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George Sher

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#2473

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#4214

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#876

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#7990

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#9942

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#1272

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Bachelors Philosophy University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, George Sher is a moral philosopher and political philosopher who has taught at Rice University since 1991. Education and career Sher earned his bachelor's degree at Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1972. He taught at the University of Vermont before moving to Rice.

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George Sher's Published Works

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Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method, and Point. (1982) (476)
Out of Control* (2006) (181)
In Praise of Blame (2005) (160)
Who Knew?: Responsibility Without Awareness (2009) (160)
Morality Within the Limits of Reason (1988) (158)
Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics (1997) (117)
Liberal Neutrality and the Value of Autonomy (1995) (65)
Gary Watson RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LIMITS OF EVIL: VARIATIONS ON A STRAWSONIAN THEME (2012) (59)
What makes a Lottery Fair (1980) (38)
But I Could Be Wrong (2001) (34)
Compensation and Transworld Personal Identity (1979) (33)
Reverse Discrimination, the Future, and the Past (1979) (29)
When Good People Do Bad Things (2005) (28)
Equality for Inegalitarians (2014) (28)
Approximate justice : studies in non-ideal theory (1997) (22)
Moral education and indoctrination (1982) (19)
A Wild West of the Mind (2018) (15)
Wrongdoing and Relationships: The Problem of the Stranger (2012) (13)
Ethics, Character, and Action (1998) (13)
Justifying Reverse Discrimination in Employment (2013) (13)
Blame for traits (2001) (11)
Subsidized abortion: moral rights and moral compromise. (1981) (10)
Why we are moral equals (2014) (9)
Blameworthy Action and Character (2002) (9)
Reason at Work: Introductory Readings in Philosophy (1984) (9)
Ethics : essential readings in moral theory (2012) (8)
On the decriminalization of drugs (2003) (8)
On event-identity (1974) (6)
The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (2020) (6)
Groups and Justice (1977) (6)
The Ethics of Social Punishment (2020) (6)
REAL-WORLD LUCK EGALITARIANISM (2010) (5)
Beyond Neutrality: Contents (1997) (5)
II.—CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND THE VOCABULARY OF ACTION (1973) (5)
Talents and Choices (2012) (5)
Who’s in Charge Here?: Reply to Neil Levy (2008) (5)
Desert (1987) (4)
Right Violations and Injustices: Can We Always Avoid Trade-Offs? (1984) (3)
Why the past matters (1983) (3)
Rights, neutrality, and the oppressive power of the state (1995) (3)
Responsibility, Conversation, and Communication (2015) (3)
My Profession and its Duties (1996) (3)
Peter Railton ALIENATION, CONSEQUENTIALISM, AND THE DEMANDS OF MORALITY (2012) (3)
Hare, abortion, and the Golden Rule. (1977) (3)
Punishment as Societal Defense (1999) (3)
Beyond Neutrality: Three grades of social involvement (1997) (2)
The Searchlight View (2009) (2)
Kripke, Cartesian Intuitions, and Materialism (1977) (2)
Book Reviews (2009) (2)
Social and Political Philosophy Contemporary Readings (1999) (2)
A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn (2009) (1)
Sentences in the Brain (1975) (1)
Confessions of a Quidnunc (2018) (1)
An Unsolved Problem About Punishment (1977) (1)
Beyond Neutrality: Prophylactic neutrality (1997) (1)
Moral Relativism Defended (1980) (1)
Responsibility Without Awareness (2009) (1)
Antecedentialism (1983) (1)
Reasons and Intensionality (1969) (1)
Armstrong and the Interdependence of the Mental (1977) (1)
Knew—Or Should Have Known? (2009) (1)
Responsibility and Practical Reason (2009) (1)
The Historical Dimension of Justice (1981) (1)
On Social Punishment (2020) (0)
John Doris A SITUATIONIST THEORY OF CHARACTER (2012) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Knowing about the good (1997) (0)
What Blame Is (2005) (0)
Charles Taylor on purpose and causation (1975) (0)
Like Dye in Water (2021) (0)
Moral Risk (0)
What Blame Is Not (2005) (0)
Equality for Inegalitarians: Why we are moral equals (2014) (0)
From sufficiency to equality (2014) (0)
The monistic turn (2014) (0)
Nasty as I Wanna Be (2021) (0)
Consciousness and Moral Responsibility, by Neil Levy. (2015) (0)
Precis of A Wild West of the Mind (2023) (0)
G. E. Moore GOODNESS AS SIMPLE AND INDEFINABLE (2012) (0)
Moral Knowledge: But I Could Be Wrong (2001) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Introduction (1997) (0)
Armstrong on impossible desires (1975) (0)
Encomium (0)
Completing the turn (2014) (0)
Vicious Thoughts (0)
The Structure of Blameworthy Action (2005) (0)
JOHANNES L. BRANDL and PETER SULLIVAN (eds) New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Dummett (2001) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Conclusion (1997) (0)
Thomas Scanlon CONTRACTUALISM AND UTILITARIANISM (2012) (0)
Luck as the absence of control (2014) (0)
Richard Brandt GOODNESS AS THE SATISFACTION OF INFORMED DESIRE (2012) (0)
Correction to: How Wild the West? Reply to Coates and Swenson (2023) (0)
Christine Korsgaard THE AUTHORITY OF NORMS (2012) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism: A theory (1997) (0)
A. J. Ayer THE EMOTIVE THEORY OF ETHICS (2012) (0)
Harmful Thoughts (0)
Perfectionism and Democracy (2014) (0)
Responsibility Matters.Retribution Reconsidered: More Essays in the Philosophy of Law.Desert (1995) (0)
Social and Political Philosophy (1998) (0)
Setting the Norms of Recognition (2009) (0)
The Responsible Self (2009) (0)
Comment on R. Taylor, ‘agent & patient: Is there a distinction?’ (1982) (0)
W. D. Ross WHAT MAKES RIGHT ACTS RIGHT (2012) (0)
The Two-Vocabularies Argument Again (1977) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Against subjectivism (1997) (0)
The Weight of the Past (2021) (0)
SOY volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
Indoctrination Anxiety and t he Etiology of Belief Forthcoming in Synthese (2015) (0)
Liberal Purposes by William A. Galston (1993) (0)
Equality, responsibility, desert (2014) (0)
Autonomy and neutrality (2) (1997) (0)
Coping with contingency (2014) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: The principle of neutrality (1997) (0)
Don’t Even Think of It (2021) (0)
R. M. Hare WHAT IS WRONG WITH SLAVERY (2012) (0)
REASONS, CAUSES, AND CLEAR CASES (1975) (0)
George Sher BUT I COULD BE WRONG (2012) (0)
Debate: Taking Offense (2020) (0)
Title Page: How Wild the West? Reply to Coates and Swenson (2023) (0)
You're Not Trying (2021) (0)
Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift, Family Values (2015) (0)
Reconciling equality and choice (2014) (0)
Beyond Neutrality: Autonomy and neutrality (1) (1997) (0)

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