Hallvard Lillehammer
Hallvard Lillehammer is a University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and the Sidgwick Lecturer. He was educated at University College London and Peterhouse Cambridge. Before joining the Faculty he was a Lecturer at Reading University and a Jacobsen Research Fellow at King's College London. From 2000 to 2009 he was Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College and a Fellow of the Judge Business School. In 2010 he was awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in the University.
Current Research
His main research interests include topics in ethics, political philosophy
and the history of ethical thought. Research topics pursued by recent
graduate students under his supervision include contemporary metaethics,
autonomy in moral and political philosophy, and contemporary aesthetics.
He is the author of Companions in Guilt: arguments for ethical objectivity. He is also co-editor of Ramsey's Legacy (with D. H. Mellor) and Real Metaphysics (with Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra).
Online Papers
- 'Smith on moral fetishism', Analysis (1997). Downloadable here.
- 'Analytical Dispositionalism and Practical Reason', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (1999). Downloadable here [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com]
- 'Revisionary Dispositionalism and Practical Reason', Journal of Ethics (2000). Downloadable here. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'The Doctrine of Internal Reasons', Journal of Value Inquiry (2000). Downloadable here [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'Moral Cognitivism', Philosophical Papers (2002). Downloadable here.
- 'Moral Realism, Normative Reasons and Rational Intelligibility', Erkenntnis (2002). Downloadable here. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'Voluntary Euthanasia and the Logical Slippery Slope Argument', The Cambridge Law Journal (2002). Downloadable here
- 'Debunking Morality: evolutionary naturalism and moral error theory', Biology and Philosophy (2003). Downloadable here. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- ‘The Idea of a Normative Reason’, in Peter Schaber & Rafael Hüntelman (Eds.) Grundlagen Der Ethik: Normativität und Objektivität (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag 2003). Downloadable here.
- 'Who Needs Bioethicists?' Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science C (2004). Downloadable here.
- 'Moral Error Theory', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2004). Downloadable here.
- 'Benefit, Disability and the Non-Identity Problem', in N. Athanassoulis (ed.) Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics (2005), downloadable here
- ‘The Normativity of Practical Reason’, (Chapter 3 of Companions in Guilt). Downloadable here.
- 'Companionship in Guilt', Chapter 1 of Companions in Guilt, downloadable here
- 'Davidson on Value and Objectivity', dialectica (2007). Downloadable here [The final publication is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
- ‘Values of Art and the Ethical Question’ British Journal of Aesthetics (2008). Downloadable here.
- ‘Reproduction, Partiality and the Nonidentity Problem ’, in M.A. Roberts & D.T. Wasserman (Eds.) Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (Dordrecht: Springer 2009). Downloadable here. [The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'Methods of Ethics and the Descent of Man: Darwin and Sidgwick on Ethics and Evolution', Biology and Philosophy (2010). Downloadable here [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'Facts, Ends, and Normative Reasons', Journal of Ethics (2010). Downloadable here. [The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com].
- 'Scanlon on Intention and Permissibility', Analysis, (2010). Downloadable here
- 'The Epistemology of Ethical Intuitions', Philosophy (2011). Downloadable here. Original publication available at http://journals.cambridge.org.
- 'Consequentialism and Global Ethics', in M. Boylan (ed.), Global Justice: the Reader (2011). Downloadable here.
- 'Constructivism and the Error Theory', in C. Miller (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Ethics (New York: Continuum, 2011). Downloadable here.
- 'Autonomy, Value and the First Person' in L. Radoilska (ed), Autonomy and Mental Disorder (2012). Downloadable here.
Teaching 2011-2012
Michaelmas 2011
- Part IA: Utility & Rights
- Part IB: Acts, Intentions, and Consequences
- Part IB: Reasons and Relativism
- Graduates: Teaching Skills for Philosophy
Lent 2012
- CRASSH/Mellon Seminar: Ethics at the Intersection of Philosophy and Anthropology (with James Laidlaw)
- Judge Business School: Philosophy in Business (with Alex Oliver)
Easter 2012
- Part II: Realism and Irrealism
(Lecture Notes available electronically on request.)
Contact Details
Email Address: hl201@cam.ac.uk
Snailmail to: Faculty of Philosophy, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
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