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Hypocrisy and Epistemic Injustice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Brian Carey
In this article I argue that we should understand some forms of hypocritical behaviour in terms of epistemic injustice; a type of injustice in which a person is wronged in their capacity as a knower. If each of us has an interest in knowing what morality requires of us, this can be undermined when hypocritical behaviour distorts our perception of the moral landscape by misrepresenting the demandingness
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The Right to Climate Adaptation Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-08
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has over the past decade repeatedly warned that we are heading towards inevitable and irreversible climate change, which will negatively affect the lives, livelihoods, and well-being of millions of people around the world, both at present and in the future. In fact, many people, especially vulnerable and marginalized communities in low- and middle-income
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Metaethics as Dead Politics? On Political Normativity and Justification Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ben Cross
Many political realists endorse some notion of political normativity. They think that there are certain normative claims about politics that do not depend on moral premises. The most prominent moralist objections to political normativity have been metaethical: specifically, that political normativity is not genuinely normative; and that it is incapable of justifying normative claims. In this article
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Preventing the Exploitation of Activists’ Care Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer
Care exploitation is a pervasive yet undertheorized injustice that emerges in both our interpersonal and structural relationships. Among those that are particularly vulnerable to this injustice are activists, those invested in bringing about positive change precisely because of how deeply they care about a given cause. Care exploitation occurs when an individual with caring attitudes is called to aid
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Pluralism, Structural Injustice, and Reparations for Historical Injustice: A Reply to Daniel Butt Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Felix Lambrecht
This paper discusses the pluralist theory of reparations for historical injustice offered by Daniel Butt (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24(5):1161–75, 2021). Butt attempts to vindicate purely past-regarding corrective duties in response to Alasia Nuti’s historical-structural model of reparations. I agree with Butt that reparative justice requires both past-regarding and future-looking structural
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When Moral Talk Becomes Profitable Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Mario I. Juarez-Garcia
Should businesses engage in moral talk when it becomes profitable? Due to their particular position of visibility, it is reasonable to acknowledge that businesses have specific moral duties. Some might argue that companies ought to help abandon morally repugnant norms by providing examples of alternative behaviors through advertisements. However, the moral talk of businesses might unexpectedly reinforce
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Political Equality and Geographic Constituency Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-18 James Lindley Wilson
Geographic definitions of constituency—the set of voters eligible to vote for a representative—have been criticized by theorists and reformers as undermining democratic values. I argue, in response, that there is no categorical (or even generally applicable) reason sounding in political equality to reject geographic districts. Geographic districting systems are typically flexible enough that, when
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Testimony of Oppression and the Limits of Empathy Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Katharina Anna Sodoma
Testimony of oppression is testimony that something constitutes or contributes to a form of oppression, such as, for example, “The stranger’s comment was sexist.” Testimony of oppression that is given by members of the relevant oppressed group has the potential to play an important role in fostering a shared understanding of oppression. Yet, it is frequently dismissed out of hand. Against the background
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Rethinking Anonymous Grading Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-22
Abstract It has become increasingly common to endorse and implement anonymous grading as a way of promoting fairness or equality of opportunity in the classroom. The American Philosophical Association currently recommends anonymous grading, as do the Canadian Philosophical Association, the British Philosophical Association, the Society for Women in Philosophy, and Minorities and Philosophy. Despite
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The Moral Permissibility of Perspective-Taking Interventions Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hannah Read, Thomas Douglas
Interventions designed to promote perspective taking are increasingly prevalent in educational settings, and are also being considered for applications in other domains. Thus far, these perspective-taking interventions (PTIs) have largely escaped philosophical attention, however they are sometimes prima facie morally problematic in at least two respects: they are neither transparent nor easy to resist
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What’s Wrong with Social Hierarchy? On Niko Kolodny’s The Pecking Order Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Daniel Sharp
This review critically assesses Niko Kolodny’s theory of social hierarchy and its importance as articulated in The Pecking Order (2023). After summarizing Kolodny’s argument, I raise two critical challenges. First, I ask whether Kolodny leaves us without adequate account of why social hierarchies are, in themselves, objectionable. Second, I query whether Kolodny’s defense of representative democracy
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Do Your Homework! A Rights-Based Zetetic Account of Alleged Cases of Doxastic Wronging Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-15 J. Spencer Atkins
