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Pushed for Being Better: On the Possibility and Desirability of Moral Nudging The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Bart Engelen, Thomas R. V. Nys
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Parental Responsibility and Our Special Relationship with Animal Companions The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Dustin Sigsbee
What is the basis of our obligations to our animal companions? This is an important question for practical reasons, as the relationship that many individuals have with their animal companion is amongst the most intimate of relationships they share with a non-human animal. It is also important for theoretical reasons. One of those reasons is that our commitments to animal companions may appear to present
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On the Idea of Degrees of Moral Status The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Dick Timmer
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Empathy, Motivating Reasons, and Morally Worthy Action The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Elizabeth Ventham
Contemporary literature criticises a necessary link between empathy and actions that demonstrate genuine moral worth. If there is such a necessary link, many argue, it must come in the developmental stages of our moral capacities, rather than being found in the mental states that make up our motivating reasons. This paper goes against that trend, arguing that critics have not considered how wide-ranging
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Does Dyadic Gratitude Make Sense? The Lived Experience and Conceptual Delineation of Gratitude in Absence of a Benefactor The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Nick Hebbink, Anders Schinkel, Doret de Ruyter
In this paper we defend the idea that dyadic gratitude — i.e. gratitude in absence of a benefactor — is a coherent concept. Some authors claim that ‘gratitude’ is by definition a triadic concept involving a beneficiary who is grateful for a benefit to a benefactor. These authors state that people who use the term gratitude in absence of a benefactor do so inappropriately, e.g. by using it as an interchangeable
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The Badness of Death for Sociable Cattle The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Daniel Story
I argue that death can be (and sometimes is) bad for cattle because it destroys relationships that are valuable for cattle for their own sake. The argument relies on an analogy between valuable human relationships and relationships cattle form with conspecifics. I suggest that the reasons we have for thinking that certain rich and meaningful human relationships are valuable for their own sake should
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Work Relationships and Autonomy The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 David Jenkins, Adam Neal
Many people lack autonomy because they work jobs that deny them significant and meaningful control over what they do. The negative impact of this can be ameliorated, to a degree, by the relationships that people often form with co-workers: that is, workplace sociability can itself enhance workers’ autonomy while also helping them tolerate heteronomous work by making it more bearable. In addition, workplace
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Benatar and Metz on Cosmic Meaning and Anti-natalism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Kirk Lougheed
David Benatar argues that one important consideration in favour of anti-natalism is based on the fact that all humans lack cosmic meaning; we will never transcend space and time such that we will have an impact on the entire universe, forever. Instead of denying Benatar’s claim that we lack cosmic meaning, Thaddeus Metz recently argues that our lack of cosmic meaning is not that significant because
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Benevolence Toward Efforts The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Steven G. Smith
Influential moral theories keyed to benevolence (including Mengzi’s and Hutcheson’s) claim a footing for ideal moral benevolence in natural human benevolence. The meaning of this claim depends on how natural and ideal benevolence are conceived and how the two are supposed to be related—as Mengzi suggests, for example, that there is an innate “sprout” of compassionate aversion to suffering that tends
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A New Way to Oppose Abortion The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Amos Wollen
Hilary Yancey has recently defended the view that for the duration of pregnancy, the mother’s body (or much of it) is literally part of the foetus. I argue that if she’s right, then a venerable tradition of pro-choice arguments will become much harder to defend.
