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  1. Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge.I. W. Sumner, John G. Slater & Fred Wilson - 1983 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 19 (3):291-311.
     
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  2. Two Theories of the Good: L. W. SUMNER.L. W. Sumner - 1992 - Social Philosophy and Policy 9 (2):1-14.
    Suppose that the ultimate point of ethics is to make the world a better place. If it is, we must face the question: better in what respect? If the good is prior to the right — that is, if the rationale for all requirements of the right is that they serve to further the good in one way or another — then what is this good? Is there a single fundamental value capable of underlying and unifying all of our moral (...)
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  3. Is Virtue Its Own Reward?: L. W. SUMNER.L. W. Sumner - 1998 - Social Philosophy and Policy 15 (1):18-36.
    If I lead a life of virtue, that may well be good for you. But will it also be good for me? The idea that it will—or even must—is an ancient one, and its appeal runs deep. For if this idea is correct then we can provide everyone with a good reason—arguably the best reason—for being virtuous. However, for all the effort which has been invested in defending the idea, by some of the best minds in the history of philosophy, (...)
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    Rights in Moral Lives.The Moral Foundations of Rights.J. W. Child, A. I. Melden & L. W. Sumner - 1990 - Philosophical Quarterly 40 (158):112.
  5. I. W. Sumner, et al., "Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge". [REVIEW]Donald R. Koehn - 1983 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 19 (3):291.
     
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  6. Sumner on Abortion: Moral Theory and Moral Standing: A Reply to Woods and Soles.L. W. Sumner - 1985 - Dialogue 24 (4):691-.
    I am grateful to John Woods and David Soles for the careful attention they have given to some of the central arguments of Abortion and Moral Theory, though I wish that they had revealed fewer respects in which those arguments were seriously underdeveloped. In what follows I will try to supply some of the needed further development. I address the main points at issue in what I conceive to be their order of ascending importance.
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    Institutional refusal to offer assisted dying: A response to Shadd and Shadd.L. W. Sumner - 2019 - Bioethics 33 (8):970-972.
    Ever since medical assistance in dying (MAID) became legal in Canada in 2016, controversy has enveloped the refusal by many faith‐based institutions to allow this service on their premises. In a recent article in this journal, Philip and Joshua Shadd have proposed ‘changing the conversation’ on this issue, reframing it as an exercise not of conscience but of an institutional right of self‐governance. This reframing, they claim, will serve to show how health‐care institutions may be justified in refusing to provide (...)
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    Reply to Hurka and Copp.L. W. Sumner - 1989 - Dialogue 28 (1):149-.
    I am deeply indebted to Tom Hurka and David Copp for the careful attention they have given to some of the central motifs in The Moral Foundation of Rights. By doing their job so well they have simplified mine considerably. Their exposition of my views is a model of fairness and accuracy; I need therefore waste no time disclaiming attributions or complaining about misrepresentation. Furthermore, they have shown admirable resolve in choosing to ignore the book's relatively peripheral concerns, even when (...)
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    (1 other version)Critical Notice.L. W. Sumner - 2005 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (4):623-640.
    At a 1990 conference on freedom of expression Roger Shiner presented a paper arguing that commercial expression does not merit constitutional protection under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Thirteen years on he has defended the same thesis at much greater length in this meticulously researched, beautifully written, and exhaustively argued book. When I heard Shiner’s original paper I had no settled view on the issue he was addressing, though I was impressed by his treatment of it. Since that (...)
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    Reply to Williams.L. W. Sumner - 2015 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 9 (2):331-335.
    In her review of my book Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law, Glenys Williams raises a number of substantive objections to its argument. In this note I reply to those objections.
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  11. University Governance and Campus Speech.L. W. Sumner - manuscript
    Hate speech, understood broadly, is any form of expression intended to arouse hatred or contempt toward members of a particular social group. When university administrators have reason to believe that a planned speaking event on campus may feature hate speech (at least in the eyes of some), how should they respond? In this paper I address this question as it arises for Canadian universities. I argue that, where the regulation of campus speech is concerned, the right course of action for (...)
