James Fieser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1612816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Fieser |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Fieser |
| SIGNATURE | FIESER J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics
Philosophy
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume's Writings
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 57, Number 4, October 1996
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume's Writings
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume’s Writings James Fieser The first printed reactions to Hume’s publications were usually book reviews which appeared in British, German, and French journals. Until recently, the most complete catalogs of these reviews were in T. E. Jessop’s A Bibliography of David Hume (1938), and E. C. Mossner’s The Life of David Hume (1954). 1 Since Jessop and Mossner, knowledge of the German reviews has advanced dr…
Callicott and the Metaphysical Basis of Ecocentric Morality
According to the theory of ecocentric morality, the environment and its many ecosystems are entitled to a direct moral standing, and not simply a standing derivative from human interests. J. Baird Callicott has offered two possible metaphysical foundations for ecocentrism that attempt to show that inherent goodness can apply to environmental collections and not just to individual agents. I argue that Callicott’s first theory fails because it reli…
Is Hume A Moral Skeptic
The question of whether Hume is a moral skeptic is difficult to answer, since there seems to be no generally accepted account of exactly what is.' Often the notion of skepticism is little more than an abusive label, and at other times it is taken to mean only that one denies knowledge of some fact which most people accept. To say that Hume is a moral skeptic in either of these senses would, of course, be uninteresting because similar charges coul…
Callicott and the Metaphysical Basis of Ecocentric Morality
According to the theory of ecocentric morality, the environment and its many ecosystems are entitled to a direct moral standing, and not simply a standing derivative from human interests. J. Baird Callicott has offered two possible metaphysical foundations for ecocentrism that attempt to show that inherent goodness can apply to environmental collections and not just to individual agents. I argue that Callicott’s first theory fails because it reli…
Is Hume A Moral Skeptic
The question of whether Hume is a moral skeptic is difficult to answer, since there seems to be no generally accepted account of exactly what is.' Often the notion of skepticism is little more than an abusive label, and at other times it is taken to mean only that one denies knowledge of some fact which most people accept. To say that Hume is a moral skeptic in either of these senses would, of course, be uninteresting because similar charges coul…
Is Hume A Moral Skeptic
The question of whether Hume is a moral skeptic is difficult to answer, since there seems to be no generally accepted account of exactly what is.' Often the notion of skepticism is little more than an abusive label, and at other times it is taken to mean only that one denies knowledge of some fact which most people accept. To say that Hume is a moral skeptic in either of these senses would, of course, be uninteresting because similar charges coul…
Callicott and the Metaphysical Basis of Ecocentric Morality
According to the theory of ecocentric morality, the environment and its many ecosystems are entitled to a direct moral standing, and not simply a standing derivative from human interests. J. Baird Callicott has offered two possible metaphysical foundations for ecocentrism that attempt to show that inherent goodness can apply to environmental collections and not just to individual agents. I argue that Callicott’s first theory fails because it reli…
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume's Writings
Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 57, Number 4, October 1996
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume's Writings
The Eighteenth-Century British Reviews of Hume’s Writings James Fieser The first printed reactions to Hume’s publications were usually book reviews which appeared in British, German, and French journals. Until recently, the most complete catalogs of these reviews were in T. E. Jessop’s A Bibliography of David Hume (1938), and E. C. Mossner’s The Life of David Hume (1954). 1 Since Jessop and Mossner, knowledge of the German reviews has advanced dr…
Philosophy
Ethics
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