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The Invention and Re-invention of Meta-ethics The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Anders Hee Nørbjerg Poulsen, Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
In this article we pose three questions: 1) What are the questions that gave rise to the introduction of the concept and subdiscipline of meta-ethics? 2) What characterises the view of meta-ethics as a subdiscipline of moral philosophy? And 3) is it in fact possible to uphold a systematic distinction between normative moral philosophy and meta-ethics in a way that allows us to see these two aspects
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The Inspiring and the Purple, and the Worthy and the Dull The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Simon Kirchin
In this critical discussion I summarize Sophie-Grace Chappell’s excellent Epiphanies. Doing so leads me to ask a question. She is clearly against ‘moral theory’ and puts forward her preferred account of ‘epiphanic reflection’. But does she seek to wholly replace moral theory with epiphanic reflection or is she seeking to achieve a form of accommodation where both are given their due in our everyday
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Variations in Virtue Phenomenology The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Sabrina Little
The virtue development literature often draws on the language of goal-directed automaticity and flow states in discussions of virtue. This article examines the attentional features of various virtues and argues that only some virtuous actions can be adequately described in these terms. It proposes a distinction between three kinds of virtuous actions—flow state actions, deliberative actions, and presence
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An Argument Against Treating Non-Human Animal Bodies as Commodities The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Wilcox Marc G
Some animal defenders are committed to complete abstinence from animal products. However the strongest arguments for adopting veganism only seem to require that one avoid using animal products, where use or procurement of these products will harm sentient animals. As such, there is seemingly a gap between our intuition and our argument. In this article I attempt to defend the more comprehensive claim
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The Anti-Individualistic Turn in the Ethics of Collegiality: Can Good Colleagues Be Epistemically Vicious? The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Andrea Berber, Vanja Subotić
The aim of this paper is to show that the nascent field of ethics of collegiality may considerably benefit from a symbiosis with virtue and vice epistemology. We start by bringing the epistemic virtue and vice perspective to the table by showing that competence, deemed as an essential characteristic of a good colleague (Betzler & Löschke 2021), should be construed broadly to encompass epistemic competence
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Having a Sense of Humor as a Virtue The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Mark Alfano, Mandi Astola, Paula Urbanowicz
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Reconciling the Deprivation Account with the Final Badness of Death The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Andrés G. Garcia, Berit Braun
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What is the Role of Partial Compliance in Moral Theory? The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Eduardo Rivera-López
The problem of nonideal theory has been widely discussed in political philosophy in recent times. The problem has received much less attention, however, at the level of individual morality. Since the real world is a nonideal one, the problem is extremely relevant, if moral theory is to guide our action as moral agents. My purpose in this paper is mainly conceptual. I first clarify the distinction between
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Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics: A Defense. The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Matthew Shea
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A Revision on Waldron’s Autonomy Defense of Moral Rights The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Geoffrey D Callaghan
The argument I defend in this paper challenges whether Waldron’s explanation of the conditions required for a moral right to satisfy its autonomy-promoting function is the best one available. It questions the suitability of Waldron’s preferred taxonomy of moral action, where acts are divided into: (1) those that are morally required; (2) those that are morally prohibited; and (3) those that are morally
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Resisting Moral Conservatism with Difficulties of Reality: a Wittgensteinian-Diamondian Approach to Animal Ethics The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Konstantin Deininger, Andreas Aigner, Herwig Grimm
In this paper, we tackle the widely held view that practice-oriented approaches to ethics are conservative, preserving the moral status quo, and, in particular, that they do not promote any (fundamental) change in our dealings with animals or formulate clear principles that help us to achieve such change. We shall challenge this view with reference to Wittgensteinian ethics. As a first step, we show
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Being Judgmental–A vice of attention The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Dan Dake
There are a class of moral virtues that have an intimate relationship with agential evaluation, following Gary Watson we can call these ‘second-order virtues,’ e.g., modesty, blind charity, being judgmental, etc. Julia Driver has argued that these virtues are distinguished by being virtues which require ignorance. Richard Y. Chappell and Helen Yetter-Chappell have argued that these virtues are distinguished
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Non-conscious Entities Cannot Have Well-Being The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Josh Mund
In this paper, I criticize the view that non-conscious entities—such as plants and bacteria—have well-being. Plausible sources of well-being include pleasure, the satisfaction of consciously held desires, and achievement. Since nonconscious entities cannot obtain well-being from these sources, the most plausible source of well-being for them is the exercise of natural capacities. Plants and bacteria
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Causal Stability in Moral Contexts The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Horia Tarnovanu
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Clare Chambers, Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Joseph T. F. Roberts
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Nothing Personal: On the Limits of the Impersonal Temperament in Ethics The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Nicholas Smyth
