Books written by George Sher
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Utilitarianism (Second Edition)
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder.
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Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader
Richard B. Brandt (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962); Gregory Vlastos, “Justice and Equality,” in Brandt, ed., Social Justice. [44] Random selection is a system that peculiarly requires its performance to justify its fairness.
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Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader
206 See Paul M. Bator; Paul J. Mishkin; David L. Shapiro; and Herbert Wechsler, Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 2nd ed. (Mineola, NY: Foundation Press, 1973) 330360 (Professor Hart's “Dialogue”).
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Who Knew?: Responsibility Without Awareness
Responsibility Without Awareness George Sher. 10. Kane, Significance, 130. For a list of the sorts of conscious occurrences—Kane calls these “selfformed willings”—whose freedom is thus established, see Kane, 125.
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A Wild West of the Mind
Orwell's point, and mine, is that constraints on belief undercut freedom of mind by inhibiting inquiries that might provide evidence for forbidden beliefs. To say that we might have evidence for a forbidden belief is to presuppose that ...
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Utilitarianism (Second Edition)
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder.
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Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory
This is an anthology of sixty-six readings covering the central topics, theories, and debates in ethics.
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Me, You, Us: Essays
The essays in Me, You, Us address a range of issues in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and moral psychology, but are unified by their starkly individualistic view of the moral subject.
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Desert
The description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.
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The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life
This book critically evaluates the way ordinary people enforce morality in everyday life.
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The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life
Radzik replies in the closing essay.
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Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory
Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field.
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Equality for Inegalitarians
This book offers a new and compelling account of distributive justice and its relation to choice.
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A Wild West of the Mind
The book addresses two main topics-first, the morality of thought and, second, what's involved in having a free mind.