James D Wallace

Biographic Data

ID978380
NAMEJames D Wallace
GIVEN NAMESJames D
FAMILY NAMEWallace
SIGNATUREWALLACE J D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict

    Tim Wallace, James D WallaceBOOKMoral Relevance and Moral Conflict2021

    In adapting our ways of dealing with these issues to unprecedented problems, and in dealing with the conflicts that arise from unprecedented juxtapositions of considerations, we alter and even reform morality.

  • Ethical Norms, Particular Cases

    Don Loeb, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

  • Ethical Norms, Particular Cases

    Tim Wallace, James D WallaceBOOKEthical Norms, Particular Cases1996

    James D. Wallace treats moral considerations as beliefs about the right and wrong ways of doing things—beliefs whose source and authority are the same as any other kind of practical knowledge. Principles, rules, and norms arise from people's cumulative experience in pursuing their purposes and struggling with the problems they encounter. Moral knowledge, he contends, is excerpted from the bodies of information we have developed so that we will be…

  • Contexts for Hawthorne: "The Marble Faun" and the Politics of Openness and Closure in American Literature

    Tim Wallace, James D Wallace et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1992

  • Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict

    Sarah Conly, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1991

  • Moral Relevance and Moral Conflict

    Christopher W Gowans, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1991

  • Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865

    Tim Wallace, James D Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1990

  • Hawthorne and the Scribbling Women Reconsidered

    Tim Wallace, James D WallaceARTICLEAmerican Literature1990Cited by: 1

    IN the fall of I854 Nathaniel Hawthorne-already well established as the famous American author of The Scarlet Letter and serving as the American consul at Liverpool-wrote to his publisher and friend, William D. Ticknor, with an unusual request. The Englishman Richard Monckton Milnes had been introduced to Hawthorne as very kind patron of literary men and as someone who did great deal of good among young and neglected people of that class.' It was…

  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and American Culture

    Tim Wallace, James D Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1986

  • Early Cooper and His Audience

    Joel Myerson, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1986

  • Early Cooper and his Audience

    Michael T Gilmore, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1986

  • Virtues and Vices

    R A Duff, Tim Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1980

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Virtues and Vices. By James D. Wallace. ( Cornell University Press. 1978. Pp. 170. Price £9.50) B. A. Duff B. A. Duff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 118, January 1980, Pages 86–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219392 Published: 01 January 1980

  • Excellences and Merit

    J Wallace, James D WallaceARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1974

  • Values and Conduct

    Tim Wallace, James D Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1973

  • Knowledge of Actions

    Tim Wallace, James D Wallace et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1969

  • Practical Inquiry

    Tim Wallace, James D WallaceARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1969

  • The Beginning of the World

    Open AccessTim Wallace, James D WallaceARTICLEDialogue1968

    Kant offered the following proof for the thesis that the world has a beginning in time: If we assume that the world has no beginning in time, then up to every given moment an eternity has elapsed, and there has passed away in the world an infinite series of successive states of things. Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact that it can never be completed through successive synthesis. It thus follows that it is impossible for an infinit…