Nellie Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 387098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nellie Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nellie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6642-1631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In what sense is evolution blind to moral truth
A Theory of Collective Virtue
We introduce Imitationism, a new theory of collective virtue—that is, of virtues and vices held by collectives such as corporations and governments. This theory has the advantage of clearly explaining how collectives can have virtues in robustly nonreductive ways without appealing to group minds. We then use this theory to elucidate some examples of collective virtue and respond to some objections
Moral knowledge and the existence of god
In this essay, I argue that, all else being equal, theism is more probable than naturalism on the assumption that human beings are able to arrive at a body of moral knowledge that is largely accurate and complete. I put forth this thesis on grounds that, if naturalism is true, the explanation of the content of our moral intuitions terminates either in biological-evolutionary processes or in social conventions adopted for pragmatic reasons; that, …
Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin . Trudier Harris Black and White Women of the Old South
Claude McKay
"Response to "The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms
T IS HARD to be sympathetic with Ellen Messer-Davidow's arguments for a more contextual and theoretically self-reflective kind of literary and cultural studies. The academic study of the humanities that is frequently invoked by current educational conservatives has never really worked effectively, even in the eyes of most earlier traditionalists. The current notion that in the 1960s the academic humanities underwent an abrupt falling away from a …
Portrait of an Expatriate
LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks se…
Black woman professor—White university
Black woman professor—White university
Portrait of an Expatriate
LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks se…
"Response to "The Philosophical Bases of Feminist Literary Criticisms
T IS HARD to be sympathetic with Ellen Messer-Davidow's arguments for a more contextual and theoretically self-reflective kind of literary and cultural studies. The academic study of the humanities that is frequently invoked by current educational conservatives has never really worked effectively, even in the eyes of most earlier traditionalists. The current notion that in the 1960s the academic humanities underwent an abrupt falling away from a …
Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin . Trudier Harris Black and White Women of the Old South
Claude McKay
Moral knowledge and the existence of god
In this essay, I argue that, all else being equal, theism is more probable than naturalism on the assumption that human beings are able to arrive at a body of moral knowledge that is largely accurate and complete. I put forth this thesis on grounds that, if naturalism is true, the explanation of the content of our moral intuitions terminates either in biological-evolutionary processes or in social conventions adopted for pragmatic reasons; that, …
A Theory of Collective Virtue
We introduce Imitationism, a new theory of collective virtue—that is, of virtues and vices held by collectives such as corporations and governments. This theory has the advantage of clearly explaining how collectives can have virtues in robustly nonreductive ways without appealing to group minds. We then use this theory to elucidate some examples of collective virtue and respond to some objections
In what sense is evolution blind to moral truth
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