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Mark Timmons

Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1982
Kant's Ethics, Meta-ethics
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Timmons joined the Arizona Department in 2004.  He has published widely in ethics, particularly in the areas of metaethics and Kant's ethics.  
 

Current Research

In addition to his ongoing work on Kant's ethics, Timmons continues to collaborate with Terry Horgan.  A Collection of their essays in metaethics entitled, Moral Twin Earth and Beyond is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.  Their current collaborative work is focused on moral phenomenology. 

Books

He is author of Morality with Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism (Oxford, 1999), and Moral Theory: An Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).  He is editor of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays (Oxford, 2002), Conduct and Character: Readings in Moral Theory, 5th ed. (Wadsworth, 2006), and Disputed Moral Issues (Oxford, 2007).  He is co-editor of: Metaethics after Moore (Oxford, 2006), Moral Knowledge? Essays in Moral Epistemology (Oxford, 1996), of Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi (Oxford, 2007, and Knowledge, Nature and Norms (Cengage-Wadsworth, 2008).

Selected Publications

  • ·          "Contrastivism, Relevance Contextualism, and Meta-Skepticism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, in press.
  • ·           "Toward a Sentimentalist Deontology", In Moral Psychology, vol. 3, Walter-Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • ·          "What Can Moral Phenomenology Tell Us about Moral Objectivity?" with Terry Horgan.  In Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Relativism in Ethics, E.R. Paul, F.D. Miller, and J. Paul (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • ·          "Moorean Moral Phenomenology", with Terry Horgan.  In Moorean Themes in Epistemology and Ethics, S. Nuccetelli & G. Seay (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • ·           "Ethical Objectivity, Humanly Speaking: Reflection on Putnams' Ethics without Ontology", Contemporary Pragmatism, 2007.
  • ·           "Cognitivist Expressivism", with Terry Horgan.  In Metaethics after Moore, T. Horgan & M. Timmons (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2006.
  •  "The Categorical Imperative and Universalizability." In Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: New Interpretations, Christoph Horn & Dieter Schonecker (eds.), de Gruyter, 2006.
  • ·           "Expressivism, Yes! Relativism, No!" with Terry Horgan.  In Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. I., R. Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • ·           "Moral Phenomenology and Moral Theory" with Terry Horgan.  Philosophical Issues 15, 2005.