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Admiration, Affectivity, and Value: Critical Remarks on Exemplarity The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Wojciech Kaftanski
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Better to Return Whence We Came The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Ema Sullivan-Bissett
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David Benatarʼs Argument from Asymmetry: A Qualified Defence The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Oliver Hallich
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Misconceived: Why These Further Criticisms of Anti-natalism Fail The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David Benatar
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On Risk-Based Arguments for Anti-natalism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Erik Magnusson
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The Diagnostic Value of Freedom The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Nicolas Côté
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Anti-natalism, Pollyannaism, and Asymmetry: A Defence of Cheery Optimism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Michael Hauskeller
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My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-Natalism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Christine Overall
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Does the Lack of Cosmic Meaning Make Our Lives Bad? The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Thaddeus Metz
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Is Confucian Political Meritocracy a Viable Alternative to Democracy? A Critical Engagement with Tongdong Bai The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Yun Tang
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The Mirage of Motivation Reason Internalism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Saleh Afroogh
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The Phronimos as a moral exemplar: two internal objections and a proposed solution The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 N. Athanassoulis
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Against the Applicability Argument for Sufficientarianism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Cecilia Maria Pedersen,Lasse Nielsen
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Specifying Contractualism: How to Reason About What We Owe to Each Other The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Ken Oshitani
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Shu-Considerateness and Ren-Humaneness: The Confucian Silver Rule and Golden Rule The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Jinhua Jia
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The Trolley Problem and Intuitional Evidence The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Sebastian J. Conte
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Partial Relationships and Epistemic Injustice The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 J. Y. Lee
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David Boonin: Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780198842101, $65.00, HbK The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Travis Timmerman
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Can desire-satisfaction alienate our good? The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Willem van der Deijl
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Nancy S. Jecker, Ending Midlife Bias: New Values for Old Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-19-094907-5, $40, Hbk The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Caitlin Maples
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The Normative, the Practical, and the Deliberatively Indispensable The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Andrew Stewart
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Being Sure and Living Well: How Security Affects Human Flourishing. The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 J A M Daemen
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Institutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic. The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Ben Davies,Julian Savulescu
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Parfit’s Mixed Maxim Objection against the Formula of Universal Law Reconsidered The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Matthias Hoesch,Martin Sticker
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Persons vs. supra-persons and the undermining of individual interests The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Joao Fabiano
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Narrative Explanations of Action. Narrative Identity with Minimal Requirements The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Deniz A. Kaya
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Enough Suffering: Thoughts on Suffering and Virtue. The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Amy Coplan,Heather Battaly
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On an Alleged Refutation of Ethical Egoism The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 John J. Tilley
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"How Good is Suffering?: Commentary on Michael S. Brady, Suffering and Virtue". The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Nancy E Snow
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Realism, Naturalism, and Hazlett’s Challenge Concerning Epistemic Value The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Timothy Perrine
According to Realism about Epistemic Value, there is such a thing as epistemic value and it is appropriate to evaluate things—e.g., beliefs—for epistemic value because there is such a thing as epistemic value. Allan Hazlett's A Luxury of the Understanding is a sustained critique of Realism. Hazlett challenges proponent of Realism to answer explanatory questions while not justifiably violating certain
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What Confucianism and for Whom? The Value and Dilemma of Invoking Confucianism in Confucian Political Theories The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Yutang Jin
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Moral Luck and Unfair Blame The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Martin Sand,Michael Klenk
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Response to Commentators on Suffering and Virtue The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Michael Brady
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Experiencing the Conflict: The Rationality of Ambivalence The Journal of Value Inquiry (IF 0.545) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Dario Cecchini