Phil Clark

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Position:

Professor

Campus:

UTM,

Email Address:

Phone Number:

905-828-3759

Fax Number:

905-828-5202

Biography:

  • BA, Oberlin College
  • PhD, UCLA

Phil Clark has written on practical reason, metaethics, philosophy of action and testimony.  His current work is on the problem of creeping minimalism and the relation between expressivism and subjectivism.

Research Interests:

Ethics, Metaethics

Publications:

  •  “Inescapability and the Analysis of Agency,” Abstracta 7:3-15, 2014.  This is part of a book symposium on David Velleman’s How We Get Along
  • “Aspects, Guises, Species and Knowing Something to Be Good,” in Sergio Tenenbaum, ed., Desire, Practical Reason and the Good, Oxford University Press, 2010
  • “Appearances of the Good and Appearances of the True,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 48, no. 2, 2009, 6 pages
  • “Mackie’s Motivational Argument,” Chapter 10 of David Sobel and Steven Wall eds., Reasons for Action, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 19 pages
  • “How Reason Can Be Practical: A Reply to Hume,” in Poznan Studies in Philosophy of Science and Humanities: New Essays in Moral Psychology, Sergio Tenenbaum, ed., (Amsterdam: Rodophi, 2007) , 18 pages
  • “Kantian Morals and Humean Motives,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, January 2004, 18 pages
  • “The Meaning of ‘Good’ and the Possibility of Value,” Philosophical Studies, 2002, 8 pages
  • “The Action as Conclusion,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, December, 2001, 25 pages
  • “Velleman’s Autonomism,” Ethics, April 2001, 14 pages
  • “What Goes Without Saying in Metaethics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 2000, 22 pages
  • Practical  Steps and Reasons for Action,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, March 1997, 29 pages

Address:

Maanjiwe nendamowinan (room 6158), 3359 Mississauga Rd., Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6

Secondary Address:

Jackman Humanities Building (room 505), 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8