Philip Clark
Phil Clark teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. What he wants to understand, more than anything else in philosophy, is how people and other living things are related to the value in their lives.
Publications
“Practical Steps and Reasons for Action," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, March 1997
“What Goes Without Saying in Metaethics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 2000
“Velleman’s Autonomism,” Ethics, April 2001
"The Action as Conclusion," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, December, 2001
"The Meaning of 'Good' and the Possibility of Value," Philosophical Studies, 2002
"Kantian Morals and Humean Motives," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, January 2004
“How Reason Can Be Practical: A Reply to Hume,” Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 94: Moral Psychology, Sergio Tenenbaum ed. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007) 213-30
“Mackie’s Motivational Argument,” Reasons for Action. David Sobel and Steven Wall eds. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
“Appearances of the Good and Appearances of the True,” forthcoming in Dialogue
“Aspects, Guises, Species and Knowing Something to be Good,” in Sergio Tenenbaum ed., Desire, Practical Reason and the Good, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
In Progress
Handbook. University of Toronto Manuscript
”Metaethics and the Mince Pie Syllogism: Reflections on a Philosophical Joke
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Toronto
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Dept. of Philosophy
University of Toronto at Mississauga
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Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6