Graham Oddie

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Graham Oddie is a New Zealand philosopher who lives and works in the United States. He has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado since 1994.^[1]

Biography

Oddie was educated at the

Oddie is best known for his work in the theory of value—including the nature of value, the logic of value and our knowledge of value. He is also known for work on cognitive values (truth, truthlikeness and probability).[4] His books include Likeness to Truth^[5] (the first monograph on the notion of verisimilitude, or closeness to the truth), and Value, Reality, and Desire^[6] (an extended defense of the thesis that value is real and irreducible).

Publications

Books

• Likeness to Truth, (Reidel, 1986),
  ISBN 978-94-009-4658-3.^[7]
• Justice, Ethics and New Zealand Society, co-edited with Roy Perrett, (Oxford University Press, 1992),
  ISBN 978-0195582413.^[8]
• What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics, co-edited with David Boonin, (Oxford University Press, 2004 and 2009),
  ISBN 978-0195337808.^[9]
• Value, Reality and Desire (Oxford University Press, 2005 and 2009),
  ISBN 978-0199562381.^[10]

• “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Partiality, Preferences and Perspective”, Les Ateliers De L’Éthique (La Revue de Créum) Volume 9, numéro 2, été 2014, pp. 57–81.[11]
• "The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination", Synthese June 2013, Volume 190, Issue 9, pp 1647–1687.
• "Truthlikeness", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
• “The fictionalist’s attitude problem”, (with Dan Demetriou) in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (2007), 10: 485-98.

References