Nicholas Sturgeon
226 Goldwin Smith Hall
Tel: (607) 255-3687
email: nls6@cornell.edu
Professor Sturgeon has taught at
Cornell since l967. He has been a visiting faculty member at the
University of Michigan, at Johns Hopkins and at UCLA. His chief areas of
interest are ethics and the empiricists, but he also does work in
epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the history of ethics. He has taught
graduate-level courses on moral realism and its critics, on the tradition
of British moral philosophy from Hobbes to Hume, and on the British
empiricists.
Selected Publications
- "Moral Explanations," in Morality, Reason, and Truth, ed. Copp
and Zimmerman (1985).
- "What Difference Does It Make Whether Moral Realism Is True?", Southern
Journal of Philosophy,
Supplement (1986).
- "Moral Disagreement and Moral Relativism," Social Philosophy and Policy 11
(Winter, 1994).
- "Moral Skepticism and Moral Naturalism in Hume's Treatise," Hume Studies 27 (April, 2001), 3-83.
- Ethical Intuitionism and Ethical Naturalism," in Phillip Stratton-Lake, ed., Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 184-211.
- “ Moore on Ethical Naturalism,” Ethics 113 (2003), 528-56.
- “Moral Explanations Defended,” in James Dreier, ed., Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory ( Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 241-62
- Ethical Naturalism,” in David Copp, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 91-121.
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