Cookson, R., Griffin, S., Norheim, O. F., & amp; Culyer, A. J. (Eds.). (2020). Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Quantifying Health Equity Impacts and Trade-Offs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780198838197). £ 28.03. 365 pp
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 25, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?
This article is concerned with choices that parents or guardians make about the food they give to their children. Those with primary responsibility for the care of young children determine the set of foods that their children eat and have a significant impact on children ’s subsequent dietary choices, both in later childhood and in adulthood. I argue that parents have a morally significant reason not to feed meat to their children, which stems from their fiduciary responsibility for the child’s moral development. This should, at a minimum, be factored into paren tal decisions about their children’s diet. In the absen...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 24, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anders Örtenblad (ed.): Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability and Ethics Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. eBook (ISBN 978-3-030-53575-9) 85.59 €. 320 pages
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 24, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Structural Injustice and Socially Undocumented Oppression: Changing Tides in Refugee and Immigration Ethics
AbstractIn this review essay, I discuss two recent works in refugee and migration ethics, Serena Parekh ’sNo Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis and Amy Reed-Sandoval ’sSocially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice. I find that their methodological ambitions overlap significantly and that their arguments represent welcome and largely successful examinations of generally neglected issues. I also explain how both approaches could fruitfully learn from each other, and argue that they lay pioneering groundwork for future work to continue the analysis of only nascent modes and areas of inquiry. (Source: E...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 18, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation
Conclusion: there are no objective reasons for action (IBE from the first three premises). The key premises of the IBE are (1) sentimentalism; (2) non-cognitivism about basic affects; and (3) philosophical arguments for what our reasons for action are always involve arguments that depend on a basic intuitive moral judgment (that can be explained in terms of a basic non-cognitive affect). All these premises are explored in detail, and various objections addressed. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 17, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Freedom as Non-domination, Robustness, and Distant Threats
AbstractIt is a core feature of the conception of freedom as non-domination that freedom requires the absence of exposure to arbitrary power across a range of relevant possible worlds. While this modal robustness is critical to the analysis of paradigm cases of unfreedom such as slavery, critics such as Gerald Gaus have argued that it leads to absurd conclusions, with barely-felt constraints appearing as sources of unfreedom. I aim to clarify the demands of the modal robustness requirement, and offer a reinterpretation of its place in the conceptual framework of freedom as non-domination. I illustrate this point through a ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, and Toby Ord: Moral Uncertainty
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 10, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anne Schwenkenbecher, Getting our Act Together: a Theory of Collective Moral Obligations, 2021
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - August 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Moral Appraisal for Everyone: Neurodiversity, Epistemic Limitations, and Responding to the Right Reasons
AbstractDe Re Significance accounts of moral appraisal consider an agent ’s responsiveness to a particular kind of reason, normative moral reasonsde re, to be of central significance for moral appraisal. Here, I argue that such accounts find it difficult to accommodate some neuroatypical agents. I offer an alternative account of how an agent ’s responsiveness to normative moral reasons affects moral appraisal – the Reasonable Expectations Account. According to this account, what is significant for appraisal is not the content of the reasons an agent is responsive to (de re orde dicto), but rather whether she is respo...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 30, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anger and Absurdity
AbstractI argue that there is an interesting and underexplored sense in which some negative reactive attitudes such as anger are often absurd. I explore implications of this absurdity, especially for our understanding of forgiveness. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 27, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Mind Your Own Business: Reflective Aretaic Responsibility
AbstractThe distinctive depth and seriousness of moral responsibility is often thought to stem from the seriousness of violating moral obligations. But this raises questions about being morally responsible for normative failure that does not belong to the deontic realm. This paper focuses on actions that we might, in the Aristotelian tradition, call ethical, and which concern how we order relations with ourselves; they concern certain fundamental conditions for agency. The paper provides a novel defense of the depth of self-directed aretaic appraisal asintrapersonal responsibility; it also explains and provides a defense f...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Feasibility beyond Non-ideal Theory: a Realist Proposal
AbstractSome realists in political theory deny that the notion of feasibility has any place in realist theory, while others claim that feasibility constraints are essential elements of realist normative theorising. But none have so far clarified what exactly they are referring to when thinking of feasibility and political realism together. In this article, we develop a conception of the realist feasibility frontier based on an appraisal of how political realism should be distinguished from non-ideal theories. In this realist framework, political standards are feasible if they meet three requirements: they are (i) political...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 7, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Indignation, Appreciation, and the Unity of Moral Experience
AbstractMoral experience comes in many flavors. Some philosophers have argued that there is nothing common to the many forms moral experience can take. In this paper, I argue that close attention to the phenomenology of certain key emotions, combined with a clear distinction between essentially and accidentally moral experiences, suggests that there is a group of (essentially) moral experiences which in fact exhibits significant unity. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 2, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Alberto G. Urquidez, (Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Viii +421 Pp. the Concept of Racism and the Adjective Racist
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - July 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Reply to My Critics: (Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis
AbstractIn(Re-)Defining Racism, I offer the first comprehensive examination of the philosophical literature on racism and argue for a new methodological approach that I call conventionalism. Framing my argument within this approach, I defend an oppression theory of racism. In this article, I will attempt to accomplish two goals: offer a reply to the thoughtful comments of my critics, and lay out the main argument and major themes of my book in an accessible manner. First, I will describe the philosophical problem of defining “racism” and explain why I think a new methodological approach is necessary to address this p...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 23, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
