Moral Phenomenology and the Value-Laden World
AbstractDo the introspectively ascertainable aspects of our moral experiences carryontological objective purport—portraying reality as containing worldly moral properties and facts, thus supporting moral realism? Horgan and Timmons (2008,2018) answer this question in the negative, arguing that their non-realist view, cognitivist expressivism, can accommodate the introspectively ascertainable moral phenomenology (including categorical authoritativeness) just as well as realism can —whereaccommodating the phenomenology means accounting for it without construing it as misleading or erroneous. If sound, this constitutes an...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 21, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Moral Disagreement, Self-Trust, and Complacency
AbstractFor many of the moral beliefs we hold, we know that other people hold moral beliefs that contradict them. If you think that moral beliefs can be correct or incorrect, what difference should your awareness of others ’ disagreement make to your conviction that you, and not those who think otherwise, have the correct belief? Are there circumstances in which an awareness of others’ disagreement should lead you to suspend a moral belief? If so, what are they, and why? This paper argues that three principles, ta ken together, give us a good answer to these questions; that they license a form of provisional moral self...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 19, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Lisa Bortolotti, The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs, 2020
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Healthcare, Responsibility and Golden Opportunities
AbstractWhen it comes to determining how healthcare resources should be allocated, there are many factors that could —and perhaps should—be taken into account. One such factor is a patient’s responsibility for his or her illness, or for the behavior that caused it. Policies that take responsibility for the unhealthy lifestyle or its outcomes into account—responsibility-sensitive policies—have faced a ser ies of criticisms. One holds that agents often fail to meet either the control or epistemic conditions on responsibility with regard to their unhealthy lifestyles or their outcomes. Another holds that even if pat...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 14, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anne-Marie S øndergaard Christensen: Moral Philosophy and Moral Life
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 8, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Reparations and Egalitarianism
AbstractSome claim that a commitment to egalitarianism is in tension with support for reparations for historical injustice. This tension appears to arise insofar as egalitarianism is a forward-looking approach to justice: an approach that tells us what kind of world we should aim to build, where that world is not defined in terms of the decisions or actions of previous generations. Some have claimed that egalitarianism thereby renders reparations redundant (what I will refer to asthe redundancy thesis). One popular option for egalitarians who aim to reject this thesis is to insist that historical injustices demand reparati...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
In Search of the Trinity: A Dilemma for Parfit ’s Conciliatory Project
AbstractI outline a dilemma for Derek Parfit ’s project to vindicate moral realism. InOn What Matters, Parfit argues that the best versions of three of the main moral traditions agree on a set of moral principles, which should make us more confident about the prospects of truth in ethics. I show that the result of this Convergence Argument can be interpreted in two ways. Either there remain three separate and deontically equivalent theories or there remains just one theory, the Triple Theory. Both interpretations fail to deliver what Parfit is looking for. The first interpretation leads to a situation of underdeterminati...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 4, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
‘Kimberley Brownlee: Being Sure of each Other. An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms’ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Andreas M üller, Constructing Practical Reasons
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Can Subjectivism Account for Degrees of Wellbeing?
AbstractWellbeing describes how good life is for the person living it. Wellbeing comes in degrees. Subjective theories of wellbeing maintain that for objects or states of affairs to benefit us, we need to have a positive attitude towards these objects or states of affairs: the Resonance Constraint. In this article, we investigate to what extent subjectivism can plausibly account for degrees of wellbeing. There is a vast literature on whether preference-satisfaction theory – one particular subjective theory – can account for degrees of wellbeing. This is generally taken to be problematic. However, other subjective theor...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 29, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
‘I’m Outta Here’: Theorizing the Role of Exit in the Ideal of Non-Domination
AbstractAccounts of non-domination have tended to emphasise the role resources and other capacity and voice building mechanisms can play in giving people the power and the institutional means of living lives that are free of domination. Yet the role of exit - of institutionally protected means of withdrawing from relationships - has remained undertheorized in accounts of non-domination. Drawing on a range of public policy examples, this paper seeks to shed light on the ways in which, and under what conditions, institutionalised means of exit can contribute to realising the ideal of non-domination. It shows that while right...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Anti-racism and inclusive racism
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 26, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Preface to Issue 24/2, May 2021
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 25, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Replies to Commentators on The Skillfulness of Virtue
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 24, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Relativistic Car: Applying Metaethics to the Debate about Self-Driving Vehicles
AbstractAlmost all participants in the debate about the ethics of accidents with self-driving cars have so far assumed moral universalism. However, universalism may be philosophically more controversial than is commonly thought, and may lead to undesirable results in terms of non-moral consequences and feasibility. There thus seems to be a need to also start considering what I refer to as the “relativistic car” — a car that is programmed under the assumption that what is morally right, wrong, good, bad, etc. is determined by the moral beliefs of one’s society or culture. My investigation of this idea involves six s...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 22, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