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    Consequences of Utilitarianism.L. W. Sumner - 1969 - Dialogue 7 (4):639-642.
    This is a book built round an argument. Several variants of the argument are offered, and I shall consider but one of them. It is directed against the following act utilitarian principle:AU: An act is right if and only if it would have best consequences The argument may be freely rendered as follows. Suppose that we have an agent, Smith, in a society, S, such that the following conditions are satisfied:C1: Smith accepts AU and attempts always to act in accordance (...)
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  13. Positive Sexism.L. W. Sumner - 1987 - Social Philosophy and Policy 5 (1):204.
    No one who cares about equal opportunity can derive much comfort from the present occupational distribution of working women. In the various industrial societies of the West, women comprise between one quarter and one-half of the national labor force. However, they tend to clustered in employment sectors – especially clerical, sales, and service J occupations – which rank relatively low in remuneration, status, autonomy, and other perquisites. Meanwhile, the more prestigious and rewarding managerial and professional positions, as well as the (...)
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    Cooperation, fairness and utility.L. W. Sumner - 1971 - Journal of Value Inquiry 5 (2):105-119.
    In the situations canvassed I have argued that (a) the dominant aim of the utilitarian will be the establishment of a fair procedure, (b) under radical uncertainty cooperation will constitute his best bet, and (c) when he knowsthat all others will cooperate it is still an open question whether he will slack, and if under some conditions he does so he does not then act unfairly. It is wise to bear in mind, however, that an enormous number of possible situations, (...)
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  15. SUMNER, W. L. and WOODS, John : Necessary Truth: A Book of Readings. [REVIEW]I. T. Oakley - 1971 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49:320.
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    Value Subjectivism, Individualism, and Moral Standing.Christopher W. Morris - 1986 - Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 8:16-21.
    L. W. Sumner argues that humanism—the position that all and only humans possess moral standing—is false. I agree. Critically examining an argument purporting to establish the exclusive part of humanism—that only humans possess moral standing—Sumner argues that we should not confuse ultimate and objective value, value and welfare, and “formal” and “substantive” theses about value. Again I have no disagreement.
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  17. Aristotelian well-being: A response to L. W. Sumner's critique.Christopher Hugh Toner - 2006 - Utilitas 18 (3):218-231.
    Aristotle's ethical theory is often seen as instructing agents in the prudent pursuit of their own well-being, and therefore labeled egoistic. Yet it is also subject to the opposing charge of failing to direct agents to their well-being, directing them instead to perfection. I am here concerned chiefly with the second criticism, and proceed as follows: I first articulate Sumner's version of the criticism, and second assess his argument for his own (subjective) account of well-being. Third, I present reasons (...)
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    Human Diversity and the Nature of Well-Being: Reflections on Sumner’s Methodology.Richard Kraut - 2013 - Res Philosophica 90 (3):307-322.
    In Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics, L. W. Sumner argues that theories of well-being must not pick out some kinds of human lives as richer in prudential valuethan others. I argue that we should reject this methodological stricture, but should embrace his insight that many kinds of lives are good for people to live. I also reject his claim that a theory of well-being would fail if it took the form of a list of things that are good for us. (...)
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    Gedanken zur konkret soziologischen Forschung.W. Bichhorn I. - 1963 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 11 (3).
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    Feminism and Literature in France, 1610-1652.I. W. F. Maclean - 1971
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    The Date of the ArthaśāstraThe Date of the Arthasastra.I. W. Mabbett - 1964 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 84 (2):162.
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  23. The Social Ideal.I. W. Howerth - 1908 - Philosophical Review 17:360.
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    On Some Conceptual Errors Relating to Force and Matter.I. W. Heysinger - 1904 - The Monist 14 (4):492-509.
