Jimmy Lenman
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor of Philosophy
Library Officer
j.lenman@sheffield.ac.uk
45 Victoria Street
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Jimmy Lenman
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
ºù«Ӱҵ
S3 7QB
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
ºù«Ӱҵ
S3 7QB
- Profile
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I am a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ. Before coming here, I was a schoolboy in Dundee, Scotland; then an undergraduate student at St Catherine's College, Oxford University reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics; then a graduate student at St Andrews University studying for an M.Phil. and then a PhD in Moral Philosophy; then a Lecturer at Lancaster University and lastly a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
In 2002-2003 I was a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University. When not at work, I can sometimes be found wandering around on .
- Qualifications
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BA (Oxford), MPhil, PHD (St Andrews)
- Research interests
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I work mainly on ethics and especially metaethics. My recent work has dealt with issues relating to moral realism, moral expressivism, moral psychology, moral epistemology, and moral responsibility, compatibilism, consequentialism, contractualism, constructivism and contingency.
I find some other bits of philosophy interesting too.Current project
The Possibility of Moral Community.
- Publications
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Books
- The Possibility of Moral Community.
- . Oxford University Press.
Edited books
- Constructivism in Practical Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- . MetafÃsica y persona(19), 181-188.
- . The Philosophical Quarterly.
- . Analysis, 77(3), 586-595.
- . Language, 92(4), 1000-1001.
- La Révolution est un bloc? Wallace on Affirmation and Regret. Journal of Applied Philosophy.
- "Why Externalism is a Problem for Ethical Intiutionists". Aristotelian Society, Virtual Issue(No, 3, Methods in Ethics), 326-323.
- . Economics and Philosophy, 32(1), 143-149.
- . Journal of Value Inquiry, 48(2), 235-245.
- . Philosophical Studies, 168(3), 835-842.
- . The Philosophical Quarterly, 63(251), 384-387.
- . Ethics, 123(3), 586-592.
- . Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 72, 261-274.
- . Ratio, 26(4), 391-409.
- . Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 14(2), 143-149.
- . Philosophical Studies, 151(3), 469-477.
- . Philosophical Perspectives, 23(1), 293-304.
- . Ratio, 22(1), 1-18.
- ACHIEVING OBJECTIVITY. PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, 23, 293-304.
- . The Philosophical Quarterly, 58(231), 353-362.
- . Politics Philosophy Economics, 7(1), 99-122.
- . Philosophical Books, 49(1), 23-32.
- . Mind, 116(463), 776-778.
- . Ratio, 20(2), 241-246.
- . Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 81(1), 63-81.
- . Ethics, 117(1), 7-31.
- . Journal of Moral Philosophy, 3(3), 359-369.
- The Saucer of Mud, The Kudzu Vine and the Uxorious Cheetah: Against Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism in Metaethics. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 1(2), 37-50.
- . Utilitas, 16(3), 322-325.
- . Utilitas, 15(3), 380-382.
- Noncognitivism and Wishfulness. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 6(3), 265-274.
- . Philosophical Books, 44(2), 179-183.
- Disciplined Syntacticism and Moral Expressivism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 66(1), 32-57.
- . The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 41(2), 223-240.
- . Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 83(3), 207-299.
- . Journal of Applied Philosophy, 18(1), 1-11.
- , 29(4), 342-370.
- . Philosophia, 27(3-4), 441-457.
- . Utilitas, 11(2), 164-177.
- . Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1(4), 487-488.
- . Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1(1), 125-126.
Chapters
- Reasons for pretending and pretend reasons In Joyce R & Brock S (Ed.), Moral Fictionalism and Religious Fictionalism Oxford University Press
- Making Sense of Ethics: An Introduction to Metaethics In Engelen B & Sie M (Ed.), Second Thoughts First Introductions to Philosophy Open Press Tilberg University
- Ethics and Perception: Two Kinds of Quasi-Realism In Cowie C & Rowland R (Ed.), Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics
- The That In Suikkanen J & Kauppinen A (Ed.), Methodology and Moral Philosophy
- In Daly C (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods (pp. 637-651). Palgrave MacMillan
- Scepticism about Intuition In Chappell SC (Ed.), Intuition, Theory, and Anti-Theory in Ethics (pp. 24-39). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- , The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods (pp. 637-651). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- In Lenman J & Shemmer Y (Ed.), Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (pp. 1-17). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- , Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (pp. 213-225). Oxford University Press
- "Humean Constructivism in Moral Theory", Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 5 (pp. 175-193). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- The Politics of the Self In Bortolotti L (Ed.), Philosophy and Happiness London: Palgrave MacMillan.
- , Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (pp. 171-182). Springer Netherlands
- , The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods Palgrave Macmillan
- , Irrealism in Ethics (pp. 41-59). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- , Essays on Derek Parfit'sOn What Matters (pp. 21-38). Wiley-Blackwell
Book reviews
- "Review of Amy Olberding: The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 198pp..
Website content
- Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation. Retrieved from
- The Possibility of Moral Community.
- Research group
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Current PhD students:
- Brendan Kelters: Ethics
- James Dunstan: Manipulativeness
- Pascal Ally: Metaethics
- Charlie Potter: Meaning
Previous PhD students:- Jingbo Hu, Moral Responsibility. Completed 2020.
- Lewis Brooks, Metaethics. Completed 2019.
- , Metaethics. Completed 2018.
- , Metaethics, Completed 2016.
- , Contractualism, Completed 2014.
- , War (AHRC funded), Completed 2014.
- Josh Thomas, Ethics. Completed 2012.
- David Ekstrand, Political Justification, Completed 2011.
- Heather Arnold, Justice and the Family (AHRC funded). Completed, 2010.
- Jonathan Smith, Moral Realism (AHRC funded). Completed, 2009.
- , Wellbeing and Death (AHRC funded). Completed, 2008.
- Autonomy (AHRC funded). Completed, 2008.
- Anna Wilkinson: Moral Naturalism (AHRC funded) Completed, 2007.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Secretary, British Society for Ethical Theory, 1996-2002.
- President, British Society for Ethical Theory, 2002-2008.
- Editorial Committee, Utilitas
- Editorial Board for the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
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