Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics?: Invited Address to the Society of Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2005
本文基于黑格尔和杜威的历史主义立场，质疑道德理论能超越时代和地域的普遍性，强调想象力在道德进步中的作用，认为哲学对应用伦理学的相关性并不比其他学科更大。
If, like Hegel and Dewey, one takes a historicist, anti-Platonist view of moral progress, one will be dubious about the idea that moral theory can be more than the systematization of the widely-shared moral intuitions of a certain time and place. One will follow Shelley, Dewey, and Patricia Werhane in emphasizing the role of the imagination in making moral progress possible. Taking this stance will lead one to conclude that although philosophy is indeed relevant to applied ethics, it is not more relevant than many other fields of study (such as history, law, political science, anthropology, literature, and theology).