James Brown

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

j.ld.brown@sheffield.ac.uk

9 Mappin Street

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James Brown
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Profile: James joined the department in 2021, shortly after completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently working on a project funded by the British Academy on the normativity of well-being. James works primarily in ethics and meta-ethics, but he also has research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Publications

Brown JLD & Potter S (2024) Integrating the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being: An Opinionated Overview. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(5).
Brown JLD (2023) On scepticism about ought simpliciter. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
Brown JLD (2023) A plea for prudence. Analysis.
Brown JLD (2022) Against Being For. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 23(1), 136-143.
Brown JLD (2022) Can a Necessity Be the Source of Necessity?. Argumenta, 7(2), 337-355.
Brown JLD (2022) Interpretative expressivism: A theory of normative belief. Philosophical Studies, 179(1), 1-20.
Brown JLD (2019) Additive Value and the Shape of a Life. Ethics, 130(1), 92-101.
BROWN JLD (2019) Expressivism and Cognitive Propositions. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 5(3), 371-387.
Brown JLD () Moral inferentialism and moral psychology. Synthese, 206(1).
Brown JLD () How to Be a Prudential Expressivist. Mind.
Brown JLD () Is Rationality Normative for Reasoning?. Erkenntnis.

Brown J (2022) Conceptual Role Expressivism and Defective Concepts In Shafer-Landau R (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 17 Oxford University Press

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