utility
Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is deservedly part of the ethical canon, but it is also enormously and insistently absent-minded. I'm going to first present, as a textual puzzle, a handful of forgetful moments in the first two Essays of the Genealogy. To address the puzzle, I will take up a familiar idea, that the Genealogy is both a subversive account of ethics and of what it is to be an intellectual. I will describe a strategy for reading the t…
The Empirical Stance
Book Review| July 01 2006 The Empirical Stance Bas van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. xix + 282 pp. Elijah Millgram Elijah Millgram Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 404–408. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Aristotle on Making Other Selves
There is still a relative paucity of discussion of the views on friendship that Aristotle presents in the Nicomachean Ethics , although some recent work may indicate a new trend. One suspects that this paucity reflects a belief that those views are not very interesting; if true, this witnesses to an unfortunate underestimation of Aristotle's account. This account is in fact quite surprising, for – I shall argue – Aristotle believes that one makes…
An Apprentice Argument
Deliberative coherence
Practical Induction
Coherence
Soulevant le probleme de la justification du jugement de coherence et du prix a payer en ce qui concerne sa relation a la realite, l'A. examine la notion comparative de coherence dans le domaine de l'interet, a travers l'analyse des contraintes du choix developpee par P. Thagard et K. Verbeurgt. Mesurant la complexite de l'applicabilite du concept de coherence (usability), l'A. propose une solution approximative du probleme pratique et philosophi…
What's the Use of Utility
Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will
Research Article| October 01 2003 Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will? Elijah Millgram Elijah Millgram Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 525–560. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-4-525 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Elijah Millgram; Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to…
IX-On Being Bored Out of Your Mind
The contemporary philosophical debate over practical reasoning—over how one ought to figure out what to do—has been almost entirely focused on whether there is more to it than means-ends reasoning. But a prior and very difficult question has to do with why instrumental deliberation is so important an aspect of our cognitive life (regardless of whether there is anything else). I consider an answer broached by Harry Frankfurt, that having ends is t…
Ethics Done Right
Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume's moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike…
The Empirical Stance
Book Review| July 01 2006 The Empirical Stance Bas van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. xix + 282 pp. Elijah Millgram Elijah Millgram Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (3): 404–408. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Tw…
Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals is deservedly part of the ethical canon, but it is also enormously and insistently absent-minded. I'm going to first present, as a textual puzzle, a handful of forgetful moments in the first two Essays of the Genealogy. To address the puzzle, I will take up a familiar idea, that the Genealogy is both a subversive account of ethics and of what it is to be an intellectual. I will describe a strategy for reading the t…
The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education
This article examines moral skepticism and the possible attendant limits of moral education. It describes attempts at teaching moral commitment and presents materials from a recent account of moral standing to assemble an explanation for skepticism's tenacity. It discusses Robert Nozick's treatment of moral standing and suggests that neither theory nor education will in the end do what so many philosophers have assumed they could, that is, anchor…
Ismael’s Anscombian and Dennettian Selves
Varieties of Practical Reasoning
Practical reasoning is the study of how to figure out what to do. It is of particular importance to ethics. Indeed, new developments in practical reasoning promise to break through long-standing ethical and moral dilemmas. Practical reasoning also has consequences for philosophy of mind, value theory, and the social sciences. This anthology provides an overview of this important area of philosophy.Over the past two decades the field of practical …
Practical Nihilism
Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there is no such thing as practical rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do. While other philosophers have defended a theoretically oriented version of the thesis, usually called “error theory”, a case is made for a fully practical version of it: that we are so bad at figuring out what to do that we do not really know what doing it right would so much as look like. In particular, muc…
Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together?
Coverage Shortfalls at the Library of Agency
In his “Games and the Art of Agency,” C. Thi Nguyen makes an intriguing and very plausible suggestion: games, or at any rate a great many of them, are artworks whose medium is, roughly, how one goes about doing what one does. In assigning an objective, laying down the constraints under which it has to be achieved, and specifying the terrain on which it will be played out, a game sculpts the decision-making processes of its players, the ways they …
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