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    Zur philosophischen Analyse gesellschaftlicher Systeme.W. Eichhorn I. - 1969 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 17 (3).
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    Brinton's Theory of the Origin of Religion.I. W. Howerth - 1900 - The Monist 10 (2):293-298.
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    The Labor Problem from the Social Viewpoint.I. W. Howerth - 1920 - International Journal of Ethics 31 (2):168.
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    Flew on Anti-Social Determinism.I. W. O. House - 1995 - Philosophy 70 (271):111 - 113.
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    Symposium: The Moral Good as a Relation between Persons.I. W. Phillips, A. Macbeath & H. F. Hallett - 1939 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 18 (1):106 - 178.
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    Is Commercial Integrity Increasing?I. W. Morton - 1900 - International Journal of Ethics 11 (1):47-59.
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    Conventionalism and general relativity.I. W. Roxburgh & R. K. Tavakol - 1978 - Foundations of Physics 8 (3-4):229-237.
    We argue that the geometry of spacetime is a convention that can be freely chosen by the scientist; no experiment can ever determine this geometry of spacetime, only the behavior of matter in space and time. General relativity is then rewritten in terms of an arbitrary conventional geometry of spacetime in which particle trajectories are determined by forces in that geometry, and the forces determined by fields produced by sources in that geometry. As an example, we consider radial trajectories in (...)
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    The First Principle of Social Evolution.I. W. Howerth - 1927 - The Monist 37 (2):183-198.
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    Elizabeth Johnson, C S J with Susan Rakoczy, IH M 1997 - Who do you say that I am? Introducing contemporary Chistology.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1999 - HTS Theological Studies 55 (4).
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    Zu einigen Fragen der Entwicklung der Ethik als Wissenschaft.W. Eichhorn I. - 1963 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 11 (3).
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    The Labor Problem from the Social Viewpoint.I. W. Howerth - 1921 - International Journal of Ethics 31 (2):168-182.
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    Post-Script.P. J. Sijpesteijn, B. A. Van Groningen, W. J. W. Koster, G. V. Sumner, J. Gonda, W. B. Sedgwick & J. H. Quincey - 1959 - Mnemosyne 12 (2):133-140.
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    Die prediking oor die eindoordeel.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1996 - HTS Theological Studies 52 (2/3).
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    Etiek in die nuwe Suid-Afrika.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1996 - HTS Theological Studies 52 (1).
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    Verset en rewolusie.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1995 - HTS Theological Studies 51 (2).
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    In Nuwe belydenisskrif vir die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika?I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1999 - HTS Theological Studies 55 (2/3).
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    (1 other version)Nog steeds geslote eredienste? Deel l.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1994 - HTS Theological Studies 50 (3).
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    Protesoptogte en die rol van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1991 - HTS Theological Studies 47 (3).
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    Nāgārjuna and Zeno on motion.I. W. Mabbett - 1984 - Philosophy East and West 34 (4):401-420.
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    Should dynamic and passive properties be considered in analyses of human postural control?R. E. Kearney & I. W. Hunter - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):158-159.
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    Apologie vir die Christelike lewenswyse en etiek.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 2008 - HTS Theological Studies 64 (1).
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    Die "Gemeenskaplike Verklaring oor die Regverdigingsleer" van 30/31 Oktober 1999.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 2001 - HTS Theological Studies 57 (3/4).
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    Moet die Afrikaanse Kerke skuld bely oor apartheid?: Wat leer ons uit die Duitsers se worsteling met skuld?I. W. C. Van Wyk - 1997 - HTS Theological Studies 53 (4).
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    Willis, D & Welker, M 1999 - Toward the future of Reformed theology: tasks, topics, traditions.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 2000 - HTS Theological Studies 56 (2/3).
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  49. The intransitivity of non standard synchronisms.I. W. Roxburgh - 1975 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26 (1):47-49.
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    Die apologetiese taak van die kerk.I. W. C. Van Wyk - 2005 - HTS Theological Studies 61 (4).
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