Hallvard Lillehammer is a professor of philosophy at

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. His research relates to "the interpretation and criticism of basic ideas in contemporary moral and political thought, including reason, objectivity, impartiality, autonomy, and detachment."
Birkbeck College. Retrieved 24 August 2021. He formerly taught at the

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, where he was a Fellow of King's College from 2000 to 2009 and a Senior Research Fellow of

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from 2010 to 2013. He was educated at

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and

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. Of Norwegian, German and Swedish descent, Lillehammer was born in

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and grew up in

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Selected publications

*‘Smith on Moral Fetishism.’

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57:3, 187-95., 1997. *'Moral Realism, Normative Reasons and Rational Intelligibility', ''

Erkenntnis ''Erkenntnis'' is a journal of philosophy that publishes papers in analytic philosophy. Its name is derived from the German word "Erkenntnis", meaning "knowledge, recognition". The journal was also linked to organisation of conferences, such as the ...

'', 2002. *'Debunking Morality: Evolutionary Naturalism and Moral Error Theory', ''

Biology and Philosophy ''Biology & Philosophy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles about philosophy of biology, broadly understood to span conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the biological sciences. The journal was founded b ...

'', 2003. *'Moral Error Theory', ''

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'', 2004. *''Companions in Guilt: Arguments for Ethical Objectivity''. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. *'Methods of Ethics and the Descent of Man: Darwin and Sidgwick on Ethics and Evolution', ''

'', 2010. *‘Who Is My Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice’, ''

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'', 2014. *‘Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue’, ''

Philosophical Perspectives ''Philosophical Perspectives'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy. Each annual volume is dedicated to a specific theme addressing philosophical problems. The founding editor-in-chief was James E. Tomberlin, who edited the ...

'', 2014. *‘Moral Testimony, Moral Virtue and the Value of Autonomy’, ''

'', Supplementary Volume, 2014. *'The Nature and Ethics of Indifference', ''

The Journal of Ethics ''The Journal of Ethics'' is a philosophical academic journal focusing on ethics. Its editor in chief is J. Angelo Corlett. The journal was established in 1997 and is published by Springer Netherlands. Notable contributors are Richard Arneson, S ...

'', 2017. *'Moral Luck and Moral Performance', ''

European Journal of Philosophy ''The European Journal of Philosophy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell. It was established by Mark Sacks in 1993 and the current editor-in-chief is Joseph K. Schear. Editorial Committee Th ...

'', 2020.

References

External links

*http://hallvardlillehammer.com Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English philosophers Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of the University of Cambridge Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{academic-bio-stub