Books By Paul McNamara - Author

Paul McNamara concentrates his research in ethical theory, deontic logic, and the philosophy of moral language.  He is best known for his work in deontic logic—having authored (or co-authored) monograph-length overviews of deontic logic (in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in the Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 7: Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, and in the Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, Vol. 1). He is also well-known for a number of philosophical and logical articles where he identifies schemes that make room for supererogation and other often neglected concepts of common sense morality, a topic for which he is currently completing an invited monograph-length chapter for the second volume of the Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems.  He was a keynote for DEON 2014, and for Trends in Logic XVII, 2017. He was a fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of London in 2005-2006, and he oversees the Northern New Engla