Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

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name = Geoffrey Sayre-McCord


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Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (born December 10, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a philosopher who works in moral theory, meta-ethics, the history of ethics, and epistemology and has written extensively in these areas. He is known especially for his work on moral realism and on David Hume's moral theory. He has also written on contractualism. His "Essays on Moral Realism" is widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses on meta-ethics and he was, for five years, a co-editor of the highly regarded journal "Noûs". Sayre-McCord received his BA from Oberlin College and his PhD (under the direction of David Gauthier) from the University of Pittsburgh. The recipient of several university-wide teaching awards, Sayre-McCord is the Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina, where he has taught since 1985.

Publications

Some Articles

*"Coherence and Models for Moral Theorizing," "Pacific Philosophical Quarterly" (1985)
*"Deontic Logic and the Priority of Moral Theory," "Noûs" (1986)
*"The Many Moral Realisms," "Southern Journal of Philosophy", Spindel Conference Supplement, (1986)
*"Moral Theory and Explanatory Impotence," "Midwest Studies" (1988)
*"Deception and Reasons to be Moral," "American Philosophical Quarterly", (1989)
*"Functional Explanations and Reasons as Causes," "Philosophical Perspectives" (1990)
*"Being a Realist about Relativism," "Philosophical Studies" (1991)
*"Normative Explanations," "Philosophical Perspectives" (1992)
*"On Why Hume's General Point of View Isn't Ideal -- and Shouldn't Be," "Social Philosophy and Policy" (1994)
*"Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory," in "Moral Knowledge?", ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong and Timmons (1996)
*"Hume and the Bauhaus Theory of Ethics," "Midwest Studies" (1996)
*"Hume's Representation Argument Against Rationalism," "Manuscrito" (1997)
*"The Meta-Ethical Problem," "Ethics" (1997)
*"'Good' on Twin Earth," "Philosophical Issues" (1997)
*"Contractarianism," "Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory" (1999)
*"Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations," "Philosophical Issues" (2001)
*"Mill's 'Proof': A More than Half-Hearted Defense," "Social Philosophy and Policy" (2001)
*"On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality," "Rationality, Rules, and Ideals", ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2002)
*"Moral Realism," "Oxford Handbook of Moral Theory", ed. by Copp (2006)
*"Moral Semantics and Empirical Enquiry," "Moral Psychology", ed. by Sinnott-Armstrong (2008)
*"Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason," "Oxford Studies in Metaethics", ed. by Shafer-Landau (2008)

Edited Volumes

*"Essays on Moral Realism" (Cornell University Press, 1988)
*"Hume: Moral Philosophy" (Hackett Publishing, 2006)

External links

* [http://philosophy.unc.edu/smccord.htm Geoffrey Sayre-McCord's webpage at UNC-Chapel Hill]
* [http://www.unc.edu/%7Egsmunc/Sayre-McCord_CV.pdf Geoffrey Sayre-McCord's curriculum vita]
* [http://www.unc.edu/%7Egsmunc/Sayre-McCord.html Geoffrey Sayre-McCord's personal webpage]
* [http://www.unc.edu/%7Egsmunc/Papers.html Papers available on-line]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Sayre-McCord,%20Geoffrey Video conversations/interviews] with Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/ "Stanford Encyclopedia" entry on "Meta-Ethics", on-line]
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ "Stanford Encyclopedia" entry on "Moral Realism", on-line]
* [http://brainwaveweb.com/diavlogs/10593 Sayre-McCord on Bloggingheads.tv discussing meta-ethics]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/11752 Sayre-McCord on Bloggingheads.tv discussing ethics and evolution]