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Replies to my Commentators

Author: Neera K. Badhwar

Published in: The Journal of Value Inquiry | Issue 1/2016

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I want to start by thanking my commentators for all the time they have spent reading my book and crafting their comments. One oddity of our profession is that, even though we inhabit the same world and are equally committed to rationality, we too often end up disagreeing with each other as though these were the end times, the path to salvation was marked out in great detail, and any deviation from it spelled disaster. I hope that this conversation will show the reader – and us – that there is more than one path to salvation, even if none of us has more than a glimpse of any. …

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For discussion and references, see my “Reasoning about Wrong Reasons, No Reasons, and Reasons of Virtue,” in The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness, ed. Nancy Snow and Franco V. Trivigno (New York: Routledge, 2014): 35–53, and Well-being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 164–64.

Well-being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life, op. cit.

Phillipa Foot, Natural Goodness, (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001), p. 97. Foot makes this claim about happiness.

Well-being, op. cit., p. 145.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/technology/dave-goldberg-cause-of-death.html?_r=0.

Well-being, op. cit.; “The Limited Unity of Virtue,” Nous 30, no. 3 (1996): 306–329; “The Milgram Experiments, Learned Helplessness, and Character Traits,” Journal of Ethics 13, no. 2–3 (2009): 257–289 (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10892-009-9052-4, June 3, 2009).

Daniel C. Russell, Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Ch. 4.

See Christine Korsgaard, “Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy.” In Special Issue: Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century. Journal of Philosophical Research 28, APA Centennial Issue Supplement (2003): 9–122. Republished in Korsgaard’s Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology, 302–326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, and my Well-being, op. cit., p. 8.

See Well-being, op. cit., pp. 58–59.

Valerie Tiberius and Alexandra Plakias, “Well-Being,” in The Moral Psychology Handbook, edited by John Doris and the Moral Psychology Research Group (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 403–432, at 222.

Jacqui Smith and Paul B. Baltes. “Wisdom-related knowledge: Age/cohort differences in response to life-planning problems,” Developmental Psychology 26, no. 3 (May 1990), pp. 494–505, and Well-Being, op. cit., p. 119.

Owen O Flanagan, Jr., "Identity and Reflection," in Self-Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life, edited by Flanagan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 142–170, and Well-Being, op. cit., p. 113.

See Well-being, op. cit., pp. 114–115.

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, trans. J. Solomon, in The Complete Works of Aristotle: the Revised Oxford Translation, edited by Jonathan Barnes (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), 1247b 18ff., and Well-Being, op. cit., pp. 115–116.

Title: Replies to my Commentators
Author: Neera K. Badhwar
Publication date: 01-03-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: The Journal of Value Inquiry / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0022-5363
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0492
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-016-9544-y

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