- Alastair Norcross
Alastair Norcross is an
Associate Professor of philosophy specializing innormative ethics ,applied ethics , andpolitical philosophy .In 2007, he transferred to
University of Colorado at Boulder fromRice University , where he had been since 2002, after teaching for ten years atSouthern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was the Easterwood Associate Professor of Philosophy. Before that, he taught atHobart and William Smith Colleges inGeneva, NY , while finishing his Ph.D. atSyracuse University in 1991. He is a descendant ofWilliam Wallace .In ethics, Norcross defends a version of act
utilitarianism known as "scalar utilitarianism", which is the theory that there are no right or wrong actions, only better or worse actions ranked along a continuum from the action (or actions) that contributes most to overallutility to the action (or actions) that contributes the least.elected works
*(2006) 'Scalar Act-Utilitarianism'. In Henry R. West (ed.) "Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism". ISBN 9781405119498
*(2006) 'Reasons Without Demands: Rethinking Rightness'. In Jamie Dreier (ed.) "Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory". ISBN 9781405101790
*(2005) 'Peacemaking Philosophy or Appeasement? Sterba's Argument for Compromise'. "International Journal of Applied Philosophy",19:2.
*(2005) 'Contextualism for Consequentialists'. "Acta Analytica", 20(2).
*(2005) 'Harming in Context'. "Philosophical Studies", 123 (1-2).
*(2004) 'Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases'. "Philosophical Perspectives" 18.
* (2003) 'Killng and Letting Die'. In R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), "The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics": 451-463.
* (2002) 'Contractualism and Aggregation'. "Social Theory and Practice", 28 (2): 303-314.
* (1999) 'ntransitivity and the Person-Affecting Principle'. "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research", LIX (3): 769-776.
* (1998) 'Great Harms from Small Benefits Grow: How Death can be Outweighed by Headaches'. "Analysis": 152-158.References
* [http://spot.colorado.edu/~norcross/Norcrosscv.html Alastair Norcross's CV (Accessed October 2007)]
* [http://spot.colorado.edu/~norcross/ Alastair Norcross's home page. (Accessed October 2007)]
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