Biography:James Lenman
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Short description: British philosopher
James W. Lenman | |
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| Education | High School of Dundee |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews (MPhil, PhD) University of Oxford (BA) |
| Awards | Sir Henry Jones Memorial Prize Grants from Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Scheme Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | Realism and Idealism in the Theory of Value (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Haldane |
Main interests | ethics |
Notable ideas | arguments against consequentialism, constructive expressivism |
| Website | https://www.jimmylenman.com/ |
James W. Lenman is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.[1] He is known for his expertise on ethics.[2][3] Lenman is a former president of the British Society for Ethical Theory (2002-2008).[4]
James Lenman has published work on metaethics, where he defends a form of constructive expressivism,[5] contractualism,[6] and moral responsibility,[7] among others. He is a critic of consequentialism.[8]
Books
- Constructivism in Practical Philosophy, edited by James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer, Oxford University Press, 2012
- The Possibility of Moral Community, Oxford University Press, 2024
- Should We Maximize Utility, with Ben Bramble, Routledge, 2025
See also
- Free will illusionism
References
- ↑ "James W. Lenman" (in en). https://ethics.harvard.edu/people/james-w-lenman. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ↑ Burch-Brown, Joanna M. (March 2014). "Clues for Consequentialists" (in en). Utilitas 26 (1): 105–119. doi:10.1017/S0953820813000289. ISSN 1741-6183. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/clues-for-consequentialists/273C26C6013D74E7E88B204BC8B11F0F. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ↑ Frost, Evan (15 July 2013). "A Defense of Consequentialism Against James Lenman's Epistemic Objection". https://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp016969z087d. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae" (in en). https://www.jimmylenman.com/curriculum-vitae.html. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ↑ Lenman, James (2010). "Humean Constructivism in Moral Theory". Oxford Studies in Metaethics 5.
- ↑ Lenman, James (2008). "Contractualism and risk imposition". Politics, Philosophy & Economics 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X0708515.
- ↑ Lenman, James (2006). "Compatibilism and Contractualism: The Possibility of Moral Responsibility". Ethics 117 (1). https://doi.org/10.1086/508035.
- ↑ Lenman, James (2000). "Consequentialism and Cluelessness". Philosophy & Public Affairs 29 (4). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2672830.
External links
- Personal Website
- James Lenman at the University of Sheffield
- James Lenman, Google Scholar
- Science, Ethics and Observation on YouTube
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