James Lenman

James W. Lenman
AwardsSir Henry Jones Memorial Prize
Grants from Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Leave Scheme
Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship
Education
EducationHigh School of Dundee
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews (MPhil, PhD)
University of Oxford (BA)
ThesisRealism and Idealism in the Theory of Value (1995)
John Haldane
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Analytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Sheffield
Main interests
ethics
Notable ideas
arguments against consequentialism, constructive expressivism
Websitehttps://www.jimmylenman.com/

James W. Lenman is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his expertise on ethics. Lenman is a former president of the British Society for Ethical Theory (2002-2008).

James Lenman has published work on metaethics, where he defends a form of constructive expressivism, contractualism, and moral responsibility, among others. He is a critic of consequentialism.

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  1. ↑ "James W. Lenman". ethics.harvard.edu. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  2. ↑ Burch-Brown, Joanna M. (March 2014). "Clues for Consequentialists". Utilitas. 26 (1): 105–119. doi:10.1017/S0953820813000289. hdl:1983/3c9b5c55-0e96-4c84-98f1-9d36c5d8e10a. ISSN 1741-6183. S2CID 53629805. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Frost, Evan (15 July 2013). "A Defense of Consequentialism Against James Lenman's Epistemic Objection". Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  4. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae". Jimmy Lenman. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  5. ↑ Lenman, James (2010). "Humean Constructivism in Moral Theory". Oxford Studies in Metaethics. 5.
  6. ↑ Lenman, James (2008). "Contractualism and risk imposition". Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 7 (1).
  7. ↑ Lenman, James (2006). "Compatibilism and Contractualism: The Possibility of Moral Responsibility". Ethics. 117 (1).
  8. ↑ Lenman, James (2000). "Consequentialism and Cluelessness". Philosophy & Public Affairs. 29 (4).