This paper offers an alternate explanation of cases from the doxastic wronging literature. These cases violate what I call the degree of inquiry right—a novel account of zetetic obligations to inquire when interests are at stake. The degree of inquiry right is a moral right against other epistemic agents to inquire to a certain threshold when a belief undermines one’s interests. Thus, the agents are
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Metaethical Deflationism, Access Worries and Motivationally Grasped Oughts Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Sharon Berry
Mathematical knowledge and moral knowledge (or normative knowledge more generally) can seem intuitively puzzling in similar ways. For example, taking apparent human knowledge of either domain at face value can seem to require accepting that we benefited from some massive and mysterious coincidence. In the mathematical case, a pluralist partial response to access worries has been widely popular. In
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Cognitivism and the argument from evidence non-responsiveness* Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-04 John Eriksson, Marco Tiozzo
Several philosophers have recently challenged cognitivism, i.e., the view that moral judgments are beliefs, by arguing that moral judgments are evidence non-responsive in a way that beliefs are not. If you believe that P, but acquire (sufficiently strong) evidence against P, you will give up your belief that P. This does not seem true for moral judgments. Some subjects maintain their moral judgments
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Does Political Equality Require Equal Power? A Pluralist Account Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Attila Mráz
In this paper, I criticize two views on how political equality is related to equally distributed political power, and I offer a novel, pluralist account of political equality to address their shortcomings—in particular, concerning their implications for affirmative action in the political domain, political representation, and the situation of permanent minorities. The Equal Power View holds that political
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Anonymous Arguments Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Andrew Aberdein
Anonymous argumentation has recently been the focus of public controversy: flash points include the outing of pseudonymous bloggers by newspapers and the launch of an academic journal that expressly permits pseudonymous authorship. However, the controversy is not just a recent one—similar debates took place in the nineteenth century over the then common practice of anonymous journalism. Amongst the
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Reasoning in Character: Virtue, Legal Argumentation, and Judicial Ethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Amalia Amaya
This paper develops a virtue-account of legal reasoning which significantly differs from standard, principle-based, theories. A virtue approach to legal reasoning highlights the relevance of the particulars to sound legal decision-making, brings to light the perceptual and affective dimensions of legal judgment, and vindicates the relevance of description and specification to good legal reasoning.
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Schrödinger’s Fetus and Relational Ontology: Reconciling Three Contradictory Intuitions in Abortion Debates Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Stephen R. Milford, David Shaw
Pro-life and pro-choice advocates battle for rational dominance in abortion debates. Yet, public polling (and general legal opinion) demonstrates the public’s preference for the middle ground: that abortions are acceptable in certain circumstances and during early pregnancy. Implicit in this, are two contradictory intuitions: (1) that we were all early fetuses, and (2) abortion kills no one. To hold
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Metz on Enhancement: A Relational Critique Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Cornelius Ewuoso
Thaddeus Metz’s groundbreaking book A Relational Moral Theory provides a sophisticated moral theory hailing from the Global South. In this book, one of the theses he defends is that biotechnological enhancement is generally morally impermissible. This article, written for a book symposium on A Relational Moral Theory, primarily demonstrates how Metz’s criticisms presented in his book fail to convince
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The Voting Rights of Senior Citizens: Should all Votes Count the Same? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Andreas Bengtson, Andreas Albertsen
In 1970, Stewart advocated disenfranchising everyone reaching retirement age or age 70, whichever was earlier. The question of whether senior citizens should be disenfranchised has recently come to the fore due to votes on issues such as Brexit and climate change. Indeed, there is a growing literature which argues that we should increase the voting power of non-senior citizens relative to senior citizens
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Framing Effects Do Not Undermine Consent Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Samuel Director
Suppose that a patient is receiving treatment options from her doctor. In one case, the doctor says, “the surgery has a 90% survival rate.” Now, suppose the doctor instead said, “the procedure has a 10% mortality rate.” Predictably, the patient is more likely to consent on the first description and more likely to dissent on the second. This is an example of a framing effect. A framing effect occurs
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Economic Inequality and the Permissibility of Leveling Down Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-08-16 David Peña-Rangel
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Just Returns from Capitalist Production Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Peter Dietsch
What explains and justifies factor shares, that is, the returns that workers and capital owners receive on their contribution to economic production? Arguably, neither economic theory nor theories of distributive justice give a satisfactory answer to this question. One important explanation of this shortcoming, this paper argues, lies in the fact that they fail to take the full measure of the phenomenon
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Doxastic Affirmative Action Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Andreas Bengtson, Lauritz Aastrup Munch
