Duncan MacIntosh
Professor
Email: duncanm@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3548
Mailing Address:
Room 3129, Marion McCain Building
6135 University Avenue
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:6135 University Avenue
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Metaethics
- Decision and Action Theory
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Language
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Science
- Political Philosophy
- Philosophy of War
- Philosophy of Law
Education
- PhD (1986) University of Toronto
- MA (1981) University of Waterloo
- BA (1979) Queen's University
Selected Publications
- “Logically Private Laws: Legislative Secrecy in ‘The War on Terror’”, in Claire Finkelstein and Michael Skerker, eds., Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 225-251. https://philpapers.org/rec/MACLPL
- "Autonomous Weapons and the Nature of Law and Morality: How Rule-of-Law-Values Require Automation of the Rule of Law", Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 99-117. https://philpapers.org/rec/DUNAWA
- "Assuring, Threatening, a Fully Maximizing Theory of Practical Rationality, and the Practical Duties of Agents", in press, Ethics,, Vol. 123, No 4 July (2013) pp.625-656. http://philpapers.org/rec/MACATA-2
- "Prudence and the Reasons of Rational Persons", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 79, No. 3(September 2001) pp. 346-365. http://philpapers.org/rec/MACPAT
- "Partial Convergence and Approximate Truth," The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 45, No. 1 March (1994a) pp. 153-170 http://philpapers.org/rec/MACPCA
- "Persons and the Satisfaction of Preferences: Problems in the Rational Kinematics of Values," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XC, No. 4 (April 1993), pp. 163-180. http://philpapers.org/rec/MACPAT-2