Michael Slote
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'''Michael Slote''' is UST Professor of [[Ethics]] at the [[University of Miami]] and is author of ''From Morality to Virtue'' (1992) and ''Morals From Motives'' (2001). He was previously professor of [[philosophy]] at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]], and at [[Trinity College Dublin]].
He is widely recognized as a leading figure in the recently renewed field of [[virtue ethics]], arguing that in a particular form, which draws on the concept of an [[ethics of care]], it offers significant intuitive and structural advantages over [[deontology]], [[utilitarianism]], and common-sense morality. He has also recently endorsed the [[meta-ethics|meta-ethical]] view of moral [[sentimentalism (philosophy)|sentimentalism]] in opposition to [[moral rationalism]] (see his 2003, 2004, 2005a).
==Selected publications==
===Books===
* ''The Ethics of Care and Empathy'' (2007), Routledge.
* ''From Morality to Virtue'' (1992), Oxford University Press.
* ''Morals From Motives'' (2001), Oxford University Press.
* ''Beyond Optimizing: a Study of Rational Choice'' (1989), Harvard University Press.
===Articles===
* "Moral Sentimentalism and Moral Psychology" (2005a) in ''The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory'', David Copp (ed.), Oxford University Press.
* "The Dualism of the Ethical" (2005b), ''Nous-Supplement: Philosophical Issues'', vol. 15, pp. 209-217.
* "Moral Sentimentalism" (2004), ''Ethical Theory and Moral Practice'', vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-14.
* "Sentimentalist Virtue and Moral Judgment: Outline of a Project" (2003) in ''Metaphilosophy'' 34(1/2), pp. 131-143; reprinted in in ''Moral and Epistemic Virtues'', Michael Brady & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).
==External links==
* [http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1245 Review of ''Morals from Motives''] - reviewed by N. Athanassoulis in ''Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews''.
* [http://www.as.miami.edu/phi/slote/ Academic Profile] - at the Philosophy Department of the University of Miami.
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