According to the relational egalitarian theory of justice, justice requires that people relate as equals. To relate as equals, many relational egalitarians argue, people must (i) regard each other as equals, and (ii) treat each other as equals. In this paper, we argue that, under conditions of background injustice, such relational egalitarians should endorse affirmative action in the ways in which
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A Republican Conception of Counterspeech Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Suzanne Whitten
‘Counterspeech’ is often presented as a way in which individual citizens can respond to harmful speech while avoiding the potentially coercive and freedom-damaging effects of formal speech restrictions. But counterspeech itself can also undermine freedom by contributing to forms of social punishment that manipulate a speaker’s choice set in uncontrolled ways. Specifically, and by adopting a republican
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Metz’s Relational Moral Theory and Environmental Ethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Darrel Moellendorf
Metz’s contribution to environmental ethics is a novel theory of moral status, which he argues explains the intuition that although we have direct moral duties to some nonhuman animals, our duties to fellow human beings are always weightier. The theory takes the moral status of an individual to depend on it being the subject and object of friendly relations with human. This paper argues that the account
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The Philosophy and History of the Moral ‘Ought’: Some of Anscombe’s Objections Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Terence Irwin
According to G.E.M Anscombe’s paper ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, modern moral philosophy has introduced a spurious concept of moral obligation, and has therefore made a mistake that the Greeks, and Aristotle in particular, avoided. Anscombe argues that the modern concepts of obligation, duty, and the moral ‘ought’ are the remnants of an earlier, but post-Aristotelian conception of ethics, and that they
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Feeding Infants: Choice-Specific Considerations, Parental Obligation, and Pragmatic Satisficing Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Clare Marie Moriarty, Ben Davies
Health institutions recommend that young infants be exclusively breastfed on demand, and it is widely held that parents who can breastfeed have an obligation to do so. This has been challenged in recent philosophical work, especially by Fiona Woollard. Woollard’s work critically engages with two distinct views of parental obligation that might ground such an obligation—based on maximal benefit and
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What does it mean to have an equal say? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Zsolt Kapelner
Democracy is the form of government in which citizens have an equal say in political decision-making. But what does this mean precisely? Having an equal say is often defined either in terms of equal power to influence political decision-making or in terms of appropriate consideration, i.e., as a matter of attributing appropriate deliberative weight to citizens’ judgement in political decision-making
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The Virtuous Arguer as a Virtuous Sequencer Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Rahmi Oruç, Karim Sadek, Önder Küçükural
In this paper we draw on the munāẓara tradition to intervene in the debate on whether argument assessment should be agent- or act-based. We introduce and deploy the notion of sequencing – the ordering of the antagonist’s critical moves – to make explicit an ambiguity between the agent and the act of arguing. We show that sequencing is a component of argumentation that inextricably involves the procedure
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Sebo, Jeff: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Thomas Pölzler
In his new book Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes Jeff Sebo argues that animals matter with regard to human-induced crises and that humans have a moral responsibility to prevent, reduce, or repair the increasing amount of nonhuman suffering and death that we find in today’s world. Moreover, he attempts to show how these various
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Moral Disagreement and Moral Education: What’s the Problem? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Dominik Balg
Although initially plausible, the view that moral education should aim at the transmission of moral knowledge has been subject to severe criticism. In this context, one particularly prominent line of argumentation rests on the empirical observation that moral questions are subject to widespread and robust disagreement. In this paper, I would like to discuss the implications of moral disagreement for
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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-01 John Danaher, Henrik Skaug Sætra
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of techno-moral change. It argues that technology affects moral beliefs and practices in three main domains: decisional (how we make morally loaded decisions), relational (how we relate
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Explainability, Public Reason, and Medical Artificial Intelligence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Michael Da Silva
The contention that medical artificial intelligence (AI) should be ‘explainable’ is widespread in contemporary philosophy and in legal and best practice documents. Yet critics argue that ‘explainability’ is not a stable concept; non-explainable AI is often more accurate; mechanisms intended to improve explainability do not improve understanding and introduce new epistemic concerns; and explainability
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Why Fly? Prudential Value, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Long-distance Leisure Travel Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Dick Timmer, Willem van der Deijl
We argue that the prudential benefits of long-distance leisure travel can justify such trips even though there are strong and important reasons against long-distance flying. This is because prudential benefits can render otherwise impermissible actions permissible, and because, according to dominant theories about wellbeing, long-distance leisure travel provides significant prudential benefits. However
