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Publications on AMORALITY

by Joel Marks

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
University of New Haven

Bioethics Center Scholar
Yale University

note: The entries below have been gleaned from the other lists in this Website and are listed chronologically within each category. They represent a startling turnabout in my thinking about ethics from my previous "incarnation" as a strict moralist in the Kantian mold.

Books:

Ethics without Morals.
New York and Abington, Oxon: Routledge, 2013.

It's Just a Feeling: The Philosophy of Desirism.
CreateSpace, 2013.

Bad Faith: A Philosophical Memoir.
CreateSpace, 2013.

Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire: An Alternative to Morality.
London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Reason and Ethics: The Case Against Objective Value.
New York and Abington, Oxon: Routledge, forthcoming.

The Spread and other essays on moralism and guilt.
Seattle, WA: KDP, 2023

Ethical Health: Managing Our Moral Impulses.
New York and Abington, Oxon: Routledge, forthcoming.

Magazine (Guest Editor):

Special issue of Philosophy Now on moral skepticism.
No. 82, January/February 2011.

Journal articles, book chapter, book reviews:

Review of Larry Carbone, What Animals Want
(Oxford University Press, 2004).
Philosophy Now no. 85 (40-42), July/August 2011.

"Animal Abolitionism Meets Moral Abolitionism: Cutting the Gordian Knot of Applied Ethics."
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: 10:4 (445-455), 2013.

"Amoral Animal Rights." Ethos 26:2 (156-167), 2013.

Review of Thomas Pölzler. Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences
(Routledge, 2018).
Ethical Perspectives 25:3 (569-71), September 2018.

"Beyond the Surf and Spray: Erring on the Side of Error Theory."
The End of Morality: Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously, edited by Richard Garner and Richard Joyce.
New York and London: Routledge, 2019, Ch. 6, pp. 94-109.

Review of Thomas Pölzler. A Philosophical Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism
(Routledge, 2023).
Philosophical Quarterly, pqac078, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac078, 2022.

Columns in The New York Times Opinionator:

"Confessions of an Ex-Moralist."
August 21, 2011.

"Atheism, Amorality, and Animals."
September 2, 2011.

Columns in Philosophy Now magazine:

"An Amoral Manifesto (Part 1)." Issue No. 80, August/September 2010, pp. 30-33.

"An Amoral Manifesto (Part 2)." Issue No. 81, October/November 2010, pp. 23-26.

"Coulda Woulda Shoulda." Issue No. 82, January/February 2011, p. 47

"World without Anger." Issue No. 84, May/June 2011, p 53.

"Moral Pornography." Issue No. 87, November/December 2011, p. 52.

" 'A' is for 'Assumption' ." Issue No. 90, May/June 2012, pp. 52-53.

"Some Like It Hot." Issue No. 96, May/June, 2013, pp. 52-53.

Columns elsewhere:

"Moving Past Morality: The moral moment and what comes next."
iai News (blog), Institute of Arts and Ideas (Britain), September 10, 2024.

Interviews:

"Dr. Joel Marks on his Amoral Veganism."
Interview at Let Them Eat Meat (blog), December 6, 2011.

“A-moralism and the Philosophy of Desire."
Equal Time for Freethought.
Host: Barry F. Seidman.
WBAI Pacifica radio, 99.5 FM, New York City.
June 29, 2013, 3-4 p.m. 

“Morality, Amorality, Desirism,and Animal Ethics."
The Dissenter (episode #609).
Host: Ricardo Lopes.
YouTube video (86 minutes) and Anchor podcast.
January 7, 2022 (posted April 7).

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