Selected Publications
Soll ich?
Stuttgart 2004 (Reclam)
Ends and Means
Universität Leipzig 2000
Handeln mit Bedeutung und Handeln mit Gewalt
Paderborn 2009 (Mentis)
Table of Contents etc.
Der Sinn des Lebens
Munich 2000 (Deutscher Taschenbuch
Verlag), fifth ed. 2004
Table of Contents etc.
Preferences
Berlin 1998 (Walter de Gruyter)
Table of Contents etc.
Zum moralischen Denken
2 vols., Frankfurt a. M. 1995 (Suhrkamp)
Table of Contents etc.
Deception and the Desires That Speak against It
with Ulla Wessels, in Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 93 (2019)
Feeling Our Way to the Common Good
with R. H. Frank, in The Monist 93 (2010)
Editing Hutcheson’s Inquiry
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2005)
Desire-Oriented Theories of Welfare
with Ulla Wessels, in The Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics, ed. by David Copp, Connie Rosati, and Tina Rulli, Oxford, in preparation (O.U.P.)
Rationality and Morality
with Ulla Wessels, in Handbook of Rationality, ed. by Markus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn, Cambridge, Mass., 2021 (MIT Press)
One Simple Reason Why for Many Attitudes We Will Never Have a Satisfactory General Metric
in Von Rang und Namen, ed. by Wolfgang Freitag et al., Münster 2016 (Mentis)
Taking into Account One’s Own Welfare: A Critique of the Self-Excluding View
in Geist und Moral, ed. by Christoph Lumer and Uwe Meyer, Paderborn 2011 (Mentis)
The Weight of Self-Love in Benevolence and Virtue
in Handeln mit Bedeutung und Handeln mit Gewalt
Instrumentalism
in Varieties of Practical Reasoning, ed by E. Millgram, Cambridge, Mass., 2001 (MIT Press)
Justice beyond Desires?
in The Idea of a Political Liberalism, ed. by V. Davion and C. Wolf, Totowa, NJ, 2000 (Rowman and Littlefield)
Preferences: An Introduction and a Short Bibliography
with U. Wessels, in Preferences
Introduction to Possible Preferences
with U. Wessels, in Preferences
A Pareto Principle for Possible People
in Preferences
Rawls und Präferenzen
in Zur Idee des politischen Liberalismus, ed. by W. Hinsch, Frankfurt a. M. 1997 (Suhrkamp)
Das große Unglück der kleineren Zahl
in Zum moralischen Denken
The Limit Assumption in Deontic (and Prohairetic) Logic
in Analyomen 1, ed. by G. Meggle and U. Wessels, Berlin 1994 (Walter de Gruyter)
Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, third ed., vol. 7, ed. by H. L. Arnold, Stuttgart 2009 (Metzler)
Preferences
in The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. by A. Harrington et al., London 2006 (Routledge)
Wunsch I
in Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, vol. 12, ed. by J. Ritter et al., Basel
2004 (Schwabe)
R. M. Hare, The Language of Morals, Freedom and Reason, Moral Thinking
in Großes Werklexikon der Philosophie, ed. by F. Volpi, Stuttgart 1999 (Kröner)
Review of Graham Oddie, Value, Reality, and Desire
Times Literary Supplement, July 14, 2006
Review of Jonathan Dancy, Ethics without Principles
Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005