Welcome to the website of
Tom Carson
Personal Photos
Personal Favorites and Recommended Reading
Family Photo, March, 1999 Me, April, 2013 – The ravages of time!
Tom
Carson’s Books (Click cover to visit the publisher's website)
Review of Moral Relativism from Teaching Philosophy
Promotional Blurb by Richard Brandt for The Status
of Morality
Paper by Gorr & Timmons on The Status of Morality
in Philosophical Studies
Paper by Taliaferro on The Status of Morality in
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
My Reply to Taliaferro in Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research
Review in Philosophy in Review by Kawall
Review in Faith and Philosophy by Quinn
Review in Philosophical Books by Benjamin
Review in Business Ethics Quarterly by Lemos
Booknote in Dialogo Filosofico
In addition,
see Linda Zagzebski’s Divine Motivation Theory
and
John Hare’s God and Morality: A Philosophical History
for
discussions of this book.
Downloadable
Papers
1. "The Definition of Lying" Nous 2006
2. "Bribery, Extortion and the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act" Philosophy
& Public Affairs 1985
3. "Happiness, Contentment, and the Good
Life" Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly 1981
4. "Metaethics" Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d ed
2006
5. "A Note on Hooker's
Rule-Consequentialism" Mind
1991
6. Hooker's Reply to Me Mind 1991
7. "Perpetual Peace: What Kant Should Have Said" Social Theory & Practice 1988
8. "Ross and Utilitarianism on
Promise-keeiping and Lying" Philosophical
Issues (Annual Supplement to Nous) 2005
9. "Axiology, Realism, and the Problem of Evil" Philosophy & Phenomenological
Research, 2007
10. "Friedman's Theory of Corporate Social Responsibility"
Business and Professional Ethics Journal Vol. 12 (1)
11. "Who Are We to Judge" Teaching
Philosophy 1988
12. "Strict Compliance and Rawls's Critique of
Utilitarianism" Theoria, 1983
13. "Hare's Defense of Utilitarianism" Philosophical
Studies 1986
14. "Hare On Utilitarianism and Intuitive
Morality" Erkenntnis 1993
15. "Ethical Issues in Selling and Advertising" The
Blackwell Business Guide to Ethics 2002
16. "An Approach to Relativism" Teaching Philosophy 1999
17. "Golden Rule" The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2013
18. "Divine will/ divine command moral theories and the problem of arbitrariness" Religious Studies, 2012