Dr. Chris MacDonald's 

Moral Theory Publications

MacDonald, C. “Collapsing Goods, Innovation, and Precaution,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2007. 40:2. 169-179.

Tucker C, MacDonald C. "Beastly Contractarianism? A Contractarian Analysis of the Possibility of Animal Rights," Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 5 No. 2, June 2004.

MacDonald C. “Moral Constraint, Public Goods, and Humean Social Conventions,” Journal of Social Philosophy (provisionally accepted).

MacDonald C. “Evolutionary Ethics: Value, Psychology, Strategy and Conventions.” Evolution and Cognition. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001. 98-105.

MacDonald C. Evolutionaire Ethiek: Psychologie en Conventies,” (“Evolutionary Ethics: Psychology and Conventions”) published in Dutch, in Ethiek en Maatschappij (Ethics and Society). Vol. 2, No. 4, 1999. 53-61.

MacDonald C. “Evolutionary Perspectives on Ethics,” Encylcopedia of Applied Ethics, Vol. 2, Academic Press, 1998.  189-196.

Danielson PA, MacDonald C. "Hard Cases in Hard Places: Singer's Agenda for Applied Ethics," Dialogue: the Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXV (1996). 599-610.

MacDonald C. "MacDonald Reviews Viminitz," in the Brown Electronic Article Review Service, Vol. 2. Jamie Dreier and David Estlund, editors. Posted July 31, 1996. (Critique of "No Place to Hide: Campbell's and Danielson's Solutions to Gauthier's Coherence Problem" Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXV, No. 2 (1996) 235-40. by Paul Viminitz)

MacDonald C. “A Guide to Moral Decision-Making,” in Everyday Ethics: Putting the Code Into Practice. Canadian Nurses Association, 1998.


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