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Michael Gill

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics
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I write about and teach classes on the history of ethics, medical ethics, and meta-ethics. I've been at the University of Arizona since 2003. Before that I taught at the College of Charleston and at Purdue University. I got my PhD from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1995.

Books

  • The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics (Cambridge University Press 2006).
  • Ethics: Theory and Practice (Indianapolis: The College Network Press, 2000).

Selected Publications

  • "Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?" Philosophy Compass 2006.
  • "Rationalism, sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth," Hume Studies 2004.
  • "Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • "Shaftesbury's two accounts of the reason to be virtuous," Journal of the History of Philosophy 2000.
  • "Hume's progressive view of human nature," Hume Studies 2000.
  • "Relativism and the concept of morality," Journal of Value Inquiry 1999.
  • "The religious rationalism of Benjamin Whichcote," Journal of the History of Philosophy 1999.
  • "On the alleged incompatibility between sentimentalism and moral confidence," History of Philosophy Quarterly 1998.
  • "A philosopher in his closet: reflexivity and justification in Hume's moral theory," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1996 (June): 231-56.
  • "Fantastick associations and addictive general rules: a fundamental difference between Hutcheson and Hume," Hume Studies 1996 (April).