Alistair Horne
Biographic Data
| ID | 544723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Horne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Horne |
| SIGNATURE | HORNE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7777-6603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social Normativity
This paper defends two claims. First, I argue that you always have some reason to comply with the social norms applicable to your situation, no matter how immoral or ridiculous, provided you are in the social domain. This is not a baroque, technical fact about social norms: it is fundamental to understanding what they are, how they work, and how they can be a source of grave injustice. Second, I argue that this fact about social normativity requi…
Indirect evaluative voluntarism
Is genuine self‐creation – understood as self‐directed value‐acquisition – possible? Many philosophers think not. I disagree. I explain why a recent attempt to solve the problem fails and use it to motivate an alternative proposal: indirect evaluative voluntarism. Indirect evaluative voluntarism is not only well‐suited to explaining how self‐creation is possible; it also unifies two important aspects of our doxastic lives, viz . responsibility fo…
Too many cooks
The existing literature on the rational underdetermination problem often construes it as one resulting from the ubiquity of objective values. It is therefore sometimes argued that subjectivists need not be troubled by the underdetermination problem. But on closer examination, it turns out, they should. Or so I will argue. The task of the first half of this paper is explaining why. The task of the second half is finding a subjectivist solution the…
Seven Ages of Paris
Monty, the Lonely Leader, 1944-1945
Harold MacMillan
Mediterranean Africa
A Savage War of Peace
A Savage War of Peace
The Chilean Road to Socialism
Small Earthquake in Chile
To Lose a Battle
The Fall of Paris
The Fall of Paris
To Lose a Battle
Small Earthquake in Chile
The Chilean Road to Socialism
A Savage War of Peace
A Savage War of Peace
Mediterranean Africa
Harold MacMillan
Monty, the Lonely Leader, 1944-1945
Seven Ages of Paris
Too many cooks
The existing literature on the rational underdetermination problem often construes it as one resulting from the ubiquity of objective values. It is therefore sometimes argued that subjectivists need not be troubled by the underdetermination problem. But on closer examination, it turns out, they should. Or so I will argue. The task of the first half of this paper is explaining why. The task of the second half is finding a subjectivist solution the…
Indirect evaluative voluntarism
Is genuine self‐creation – understood as self‐directed value‐acquisition – possible? Many philosophers think not. I disagree. I explain why a recent attempt to solve the problem fails and use it to motivate an alternative proposal: indirect evaluative voluntarism. Indirect evaluative voluntarism is not only well‐suited to explaining how self‐creation is possible; it also unifies two important aspects of our doxastic lives, viz . responsibility fo…
Social Normativity
This paper defends two claims. First, I argue that you always have some reason to comply with the social norms applicable to your situation, no matter how immoral or ridiculous, provided you are in the social domain. This is not a baroque, technical fact about social norms: it is fundamental to understanding what they are, how they work, and how they can be a source of grave injustice. Second, I argue that this fact about social normativity requi…
Political science (10 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · European Political History Analysis (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works)