Robert N. Johnson
Robert N. Johnson
PhD University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Ethical Theory
Books:
Self-Improvement: An Essay in Kantian Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2011
ed., w/ Michael Smith, Passions and Projections: Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn. Oxford U. P., 2015
ed., w/ Mark Timmons, Reason, Value and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Oxford U. P., 2015
Selected Publications:
”Kant’s Moral Philosophy,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopy”
“The Moral Law as Causal Law,” in Kant’s ‘Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals’: A Critical Guide, J. Timmerman (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“Value and Autonomy in Kantian Ethics,” in Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 2, Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford University Press (2007), pp. 133-148.
“Virtue and Right,” Ethics 113:4 (2003): 810-834.
"Internal Reasons and the Conditional Fallacy," The Philosophical Quarterly 49:194 (1999): 53-71.
"Weakness Incorporated," History of Philosophy Quarterly 15:3 (1998): 349-367
"Minding One's Manners: Revisiting Moral Explanations," Philosophical Studies 90 (1998): 181-203.
"Reasons and Advice for the Practically Irrational," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57:3 (1997): 619-625.
"Kant's Conception of Merit," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 77:4 (1996): 310-334.
By appointment.