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Do Moral Beliefs Motivate Action? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Rodrigo Díaz
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Asking before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Katharina Stevens, John Casey
Arguments involve, at minimum, attempts at presenting something that an audience will take to be a reason. Reasons, once understood, affect an addressee’s beliefs in ways that are in some significant sense outside of their direct voluntary control. Since such changes may impact the well-being, life projects, or sense of self of the addressee, they risk infringing upon their autonomy. We call this the
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Pitting Virtue Ethics Against Situationism: An Empirical Argument for Virtue Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Boudewijn de Bruin, Raymond Zaal, Ronald Jeurissen
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Metz’s Heterochthonous Relational Moral Theory and Business Ethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Edwin Etieyibo
One of the practical ethical areas that Thaddeus Metz applied his Relational Moral Theory (RMT) to is business ethics. In this important area of applied ethics, Metz examines the question of how business owners, and related agents ought to deal with others, especially workers and consumers. He argues that the relational account of obligations recommends a stakeholder model of business and provides
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Plans, Open Future and the Prospects for a Good Life Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Holmer Steinfath
How we live our lives depends on how we relate to our past, present and future. The article focusses on the relation to our future. The target of my critique is a “planning conception” that imagines the future as a realm that we can rationally plan and form in light of our ends. In the first section I present an outline of the planning conception, building on Bratman’s planning theory and Rawls’ idea
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The Ethics of Signaling in War Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Joseph O. Chapa
One criticism of revisionist just war thought is often called the “contingent pacifism” objection. According to this objection, revisionist just war theory fails because it requires combatants on the just side to evaluate the moral responsibility for wrongful harm of each combatant on the unjust side to determine liability to defensive harming in each case. Combatants on the just side are epistemically
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Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Daniel Abrahams
What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understood as representing groups as a society’s contracting parties. One particular value of the contractarian
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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Anneli Jefferson, Katrina Sifferd
Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss McGeer’s scaffolded reasons-responsiveness account in the light of two concerns. The first is that some agents may be less attuned to feedback from their social environment but are nevertheless morally responsible agents – for example, autistic people.
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Is Rational Manipulation Permissible? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Hugh Breakey
Rational manipulation is constituted by the following conditions: (i) A aims to persuade B of thesis X; (ii) A holds X to be true and rationally justifiable; (iii) A knows of the existence of evidence, argument or information Y. While Y is not itself misinformation (Y is factually correct), A suspects B might take Y as important evidence for not-X; (iv) A deliberately chooses not to mention Y to B
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The Skill Model: A Dilemma for Virtue Ethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Nick Schuster
According to agent-centered virtue ethics, acting well is not a matter of conforming to agent-independent moral standards, like acting so as to respect humanity or maximize utility. Instead, virtuous agents determine what is called for in their circumstances through good practical reason. This is an attractive view, but it requires a plausible account of how good practical reason works. To that end
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How Can Hope Be Rational in the Context of Global Poverty? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Katie Stockdale
This paper is a critical discussion of Claudia Blöser’s (2022) “Hope and Global Poverty.” While Blöser shows that a lack of hope is often rational in the context of global poverty, I argue that some people’s hopes in the face of poverty might actually be rational, and that understanding the rationality of a person’s hope may require knowing more about the unique circumstances of their lives. I suggest
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Climate Change and Anti-Meaning Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Marcello Di Paola, Sven Nyholm
In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse gas emitting actions, behaviours, and lives are the opposite of meaningful: anti-meaningful. We explain why such actions etc. score negatively on three important dimensions of the meaningfulness scale, which we call the agential, narrative, and generative
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What Doesn’t Kill Primary Reason Atomism Will Only Make It Stronger: A Limited Defense Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu
Against the reason holists (e.g. Dancy 2014), it has been contended by many reason atomists that while many features might well change their reason statuses or valences in different contexts in the way suggested by reason holists, they are merely secondary rather than primary reasons. In these atomists’ scheme of things, there are features that function as primary reasons whose reason statuses remain
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Analysing Extremism Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Finlay Malcolm
