Emanuela Ceva and Michele Bocchiola: Is Whistleblowing a Duty?
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 19, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Dilemma for Benatar ’s Asymmetry Argument
AbstractIn this paper, I show that David Benatar ’s asymmetry argument for anti-natalism leads to a dilemma. In Chapter 2 of his bookBetter Never to Have Been, Benatar claims that there is an axiological asymmetry between harms and benefits that explains four prevalent asymmetries. Based on the axiological asymmetry, he defends the anti-natalist conclusion that we should not have children. The four prevalent asymmetries to be explained are moral duties, reasons, attitudes, or feelings concerning life as a whole. However, Benatar explains them by applying the axiological asymmetry to parts of life, such as pains and pleas...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 13, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Federico Zuolo, Animals, Political Liberalism and Public Reason, (Palgrave Macmillan), 2020
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 11, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Benefiting from Wrongdoing and Moral Protest
AbstractSome normative theorists believe that there is a principled moral reason not to retain benefits realized by injustice or wrongdoing. However, critics have argued that this idea is implausible. One purported problem is that the idea lacks an obvious rationale and that attempts to provide one have been unconvincing. This paper articulates and defends the idea that the principled reason in question has an expressive quality: it gets its reason-giving force from the symbolic aptness of such an act as an expressive response to wrongdoing. The paper thus argues that at least in a certain subset of cases, renouncing benef...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 10, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Introduction: Symposium on Stichter ’s The Skillfulness of Virtue
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 6, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
On the Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy
AbstractAre workers dominated? A recent suite of neo-republican and relational egalitarian philosophers think they are. Suppose they are right; that is, suppose that some workers are governed by an unjust and arbitrary power existing in labour relations, which persists even in the presence of the actual ability to exit. My question is this: does that give us reason to impose restrictions on firms? According to the so-calledEfficiency Objection there are relevant trade-offs that need to be considered between the efficiency of firms and the freedom of workers, and upon considering these trade-offs, we should reject workplace...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 5, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Defense of Modest Ideal Observer Theory: The Case of Adam Smith ’s Impartial Spectator
AbstractI build on Adam Smith ’s account of the impartial spectator inThe Theory of Moral Sentiments in order to offer a modest ideal observer theory of moral judgment that is adequate in the following sense: the account specifies the hypothetical conditions that guarantee the authoritativeness of an agent’s (or agents’) responses in constituting the standard in question, and, if an actual agent or an actual community of agents are not under those conditions , their responses are not authoritative in setting this standard. However, in the account that I provide, the hypothetical conditions can themselves be constru...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Moral Responsibility for Racial Oppression
AbstractIn his recent monograph, (Re-)defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis (2020), Alberto G. Urquidez invites the reader to take a fresh look at the confused and complicated concept of racism. Drawing on Wittgenstein ’s philosophy of language, Urquidez argues that debates over racism are not about discovering what racism really refers to in the world but the appropriate rule of representation— the standard of the correct use of the term (p. 25–26). Discovering racism is a normative endeavor and, he argues, a prescriptive one (Urquidez, p. 26). My comments here are not intended as a critique of Urquidez’ accou...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 2, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Can the Welfare State Justify Restrictive Asylum Policies? A Critical Approach
A Correction to this paper has been published:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10185-5 (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 29, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Quasi-Psychologism about Collective Intention
AbstractThis paper argues that a class of popular views of collective intention, which I call “quasi-psychologism”, faces a problem explaining common intuitions about collective action. Views in this class hold that collective intentions are realized in or constituted by individual, mental, participatory intentions. I argue that this metaphysical commitment entails persistence conditions that are in tension with a purported obligation to notify co-actors before leaving a collective action attested to by participants in experimental research about the interpersonal normativity of collective action. I then explore the po...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 26, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Distinctively Political Normativity in Political Realism: Unattractive or Redundant
AbstractPolitical realists ’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach of political moralists (mainstream liberals), has raised concerns about their own source of normativity. Some realists have responded to such concerns by theorizing a distinctively political normativity. According to this view, politics is s een as an autonomous, independent domain with its own evaluative standards. Therefore, it is in this source, rather than in some moral values ‘outside’ of this domain, that normative justification should be sought when theorizing justice, democracy, political legitimacy, and the like. For realis t...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 18, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Bloomsbury, 2020
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 15, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Political Realism as Methods not Metaethics
AbstractThis paper makes the case for a revision of contemporary forms of political realism in political theory. I argue that contemporary realists have gone awry in increasingly centring their approach around a metaethical claim: that political theory should be rooted in a political form of normativity that is distinct from moral normativity. Several critics of realism have argued that this claim is unconvincing. But I suggest that it is also a counterintuitive starting point for realism, and one unnecessary to avoid the ‘applied morality’ approach to political theory that realists oppose. Instead, realism should be m...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 13, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
What Structural Injustice Theory Leaves Out
AbstractAlasia Nuti ’s recent book Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress puts forward a compelling vision of contemporary duties to redress past wrongdoing, grounded in the idea of “historical-structural-injustice”, constituted by the “structural reproduction of an unjust history over time and through changes”. Such an approach promises to transcend the familiar scholarly divide between “backward-looking” and “forward-looking” models, and allow for a reparative approach that focuses specifically on those past wrongs that impact the present, while retaining ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 10, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Julia Hermann, Jeroen Hopster, Wouter Kalf and Michael Klenk: Philosophy in the Age of Science? Inquiries into Philosophical Progress, Method, and Societal Relevance. Rowman & amp; Littlefield, 2020.
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 8, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
