James Brown
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
j.ld.brown@sheffield.ac.uk
45 Victoria Street
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James Brown
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- Profile
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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
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Journal articles
- Integrating the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being: An Opinionated Overview. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(5).
- On scepticism about ought simpliciter. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- A plea for prudence. Analysis.
- Against Being For. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 23(1), 136-143.
- Can a Necessity Be the Source of Necessity?. Argumenta, 7(2), 337-355.
- Interpretative expressivism: A theory of normative belief. Philosophical Studies, 179(1), 1-20.
- Additive Value and the Shape of a Life. Ethics, 130(1), 92-101.
- Expressivism and Cognitive Propositions. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 5(3), 371-387.
- Is Rationality Normative for Reasoning?. Erkenntnis.
Chapters
- Conceptual Role Expressivism and Defective Concepts In Shafer-Landau R (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 17 Oxford University Press