Principal Publications of Steven Luper

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            Books:

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Essential Knowledge.  New York:  Addison, Wesley, Longman, Publishers, 2003. (Click here for introduction.)
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The Skeptics:  Contemporary Essays.  Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate Publishing, Ashgate Epistemology & Mind Series, 2003.  (Click here for table of contents, here for introductory essay, or here for bibliography.)
bullet A Guide to Ethics.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2001.  (Click here for table of contents. Click here for Chapter 3: Cultural Relativism.  Click here for Chapter 5:  Hedonism.  Click here for Chapter 7:  Ethical Egoism.  Click here for Chapter 8:  Utilitarianism.)
bullet Existing:  An Introduction to Existential Thought.  New York:  McGraw-Hill and Mayfield Press, 2000.  (Click here for table of contents, and here for introduction.)
bullet Living Well:  Introductory Readings in Ethics. Fort Worth:  Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1999.
bullet The Moral Life, Second Edition (with Curtis Brown). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1999.
bullet Social Ideals and Policies. New York:  McGraw-Hill and Mayfield Press, 1998.
bullet Invulnerability:  On Securing Happiness.  Chicago: Open Court Press, 1996.  (Click here for table of contents.  Click here for Chapter 3:  Optimizing and Adapting.  Click here for Chapter 4:  Becoming Invulnerable.)
bullet Drugs, Morality and the Law (with Curtis Brown). New York:  Garland Press, 1994.
bullet Problems of International Justice.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1988.
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The Possibility of Knowledge:  Nozick and His Critics.  Totowa, N.J.:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1987.

Journal Volumes Edited:
bullet Belief and Rationality (with Curtis Brown), Synthese 89 (1991).
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Morality and the Self, The Monist, January 1991.
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Internalism, Synthese 74 (1988).
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Articles (underlined titles are available on line):
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"The Easy Argument," Acta Analytica, forthcoming.
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"Moore's Missing Principle," Philosophical Papers 36.1 (2007):  151-161.
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"Mortal Harm," forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly, 2007.
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“Dretske on Knowledge Closure,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84.3 (2006) 379-394. 

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"Restorative Rigging and the Safe Indication Account," forthcoming in Synthese.
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“Past Desires and the Dead,” Philosophical Studies 126.3 (2005) 331-345.
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"Epistemic Relativism," Philosophical Issues 14, a supplement to Noûs, 2004, 271-295.
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"Posthumous Harm,"  American Philosophical Quarterly 41.1 (2004) 63-72.
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"Indiscernability Skepticism," in Luper, ed., The Skeptics:  Contemporary Essays (Aldershot, UK:  Ashgate Publishing), Ashgate Epistemology & Mind Series, 2003.

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"The Epistemic Closure Principle," Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta, Editor, 2002.

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"Death," Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta, Editor, 2002.

bullet "Robert Nozick,"  The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd Ed., 1999.
bullet "Natural Resources, Gadgets, and Artificial Life,"  Environmental Values  8 (1999).  Also published in Environmental Justice, Papers from the Melbourne Conference (University of Melbourne, 1998).  Also available here. 
bullet "Skepticism and the Sociology of Knowledge," in Facta Philosophica 3 (2001) 197-210.
bullet "Belief and Knowledge," Edward Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London:  Routledge, 1998).
bullet Naturalized Epistemology," Edward Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London:  Routledge, 1998).
bullet "The Environment and International Justice," in J. Palmer and D. Cooper, eds., Just Environments (London:  Routledge, 1995).
bullet "Justice and Natural Resources," Environmental Values 1 (1992) 47-64.
bullet "Intervention and Guatemalan Refugees," special issue of Public Affairs Quarterly 6 (1992) 45-60.
bullet "Knowledge and Belief," Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Epistemology (London:  Blackwell Publishers, 1992).
bullet "The Absurdity of Life," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992) 1-17.
bullet "The Anatomy of Aggression," American Philosophical Quarterly 27 (1990) 213-224.
bullet "Arbitrary Reasons," G. Ross and M. Roth, eds., Doubting:   Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism  (Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990).
bullet "The Knower, Inside and Out," Synthese 74 (1988) 349-367.
bullet "Doxastic Skepticism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (1987) 529-538.
bullet "Annihilation," The Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1985) 233-252.   Reprinted in David Benatar, ed., Life, Death and Meaning (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), in John M. Fischer, ed., The Metaphysics of Death (Stanford:   Stanford University Press, 1993), and in Steven Luper and Curtis Brown, eds., The Moral Life (Fort Worth:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991).
bullet "The Causal Indicator Analysis of Knowledge," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1987) 563-589.
bullet "Competing for the Good Life," American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1986) 167-179.
bullet "The Reliabilist Theory of Rational Belief," The Monist 68 (1985) 203-226.
bullet "What Skeptics Don't Know Refutes Them," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1985) 86-97.
bullet "The Epistemic Predicament:  Knowledge, Nozickian Track, and Skepticism," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (1984) 26-50.

 

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