Alan Harris Goldman (born 1945) is an American philosopher and

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Professor of Philosophy at the

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. He is known for his works on philosophy and

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, and

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Books

* ''Life's Values: Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, Meaning'', Oxford University Press, 2018 * ''Philosophy and the Novel'', Oxford University Press, 2013 * ''Reasons from Within'', Oxford University Press, 2009 * ''Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't'', Cambridge University Press, 2002 * ''Aesthetic Value'', Westview Press, 1995 * ''Moral Knowledge'', Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988 * ''Empirical Knowledge'', University of California Press, 1988 * ''The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics'', Rowman and Littlefield, 1980 * ''Justice and Reverse Discrimination'', Princeton University Press, 1979 * ''Mark Twain and Philosophy'' (ed.), Rowman and Littlefield, 2017

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