Jeremy Randel Koons
Biographic Data
| ID | 461121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Randel Koons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy Randel |
| FAMILY NAME | Koons |
| SIGNATURE | KOONS J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5492-348X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Metaphysics of Practice
Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) saw the development of his practical philosophy as central to his entire philosophical enterprise—the linchpin to situating the framework of persons within a scientific worldview. The core idea in Sellars’s moral writings is that the moral “ought” is to be understood as a special kind of intention. Specifically, moral judgments are we-intentions, practical commitments one makes “as one of us” or from the communal point…
Metaphysics of Practice
Sellars on compatibilism and the consequence argument
Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency
The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars’s ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars’s view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of recon…
Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
A Myth resurgent
Plantinga on Properly Basic Belief in God
Plantinga famously argues against evidentialism that belief in God can be properly basic. But the epistemology of cognitive faculties such as perception and memory which produce psychologically non-inferential beliefs shows that various inferentially justified theoretical beliefs are epistemically prior to our memory and perceptual beliefs, preventing the latter from being epistemically basic. Plantinga's analogy between the sensus divinitatis an…
Plantinga on Properly Basic Belief in God
Plantinga famously argues against evidentialism that belief in God can be properly basic. But the epistemology of cognitive faculties such as perception and memory which produce psychologically non-inferential beliefs shows that various inferentially justified theoretical beliefs are epistemically prior to our memory and perceptual beliefs, preventing the latter from being epistemically basic. Plantinga's analogy between the sensus divinitatis an…
Plantinga on Properly Basic Belief in God
Plantinga famously argues against evidentialism that belief in God can be properly basic. But the epistemology of cognitive faculties such as perception and memory which produce psychologically non-inferential beliefs shows that various inferentially justified theoretical beliefs are epistemically prior to our memory and perceptual beliefs, preventing the latter from being epistemically basic. Plantinga's analogy between the sensus divinitatis an…
A Myth resurgent
The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars’s ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars’s view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of recon…
Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
Sellars on compatibilism and the consequence argument
Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency
The Metaphysics of Practice
Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989) saw the development of his practical philosophy as central to his entire philosophical enterprise—the linchpin to situating the framework of persons within a scientific worldview. The core idea in Sellars’s moral writings is that the moral “ought” is to be understood as a special kind of intention. Specifically, moral judgments are we-intentions, practical commitments one makes “as one of us” or from the communal point…
Metaphysics of Practice
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · American Philosophy (2 works) · Brandom (2 works) · Categorical validity (2 works) · Cooperative rationality (2 works) · Derivative concern (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Ethical Theory (2 works) · Ethics (2 works)