Eric Wiland

Associate Professor

551 Lucas Hall
(314) 516-5495
wiland@umsl.edu or, preferably wiland@gmail.com

Eric Wiland (University of Chicago, 1997) works primarily on topics in ethics and practical reason. He investigates problems in practical philosophy by thinking about people who have various cognitive and motivational flaws, especially those who recognize that they have such flaws.

Publications:

Reasons. Continuum Press. To appear 19 Jul 2012.
"The Limits of Maximization: Actions, Decision Procedures, and Meta-Decision Procedures," The Polish Journal of Philosophy 4 (2010).
"The Incoherence Objection in Moral Theory," Acta Analytica 25 (2010), 279-284.
"The Ethics of Terror and Torture," Review Journal of Political Philosophy (2008), 139-52.
"On Indirectly Self-Defeating Moral Theories," Journal of Moral Philosophy (2008), 384-393.
"Intentional Action and 'In Order to'," Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 27 (2007), 113-8.
"How Indirect can Indirect Utilitarianism Be?," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007), 275-301.
"Monkeys, Typewriters, and Objective Consequentialism," Ratio 18 (2005), 352-60.
"Trusting Advice and Weakness of Will," Social Theory and Practice 80 (2004), 371-89.
"Some Advice for Moral Psychologists," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2003), 299-310.
"Psychologism, Practical Reason, and the Possibility of Error," Philosophical Quarterly 53:210 (2003), 68-78.
"Stories, Autobiographies, and Moral Inquiry," Journal of Social Philosophy 34:2 (2003), 188-98.
"On the Rationality of Desiring the Forbidden,"Analysis 62:4 (2002), 296-9.
"Theories of Practical Reason," Metaphilosophy 33:4 (2002), 450-67.
"Advice and Moral Objectivity," Philosophical Papers 29:1 (2000), 1-19.
"Unconscious Violinists and the Use of Analogies in Moral Argument," Journal of Medical Ethics 26:6 (2000), 466-8.
"Good Advice and Rational Action," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60:3, (2000), 561-9.
"A Fallacy in Korsgaard's Argument for Moral Obligation," The Journal of Value Inquiry 34:1 (2000), 103-4.
"Personal Identity and Quasi-Responsibility," in Moral Responsibility and Ontology, ed. Ton van den Beld, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000), 77-87.
"Is there Ethical Knowledge?" Southwestern Philosophical Review 14:1 (1998), 63-8.

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