Wellbeing and Changing Attitudes Across Time
AbstractThe fact that our attitudes change poses well-known challenges for attitude-sensitive wellbeing theories. Suppose that in the past you favoured your adventurous youthful life more than the quiet and unassuming life you expected to live as an old person; now when you look back you favour your current life more than your youthful past life. Which period of your life is better for you? More generally, how can we find a stable attitude-sensitive standard of wellbeing, if the standard is in part defined in terms of unstable attitudes? In this paper, I introduce an ‘attitudinal matrix’ framework that will help us cle...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 26, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Billy Christmas: property and justice. A liberal theory of Natural Rights. New York: Routledge, 2021. E-Book (ISBN: 978-0-429-29725-0), € 29.70. 184 pp.
AbstractIn this book Billy Christmas advances an interpretation of justice grounded in a distinctive theory of property. Christmas ’ account of property is at the same time pluralistic – it justifies various forms of property of external objects – and grounded in one original natural right: the right to freedom. Indeed, one main take-away of the book is that freedom as (a claim to) non-interference does not only justify p rivate property: it can also justify common property. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 5, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The View from everywhere: temporal self-experience and the Good Life
AbstractIt is a common thought that our experience of self in time plays a crucial role in living a good human life. This idea is seen both in views that say we must think of our lives as temporally extended wholes to live well and those that say living well requires living in the moment. These opposing views share the assumption that a person ’s interests must be identified with either a temporally extended or temporally local perspective. David Velleman has argued that both perspectives are necessary parts of human experience, and each has its own independent interests. I agree with Velleman that our experience is inhe...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 2, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Being “in-tact” and well: metaphysical and phenomenological annotations on temporal well-being
AbstractWell-being depends not only onwhat happens but also onwhen it happens. There are temporal aspects of well-being, and to a large extent those aspects are about relative timing —about being “in-tact.” On the one hand, there is a perspectival aspect about being in-tact with one’s past, present, and future or, in a less involved sense, with one’s life as a whole. On the other hand, there is a synchronization aspect of being in-tact; and this aspect occurs on differ ent levels: It might be about the alignment between different temporal domains—such as time as individually perceived and physical or intersubje...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 30, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Tommaso Greco: La legge della fiducia. Alle radici del diritto
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 30, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
How Do Technologies Affect How We See and Treat Animals? Extending Technological Mediation Theory to Human-animal Relations
AbstractHuman practices in which animals are involved often include the application of technology: some farmed animals are for example milked robotically or monitored by smart technologies, laboratory animals are adapted to specific purposes through the application of biotechnologies, and pets have their own social media accounts. Animal ethicists have raised concerns about some of these practices, but tend to assume that technologies are just neutral intermediaries in human-animal relations. This paper questions that assumption and addresses how technologies might shape human-animal relations in non-neutral ways. Building...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 22, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Should Philosophical Reflection on Ethics Do Without Moral Concepts?
AbstractRoger Crisp, in his bookReasons and Goodness, argues in favour of de-moralizing our philosophical reflection on ethics. This paper begins by explaining what ‘de-moralizing’ means. Then the paper assesses Crisp’s argument for de-moralizing and puts forward arguments against de-moralizing. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 16, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Epistemic injustice in Climate Adaptation
AbstractIndigenous peoples are disproportionally vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, they possess valuable knowledge for fair and sustainable climate adaptation planning and policymaking. Yet Indigenous peoples and knowledges are often excluded from or underrepresented within adaptation plans and policies. In this paper we ask whether the concept of epistemic injustice can be applied to the context of climate adaptation and the underrepresentation of Indigenous knowledges within adaptation policies and strategies. In recent years, the concept of epistemic injustice has gained prominence, indicating that someone...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 7, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Rectification Versus Aid: Why the State Owes More to Those it Wrongfully Harms
AbstractAre the state ’s obligations to victims of its own wrongdoing greater than to persons who have suffered from bad luck? Many people endorse an affirmative answer to this question. Call this theDifference View. This view can seem arbitrary from the perspective of the victims in question; why should a victim of bad luck, who is just as badly off through no fault of her own, be entitled to less assistance from the state than a victim of state-caused wrongful harm? This paper defends a qualified version of the Difference View, theThreshold Version of the Difference View. According to this view, all disadvantaged perso...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Juridical Empowerment
AbstractThe idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant ’s idea ofrightful honour. According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights (juridical empowerment). I apply this conception to impoverished persons and argue that it is crucial to their self-respect, their so-called ‘power-[from-]within,’ and their political agency, and has a teleological primacy regarding our efforts to reduce poverty. I also defend the idea that there is a moral right to this form of e...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Robert Baker: The Structure of Moral Revolutions: Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Editorial
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 30, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
How Disability Activism Advances Disability Bioethics
AbstractIn this paper, I argue that, even when disability rights activists are most clearly acting as activists, they can advance the scholarly activity of disability bioethics. In particular, I will argue that even engaging in non-violent direct action, including civil disobedience, is an important way in which disability rights activists directly support the efforts of disability bioethics scholars. I will begin by drawing upon Hilde Lindemann ’s work on relational narrative identity to describe how certain damaging master narratives about disability hinder the uptake of arguments from disability bioethics. Then, I wil...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 27, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Virtuous People and Moral Reasons
AbstractDo we have a unified pre-theoretical concept ofmorality? This paper makes a start on the larger argument that we do not, by countering criticisms of virtue ethics on the ground that it does not adequately capture such a pre-theoretical concept. One criticism is discussed and met, namely that the reasons on which virtuous people act fail to have the special force ofmoral reasons. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 23, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: When Monitoring Facilitates Trust
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 19, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
