Alan H Goldman

Biographic Data

ID487683
NAMEAlan H Goldman
GIVEN NAMESAlan H
FAMILY NAMEGoldman
SIGNATUREGOLDMAN A H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Miami
ORCID0000-0001-8907-5129
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Desire versus judgment subjectivism about welfare

    Alan H GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2024

    Subjectivism about welfare is the claim that something contributes to a person’s welfare if and only if that person has in proper conditions a certain pro attitude toward that thing. Dale Dorsey argues that the pro attitude in question is a judgment that the thing is good for one, a welfare judgment, as opposed to a desire for that thing. Eden Lin and Anthony Kelley provide counterexamples in which subjects allegedly have positive welfare without…

  • Death

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLEBioethics2023

    As the Roman philosopher Lucretius asked, why do we fear and regret death, but do not regret not having been born earlier, when death and prenatal nonexistence are mirror images? Both deprive us of goods we might have had, and this deprivation most plausibly explains the badness of death. This paper first considers and rejects explanations other than the deprivation of goods. It then suggests an explanation in terms of a state of which death depr…

  • Well-Being and Experience

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLEThe Journal of Ethics2022

  • The Right Argument from Moral Disagreement

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLETheoria2022

    The anti‐realist's argument from moral disagreement has prematurely fallen out of favor. The argument has never been stated explicitly in correct form, and its proponents have not appealed to the best examples to support its premises. Realists have responded with a multitude of possible replies without applying them to the most convincing examples of irresolvable disagreements. The argument is a modus ponens from apparent fundamental disagreement…

  • Life's Values

    Alan H GoldmanBOOKLife's Values2018Cited by: 5References: 8

    This book seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. Proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the last is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational desires. Since individuals’ rational desires differ, the book cannot tell you what will maximize your own well-being, what in particular you ought to pursue, although it can tell you to …

  • Roles and Role Morality

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    A distinct role morality would consist in special norms that are to guide the conduct of those in certain professional or business roles. These norms would elevate the values central to those roles relative to ordinary moral deliberation and limit the authority of agents in those positions to act on ordinary moral considerations. The special norms might be justified by appeal to the fallibility of role occupants in ordinary deliberation or to a m…

  • Justice and Reverse Discrimination

    Alan H GoldmanBOOKJustice and Reverse Discrimination2015

    Through careful consideration of the mutually plausible yet conflicting arguments on both sides of the issue, Alan Goldman attempts to derive a morally consistent position on the justice (or injustice) of reverse discrimination. From a philosophical framework that appeals to a contractual model of ethics, he develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity. He then applies these principles to the issue at hand, bringing his conc…

  • Philosophy and the Novel

    Alan H GoldmanBOOKPhilosophy and the Novel2013

  • Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1930

    A Goldman, Alan H GoldmanARTICLEJournal of the History of…2008

    When plague broke out in a Mexican immigrant neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles (LA) in 1924, the neighborhood was placed under strict quarantine, with LA's young public health department and eager public health officials flexing their muscles against this immigrant community. The stringent “no entry/no exit” policy applied to everyone in the seven-block region where disease was “hidden,” with one notable exception: laborers (83–85). Natalia Mo…

  • Desire Based Reasons and Reasons for Desires

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLEThe Southern Journal of Philosophy2006Cited by: 1

  • Reason Internalism

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2005

    This paper defends strong internalism about reasons, the view that reasons must relate to pre-existing motivational states, from several kinds of counterexamples, supposed desire independent reasons, that have been proposed. A central distinction drawn is that between there being a reason and an agent's having a reason. For an agent to have an F reason, she must be F-minded. Reasons, as what motivate us, are states of affairs and not themselves d…

  • Practical Rules

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanBOOKPractical Rules2001

    Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? The two dominant models in the literature on rules are the particularist account and that which sees the application of rules as normative. Taking a posi…

  • Moral reasoning without rules

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLEMind & Society2001

  • Rules and Moral Reasoning

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLESynthese1998References: 2

  • Aesthetic Value

    David E Cooper, Alan H GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1998

  • Musical Meaning and Expression

    Alan H Goldman, Davie et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1996

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Musical Meaning and Expression. By Stephen Davies. ( Cornell UP, 1994. Pp. xii + 417. Price not given.) Alan H. Goldman Alan H. Goldman University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 185, October 1996, Pages 533–535, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956368 Published: 01 October 1996

  • Unmasking Japan Today

    Ofer Feldman, Fumie Kumagai et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1996

  • The Aesthetic Value of Representation in Painting

    Alan H GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1995

    The philosophy of art was born with Plato's challenge to demonstrate the value of representational art. Two and a half millenia later it is questionable at best whether aestheticians have met that challenge. This article will contain a brief review of some attempts to do so and the suggestion of a different direction from which to approach the problem. Pictorial representation is of a less and more common variety, the first being symbolism and th…

  • Art Historical Value

    Alan H GoldmanARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1993

    Journal Article ART HISTORICAL VALUE Get access Alan H. Goldman Alan H. Goldman Department of Philosophy, University of MiamiCoral Gables, Florida 33124, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 17–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.1.17 Published: 01 January 1993

  • Empirical Knowledge

    Jonathan Vogel, Alan H GoldmanARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • Empirical Knowledge

    Laurence Bonjour, Alan H Goldman et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1991

  • Moral Knowledge

    Joel J Kupperman, Joel Kupperman et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1991

  • Aesthetic Versus Moral Evaluations

    Alan H GoldmanARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1990

    A comparison of moral to aesthetic evaluation should be useful for revealing the semantic status of the latter.' I shall begin with the most promising realist analyses, which are similar in form and beset by similar difficulties. A central question is whether revisions forced by these difficulties can also be similar. I shall argue that they cannot, although the standard view of the difference between moral and aesthetic judgments in this respect…

  • The Education of Taste

    Alan H GoldmanARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics1990

    Journal Article THE EDUCATION OF TASTE Get access Alan H. Goldman Alan H. Goldman Department of Philosophy, University of MiamiPO Box 248054, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, U.S.A Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 105–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/30.2.105 Published: 01 April 1990

  • The Justification of Equal Opportunity

    Open AccessAlan H GoldmanARTICLESocial Philosophy and Policy1987

    As a preliminary to the justification of equal opportunity, we require a few words on the concept. An opportunity is a chance to attain some goal or obtain some benefit. More precisely, it is the lack of some obstacle or obstacles to the attainment of some goal(s) or benefit(s). Opportunities are equal in some specified or understood sense when persons face roughly the same obstacles or obstacles of roughly the same difficulty of some specified o…