Doing without desert

Philosophical Studies 172 (10):2625-2634 (2015)
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This paper is a critical discussion of Manuel Vargas’ Building Better Beings, focusing on the treatment of desert therein. By means of an analogy between morality and sport, I examine some seemingly peculiar implications of Vargas’ teleological and revisionary account of desert. I also consider some general questions of philosophical methodology provoked by revisionary approaches.

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10.1007/s11098-015-0477-2

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John M. Doris
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