What is extremism, and how can it be countered? According to a recent account by (Cassam, 2021), there are three kinds of extremism: ideological, methodological, and psychological. The psychological kind – what Cassam calls ‘mindset extremism’ – is used by Cassam to explain what leads individuals to resort to extreme methods. From there we can say that methods extremism can be countered by preventing
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A Realist Membership Account of Political Obligation Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Zoltán Gábor Szűcs
The paper offers a realist account of political obligation. More precisely, it offers an account that belongs to the Williamsian liberal strain of contemporary realist theory (as opposed to a Geussian radical realist strain) and draws on and expands some ideas familiar from Bernard Williams’s oeuvre (thick/thin ethical concepts, political realism/moralism, a minimal normative threshold for distinctively
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Reasons for Political Friendship Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Cansu Hepçağlayan
Scholarly curiosity about political friendship (the relationship of mutual care among political fellows) is increasing as liberal democracies around the world face radical polarization. Yet one worry persists: can political friendship really exist in contemporary democracies? The objective of this paper is to answer this question in the affirmative. To this end, I investigate whether members of modern
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Vaccine Passports and Political Legitimacy: A Public Reason Framework for Policymakers Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Anne Barnhill, Matteo Bonotti, Daniel Susser
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, taking its toll on people’s lives around the world, vaccine passports remain a contentious topic of debate in most liberal democracies. While a small literature on vaccine passports has sprung up over the past few years that considers their ethical pros and cons, in this paper we focus on the question of when vaccine passports are politically legitimate
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Considering the Purposes of Moral Education with Evidence in Neuroscience: Emphasis on Habituation of Virtues and Cultivation of Phronesis Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Hyemin Han
In this paper, findings from research in neuroscience of morality will be reviewed to consider the purposes of moral education. Particularly, I will focus on two main themes in neuroscience, novel neuroimaging and experimental investigations, and Bayesian learning mechanism. First, I will examine how neuroimaging and experimental studies contributed to our understanding of psychological mechanisms
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Moral Education Through the Fostering of Reasoning Skills Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Kirsten Meyer
The development of reasoning skills is often regarded as a central goal of ethics and philosophy classes in school education. In light of recent studies from the field of moral psychology, however, it could be objected that the promotion of such skills might fail to meet another important objective, namely the moral education of students. In this paper, I will argue against such pessimism by suggesting
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Collegiality, Friendship, and the Value of Remote Work Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Philip Maxwell Thingbø Mlonyeni
Philosophers have not paid much attention to the impact of remote work on the nature of work and the workplace. The overall aim of this paper is to contribute to further debate over the value of remote work by focusing on one important dimension of it – the effect on collegial relationships. I distinguish two types of collegial relationships. On the one hand, there are what I call “Kantian collegial
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How Requests Give Reasons: The Epistemic Account versus Schaber's Value Account Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Daniel Weltman
I ask you to X. You now have a reason to X. My request gave you a reason. How? One unpopular theory is the epistemic account, according to which requests do not create any new reasons but instead simply reveal information. For instance, my request that you X reveals that I desire that you X, and my desire gives you a reason to X. Peter Schaber has recently attacked both the epistemic account and other
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The Justice and Ontology of Gastrospaces Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Matteo Bonotti, Andrea Borghini, Nicola Piras, Beatrice Serini
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Change the People or Change the Policy? On the Moral Education of Antiracists Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Alex Madva, Daniel Kelly, Michael Brownstein
While those who take a “structuralist” approach to racial justice issues are right to call attention to the importance of social practices, laws, etc., they sometimes go too far by suggesting that antiracist efforts ought to focus on changing unjust social systems rather than changing individuals’ minds. We argue that while the “either/or” thinking implied by this framing is intuitive and pervasive
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Harmony, Disruption, and Affective Injustice: Metz and the Capacity for Harmonious Relationship Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Mary Carman
In A Relational Moral Theory: African ethics in and beyond the continent (2022), Thaddeus Metz proposes an African moral theory according to which we ought to respect and honour the capacity of individuals to be party to harmonious relationship. He aims to present a moral theory that should ‘be weighed up against at least contemporary Western moral theories’ (p. 2). As Metz intends his theory to be
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A Kantian Moral Response to Poverty Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Violetta Igneski
Poverty is a global problem that is not only about material deprivation, but also a lack of agency and power. A Kantian response, with its focus on supporting the conditions of agency and empowerment, seems well suited to providing individuals with normative guidance on what their obligations are. The problem is that the guidance one finds within Kantian ethics is focused on the individual duty to